University of Iowa Computer Science Assistant Professor M. Zubair Shafiq is part of a research team that has received a United States Patent for their work, entitled, “Optimization of a cellular network architecture based on device type-specific traffic dynamics.”
Shafiq is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His broad research interests are networking and security, including a focus on online social networks.
The patent is for a method and apparatus for optimizing a cellular network architecture. The method uses data from specific device types to predict a future traffic pattern for one of the plurality of different endpoint device types based on the network traffic data, according to the patent.