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Congratulations to Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman who has his first edited book published by Springer this June 2012.
Congratulations to Dr. Ramona Trestian who has her edited book published by IGI this January 2012.
Congratulations to Dr. Ramona Trestian who has passed her PhD VIVA with flying colors. She started working as Postdoctoral Researcher in
collaboration with IBM.
Welcome to Irina Tal, Ronan Doolan and Longhao Zou that have joined the PEL@DCU as postgraduate researchers in October 2011.
We wish them good luck in their research activity!
Congratulations to Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman who Received Enterprise Ireland (EI)
Commercialization funding for the project, "EASE" in April/ May 2011. Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman
is the PI and Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean is the Co-PI of this project.
Congratulations to Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman who Received Indo-Ireland international research
and travel grant travel grant in May 2011, to bolster collaboration between PEL@DCU and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. The project is supported
by DCU at the Irish side and Department of Science and Technology (DST) at the Indian side. Dr. Gabriel-
Miro Muntean is the PI and Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman is the Co-PI of this project.
Congratulations to Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman who Received Enterprise Ireland travel grant for
European FP7 project on "Technology Enhanced Learning" in March 2011. Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman
is the PI of this grant.
Congratulations to Kevin Collins who will be conferred the PhD award for
research on "Wireless Vehicular Communication Based Solution for Road Traffic
Efficiency" at the DCU March 2011 graduation ceremony. PhD research supervisor:
Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean. full story...
Congratulations to Bogdan Ciubotaru who will be conferred the PhD award for
research on "Quality-Oriented Mobility Management for Multimedia
Content Delivery to Mobile Users" at the DCU March 2011 graduation ceremony. PhD
research supervisor: Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean. full story...
Bogdan Ciubotaru, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, and Gheorghita Ghinea won The 2010 Scott Helt Memorial Award for their paper, "Objective Assessment of Region of Interest-Aware Adaptive Multimedia Streaming Quality." full story...
Shenyang Chen will be working as Postgraduate Researcher on projects
in collaboration with Everseen full story...
Dr. Bogdan Ciubotaru has successfully passed his VIVA and will start working
as Postdoctoral Researcher on a project with Everseen Ltd. full story...
The project proposal "Content-Aware Network Effective CCTV for the Retail
Sector" was successful and will be funded as part of the Enterprise Ireland
Innovation Partnership with Everseen Ltd. full story...
The paper "Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Content Distribution over
Multi-homed Wireless Networks" authored by C. Xu, E. Fallon, Y. Qiao, L. Zhong
and G.-M. Muntean has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and
will be published in March 2011. full story...
The paper "Dynamic Time Slot Partitioning (DTSP) for Multimedia Streaming in
Two-Hop Cellular Networks" authored by H. Venkataraman and G.-M. Muntean has
been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and will be published
in March 2011. full story...
PEL at DCU
The Performance Engineering Laboratory (PEL) at DCU aims at developing performance-based solutions for next generation information and communication technology (ICT) systems.
The research carried out in this lab combines engineering research in the areas of Mobile and Wireless Communications Quality-aware Multimedia Delivery Adaptive E-learning and Energy-aware Networking. These all reflect the synergy between electronics, informatics and software engineering in the development of ICT in the 21st century.
Researchers from different cultural backgrounds, including: Ireland, Korea, Germany, Romania, France, India and China, are working together and sharing their valuable experience with each other and industry partners. PEL at DCU has various collaborations with major companies in IT industry. The alumnus of this lab spread in different countries over the world.
Significantly, PEL is a trans-university research group and is spread across Dublin City University and University College Dublin.
Research Interest
- Mobile and Wireless Communications
WiFi(IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n), WiMax(IEEE 802.16/a/e),
UWB, Bluetooth, Wireless USB technologies,
Mobility issues: discovery, selection, handover, etc.,
Vehicular Wireless Networks
- Quality-aware Multimedia Delivery
Quality-oriented adaptive video delivery,
Prioritisation of services,
Power-level awareness,
Device-based and network-oriented adaptation,
- Adaptive E-learning
User personalisation,
Network performance-based content adjustment,
Device-related adaptation,
Cost-efficient selection of distributed content
- Energy-aware Networking
Power-aware networked multimedia delivery,
Energy and performance monitoring and evaluation,
Device battery performance improvement strategies,
Time and location-based balancing of energy consumption
2010 PEL at DCU