Research Objectives

MobileNET pursues the following three research objectives:
  • Objective 1 – Realistic Fundamental Limits: Provide realistic fundamental limits of communication networks, taking practical limitations, such as lack of synchronization, imperfect CSI, and limited codeword length, into account. The obtained fundamental limits will hint at novel communication strategies which outperform existing ones.
  • Objective 2 – Network Communication Strategies: Propose novel communication strategies that operate close to the fundamental limits obtained in the first objective.
  • Objective 3 – Devices: Study decoding algorithms and encoding strategies that allow for reliable communication at data rates close to the information-theoretic limits and, at the same time, are robust to the nonlinearities in electronic devices and can be implemented efficiently in hardware, thereby providing guidelines for the design of future mobile devices.