Dr. Brahim BENSAOU
Associate Professor
Contact Information
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR of the PRC
Office: Room 3537 Academic Building (nearest lift 25-26)
Email:
Phone: +852 2358 7014
Fax: +852 2358 1477
Research Interests
Currently I am leaning more towards wired networks and in particular efficient communications in the Internet with special focus on Congestion Control, Data-centric Networks and Energy efficiency from the protocol design and analysis points of view as well as the performance evaluation perspective
I also continue to work on communication efficiency in Wireless and Mobile Networks with particular focus in recent years on IEEE802.11-based Wireless LANs (for obvious reasons)
I worked in the recent past and still continue to work albeit lesser on Mesh, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks from the energy efficiency perspective.
Students and Theses Supervised
Current Graduate Students and PostDocs
Dr. Alex Zhang Jun -- Post Doctoral Fellow, Working on wireless networking
Mr. Jason Wang Min -- PhD Candidate, working on future Internet architecture and Protocols
Ms. Wang Ying -- PhD student, research topic TBD
Ms. Shining Dai Xiangming -- PhD student, research topic TBD
Mr. Pat Gu Liyi -- MPhil Student, research TBD
PhD Theses Supervised at HKUST
- Dr. John Hung Ka-Lok -- PhD Thesis: Performance optimization in IEEE 802.11 WLANS with co-channel interference. January 2011
- Dr. Shan Chen -- PhD Thesis: On congestion control and fair bandwidth allocation in the Internet. July 2009
- Dr. Zhu Junhua -- PhD Thesis: Energy efficiency and reliability in wireless sensor networks. January 2009
- Pr. Sean Hei Xiaojun -- PhD Thesis: End-to-end network measurement and its applications in peer-to-peer networks. August 2008. (ECE candidate, co-supervised with Prof. Danny Tsang of ECE)
- Dr. Alex Zhang Jun -- PhD Thesis: Power control in wireless and mobile adhoc networks. June 2007
- Dr. Frank Fang Zuyuan -- PhD Thesis: Bandwidth allocation in wireless adhoc networks. August 2004
MPhil Theses Supervised at HKUST
- Edward Lin Kin-Wah - MPhil Thesis: MAC flow fairness in IEEE 802.11 based wireless mesh networks. January 2010
- Dr. John Hung Ka-Lok - MPhil Thesis: The Maximum Data Collection Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. August 2006 (completed his PhD at HKUST with me)
- Simon Hung Lau-Yung - MPhil Thesis: Link adaptation and Scheduling in Wireless LANs. August 2005
- Fan Wing-Fai - MPhil Thesis: Admission control and scheduling for guarantee the packet loss rate and delay in IEEE 802.11e WLANs (ECE student co-supervised with Prof. Danny Tsang of ECE). August 2004
- Dr. Kong Zhen-Ning - MPhil Thesis: MAC layer performance analysis and improvement and QoS enhancement for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. (ECE student co-supervised with Prof. Danny Tsang of ECE). July 2004 (Completed a PhD at Yale with Prof. E.M. Yeh)
- Venus To Sin-Yam - MPhil Thesis: Quality of service framework for mobile adhoc network. July 2003
- Sammy Chau Ming-Kit - MPhil Thesis: Quality of service routing in mobile adhoc networks. June 2003
- Dr. Brenda Zhuang Shixin - MPhil Thesis: Stochastic modeling and performance analysis of differentiated service architecture in the Internet (ECE student co-supervised with Prof. Xiren Cao of ECE). August 2002 (completed a PhD at Boston U. with Prof C.G. Cassandras)
- Dr. Tod Huang Xiao-Long - MPhil Thesis: Max-min fairness, bandwidth allocation and scheduling in wireless adhoc networks. July 2001 (completed a PhD at UCLA with Prof. I. Rubin)
PhD and MEng Theses co-supervised at NUS Singapore
Prior to joining HKUST, while at the Centre for Wireless Communications in Singapore, I also worked with many graduate students in co-supervision with faculty members of the ECE department:
- Dr Kong Peng Yong - PhD Thesis: Medium access control and transmission scheduling in multicode CDMA networks. 2002
- Dr. Zhuang Wei - PhD Thesis: Channel resource management in mobile multiservice networks. 2000
- Dr. Xie Min - MEng Thesis: Stochastic performance estimation in a GPS server. 2002 (completed a PhD at UND with Prof. M. Haenggi)
- Hong Feng - MEng Thesis: Effective bandwidth and its application in the adaptive quality of service handoff priority scheme. 2002
- Wong Hau Shian - MEng Thesis: A QoS-based multicast routing protocol for manets with heterogeneous nodes. 2001
- Liu Xiaoyun - MEng Thesis: Multicast flow aggregation in the Internet backbone. 2001
- Dr. Lin Peng - MEng Thesis: Channel state independent wireless fair queueing. 2001 (completed a PhD at SUNY with Prof. Q. Qiao)
- Dr. Lim Joo Ghee - MEng Thesis: Connection admission control in DiffServ Internet. 2001 (completed a PhD at UNSW with Prof. C.T. Chou)
- Dr. Wang Yu - MEng Thesis: On quality of service and fairness of medium access control in wireless adhoc networks. 2000 (completed a Phd a UCSC with Prof. JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves)
- Tse Chi Hang - MEng Thesis: A wireless ATM network scheduler. 2000
- Li Guorong - MEng Thesis: PNNI-based handoff rerouting for large scale wireless ATM networks. 1999
- Choo Shueh Yi - MEng Thesis: Probabilistic channel reservation for mobile cellular networks. 1998