Welcome
The Computer Networking Laboratory (CNL), located in LMR 282-283, was founded in 2006. The research efforts in our laboratory encompass computer communication networks with a special focus on wireless networked systems, routing of information in extreme environments, free-space-optical (FSO) mobile ad-hoc networks, network economics, peer-to-peer protocols, and performance analysis. The lab currently has 2 doctoral and one master student members. Equipment in the lab includes 4 workstations and 2 laptops.
Recent networking research problems that we study can be categorized into four:
Scalability of routing and transport protocols in wireless networks where extreme conditions such as excessive disconnectedness, delay, dynamism and resource scarcity are the norm, as in vehicular networks and sensor networks. We study the problems of maintaining the balance between application-specific routing/connectivity requests and the state/messaging overhead pertaining to those requests.
Increasing availability of high-bandwidth secure wireless networks by means of optical wireless or FSO network devices leveraging spatial reuse and angular diversity. We research auto-configuration, tuning, and design of such FSO building blocks for MANET environments where RF can be used as a backup to FSO.Methods to increase tussle and experimentation points in the Internet and thus to improve economic viability and soundness of networking architectures and protocols, which can enable users to interact with network more effectively and motivate providers to enable and deploy new quality-of-service functionalities in the network services.Fundamental understanding of large-scale network behavior requiring scalable simulation/experimentation of large-scale networks, as well as rapid interpretation of large-scale results by means of appropriate experiment design and heuristic optimization search techniques.
We also study applying experiment design and optimization theory to areas other than networking such as Bioimaging and Bioinformatics.
Our research in CNL has been funded both by government agencies and by the industry, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and AT&T. CNL has ongoing collaborations with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Electrical Engineering Department of UNR.
