Mission:	Founded in September 2007, the mission of the Digital Communication Research Laboratory (DCRL) at The University of Louisiana of Monroe (ULM) is to study, understand, and improve the transmission of data between digital computing systems attached to wired and wireless computer networks.
Goals:	To provide ULM undergraduate students with opportunities to investigate data communication and computer networking oriented problems. To evaluate data communication protocols and provide solutions that decrease the time to transmit data over wired and wireless computer networks. To publish research results in journals, conference proceedings, magazines, and books recognized by computing professionals for the high quality of articles published. To present research results at international, national, regional, state, and local conferences, symposia, and meetings. To provide timely information regarding digital communication to individuals, organizations, agencies, governments, and communities throughout the state of Louisiana, but focused specifically within the Ark-La-Miss region of the United States of America, which includes Northeast Louisiana, Southeast Arkansas, and Northwest Mississippi. To pursue collaboration with other academic, corporate, and governmental data communication and computer networking research organizations. To secure private and public federal, state, regional, and local funding for current and future research projects.