Darya Ostrikova received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in applied mathematics from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and computer science, in 2015. Since 2012, she has been with the Telecommunication Systems Department, RUDN University, where she is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Applied Probability and Informatics. She is the author of more than 50 scientific and conference papers on analytical performance analysis of various 5G/5G+ technologies, applied queuing and teletraffic theory, and system-level simulation of heterogeneous networks. Her current research interests include the performance analysis of 5G/5G+ wireless networks.