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"An Overview of Wireless @ Virginia Tech", Jeffrey H. Reed

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In November 2007, Virginia Tech launched a 1st-of-its kind competition in mobile ad hoc networking. For more information about the MANIAC Challenge, click here.

CWT and MPRG graduate students at 2007 SDR Smart Radio Design Challenge.

Tom Rondeau and committee members, L to R, Sheryl Ball, Charles Bostian (chair), Scott Midkiff via v-tel, Allen MacKenzie, Rondeau, and Jeff Reed.

Wireless @ VT Faculty and students contributes to new cognitive radio book.

William Tranter, along with Desmond P. Taylor, Rodger E. Ziemer, Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, and Jon W. Mark, are the editors of The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research.

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W@VT News

Top News: "2008 Symposium on Wireless Communications June 4-6"
Keynote speakers:  Dr. Joseph Mitola III, The MITRE Corporation, and Dr. Rajiv Laroia, Senior VP of Technology, Qualcomm, Inc.
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May, 2008

Wireless @ Virginia Tech is pleased to welcome our newest affiliate partner EFJohnson.

March, 2008

We are pleased to announce that version 0.6.2 of Wireless @ Virginia Tech's OSSIE SDR software is available for free download. More details...

January, 2008

Wireless @ Virginia Tech is pleased to welcome our newest affiliate partners: Applied Signal Technology, Syracuse Research Corporation, and Rockwell Collins.

December, 2007

Graduate student teams from Wireless @ Virginia Tech won top honors at the Software Defined Radio Forum's 2007 Smart Radio Design Challenge. More details...

November 27, 2007

Congratulations to Taeyoung Yang, award winner in the the 2007 FEKO student competition.  Taeyoung is a Ph.D. student in Wireless @ Virginia Tech’s Antenna Group (VTAG).   Taeyoung is co-advised by Dr. Bill Davis and Dr. Warren Stutzman.  Further information about Taeyoung’s award may be found here.

September 20, 2007

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Tom Rondeau who successfully defended
9/20/2007 at the VT Blacksburg campus.  Tom's dissertation title is "Application of Artificial Intelligence to Wireless Telecommunications."  Tom became Dr. Bostian's advisee at the VT Center for Wireless Telecommunications (now part of Wireless@VT) as a sophomore ECE/English double major. He is currently employed as a post doctoral researcher with CTVR, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

September 18, 2007

SCA Technica, Inc. announced today that it has successfully ported the Open Source SCA Implementation - Embedded (OSSIE) for software defined radios to the Gumstix Verdex XL6P. OSSIE is an open source version of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Software Communication Architecture (SCA), and is used to launch software radio waveforms to embedded wireless platforms.  Additional information regarding SCA Technica, Inc. may be found at www.scatechnica.com.

August 1-3, 2007

Tom Hou was the Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of CrownCom 2007, during August 1-3, 2007 in Orlando, FL. CrownCom is one of the two major international conferences (the other being IEEE DySpan) that are exclusively devoted to cognitive radio oriented wireless networks and communications. Cognitive radio is nowadays regarded as an enabling technology for efficient spectrum utilization, with applications in many sectors, including the military, public safety, and commercial wireless communications. The keynote speaker for CrownCom 2007 was Dr. Joe Mitola.

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