Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair at The University of Texas at Austin and is an active teacher, researcher and entrepreneur. For his recent biography click here.

To reach Professor Rappaport, please contact his administrative assistant Cassandra Clarke, by phone at (512) 471-2600, or by email at cclarke@mail.utexas.edu.

During the fall 2009 semester, Professor Rappaport will be teaching ee360k (Introduction to Digital Communications), which will meet every Tuesday and Thursday from 11 AM - 12:30 PM. Prof. Rappaport will hold ee360k class office hours from 3:30 - 4:30 PM on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, when he is in town, as well as weekly ee360k help sessions from 4:30 - 5:30 PM every Wednesday in ENS 537. General office hours will be held on Wednesdays from 4:30 - 5:30 PM (by appointment only - please contact his assistant Cassandra Clarke about scheduling). Rappaport's research focuses on RF propagation and antennas, wireless communication system design, rural broadband wireless challenges and solutions, as well as millimeter wave (60 GHz) system-on-a chip and antenna-on-a chip research with several students. Prof. Rappaport teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in digital and wireless communications, signals, and systems.

Prentice Hall Book Series

Professor Ted Rappaport is in search of prospective authors for the Prentice Hall PTR "Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies" book series. Click here for more information.

Current Research

Recent Research Results on 60 GHz Radio Wave Propagation in and Around Buildings, On-Chip antennas in CMOS, and Network Management

Recent 60 GHz and Millimeter Wave Publications

H. Xu, R. J. Boyle, T. S. Rappaport, J. H. Schaffner, “Measurements and Models for 38 GHz Point-to-Multipoint Radiowave Propagation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Wireless Communications Series, Vol. 18, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 310-321. Full Citation

H. Xu, V. Kukshya, T. S. Rappaport, “Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of 60 GHz Indoor Channels,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 20, No. 3, April 2002, pp. 620 -630. Full Citation

C. R. Anderson and T. S. Rappaport, “In-Building Wideband Partition Loss Measurements at 2.5 and 60 GHz,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 922-928. Full Citation

H. Wang and T. S. Rappaport, “A Parametric Formulation of the UTD Diffraction Coefficient for Real-Time Propagation Prediction Modeling,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), Vol. 4, August 2005, pp. 253-257. Full Citation

C. Na, J.K. Chen, T.S. Rappaport, “Measured Traffic Statistics and Throughput of IEEE 802.11b Public WLAN Hotspots with Three Different Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, Vol. 5, No. 11, November 2006, pp. 3296 – 3305. Full Citation

C.H. Park, T. S. Rappaport, “Short-Range Wireless Communications for Next-Generation Networks: UWB, 60 GHz Millimeter Wave PAN, and Zigbee,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 14, Issue 4, August 2007, pp. 70-78. Full Citation

F. Gutierrez, K. Parrish, T.S. Rappaport, “Novel Antenna Structures Fabricated in 0.18 µm CMOS Technology for 60 GHz WPAN Systems,” submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, November 2008.

H. Xu, T. S. Rappaport, V. Kukshya, “Spatial and Temporal Characterization of 60 GHz Indoor Channels,” Fall 2000 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Boston, MA, September 25 – 28, 2000, pp. 620-630. Full Citation

C. R. Anderson, T. S. Rappaport, K. Bae, A. Verstak, N. Ramakrishnan, W. H. Tranter, C. A. Shaffer, L. T. Watson, “In-Building Wideband Multipath Characteristics at 2.5 & 60 GHz,” Proceedings of Fall 2002 Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, Canada, September 24 – 29, 2002, pp.97-101. Full Citation

C. Na, J. K. Chen, T. S. Rappaport, “Hotspot Traffic Statistics and Throughput Models for Several Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2004, Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, 2004, vol. 5, pp. 3257-3263. Full Citation

L. Ragan, A. Hassibi, T. S. Rappaport, C. L. Christianson, “Novel On-Chip Antenna Structures and Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) Approaches for Millimeter Wave Devices,” IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Baltimore, MD, Oct. 1 -3, 2007, pp. 2051-2055. Full Citation

60GHz RFIC Design Initiative:

Topics include: Propagation, PHY, MAC, Systems and Standards
Click here for a list of papers and discussions on 60GHz RFIC Design Initiative

On-Chip Antenna Research Initiative:

Click here for our ideas for on-chip antennas and Frequency Selective Surfaces

ARL

RFIC Research Project: "Massively Broadband Wireless Ad-Hoc Nodes"

Montage

Joint Research with Virginia Tech on the Montage Project: "Montage: An Integrated End-to-End Design and Development Framework for Wireless Networks"

Topics of National Interest

Virginia's Broadband Roundtable for Rural Internet Access

2006 NAE Offshoring of Engineering Conference

"Telecommunication R&D in the U.S.: A Chasm between U.S. Industry & U.S. Students"

Professor Rappaport in the News

December 2008

Prof. Rappaport awarded the IEEE Communications Society WTC Recognition Award, in recognition of outstanding achievements and contributions in the area of wireless communications systems and networks. View the announcement from the ECE department.

October 2008

Prof. Rappaport awarded the Austin Wireless Alliance Industry Leader award at the 2008 Texas Wireless Summit. View the announcement from the ECE department.

September 2008

Prof. Rappaport elected to serve on the IEEE Board of Governors for the Vehicular Technology Society for 2009-2011. View the announcements from the ECE department and the Cockrell School of Engineering.

News Archives

Prentice Hall Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice, 2nd Edition Website Available

The official website for the 2nd edition of Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice is available at http://authors.phptr.com/rappaport. The site includes helpful supplemental downloads for course instructors.