The Real-Time Communications (RTC) Lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is an educational facility dedicated to teaching, research and development activities that further the advancement of networked communications. The lab welcomes projects from partners in industry and academia provides a unique venue in which industry and academia connect and collaborate. The RTC Lab is affiliated with Illinois Tech's Wireless Network and Communications Research (WiNCom) Center and is directed by Carol Davids, and Vijay K. Gurbani. The RTC Lab collaborates closely with Illinois Tech's Active Computational Thinking (ACT) Center.
Areas of research include:
- Indoor Location for Emergency Response using BlueTooth Low Energy beacons and Wifi
- WebRTC Solution for Next Generation Emergency Communications
- Multimedia signaling performance benchmarking
- Application of machine learning techniques to real-time communication networks and VoIP
- Natural language understanding/processing pipelines in real-time communication systems