ITTC Successes

ITTC is leading research, development, and commercialization of advanced information and telecommunication technology within the entire Midwest region. The Center's researchers have the knowledge, experience, innovation, and facilities to develop these cutting-edge technologies. ITTC accomplishments include the following:

Technologies

• Conducted some of the first performance measurements on a national scale for a high-speed network.
• Developed prototype hardware and software for mobile and rapidly deployable wireless communication system. Demonstrated at DARPA's 1999 Global Mobile Conference in Washington, D.C.
• Implemented synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing algorithms with a functional programming key on FPGAs.
• Measured TCP performance over the ACTS 622 Mb/s satellite system.
• Designed and implemented a hardware RF channel simulation for a UHF wireless communication system.
• Created software to mine databases of blood transfusion incidents and to identify patterns that can lead to a better understanding of why such incidents occur.
• Developed prioritized resource allocation for stressed networks.
• Developed multilink point-to-point protocol (MLPPP) over the Iridium satellite system to provide Internet access for remote locations.
• Created software for automated data entry of XML documents by predicting the values of the XML fields.
• Created a multithreaded programming model and run time kernel for hybrid CPU/FPGA components.
• RSL has been involved with nearly every radar system flown in space, and studies future spaceborne radar systems.

Spin-Off Companies

• Designed modeling support for different design domains employing appropriate semantics and syntax. Formed spin-off company Cadstone. Learn about
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• Patented Real-Time, Features-Based Video Stream Distortion Analysis System (VidWatch). Created spin-off company Veatros. Learn more about Vidwatch or view Patent No. 6,246,803 B1.
• Developed one of the first intelligent search engines for the Web, which went online in 1995. Received PC Professionell (Germany) Editor's Choice Award, "ProFusion: Best Advanced Meta-Search Engine," December, 1998. Established spin-off company Profusion.  

  U.S. Patents

• Improved reception of HDTV broadcasts with the wideband planar antenna, especially in distant fringe areas or locations without a clear path to a transmitting tower. Learn more or view Patent No. 6,819,297.
• Identified polar-mode dispersion (PMD) events and ways to correct them. View Patent No. 6,781,679 B1 .
• Developed method of incorporating a Fabry Perot filter with a dispersive grating that provides high-resolution spectrum analysis over a wide optical bandwidth. Learn more or view Patent No. 6,697,159.
• Produced device that recovers optical clock signals from optical data signals, which are wavelength and data rate independent. View Patent No. 6,542,274.
• Detected an object and determined its range, using swept-step radar system. View Patent No. 6,225,941 B1 and Patent No. 5,867,117.
• Originated asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) reference traffic system that records packet information sent over an ATM network. View Patent No. 6,046,998.
• Invented method and apparatus for controlling optical signals. View Patent No. 5,970,188.
• Introduced software that displays actual three-dimensional moving images. View Patent No. 5,717,416, Patent No. 6,005,608, and Patent No. 6,646,623.