Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Electrical engineer's work may signal better wireless connections. Exciting.

Dr. Aria Nosratinia, a University of Texas - Dallas electrical engineering professor, is currently investigating how to improve wireless connections.

The wireless space we have now may become too crowded in the future, which may interfere with efficiency and function. Nosratinia aims to "develop methods that break the wireless messages into microstreams, or smaller pieces, enabling them to be transmitted through -- rather than against -- other signals in the environment. We use this method together with liquid-metal antennas, which allows us to change radiation patterns effectively and reduce interference." 

This study is an expansion of a previous project in which Nosratinia discovered "a new dimension in the communication over multi-user wireless channels," providing "a new set of tools to address the challenges of transmission in a wireless medium, and therefore improves the quality of wireless communication."  

So far, the research has received a $608,000 award to support a collaboration with researchers from the University of Hawaii, a $421,000 grant to expand on the previously mentioned discovery regarding the behavior of wireless channels, and an approximately $1.13 million collaboration to investigate hardware Trojans with another University of Texas - Dallas electrical engineering professor, Dr. Yiorgos Makris. 
The professor earned his electrical and computer engineering PhD from the University of Illinois in 1996, and has gained an Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professorship along with a fellowship of IEEE for multimedia and wireless communications contributions. 

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