Intelligent Digital Communication
University
              
          Course
              VPN
          Sponsor
              ATandT, BIT Systems, Georgia Tech Athletic Assoc., OIT-RNOC
          Goals
              To enhance spectrum utilization, enable improved use of smart devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and create intelligent mechanisms for debugging, monitoring, policing and enhancing all types of wireless communications through the use of software defined radio techniques.
Traditionally, wireless communications systems use dedicated hardware to implement the telecommunications coding, decoding, and signal analysis to create a useable data channel.  As RF spectrum becomes increasingly scarce, and devices become more intelligent, using a software implementation allows significantly increased flexibility in how spectrum is used and how smart devices interact.
          Issues
          Spectrum utilization and security in wireless channels, computation performance of software radios, identifying specific wireless devices in high density environments, multi-node software radio sensornets, distributed detection/estimation, reusability
              Tools and Methods
          Signal processing
          Software Radio
          Cognitive Radio
          Telecommunications
          Artificial Intelligence
          Embedded Programming
              Desired Majors
          Computational Media
          Computer Engineering
          Computer Science
          Electrical Engineering
          Mechanical Engineering
              Sponsor
              ATandT, BIT Systems, Georgia Tech Athletic Assoc., OIT-RNOC