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The Communications Specialty Area

Summary
The following are some of the areas included in the communications specialty.

1. Wireless Communications - This includes cell phones, smart phones, & wireless internet.
2. Optical Communications - Optical fibers, thinner than a human hair, form the backbone of the internet.
3. Design of Internet Routers - Routers are the hardware & software that direct internet signals to the correct destinations.
4. Design of Internet Protocols - Protocols are the automated procedures & algorithms, implemented in computers, that make the internet possible.
5. Radio & Television

Communications Research at the University of Arkansas
The following Electrical Engineering faculty are doing communications research.  Details on their research & their labs can be seen by clicking on their names.

1. Kazem Sohraby is doing research on computer communications networks, next generation bio and quantum networks, and on wireless and sensor networks. 
2. Jingxian Wu has research interests which cover the broad scope of wireless information networks, including cooperative communications, distributed space-time-frequency coding, network information theory, cross-layer optimization, distributed communication and computing systems, wireless sensor networks, multicarrier communications, performance analysis, etc.
3. Dale Thompson is doing research on telecommunications network design, wireless networks, and performance evaluation of computer networks.  He is a professor in the Computer Science Computer Engineering Department who is an adjunct professor in Electrical Engineering.

Courses for the Communications Specialty Area
Recommended Undergraduate Elective Courses
MATH 3083  Linear Algebra
ELEG 4623  Communication Systems
CENG 3753  Data Communication Systems (Internet Protocols)
ELEG 4603  Deterministic Digital Signal Processing System Design

Additional Graduate & Undergraduate Courses
ELEG 4683  Introduction to Image Processing
ELEG 4713  Electromagnetic Transmission
ELEG 4723  Introduction to RF and Microwave Design
ELEG 5113  Stochastic Digital Signal Processing System Design
ELEG 5173L  Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
ELEG 5183L  DSP Digital Communications Laboratory
ELEG 5193L  Advanced DSP Processors Laboratory
ELEG 5543  Communication Networks for Motion/Industrial Control
ELEG 5603  Wireless Data Communications
ELEG 5613  Introduction to Telecommunications
ELEG 5623  Information Theory
ELEG 5633  Detection and Estimation
ELEG 5643  Computer Communications Networks
ELEG 5663  Communication Theory
ELEG 5683  Image Processing
ELEG 5693  Wireless Communications
ELEG 5713  Antennas and Radiation
ELEG 5723  Advanced Microwave Design
ELEG 5753  Satellite Communications & Navigation Systems