Broadband Wireless Communications Hawaiian Advanced Center for Communications

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• Introduction
• HCAC Overview and Organization
• HCAC Research Activities

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EE Education and Research
Staff and Support
Facilities
Students
Engineering Talent
EE Department
Funding
Publications, Patents, IP
Faculty
Clients Students, Industry, Government
EE is rapidly changing.
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Trends in EE Departments
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University of Hawaii EE

• Personnel
• Faculty (25, 17 full time, 4 emeritus, 80 have
  been at UH less than 14 years)
• Students (280 UG, 70 grad.)
• Awards and Achievements
• Rankings (Gourman report) In early 90s (UG and
  grad program 40), 1999 (UG 54).
• Awards 5 IEEE Fellows, 7 NSF PYI,NYI, Career
  Award winners, 2 University teaching awards.
• Startup companies Quack.com, Silicon Labs.

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EE Research Activities

• Broad range of research activities
• Government (more than 5M) NSF, NASA, DARPA..
• Industry (more than 700K) Boeing, TRW, LSI
  Logic, NEC.
• Strengths
• Tradition in communications and networking
• 1970 ARPA funded project at UH COE had critical
  impact on development of Internet. Alohanet
  first wireless packet data network!!!
• Growing strengths in devices and components
• Current NSF group funded project in wireless
  millimeter networks.

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Mission Statement
HCAC is a multidisciplinary research center
bringing people together to work on broadband and
wireless communications.

• Provide students with a rich and diversified
  education.
• Provide infrastructure for joint collaborative
  communications research
• Promote entrepreneurial activities and help
  develop information technology industry in
  Hawaii.

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Partnerships
Federal Govt.
Basic research NSF, ONR, NASA Applied research
ONR, ARL, DARPA Continuing education Exchange
program
HCAC Faculty Members Staff, Students, Visitors
Provide trained workforce Applied
research Continuing education Exchange program
Industry
Hawaii State Govt. 1M /1st year
Boost enrollment Help Hawaiis high tech industry
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Center Organization
Center Industrial Board Local Companies
Mainland Companies Foreign Companies
Hawaii Center for Advanced Communications
Members
A. Bullock J. Chiao S. Lin V. Malhotra G.
Sasaki V. Syrmos G. Uehara J. Yee
Center Council
Director (interim) A. Kuh
Executive Board
M. DeLisio M. Fossorier W. Shiroma
W. Chen J. Spilker
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Education

• Provide multidisciplinary education to prepare
  students for careers in telecommunications.
• Work to establish educational programs with
  industry (life-long learning, Coop, distance
  learning)
• Information Technology Alliance (Engineering,
  Computer Science, Business, Education)
• Work with industry to reverse Hawaii brain drain

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Industrial Partners Program

• Donor Benefits annual research report,
  information center, seminar series.
• Affiliate Benefits donor benefits, student
  internships, graduate student coop/ internships,
  company visits, key contact.
• Partner Benefits affiliate benefits, visiting
  researchers, UH courses, member of Center
  Industrial Board (advise direction of HCAC).
• Founding Partners Partners for five years.

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Industry Relationships

• NEC signed up at partner level.
• Orincon signed up at affiliate level.
• Verbal commitments Adtech, Oceanit.
• Potential local companies STI, Verizon, Oceanic
  Cable.
• Potential mainland companies Boeing, TRW, LSI
  Logic, Cisco, Loral.

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Industry Relationship Summary

• Key benefits student access, information access,
  continuing education programs.
• Industrial partners program is first step in
  developing strong HCAC/ industry relationship.
• Through key contacts targeted research can be
  developed between industry and contacts.

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Research Projects

• Millimeter-wave systems for wireless
  communications high frequency integrated
  circuits and antennas, MEMS RF devices,
  Millimeter-wave device characterization,
  quasi-optical power combining.
• Mobile wireless networks error control coding,
  space-time processing, multiuser detection and
  equalization, ad-hoc network control and
  management.
• Optical wavelength division multiplexed (WDM)
  networks hardware components and devices,
  performance analysis and design.
• Applications (Commercial and military) Broadband
  access to information anytime and anywhere.

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Digital Military CommunicationsDeveloping novel
communication networks for future combat systems

• Requirements Rapid deployment, dynamic network
  topologies, seamless interoperability, dynamic
  bandwidth allocations, broadband video
  applications, security, mobility, power
  consumption
• Novel Hardware
• Secure Communications Systems
• Mobile Wireless Networks