Group members

Prof. Dr. Frank Y. Li
Frank Y. Li holds a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He worked at UniK – University Graduate Center, University of Oslo (UiO) as a senior researcher before joining the Agder Mobility Lab. Dr. Li is an active researcher in topics related to MAC mechanisms and routing protocols in mobile communication systems, especially multi-hop wireless networks. His research interests include mobile communication systems and wireless networks (3G/4G and beyond, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks); Cooperative communications; Cognitive radio networks; Green wireless communications; Protocols in IP networks; QoS and resource management; Analysis, simulation and performance evaluation of communication protocols and networks; MAC, network and transport layer issues in mobile/wireless networks.

During the past few years, he has been a main participant in several Norwegian research projects and EU FP6/FP7 projects, such as ADHOCSYS which is financed by the European Commission under the strategic objective "Broadband for All" and S2EuNet financed under the Marie Curie Actions. Dr. Li is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is listed as a Lead Scientist by the European Commission DG RTD Unit A.03 - Evaluation and Monitoring of Programmes in Nov. 2007.

Frank Li has more than 100 papers published at various international journals and conferences. He has served as a reviewer or/and TPC member for various international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Elsevier International Journal Simulation Practice and Theory (SIMPRA), IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE ISWCS, etc. He is also interested in standardization activities within IETF MANET, W-OSPF, IEEE 802.11s etc.

Andreas Häber, MSc

Andreas received his MSc in Information and Communication Technology in 2005 from Høgskolen i Agder (HiA). His MSc project with Teleca AS, Norway, and the University of New South Wales, Australia, compared current messaging solutions for cellular systems with future IMS alternatives.

Andreas is heading the research for HiA's cooperation with Ericsson in the "ONE" project 2005-2008 on wireless short-range services for mobile devices in residential networks. Currently he is investigating the applicability of the DLNA/UPnP AV architecture for WiFi enabled cellular devices.

Ram Kumar

Ram has joined us since Sept. 1st, 2006. He has an Masters degree from University of Liveprool, UK.

He has worked with companies like D-Link and academic startups like PicoPeta Simputers before commencing his research with Agder Mobility Lab.

He is currently focussing on routing, protocols, and naming/addressing in next generation networks in Beyond IP context.

Fang Chen (Ken)

Fang Chen (a.k.a Ken) was granted his MSc in ICT in 2007 by Høgskolen i Agder (HiA). His MSc project, with Ericsson Research Germany, was about designing a suitable architecture to enable non-IMS devices to use the IMS services.

Ken joined the AML since August 2007, and he is now focusing on research of people centric Next Generation applications.

Hongzhi Jiao (Jason)

Hongzhi Jiao (Jason) received the M.Sc. degree with specialization in control theory and control engineering from Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT), China, in 2007.
He joined the AML in August 2007 as a Ph.d candidate.
His current research focuses on wireless networks, especially mobile ad hoc networks, wireless mesh networks and cooperative networks, including routing protocols, MAC mechanisms, cross-layer design and performance evaluation.

Xin He

Xin has been majoring in signal and information processing, especially the space/time/frequency signal processing technology in mobile communications as a PHD candidate in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in China.

She joined AML in the 'Secure and reliable Wireless and Ad hoc COMmunications (SWACOM)' research project in March 2008. Her current research focuses on the wireless mesh networks, Ad Hoc networking, routing, MAC and cross-layer design in multi-hop wireless networks and related areas.

Anis Yazidi

Anis received his MSc in Information and Communication Technology in 2008 from Universitetet i Agder (UiA).

Anis is heading the research for UiA's cooperation with Ericsson in the "BYNG" project 2008-2011 on wireless communication networks and services.

Lei Jiao

Lei received his BE in Telecommunication Engineering and ME in Communication and Information System from Hunan University and Shandong University, China, in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

He joined in AML lab in August, 2008 as a Ph.d candidate. His research interests include positioning algorithms for WSN and mobile terminals, intelligent transportation systems and ad hoc networking. His current research focuses on MAC, routing and cross-layer design for cognitive radio networks.

Ziaul Haq Abbas

Abbas received his Master of Philosophy in Electronics degree from Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan, in 2001. Afterwards, he joined GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and worked as a Research Associate. His academic interests have been in the field of DSP and communications.
He joined the AML at UiA as a Ph.D. student in August 2008, and his studies are being funded by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Currently, his research focus is on the MAC and routing issues in hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks.

Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe

Maurice received BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bharathiar University (India) in 2002 and MSc in Communications Engineering from The Robert Gordon University (UK) in 2007.

He also holds a Master of Philosophy in Advanced Telecommunications awarded by Swansea University (UK) in 2011.

From 2002 to 2005, he was a Network Administrator for the National Social Security Fund of Rwanda. He is been teaching Hardware and Networking Students as a part-time Instructor of Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda from 2002-2006. From 2005 to 2007, Maurice served in the Ministry of Public Service and Labour (Rwanda), as Head of ICT department where he was involved in various ICT projects. In 2007, he joined the Networks Research Group at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK as a post-graduate research student. From 2008 to 2010, Maurice joined the Welsh Video Network (WVN) in UK, as a Field Service Engineer. At WVN he was working with universities and colleges to integrate Videoconference technology into teaching and learning.

He joined the Agder Mobility Lab in August 2010 as a PhD Research Fellow. His research work is in the area of Future University Learning with emphasis on the applications of Mobile Technologies and IT Tools in teaching and learning.

Yohanes Baptista Dafferianto Trinugroho

Dafferianto Trinugroho received his double master's degree (M.Sc.) in informatics from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and University of Trento (Italy) in 2010. Prior to that, he received his bachelor degree (B.Sc.) in computer science from Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia) in 2006.

He worked for PT. Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (Indonesia) as Network Operation Center (NOC) engineer from 2005 to 2007. During his graduate study, he did a mandatory internship at Fraunhofer FIT (Germany), and a student research assistantship for CATS RWTH Aachen (Germany). During the thesis period, he did an intern in parallel at Ericsson Eurolab (Germany).

He joined Agder Mobility Lab (AML) in November 2010 as a PhD Research Fellow, focusing on eHealth service provisioning in smart home environment based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).