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Mission Statement

The History and Mission of Harvard Broadband Communications Laboratory

In recent years, building on a long history of significant presence in Electrical Engineering and in particular it's strong presence in control systems, a rapid expansion in Electrical Engineering was planned at Harvard. Particular area of envisioned growth was communications engineering and this was in fact in line with the history of DEAS because of many giants in information theory, communications theory and signal processing (such as Shannon Lecturers Toby Berger and Solomon Golomb, renowned communication theorist John Proakis, legendry system scientist H.W. Bode , and speech scientist G.A. Miller , ...) that all are affiliated with Harvard.

The recruitment of many talented students whose energy level and creativity is hard to match and a complementary group of young faculty members, brought RF, digital circuit design and algorithmic capabilities to DEAS, making it possible to launch the Harvard Broadband Communications Laboratory (HBBCL) .

The mission of HBBCL is "to envision and create the future of communications " . The founders of HBBCL believe that the 21-th century is that of broadband communications and in this light selected the name of the laboratory to emphasize their vision.

Our research group main tasks are contributing to the fundamentals and the development of the required algorithms for seamless ubiquitous broadband communications. Specific research areas include multimedia communications, source and channel coding, wireless communications, signal processing, channel measurement and modeling, network information theory, switching, scheduling, routing protocols and in particular energy efficient routing protocols, hybrid and ad hoc networks, free space optical communications, fiber optics and satellite communications.