“Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!,” a recent journal survey paper co-authored by NYU WIRELESS Director Theodore (Ted) Rappaport and his students, was among the top 50 papers downloaded from the entire library of IEEE in the month of June 2013, the first month it appeared in print.  Throughout late 2013 …

NYU WIRELESS Professor Sundeep Rangan has been given the honor of representing NYU-Tandon at the National Academy of Engineering’s “Frontiers of Engineering Program,” to be held in Chantilly, France this November.  The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a prestigious group of emerging leaders from industry, academia, and government labs to discuss technical work and …

  Several NYU WIRELESS students are processing the world’s first backhaul and mobile data at 72 GHz from Manhattan, and will augment this channel knowledge with recent work at 28, 38, and 60 GHz.  The Millimeter wave communication channels offer a viable solution to current bandwidth congestion. The millimeter wave frequency spectrum can support high bandwidths, thus …

Predicting future trends is an essential skill for companies.  To help them discover new trends that may be disruptive to existing Internet bandwidth,Time Warner Cable, in conjunction with the NYC Media Lab, has provided a $40k grant to NYU WIRELESS Professor Justin Cappos.  Prof. Cappos is working with his post-doc, Dr. Yanyan Zhuang, to study potential new …

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has joined the NYU WIRELESS research center as its fifth industrial affiliate sponsor and board member. NYU WIRELESS is a new research center at NYU and Tandon Institute of New York University (NYU-Tandon) that includes more than 20 faculty and 100 graduate students in engineering, computer science, and medicine.  Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., …

L-3 Communications has joined the NYU WIRELESS research center as an industrial affiliate sponsor and board member. L-3 is a leading aerospace and defense company with technical expertise and best-in-class products in many areas, including secure and networked communications, microwave, RF, and telemetry.  According to Dr. Randal Sylvester, Chief Technologist for L-3’s Communication Systems-West unit, …

Source: NYU.edu NYU WIRELESS professor  Elza Erkip has received the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication for her paper “User Cooperation Diversity-Part I: System Description,” which was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2003. The award is given to an outstanding paper that appeared in any IEEE Communications Society …

Source: Spectrum.ieee.org Samsung’s millimeter-wave transceiver technology could enable ultrafast mobile broadband by 2020 Beyond 4G: Samsung engineers [from left] Wongsuk Choi, Daeryong Lee, and Byunghwan Lee test next-generation cellular equipment at a lab in Suwon, South Korea. Clothes, cars, trains, tractors, body sensors, and tracking tags. By the end of this decade, analysts say, 50 …

NYU WIRELESS sophomore undergraduate researchers Jocelyn Schulz (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) and George Wong (Physics & Math) received the award for Best-in-Panel in “Mathematics and Modeling in Understanding of the Physical World” at the 39th annual NYU Undergraduate Research Conference on April 12, 2013. Schulz and Wong presented their work from Prof. Ted Rappaport’s group on a …