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Zdenek is author of more than 100 papers at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals, four book chapters, and four patents.
Selected publications

Patents
M. Najla, Z. Becvar, P. Mach, D. Gesbert, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION, U.S. Non-Provisional Application No. 16/919,990, 2020.
Z. Becvar, P. Mach, M. Høgdal, A.P. Avramova, Hierarchical resource scheduling method of wireless communication system,
US Patent US10849139B2, November 2020.
Z. Becvar, P. Mach, Methods and devices for resource scheduling in wireless communication systems, US Patent US10798722B2, June 2020.
Z. Becvar, P. Mach, M. Høgdal, A.P. Avramova, Hierarchical resource scheduling method of wireless communication system, US Patent US10624105B2, April 2020.

Demos
D2D channel quality prediction via Deep Neural Network
Prediction of channel quality between any two devices from already known channels to base stations
Channel is predicted via deep neural network (DNN)
DNN trained offline and then deployed at a MEC server, where the prediction takes place
Implementation lead by Jan Plachy
Related publications
M. Najla, Z. Becvar, P. Mach, D. Gesbert, “Predicting Device-to-Device Channels from Cellular Channel Measurements: A Learning Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 7124 – 7138, 2020.
Details of the concept of the channel prediction
M. Najla, Z. Becvar, P. Mach, D. Gesbert, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION, U.S. Non-Provisional Application No. 16/919,990, 2020.
Patent application covering the idea of channel prediction
Role: Design the concept and scenarios
Flying base station
Prototype of Flying base station (FlyBS)
The FlyBS consists of a drone (hexacopter) and a communication HW (NUC+USRP B205) + SW (OAI) for connectivity of the users and an LTE dongle for connectivity to a base station.
Implementation lead by Miguel Fontanilla Perez de Tudela (alumni)
Related publications
Video from an initial flight.
Role: concept design, supervision of students working on the development
Mobile Edge Computing
One of the first world-wide demo of functional MEC platform allowing to offload computation from phone to edge server collocated with a base station in frame of FP7 TROPIC project
Implementaiton lead by Jakub Doleza (alumni) and Jan Plachy
Related publications:
J. Dolezal, Z. Becvar, T. Zeman, “Performance Evaluation of Computation Offloading from Mobile Device to the Edge of Mobile Network”, IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking (IEEE CSCN 2016), pp. 1-7, 2016.
Third place in Mobicom 2015 App Contest with Android application Percipio for demonstration of MEC offloading performance
J. Dolezal, Z. Becvar, “Methodology and tool for energy consumption modeling of mobile devices”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2014) workshops, pp. 34-39, 2014.
Demo at Joint ETSI – OSA Workshop: Open Implementations and Standardization in 2018.

Cooperation with the International Research Centre in Area of Digital Communication Systems (03/2020 – 12/2024)
funded by The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports supports membership of CTU in EURECOM and international collaboration in the area of communication systems
main roles: principal researcher, machine learning for network optimization
Precise positioning for autonomous train operation with secure communications on new 5G+ mobile networks (01/2020 – 12/2023)
Research project no. FW01010187 funded by Technology Agency of Czech Republic
main roles: Performance analysis of 5G for communication of autonomous trains
Communication in Self-optimizing Mobile Networks with Drones (01/2018 – 06/2021)
funded by Czech Science Foundation
main roles: principal researcher, positioning of the flying base station and users’ association based on genetic algorithms
Cooperation with the International Research Centre in Area of Digital Communication Systems (01/2018 – 12/2019)
funded by The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports supports membership of CTU in EURECOM and international collaboration in the area of communication systems
main roles: principal researcher, machine learning for communication networks
Combined Radio Frequency and Visible Light Bands for Device-to-Device communication (01/2017 – 12/2019)
funded by Czech Science Foundation
main roles: performance limits, mobility management, mode selection
Mobile Edge Computing and Functional Splitting for Scheduling of Radio Resources (10/2016-09/2019)
Research project funded by FOXCONN, Taiwan
main roles: principal researcher, design and analysis of dynamic MAC functions splitting between BBUs and RRHs
Game theoretic aspects of wireless spectrum access (07/2016 – 06/2018)
funded by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czech Republic
main roles: leader of CTU team, resource allocation, spectrum sharing, emulation of network
FP7 TROPIC (09/2012 – 04/2015)
funded by European Commission
main roles: WP leader (Scenarios, Architecture, and Market Analysis), architecture design, path selection, developent of AR application
Prediction Algorithms for Efficient Mobility Management in Wireless Networks (01/2011 – 12/2014)
postdoc project funded by Czech Science Foundation
main roles: principal researcher, design of prediction algorithms for mobility management (NCL, admission, handover) in future mobile networks
FP7 FREEDOM (01/2010 – 12/2011)
FP7 project no. ICT-248891 funded by European Commission
main roles: Workpackage leader (Control procedures for RRM), Member of coordination and technical project committees, mobility and radio resource management for networks with femtocells, leader of CTU team
FP7 ROCKET (01/2009 – 12/2010)
FP7 project no. ICT-215282 funded by European Commission
main roles: mobility management for OFDMA networks towards IMT Advanced requirements, leader of CTU team
Feasibility study of national radio access network based on WiMAX (09/2007 – 12/2007)
National project funded by Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic.
FP7 FIREWORKS (01/2006 – 12/2007)
FP6 project no. IST-027675 funded by European Commission.
main roles: PhD student focused on relay stations in OFDM systems
Improvement of VoIP speech quality (01/2006-12/2007)
Project funded by Sitronics R&D centre, Prague.
main roles: Analysis of impact of various disturbtions on VoIP speech quality

Personal awards
Exemplary reviewer IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2020
Included in the list of World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2019
Invited participation at US-EU Frontieers of Engineering 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Conferences
Best paper award at European Wireless 2017 (see Publications)
Third place in Mobicom 2015 App Contes with Android application Percipio as a proof of concept of Mobile Edge Computing
PhD theses
Dean’s award for prestigious PhD thesis to Mehyar Najla (2021)
Dean’s award for prestigious PhD thesis to Michal Vondra (2015)
Master and bachelor students
Dean’s award for outstanding master thesis to Martina Matejkova (2019)
Dean’s award for outstanding master thesis to Martin Charvat (2018)
Dean’s award for outstanding master thesis to Yi-Shin Huang (2017)
Dean’s award for outstanding master thesis to Jan Plachy (2014)

ETSI – representative of Czech Technical University in Prague, 2013-2017
3GPP – contributor and representative of Czech Technical University in Prague, 2013-2017

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IEEE Network Magazine
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Networking Letters
Computer Networks
… and many others

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

•  IEEE WCNC 2021 – TPC member
•  IEEE ICC 2021 – TPC member
•  IEEE Globecom 2020 – TPC member
•  IEEE PIMRC 2020 – TPC member
•  IEEE ICC 2020 workshop CLEEN – Publicity chair & TPC member
•  IEEE Globecom 2019 – TPC member
•  IEEE WCNC 2019 – TPC member
•  IEEE WCNC 2019 workshop CLEEN – Publicity chair & TPC member
•  IEEE VTC 2019 – Spring – TPC member
•  IEEE VTC 2018 – Spring – TPC member
•  IEEE WCNC 2018 – TPC member
•  ICUFN 2018 – Organizing Chair
•  IEEE VTC 2018 – Spring workshop CLEEN – Publicity chair & TPC member
•  IEEE CloudNet 2017 – General co-chair
•  IEEE Globecom 2017: Mobile and Wireless Networks track – TPC member
•  IEEE ICC 2017 workshop WDN-5G – TPC member
•  IEEE WCNC 2017 – TPC member
•  IWCMC 2017 – Steering committee
•  IGBSG 2016 – Track Chair
•  IEEE VTC 2015-Spring
•  IEEE WCNC 2015 workshop WDN-CN’15 – TPC member
•  ISNCC 2015 – TPC member
•  ISNE 2015 – TPC member
•  IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 workshop Broadband Wireless Access – Publicity chair & TPC
•  IEEE PIMRC 2014 workshop WDN-CN2014 – TPC member
•  IEEE WCNC 2014 workshop CLEEN – TPC member
•  IEEE PIMRC 2013 – TPC member
•  IEEE PIMRC 2013 workshop WDN-CN2013 – TPC member
•  IEEE VTC-Fall 2013 workshop CLEEN (Cloud Technologies…) – TPC member
•  IFIP Networking 2012, Prague, May 2012, Organizing committee – Workshop Chair
•  International Conference on Networks, TPC since 2008
•  TPC of various conferences organized by AICIT

Mehyar Najla (05/2021 – … tenure)
Jan Plachy (01/2021 – … tenure)
Mostafa Kishiani (04/2021 – 03/2022)
Akbar Majidi (03/2021 – 08/2021)
Md. Sakir Hossain (05-2019 – 12/2019)

Aida Madelkhanova
Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo
Toha Ardi nugraha
Mohammed Elfiky
Alumni
Mehyar Najla co-supervisor (2016 – 2020) – Dean’s award for prestigious PhD thesis
Jan Plachy (2014 – 2020)
Michal Vondra (2010 – 2014) – Dean’s award for prestigious PhD thesis

University committees
Member of Scientific council at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague
Member of Scientific council at EURECOM, France
Chairperson of board for Telecommunication Engineering section in Electrical Engineering and Communications PhD study program
Coordinator of master’s double-degree with NTUST, Taiwan
Coordinator of master’s double-degree with EURECOM, France
Member of board of Electronics and Communications study program at CTU in Prague
Supervisor of master and bachelor students
More than 35 master students
Four bachelor students
Currently taught courses
Mobile Networks  (B2M32MKSA)
Wireless Technologies  (B2M32BTSA)
Past courses
Mobile Communication Networks  (A2M32MKS)
Telecommunication systems (X32TSS)
Fundamentals of Digital Technology (X32ZCT)
Wireless Technologies and Sensor Networks  (B2M32BTS)