Communications and Networking

CISE Faculty: Azer Bestavros, Jeffrey Carruthers, Christos Cassandras, Ayse Coskun, Mark Crovella, Prakash Ishwar, Eric Kolaczyk, Lev Levitan, Thomas Little, Ben Lubin, Abraham Matta, James Perkins, Venkatesh Saligrama, David Starobinski and Ari Trachtenberg.

Professor Cassandras talks about the Smart Parking app in this video.

Overview: CISE research addresses critical and emerging systems-level issues in communication and sensor networks and systems. To that end, faculty, draw upon a strong methodological base in systems and control theory, probability and stochastic processes, optimization, information theory, and operations research.

Significant contributions have been made in areas including quality of service (QoS) provisioning in broadband communication networks, performance analysis and simulation of communication systems, pricing and resource allocation, security, and all-optical network design.

Research Impact: Device and sensor networks, the epitome of a pervasive technology, are shaping many activities in our society. Applications of these technologies include building automation homeland security, manufacturing, robotics and healthcare.

Current Research Topics: cyber-security, performance analysis, pricing and resource allocation, wireless and sensor networks, Internet traffic engineering, data synchronization, visible light communication, sustainable computing

Research Spotlight:

• “Smarter Parking, Smarter Cities”
• NSF/Smartlighting Engineering Research Center
• “Protecting the Identity in Your Pocket”
• “Research in Wireless Vehicular Networking Technology”
• “Improving Security in Smartphones”
• “Promoting Secondary Spectrum Markets via Profitability-Driven Methods and Algorithms.”