Telecommunications is one of the fastest-growing fields of electrical engineering and is central to many of the recent technological advances that benefit humanity. Research in this areas varies between fundamental and applied knowledge in the theory and the technology of the transmission and processing of information-bearing signals such as voice, audio, data, images and video. Laboratories in this area consider a wide variety of problems including mathematical modeling of computer and communication networks, development of new protocols and policies to support the future Internet, the design of solutions for efficient routing in ad-hoc and sensor networks, and prototype software defined radio hardware and testbeds for next generation wireless networks. Application areas include cellular communications, wireless local area networks, self organizing ad-hoc networks for military and homeland security neworks, and sensor networks.

Core Faculty Members:

• Kapil R. Dandekar
• Afshin Daryoush
• Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira
• Bruce Eisenstein
• Moshe Kam
• P. Mohana Shankar
• Steven Weber 

  Research Laboratories:

• Adaptive Signal Processing and Information Theory Research Group
• Applied Communications and Information Networking Center
• Applied Networking Research Lab
• Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
• Data Fusion Laboratory
• Drexel Network Modeling Laboratory 
• Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory
• Microwave-Photonics Device Laboratories
• NanoPhotonics Laboratory
• Opto-Electro-Mechanical Laboratory