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by Aditya Chopra The demand for mobile Internet data is on track to increase by 1000x over this decade. The most significant gain in communication capacity will continue to come through increased frequency reuse. Increased frequency reuse will primarily be realized by using smaller picocells and femtocells, which will lead to increased interference on the antennas deployed on these small-cell basestations and mobile receivers. We have developed a unified framework for modeling multi-antenna interference in various network topologies.

WNCG graduate Dr. Chun Hung Liu has joined the faculty of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan as an Assistant Professor. NCKU is one of Taiwan's top universities in most rankings and in size, and its Electrical Engineering department was recently rated in the top 10 in the world by one international ranking. Dr. Liu joins an ever-growing club of WNCG alumni holding faculty positions in top US, Asian, and European universities. Dr. Liu's dissertation, entitled 'Distributed Transmission Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Transmission-Capacity Perspective,' was supervised by Prof.

by kyle wesson Over the past decade, GPS security researchers have repeatedly warned that civil GPS is insecure and that users trust its signals at their peril. Disruption created by intentional generation of fake GPS signals, a type of attack against GPS receivers known as a spoofing attack, could have serious economic consequences. The deepening dependence of the civil infrastructure on GPS---especially for timing and synchronization---and the potential for financial gain or high-profile mischief make civil GPS spoofing a gathering threat.

On December 15, 2011, Professor Heath delivered a Plenary talk at the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing. The CAMSAP workshop is dedicated to theoretical topics such as convex optimization and relaxation, computational linear algebra, distributed algorithms, and sparse signal processing as well as their applications to array processing, communication systems, sensor networks, biomedicine, computational imaging, and emerging topics. Prof. Heath's talk was entitled The Limited Feedback Revolution in Wireless Communication.

Andrews visits tokyo-panasonic' Prof. Jeffrey Andrews visited long-time affiliate Panasonic in Japan, at their Yokohama R&D Center, where he spoke to and met their wireless R&D team, including their cellular and WiFi standards and design groups. He presented his recent research on heterogeneous networks and discussed the rapid evolution of cellular network topology and its impact on Panasonic's core business in consumer electronic devices that are increasingly reliant on high speed wireless data access.

Prof. Todd Humphreys recently won an STTR Phase 1 award from the Navy. The STTR is collaboration between the Radionavigation Laboratory (part of WNCG) and Coherent Navigation. Dr. Humphreys's proposal was entitled Emitter Geolocation Enhancements for Time-Sensitive Targeting and Naval Battlespace Awareness. This proposal ranked number one out of 28 submitted proposals.

Professors Constantine Caramanis from WNCG (The Wireless Networking and Communications Group) and Michael Orshansky from CERC ICSG (Computer Engineering Research Center Integrated Circuits and Systems Group) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into new techniques for robust automated design of analog integrated circuit design.

WNCG Professor Al Bovik in collaboration with Prof. Joydeep Ghosh have received a grant entitled Intelligent Autonomous Video Quality Agents, from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into the theory and design of automatic that will be able to learn to identify and assess distortions on computer networks.

Three WNCG faculty have recently been named IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturers: Ted Rappaport, Robert Heath, and Jeff Andrews. UT Austin is the only institution in the world with more than one person receiving this honor. The IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer Program provides VTS local chapters throughout the world with presentations by experts on topics of interest and importance to the Vehicular Technology membership community.

Prof. Vishwanath was recently selected by the IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) to chair the Student Society together with Prof. Elza Erkip from NYU. The Student Society organizes multiple events to foster research and education for students across institutions working in information theory and related disciplines.