HCAC is proud to be a part of the NSF I/U CRC “Connection One” for Telecommunications. Including the University of Hawaii and other universities in the Connection One Partnership, originally proposed by ASU, represents a strategic move that is expected to help broaden research services to member companies and provide opportunities for integrative/multidisciplinary research efforts that are critically needed in enabling next generations of telecommunication technologies. The University of Hawaii has research expertise in areas that complement the strengths of ASU and the University of Arizona. The University of Hawaii’s participation will not only enhance research results; but, also, increase the overall center effectiveness in making research advances and significant contributions to telecommunications.

VISION:
Next generation wireless communications technology calls for fully integrated, low cost, expanded broadband and high data rate applications/services, seamless hands-off between heterogeneous networks, full mobility with minimum latency. These constraints make it exceedingly difficult to design affordable wireless systems.

Confronting these technology challenges will require breakthroughs and innovative multidisciplinary research contributions across the multi-layer wireless communication network system. The assembled team of researchers from the collaborating groups represents broad background, broad breadth, and significant research expertise that will help the multi-university Center advance the telecommunications technology and provide significant benefits to our industry sponsors.

Research activities at University of Hawaii will provide a strong base in areas such as antennas, propagation and channel modeling, coding, and DSP - particularly in developing smart antennas and multi-user detection algorithms.

INTELLECTUAL MERIT

•	The assembled team of faculty from the three participating universities is most qualified to make a broad impact on advancing the wireless communications technology area, confronting its multidisciplinary research challenges, and in enabling several of its emerging applications.
•	University of Hawaii brings in significant research strength in complementary areas such as channel modeling, coding, DSP, and low cost antenna arrays.

 

 

 

BROADER MERIT

•	Ability to address the broader industry needs through interdisciplinary research.
•	Expansion of the center’s activities to include Pacific Rim companies and realization of a much stronger international collaboration in this global market.
•	Effectively address diversity issues as the UH is in an EPSCORE State with large population of under represented groups.

RELATED LINKS (CLICK TO OPEN):

	National Science Foundation (NSF)
	NSF I/U CRC Program
	Connection One I/U CRC for Telecommunications
	I/U CRC Planning Meeting in Hawaii Held on August 3-5, 2003 at East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawai’i