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
- [SEMINAR] October 24, 2025 – Maria Shlapak – How to achieve the best Quality of Service using Periodic Restricted Access Window under correlated event detection (October 22, 2025)
We are happy to invite you to the next talk of Moscow Telecommunication Seminar on Friday, October 24, 2025. Title: How to achieve the best Quality of Service using Periodic Restricted Access Window under correlated event detection. Speaker: Maria Shlapak, MIPT, IITP RAS. - a Cost-Effective Method for Improving RIS Using 3D Printing published in IEEE Access (October 7, 2025)
Researchers from the Wireless Networks Lab at IITP RAS and Intelligent Telecommunication Systems Lab of MIPT — Andrey Tyarin, Kirill Glinskiy, Roman Zlobin, Alexey Kureev, and Evgeny Khorov — have developed a method that makes creating devices for future networks, such as 6G, faster and five times cheaper. Their paper was published in the prestigious journal IEEE Access. What’s the [...] - Andrey Tyarin and Kirill Glinsky won the “Science of the Future – Science of the Youth” forum competition. (September 29, 2025)
Congratulations to Andrey Tyarin and Kirill Glinsky, graduate students at MIPT and memebres of Wireless Networks Lab, on their victory at the 10th All-Russian Youth Scientific Forum "Science of the Future – Science of the Youth"! They took first places in the "Engineering Sciences" and "Information Technology and Mathematics" sections, respectively. - WNL member Ilya Levitsky earns PhD Degree (September 18, 2025)
Ilya Levitsky, the member of Wireless Networks Lab, has successfully defended his PhD thesis. On September 17, the dissertation council at MIPT awarded him the PhD in Technical Sciences. - New algorithm to improve communication via “smart” surfaces published in IEEE OJ-COMS (September 12, 2025)
Researchers from the Wireless Networks Lab, IITP RAS and Intelligent Telecommunication Systems Lab of MIPT — Ilya Burtakov, Alexey Kureev, and Evgeny Khorov — have proposed an innovative method for tuning reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), which can amplify signals in 5G and future 6G networks. Their paper «Simultaneous RIS Adjustment and Transmission Based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Simulated Annealing» has been published in the prestigious IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS). - [SEMINAR] August 29, 2025 – Ilya Levitsky – Methods for Improving the Performance of Multi-Link Devices in Wi-Fi 7 Networks (August 26, 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, August 29, 2025, in Google Meet. Join the seminar: https://meet.google.com/giy-qzsh-amv Note: the language of the seminar is Russian. Title: Methods for Improving the Performance of Multi-Link Devices in Wi-Fi 7 Networks Speaker: Ilya Levitsky, IITP RAS - [SEMINAR] August 28, 2025 – Giovanni Geraci – AI and Wireless Digital Twins (August 26, 2025)
We are happy to invite you to the next talk of Moscow Telecommunication Seminar which will be held at 11.00 (MSK, UTC+03:00), on Thursday, August 28, 2025, in IITP RAS, room 615. Join the seminar online: https://meet.google.com/naa-agxi-ygz Title: AI and Wireless Digital Twins Speaker: Giovanni Geraci, Nokia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra