

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 (6G waveform)
- non-orthogonal waveforms
- hybrid waveforms
- flexible waveforms
- Advanced scheduling for future radio access
- PHY security
- Cross layer security
- REM security
- Sensing security
- RIS PHY security
- Cognitive radio security
- URLLC and URLLSC - Ultra reliable, low latency, and secure communications
- Interference management through CoMP and ICIC (C-RAN)
- Interference modeling, shaping, management, and cancellation
- NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access)
- Beamforming and massive MIMO
- Beam tracking
- Millimeter wave communication
- Spatial Modulation
- Modulation options for OFDM and beyond
- Mobility
- Support of mobility in Millimeter waves
- Mobility models
- Tracking and compensation against mobility
- Predicting mobility
- Use of mobility information to enhance system performance (mobility prediction and mobility exploitation)
- REM- radio environment mapping (includes radar aspects)
- Cognitive radio, adaptive radio access technologies
- Flying base stations (high altitude platforms)
- Drone networks
- Signal identification, synchronization, analysis, test, and measurement
- Machine learning for wireless communications and developing data sets
- Sparsity and compressed sensing (sparsity level estimation, sparse or not detection)
- Channel, Interference, and Signal modeling and estimation using sparsity and machine learning
- Handover (both vertical and horizontal) and authentication
- Joint sensing and communications (joint radar and communication)
- Co-existence issues (Spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access and related co-existence issues)
- RIS and backscattering for co-existence
- Waveform design for joint sensing and communications
- NOMA in delay/doppler domain.
Recent graduates of WCSP group found employment at companies like
- NTT DoCoMo
- QUALCOMM
- Atheros Wireless
- Motorola
- Apple
- Amazon
- Honeywell
- Intel
- Logus Broadband Wireless Solutions
- Reverb Networks
- MaxLinear
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- Some of our graduates found positions in well-established universities as post-doc and university professors
News Update
Call for Papers
- Due: Jan. 29, 2021, The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit
- Due: Feb. 19, 2021, ICC Workshops 2021
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