Wireless Communication
mmWave and Terahertz Communication
UAV-assisted Wireless Communication
Hybrid RF/Optical Wireless Communication System Design
Cognitive Radio (Software Defined Radio) System and Network Design
Satellite Communication
Optical Communication
Wireless (Light Wave) Sensing
Gesture Recognition and Swaying Detection for Human-Computer Interaction Applications
Vitals Monitoring: Respiration, Heart Rate, and Glucose
Structural Health Monitoring
Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
Livestock Monitoring
Soil Monitoring
Design CommAwareNet: Towards Communication-Aware Smart Facilities: Designing an Energy-efficient High-data-rate and Reliable Hybrid THz/VLC Communication Architecture Reinforced with Intelligent Surfaces for Future Networks
Sponsor: 2022 DOE Early Career Award
Design SpiderNET: Spectrally Efficient and Energy Efficient Data Aided Demand Driven Elastic Architecture for Future Networks
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
A new LunarCom Architecture for NASA’s lunar missions will combine the reliability of RF links with the high capacity and low cost of optical links for communication between Earth stations and Moon explorers.
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Collaborators: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Oklahoma, and University of Tulsa
The Oklahoma CubeSat Initiative (OKSat), located in Oklahoma State University, is working towards developing and implementing Oklahoma's first CubeSat program.
For more information, visit: www.oksat.space
Sponsors:
Mr. Jack H. Graham, OSU-ECE Alumni, OSU School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and OSU College of Engineering, Archtitecutre and Technology.
Collaborators: Unmanned Systems Research Institute, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Oklahoma, and University of Tulsa
Channel Modeling Emulator for UAV-assisted Wireless Communication: Use a robotic arm to mimic the motion of UAV in various weather conditions and characterize the impact of motion in the mmWave and THz channels.
Research on THz communication systems, particularly on channel characterization and dispersion analysis and compensation.
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Investigates the temporal dispersion of a wireless terahertz communication signal caused by reflection from a rough (diffuse) surface, and its subsequent impact on symbol error rate versus data rate.
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Develop spectral- and power-efficient cognitive radio based communication algorithms to secure efficient and reliable space-based CubeSat communication links.
Develop an ultra-lightweight software defined radio (SDR) for collection of NAVAID data.
Propagation channel measurements and characterization for ultrawideband communication channel between UAV and wearable (UAVW) devices.
Sponsor: OSU Research
Design (prototype) VLC technology for V2X communication and deploy it with RF-based communication (e.g., DSRC) technology to have a hybrid communication system to improve the reliability of V2X data transmission.
Sponsor: OSU Research
Explore the challenges and opportunities related to bringing broadband and IoT connectivity to farmers and ranchers by using TVWS and LoRaWAN technologies.
Sponsor: OSU VPR Tier 1 Research Initiative
Develop a proof-of-concept soil monitoring system with wireless underground IoT sensors and UAVs.
RSSI-based localization using low-cost, energy-efficient IoT LoRaWAN technology.
Sponsor: OSU Research
Develop an accurate, safe, reliable, secure, and private non-contact sensing method for vitals (heart rate and respiration) monitoring using only reflected incoherent visible light (or near-infrared) signals.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Create a wireless sensing modality for gesture recognition using only reflected incoherent visible light (or near-infrared) signals from a human subject’s hand.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Create a wireless sensing modality for glucose sensing using only reflected incoherent visible light (or near-infrared) signals from a human subject’s forehead.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Develop a low-cost and non-contact sensing method for diagnosis and screening of COVID-19.
Sponsors:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Design a new vehicle speed estimation using vehicle headlamps (e.g., daytime running lights.)