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The signal processing and information networking laboratory (spinlab) was founded in 2002 by Prof. D. Richard Brown with the purpose of bringing motivated undergraduate and graduate students together to work on fundamental and applied problems in signal processing, communication systems, and networking. Spinlab is located on the third floor of the Atwater Kent Laboratories building at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Spinlab funding is currently provided by the National Science Foundation through an NSF Career award beginning in January 2005. Spinlab has also received prior funding support from DARPA, Bose, Inc, and General Electric Industrial Systems. The generous support provided by these sponsors has funded the degrees of several graduate students as well as the senior project work of dozens of undergraduate students. If you are a student interested in working in spinlab, please click on the Opportunities link above.
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recent news
- November 2007: Ipek Ozil presented "Time-Slotted Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization" at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers in Pacific Grove, CA.
- November 2007: Jie Yang presented "Energy Efficient Relaying Games in Cooperative Wireless Transmission Systems" at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers in Pacific Grove, CA.
- August 2007: Our paper "On throughput efficiency of geographic opportunistic routing in multihop wireless networks", by K. Zeng, W. Lou, J. Yang, and D.R. Brown III, received the best paper runner-up award in QShine 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007.
- July 2007: Tyson Coey successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Round-Trip Time-Division Distributed Beamforming". See the Publications page for more information.
- April 2007: Jie Yang presented "The effect of receiver diversity combining on optimum energy allocation and energy efficiency of cooperative wireless transmission systems" at the ICASSP 2007 conference in Honolulu.
- March 2007: Jie Yang and Kai Zeng submitted "On Geographic Collaborative Forwarding in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" to the Second International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications. See the Publications page for more information.
- December 2006: Jim McGinley successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Real-Time Software-Defined-Radio Implementation of a Two Source Distributed Beamformer". See the Publications page for more information.
- October 2006: Jie Yang submitted "The effect of receiver diversity combining on optimum energy allocation and energy efficiency of cooperative wireless transmission systems" to the ICASSP 2007 conference in April 2007 in Honolulu. See the Publications page for more information.
- August 2006: Qian Wang, a new graduate student from China, joined spinlab. See the People page for more information.
- May 2006: The new spinlab web site is live. The new site is considerably streamlined and contains updated content reflecting our current research activities. Please contact Prof. Rick Brown if you are having trouble finding anything. Also, John McNeill submitted "Split-ADC architecture for deterministic digital background calibration of a 16b 1MS/s ADC" to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. See the Publications page for more information.
- March 2006: Jie Yang presented "The Effect of Channel State Information on Optimum Energy Allocation and Energy Efficiency of Cooperative Wireless Transmission Systems" at the CISS 2006 conference at Princeton University. See the Publications page for more information.
- January 2006: Jim McGinley (BSECE WPI) joined spinlab. Jim's MS work is focusing on implementation of synchronization techniques for distributed beamforming. See the People page for more information.
- November 2005: "Measuring glottal activity during voiced speech using a tuned electromagnetic resonating collar sensor" by D.R. Brown III, K. Keenaghan and S. Desimini appeared in Measurement Science and Technology, Volume 17, Issue 11, pp. 2381-2390. See the Publications page for more information.
- October 2005: Prof. Rick Brown presented "Resource Allocation for Fixed Outage Probability in Orthogonal Cooperative Transmission Systems" at the WICAT Workshop at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. See the Publications page for more information.
- August 2005: Three new graduate students joined spinlab: Tyson Coey (BSECE WPI), Samant Kakarla (BSECE WPI), and Jie Yang (MSEE Huazhong University of Science and Technology). See the People page for more information.