The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition to find strategies for successful communication in extreme environments that may contain significant interference and disruptions. The competition consists of two stages: a competitive mode… Read More
Dr. Tom Pratt has been awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant in the amount of $497,685 from the Office of Naval Research to procure two field research… Read More
The Wireless Institute held its first Student Summer Showcase on July 25 in Stinson-Remick Hall. WISSS 2013 was designed to provide a cross-disciplinary venue for student researchers to interact and… Read More
Daniel Costello, Jr., Notre Dame’s Bettex Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus, recently received the 2013 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award at the 2013 International Symposium on Information Theory,… Read More
Professor Martin Haenggi has accepted an invitation to be the Keynote Speaker at the 2013 Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN’13) to be held in May in Tsukuba… Read More
From Junior Seau, former San Diego Chargers linebacker, to Dave Duerson, former Chicago Bears safety—who both committed suicide as a result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have been making… Read More
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) 2010-2015 explains that the explosive growth of 160% for mobile data traffic has put tremendous pressure on existing mobile spectrum and networks. These demands keep growing… Read More
Research Professor Thomas Pratt and co-authors Alenka Zajic, Gordon Stuber, and Son Nguyen have been awarded the Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award for their submission of “Wideband MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Geometry-Based Statistical Modeling With… Read More
Michael Lentmaier (pictured), Daniel J. Costello Jr. (pictured), Arvind Sridharan, and Kamil Sh. Zigangirov submitted a winning paper for the ComSoc & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Awards competition. Paper title: “Iterative… Read More
The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values announced that J. Nicholas Laneman, Founding Director of the Wireless Institute and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been named one of… Read More
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Tuesday, May 8, plans to award $54.7 million to academic institutions to support the purchase of state-of-the-art research equipment. The 190 awards to… Read More
Characterizing the performance of ad hoc networks is one of the most intricate open challenges; conventional ideas based on information-theoretic techniques and inequalities have not yet been able to successfully… Read More