University of Southern California WiDeS - Wireless Devices and Systems Group The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering USC

WELCOME


Welcome to WiDeS, the Wireless Devices and Systems group at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. We are a research group dedicated to research that is both scientifically challenging and practically relevant. The main emphasis of our research is on the physical layer of wireless communications, but we also deal with overall wireless systems integration, wireless positioning and radar, cross-layer design for wireless sensor networks.

Some parts of the site are still under construction - please bear with us while we work on it, and check back for updates!

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS


WiDeS founder Molisch leads technical program at IEEE ComSoc flagship conference
June 9th-13th, 2013

WiDeS founder Molisch leads technical program at IEEE ComSoc flagship conference. The IEEE International Conference on Communications, the flagship of the IEEE Communications Conference, took place in Budapest, Hungary, from June 9-13.
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WiDeS at WCNC
April 7th-10th
WiDeS guest researcher Ruisi He, working on wireless propagation channels, presented a paper on channel modeling for high-speed railways at the conference IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013, Shanghai, China. IEEE WCNC is a flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society, and one of the most selective events for communications research.
Molisch elected Fellow of AAAS
Feb. 16th, 2013
Andy Molisch was elected to the grade of "Fellow" of the AAAS, and inducted into the ranks at the General Meeting of the AAAS in Boston, MA.
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WiDeS book among top-3 on IEEE Xplore

WiDeS book among top-3 on IEEE Xplore: the textbook "Wireless Communications", by WiDeS member Andy Molisch was the third-most downloaded e-book on IEEE Xplore in 2012 (Jan-Sept.).
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Welcome to the new semester

Welcome to the new semester: the new year, and new semester has started, and WiDeS welcomes back all students and members. We are looking forward to an exciting and productive new year.

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PHILOSOPHY


Our philosophy is to bridge the main chasms in today's wireless research
  • theoretical vs. industrial: there is often the misconception that theoretical work cannot be practically relevant. But experience from advanced system design shows that in order to build systems that not only work, but are also better than the competition, new research, dedicated to the specific goals of the system, is required. Members of the group have many years experience in industrial research labs and standardization of wireless systems.
  • theoretical vs. experimental: theoretical breakthroughs are often made on paper, but they have to be verified by experiments - that is one of the basic tenets of science, though it is sometimes forgotten even in engineering research. Careful design of experiments, knowledge of best measurement procedures and innovations in the evaluation methods of large-scale measurements are all vital components of today's wireless research.
  • communication theory vs. antennas/propagation. 

HISTORY


The WiDeS group was founded in January 2009 by Andy Molisch, when he joined the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, after a career in both industry (AT&T Bell Labs, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Research Center for Telecommunications Vienna), and academia (Lund University, Technical University Vienna). WiDeS is a part of the Communications Sciences Institute of the Department of Electrical Engineering at USC, and is affiliated with the ULTRA-Lab at USC.

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Under Constructions
On this website, you find a summary of our research and publications, as well as an overview of who we are. If you are interested in further collaborations, feel free to contact us.