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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

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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.

1st place ACM SIGCOMM SRC

Prof. Igor Kadota and collaborators at Columbia University earned first place in the ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition for their demo “Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios“, which is joint work with Alon Simon Levin, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Aditya Jolly, Manav Kohli, Prof. Mingoo Seok, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy and Prof. Gil Zussman.

Please find additional information in this news item.

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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!

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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.
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