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The Wireless Communication and Positioning Lab (WCPL) was established in Summer 2005 by an initial $250,000 grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) made to the Center for Advanced Communications (CAC). The WCPL Lab is housed in the Center of Engineering Education and Research, CEER 305.
The objective of this DOD funded Lab is to provide the measurement and data collection capabilities combined with analyses and signal syntheses tools needed for the CAC to stay on the top of cellular telephony, wireless connectivity, and GPS technologies.
The goal is to create a realistic wireless communications environment by providing remote, multi-point signal transmission of various formats such as voice, video, and data. The Lab also allows testing of various techniques for wireless localization and Geolocation, using single and multiple-antenna receivers.
Area of Expertise
- Space-time coding
- Smart Antennas
- MIMO technology
- Cooperative diversity networks
- Direction Finding
- Adaptive beam forming and nulling
- Blind signal and array processing
- Space-time processing
- Channel estimation and characterization
- Channel Equalization
- Anti-jam GPS
- Multi-path mitigation
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Facilities
- Two Agilent ESG E4438C Vector Signal Generators
- Agilent 89641 Vector Signal Analyzer
- Agilent Infiniium 54855A Digital Oscilloscope
- Agilent ENA 5071B Network Analyzer
- Matlab/Simulink
- EDX Microcell/Indoor Module
- Ten Desktop and Laptop Dell computers
- GPS multiple antenna data collection system
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Opportunities
The WCPL Lab is looking for qualified candidates to fill in the following position:
Research Assistant
A Research Assistant position is available for graduate students in the areas of wireless communications and geolocation, such as space-time coding, MIMO, and multipath and interference mitigation for GPS.
If you are interested, please send your resume, including your education background, course transcript, research experience, a list of publications, and the GRE score, to the following address. If your first language is not English, please also provide the TOEFL score. Preference will be given to those who have finished Master's program in the related areas and plan to pursue the Ph.D. degree at Villanova.
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More information
Prof. Moeness Amin
Director
Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610.519.4263
Janice J. Moughan
Administrative Coordinator
Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610.519.4599
FAX: 610.519.6118
Address: 119 Tolentine Hall
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova, PA 19085-1699
Sponsors
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