Wireless networking
Performance modeling, protocol design, traffic scheduling, and next-generation Wi-Fi systems.
Wireless, sensing, and energy-efficient networks
WiSENet Lab
We study wireless communication systems, sensing networks, privacy-preserving protocols, and energy-efficient IoT for reliable connected infrastructure.
Welcome
Research for networks that sense, adapt, and conserve energy.
WiSENet Lab brings together research on wireless LANs, wireless sensor networks, privacy-preserving communication, and energy-aware IoT systems at Nazarbayev University's School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
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Lab sections
Research
Core areas across wireless networking, sensing, IoT, privacy, and network intelligence.
People
Faculty profiles, research interests, and links to NU, Google Scholar, and DBLP.
Publications
Clickable papers grouped by year, including recent 2026 and 2025 work.
Funding
Current grants, project periods, investigators, and NU project records.
Research
Selected directions
Sensing systems
Wireless sensor networks, data dissemination, convergecast, and multi-sink data aggregation.
Energy-efficient IoT
Batteryless Internet of Things, low-power communication, and lifetime-aware network operation.
Faculty
Lab leadership
Shinnazar Seytnazarov
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
He earned a PhD degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Yeungnam University in 2018. His thesis work was on QoS-aware A-MPDU aggregation and mathematical models of IEEE 802.11n/ac WLANs. From 2018 to 2019, he worked as an R&D engineer in industy where he built an indoor localization system using wireless signals and machine learning algorithms. He later came back to academia as a Postdoctoral research fellow in Mobile computing and communications lab at Seoul National University. In 2021, he joined Innopolis University as Assistant Professor. Three years later, he started working at Nazarbayev University as Assistant Professor. His research interests include but not limited to wireless network performance optimization, modeling and evaluation, wireless sensing, and indoor localization.
IEEE 802.11 WLANs, frame aggregation, TCP over Wi-Fi, wireless performance modeling, and dense networks.
Sain Saginbekov
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Sain Saginbekov received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick in 2015 and an MS in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University in 2004. His NU profile lists research interests in wireless sensor networks, reliability and privacy, routing, and MAC protocols.
Wireless sensor networks, reliability, privacy, routing, MAC protocols, and energy-efficient sensing.Publications
Recent selected works
- WARP-EH: Wake-Confirmed Coded Forwarding for Batteryless Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor NetworksD. Gimaletdinov, S. SaginbekovIEEE 31st International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2026
- Detour: A Predictive Routing Scheme for Battery-Free Wireless Sensor NetworksF. Boachie-Yiadom, S. SaginbekovIEEE 20th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2026
- Joint Modeling of Throughput, Service Time, and Queue Length in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with Frame Aggregation and Unsaturated Traffic LoadShinnazar Seytnazarov, Sain Saginbekov, Dong Geun Jeong, and Wha Sook JeonFuture Internet, 2026
- When Data Augmentation Falls Short: Wi-Fi Fingerprint-Based Indoor Localization RevisitedNurbek Malikov, Marko Ristin, and Shinnazar SeytnazarovSensors, 2026
Research funding
Current funded project
Energy-Efficient and Privacy Preserving Communication Framework for Batteryless Internet of Things
Faculty Development Competitive Research Grants Program for 2026-2028
Amount: 126,000 USD
The project develops a framework for battery-free IoT devices, focusing on energy- and delay-efficient communication and privacy-preserving protocols for intermittent, energy-limited devices.
Participants: Sain Saginbekov (PI), Shinnazar Seytnazarov (Co-PI)
View NU project recordDeveloping Application, Transport and MAC layer mechanisms for efficient network resource utilization
Social Policy Grant for 2025-2026
Amount: 10,000 USD
Participants: Shinnazar Seytnazarov (PI)
View NU project recordLatest updates
Recent papers
- August 2026: Shinnazar Seytnazarov, Sain Saginbekov, Dong Geun Jeong, and Wha Sook Jeon published a Future Internet paper on joint modeling of throughput, service time, and queue length in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.
- August 2026: Nurbek Malikov, Marko Ristin, and Shinnazar Seytnazarov published a Sensors paper revisiting data augmentation for Wi-Fi fingerprint-based indoor localization.
- Fall 2025: Shinnazar Seytnazarov co-authored IEEE VTC papers on TCP over Wi-Fi and synthetic Wi-Fi fingerprint generation.
Opportunities
Join us
Students interested in wireless networking, sensing systems, network privacy, and energy-efficient IoT are welcome to contact the faculty with a CV, transcript, and a short note about research interests.
Student opportunities