Convenor Dr Sinan Sinanovic along with the IEEE GCU Student Branch is excited to invite you to a very special guest talk. Join us to welcome Dr Faycal Bouhafs, Senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and technical lead for Project Wi-5, who will hold a Presentation/Seminar on the contemporary and challenging topic of Wi-Fi Spectrum Congestion.

Different studies confirm that the scarcity of radio frequency spectrum is a limiting factor for the development of wireless broadband networks worldwide. The congestion of unlicensed spectrum in Wi-Fi networks is arguably the most pressing example, due to the overwhelming success of tablets, smart phones, and other personal networked devices.

Such congestion often results in co-channel and adjacent-channel interference of nearby Wi-Fi devices, thus degrading the performance of the network. Although solutions that offer to manage large scale Wi-Fi networks already exist, but they lack the flexibility, scalability, and dynamism necessary to optimise the utilisation of Wi-Fi networks and alleviate spectrum congestion

In this talk, Dr Bouhafs will present the Wi-5 project, a research initiative funded with over 2 million Euros by the EU H2020 program that tries to address the spectrum congestion problem in Wi-Fi networks. The project proposed a set of solutions with the objective to enhance Wi-Fi Access Points’ functionality. The talk will focus on the Wi-5 project objectives, its methodology, the latest results and progress made so far, and our plans for the future.