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The Wireless Communication and Positioning Lab (WCPL), established by an initial grant from the Department of Defense made to
the Center for Advanced Communications (CAC),is directed by Dr. Yimin Zhang. 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 WCPL also allows testing of various techniques for wireless localization and Geolocation,
using single and multiple-antenna receivers.
The WCPL handles several projects related seamless non-line-of-sight communications for urban warfare,
high-rate multiuser cooperative diversity systems, smart digital video, applications of smart antennas to
rotorcrafts, array beamforming for wideband telemetry digital communications, orphan meter detection and
localization, array processing for interference suppression in GPS receivers, space-time coding for wireless
communications, and indoor wireless channel modeling and equalization.
Area of Expertise
- Wireless Communications and Networking
- Smart Antennas and Adaptive Beamforming
- MIMO technology
- Cooperative and Distributed Signal Processing
- Direction Finding
- 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
- 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
Center 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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