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To enable emergency responders and others to establish temporary wireless networks in the future,wireless engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received $6.5 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to understand the physical constraints on such networks. University research participants include Sanjay Shakkottai (left), Jeffrey Andrews (center left) and Robert Heath (right), assistant professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Peter Stone (center right), is an assistant professor of computer sciences. Jeffrey Andrews is the leader of the project at the university’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group.
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The wireless engineers (Heath, Shakkottai, Stone (front row) and Andrews
(back row) received the $6.5 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency to lead a team from eight universities to develop a novel theory
that describes the performance limits of temporary, or ad-hoc, mobile
wireless networks. Ad-hoc networks can be used anytime wired
infrastructure is inaccessible, and enable the quick addition of network
devices to the network. The technology could improve communications in
emergency or military situations where users rapidly change locations.
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A close-up of The University of Texas at Austin researchers: Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professors Robert Heath, Sanjay Shakkottai, and Jeffery Andrews (project leader); and Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences. Other research participants include colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Southern California.
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