Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a Professor of Radiology at the NYU School of Medicine. He also serves as national center director of the NSF I/UCRC Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) and founding director of NYU WIRELESS

Professor Rappaport is also an active teacher, researcher and entrepreneur. For his recent biography click here. For his research interests click here.

To reach Prof. Rappaport, please contact Leslie Cerve ,
by phone at 212-998-3026 or by email at cerve@nyu.edu or the NYU WIRELESS Administrator, Ben Naylor, by phone at 718-260-3404 or by email at bnaylor@nyu.edu.

Courses currently Teaching

Special Topics: Wireless Networks

CSCI-UA.0480-004 13391, Spring 2013
Prereq: CSCI-UA.0201 or permission from the Department
Professor Ted Rappaport
Tuesdays, Thursdays - 9.30 AM - 10.45 AM
Room: CIWW 101

Office Hours (NYU): Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am – noon, at 715 Broadway, Room 702; New York, New York 10003

Help Sessions(NYU-Poly): Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 pm , at 2 MetroTech Center, 9th Fl, Room 9.103, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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

Latest research in millimeter wave cellular propagation and broadband communications using adaptive antennas – 5th Generation Cellular

[1] Zhao, H., Mayzus, R., Sun, S., Samimi, M., Schulz, J. K., Azar, Y., Wang, K., Wong, G. N., Gutierrez, Jr., F., Rappaport, T.S., 28 GHz Millimeter Wave Cellular Communication Measurements for Reflection and Penetration Loss in and around Buildings in New York City, to appear in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9~13.

[2] Azar, Y., Wong, G. N., Wang, K., Mayzus, R., Schulz, J. K., Zhao, H., Gutierrez, F., Hwang, D., Rappaport, T. S., 28 GHz Propagation Measurements for Outdoor Cellular Communications Using Steerable Beam Antennas in New York City, to appear in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9 ~13, 2013.

[3] Samimi, M., Wang, K., Azar, Y., Wong, G. N., Mayzus, R., Zhao, H., Schulz, J. K., Sun, S., Gutierrez, F., Rappaport, T. S., “28 GHz Angle of Arrival and Angle of Departure Analysis for Outdoor Cellular Communications using Steerable Beam Antennas in New York City,” to appear in the 2013 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), June 2~5, 2013.

[4] Rappaport, T.S., Sun, S., Mayzus, R., Zhao, H., Azar, Y., Wang, K., Wong, G.N., Schulz, J.K., Samimi, M., and Gutierrez, F., “Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!” to appear in the IEEE Access Journal, Vol 1, No. 1, March 2013.

[5] T. S. Rappaport, J. N. Murdock “Power Efficiency and Consumption Factor Analysis for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Cellular Networks” Published in 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Anaheim, CA, December 2, 2012

[6] Theodore S. Rappaport, Eshar Ben-Dor, James N. Murdock, Yijun Qiao “38 GHz and 60 GHz Angle-dependent Propagation for Cellular & Peer-to-Peer Wireless Communications” Published in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012

[7] T.S. Rappaport, E. Ben-Dor, J.N. Murdock, Y. Qiao, J. Tamir, “Cellular and Peer-to-Peer Broadband Millimeter Wave Outdoor propagation measurements and Angle of Arrival characteristics using adaptive beam steering,” invited paper and presentation, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) 2012, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 15, 2012.

[8] J. N. Murdock, E. Ben-Dor, Y. Qiao, J. I. Tamir, T. S. Rappaport, "A 38 GHz Cellular Outage Study for an Urban Outdoor Campus Environment," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2012.

[9] T.S. Rappaport, J. Murdock, F. Gutierrez, “ State of the art in 60 GHz Integrated Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2011, Vo.99, No 8, pp. 1390-1436.

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

Recent 60 GHz and Millimeter Wave Publications

J. Murdock, E. Ben-Dor, F. Gutierrez, Jr., T.S. Rappaport, "Challenges and Approaches to On-chip Millimeter Wave Antenna Measurements," to appear n the "2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)", Baltimore, MD, June 5-10. Full Citation

T.S. Rappaport, J.Murdock, F.Gutierrez, Jr., "State of the Art in 60-GHz Integrated Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 99, no.8, pp.1390-1436, Aug. 2011. Full Citation

R. C. Daniels, J. N. Murdock, T. S. Rappaport, R. W. Heath, "60 GHz Wireless: Up Close and Personal," IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 7, December 2010, pp.44-50. view

F. Gutierrez, T. S. Rappaport, J. Murdock, "Millimeter-Wave CMOS Antennas and RFIC Parameter Extraction for Vehicular Applications," IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC), Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 6-9, 2010, pp.1-6. view

F. Gutierrez, K. Parrish, T. S. Rappaport, "On-Chip Integrated Antenna Structures in CMOS for 60 GHz WPAN Systems," Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Honolulu, HI, November 30-December 4, 2009. Full Citation

T. S. Rappaport, F. Gutierrez, T. Al-Attar, "Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Wireless RFIC and On-Chip Antenna Design: Tools and Layout Techniques," Proceedings of IEEE First Workshop on Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Communications, in conjunction with IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Honolulu, HI, November 30-December 4, 2009. Full Citation

F. Gutierrez, K. Parrish, T. S. Rappaport, "On-Chip Integrated Antenna Structures in CMOS for 60 GHz WPAN Systems," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 27, Issue 8, October 2009, pp.1367-1378. Full Citation

J. K. Chen, G. de Veciana, T. S. Rappaport, "Site Specific Knowledge and Interference Measurement for Improving Frequency Allocations in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 58, Issue 5, June 2009, pp. 2366-2377. 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

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

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

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, "Hotspot Traffic Statistics and Throughput Models for Several Applications", Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2004, Dallas, TX, November 29-December 3, 2004, Vol. 5, pp. 3257-3263. 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

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

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

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

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

Papers on Millimeter Wave Wireless by T.S. Rappaport's Team

T.S. Rappaport, J.N.Murdock, F. Gutierrez, Jr., "State-of-the-art in 60 GHz Integrated Circuits and Systems for Wireless Communications," Proceedings of the IEEE,, August 2011, Vol. 99, No. 8, pp 1390-1436. THIS PAPER IS ONE OF THE FIRST JOURNAL PAPERS TO PROMOTE MMWAVE CELLULAR AND USE OF THE SUB – THZ SPECTRUM

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. FIRST PAPER TO EXPLORE ANGLE OF ARRIVAL AND CHARACTERISTICS AND DIRECTIONAL WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS AT MMWAVE INSIDE BUILDINGS.

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. LEAD CONTRIBUTION FOR PARTITION LOSS VALUES IN MMWAVE INDOOR CHANNELS.

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. TUTORIAL ON THE COMING WORLD OF MMWAVE COMMUNICATIONS.

F. Gutierrez, S. Agarwal, K. Parrish, T. S. Rappaport, “On-Chip Integrated Antenna Structures in CMOS for 60 GHz WPAN Systems,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 27, Issue 8, October 2009, pp. 1367-1378.

R. Daniels, J. Murdock, T. S. Rappaport, R. Heath “60 GHz Wireless: Up Close and Personal,” IEEE Microwave Magazine,Vol. 11, No. 7, December 2010, pp.44-50.

Shorter Papers or Conference Papers related to Millimeter Wave wireless:

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.

F. Gutierrez, K. Parrish, T. S. Rappaport, “On-Chip Integrated Antenna Structures in CMOS for 60 GHz WPAN Systems,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Honolulu, HI, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2009.

T. S. Rappaport, F. Gutierrez, T. Al-Attar, “Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Wireless RFIC and On-Chip Antenna Design: Tools and Layout Techniques,” IEEE First Workshop on Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Communications, in conjunction with IEEE Global Communications Conference(Globecom), Honolulu, HI, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2009.

F. Gutierrez, T. S. Rappaport, J. Murdock, “Millimeter-wave CMOS On-Chip Antennas for Vehicular Electronic Applications,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, Canada, September 6-9, 2010, 5 pp.

K. Hassan, T. S. Rappaport, J. G. Andrews, “Analog Equalization and Analog to Digital Converter Considerations for Low Power 60 GHz Receivers in Realistic Multipath Channels,” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), December 2010, 5 pp.

J. Murdock, E. Ben-Dor, F. Gutierrez, Jr., T.S. Rappaport, "Challenges and Approaches to On-chip Millimeter Wave Antenna Measurements," 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Baltimore, MD, June 5-10, 2011, 5 pp.

J. N. Murdock, T. S. Rappaport, "Consumption Factor: A Figure of Merit for Power Consumption and Energy Efficiency in Broadband Wireless Communications," IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Broadband Wireless Workshop, December 2011, Houston, TX

E. Ben-Dor, T.S. Rappaport, Y Qiao, S. Lauffenberger, “Millimeter-wave 60 GHz Outdoor and Vehicle AOA Propagation Measurements using a Broadband Channel Sounder,” 2011 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2011, Houston, TX, 6 pp.

T.S. Rappaport, E. Ben-Dor, J.N. Murdock, Y. Qiao, J. Tamir, “Cellular and Peer-to-Peer Broadband Millimeter Wave Outdoor propagation measurements and Angle of Arrival characteristics using adaptive beam steering,” invited paper and presentation, IEEE Radio and Wireless Week (RWW) 2012, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 15, 2012.

T. S. Rappaport, E. Ben-Dor, J. N. Murdock, Y. Qiao, "38 GHz and 60 GHz Angle-Dependent Propagation for Cellular & Peer-to-Peer Wireless Communications," IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2012, Ottawa, Canada.

J. N. Murdock, E. Ben-Dor, Y. Qiao, J. I. Tamir, T. S. Rappaport, "A 38 GHz Cellular Outage Study for an Urban Outdoor Campus Environment," to be published, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, April 2012, Paris, France.

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

"Offshoring in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry"

Professor Rappaport in the News

April 3, 2013

Interview: NYU Wireless Director Theodore Rappaport Addresses Millimeter Waves And Engineering Education

Electronic Design Magazine (EDM)

April 3, 2013

Ringing in 40 years of cell phones: Prof. Rappaport on NBC, Nightly News

NYU WIRELESS professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport on NBC, Nightly News . NBC News

February 21, 2013

Prof. Ted Rappaport named a 2013 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of Purdue University

NYU WIRELESS professor Theodore (Ted) Rappaport has been named a 2013 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of Purdue University. NYU PULSE

December 14, 2012

Wireless Communications in the Massively Broadband® Era.

As the cellular industry rolls out fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) across the world, one has to believe that we are witnessing the dawn of an amazing new era, where wireless becomes so pervasive and intertwined with everything we do in life, just as the pen and paper are today. Microwavejournal.com

AUGUST 20TH, 2012

"NYU-Poly Engineering Professor to Receive International Education Award. Poly.edu

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, August 7, 2012

"NYU Poly has always had some good researchers in wireless," said Theodore Rappaport, founder and director of the research center. "What we're doing now is ramping it to critical mass and creating a new research environment." View the announcement from the THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

DECEMBER 15TH, 2011

"Wireless Engineering Pioneer Joins NYU-Poly and NYU Poly.edu

September 2011

UT ECE professor Ted Rappaport has been named the recipient of the 2011 IET Sir Monty Finniston Award for Achievement in Engineering and Technology. He will receive the award,which includes a medal, at a ceremony to be held in London on Nov. 9, 2011. View the announcement from the ECE Department and WNCG.

December 2010

IEEE 2010 Globecom Plenary Talk, December 8, 2010: "The Future of Wireless"

IEEE 2010 Globecom Technical and Business Forum, December 9, 2010: “Broadband Wireless PANs, 60 GHz and Beyond”

April 2010

Prof. Rappaport awarded the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award in recognition of significant contributions in furthering the engineering profession. View the announcement from the ECE department and WNCG.

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.

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.

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.