We present two examples of using machine learning to improve end-user quality of experience (QoE) in cellular networks operating today. In particular, we demonstrate how to automate the clearing of operational faults in outdoor networks and compensation of signal impairments in indoor networks for voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) applications. Our proposed methods are compatible with 3GPP LTE Release 8 and higher.
Texas ECE Professors Andreas Gerstlauer and Lizy K. John together with collaborators at the University of California, Riverside have been awarded a $1M grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study application of machine learning techniques for performance and power prediction in early design stages of future computer systems.
The project is described below:
Texas ECE alumna Jette Henderson, who completed her PhD in August, received the Best Student Paper award for the paper "PIVETed-Granite: Computational Phenotypes through Constrained Tensor Factorization" at the KDD MLMH Workshop on Machine Learning for Healthcare in London in August. Jette worked under the supervision of Texas ECE professor Joydeep Ghosh. The paper uses a special kind of tensor factorization that is guided by supporting evidence from PubMed, a huge repository of medical literature, to extract meaningful insights from electronic health records.
Picture your typical hospital scene: Patients being admitted at the front desk, doctors performing consultations, nurses administering medicine … and robots wandering the hallways toward the supply closet?
Robots in the storeroom may not be the norm quite yet, but it’s happening in Austin thanks to WNCG professor Andrea Thomaz and her company, Diligent Robotics.
Registration is now open for WNCG’s 2018 Texas Wireless Summit! TWS will take place on November 6, 2018 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Prof. Robert Heath delivered a keynote speech at IEEE Communication Society’s 2018 International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC).
Prof. Edison Thomaz of Texas ECE has received a Google Faculty Research Award for his proposed research work on "Identifying Acoustic Biomarkers of Mental Health and Well-Being in Voice-Based Interactions with Conversational Assistants in the Home".
Transmission over millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands is being adopted in fifth generation (5G) wireless communications. Even though the sub-6 GHz frequency bands continue to dominate deployments due to their better ability to penetrate and provide in-building coverage, the handover between mmWave and sub-6 GHz frequency bands is nonetheless inevitable to support higher data rates. The cost of a handover is a reduction in data rate, which 5G promises to increase.
Several optimization problems in machine learning, data mining and graph theory can be expressed as quadratic maximization problems, subject to integrality, positivity, or sparsity constraints. These include Sparse PCA, Densest Subgraph, Nonnegative matrix factorization, MaxCut, Maximum clique and many others. These problems are known to be computationally intractable and, in many cases, hard to approximate. WNCG Profs.
WNCG Ph.D Students Dimitris Papailiopoulos and Yannis Mitliagkas, along with WNCG Professors Alex Dimakis and Constantine Caramanis, have developed an efficient low-rank framework for finding dense components of graphs with billions of connections.
