Computer Science
Networks and Communications Laboratory (NCL)
   
     
  Networks and Communications Laboratory (NCL)  
 

   

The Lab is a research laboratory in Computer Science Department dedicated to the researches in communications and networks. Research into today’s complex communication networks require us to study not only communications and networks but also other topics in computer science such as quantitative modeling, system science, and mathematical optimization. The lab will supply industry level research experience to its graduate students and prepare them with quantitative research methods for analysis, design, optimization and development of communication networks.

 

 Our primary research issues include provisioning the network such as “How to design the network to maximally exploit the nature of the network medium?”, “How to design the network to provide a certain level of survivability in the presence of fault or attacks?”, “How to design the network to minimize the fault propagation?” and so on. These are the fundamental problems to be solved to make the network a reliable infrastructure. It is believed that we are currently moving to optical networks as an infrastructure network, to wireless network as user access networks. The IP network will exist over the optical network and wireless network. Naturally, our research spans into three areas, namely optical network, wireless network and IP network. Our current research areas are following: Congestion control, buffer management and network processor scheduling, ad-hoc wireless deployment, survivability issues with limited power, multi- cross layer design