The Network sciEnce, Wireless, and Security laboratory at Virginia Tech (NEWS@VT) is a research group focused on developing fundamental mathematical tools and principles to design, develop, and build smart, secure, and self-organizing systems, with applications to networks, wireless systems, Internet of things (IoT) systems, smart power grids, and cyber-physical systems. Our research is largely interdisciplinary and draws upon tools from optimization, game theory, machine learning, statistics, control and economics to design and build networks and cyber-physical systems.
We are currently focused on several research thrusts:
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for wireless networks.
- Distributed and federated machine learning.
- Wireless cellular and 6G networks.
- Virtual reality over wireless networks.
- Large intelligent surfaces and smart environments.
- Integration of millimeter wave and sub-6 GHz cellular networks.
- Wireless communications and networking using unmanned aerial vehicles and drones.
- Autonomous vehicles over wireless networks.
- The Internet of Things.
- Age of information.
- Behavioral game theory.
- Smart cities and critical infrastructure.
- Cyber-physical systems.
- Data analytics.
- Cybersecurity.