OUR MISSION
To leverage intellectual assets and research infrastructure at the participating academic institutions for the purpose of making significant contributions in a broad range of wireless technologies that will enhance the wireless industry; to develop new wireless technologies, and advance the application of these technologies.
BACKGROUND
NJCWT was established as a Wireless R&D Excellence Center”. This Center is backed by the Science & Technology with a first year support expected over a 5 year period. The official start date of the Center was January 1, 1999, following an Industry Kickoff Meeting on December 8, 1998.
The main participants are theCommission on Science and Technology, who through their generous funding has made this collective effort possible; the four research universities Institute of Technology, Princeton University,Rutgers University (WINLAB) and Stevens Institute of Technology (ATI); the state and regional wireless communications companies; and the various federal agencies who also fund this research.
FUNDING FROM 1999 TO 2001
The Center for Wireless Telecommunication has been funded as follows for the first three years of its existence:
Commission on Science and Technology: $3,269,781
University Funding: $3,455,115
Industry Funding: $1,568,880
Federal Funding: $4,768,180
These funds bring to the table a unique opportunity for NJCWT to take the lead in coordinating and focusing on integrated wireless research programs aimed at benefiting industrial competitiveness and education in the State of New Jersey.
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
The NJCWT program is guided by an executive committee of four principal investigators (PI’s), one from each institution. This committee, chaired by the NJIT PI, is responsible for establishing research, goals and metrics, resource and budget allocations, and for overall monitoring of performance consistent with the mission of the Center. The administration of the Center is housed at NJIT and supervised by an administrative team.
The Executive Committee
Alexander M. Haimovich, NJIT
Stuart C. Schwartz, Princeton
Roy Yates, Rutgers (WINLAB)
Yun-Dong Yao, Stevens Tech
The Administrative Team (NJIT)
Alexander M. Haimovich, Director
Sirin Tekinay, Associate Director
Marlene Toeroek, Administrative Assistant
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
The Center’s research activities cross institutional boundaries. There are four major research areas whose focus and activities are coordinated by a project leader. The result is strong synergistic collaboration among the four institutions. The focus groups and project leaders are:
| Focus | Project Leader | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| RF Engineering and Propagation | Gerald Whitman | Propagation models for indoors and Infostations, rough surface scattering models, photonic band gap structures, and smart antennas |
| Wireless Transceivers Design | Alexander Haimovich | Wideband multiple access, multi-user technologies, space-time adaptive processing and adaptive equalization |
| Wireless Networking | Sirin Tekinay | Networking architectures, wireless geolocation teletraffic modeling, ressource allocation, and mobility |
| Services and Applications | Yun-Dong Yao | Open protocols and architecture supporting commercial applications, InfoCity network architectures, network predictors, and QoS assessment |