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Rappaport Gives Plenary at IEEE Global Communications Conference

Jan. 6, 2011
Prof. Ted Rappaport, the William and Bettye Nowlin Chaired Professor at UT ECE and founder of UT's Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), presented an invited plenary address on December 8 at the 2010 IEEE Globecom conference in Miami Florida. Rappaport's presentation described the future of wireless communications, and described the massive increases in bandwidth and carrier frequency that are being made possible by semiconductor technologies.

WNCG Professors Receive $900,000 Intel and Cisco Video Grant Award

Nov. 9, 2010
UT ECE Professors Robert W. Heath Jr., Jeffrey G. Andrews, Alan Bovik, Constantine Caramanis, and Gustavo de Veciana were selected to receive a $900,000 gift over three years from Intel and Cisco to develop novel algorithms for Perceptual Optimization of Wireless Video Networks.

Prof. de Veciana Receives Best Paper at ACM MSWiM 2010

Oct. 25, 2010
UT ECE Professor and WNCG member Gustavo de Veciana and collaborators Ángel Cuevas and Manuel Urueña from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are recipients of the best paper award at the ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 2010. Their work entitled Dynamic Random Replication for Data Centric Storage develops a new energy efficient approach to store and retrieve information in distributed wireless (sensor) networks. This research was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Prof. de Veciana and UT ECE Student Dr. Bilal Sadiq Win Best Paper at ITC

Oct. 25, 2010
UT ECE Ph.D. student Bilal Sadiq and Professor Gustavo de Veciana are recipients of the best paper award at 22nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) held in Amsterdam this year. Their work entitled Balancing SRPT Prioritization versus Opportunistic Gain in Wireless Systems with Flow Dynamics addresses a fundamental question regarding the best possible achievable performance for file transfer or web browsing traffic on wireless systems. This research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Prof. Sujay Sanghavi Receives NSF CAREER Award

Jan. 28, 2010
Professor Sujay Sanghavi, who joined the UT ECE department in Fall 2009, has received an NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Sanghavi's research on Networks and Statistical Inference: New Connections and Algorithms was recognized by the National Science Foundation this month and takes first steps towards a more universal science for network algorithms.

$1.2M for Circuit & Wireless Research

June 17, 2008
U.S. Representative Lamar Smith announced early this year he had obtained a $1.2 million appropriation for ECE researchers to create advanced wireless communications devised for military use. The research will be a collaborative effort by Computer Engineering Research Center (CERC) professors Jacob Abraham and Ranjit Gharpurey and Wirelss Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) professors Ted Rappaport and Sriram Vishwanath.