welcome
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
- June 2008: Several preprints and summaries added to the Publications page.
- April 2008: D. Richard Brown gave a seminar on "Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization for Distributed Transmit Beamforming" at Columbia University in New York, NY.
- March 2008: Jie Yang presented "Resource Allocation for Cooperative Relaying" at the CISS 2008 conference at Princeton University. See the Publications page for more information.
- November 2007: D. Richard Brown gave a seminar on "Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization for Distributed Transmit Beamforming" at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY.
- 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.
- October 2007: D. Richard Brown gave a seminar on "Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization for Distributed Transmit Beamforming" at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ.
- 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.