The centre
Research on the protocols and networks that carry everything
CNRC is a research group at the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS
University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore Campus. The centre is involved in research on a broad
range of topics in networks: network protocols, simulation and modelling, quality of
service (QoS) provisioning, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks
(WSN), biomedical wireless sensor networks, wireless multimedia sensor networks, WiMAX
and other allied areas of networks.
MANETs is a prominent research area at CNRC. MS (CS) students and faculty members have
addressed research issues in MANETs such as routing protocols, quality of service,
intrusion detection, node mobility, security and density calculation.
WSN, due to its civilian and military applications, is another popular research area.
The current focus is on biomedical wireless sensor networks (BWSN) and wireless
multimedia sensor networks (WMSN). BWSN emerged from the integration of biomedical
sensors with wireless networks and has great potential in medical scenarios; research is
going on to develop novel schemes that provide intelligent priority assignment to
time-critical medical emergency data. In WMSN the focus is on providing low latency to
multimedia content and optimising routing protocols dynamically.