Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering
and Public Policy and Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
Research in technology public policy issues relevant
to wireless
communications and the development of new telecommunications
infrastructure.
B.S. 1964, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. 1969, Arizona State University
Ph.D. 1979, Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon, 1992-.
Professor Hills has broad experience in information technology, including both technical and business aspects. He is an expert in telecommunications policy, which encompasses engineering, law and economics. Wireless communications technology has been one of his interests in recent years, and he has written and lectured on the technology's potential for delivering basic telephone service in the developing world and on its implications for ubiquitous (anytime, anywhere) computing. Hills is the founder of Carnegie Mellon's Wireless Initiative and the university's "Wireless Andrew" network, which is making high speed wireless data network service available to Carnegie Mellon users of laptop and other mobile computers.
In addition, Professor Hills works on technology and policy issues relevant to establishing new telecommunications infrastructure in developing and remote areas of the world. His work with wireless local loop technology, for example, has shown that it can be extremely cost effective but that national decision makers must allocate sufficient radio spectrum to guarantee its feasibility.
Representative Publications
Hills, A., "Smart Wi-Fi," Scientific American, vol. 285, no. 10, pp. 86-94, October 2005.
Hills, A. and B. Friday, “Radio Resource Management in Wireless LANs,” IEEE Communications, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. S9-S14, December 2004.
Hills, A. and J. Schlegel, “Rollabout: A Wireless Design Tool,” IEEE Communications, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 132-138, February 2004.
Hills, A., J. Schlegel, and B. Jenkins, “Estimating Signal Strengths in the Design of an Indoor Wireless Network,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 17-19, January 2004.
Hills, A., “Large-Scale Wireless LAN Design,” (Invited paper) IEEE Communications, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 98-104, November 2001.
Hills, A. and H. Y. Yeh, "Spectrum Use and Carrier Costs: A Critical Tradeoff,” Telecommunications Policy, vol. 23, no. 7-8, pp. 569-584, August-September 1999. |
