WIRELESS AND COMMUNICATIONS POSITIONING LABORATORY

WCPL facilities provide coherent data generation and collection capabilities for a wide spectrum of multi-channel digital and analog radio frequency signals combined with analyses and signal syntheses tools needed for wireless connectivity, cellular telephony, and GPS/GNSS technologies. The WCPL also allows testing of various techniques for wireless localization and navigation, using multiple-antenna transmitters and receivers.

The Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab has conducted several projects related to wireless network connectivity for urban sensing, optimization of network resource allocation, multiuser cooperative diversity systems, array beamforming for wideband telemetry digital communications, array processing for interference/jammer suppression in GPS/GNSS receivers, orphan meter detection and localization, space-time coding for wireless communications, applications of smart antennas to rotorcrafts, and indoor wireless channel modeling and equalization.

Area of Expertise

Wireless Communications and Networking
Smart Antennas and Adaptive Beamforming
MIMO technology
Cooperative and Distributed Signal Processing
Direction Finding
Blind signal and array processing
Space-time processing
Channel estimation and characterization
Channel Equalization
Anti-jam GPS
Multi-path mitigation

Facilities

wo Agilent ESG E4438C Vector Signal Generators
Agilent 89641 Vector Signal Analyzer
Agilent Infiniium 54855A Digital Oscilloscope
Agilent ENA 5071B Network Analyzer
Matlab/Simulink
EDX Microcell/Indoor Module
GPS multiple antenna data collection system

CAC RESEARCHERS

Dr. Moeness Amin, Director

Dr. Amin has made major contributions to advances in the theory of signal and array processing with applications to radar, sonar, communications, satellite navigations, ultrasound, healthcare, and RFID. These contributions are captured in three books, 22 book chapters and over 800 publications with more than 20,000 citations and an H-index of 72. His numerous honors include the 2017 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced Science and Technology, the 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the 2016 IET Achievement Medal and the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award. MORE...

Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar

Dr. Hoorfar is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Antenna Research Laboratory. He has contributed research in electromagnetic field theory, multifunction, wideband and low-profile antennas, miniaturized antennas, metamaterial media and surfaces, through-the-wall sensing and imaging radar, evolutionary computational methods and antenna measurement techniques. Among the sponsors for his research are the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, DARPA, Army Research Lab, Naval Air Warfare Center and numerous companies. Dr. Hoorfar has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, written more than 150 technical reports, and been an invited speaker at various international symposia in his key research areas. MORE...

Dr. Robert Caverly

Dr. Caverly is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Microwave and Electromagnetics Laboratory where his research interests include characterization of semiconductor devices such as PIN diodes and FETs in the microwave and radio frequency control environment. From 2014–2016, he traveled the world as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer, an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) appointment for those recognized as experts in their fields. He is also involved in analog and digital CMOS VLSI design, an area where he has taught a number of workshops, as well as courses at Villanova. Dr. Caverly is the author of more than 100 journal and conference papers and two books. MORE...

Dr. Rosalind Wynne

Dr. Wynne is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Laboratory for Lightwave Devices. Her expertise is in photonics, fiber optic devices and sensors and microstructured fiber sensors for chemicals, biomaterials and hazardous materials. She teaches undergraduate courses in Introduction to Optoelectronics, Electronic Materials and Devices, and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, and graduate courses in Introduction to Photonics and Optical Communications. She was recently awarded a Manufacturing PA grant focusing on the optimization of microelectromechanical systems fabrication, assembly and packaging. MORE...

Dr. Meltem Izzetoglu

An assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Izzetoglu is director of the Biomedical Signals, Systems and Analysis Laboratory, where her focus of study is the brain. She has collaborated with researchers throughout the Philadelphia region and within and between universities both nationally and internationally. Current research includes aging studies, semantic memory recall and sustained attention research, and next-generation functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based optical brain imaging systems, for which she was awarded a Manufacturing PA grant. MORE...

CAC NEWS

Dr. Amin’s 800 Publications Pass 20,000 Citations with H-Index of 72

Dr. Moeness Amin, director of Villanova University's Center for Advanced Communications, reached an important milestone in his three decades of research and scholarship. His published work, which includes more than 250 journal papers and 550 conference papers, all while at Villanova, has exceeded 20,000 citations with an H-index of 72.

Professor Robert Caverly, PhD, Named Recipient of 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award

Dr. Robert Caverly, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Microwave and Electromagnetics Laboratory was recognized for his impressive scholarship and reputation in microwave control circuitry. The award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates the highest standards of excellence in research, scholarship and contributions to their field.

Dr. Rosalind Wynne, Director, Laboratory for Lightwave Devices

CAC Researchers Awarded Grants through Manufacturing PA Initiative

Manufacturing PA awarded academic-industry research grants to Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Drs. Rosalind Wynne and Meltem Izzetoglu. Dr. Wynne is partnering with Avo Photonics on “Manufacturing Process, Assembly and System Yield Optimization for Microelectromechanical Systems Devices,” while Dr. Izzetoglu is developing a smart brain imager in collaboration with Infrascan, Inc.