Got through the proposal exam

It's been a long time since I made an entry in this blog. It has been a frustrating period editing the proposal report over and over. Also it has been a useful period in which I had nice discussion with prof about my future research directions.

Today I faced my proposal/candidacy exam and got through it successfully. The comments from the examination committee are:

• to publish more papers.
• to find present day applications that can benefit from RAN.
• to give more exploration on optimization algorithms.
• to analyze the convergence properties of the network positioning algorithms.

Now I am to work on a magazine paper on LAP and look for the target applications in the process of writing the paper.