Welcome to the Advanced WirelEss Systems and Multimedia Networking Lab (AWESM Lab)

[ Research Interest | Group | Projects | Awards and Honors | Acknowledgments ]

Research Interest [back to top]

• Design, algorithm, optimization, and machine learning in wireless communications and networks

• Next generation wireless networks, e.g., cloud/edge/fog computing, cognitive radio, small cells/HetNet, mmWave networks, massive MIMO, visible light communications, and free space optical networks

• Multimedia communications and applications

• RF sensing, indoor localization, and healthcare IoT

• Smart grid and cyber-physical systems

• Google Scholar Profile: wireless networking, multimedia communications, indoor localization, smart health, smart grid

• AD Scientific Index

Research Group [back to top]

• Students and student awards & honors

• Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC)

• Auburn University's RFID Lab

• The Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems (ICAMS)

• NSF IUCRC Fiber-Wireless Integration and Networking (FiWIN) Center for Heterogeneous Mobile Data Communications (completed)

• Visitors

Projects [back to top]

• Toward Untethered Extended Reality Through Wireless Sensing and Communications Co-design

• Learning-Assisted Integrated Sensing, Communication and Security for 6G UAV Networks

• AI-driven RFID Sensing for Smart Health Applications

• Functional Data Analysis-aided Learning Methods for Robust Wireless Measurements

• When RFID Meets AI for Occluded Body Skeletal Posture Capture in Smart Healthcare

• l-RIM: Learning based Resilient Immersive Media-Compression, Delivery, and Interaction

• Data Augmentation and Adaptive Learning for Next Generation Wireless Spectrum Systems

• Data-Enabled Engineering Projects for Undergraduate Data Science and Engineering Education (no-cost extension)

• Enabling Secure, Energy-Efficient, and Smart In-Band Full Duplex Wireless (completed)

• Autonomous Drone and Ground Robot Cooperative Tasking in Complex Indoor Environments (completed)

• New Challenges in the Next Generation of Statistical Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (completed)

• Secure and Resilient Architecture: Data Integrity Assurance and Privacy Protection Solutions for Secure Interoperability of Cloud Resources (completed)

• Phase I IUCRC Auburn University: Fiber-Wireless Integration and Networking (FiWIN) Center for Heterogeneous Mobile Data Communications (completed)

• Development of an Application to Support Alzheimer’s Caregivers (completed)

• System-level Timing Vulnerability Testing Assured Timing & Detection Methods for Critical Infrastructure (completed)

• RF Sensing in Internet of Things: When Deep Learning Meets CSI Tensor (completed)

• Exploring the 60 GHz Spectral Frontier for Multi-Gigabit Wireless Networks (completed)

• Cognitive and Efficient Spectrum Access in Autonomous Wireless Networks (completed)

• I/UCRC: Collaborative Research: Broadband Wireless Access & Applications Center (BWAC) (completed)

• Towards Rich Multimedia Experience in Emerging Cognitive Radio Networks (completed)

• Spectral Graph Partitioning Techniques for Wireless Link Scheduling (completed)

• Adaptive and Secure Indoor Localization (completed)

• Introducing Software Defined Radio into Undergraduate Wireless Engineering Curriculum Through a Hands-on Approach (completed)

• An Exploratory Study Toward Robust Free Space Optical Networks (completed)

• Unlocking Spectrum Efficiency for Future Wireless Networks (completed)

• Fundamental Research on Adaptive Wireless Video Systems (completed)

• Unlocking Capacity for Wireless Networks Using Cooperative and Cognitive Techniques (completed)

• II-NEW: An Infrastructure for Scalable Data Dissemination and Query Evaluation in Mobile Environments (completed)

• Towards Efficient Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks (completed)

• A Library of SystemC Routines for Simulation, Modeling and Analysis of Packet-processing Network Component Architectures (completed)

• I/UCRC: Wireless Research Center for Cross-layer Optimization of Coexisting Systems (completed)

• Wi-Fi for Assured PNT and Integrity Verification (completed)

• An Integrated Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Test-bed Platform for Tactical Communications (completed)

Awards and Honors [back to top]

• Keynote/Plenary/Distinguished Speaker, ECIS'25, IEEE ICASSP 2025 RMA Workshop, IEEE PSWN'24, MLN'24, ICEA'24, IEEE HealthCom'24, EAI WiSATS'24, IEEE Cybermatics Congress'24, IEEE/CIC ICCC'24, IEEE/CIC EWCN-GAI'24, IEEE AIOT'24, SPML'24, DeepWireless'24, GCECN'24, ICAIIC’24, ICNC’24, ICBD'24, ADSSS'23, BDSME'23, IEEE ComSoc eHealth School'23, GSEEE'23, IEEE MASS'23, MobiMedia'23, ICUFN'23, Kennesaw State University (Speaker of the Year), IEEE ESCI'23, ICNC'23, CONFLUENCE'23, ICBD'23, ICSC'22, CSCSG'22, IEEE ICCT'22, MobiMedia'22, ICT-DM'21, IEEE RFID-TA'21, MobiMedia'21, AdhocNets'20, SPDE'20, WCSP'20, IEEE CVPM'20 (in conjunction with IEEEE CVPR'20), AdhocNets'19, SSC'19, IEEE CyberEdge'19 (in conjunction with IEEE SECON'19), CCCIoT'19, IEEE ICEICT'19, IEEE SmartIoT'18, NSF NEMO'18, SSC'18, MobiMedia'18, IEEE CIT-2017, IEEE C-IoT 2017 (in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2017), IEEE SCAN-2015 (in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2015), and MobiMedia'15

• Certificate of Appreciation/Merit, IEEE Communications Society: 2024 (five), 2022 (three), 2021 (three), 2020 (two), 2019, 2018 (three), 2017 (three), 2016 (four), 2015 (four), 2014, 2013, 2012 (two), 2011, and 2010; IEEE Vehicular Technology Society: 2021; IEEE Signal Processing Society: 2020; IEEE Computer Society: 2021 (two), 2020 (two), 2007; IEEE Multimedia: 2022; IEEE Access Journal: 2018; EAI: 2021 (three), 2020, 2019, 2018 (two), 2017; ICST: 2009; Springer Journal of Communications and Networks: 2018

• Best Paper Award, The 2024 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Oct. 2024, Hefei, China [paper]

• Best Demo Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2024, May 2024, Vancouver, Canada [paper]

• Ranked among the world’s Top 2% Scientists, according to a recent Stanford University study, Dec. 2023

• Best Paper Award (two), The 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’23), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023 [paper1][paper2]

• IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Outstanding Researcher Award, Dec. 2023

• Frontrunner 5000 - Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Sept. 2023 [paper]

• The Southeastern Conference (SEC) 2023 Faculty Achievement Award for Auburn, Mar. 2023

• Fellow, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Mar. 2023

• Featured Cover Article, IEEE/CIC China Communications, Jan. 2023 [paper]

• Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Communications Society eHealth Technical Committee, Dec. 2022

• Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society eHealth Technical Committee, Dec. 2022 [paper]

• Fellow, The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), May 2022

• Best Paper Award, The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'22), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022 [paper]

• Best Demo Award, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'22), Virtual Conference, May 2022 [paper]

• Runner-up of the Best Paper Award, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC'22), Virtual Conference, Jan. 2022 [paper]

• The 2021 Best Paper Award, Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal [paper]

• Outstanding Associate Editor Award, Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal, Dec. 2021

• The 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award, Oct. 2021

• The 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, May 2021

• Distinguished Lecturer: (i) IEEE Communications Society (2021 ~ 2023), (ii) IEEE Council of RFID (2021 ~ 2023), (iii) IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2014 ~ 2018); Distinguished Speaker: (i) IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018 ~ 2021); (ii) European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) (since Mar. 2021)

• Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar, Auburn University, Oct. 2020 ~ present

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, Oct. 2020 [paper]

• IEEE Access Journal “Article of the Week,” Apr. 2020

• Best Paper Award, The 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'19), Waikoloa, HI, Dec. 2019 [paper]

• The 2018 Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), Dec. 2019 [paper]

• Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society Communication Switching and Routing Technical Committee (TC-CSR), 2019, citation: for advancing the field of communications switching and routing

• Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), 2019

• Fellow of the IEEE, effective Jan. 1, 2019, citation: for contributions to wireless multimedia networking

• Fellow of the EAI (European Alliance for Innovation), Jan. 1, 2019, citation: in recognition of leadership in advancing and organizing research

• Auburn Author Award, Auburn University Libraries and The Graduate School, Auburn University, 2019, 2016, 2015, and 2011 (two)

• Creative Research & Scholarship Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, Auburn University, 2018 [news]

• Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee (ITC), 2018

• The 2017 Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), May 2018 [paper]

• Best Student Paper Award (Xuyu Wang and Xiangyu Wang), The 28th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2017), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2017 [paper]

• Best Demo Award, The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON'17), San Diego, CA, June 2017 [paper]

• Best Paper Award, The 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'16), Washington, DC, Dec. 2016 [paper]

• Best Paper Award, The 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'15), San Diego, CA, Dec. 2015 [paper]

• Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Communications Society Communication Switching and Routing Technical Committee (TC-CSR), 2015

• Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Research Awards for Excellence—Senior Award (2015) and Junior Award (2011)

• Best Paper Award, The 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'15), New Orleans, LA, Mar. 2015 [paper]

• Samuel Ginn Endowed Professorship, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University, 2015 ~ 2020

• Early promotion to the rank of Full Professor, 2015

• Exemplary Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 and 2012

• Runner-up of the 2013 Fabio Neri Best Paper Award, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal, 2013 [paper]

• Best Paper Award, The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 [paper]

• Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), 2013

• McWane Endowed Professorship, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University, 2012 ~ 2015

• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2010

• Runner-up of the Best Paper Award, International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2008), Hong Kong, P.R. China, July 2008 [paper]

• The 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems

We acknowledge the generous support from our sponsors [back to top]

• National Science Foundation

• U.S. Department of Defense

• Cisco Systems

• Alabama Power Foundation

• KeyW Corporation

• TranSwitch Corporation

• McWane, Inc.

• Mr. Samuel Ginn

• Mr. Earle C. Williams