About
The Communications and Networking (Commnet) Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University is the home to faculty, postdocs, and students interested in communications and networking.
Our research draws on a wide range of techniques including information theory, communication theory, networking, signal processing, optimization methods, and stochastic control to advance our understanding of the theoretical limits of communication systems and networks, as well as to design and implement novel algorithms for approaching these limits.
Specific research topics include:
- Blockchain and decentralization
- Distributed learning over networks
- Interference Mitigation and Management for Spectrum Coexistence
- Integrated Sensing and Communications using Millimeter-Wave Systems
- Learning and control for advanced wireless networks
- MAC layer protocols for cellular vehicular networking (C-V2X)
- Network control algorithms for mission-critical / time-sensitive applications
- Network economic modeling of spectrum sharing for Next Generation (6G+) wireless networks
Recent News
Best Paper Award: Policy Track
Kangle (Phil) Mu received the Best Paper Award (Policy Track) at IEEE DySPAN 2024 for his paper “Market Impacts of Pooling Intermittent Spectrum,” which is joint work with his advisor Prof. Randall Berry.Please find additional information in this news item.
Best Poster Presentation
Ankit Walishetti earned first place in the Poster Division at the Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for his work “Algorithmic Design and Computational Modeling Using Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Techniques to Optimize Bandwidth Management in Wireless Communication Systems,” which is joint work with Colin Ward, Eduardo Gutierrez, and Aidan Kim from IMSA high-school, and their research advisors Prof. Randall Berry and Prof. Igor Kadota.Ankit will now represent the Illinois Delegation in the National Symposium. Good luck, Ankit!
1st place ACM SIGCOMM SRC
Please find additional information in this news item.
Bitcoin Research Prize
Prof. Dongning Guo and Prof. Ling Ren (UIUC) earned the 2023 Bitcoin Research Prize at the Chaincode Labs Bitcoin Research Day event for their paper entitled “Bitcoin’s Latency—Security Analysis Made Simple.”
Please find additional information in this news item.
Best Student Paper Award
Pawan Poojary received the Best Student Paper Award at WiOpt 2023 for his paper “Welfare Effects of Ex-Ante Bias and Tie-Breaking Rules on Observational Learning with Fake Agents,” which is joint work with his advisor Prof. Randall Berry.Workshop at IFIP Performance
Prof. Igor Kadota and Prof. Ermin Wei are organizing a workshop on Decision-making in Networked Systems (DeNetS) at IFIP Performance 2023 to be held at Northwestern University, Chicago campus on November 17th, 2023.Invited speakers: Steven H. Low (Caltech), Urbashi Mitra (USC), Guannan Qu (CMU), Alejandro Ribeiro (UPenn), Sanjay Shakkottai (UT Austin), and Vijay G. Subramanian (UMich).
Please consider attending!
Promotion
Prof. Ermin Wei received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.Congratulations Prof. Wei!
Grant from NSF SII-NRDZ-SBE
Prof. Randall Berry, Dr. William Lehr (MIT), and Prof. Igor Kadota received an NSF grant from the NSF SII-NRDZ-SBE program. The project is titled Bridging the techno-economic gap for the design of spectrum Zone Management Systems. Announcement in the newsletter of the NSF PAWR Project Office can be found here.