Wireless Communications & Signal Processing

Welcome to Wireless Communications & Signal Processing Group (WCSP)

The research focus of the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) group at the electrical engineering department of USF are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical (PHY) and medium access (MAC) layers, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and Quality of Service (QoS) control. WCSP group is interested in many forms of wireless technologies including

cellular radio
wireless PAN/LAN/MANs
fixed wireless access
aeronautical networks
underwater networks
in-vivo networks
and specialized wireless data networks like
- wireless sensors networks
- wireless telemetry.

The current research interests of the WCSP group are

5G and beyond research, foundation technologies for 6G
- 5G and beyond waveform design
  - non-orthogonal waveforms
  - hybrid waveforms
  - flexible waveforms
- Advanced scheduling for future radio access
- PHY security
- Cross layer security
- URLLC and URLLSC - Ultra reliable, low latency, and secure communications
- Interference
  - modeling
  - shaping
  - management
    - through CoMP and ICIC (C-RAN)
  - cancellation
- NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access)
- Beamforming and massive MIMO
- Millimeter wave communication
- Spatial Modulation
- Modulation options for OFDM and beyond
Cognitive radio, adaptive radio access technologies
OFDM(A) based wireless technologies with emphasis on
- Co-existence issues on heterogeneous networks with emphasis on
  - unlicensed bands
  - OFDMA-based custom flexible broadband networks for military and public safety applications
  - aeronautical (High Altitude Platform) communications and flying base stations
  - underwater acoustic communications.
- WIMAX
- IMT-Advanced
- TV-White space radio
Machine learning for wireless communications
Sparsity and compressed sensing
- Channel, Interference, and Signal modeling and estimation using sparsity and machine learning
Powerline communications
Communication for Smart Grid
UWB

Recent graduates of WCSP group found employment at companies like

NTT DoCoMo
QUALCOMM
Atheros Wireless
Motorola
Logus Broadband Wireless Solutions
Reverb Networks
Some of our graduates found positions in well-established universities as post-doc and university professors

News Update

Call for Papers

Due: Oct. 4, 2019, WCNC 2020 (Location: Seoul, KR)
Due: Oct. 14, 2019, ICC 2020 (Location: Dublin, IR)
Due: Jan. 3, 2020, SIU 2020 (Location: Gaziantep, TR)

Click to see the publication statistics of WCSP Ph.D. Alumni!