5G/6G Wireless Communications and IoT Networking Lab facilities

• Wireless and Cybersecurity
• AI-empowered Communications and Networking
• Responsible AI
• Metaverse/Immersive Communications
• Networking technology development (5G, 6G, IoT and vehicular networks)
• Multi-radio access technology coexistence
• Dynamic spectrum sharing
• International spectrum standardisation
• Interference mitigation
• Joint communications and radio sensing
• Integrated space, air and ground communications
• mmWave and Terahertz-wave communications
• Embedded system hardware and firmware development
• Radio Frequency integrated circuits
• Microwave 3D printing circuits and antennas
• Microwave, millimetre-wave and terahertz antennas
• Highly linear power amplifier design in GaAs HBT technology for sub-6 GHz 5G applications
• Watt-level silicon-based power amplifier design for mm-wave 5G applications

• 16x16 Massive MIMO testbed with adjustable carrier frequency from DC to 6 GHz and bandwidth up to 160 MHz
• 8x8 Xlinx ZCU111 RFoC Development boards and programmable mmWave radar boards
• DC – 110 GHz PNA probe station
• Multi-purpose PNA DC – 50 GHz
• Anti-vibration tables for THz and mm-wave research
• 50 GHz signal and spectrum generators
• 3D printers

Example tutorials delivered at premier international conferences:

• "Empowering Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) with Mobile Edge Networks" half-day tutorial at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, 9–13 June 2024. 

• ''Empowering the Metaverse with Edge Intelligence and Generative AI," half-day tutorial at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 - 8 Dec. 2023. 

• "Towards Edge Intelligence for the Metaverse," half-day tutorial in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2023.

• "Distributed Machine Learning for 6G Networks: A Tutorial," half-day tutorial in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4 - 8 Dec. 2022. 

• "Distributed Machine Learning for 6G Networks: A Tutorial," half-day tutorial in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Austin, TX, USA, 10-13 April 2022. 

• "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning for Future Wireless Networks," half-day tutorial at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, 7-11 Dec. 2021. 

• "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications in Future IoT Networks," conference tutorial in IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WF-IoT), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June-July 2021. 

• "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications in Future Wireless Networks," half-day tutorial at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, June 2021.

Books published by our lab:

• [B7] D. N. Nguyen, N. Chu, D. T. Hoang, O. A. Dobre, D. Niyato, and P. Popovski, Generative AI for Communications Systems: Fundamentals, Applications, and Prospects, Wiley, expected the first quarter of 2025.
• [B6] D. N. Nguyen, L. Vu, U. Nguyen, D. T. Hoang, Generative AI for Cybersecurity: Fundamentals, Applications, Risks, and Opportunities, CRC Press Taylor & Francis, expected the last quarter of 2024.
• [B5] D. T. Hoang, H. Nguyen, D. N. Nguyen, E. Hossain, Machine Learning for Cyber-attack Detection in IoT Networks, Elsevier, expected the last quarter of 2024.
• [B4] C. T. Nguyen, D. T. Hoang, D. N. Nguyen, L. Luu, E. Dutkiewicz, R. Joyce, Proof-of-Stake for Blockchain Networks: Fundamentals, Challenges and Approaches, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), expected the last quarter of 2023.

• [B3] D. N. Nguyen, D. T. Hoang, T. X. Vu, E. Dutkiewicz, S. Chatzinotas, and B. Ottersten, edt., Enabling Technologies for Social Distancing, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2022, ISBN: 9781839534904, eISBN: 9781839534911 and DOI: 10.1049/PBTE104E, order from Dymocks or Amazon.

• [B2] D. T. Hoang, N. V. Huynh, D. N. Nguyen, E. Hossain and D. Niyato, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Communications and Networking: Theory, Applications and Implementation, Wiley, order from Amazon.

• [B1] D. T. Hoang, D. N. Nguyen, C. T. Nguyen, E. Hossain, and D. Niyato, Metaverse Communication and Computing Networks: Applications, Technologies, and Approaches. Wiley, order from Amazon. 

Example patents from our work: 

• Accessing a communication channel using disparate communication systems, Y. He, M. D. Mueck, L. G. Baltar, M. Emara, M. Filippou, R. P. Liu, D. T. Hoang, D. Nguyen, E. Dutkiewicz, S. Srikathyayani, US20220086854A1, Filed January 2020 (Apple), Published March 2022.

• Spectrum Access System (SAS) Spectrum Sharing with Fine-Grained Protection/Exclusion Zone Differentiation, M. Mueck, S. Srikanteswara, C. Drewes, B. A. Jayawickrama, Y. He, E. Dutkiewicz, Intel Provisional Patent Filed March 2018.

• Spectrum Access System Spectrum Sharing: A Short Term Online Agreement, M. Mueck, H. Wang, D. Nguyen, E. Dutkiewicz, S. Srikanteswara, C. Drewes, Intel Provisional Patent Filed March 2018.

• Methods and devices for shared spectrum allocation, M. D. Mueck, C. Drewes, E. Dutkiewicz, B. A. Jayawickrama, P. Rixon, G. Fang, M. Heimlich, S. Srikanteswara. US10812986B2, Filed July 2017 (Apple), Published June 2019, Granted October 2020.

• Evolved Node-B, Local Controller and Method for Allocation of Spectrum for Secondary Usage, M. Mueck, P. Rixon, M. Heimlich, E. Dutkiewicz, C. Drewes. US20190045367A1, Filed September 2015 (Intel), Published February 2019, Granted March 2021 (Apple).

• Allocating Wireless Channels, B. A. Jayawickrama, Y. He, M. D. Mueck, B. Badic, K. Roth, S. Srikanteswara, Z. Yu, E. Dutkiewicz, US200180288620A1, Filed March 2017 (Intel), Published October 2018, Granted January 2019.

• Uplink Interference Management in Shared Spectrum Networks, Y. He, B. A. Jayawickrama, E. Dutkiewicz, M. Mueck, S. Srikanteswara, US20170188314A1, Filed December 2015, Published June 2017.

• Methods for Performing Mobile Communications Between Mobile Terminal Devices, Base Stations, and Network Control Devices, M. D. Mueck, M. Heimlich, E. Dutkiewicz, B. A. Jayawickrama and P. Rixon. WO/2017/052869, Filed August 2016 (Intel), Published March 2017.

• General Authorized Access Interference Map and Protection of Information Exchange, Q. Cheng, D. Nguyen, G. Fang, E. Dutkiewicz, M. Mueck, S. Srikanteswara, C. Drewes, Intel Patent Application 2017 - US62/547,655.

• Allocating wireless channels, B. Jayawickrama, Ying He, M.D. Mueck, B. Badic, S. Srikanteswara, Z. Yu, E. Dutkiewicz. US10187804B2 Filed March 2017 (Intel), Published April 2018, Granted January 2019.

• An Access Node Controller, an Apparatus for an Access Node, an Access Node for a Mobile Communication System, a Mobile Communication System, a Method and Computer Program for an Access Node, B. A. Jayawickrama; Y. He; E. Dutkiewicz; M. D. Mueck, S. Srikanteswara, C. Drewes, US11184835B2, Filed June 2017 (Intel), Published April 2020, Granted November 2021.

• SAS PAL GAA Co-channel Interference Mitigation, S. Srikanteswara, M. Mueck, Y. He, B. A. Jayawickrama, E. Dutkiewicz, B. Badic, Z. Yu, C. Drewes. US20170318470A1, Filed April 2016 (Intel), Published November 2017, Granted December 2019.

• Methods for performing mobile communications between mobile terminal devices, base stations, and network control devices, M. Mueck, M. Heimlich, P. Rixon, B. A. Jayawickrama, E. Dutkiewicz, C. Drewes, G. Fang, US10609595B2, Filed August 2022 (Apple), Published July 2019, Granted March 2020.

• Internet of Things Swarm Management, M. Mueck; C. Drewes; E. Dutkiewicz; G. Fang; S. Roessel; K. Nolan; P. Rixon; S. Srikanteswara. US11356798B2, Filed July 2016 (Intel), Published February 2020, Granted June 2022.

• Methods and Devices for User Detection in Spectrum Sharing, M. Mueck, Y. He, B. A. Jayawickrama, E. Dutkiewicz, US Patent US10681558B2, Filed June 2016, Published December 2017, Granted September 2020.

• Communication Device and Method for Communicating using a Frequency Range, M. D. Mueck, Y. He, B. A. Jayawickrama and E. Dutkiewicz, US Patent US20170055193A1, Filed August 2015, Published February 2017.