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Donald R. Brown III

Associate Professor

Faculty Listing
Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 313
Phone: +1-508-831-5351
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
drb@wpi.edu
drb@ece.wpi.edu

Educational Background

B.S., University of Connecticut - Storrs, 1992
M.S., University of Connecticut - Storrs, 1996
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2000

Research & Teaching Interests

Communication systems and networking; signal processing; information theory; estimation and detection; linear and nonlinear dynamical systems; interference mitigation in multi-user communication systems; cooperative communication systems; efficient resource allocation; game-theoretic analysis of communication networks; multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communications; synchronization; security.

IQP Advising Interests

Competition for open space; hydra energy; nuclear energy commercialization of space resources; conservation; other renewable energy; energy demand & supply (modeling); solar energy; electric utilities; environmental impact statements; conservation of open space planning; transportation planning; preservation of agricultural lands; effect of technology on social systems; impact of technical change on job & business; safety analysis; environmental risks; history of technology; stock market analyses; entrepreneurship; computers & education; education & technological literacy; patent law & intellectual property; scientists in court - the role of experts; scientific evidence & forensics.

Recent Publications

R. Mudumbai, D.R. Brown III, U. Madhow, and H. V. Poor. Distributed Transmit Beamforming: Challenges and Recent Progress. Accepted to appear in IEEE Communications Magazine special issue on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications, Feb 2009.
D. Gunduz, D.R. Brown III, and H.V. Poor. Secret Communication With Feedback. Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA2008), pages tbd, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec 7-10, 2008.
D.R. Brown III and H.V. Poor. Time-Slotted Round-Trip Carrier Synchronization for Distributed Beamforming. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(11):5630-5643, November 2008.
Man-On Pun, D.R. Brown III, and H.V. Poor. Opportunistic Collaborative Beamforming with One-Bit Feedback. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, pages 246-250, Recife, Brazil, July 6-9 2008.
J. Yang, D. Gunduz, D.R. Brown III, and E. Erkip. Resource Allocation for Cooperative Relaying. Proceedings of the Conference of Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2008), pages 848-853, Princeton, NJ, March 19-21, 2008.

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Honors & Awards

WPI ECE Dept. Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow Award, 2002
Sigma Phi Epsilon Faculty Appreciation Award, 2002
Best paper runner-up award: "On throughput efficiency of geographic opportunistic routing in multihop wireless networks", by K. Zeng, W. Lou, J. Yang, and D.R. Brown III, QShine 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007.

Years of Service at WPI

July 2000-2006: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2007-present: Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professional Societies/Memberships

Member of IEEE since 1997
Member of ASEE since 2002

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