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The Center for Advanced Communications (CAC), a Villanova/Ben Franklin/National
Science Foundation Center, was founded in 1990 to help stimulate regional
industrial competitiveness by encouraging collaborations with industry (both
large and small companies), emphasizing team-based interdisciplinary engineering,
involving undergraduate and graduate students, and preparing students to
work successfully in industry. Over the past decade, the Center has provided
an integrated and creative environment for university, industry, and government
to focus on computational, informational, and communication issues.
The CAC has four state-of-the-art research labs:
The labs were established from external funds. Each lab has its own Director
and is maintained from revenues generated from research contracts and grants.
Primary Research Areas
Radar
Signal Processing
- Through-Wall Microwave Imaging
- Near-Field Source Characterization
- Target Tracking and Discrimination
- Over the Horizon Radar
Navigations
- Interference Mitigation in GPS
- Source localizations
- Interference Suppression in Spread
- Spectrum Communications
Wireless Technologies
- Smart Antennas
- Channel Equalization
- Space Time Coding
- Multi-User Detection
- Cooperative Diversity
- MIMO
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Antennas
- Low-profile Antennas
- Conformal Antennas
- High Gain Printed Antennas for Millimeter-Wave Applications
- Adaptive Polarized Antennas
- Metamaterial Based Antenna Design
Communication Security
- Data Hiding and Watermarking
- Authentication and Fingerprinting
- Image and Video Compression
Acoustics and Ultrasound
- NDE
- Imaging
- Source Separation and Localization
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