PURPOSE: The purpose of the Wireless Systems Laboratory is to study the theory and implementation of solutions to systems-level problems in communications. Our demonstrated strength is in the design and analysis of coding, modulation, and equalization schemes for highly bandwidth efficient wireless communication systems.
DIRECTOR: Dennis L. Goeckel, Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, is the director of the Wireless Systems Laboratory. Dennis Goeckel is the recipient of a 1999 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work in Coded Modulation for High-Speed Wireless Communications , and he is currently an Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Wireless Communication Series . He has been selected as a 2000-2001 Lilly Teaching Fellow through the Center for Teaching at the University of Massachusetts. For a full CV (in PostScript format) for Dennis Goeckel, please click here.
SPONSORS : The main source of support for research in the Wireless Systems Laboratory comes from the National Science Foundation through two significant grants: Coded Modulation for High-Speed Wireless Communications and Adaptive Coded Modulation for Time-Varying Channels.
Additional significant research funding comes from:
AFFILIATIONS: The Wireless Systems Laboratory is part of the Wireless Communications Center at the University of Massachusetts, which provides considerable strength in wireless communication system design by providing research expertise in all system facets.
EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS: We are working on coded modulation structures for adaptive signaling over wireless channels with Prof. Rick Wesel of UCLA, and we are working on iterative methods for highly bandwidth efficient wireless communications with Prof. Bill Ryan of the University of Arizona.
goeckel@ecs.umass.edu