More robust wireless networks that could be used for mobile, evolving needs of emergency responders and others are one step closer as a result of a National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award received by a University of Texas at Austin computer engineer.
Dr. Jeff Andrews received the CAREER award, which is a prestigious grant for young teacher-scholars expected to be future academic leaders.
Andrews, the associate director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will use the $400,000 grant to better understand the performance limits and characteristics of dynamic networks that aren’t limited by a fixed wire infrastructure.
Although some of these networks are already used by emergency responders, military personnel and others, their limitations have prevented widespread adoption. To address this issue, Andrews will improve the theory used to design the radio transmitters and receivers that interact as part of ad hoc and other versatile networks.
The CAREER award will complement work in this area that Andrews and departmental colleagues began in fall 2006 with colleagues from seven other universities. To learn more about that $6.5 million project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, go to: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/articles/200609251103/index.cfm.
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