Bio

I am an assistant professor in the mobile communication department at Eurecom. I am also in charge of L2/L3 protocol development of the OpenAirInterface.org wireless radio platform initiative, and acting as a local coordinator and contact point for collaborative R&D projects. In terms of industry liaison, I am participating in continuing education programs and training sessions, on behalf of Eurecom, on specific topics of interest in wireless networking and access technologies and standards (LTE/LTE-A).

My expertise is more related to packet-level techniques, protocols and algorithms for advanced wireless/mobile networking rather than that of bit-level or signal-level. With various collaborators, I have been exploring several research topics including:

• adhoc/mesh networking (uni/multicasting) and distributed computing algorithms
• cooperative transmission techniques and protocols
• traffic analysis and modelling for machine-to-machine and online gaming
• access-layer techniques for LTE/LTE-A and adhoc/mesh networks
• large scale wireless network emulation architectures
• software radio architectures, and HW/SW CPU-GPU co-design

Teaching

At Eurecom, I teach graduate-level courses in two area: (i)adhoc networking, protocols, and algorithms as well as advanced topics related to cooperation, cross-layering, QoS, traffic/mobility models(ii) mobile application development and services on iOS and Android. Below you can find a quick link to the current courses or training:

• MobServ - mobile application and service, fall 2011
• OAIEMU - OpenAirInterface Emulation Methodology, @cropolis summer school 2011

List of all courses could be found : here

Current Team

PostDocs/R&D Engineers

• Daniel Camara, working on multicasting and topology management for rapidly deployable mesh networks over the openairinterface experimental platform, started 2010
• Lusheng Wang, working on cooperative MAC scheduler on LTE as well as openairinterface emulator, started Jan. 2011
• Aymen Hafsaoui, will work on the impact of M2M/gaming traffic pattern on the performance of LTE, start Nov 2011

PhDs

• Bilel Ben Romdhanne, large-scale wireless network emulation architecture and GPU-CPU co-design, started Dec. 2010
• Kaiji Zhou, low latency uplink access, scheduling and radio resource management in LTE, started April 2011

Collaborative R&D Projects

Current Projects

• LOLA - Low latency in Wireless Communication (ICT FP7 Network of the Future), 2010-2013, http://www.ict-lola.eu
• CONECT - Cooperative Networking for High Capacity Transport Architectures (ICT FP7 FIRE), 2010-2013, http://www.conect-ict.eu/
• @acroplis - Advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimisation in licensed and unlicensed spectrum (ICT FP7 NoE), 2010-2013, http://www.ict-acropolis.eu/
• HNPS - Heterogeneous network for European public safety (Celtic), 2008-2011 http://www.hnps.eu
• SYMPA - System on Chip (SoC) for Software Radio (French National Project Pole SCS), 2010 - 2013, Project Description in French

Past Projects

• PFMM - Multimodal Platform (French National Project, Pole SCS), http://www.openairinterface.org/projects/pfmm.en.htm
• Chorist - Integrating Communications for enHanced envirOnmental RISk management and citizens safeTy (ICT FP6), http://www.chorist.eu/
• Widens - Wireless Deployable Network System (ICT FP6), http://www.widens.org
• Daidalos I - Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services (ICT FP6), http://www.ist-daidalos.org

List of all R&D project of Mobile communication department can be found here.

Openairinterface.org Activities

I am actively involved in the OpenAirInterface development and activities and in particular taking the responsibility of the emulator and networking experimentations (checkout OAIEMU). Openairinterface is a state-of-the-art open source HW/SW radio communication and networking laboratories created by the mobile communication department for both experimental research and teaching with three main objectives: (1) to demonstrate and experimentally validate innovations at all protocols layers, (2) to provide feasibility studies for state-of-the-art theoretical advances in wireless communication and networking applicable to evolving cellular technologies (LTE,LTE-Advanced) and rapidly-deployable mesh/ad-hoc networks, and (3) to offer an experimental facility for use in publicly-funded research projects to partner institutions (both academic and industrial).

Some quick links:

• Twiki
• Brief need to be updated

Publications

• N. Nikaein and S. Krco: "Latency for Real-Time Machine-to-Machine Communication in LTE-Based System Architecture", Proc. Of the 17th European Wireless Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2011. Download paper, presentation
• B. B. Romdhanne, N. Nikaein, R. Knopp, and C. Bonnet, "OpenAirInterface Large-Scale Wireless Emulation Platform and Methodology", ACM MSWIM 2011, demo session. Download preprint.

Complete list of publications could be fount at: EURECOM DB .