Research Projects

Wireless Intelligently Networked Edges

 
 End-to-end network slicing. [News] [News1] [News2]

• DRL-ORAN Platform for Large-Scale Networking Resource Management, Meta 2022 AI4AI Research, October 2022. 
   
• End-to-End Network Slicing and Orchestration in Future Programmable Converged Wireless-Optical Networks, National Science Foundation, September 2022. 
   

Past Projects

• Non-Terrestrial Integrated Access and Backhaul for 6G LEO Satellite MVNO, Cisco Systems, Inc., February 2023 - August 2024. 
   
• In-Network Processing for Timely Federated Multi-Task Learning over Wireless Edges, Cisco Systems, Inc., August 2021 - December 2022. 
   
• Application-Defined Networks for AI Systems, Cisco Systems, Inc., October 2019 - September 2020. 
   

Artificial Intelligence of Things

 
 5G&B key enabling technologies. 

• Evaluating Connected and Secure Edge Infrastructure for Scalable Hardware-in-the-Loop CAV Testbeds, NCDOT: NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology, June 2023. 
   
• Enabling Zero-Touch Prioritized Traffic Steering for Self-Healing Satellite Swarms, Lockheed Martin Corporation, November 2022. 
   
• Towards Eigen-Spatial Filtering and Spreading for Anti-Jammed MIMO p-LEO Satellites, Lockheed Martin Corporation, June 2022. 
   

Past Projects

• Traffic Engineering Control System for On-Demand Cross-Constellation Broadband Access, Department of the Air Force, March 2023 - July 2024. 
   
• 6G Serverless Computing Architecture with SLA Assurance for Cross-Constellation C3, NASA: North Carolina Space Grant, June 2022 - May 2024. 
   
• Assessing North Carolina Readiness for CAVs in Traditional and Emerging Infrastructure Needs, NCDOT: NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology, February 2020 - February 2023. [News]
   

Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

 
 Underground sensor network deployment. 

• A. A. Alshehri, C. H, Martins, S.-C. Lin, I. F. Akyildiz, and H. K. Schmidt, "FracBot Technology for Mapping Hydraulic Fractures," SPE Journal, pp. 1-17, February 2021. 
   
• S.-C. Lin, A. A. Alshehri, P. Wang, and I. F. Akyildiz, "Magnetic Induction-Based Localization in Randomly-Deployed Wireless Underground Sensor Networks," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1454-1465, October 2017. 
   
• S.-C. Lin, I. F. Akyildiz, P. Wang, and Z. Sun, "Distributed Cross-Layer Protocol Design for Magnetic Induction Communication in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 4006-4019, July 2015. 
   

Next-Generation Underwater Communication

 
 SoftWater system architecture. 

• I. F. Akyildiz, P. Wang, and S.-C. Lin, "SoftWater: Software-Defined Networking for Next-Generation Underwater Communication Systems," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 46, pp. 1-11, August 2016.