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Research Increasingly, industry relies on universities for new discoveries that result in new technologies and the development of the next "killer applications." In 2004, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was awarded more than $12.3 million in research grants. Reinforced by industry affiliations, grants, and other support Rice continues to be on the international forefront of groundbreaking research and education.  Wireless Goes Open-Access
Designing the next generation's high performance wireless network
relies on the seamless convergence of multiple research communities:
hardware designers, computer architects, communication engineers, and
network protocol researchers. A team of researchers led by Ashutosh
Sabharwal, Research Director for Center for Multimedia Communication,
in collaboration with Xilinx Incorporated's Chief DSP Scientist Chris
Dick, are addressing the challenges by building a wireless open-access
research platform (WARP) that can
operate 100s of Mb/s. The WARP infrastructure will allow a community
of users to collaborate effectively by using specialized programming
tools and support packages and as an open-access repository, that
contains building blocks for a wide range of wireless systems.Xilinx and CMC have been collaborating for 4 years now, which includes a fellowship and generous donations of tools and hardware to CMC's projects. |
Affiliated Research Centers/Groups: Center for Multimedia
Communication www-ece@rice.edu |
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