Educational Activities

The source codes of several of the recent papers were made available on the stochastic geometry GitHub page.

We participated in an ECE podcast organized by undergraduate students and discussed the area of wireless networks.

Both PIs have delivered keynote addresses, tutorials, invited seminars, as well as served on the panels related to the topics of this project. Please refer to the Outreach section for the complete list. These efforts have been useful in educating the research community about the key research challenges of this area.

This research was integrated in the introductory part of ECE 3614: Introduction to Communication Systems taught by both PIs several times throughout the duration of this project.

This research was integrated in an undergraduate Network Science course at Virginia Tech (particularly the economic tools and results on network formation).

The results of this research were also integrated in a graduate course on Game Theory for Communications Networks, offered by co-PI Saad several times throughout the duration of this project. This course discussed the basics of heterogeneous networks and some of the economics approaches that are being developed in this project.

The PIs and their students have been regularly participating in the Wireless@VT Seminar Series, which discusses a variety of subjects pertaining to this research, including backhauling, cellular networks, stochastic geometry, and network modeling/optimization. These seminars are usually attended by the entire population of graduate students within Wireless@VT which is broadening the exposure to this research topic. Some examples include:

• Chiranjib Saha, "Integrated mmWave Access and Backhaul in 5G: Bandwidth Partitioning and Downlink Analysis", Wireless@VT seminar, Oct. 27, 2017. (Video lecture)

• Mehrnaz Afshang, "Modeling and Analysis of Emerging Trends in Device-to-Device Networks", Wireless@VT seminar, Nov. 2017. (Video lecture)

• Harpreet S. Dhillon, "3GPP-inspired Stochastic Geometry Models for Cellular Networks", Wireless@VT seminar, Sept. 15, 2017.