James W. Matthews, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering

Degrees with fields, institutions and dates:

• 1963: B.S. Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
• 1967: M.S. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
• 1971: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

Background:

• 1972 - 1988: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, WPI
• 1988 - 1995: Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA.
• 1996 - present: Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering, WPI

Areas of Research Interest:

Telecommunications engineering
 

Principal publications of the last few years:

"Troposcatter Link Performance In The Presence Of Two Jammers", IEEE Trans. Comm., COM-37 (1989), pp. 325-331, Reproduced in The MITRE Journal, 1990, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

"Troposcatter Performance Predictions With Two Jammers", Tactical Communications Conference Record, TCC-88, Fort Wayne, IN, May, 1988

"Implicit Diversity in the AN/TRC-170 Troposcatter Radio Program - Past and Future", IEEE MILCOM '88 Conference Record, San Diego, Oct., 1988

"Troposcatter and Microwave Communications Options for the Future TACS", MITRE Working Paper WP-28187, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, Feb., 1989, with L. Darian, J.B. Jannis, W.W. Keith, S. Lippincott, and S. Wenglin

"Performance of Adaptive Matched Filter Receivers Over Fading Multipath Channels", IEEE Trans. Comm., COM-38 (1990), pp. 2106-2113, with K. Pahlavan, Reproduced in The MITRE Journal, 1991, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

"Communications Modeling for ADSIM", MITRE Working Paper, WP-29861, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, Oct., 1991, with C.C. Li

"Eigenvalues and Troposcatter Multipath Analysis", IEEE J. Selected Areas Comm., J-SAC-10 (1992), pp. 497-505, Reproduced in The MITRE Journal, 1992, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

"Joint STARS Data Link-CDL Integration Study", MITRE Technical Report MTR-94B0000007, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, Feb., 1994, with W.M. Bridge, C.H. Harris,, and M.R. Weiss, (SECRET)

"SCDL/CDL Integration", MITRE Paper MP-94B0000296, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, Dec., 1994, with W.M. Bridge, C.-H. Chen, and M.N. Sandler, (SECRET)