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Our Mission:
 
"It is our goal to develop and provide the tools to make the Internet of tomorrow a reality. The research efforts here at TEL lead us on the path of uniting the power of the wired world with the flexibility of the wireless domain."

- Dr. Hamid Sharif,
TEL
 
 
 
Our work is sponsored by:
 


Nebraska Research Initiative



 
Journals and Publication Announcements
We would like to announce the following Calls for Publications:
For more information, please click on the appropriate publication entry:
 
Journals:

 

Current Projects
  • Mobile Wireless LAN technologies
  • Research project for Federal Railroad Administration and in collaboration with many North American Railroad companies
  • Simulation and field tests for 802.11a/b/g, 802.16, and other technologies
  • State-of-the-art 4x4 MIMO capable Wireless Channel Emulator infrastructure
  • Equipment provided by Azimuth Systems' ACE-400WB
  • Video Indexing and Retrieval System
  • Research in Image Analysis, Speech and Speaker Recognition, User Interface Design, Data Mining, and much more
  • Mobile Wireless LAN technologies
  • Protocol and Hardware design for WSN
  • Modeling and Development of practical WSN applications
  • Collaborative Project with WINDS Lab at UNO's College of Information Science and Technology:
    >Click here to go to WINDS project website<
  • Streaming live video feeds over Internet and Internet2
  • Research platform for QoS and stream control
  • High-capacity video-conferencing and collaboration
  • Evaluation of the system's capabilities as a distance education tool-set
 
 
Past Projects
Please contact us if you are interested in more details about any of our projects.
 
L3 SatCom
  • Satellite Communication Study
  • Development of Adaptive Compression technology for satellite communication systems
Creighton Tele-Confocal
  • Remote control and automation of Zeiss Confocal Microscope at Creighton University
  • Integration into AccessGrid environment
TELStreamer
  • Software system for research on multimedia streaming protocols
  • Modular design allows to customize the streaming protocol
Reflector suite
  • Software suite to evaluate QoS parameters for our video streams
  • Develoed as part of the SCOLA project
RCL-Simulator
  • Custom wireless network simulator for a railroad company
Parallel Computing
  • Experiments in parallel computing performance of various system designs
 
 
Our People
Current Faculty:
Professor and Head of the Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory
Research Assistant Professor
Systems and Network administrator of TEL lab, WISE-COM lab
Dean of College of Information Science and Technology, UNO
Associate Professor - Computer and Electronics Engineering
 
Current Students:
Programming, Network Simulation
Theoretical Analysis and Modeling
Programming, Networking Simulation and Wireless Sensor Networks
Programming, Wireless Sensor Networks
Programming, Network Simulation
 
Past Students:
Prasad Raviraj
Specialization in network simulations
Krishna Nuli
Research in wireless protocols
Chandan Natarajan
Specialization in wireless network protocols and installation
K. Veeraraghavan
Parallel Computing Architectures
Anand V. Thiyagaran
BlueTooth Wireless Networks
Debashis Talukdar
Systems Administrator of TEL, Wired Networking Performance and Protocols
Mark Vergo
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Brian Behrens
Systems Administrator of TEL, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Our Facilities
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State-of-the-art Wireless Testing Facility:
  • 4x4 MIMO Wireless Channel Emulator provided by:
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Internet Connectivity:

  • 1 Gbps to the desktop everywhere
  • 155 Mbps Internet2 link (update)
  • 100 Mbps Internet link
  • In-House 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless production environment
  • In-Lab 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless research environment
Networking Gear:
  • Force10 - Gigabit central switch
  • Cisco 6509 backup environment
  • ADC Power-Over-Ethernet midspan unit
  • Cisco 7200 router
  • Foundry ServerIron
  • several desktop/subsystem switches

Setups:

  • SCOLA archiving farm
  • SCOLA broadcasting farm
  • AccessGrid cluster
  • Network simulation cluster
  • Hardware design center
  • Software Defined Radio design center
  • Link Emulation test bed
  • VoIP Test bed and production environment

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