Author Archives: Cicek Cavdar

About Cicek Cavdar

Cicek Cavdar is working as a researcher at Wireless@KTH and Communications Systems Department at the School of ICT at KTH under RSLab. She has finished her Ph.D studies in Computer Science, University of California, Davis in 2008 and in Istanbul Technical University(ITU), Turkey in 2009. After her PhD, she worked as an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department, ITU. Her research interests include design, performance analysis and optimization of telecom networks with focus on energy efficiency and resilience. Currently she is coordinating the EIT-ICT Labs project "5GrEEn: Towards Green 5G Mobile Networks".

Connected everything: Un-engineered and Un-managed system of systems

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Cicek Cavdar

I was invited speaker at USRR 2015 – 3rd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks in Munich. It was co-located with RNDM – the International Workshop on Reliable Network Design and Modeling. It is a … Continue reading →

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Reflections from RNDM 2014

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Cicek Cavdar

About RNDM 6th International Workshop on Reliable Network Design and Modeling (RNDM) was held in Barcelona this year on 17-19 November. It is a single track workshop covering reliability in both wireless and fixed networks, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. … Continue reading →

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Moving from “Cloud” to “Fog” Networks towards 5G Mobile Systems

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Cicek Cavdar

5G network architecture will not be only about transmission of the information, it will be about integration of processing and storage of that huge information into the communication systems. Therefore traditional cloud servers located within the metro or at the … Continue reading →

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“Oil of 21st Century: Big Data” and Energy Efficiency in M2M Communications

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Cicek Cavdar

The 1st International Workshop on GReen Optimized Wireless Networks (GROWN’13) was held at the end of fall 2013 in Lyon, France in conjunction with The 9th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2013) It was interesting … Continue reading →

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Do energy efficiency strategies necessarily conflict with reliability in wireless and wired networks?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Cicek Cavdar

This question was raised this year in RNDM 2013 (The 5th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling) during the key note speech given by Luigi Fratta as well as during the final panel. Telecom networks have been designed to … Continue reading →

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