An Overview of the
Information & Telecommunication
Technology Center
Victor S. Frost
Director, Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor
of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
frost@ittc.ukans.edu, 785-864-4830
University of Kansas
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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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
University of Kansas
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A KTEC Center of Excellence
Healthcare, Government Services,
Business, Environmental Monitoring,
Education, Life-Long Learning
Voice, Data, Video, Multimedia,
Image, Electronic Transactions,
Resource Discovery
Applications Services
What is Information &
Telecommunication
Technology?
High Speed Networks, Switching Systems,
Advanced Signaling Systems
University of Kansas
Bitways
Fiber Transmission Systems, Wireless Networks,
Cable Systems, Satellite Systems, Twisted Pair,
Copper Loops, Broadcast, Cellular
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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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
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Unique high-speed networking laboratory including a fiber connection to a long-distance fiber
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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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
Research Thrust Areas
• Networking and Distributed Processing
• Intelligent Systems & Information Management
• Wireless Communications and DSP
• Optical Communications Systems
• Radar Systems and Remote Sensing
University of Kansas
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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
ITTC Expenditures
Last 3 year total = $17.15 Million
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Funding Sources
Examples of recent sponsors
Other
6%
Federal
51%
State
14%
Industry
29%
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DARPA
DOE
NSF
USAF & US Army
NASA
NIH
Sprint
Adaptive Broadband
NEC
Nortel
TRW
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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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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A KTEC Center of Excellence
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
25 Mb/s
Wireless
System
University of Kansas
40 Gb/s
WDM
Lightwave
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
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A KTEC Center of Excellence