Project Assignments
    The following is a list of students and the projects they have requested

Muhammad Ali - Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), Do research on the history, technology, and implementation of DSSS.
Yu Lin - Mobile Satellite Communications:  What is the current research and technology in the area of satellite communications?
Eddie Boylston - Power Management Issues in Mobile Communications (approved 9/25/01)
Subramanian N. Lalgudi - Improvement of wireless system performance in multipath environments using receive diversity techniques (approved 9/25/01)
Vijay Ganugapati - IS-95 CDMA Technology (approved 9/25/01)
Kavitha Arunachalam - Reed-Solomon Coding Theory (approval still pending)
Hemabh Shekhar - Multi-user Detection in ad-hoc Wireless LAN (approved 9/25/01)
Eric Eekhoff - Convolutional and Error-Correcting Codes  (approved 9/25/01)
Nawanat Eua-anant - IEEE 802.11 Technology  (approved 9/25/01)
Wei Mo - Bluetooth Network Technology  (approved 9/25/01)
Haibo Fei - High Definition Television Technology  (approved 9/25/01)
Zhang Wei - Convolutional Coding for Error Detection and Correction (approved 9/25/01)
Jinghua Jin - Overcoming the bad effects of multipath fading (approved 9/25/01)
Yu Lin  - Mobile Satellite Communications (approved 9/25/01)
Thomas J Hromatka - Frequency hopping spread spectrum (pending approval)
Beatriz Olleta - Convolutional Coding for Error Detection and Correction (approved 9/25/01)
Sridhar Ramakrishnan - Beamformers and their applications in Communications (approved 10/04/01)
 

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS):  Do research on the history, technology, and implementation of FHSS.

Theory of Multipath:  Do research on the modeling of multipath signals in a communication system.

Multi-user Interference:  Do research on the modeling of multi-user interference in a communication system.

Synchronization Issues in a Spread Spectrum System:  Do research on how signals are synchronized.

Convolutional Coding for Error Detection and Correction:  Report on the technology for doing this including the famous Viterbi codes.

Reed-Solomon Coding Theory:  Prepare a summary research report on RS codes and how they are implemented.

IS-95 CDMA:  Summarize the technology associated with CDMA cellular radiotelephones.

High Definition Television (HDTV):  What are the current technologies and how are they implemented?

Bluetooth Network Technology:  Summarize the physical and MAC layers of Bluetooth.

IEEE 802.11 Technology: Summarize the physical and MAC layers of IEEE 803.11.

Multipath Fading Channels:  Characteristics and current research on systems that overcome multipath fading.

Smart Antenna Technology:  What is the current status of research and deployment of Smart Antennas.

License-free communication bands:  What are the current frequency bands authorized by the FCC as "license free?"  What types of services and waveform modulation are permitted in each band?

Airlink Encryption Technologies:  What technologies are being deployed in airlink encryption and how do they work?

Fading Channels:  What methods and technologies are being proposed to overcome the bad effects of fading?