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Zdenek Becvar

Professor

Research areas: Mobility management, Radio resource management, Flying base stations, Edge computing, C-RAN, Machine learning

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+420 2 2435 5964
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zdenek.becvar@fel.cvut.cz

Career in numbers

16

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

100+

PUBLICATIONS

4

PATENTS

10+

PROJECTS

10+

H-INDEX

35+

SUPERVISED MSc AND Bc STUDENTS

7

SUPERVISED PhD STUDENTS

3

CREATED COURSES

3

CURRENTLY TAUGHT COURSES

Biography

Jan Plachy received the BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic in 2012, 2014 and 2021, respectively. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at the same university. He was on internships at CEA-Leti, France (2014), EURECOM, France (2016 and 2019) and Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2017). Participated in FP7 TROPIC project founded by the European Commission, with a goal of designing a path selection algorithm for distributed computing and has participated in many national research projects focused on mobile networks. He is currently involved in multiple national and international research projects focused on Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the provision of users’ connectivity. His research interests cover optimization of mobility management and radio resource management of both communication and computing resources in future mobile networks and development of testbeds and demos based on the Open Air Interface.

Publications, patents, and demos

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

  • , , , and ,“Machine Learning for Channel Quality Prediction: From Concept to Experimental Validation”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume Early access, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , , and ,“Coordinated Machine Learning for Energy Efficient D2D Communication”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, volume 13, no. 5, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“Offloading of Tasks with Tight Delay Requirements via Combined Half and Full Duplex UAV Relays”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, volume Early access, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“Optimization of Cell Individual Offset for Handover of Flying Base Stations and Users”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 22, no. 5, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • and ,“Maximization of Minimum User Capacity in UAV-Enabled Mobile Networks with NOMA”, IEEE Networking Letters, volume 5, no. 1, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“On Energy Consumption of Airship-based Flying Base Stations Serving Mobile Users”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, volume 70, no. 10, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • and ,“Optimization of Total Power Consumed by Flying Base Station Serving Mobile Users”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, volume 9, no. 4, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , , and , “System and Methods for Device-to-Device Communication”, US patent No. US11284361B2, . [BibTex]
  • , and ,“Power Allocation, Channel Reuse, and Positioning of Flying Base Stations with Realistic Backhaul”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, volume 9, no. 3, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • and , “Optimal Positioning of Flying Base Stations and Transmission Power Allocation in NOMA Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 21, no. 2, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and , “Reuse of Multiple Channels by Multiple D2D Pairs in Dedicated Mode: Game Theoretic Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 20, no. 7, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , , and ,“Positioning and Association Rules for Transparent Flying Relay Stations”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, volume 10, no. 6, . [BibTex] [pdf]
  • and , “Optimization of Cell Individual Offset for Handover of Flying Base Station”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Spring 2021), . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , , and , “Hierarchical Scheduling for Suppression of Fronthaul Delay in C-RAN with Dynamic Functional Split”, IEEE Communications Magazine, volume 59, no. 4, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , , and , “Dynamic Allocation of Computing and Communication Resources in Multi-Access Edge Computing for Mobile Users”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“Incentive-based D2D Relaying in Cellular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, volume 69, no. 3, . [BibTex] [pdf]
  • and , “Hierarchical resource scheduling method of wireless communication system”, US patent US10849139B2, . [BibTex]
  • , , and ,“Predicting Device-to-Device Channels from Cellular Channel Measurements: A Learning Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 19, no. 11, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“Deep Learning for Selection between RF and VLC Bands in Device-to-Device Communication”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, volume 9, no. 10, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • and , “Methods and devices for resource scheduling in wireless communication systems”, US patent US10798722B2, . [BibTex]
  • , , and , “Hierarchical resource scheduling method of wireless communication system”, US patent US10624105B2, . [BibTex]
  • , , , and ,“Two-Phase Random Access Procedure for LTE-A Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, volume 18, no. 4, . [BibTex]
  • , and ,“Resource Allocation for D2D Communication with Multiple D2D Pairs Reusing Multiple Channels”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, volume 8, no. 4, . [BibTex]
  • , , , and , “Joint Positioning of Flying Base Stations and Association of Users: Evolutionary-Based Approach”, IEEE Access, volume 7, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • , and ,“Adaptive Hysteresis Margin Based on Fuzzy Logic for Handover in Mobile Networks with Dense Small Cells”, IEEE Access, volume 6, . [BibTex]
  • , and ,“Modeling of Distributed Queueing-based Random Access for Machine Type Communications in Mobile Networks”, IEEE Communications Letters, volume 22, no. 1, . [BibTex]
  • and ,“Energy-aware Dynamic Selection of Overlay and Underlay Spectrum Sharing for Cognitive Small cells”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, volume 66, no. 5, . [BibTex]
  • , , , and , “Performance of Mobile Networks with UAVs: Can Flying Base Stations Substitute Ultra-Dense Small Cells?”, European Wireless (EW 2017), , BEST PAPER AWARD. [BibTex] [pdf]
  • and ,“Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey on Architecture and Computation Offloading”, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, volume 19, no. 3, . [BibTex]
  • , and , “Path Selection Enabling User Mobility and Efficient Distribution of Data for Computation at the Edge of Mobile Network”, Computer Networks, volume 108, . [BibTex] [pdf] [doi]
  • and ,“Distance-based Neighborhood Scanning for Handover Purposes in Network with Small Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, volume 65, no. 2, . [BibTex] [doi]

    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.

    Research projects

    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

    Awards

    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)

    Standardization bodies

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

    Journal reviews

    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

    Editorial boards

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

    Conference committees

    •  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

    Supervised postdocs

    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)

    Supervised PhD students

    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

    Teaching and academic activities

    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)

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    zdenek.becvar@fel.cvut.cz
    Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, Dejvice 166 27 Prague Czech Republic, EU