Theodore Rappaport

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
Born November 26, 1960
Brooklyn, New York
Nationality United States
Fields Wireless communications
Institutions New York University, The University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Tech
Alma mater Purdue University
Doctoral advisor Clare D. McGillem
Notable awards 2015 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award [1]
Purdue University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus (2013)
William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education from IEEE Education Society (2012) [2]
IET Sir Monty Finniston Medal for achievement in engineering and technology (2011)
Frederick E. Terman Outstanding Educator Award from the ASEE (2002)
Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper from IEEE Communications Society (1999)
National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1992)
Marconi Society- IEEE Marconi Young Scientist Award (1990) [3]

Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport (born November 26, 1960) is an American electrical engineering educator, researcher, writer and inventor in the field of wireless communications. He authored numerous textbooks, including the seminal textbook Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice,[4] and co-founded two companies that have contributed to the evolution of the wireless communications industry: TSR Technologies, Inc.[5] and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc.[6] He founded three academic wireless research centers: the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) now known as Wireless@Virginia Tech [7] in 1990, the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at the University of Texas at Austin [8] in 2002, and NYU WIRELESS at New York University [9] in 2012.

Biography

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is an American electrical engineer, educator, writer, inventor and entrepreneur. He serves as the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering [10] and is a professor of Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.[11] He is also a professor of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine.[12] He is a pioneering researcher and award-winning teacher in the field of electrical and computer engineering, with a specialty in wireless communications. He founded three major academic wireless research centers at New York University (NYU WIRELESS), The University of Texas at Austin (WNCG), and Virginia Tech (MPRG). These centers continue to thrive today, and have been responsible for educating hundreds of graduate and undergraduate engineering students who have made substantial contributions in the field of wireless communications. He authored one of the world’s first widely used wireless communications textbooks [13][14] for academia and industry (published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall in eight languages, c. 1996, c. 2002) and has co-authored textbooks on Simulation,[15] Smart Antennas,[16] and Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications.[17] He is a co-inventor on more than 100 US and International patents that have issued or are pending, and has advised or launched numerous high-tech companies in the wireless communications and computing fields, including Telephia (acquired by Nielsen), Motion Computing, Paratek Microwave (acquired by Research in Motion), and two university spin-out companies that were integrated by major corporations: TSR Technologies (acquired by Allen Telecom in 1993)[18][19] and Wireless Valley Communications (acquired by Motorola in 2005).[20] He has conducted pioneering research in the fields of wireless communications [21][22][23] and smart antennas,[24][25] most recently in the field of millimeter wave wireless communication networks and 5G wireless.[26]

Professional career

Rappaport graduated from Purdue University with a Ph.D. in 1987, at the dawn of the wireless communications industry, and joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1988 as an assistant professor. There, he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) [27] in 1990. MPRG was one of the world's first academic research and educational centers for the study of wireless engineering, and became one of the largest producers of undergraduate and graduate students for the nascent wireless communication industry during its rapid growth phase in the 1990s. While on the faculty of Virginia Tech, he launched the Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications, an annual outreach of the MPRG research program that was held on campus each summer. The symposium continues to operate today, and includes a wireless summer school format.[28] He received the Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research in 1996,[29] and also founded two wireless companies with his students: TSR Technologies in 1989, and Wireless Valley Communications in 1995.[30] TSR Technologies invented some of the world's first software defined radio (SDR) products, including the Cellscope 2000,[31] Pagetracker 2000, PacketBlaster, SpectrumTracker and ProMap products which were used to detect fraudulent cellphone users, locate mobile phones, measure key traffic statistics, and enable drive testing to measure the coverage of cellular and paging networks. Products manufactured by TSR Technologies were involved in saving lives and stopping crime in the early days of the cellphone industry, and were responsible for the capture of Kevin Mitnick, one of the most notorious cyber thieves of 1990s, as well as O.J. Simpson's intercepted phone call by the Los Angeles police department from Al Cowling's white Ford Bronco.[32] Rappaport sold TSR Technologies to Allen Telecom [33] in 1993, bringing the first publicly traded wireless communications company to Blacksburg, Virginia, and creating the engineering and technical framework that led to emergency E-911 position location technology [34] for the wireless industry.


Wireless Valley Communications was co-founded by Rappaport and Roger Skidmore, a graduate student of MPRG, and was a pioneering developer of site-specific design and modeling products for the wireless local area network (WLAN) and indoor cellular/PCS markets. Wireless Valley relocated to Austin, TX in 2002 when Rappaport accepted the William and Bettye Nowlin professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Wireless Valley products, such as SitePlanner and LANPlanner, have been used to design, deploy and manage Wi-Fi and cellular networks in airports, shopping malls, major corporate and university campuses, and sports venues (including the Olympic games) throughout the world. Wireless Valley was sold to Motorola in 2005.[35] At UT Austin, Rappaport founded and rapidly grew the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG),[36] where he and his faculty colleagues brought in over $20 Million in funded research from government and industry sponsorship.[37] He launched the Texas Wireless Summit,[38] an annual fall event that is still a feature of UT Austin’s wireless research program, and serves to bring leaders of the wireless industry to the UT Austin campus to mix with students and faculty. While with the faculty at UT Austin, he was named an IC2 Fellow, was awarded the Joe J. King Professional Achievement award [39] and cofounded the non-profit Austin Wireless Alliance as a way to bring the Austin high-tech community together with the goal of making Austin a major wireless hub. He also advised the Austin Technology Incubator, a non-profit organization to help incubate wireless companies in Austin.


In 2012, he joined New York University and Polytechnic University prior to the merger of the two universities.[40][41] He founded NYU WIRELESS [42][43] one of the world’s first academic research centers to combine wireless engineering, computer science, and medicine. He launched the Brooklyn 5G Summit (B5GS) with co-sponsorship from Nokia [44] in 2013, an annual event held every April on the NYU-Poly Campus. His pioneering propagation measurements and channel modeling work for millimeter-wave wireless communications was widely cited in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Inquiry on the use of spectrum above 24 GHz for mobile communications,[45] and was featured in the September 2014 issue of IEEE Spectrum.[46]

Activities

Rappaport has served on the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission (TAC),[47] assisted the governor and CIO of Virginia in formulating rural broadband [48] initiatives for Internet access, testified before the US Congress [49] and conducted research for National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and dozens of global telecommunications companies. His Ph.D. work at Purdue in the mid 1980s was the first to characterize multipath channels in a wide range of factory buildings in the 1300 MHz band, at a time when most wireless communication was carried out at much lower frequencies. His measurements and channel models were used in the mid to late 1980's by the IEEE 802.4L, and later the IEEE 802.11 standard bodies to establish the physical layer interface for the world's first WLAN standard, IEEE 802.11. The creators of WaveLAN, NCR, was one of Rappaport's first sponsors when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech. His research in the late 1980s led to pioneering radio propagation measurements and time-dispersive channel models from four US cities that were used to define the U.S. Digital Cellular (USDC) cellular standard for 2nd generation digital cellular, and he and his students provided some of the world's first channel models and computational methods for site-specific indoor and outdoor radio propagation prediction and wireless system design for the modern wireless industry. Predictive models and practical computational methods for statistical mobile radio channel impulse responses and for ray-tracing, diffraction, and scattering were developed by Rappaport and his students, and have been shown to accurately predict the channel impulse response, as well as signal coverage and radio interference in various environments—these approaches are now used commercially throughout the industry for wireless system deployment, design, and in research for predicting coverage or capacity of emerging wireless systems. Throughout his career, he has consistently pursued the characterization of new frequency bands using cutting-edge channel sounding measurement equipment and extensive, well-planned experiments that are validated by theoretical modeling. His more recent research work includes fifth generation (5G) wireless networks that use the millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum.[50] His work is the first to show that millimeter wave frequencies are viable for future outdoor urban wireless mobile networks, and his research program at NYU WIRELESS is developing fundamental theories and techniques for characterizing, modeling, and using knowledge of wireless channels to build future wireless communication systems.[51] He views this as “ bringing wireless communication into its renaissance.” [52]


Rappaport serves in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a Fellow of that society. He has been elected to the Board of Governors of both the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) and Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). In the 1990s, at the request of the IEEE, he compiled several compendia of "selected readings" on various topics of wireless communications. He served as a senior editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), was a driving force in the creation of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and served as the Technical Program Chairman for the 2004 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2004) in Dallas, and Program Executive for Globecom 2014 in Austin, Texas. He serves on the board of directors of the Marconi Society[53] and is a past member of the Marconi Award[54] selection committee and the Marconi Young Scholars[55]selection committee.


An ardent teacher and textbook writer, he launched the Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies (CEET) Book Series with Pearson/Prentice-Hall in 1996, and serves as Series Editor. The series has over 20 books in the field of communications technology.[56] He is a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign N9NB, and operates from his home station in Riner, Virginia, using mostly continuous wave (CW) morse code transmissions.

Honors and awards

Dr. Rappaport has received several honors or recognitions, including:

Books

Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications

Wireless Communications

Smart Antennas

Cellular Radio and Personal Communications

References

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