An Overview of the Information & Telecommunication Technology Center

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An Overview of theInformation
Telecommunication Technology Center
Victor S. Frost Director, Information
Telecommunication Technology Center Dan F. Servey
Distinguished Professor of Electrical
Engineering Computer Science frost_at_ittc.ukans.ed
u, 785-864-4830
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ITTC - Mission and Vision

• Mission
• To provide an interdisciplinary research
  environment that capitalizes on partnerships with
  industry and government entities to develop
  technologies and advance knowledge in information
  technologies, telecommunications, and sensors
• Advance education and training of students
• Support Kansas companies and national industries
  through the transfer of technological innovation

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What is Information Telecommunication
Technology?
Healthcare, Government Services, Business,
Environmental Monitoring, Education, Life-Long
Learning
Applications
Voice, Data, Video, Multimedia, Image,
Electronic Transactions, Resource Discovery
Services
High Speed Networks, Switching Systems, Advanced
Signaling Systems
Bitways
Fiber Transmission Systems, Wireless
Networks, Cable Systems, Satellite Systems,
Twisted Pair, Copper Loops, Broadcast, Cellular
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ITTC Overview

• Communications academic emphasis and research
  programs established in 1983, radar and radar
  sensing emphasis in 1964
• Graduated students with telecommunications
  emphasis
• degrees in EE, CS, CoE, Math
• 29 faculty, 15 staff researchers, 6 Center staff
• Current student population 125
• 15 Ph.D., 85 M.S., 25 B.S.
• Unique Facilities
• Unique high-speed networking laboratory including
  a fiber connection to a long-distance fiber
  network
• Lightwave laboratory, including 8 and 16
  wavelength systems, OC-192 test equipment
• Networking laboratory, including ATM and IP Wide
  Area Networks
• Digital signal processing and wireless laboratory
  with high frequency capabilities
• Radar and microwave equipment with up to 40 GHz
  capabilities
• Extensive computing facilities - 500 computers
  and 0.7 TB of storage

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Research Thrust Areas

• Networking and Distributed Processing
• Intelligent Systems Information Management
• Wireless Communications and DSP
• Optical Communications Systems
• Radar Systems and Remote Sensing

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Vision for the Intelligent Systems and
Information Management Laboratory

• Enable new customer services, and applications
  based on distributed and heterogeneous
  information sources and computing resources
• Advance our understanding of distributed
  information systems

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Vision for the Networking and Distributed Systems
Laboratory

• Develop algorithms, protocols, performance
  prediction methods and measurement techniques to
  support the development and deployment of future
  communications networks
• Advance our understanding of communications
  networks and distributed systems

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Vision for the Wireless Communications Digital
Signal Processing Laboratory

• Develop efficient and flexible software radios to
  increase the capacity and functionality of future
  wireless communications systems
• Advance our understanding of wireless
  communications systems

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Vision for the Lightwave Communications Systems
Laboratory

• Create new optical and networking technologies to
  give information flows direct access to high
  capacity wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)
  systems.
• Increase the efficiency and flexibility of future
  networks using existing fiber infrastructure
• Develop the enabling technology for all optical
  networks
• Advance the understanding of lightwave
  communications systems

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Vision for the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing
Laboratory

• Develop new microwave remote sensing instruments
  (radar and radiometers)
• Apply remote sensing techniques to pervasive
  problems
• Detection of antipersonnel and antitank land
  mines
• Monitoring global climate change by measuring
  polar ice sheet thickness
• Estimation of surface wind speed over the ocean
  for global weather forecasts
• Create new collection and signal processing
  techniques for extracting information from remote
  sensing data
• Advance the understanding of remote sensing
  through better fundamental models of
  sensor-target interaction

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ITTC Expenditures
Last 3 year total 17.15 Million
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Funding Sources
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Some of the Research Facilities at the
University of Kansas Information
Telecommunications Technology Center
Lightwave Optics
Adaptive Computing
Remote Sensing
Networking Systems
Wireless DSP
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Some of the Research Facilities at the
University of Kansas Information
Telecommunications Technology Center
Internet Backbone IP Router
20 Gb/s WDM Lightwave System
2.4 Gb/s Fiber Terminal
40 Gb/s WDM Lightwave System
25 Mb/s Wireless System
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Summary

• The University of Kansas brings together academic
  and research expertise as well as the facilities
  required for the innovative development of
  information technology
• Networking and Distributed Systems
• Network Based Software Applications
• Lightwave Communications Systems
• Wireless and Digital Signal Processing
• Microwave, Radar Systems and Remote Sensing
• It is our goal to remain at the forefront of the
  creation of the enabling technologies for the
  information economy