Space is 'current frontier' for engineer working on next-gen wireless technologies

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Bhaskar Rao an electrical engineering professor at UC San Diego is the inagural recipient of the Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks at UC San Diego. This chair is part of Ericssons ongoing support of the UCSD division of the Californi ...
Bhaskar Rao, an electrical engineering professor at UC San Diego, is the inagural recipient of the Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks at UC San Diego. This chair is part of Ericsson’s ongoing support of the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Credit: UC San Diego / Calit2

Bhaskar Rao is a space explorer, though he is no astronaut. The electrical engineer from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering explores the “space frontier” that has opened up with the emergence of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) technologies for wireless communications. In MIMO systems, both transmitters and receivers contain multiple antennae, which means that space – and not just time – is in play when it comes to signal processing strategies for increasing data rates, reliability, users served, and other parameters in wireless communications networks.


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