Archives (July - December 2007)
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.
