Graduate Program
Academic Tracks
Academic Tracks:
Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)
This area involves research and design in the fields of networking, communications, signals, and systems. Analysis and synthesis of systems, and the processing of information for the purposes of identification, communication, control, and security. Linear and non-linear systems and modeling techniques. Analysis, simulation, and experimental research for a wide range of communications systems and applications, including: information theory, digital communications, wireless communications, digital signal processing, antennas and propagation, ad-hoc and sensor networks, queueing theory, stochastic processes, probability, networking control theory and active networks, optimization, nonlinear systems, estimation, and signal, image, and video processing.
ECE Professors Interested in Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)
Area Advisor:
Vikalo, Haris
Area Coordinator:
Arapostathis, Aristotle
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Research Information Related to Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)
UT ECE Grad Student Turning Idea into CompanyUT ECE graduate student Chris Slaughter and his five-person engineering team are developing software for a 3-D modeling camera that can capture and help accurately... |
Happy 39th Birthday Ethernet!39 years ago today, UT ECE professor Bob Metcalfe was a part of the team at XEROX who helped develop Ethernet. Dr. Metcalfe recently sat down to discuss the... |
Solving the Bandwidth BottleneckMobile video streaming is growing so quickly that wireless cell phone traffic is expected to increase by as much as 65 times by 2014, with most of this increase... |
Inventor of Ethernet and Venture Capital Executive Bob Metcalfe to Lead Innovation Initiatives at UT ECEDr. Robert M. Metcalfe, an icon of entrepreneurial engineering and inventor of today's local-area networking standard, Ethernet, has been selected to lead innovation... |
A Vision of Wireless PossibilitiesUT ECE faculty are tackling a big-picture wireless initiative, Network of Systems Vision, combining communication and computation in never-before-imagined ways.... |
The Massively Broadband FutureProf. Ted Rappaport envisions a future in which short-range, Giga-bit-per-second 60GHz wireless devices will completely revolutionize present-day media and... |
Wireless Video Quality AssessmentWith an increasing demand for entertainment and with the ever-improving technology to fuel this demand, the pervasiveness of digital video in everyday life... |
Femtocells: A Revolution in Urban Wireless Broadband NetworkingFemtocells will be assuming a massive role in expanding the capabilities of today’s cellular networks, and enabling them to satisfy people’s increasing... |
3G Wireless BandwidthProf. Sriram Vishwanath is working on a novel solution to the wireless bandwidth needs of the future. Wireless multimedia applications require significant... |
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Safer Skies for Flying PublicECE professor Constantine Caramanis and colleagues at MIT are working on a air traffic system which would track rapidly changing conditions over airports. "There... |
$1.2M for Circuit & Wireless ResearchU.S. Representative Lamar Smith announced early this year he had obtained a $1.2 million appropriation for ECE researchers to create advanced wireless communications... |


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