Communication and Networks

Radar and Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, 5G/6G Wireless Communications, Spectrum and Energy Efficient Communications, Communications and Information Foundation

Recent Highlights

5 December

Secure networks for battlefield communications

UTA researcher working to help military use civilian 5G networks securely

14 July

‘Like using a sonogram on bridges and pavement’

UTA engineer develops automatic crack evaluation system for roads, bridges, runways

14 September

To combat infestations, UTA to use tiny sensors to track bugs

UTA working with USDA to track movements of tarnished plant bugs via miniature sensors

17 September

UTA teams up with coastal town to monitor climate change

UTA developing sensor network to monitor climate change effects in coastal Texas town

Resources

Wireless Communications and Networking Lab

Wireless communications and networking development and test equipment including spectrum analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, Infiniium oscilloscope, network analyzers, handheld RF power meter and Log Periodic Antenna X. The Lab is doing research in spectrum efficient waveform design with application to wireless networks.

Signal Processing and Learning in Sensing Systems (SPLSS) Lab

SPLLSS focuses on the development and analysis of machine learning algorithms with application in multimodal sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging. Recent research activities include dynamic building of similarity graphs for multimodal data/signals via reinforcement learning with applications in data mining, decision making and tactical situational awareness.

Radar Sensor Network Lab

Equipment includes Lab Time Domain’s PulsON UWB radars, Log Periodic Antenna X, and wireless sensor network professional developer’s kit. The lab performs research in compressive sensing for radar and radar sensor networks because data compression has become a bottleneck for information processing and integration. The lab also performs research in practical co-prime and nested samplers and arrays for radar and radar sensor networks.

Abacus Cloud and Edge Systems (ACES) Lab

The ACES Lab has established a virtualized middle-scale cluster to support cloud-oriented research. The lab has 10 servers serving as cloud computing nodes, each of which is configured with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 processors, 64GB of RAM, a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57810 10Gb NIC and 4x1TB SATA HDDs, and four cloud storage servers, each of which is equipped with a RAID-0 SSD array with five 800GB SATA MLC SSDs, consolidating all the multi-replica data for cloud computing nodes. All the servers are interconnected by six Dell Networking N4032F switches with peak bandwidth of 10 Gbps. A pool of 30 Raspberry Pi’s with temperature and humidity sensing capabilities are also connected to the cluster to allow for the testing of edge and IoT-based sensing applications.