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Victor S. Frost

Director, Information & Telecommunication Technology CenterDan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of

Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciencefrost@eecs.ku.edu, 785-864-4833

An Introduction to theInformation &

Telecommunication Technology Center

ITTC Technology ReviewMay 2003

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ITTC - Mission and Vision

• Mission– To create the fundamental knowledge and technologies

required to realize the convergence of computing, communications, and sensors for the expansion of our economy and the improvement of the quality of life;

• FOCUS on RESEARCH– To educate the next generation of technology leaders that

will drive this convergence; • FOCUS on STUDENTS

– To transfer the knowledge and technology to industry that will enable this convergence.

• FOCUS on ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT

• Vision

– Our vision is to be a global leader in and catalyst for the unification of computing, communications, and sensor technologies while being a strategic partner for their commercialization.

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What is Information & Telecommunication Technology?

Voice, Data, Video, Multimedia, Image, Electronic Transactions, Resource Discovery

Healthcare, Bioinformatics,Government Services,Business, Environmental Monitoring, Education, Life-Long Learning

High Speed Networks, Switching Systems,Advanced Signaling Systems

Sensors, Fiber Transmission Systems, Wireless Networks,Cable Systems, Satellite Systems, Twisted Pair,Copper Loops, Broadcast, Cellular

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• Communications academic emphasis and research programs established in 1983, radar and remote sensing emphasis in 1964

• Students from EE, CS, CoE, Math, Physics, Journalism, Education

• 31 faculty, 17 staff researchers, 6 Center staff

• Current student population ~ 145– ~ 19 Ph.D., ~98 M.S., ~28 B.S.

ITTC Overview

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Unique Facilities• Unique high-speed networking laboratory including a fiber

connection to the Sprint Sprint long-distance fiber network • Lightwave laboratory, including 16 wavelength systems, OC-

192 and 40 Gb/s test equipment• Outdoor Antenna Range• Connection to Sunflower Broadband’s Network• Networking laboratory, including ATM and IP Wide Area

Networks• Wireless laboratory and digital signal processing with high

frequency capabilities• Cluster of over 94 Linux CPUs• Radar and microwave equipment with up to 40 GHz capabilities• Extensive computing facilities - ~500 computers and 1.5 TB of

storage

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ITTC R/D&C Organization

O perations &Support Staff

Technology Transfe r& Com m ercializatio n

M arketing &Public Relation s

Industry &KTEC Liaison

Softw are Lab-Prototyping, Support & Toolkits

Tim JohnsonExecutive D irector,Applied Technology

Industry Advisory Board

W ireless Com m unications an dDigital S ignal Processing-DS P

Lightw ave Com m unicatio nSystem s

Netw orking &Distributed System s

Intelligent System s an dInform ation M anagem en t

Radar System s &Rem ote Sensin g

E-Learning Lab

G ary M indenExecutive D irector,

Research

Victor FrostDirector

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ITTC Expenditures

ITTC R/D&C Expenditures Sources FY2002

Other 8%

State10%

Tech Transfer

1%

Federal51%

Industry28%

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Some of the Research Facilities at the University of Kansas Information & TelecommunicationsTechnology Center

Adaptive Computing

Wireless & DSP

Lightwave & Optics

Networking& Systems

RemoteSensing

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Some of the Research Facilities at the University of Kansas Information & TelecommunicationsTechnology Center

2.4 Gb/s Fiber Terminal

25 Mb/s Wireless System

20 Gb/sWDMLightwave System

40 Gb/sWDMLightwaveSystem

InternetBackboneIP Router

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Agenda8:30 – 8:45 Welcome (Stuart Bell, Dean, School of Engineering)

An Introduction to the Information & Telecommunication

Technology Center (Victor Frost)

8:45 – 9:00 University/Industry and Technology Transfer (Tim Johnson)

9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Bioinformatics

+ Data Mining of Blood Incident Databases (Costas Tsatsoulis)

+ VitalSeek (Susan Gauch)

+ Data Mining in Bioinformatics (Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Session 2: Radar/Lightwave Communications

+ Ice Thickness Measurements Over Antarctica and Overview

of PRISM (Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam)

+ Lightwave Communication systems Research (Chris Allen)

11:45 – 12:30 Poster session

12:30-1:15 Lunch (In Nichols Hall Atrium)

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Agenda1:15-2:45 Session 3: Wireless/Networking

+ Bluetooth Interoperability Testing at ITC(Leon Searl)

+ National Radio Networking Research Testbed (Gary Minden)

+ QoS Scheduling in Cable and Broadband Wireless Networks

(Mohammed Hawa)

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00- 4:00 Session 4: Real-Time Systems/e-Learning

+ Current Research Efforts in Real-Time and Embedded

Systems (Doug Niehaus)

+ e-Learning Design Laboratory (John Gauch)

4:00 – 5:00 Session 5: Security

+ Center for Information Protection (Hossein Saiedian)

+ Secure System Specification (Perry Alexander)

5:00 Lab Tours