Wireless & Mobile Networking Lab. 무선 및 모바일 네트워킹 연구실

5G MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) is another big trend in 5G communications. MEC is exploiting cloud computing resources (sort of micro data centers) located at the edge of the 5G network, usually at the base stations. Then, computation-intensive tasks at mobile devices can be offloaded to the MEC servers to save energy and enhance user experience at the mobile side. In our research, we tried to unify energy, latency, monetary costs of computation offloading via the concept of QoE (Quality-of-Experience), and developed an optimal transmission scheduling algorithm in task offloading (see our SECON’16 and TMC’19 papers). The WMNL is also investigating how to realize 6G’s vision of communications-computing convergence. 6G is expected to integrate its network infrastructure with more computing resources and intelligence, making the boundary between communications and computing obscure. In such a vein, we are putting more effort to developing new AI/ML based networking mechanisms as detailed in the ‘AI-empowered Networking‘ page. On the other hand, we are also performing a research on wireless communications in the three-dimensional space including ground, air, and space, to realize the vision of 6G to combine TN (terrestrial network) with NTN (non-terrestrial network). In particular, we have been working on developing accurate channel models for the three types of wireless links, air-to-ground (A2G) / ground-to-air (G2A), air-to-air (A2A), and air-to-satellite (A2S) / satellite-to-air (S2A). In addition, we are applying the developed models to various wireless service scenarios in the 3D-space, e.g., UAM communications. Welcome!The Wireless & Mobile Networking Laboratory (WMNL) is directed by Hyoil Kim, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at UNIST. The