About
Wireless Networks Lab (WNL) was established in 2017 at IITP RAS through a “Megagrant” to implement the “Cloudified Wireless Networks for 5G and Beyond” project under the leadership of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz.
Today, WNL operates as a center of excellence, bringing together researchers from IITP RAS, MIPT, HSE, and MIRAI. Our team executes a diverse portfolio of academic and industrial projects with leading telecommunications vendors, making significant contributions to theory, product development, telecommunications standards, and STEM education.
Our area of interest spans the entire spectrum of modern wireless technologies:
- Cellular Systems: 5G/6G, non-terrestrial networks; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), H-MIMO, mmWave.
- Future Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 8, Wi-Fi 9, Li-Fi.
- Wireless Internet of Things (IoT): LoRaWAN, NB-Fi, Wi-Fi HaLow, mMTC.
- QoS/QoE-aware Communications: URLLC, Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications, industrial automation, cloud VR/AR.
- Radio Spectrum Efficiency & Coexistence: Cooperation between licensed and unlicensed technologies (e.g., LAA and Wi-Fi), NOMA, and mesh networking.
- Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Systems: asymptotic analysis of queuing systems, Markov chains, discrete optimization, linear programming.
- Data-Driven Wireless Networks: application of AI/ML for network management, traffic analysis and classification, and resource allocation in complex multi-RAT environments.
- Cellular System Architecture: Software-defined networking (SDN), Network function virtualization (NFV), network infrastructure optimization.
Beyond research, WNL is an active member of the global wireless community. We directly contribute to IEEE 802.11 standards development, organize prestigious international events and Moscow Telecommunication Seminar, and serve on the editorial boards of leading journals as well as on Russian and international expert councils.
Team members have received numerous Best Paper Awards at top international conferences and in prestigious scientific journals. Their achievements have been recognized with the Russian Federation Government Award in Science and Technology, Moscow Government Awards for Young Scientists, and the Scopus Award Russia. Furthermore, the team has earned over a dozen awards from industrial partners for outstanding results in joint projects. As of late 2025, six WNL PhD students have been awarded the Russian Presidential Scholarship, and two have won the All-Russian “Science of the Future” Research Competition organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Recent News
- An article on energy-efficient NB-FI networks for the Internet of Things has been published in Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) (January 20, 2026)
The team of the Wireless Networks Lab – Dmitry Bankov, Anastasia Fedorishcheva, Polina Levchenko, Andrey Lyakhov, and Evgeny Khorov – has published a study on Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) for the Internet of Things (IoT). The focus of the work is the Russian NB-Fi technology, designed for reliable long-distance data transmission while serving a large number of devices, and already applied in real IoT projects in Russia and abroad. - Team of the Wireless Networks Lab received a triple award from an industrial partner. (December 26, 2025)
On December 24, 2025, the team of the Wireless Networks Lab of IITP RAS received a triple award from an industrial partner - a well-known manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. The customer highly praised the results of two projects and, in addition, recognized the team as its strategic partner. - Andrey Tyarin and Sergey Tutelian defended their PhD theses (December 23, 2025)
Wireless Networks Lab members Andrey Tyarin and Sergey Tutelian have successfully defended their PhD theses! On December 20, the the dissertation council at MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) awarded them their PhDs in Technical Sciences. Their supervisor, Evgeny Khorov, highly praises their work and the qualifications they have acquired. The thesis by Andrey Tyarin “Methods of designing and [...] - [SEMINAR] December 12, 2025 – Sergei Tutelian – Radio resource allocation algorithms in Wi‑Fi networks with frequency and power division for improving quality of service (December 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, December 12, 2025. Title: Radio resource allocation algorithms in Wi‑Fi networks with frequency and power division for improving quality of service. Speaker: Sergei Tutelian, IITP, MIPT. - [SEMINAR] December 5, 2025 – Andrey Tyarin – Methods of designing and determining the characteristics of unit cells of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (December 2, 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, December 5, 2025. Title: Methods of designing and determining the characteristics of unit cells of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Speaker: Andrey Tyarin, MIPT, IITP RAS. - [SEMINAR] October 31, 2025 – Semyon Dorokhin – Low-Incoherence Reference Signals Design, Multiplexing and Channel Estimation Algorithms for MIMO Systems (October 30, 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, October 31, 2025. Title: Low-Incoherence Reference Signals Design, Multiplexing and Channel Estimation Algorithms for MIMO Systems. Speaker: Semyon Dorokhin, MIPT. - [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.