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The State of New York has designated Polytechnic as the New York Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (DIS). This designation means that State funds are allocated to Polytechnic so that it can in turn provide research, development and educational support for New York based corporations in telecommunications and related fields. Polytechnic is the only center in the State of New York to receive a designation in telecommunications and distributed information systems. The Center and its related activities further strengthens Polytechnic's strong academic position in electrical engineering and computer science. In 2001, CATT was designated a Verizon Center for Excellence in Telecommunications. NY State is also funding an additional center which focuses on the wireless Internet, called WICAT or the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology. The CATT Center also offers graduate research fellowships for entering students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree.
Five research and education units are contained in the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications. They are:
The Microwave Research Institute (MRI) was founded at Polytechnic in 1943 in response to wartime needs for new types of microwave components for radar applications. After World War II, the Institute continued to achieve stature under the leadership of its founder and first director, Dr. Ernst Weber. In collaboration with the academic departments, MRI has helped educate more microwave engineers than any other institution in the country. MRI was renamed the Weber Wireless Research Institute (W2RI) in honor of Dr. Weber and in recognition of its wider scope of research.
In recent years, W2RI has broadened the scope of its research activities to include a range of topics encompassed by the broad term wireless communications. Research topics include: radio propagation through the atmosphere; antennas; communication theory as applied to modulation, coding, multiple access schemes and wireless network architectures. These topics are applied to cellular telephones, wireless LAN’S and other special purpose wireless networks and systems.
| AGENCY | PROJECT TITLE | PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | OTHER FACULTY | |
| Symbol Technologies | Location Technology for Indoors Wireless Systems | H. Bertoni | P. Voltz | |
| NSF | Research Experience for Undergraduates | F. Cassara | Y. Wang | |
| NYSTAR | OFDM Wireless Communication Networks | F. Cassara | ||
| CATT | Network Security | H. J. Chao | ||
| NSF | Instrumentation for Research on Energy Aware Multimedia Information Terminals | D. Czarkowski | E. Erkip D. Goodman R. Karri Y. Wang |
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| NSF | Multiple Transmit Elements for High Speed Robust Wireless Local Area Networks | E. Erkip | ||
| NSF | Cooperative Source and Channel Coding | E. Erkip | Y. Wang | |
| Philips Research | Cooperative Channel Coding for Wireless Networks | E. Erkip | A. Stefanov | |
| NSF/WICAT | Power Efficient Multimedia Communications | D. Goodman | E. Erkip Y. Wang |
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| NSF | Industry University Cooperative Research Center for Wireless Internet | D. Goodman | ||
| NSF | CAREER Robust Nonlinear Control: Problems and Challenges from Communication Networks | Z. P. Jiang | ||
| NSF | Control of Complex Nonlinear Systems with Applications | Z. P. Jiang | ||
| Cisco Systems | Optical Speed Encryption Architectures | R. Karri | ||
| NSF | Towards Enabling a 2-3 Orders of Magnitude Improvement in Call Handling Capacities of Switches | R. Karri | ||
| Design Automation Conference | Graduate Scholarship | R. Karri | ||
| IntelliTech Microsystems | Control System Development for Self-Navigating Rotary Wing Aircrafts | F. Khorrami | ||
| Sandia National Labs | Resource Allocation Modeling | F. Khorrami | ||
| AFOSR | Generation Characterization and Aerospace Applications of Torch Plasmas | S. P. Kuo | ||
| ONR | Experiments in the Theoretical Study ELF/VLF Wave Generation by the Haarp HF Heating Facility | S. P. Kuo | ||
| CATT | Wireless Communications | I.-Tai Lu | ||
| Grumman | Sensor Management | I.-Tai Lu | ||
| CATT | Management, Performance and Control of High-Speed Network | S. Panwar | ||
| NSF | Design and Analysis f End-to-End Feedback Congestion Control Schemes | S. Panwar | Z. P. Jiang | |
| NSF | Support for Video Traffic in Ad-Hoc Networks | S. Panwar | Y. Wang | |
| SIAC | NYSE Network Modeling | S. Panwar | ||
| WICAT/NSF/I/UCRC/D | Video Over Ad Hoc Network Testbed | S. Panwar | Y. Wang | |
| NSF/I/UCRC | Wireless LAN Analysis and Design; Cooperative Medium Access Control | S. Panwar | ||
| NSF | Video Coding Using a 3-D Motion-Selective Wavelet Transforms | I. Selesnick | Y. Wang | |
| ONR | Motion-based 3D Wavelet Transforms | I. Selesnick | ||
| Symbol Technologies/CATT | Indoor Localization in Multipath Environments | P. Voltz | ||
| CATT | Image Communications | Y. Wang | ||
| Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) | Wavelet-Based Video Coding | Y. Wang | I. Selesnick | |
| DARPA/SUNY | Enhancing Performance of Biohybrid Animal Sensors | Y. Wang | S. Panwar J. Gluckman |
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| Con Ed | Evaluation of 3-? Bolted Short Circuits on Distribution Networks Having Customer's Distributed Generators | Z. Zabar | D. Czarkowski L. Birenbaum |
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| Con Ed | Availability of Monitoring/Warning Systems of Leakage Current to Ground in Secondary Distribution Systems | Z. Zabar | D. Czarkowski L. Birenbaum |
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| Con Ed | Development of a Unit Substation Demand Estimator | Z. Zabar | ||
| KeySpan | Phase-Angle as an Additional Indicator of Imminent Voltage Collapse in Electronic Transmission and Distribution Systems | Z. Zabar | D. Czarkowski L. Birenbaum |
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| KeySpan | Mitigation of Voltage Disturbance Caused by Non-Linear Operation of Massive Electrical Loads | Z. Zabar |
