Becvar
Short Bio
Zdenek Becvar is now Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is working on optimization of radio resource management procedures in emerging wireless networks (LTE-A, 5G) with major focus on mobility support in small cells. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Telecommunication Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, he joined Sitronics R&D centre in Prague focusing on speech quality in VoIP. Furthermore, he was involved in research activities of Vodafone R&D center at Czech Technical University in Prague in 2009. He was on internships at Budapest Politechnic, Hungary and CEA-Leti, France in 2007 and 2013, respectively. Since 2007, he continuously participates in FP6 and FP7 projects founded by European Commission. In 2013, he becomes representative of the Czech Technical University in Prague in ETSI and 3GPP standardization organizations. He is a member of more than 15 program committees at international conferences or workshops and he published 3 book chapters and more than 50 conference or journal papers. He acts as a review for many prestigious journals incl. journals published by IEEE, Wiley, Elsevier or Springer. He is the member of IEEE Communications Society, Computer Society and Vehicular Technology Society.
Selected recent projects
FP7 TROPIC (09/2012-04/2015)
- funded by European Commission
- main roles: WP leader (Scenarios, Architecture, and Market Analysis), architecture design, path selection, developent of AR application
Prediction Algorithms for Efficient Mobility Management in Wireless Networks (01/2011-12/2014)
- postdoc project funded by Czech Science Foundation
- main roles: principal researcher, design of prediction algorithms for mobility management (NCL, admission, handover) in future mobile networks
FP7 FREEDOM (01/2010-12/2011)
- funded by European Commission
- main roles: WP leader (Control procedures for RRM), mobility management for networks with small cells
Selected recent publications
- M. Vondra, Z. Becvar, "Distance-based Neighborhood Scanning for Handover Purposes in Network with Small Cells", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-13, 2015.
- Z. Becvar, P. Mach, E. Calvanese Strinati, "Q-Learning-based Prediction of Channel Quality after Handover in Mobile Networks", IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, pp. 1480 - 1485, 2014.
- Z. Becvar, P. Mach, M. Vondra, "Self-optimizing neighbor cell list with dynamic threshold for handover purposes in networks with small cells", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, pp. 1-16, 2013.
- Z. Becvar, P. Roux, P. Mach, "Fast cell selection with efficient active set management in OFDMA networks with femtocells", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer International Publishing AG, vol. 2012, no. 1, 2012.
- Z. Becvar, P. Mach, B. Simak, "Improvement of handover prediction in mobile WiMAX by using two thresholds", Computer Networks, vol. 55, no. 16, pp. 3759 - 3773, 2011.