About

Wireless Networks Lab (WNL) is a ‘Megagrant’ lab established in 2017 around the project on Cloudified Wireless Networks for 5G and beyond, led by Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz. The project focused at cloud architectures for wireless networks based on software-defined networking and network function virtualization concepts and essential management tools to satisfy the requirements for 5G and beyond.

Currently, WNL works on multiple projects related to the hot topics in wireless networks.

Our areas of interest include:

  • 5G and 6G Design and Optimization
  • Future Wireless Local Area Networks (Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7, Li-Fi and beyond)
  • Traffic classification in wireless networks.
  • Resource allocation for heterogeneous traffic in multi-RRH environment
  • Cooperation and coexistence for the technologies working in licensed and unlicensed spectrum (including LTE-U, LAA, Wi-Fi coexistence)
  • Ultra-reliable low latency communications
  • Massive Machine-Type Communications
  • Visible light and Terahertz Communications and Intelligent Surfaces
  • Non-orthogonal multiple access

WNL participates in IEEE 802.11 activities, organizes international events, and holds Moscow Telecommunication Seminar.

Recent News

  • Evgeny Khorov joins RSF expert council (February 26, 2025)
    Evgeny Khorov, head of the Wireless Networks Lab, has become a member of the RSF Expert Council for Young Scientists' Projects. RSF expert councils are responsible for evaluating and selecting scientific projects submitted for competitions. They monitor the validity of comments in the received expert assessments and formulate final recommendations for the support of projects by the Foundation's board.
  • [SEMINAR] February 21, 2025 – Artem Otmakhov – On the efficiency of distributed channel access method in 5G V2X networks (February 18, 2025)

    We are happy to invite you to the next talk of Moscow Telecommunication Seminar which will be held at 17.00 (MSK, UTC+03:00), on Friday, February 21, 2025, in Skype. Title: On the efficiency of distributed channel access method in 5G V2X networks. Title: On the efficiency of distributed channel access method in 5G V2X networks.
  • [SEMINAR] February 14, 2025 – Andrey Barannikov – MIMO CSI Compression Method With Dual Differential Feedback for Wi-Fi Networks (February 10, 2025)

    We are happy to invite you to the next talk of Moscow Telecommunication Seminar which will be held at 17.00 (MSK, UTC+03:00), on Friday, February 14, 2025, in Skype. Title: MIMO CSI Compression Method With Dual Differential Feedback for Wi-Fi Networks. Speaker: Andrey Barannikov, IITP RAS, MIPT.
  • Paper on Efficient Information Compression for MIMO Published in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (December 25, 2024)

    The paper “CSI Compression Method With Dual Differential Feedback for Next-Generation Wi-Fi Networks” written by the members of the Wireless Networks Lab Andrey Barannikov, Ilya Levitsky, Vyacheslav Loginov, and Evgeny Khorov has been recently published in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. The paper explores a potential enhancement for the MIMO feature in Wi-Fi – channel sounding reduction.
  • [SEMINAR] December 6, 2024 – Anton Karamyshev – Enabling IIoT with Wi-Fi 6 (December 4, 2024)

    We are happy to invite you to the next talk of Moscow Telecommunication Seminar which will be held at 17.00 (MSK, UTC+03:00), on Friday, December 6, 2024, in Skype. Title: Enabling IIoT with Wi-Fi 6. Speaker: Anton Karamyshev, IITP RAS, MIPT.
  • WNL Members Win RSF Grant on Holographic MIMO (November 25, 2024)

    The results of the call for proposals for bilateral Joint Research Projects, held by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ahve been published. The project "Development of H-MIMO for future wireless communications" by the Wireless Networks Lab, led by Prof. Evgeny Khorov, has been supported. The project is dedicated to holographic MIMO systems (H-MIMO) and is aimed to increase the data transfer rate and expand the coverage area of ​​​​new-generation wireless networks using such systems.
  • Study on Encrypted Traffic Classification published in IEEE ACCESS (November 20, 2024)

    The paper “Early Traffic Classification With Encrypted ClientHello: A Multi-Country Study” written by the members of the Wireless Networks Lab Danil Shamsimukhametov, Anton Kurapov, Mikhail Liubogoshchev, and Evgeny Khorov has been published in a prestigious open access journal IEEE ACCESS. The published paper proposes a new traffic classification algorithm, which uses not only unencrypted TLS ECH parameters but also statistical features, such as packet sizes and inter-arrival times.