Wireless Networking

The projects outlined in this section describe the research lead by Dr E Garcia in the wireless networks and wireless protocols research area. Current research also includes some projects carried out in close collaboration with Dr S Sezer, the research leader in accelerated hardware architectures for fixed networks from ECIT’s SoC research cluster.

The research comprises a wide range of research topics. These include: traffic modelling, radio channel modelling, scheduling architectures performance assessment, tag computation hardware implementation using FPGAs, secure protocols for wireless sensor networks and wireless ad-hoc networks, wireless MAC protocols, hardware accelerated IP packet classification and hardware accelerated packet inspection.

Follow the links below for information on current research projects:

• Wireless sensor networks security protocols and architectures
• Adaptive QoS aware scheduling for fixed wireless networks
• Wireless MAC algorithms and SoC processing architectures
• Hardware accelerated IP packet classification for terabit networks
• Hardware accelerated deep packet inspection