Networking

Introduction

Growing interest of new services with higher quality and increasing usage in Internet is one of the major challenges in the near future. Different networks become more and more interdependent and joint optimization of such networks should provide more efficient solutions resulting in better performance and lower cost of operation. Also, recent advances in development of low-cost wireless Internet coupled sensor platforms open up opportunities for novel wireless sensor network applications with increasing security threats that deserve ever more increasing attention. Finding solutions to these problems require an approach that jointly optimizes several networking gore functionalities and interconnects both theoretical modeling of the system and limitations set by the functional devices in the network.

Goal

The Internetworking Group fulfils the mission of CWC in the area of wireless communication network research by developing new methodologies and concepts around the evolving new wireless Internet. The research goals of the group involve finding new solutions for optimizing network utility through layered network architecture. The results will be used to define new common air interfaces for 4G cellular together with ad hoc and sensor networks. Application areas of Internetworking group’s research results are mainly cellular networks and wireless data networks with varying geographical coverage. Interest groups for the application areas include network operators and network system and security designers.

Focus areas

Group’s focus areas are key issue in networking necessary to complement the existing solutions in physical layer in building up new generation of wireless communications. The research will include: Network optimisation, opportunistic network coding as an alternative to conventional routing concept, intercell interference aware resource management, game theory based solutions, introduction of active network elements (mobile agent traffic optimisation), topology control and security issues in wireless networks.

Teams

Currently, Internetworking group consists of 2 teams each concentrating on their specific expertise areas

  • Networking
  • Secure and Trustworthy Wireless Internet

Teaching - Courses on Networking

The following four undergraduate courses are a prerequisite for the networiking :

1. Mobile Telecommunication Systems
2. Communication Networks 1
3. Communication Networks 2
4. Basics of optimisation

Postgraduate Courses

1. Topology Control & Graph theory (7cr/12cp)
2. Cognitive Networks & Game theory (7cr/12cp)
3. Networks & Convex optimization theory(7cr/12cp)
4. QoS Management & Queuing theory(7cr/12cp)
5. Multiple Acccess & Markov Chain Theory(7cr/12cp)
6. Wireless Networks Information Theory (7cr/12cp)
7. Network Protocol Design (7cr/12cp)
8. Radio Resource Management(7cr/12cp)
9. Networks Architectures(7cr/12cp)(Sensor Networks,Ad Hoc Networks,Mobile Networks,Cellular Networks/LTE,WLAN/WiMAX/IEEE 802.XX) 10. Networks Security(7cr/12cp)
11. Cooperative and opportunistic networking(7cr/12cp)
12. Wireless Applications(7cr/12cp)
13. Sensor Networks(7cr/12cp)
14. Internet Economic(7cr/12cp)
15. Advanced course on Networks Optimization(7cr/12cp)
16. Advanced Routing & Network Coding(7cr/12cp)
17. Wireless Internet Core Network(7cr/12cp)
18. Networks Connectivity(7cr/12cp)
19. Bio Inspired Paradigms in Wireless Networks(7cr/12cp)

Contact:

Prof. Savo Glisic
e-mail: savo at ee.oulu.fi
tel. +358 8 553 2852
mobile: +358 40 501 9201