The Networking research division headed by Dr. Kia Makki focuses on researching and developing network architectures and protocols mainly for wireless networks (Ad-Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks among others) and also some wired networks. We envision the networks (wired and wireless) to exhibit the following key characteristics:
A much larger and more dominant mobile user population enabled by the advancement and widespread pervasiveness of wireless networking technologies
Increased security requirement to the diversity of network applications by way of supporting fine grained quality of service provisioning and routing characteristics of wired and wireless network
Selected Projects
Network architectures for next generation wireless networks, including conventional cellular networks, ad-hoc multi-hop networks, and other hybrid network models. Algorithms for wireless network protocol layers including the medium access control, network, transport, and middleware layers.
Architectures for providing quality of service (QoS) in the future Internet in heterogeneous wired and wireless network environments. Special focus areas include: Heuristic and Exact Algorithms for QoS Routing with Multiple Constraints, an efficient approximation algorithms for Delay-Cost-Constrained QoS.
Approaches for making network more secure including wireless Ad-hoc network and sensor network. Research areas include security algorithms in Ad hoc Networks and Secure Data Networking for enterprise.
Architectures for providing efficient routing and multicasting in heterogeneous wired and wireless network environments. Research includes Performance Evaluation of the Delay-Constrained Least-Cost Routing, Efficient Implementations of a Delay-Constrained Least-Cost Multicast Algorithm. Efficient Implementations of Bounded Shortest Multicast Algorithm.
For Networking publications, feel free to visit our Publications page.
