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Welcome to the homepage of UW ECE Broadband Communications Research Group!

Feel free to browse around this website and our group blog where you can read about the cutting-edge research activities we are working on, latest research papers we have published, and the bright minds that work diligently day and night for the success of the BBCR Group and the betterment of the global community!

News:
  • All group members and alumni from BBCR can update their information or this website contents by contacting X. Liang x27liang@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
  • Prof. Shen met with three BBCR former PhD students Dr. Mursalin Akon, Dr. Yanfei Fan and Dr. Mohammad Towhidul Islam (from left to right) on Apr. 21st 2012. They are now working well in Silicon Valley.
  • Prof. Zhuang has been awarded a Fellow of EIC (Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada), since Jan. 2012.

  • Rongxing Lu received a Research In Motion (RIM) Graduate Scholarship, Jan. 2012.
  • Mrinmoy Barua received a student travel grant for IEEE Globecom 2011.
  • Mohammad Towhidul Islam is employed by the MarkLogic Corporation, US.
  • Mahdi Asefi is employed by the Met-Scan Canada LTD, Toronto, CA.
  • Lin X. Cai is employed by the HUAWEI, Chicago, US.
  • Ho Ting (Anderson) Cheng is employed by the HUAWEI, Ottawa, CA.
  • Prof. Zhuang has been honored as a CAE (The Canadian Academy of Engineering) Fellow, since Apr. 2011.
  • BBCR group is involved in the organization of one INFOCOM 2011 WORKSHOP: IEEE SCNC 2011, submission deadline Dec. 15, 2010.
  • Xiaohui Liang received a student travel grant for IEEE INFOCOM 2011.
  • Prof. Shen has been honored as an EIC Fellow (Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada), since Dec. 2010.
  • WCSP

    Prof. Shen was hosting IEEE WCSP conference in Suzhou, China, Oct. 2010.

  • Rongxing Lu received a student travel grant for IEEE Globecom 2010.
  • Dr. P. Thulasiraman will be Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA.
  • Dr. A. Alshamrani is employed by the Ministry of Defense and Aviation, Saudi Arabia.
  • H. Liang and W. Zhuang, "DTCoop: Delay tolerant cooperative communications in DTN/WLAN integrated networks," IEEE VTC'10 - Fall, Ottawa, Sept. 2010. (received the Best Student Paper Award)
  • R. Lu, X. Lin, X. Liang, and X. Shen, "Secure Handshake with Symptoms-matching: The Essential to the Success of mHealthcare Social Network," Proc. BodyNets 2010, Corfu Island, Greece, Sept. 10-12, 2010. (received the Best Paper Award)
  • H.T. Cheng, A. Abdrabou, and W. Zhuang, "Novel resource management approach for end-to-end QoS support in wireless mesh networks," Proc. IEEE WCNC'10, April 2010. (received the Best Paper Award)
  • Prof. Zhuang has been elevated as the Tier I (Senior) Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks, since May 2010.
  • Rongxing Lu received a student travel grant for ACM ASIACCS 2010
  • Prof. Shen has been elevated to IEEE Fellow.
  • Prof. Zhuang has been elevated to IEEE Fellow.
  • Dean Sedra recently announced the appointment of Prof. Shen for a University Research Chair appointment for a seven year term, beginning July 1, 2007.
  • A CWC/BBCR Blog has been created by Dr. Minghui Shi.