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In this talk, we will discuss research activities in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) at West Virginia University (WVU) that may be of interest to researchers and staff at NRAO. These activities include video and image processing, wireless communications and networking, and statistical signal processing, e.g., target tracking. We will also discuss, in more detail, results from a NSF-funded project dealing with wireless networks that are supplemented by non-broadcast links. The motivation behind this research includes recent results showing that for purely wireless networks, per-node throughput goes to zero networks get large. The problem appears to be physical in nature, i.e., space itself is a capacity-bearing object. Our approach, which we call multimodal networking, is joint optimization of all communication modes available, including broadcast wireless and any non-broadcast or wired modes. We contrast this approach with conventional infrastructure-aided networking, e.g., cellular networks, and we provide achievable rates, power optimization, and information outage probabilities for Gaussian networks. We will conclude by discussing NRAO-CSEE collaboration ideas and plans for future interactions
