Catherine Rosenberg
Biography
Catherine Rosenberg is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo since 2004. She holds a University Research Chair and an Inria International Research Chair (2025-2030). She has been the Cisco Research Chair in 5G Systems from April 2018 to December 2024. From June 2010 to June 2024, she held the Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet. She was elected an IEEE Fellow for contributions to resource management in wireless and satellite networks on 2011 and was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Dr. Rosenberg began her career at ALCATEL in France, and then at AT&T Bell Labs, USA. From 1988-1996, she was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada. In 1996, she joined Nortel Networks in the UK where she created and headed the R&D Department in Broadband Satellite Networking. In August 1999, Dr. Rosenberg became a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University where she co-founded in May 2002 the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA). She joined the University of Waterloo in September 2004 as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for a three-year term.
Additionally, Professor Rosenberg was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Orange Group (France-Telecom) from 2007 to mid 2015. She became its president from January 2013 to mid 2015. She also became the president of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French IRT (Research and Technology Institute) BCOM on multimedia and networking in 2014 till 2020. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory committee of the Laboratory of Excellence Cominlabs in Rennes, France and the group of engineering schools, IMT-Atlantique, again in France.
Her research expertise lies in wireless networks, multimedia, traffic engineering and energy systems. Her work in wireless networks includes 5G/6G, IoT, Satellite, OPEN-RAN, and generally resource management. Her research in traffic engineering focuses on quality of service, network optimization and game theory and pricing. Prof. Rosenberg’s research in energy systems includes smart grid design. She has authored over 200 papers on wireless networking, traffic engineering and energy systems, and has been granted eight US patents.
Research Interests
Wireless Networks
5G/6G
IoT
Satellite
Internet
Testbed
Energy Systems
Education
1986, Doctorate Computer Science, Universite de Paris XI (Orsay), France
1984, Master of Science Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles, United States
1983, Diploma d'Ingenieur Telecommunications, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, France
Awards
Inria International Research Chair, awarded in 2025 for 5 years.
ACM eEnergy Test of Time Award along with O. Ardakanian and S. Keshav for our paper on distributed congestion control for electric vehicle charging which was published in ACM eEnergy 2013. Awarded in June 2024.
Runner-up for best paper award, for “Multi-timescale Electricity Theft Detection and Localization in Distribution Systems Based on State Estimation and PMU Measurements”, ACM e-Energy 2018, June 2018, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Cisco Research Chair in 5G Systems, April 2018 – present.
Best Paper Award, for “Day-Ahead Dispatch of Distribution Feeders Considering Temporal Uncertainties of PEVs”, Power Tech 2015 conference, Eindhoven, July 2015.
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, June 2013.
Best Paper Award, for “Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging” at the ACM e-Energy Conference, Berkeley, May 2013.
Best Paper Award, for “Distributed Control for Reducing Carbon Footprint in the Residential Sector”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Tainan, Taiwan, November 2012.
Elected Fellow of the IEEE, January 2011. Citation: “For contributions to Resource Management in Wireless and Satellite Networks.”
Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet, June 2010 – June 2024.
Best Paper Award, for “Single Gateway Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks”, 8th International IEEE Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2008.
Selected/Recent Publications
A. Hussein, P. Mitran, and C. Rosenberg, “Spectrum and RAN Sharing: How to Avoid Cross-Subsidization While Taking Full Advantage of Massive MU-MIMO?”, accepted to IEEE Trans. On Network and Service Management, Sept 2025.
H. Rahman and C. Rosenberg, “Resource Allocation for the Uplink of a Multi-User Massive MIMO System” in IEEE Trans. On Mobile Computing, Vol 25, #5, May 2025.
K. Feng, F. Baccelli, and C. Rosenberg, “Performance Guarantees of Cellular Networks with Hardcore Regulation and Scheduling”, to appear in IEEE Globecom 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.
M. Abuyaghi, S. Si-Mohammed, G Shaker, and C. Rosenberg, “Positioning in 5G Networks: Emerging Techniques, Use Cases, and Challenges”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol 12, #2, Jan. 2025.
Y. Quan, S. Shahsavari and C. Rosenberg, “Planning and Operation of Millimeter-wave Downlink Systems with Hybrid Beamforming”, in IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, #12, Dec. 2024.
A. Hussein, P. Mitran, and C. Rosenberg, “Operating Multi-user Massive MIMO Networks: Trade-off between Performance and Runtime”, in IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management, Vol 21, #2, April 2024.
M. Amini, and C. Rosenberg, “A Comparative Analysis of Open-source Software in an E2E 5G Standalone Platform”, in the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, April 2024.
M. Amini, R. Stanica, and C. Rosenberg, “Where Are The (Cellular) Data?”, in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 56, Issue 2, Sept. 2023.
A. Lappalainen, Y. Zhang and C. Rosenberg, "Planning 5G Networks for Rural Fixed Wireless Access", in IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management, Vol. 20, #1, March 2023.
F. Kazhamiaka, Y. Ghiassi, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg, “Comparison of Different Approaches for Solar PV and Storage Sizing”, in IEEE Trans on Sustainable Computing, Vol. 7, #3, July-Sept 2022.
Patents
M. Peloso, S. Keshav, C. Rosenberg and S. Sun “Operation method and system for distributed generation”, Singapore Patent Application #10201802208Q, March 2018.
F. Guillemin and C. Rosenberg "Adaptation d’une instruction d’émission pour une communication d’un terminal dans le sens montant", French Patent Application # 1750943, Filed on 03 February 2017.
F. Guillemin, C. Rosenberg, and Y. Ozcan "Procédé d’allocation d’une ressource de transmission à un terminal mobile", French Patent Application # X, Filed on 11 April 2017.
E. Davies and C. Rosenberg "Communications System, Apparatus and Method Therefor", United States Patent # 7,161,897, January 9, 2007.
C. Rosenberg and H. Abu-Amara "Integrated connection admission control and bandwidth on demand for a access asynchronous network", US Patent # 7,016,375, March 21, 2006.
A. Winckles, J. Cable, and C. Rosenberg "Border Gateway Protocol Manager and Method of Managing the Selection of Communication Links", US Patent # 6,829,221, Dec 7, 2004.
S. Halberstadt, C. Rosenberg, J. Cable, and A. Winckles “Satellite traffic routing” United States Patent # 6,763,005, July 13, 2004.
T. Ors, J. Cable, and C. Rosenberg "Multi Protocol Label Switching for Multiple Access Segments", United States Patent # 6,731,639 May 4, 2004.
C. Rosenberg, R. Mauger, and D. McCaughan “Connectionless communication network” United States Patent # 6,574,227 June 3, 2003.
C. Rosenberg and J.C. Zuniga “Satellite communications routing and addressing method” United States Patent # 6,560,450 May 6, 2003.
J. Cable, C. Rosenberg, H. Abu-Amara, and A. Minato “Integrated signaling for asynchronous networks” United States Patent #6,549,530 April 15, 2003.