About me...
Zdenek Becvar is associate professor at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU).
During PhD, he was working on
optimization of handover procedure in mobile networks.
Besides, he was involved in Sitronics and Vodafone R&D centers at CTU in Prague and he was on internship at Budapest politechnic during PhD.
After PhD, he was visiting researcher in CEA-Leti and EURECOM.
His research is oriented on a development of future mobile networks (5G, beyond 5G, 6G) with special focus on optimization of radio resource and mobility management, edge computing, C-RAN, and architecture of mobile networks.
Zdenek has participated in several European and national research projects focused on mobile networks and has published results of my work in more than 70 papers and two US and two Czech patents.
He has participated in committees of many international conferences and he acts as a review for many prestigious journals.
At CTU in Prague, he teaches courses focused on mobile and wireless networks and he has supervised more than twenty master and bachelor students.
Since 2013 to 2017, he was a representative of CTU in Prague in 3GPP and ETSI standardization organizations.
In 2015, he founded laboratory of mobile networks 5Gmobile research lab, curently 6Gmobile, at CTU in Prague focusing on research towards future mobile networks.
News
October 2021
September 2021
24 Sep: Short interview about communication of vehicles and requiremens on mobile networks in Odpoledni radiozurnal magazine in Czech Radio,
" Odpolední radiožurnál ".
16 Sep: Paper "PADSA: Priority-Aware Block Data Storage Architecture for Edge Cloud Serving Autonomous Vehicles" was accepted to IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC 2021) (virtual event).
August 2021
3 Aug: Paper "Optimal Positioning of Flying Base Stations and Transmission Power Allocation in NOMA Networks" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
July 2021
19 Jul: Paper "Soft Frequency Reuse with Allocation of Resource Plans based on Machine Learning in the Networks with Flying Base Stations" was accepted to IEEE Access.
June 2021
7 Jun: Paper "Power Allocation, Channel Reuse, and Positioning of Flying Base Stations with Realistic Backhaul" was accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
1 Jun: Paper "Selection of Relays in Multi-Pair D2D Communication with Multicast" was accepted to European Wireless in Verona, Italy.
May 2021
6 May: Interview (three parts) about 5G and future of mobile networks in Dobre rano magazine in Czech TV,
"Dobré réno: Ve spojení".
April 2021
5 Apr: Paper "Dynamic Allocation of Computing and Communication Resources in Multi-Access Edge Computing for Mobile Users" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
February 2021
25 Feb: Paper "Positioning and Association Rules for Transparent Flying Relay Stations" was accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
18 Feb: Paper "Optimization of Cell Individual Offset for Handover of Flying Base Station" was accepted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring) (virtual event).
1 Feb: Paper "Reuse of Multiple Channels by Multiple D2D Pairs in Dedicated Mode: Game Theoretic Approach" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
December 2020
24 Dec: Paper "Hierarchical Scheduling for Suppression of Fronthaul Delay in C-RAN with Dynamic Functional Split" was accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine.
November 2020
29 Nov: Paper "Incentive-based D2D Relaying in Cellular Networks" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
October 2020
8 Oct: Included in the list of World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2019; ranked 2nd in Czech Republic and 2566th worldwide out of 161179 researchers in Networking & Telecommunications.
September 2020
19 Sep: Paper "Energy Efficient Positioning of Flying Base Stations via Coulomb's law" was accepted to IEEE Globecom 2020 workshop on Space-Ground Integrated Networks in Taipei, Taiwan.
8 Sep: Paper "Energy Consumption Performance of Opportunistic Device-to-Device Relaying Under Lognormal Shadowing" was accepted to IEEE Systems Journal.
August 2020
17 Aug: Paper "Low-Complexity Iterative Soft-output Demodulation for Hierarchical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation" was accepted to IEEE Globecom 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.
17 Aug: Paper "6G in the Sky: On-Demand Intelligence at the Edge of 3D Networks" was accepted to ETRI Journal.
July 2020
8 July: Paper "Joint Association, Transmission Power Allocation and Positioning of Flying Base Stations Considering Limited Backhaul" was accepted to IEEE VTC-Fall 2020 recent results in Victoria, Canada.
June 2020
29 June: Paper "Predicting Device-to-Device Channels from Cellular Channel Measurements: A Learning Approach" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications journal.
20 June: Paper "Integrating UAVs as Transparent Relays into Mobile Networks: A Deep Learning Approach" was accepted to IEEE PIMRC 2020 in London, UK.
18 June: Interview about official comercial launch of 5G services in 90' magazine in Czech TV,
"Spuštení 5G síte v Cesku".
14 June: Paper "Deep Learning for Selection between RF and VLC Bands in Device-to-Device Communication" was accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters journal.
9 June: Paper "Mobility Management for D2D Communication Combining Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communications Bands" was accepted to Wireless Networks journal.
May 2020
21 May: Paper "Optimization of Transmission Power for NOMA in Networks with Flying Base Stations" was accepted to IEEE VTC-Fall 2020 in Victoria, Canada.
March 2020
1 Mar: Project "Cooperation with the International Research Centre in Area of Digital Communication Systems" no. LTT20004 accepted for funding by Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport.
January 2020
29 Jan: Project "Cooperation with the International Research Centre in Area of Communication Systems" , no. LTT18007, fundend by Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport defended as "Excellent" project.
15 Jan: Papers "Efficient Exploitation of Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communication Bands for D2D in Mobile Networks" and "Reducing Energy Consumed by Repositioning of Flying Base Stations Serving Mobile Users" were accepted to IEEE WCNC 2020 in Seoul, Korea.
11 Jan: Papers "Flexible Soft Frequency Reuse for Interference Management in the Networks with Flying Base Station" and "Sequential Bargaining Game for Reuse of Radio Resources in D2D Communication in Dedicated Modes" were accepted to IEEE VTC-Spring 2020 in Antwerp, Belgium.
December 2019
15 Dec: Project "Precise positioning for autonomous train operation with secure communications on new 5G+
network standards" accepted for funding by Technology Agency of Czech Republic (TACR).
November 2019
18 Nov: Selected for participation at US-EU Frontiers of Engineering 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden with poster Future mobile networks focused on machine learning for 6G mobile networks.
5 Nov: Paper "Efficient Exploitation of Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communication Bands for D2D in Mobile Networks" was accepted to IEEE Access journal.
October 2019
4 Oct: Nominated and approved as a member of the Scientific Council of FEE, CTU in Prague.
September 2019
12 Sep: Paper "Relay Selection exploiting Genetic Algorithms for Multi-Hop Device-to-Device Communication" was accepted to WiCON 2019 in TaiChung, Taiwan.
August 2019
18 Aug: Paper "Machine Learning for Power Control in D2D Communication based on Cellular Channel Gains" was accepted to IEEE Globecom 2019 workshop on Machine Learning for Wireless Communications, in Hawaii, USA.
1 Aug: Paper "Joint Positioning of UAV and Power Control for Flying Base Stations in Mobile Networks" was accepted to IEEE WiMOB 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.
July 2019
1 Aug: Paper "Incentive Mechanism and Relay Selection for D2D Relaying in Cellular Networks" was accepted to IEEE Globecom 2019 in Hawaii, USA.
June 2019
Visiting researcher at EURECOM, Communication Systems Department, Sophia Antipolis, France
May 2019
2 May: Paper "Nash Bargaining Solution for Cooperative Relaying Exploiting Energy Consumption" was accepted to IEEE SPAWC 2019 in Cannes, France.
March 2019
18 Feb: Paper "Resource Allocation for D2D Communication with Multiple D2D Pairs Reusing Multiple Channels" was accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters journal.
February 2019
18 Feb: Paper "Two-Phase Random Access Procedure for LTE-A Networks" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications journal.
January 2019
8 Jan: Paper "Positioning of Flying Base Stations to Optimize Throughput and Energy Consumption of Mobile Devices" was accepted to IEEE VTC2019-Spring in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
December 2018
31 Dec: Paper "Joint Positioning of Flying Base Stations and Association of Users: Evolutionary-Based Approach" was accepted to IEEE Access journal.
12-13 Dec: Demo "Augmented Reality exploiting the Multi-Access Edge Computing in OpenAirInterface testbed" presented at ETSI-OSA workshop in Sophia Antipolis, France.
November 2018
October 2018
30 Oct: Student Martin Charvat received the
Dean's Award
for Master's thesis "Mobility Management for D2D Communication in Combined Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communications Bands".
26 Oct: Demo "Augmented Reality exploiting the Multi-Access Edge Computing in OpenAirInterface testbed" to be presentd at ETSI-OSA workshop in ETSI, Sophia Antipolis, France in December.
18 Oct: Talk "Research towards future mobile networks at CTU in Prague", focusing on Mobile Edge Comuting and Flyng Base Stations, given at Scientific Council at EURECOM.
August 2018
28 Aug: Billateral Czech-Israel research project "Game theoretic aspects of wireless spectrum access" with prof. Amir Leshem, Bar-Ilan University sucesfully defended.
July 2018
4 Jul: Welcome speach at ICUFN 2018 conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
June 2018
May 2018
29 May: Talk "Flying base stations in future mobile networks: Positioning and association of users" given at EURECOM, Communication Systems department.
April 2018
February 2018
22 Feb: Paper "Selection between Radio Frequency and Visible Light Communication Bands for D2D" was accepted to IEEE VTC2018-Spring (Recent results track) in Porto, Portugal.
15 Feb: Paper "Adaptive Hysteresis Margin Based on Fuzzy Logic for Handover in Mobile Networks with Dense Small Cells" was accepted to IEEE Access journal.
January 2018
10 Jan: Paper "Combined Shared and Dedicated Resource Allocation for D2D Communication" was accepted to IEEE VTC2018-Spring in Porto, Portugal.
December 2017
14 Dec: Papers "Self-tuning Handover Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Logic in Mobile Networks with Dense Small Cells" and "Hybrid Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Small Cells" were accepted to IEEE WCNC 2018.
November 2017
23 Nov: Double degree student Yi-Shin Huang from NTUST, Taiwan, received the
Dean's Award
for her Master's thesis "Random Access Procedure for Machine Type Communication in Mobile Networks".
October 2017
31 Oct: Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.
September 2017
13 Sep: Paper "Modeling of Distributed Queueing-based Random Access for Machine Type Communications in Mobile Networks" was accepted to IEEE Communications Letters.
August 2017
24 Aug: Paper "Combination of Visible Light and Radio Frequency Bands for Device-to-Device Communication" was accepted to IEEE PIMRC 2017 workshop CROWD.
June 2017
17 Jun: Interview about planf for and feasibility of 5G mobile networks in Czech republic in @online magazine in Czech TV.
"Doba 5G na obzoru".
May 2017
18 May: Paper "Performance of Mobile Networks with UAVs: Can Flying Base Stations Substitute Ultra-Dense Small Cells?" received Best paper award at European Wireless 2017.
April 2017
Mar 2017
28 Mar: Paper "Performance of Mobile Networks with UAVs: Can Flying Base Stations Substitute Ultra-Dense Small Cells?" was accepted to European Wireless 2017.
10 Mar: Paper "Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey on Architecture and Computation Offloading" was accepted to IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials journal.
January 2017
1 Jan: Beginning national research project "Combined Radio Frequency and Visible Light Bands for Device-to-Device communication" funded by Czech Science Foundation.
November 2016
1 Nov: Organizing IEEE CloudNet 2017 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, September 25-27, 2017.
October 2016
10 Oct: Paper "Vehicular network-aware route selection considering communication requirements of users for ITS" was accepted to IEEE Systems journal.
1 Oct: Beginning research project on Cloud-RAN with FOXCONN, Taiwan .
September 2016
13 Sep: Paper "Performance Evaluation of Computation Offloading from Mobile Device to the Edge of Mobile Network" was accepted for IEEE CSCN 2016 confernece, Berlin, Germany.
9 Sep: Paper "Path Selection Enabling User Mobility and Efficient Distribution of Data for Computation at the Edge of Mobile Network" was accepted to Computer Networks journal.
August 2016
15 Aug: Paper "Energy-aware Dynamic Selection of Overlay and Underlay Spectrum Sharing to Cognitive Small cells" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology journal.
July 2016
1 Jul: Beginning billateral Czech-Israel research project "Game theoretic aspects of wireless spectrum access" with prof. Amir Leshem, Bar-Ilan University.
June 2016
30 Jun: Chapter "Distributed Architecture of 5G Mobile Networks for Efficient Computation Management in Mobile Edge Computing" was accepted as a part of book 5G Radio Access Networks: Centralized RAN, Cloud-RAN and Virtualization of Small Cells, CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group.
7 Jun: Paper "Dynamic Resource Allocation Exploiting Mobility Prediction in Mobile Edge Computing" was accepted for IEEE PIMRC 2016, Valencia, Spain.
May - June 2016
Visiting researcher at EURECOM, Communication Systems Department, Sophia Antipolis, France
November 2015
24 Nov: Paper "Cloud-aware Power Control for Real-time Application Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing" was accepted to Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies journal.
20 Nov: Beta version of mobile app Percipio (Augmented Reality) is available at Google Play.
September 2015
10 Sep: Augmented reality application for Android Percipio came in third place in ACM Mobicom 2015 Application Contest in Paris, France.
July 2015
31 Jul: Paper "Cross-layer approach enabling communication of high number of devices in 5G mobile networks" was accepted for IEEE WiMOB 2015 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
15 Jul: FP7 project TROPIC was assessed to be EXCELLENT.
June 2015
16 Jun: Paper "In-Band Device-to-Device Communication in OFDMA Cellular Networks: A Survey and Challenges" was accepted to IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials journal.
March 2015
23 Mar: Paper "Distributed Hybrid Spectrum Sharing for OFDMA-based Cognitive Femtocells in 5G Networks" was accepted for European Wireless in Budapest, Hungary .
February 2015
27 Feb: Paper "Offloading Multiple Mobile Data Contents through Opportunistic Device-to-device Communications" was accepted to Wireless Personal Communications journal.
20 Feb: Launch website of 5Gmobile research lab at CTU in Prague focusing on research towards 5G mobile networks.
18-19 Feb: Presentation "An architecture for mobile computation offloading on cloud-enabled LTE small cells"
at workshop "Edge Cloud-Empowered 5G Networks" in Rome.
18 Feb: Demo of our developed Augmented Reality application
with offloading to small cell cloud accepted for "NetFutures 2015" in Brussels.
5 Feb: Paper "Distance-based Neighborhood Scanning for Handover Purposes in Network with Small Cells" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology journal.
January 2015
26 Jan: Paper "A Seamless Integration of Computationally-Enhanced Base Stations into Mobile Networks towards 5G" was accepted for IEEE VTC-Spring 2015 workshop on
5G Architectures, Glasgow, Scotland.
8 Jan: Paper "Enhancement of Hybrid Cognitive Approach for Femtocells" was accepted for IEEE VTC-Spring 2015, Glasgow, Scotland.
October 2014
10 Oct: Papers "Prediction of channel quality after handover for mobility management in 5G" and Interference Empowered 5G Networks were accepted for 5G for Ubiquitos Connectivity, Levi, Finland.
Septemebr 2014
9 Sep: Paper "Cloud-aware power control for cloud-enabled small cells" was accepted for IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 workshop BWA, Austin, USA.
August 2014
1 Aug: Paper "QoS-ensuring Distribution of Computation Load among Cloud-enabled Small Cells" was accepted for IEEE CloudNet, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
July 2014
1 Jul: Paper "Radio resource sharing among users in hybrid access femtocells" was accepted to Transactions on Internet and Information Systems journal.
June 2014
18 Jun: Papers "Q-Learning-based Prediction of Channel Quality after Handover in Mobile Networks" and "Path Selection Using Handover in Mobile Networks with Cloud-enabled Small Cells" were accepted for IEEE PIMRC 2014, Washington, USA.
January 2014
8 Jan: Papers "An architecture for mobile computation offloading on cloud-enabled LTE small cells" and "Methodology and Tool for Energy Consumption Modeling of Mobile Devices" were accepted for IEEE WCNC 2014 workshop CLEEN, Istanbul, Turkey.
December 2013
30 Dec: Paper "Vertical Handover Decision in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Femtocells" was accepted to Electronics and Electrical Engineering journal.
19 Dec: Paper "Centralized Dynamic Resource Allocation Scheme for Femtocells Exploiting Graph Theory Approach" was accepted for IEEE WCNC 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
November 2013
12 Nov: Paper "Self-optimizing Neighbor Cell List with Dynamic Threshold for Handover Purposes in Networks with Small Cells" was accepted to Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal.
June 2013
26 Jun: Papers "Optimization of SINR-based Neighbor Cell List for Networks with Small Cells" and "Self-configured Neighbor Cell List of Macro Cells in Network with Small Cells" were accepted for IEEE PIMRC 2013, London, UK.
January - July 2013
Visiting researcher at CEA-Leti, Systems and Solutions Integration Division (DSIS), Wireless Communication System Studies Laboratory (LESC), Grenoble, France
January 2013
10 Jan: Paper "Mitigation of Redundant Handovers to Femtocells by Estimation of Throughput Gain" was accepted to Mobile Information Systems journal
08 Jan: Paper "Dynamic Optimization of Neighbor Cell List for Femtocells" was accepted for IEEE VTC-Spring 2013, Dresden, Germany
