About the group
Mobile cellular communications have changed what connectivity, reliability and ease of communication mean, and cellular networks are now used by almost everyone. Better quality of service and resource management bring new problems for researchers, including channel assignment, bandwidth use, call queuing and mobility management.
Since it began, MCN has worked on scheduling algorithms for HSDPA and LTE networks, on handling real-time and non-real-time traffic, and on resource management and handoff call queuing in cellular networks. It has run detailed simulation studies under mixed traffic and built a test bed for estimating quality of service. Members also work on wireless sensor networks, and supervise undergraduate final year projects aimed at working prototypes.
The group plans further work on dynamic wireless resource management, quality of service, security and mobility management in next-generation cellular networks.