blake johnson

I heard an interesting talk from a Bell Labs scientist on Friday regarding the use of techniques borrowed from physics in modern wireless communication schemes. Specifically, these schemes have multiple antennas at both the sending and receiving end. Taking advantage of the multiple antennas requires modeling the effect of the environment on the progating waves. To do this, the Bells Labs scientists have borrowed some techniques from mesoscopic physics, particularly the random matrix methods developed by Dyson et al. Apparently, they published an article regarding this work in Science in 2001. I should try to find it.