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                              Qian ZHANG earth01 (3K)
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Professor

Co-Director, Huawei-HKUST Innovation Lab

Associate Director, Digital Life Research Center

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon

Hong Kong

 

Email: qianzh@cse.ust.hk

URL: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~qianzh

Office: Room 3533 (via Lift 25-26), Academic Building

Tel: 852-23588766

Fax: 852-23581477










Students:

Current Students

  • Chengqi SONG (Ph.D. student): Wireless Network Security

  • Ji LUO (Ph.D. student): Mobile Sensor Networking

  • Dawei CHEN (Ph.D. student): Resource Management and Spectrum Measurement in Cognitive Networks

  • Xing XU (Ph.D. student): Wireless Sensor Networking

  • Peng LIN (Ph.D. student): Cognitive Radio Networks and Dynamic Spectrum Management

  • Xiaojun FENG (Ph.D. student): Vehicular Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Eric Lo (MPhil student): Cooperative MAC for Wireless Networks

  • XiaoRui PAN (MPhil student): Wireless Healthcare and Sensor Networks

  • Jin ZHANG (PostDoc): Wireless Cooperative Communication and Networking

 

Recent Alumni

  • Dr. Peng GUO (PostDoc): protocol design for wireless sensor networks

  • Juncheng JIA (PostDoc): Cognitive Radio Networks and Dynamic Spectrum Management

  • Christopher LIM (MPhil student): Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks

  • HuiCheng (Addison) CHI (MPhil student): P2P-based VoD service

  • Xiaoxi TANG (MPhil student): Wireless Healthcare

  • Zhong SHEN (MPhil student): Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Yanfeng Zhu (co-supervised Ph.D. from Tsinghua University)

  • Qing Chen (co-supervised Ph.D. from Tsinghua University)

  • Meng Zhang (co-supervised Ph.D. from Tsinghua University)

Visiting Students

  • Youwen Yi (Ph.D. student): incentive for cooperation in cognitive radio networks

  • Xinguo Wang (Ph.D. student): power-efficient MAC/routing design for wireless sensor networks

  • Sixin Ying (Ph.D. student): spectrum usage measurement

  • Zexi Yang (Ph.D. student): Cooperative Communications and Networkin

  • Jingyu Wang (Ph.D. student): multimedia over cognitive radio networks

  • Xin Xiao (Ph.D. student): P2P streaming

  • Jiayi Chen (Master student): wireless mesh networks

  • Bo Chen (Master student): seamless connectivity for airport maintenance

  • Yao Hua (Ph.D. student): Cooperative Communications and Networking

  • Yang Wang (Ph.D. student): Opportunistic routing in wireless networks

  • Meng Zhang (Ph.D. student): P2P-based VoD service

  • Ying Li (Ph.D. student): Coverage and protection issue in sensor networks

  • Yun Tang (Ph.D. student): incentive for P2P streaming service

  • Jiang-Guang Luo (Ph.D. student): P2P-based VoD service

  • Cong Peng (Ph.D. student): network coding for cooperative communication

  • Yanfeng Zhu (Ph.D. student): Multi-AP diversity in WLAN

  • Qing Chen (Ph.D. student): Cooperative and Opportunistic Scheduling in ad hoc networks

  • Lin Chen (Ph.D. student): Joint topology control and routing in ad hoc networks

 

I am currently recruiting well motivated and dedicated Ph.D. students in the wireless networking (cognitive and cooperative networking), spectrum management, and sensor networks.

Please contact with me if you have interest in those research areas.

 

 

We have one paper been contionally accepted in ACM MobiCom 2010 (with acceptance ratio as 33/233 = 14.2%)

K. Wu, H. Tan, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, Q. Zhang, and L. Ni, "Free Side Channel: Bits over Interference", conditionally accepted in ACM MobiCom, 2010.

We have one paper been accepted in ACM MobiHoc 2010 (with acceptance ratio as 26/154 = 16.9%)

G.Y. Keung, B. Li, and Q. Zhang, “The Intrusion Detection in Mobile Sensor Network", to appear in ACM MobiHoc 2010.

We have two papers been accepted in IEEE ICDCS 2010 (with acceptance ratio as 84/585 = 14.35%)!

X. Xu, J. Luo, and Q. Zhang, "Design of Non-orthogonal Multi-channel Sensor Networks", in IEEE ICDCS, 2010.

W. Huang, X. Wang, and Q. Zhang, "Capacity Scaling in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Network with Infrastructure Support", in IEEE ICDCS, 2010.

We have four papers been accepted in IEEE Infocom 2010 (with acceptance ratio as 276/1575 = 17.5%)!

J. Zhang, J. Jia, Q. Zhang, and Eric Lo, "Implementation and Evaluation of Cooperative Communication Schemes in Software-Defined Radio Testbed", in IEEE Infocom 2010.

X. Xu, J. Luo, and Q. Zhang, "Delay Tolerant Event Collection in Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink", in IEEE Infocom 2010.

Y. Hua, Q. Zhang, and Z. Niu, "Resource Allocation in Multi-cell OFDMA-based Relay Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2010.

Y. Yang, Y. Liu, Q. Zhang, and Lionel Ni, "Cooperative Boundary Detection for Spectrum Sensing Using Dedicated Wireless Sensor Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2010.

Our paper is ranked No. 1 in the Top 100 papers accessed in all of IEEE Explore in July 2009. This paper is also ranked No.1 in the Top documents accessed in June 2009 for the IEEE Communications Magazine!

Q. Zhang, J. Jia, and J. Zhang, “Cooperative relay to improve diversity in cognitive radio networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 2, February 2009, pp. 111-117 

Congratulations to Juncheng JIA and Jin ZHANG for passing the Ph.D. thesis defense in Aug. 2009!

Our spectrum usage analysis paper been accepted in ACM MobiCom 2009!

D. Chen, S. Yin, Q. Zhang, M. Liu, and S. Li, “Mining Spectrum Usage Data: a Large-scale Spectrum Measurement Study”, to appear in ACM Mobicom, 2009.

We have two papers published in ACM MobiHoc 2009. One is related to revenue generation for truthful spectrum auction and the other one is related to cooperation between primary and secondary users in cognitive radio networks.

J. Jia, Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang, and M. Liu, "Revenue Generation for Truthful Spectrum Auction in Dynamic Spectrum Access", in ACM MobiHoc, 2009.

J. Zhang and Q. Zhang, "Stackelberg Game for Utility-Based Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks", in ACM MobiHoc, 2009.

We have four papers published in IEEE Infocom 2009!

J. Jia, J. Zhang, and Q. Zhang, "Cooperative Relay for Cognitive Radio Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2009.

J. Zhang and Q. Zhang, "Cooperative Network Coding-Aware Routing for Multi-Rate Wireless Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2009.

J. Luo, D. Wang, and Q. Zhang, "Double Mobility: Coverage of the Sea Surface with Mobile Sensor Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2009.

J. Luo, D. Wang, and Q. Zhang, "Double Mobility: Coverage of the Sea Surface with Mobile Sensor Networks", in IEEE Infocom 2009.

Our paper about cooperative relay in cognitive radio networks has been listed as top 20 of the most accessed documents in IEEE Explore for March 2009!

Q. Zhang, J. Jia, and J. Zhang, “Cooperative relay to improve diversity in cognitive radio networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 2, February 2009, pp. 111-117

Our paper about cross-layer design in wireless networks has been listed as No. 4 in the Top documents accessed for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in June 2009. This paper is also ranked No. 45 in the Top 100 papers accessed in all of IEEE Explore in June 2009!

Y. Wu, P. Chou, Q. Zhang, K. Jian, W. Zhu, and S.Y. Kung, "Network Planning in Wireless Ad hoc Networks: A Cross-layer Approach", IEEE JSAC special issue on wireless ad hoc networks, Volume 23,  Issue 1,  Jan. 2005 Page(s):136 - 150.