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Yu Cheng
Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 South Dearborn Street, Siegel Hall 320
Chicago, IL, 60616-3793

Phone: (312) 567-7996
Fax: (312) 567-8976
Email: cheng@iit.edu

Finanacial support is currently available for highly qualified PhD students. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): multi-hop multi-channel wireless networks, cooperative communications and networking, network coding, security over wireless networks, cross-layer design and analysis. Applicants are expected to have a STRONG MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND and STRONG ENGLISH WRITING/COMMUNICATION SKILLS. If interested, you are welcome to email me your CV, transcripts, and research plan.

Biography

Future Networking (FUN) Research Laboratory (under development)

Research Interests

Next-generation Internet architecture and management
Internet measurement, performance analysis, and resource allocation
Multi-hop, multi-channel wireless networks
Network security and wireless/wireline interworking

Current research activities focus on next-generation network management architecture, Web service networks, Internet tomography based on packet-pair probing, multicast over application-oriented networks, cross-layer design for multimedia over WLANs, a generic framework for wireless capacity analysis, and cellular/WLAN/WiMax integration.

Teaching

ECE 545: Advanced Computer Communication Networks (2006 Fall, 2007 Spring, 2008 Spring)
ECE 541: Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks (2007 Fall, 2008 Fall)

Student Supervision

Xiaohua Tian, PhD Candidate
Yong Hao, PhD Candidate
Hongkun Li, PhD Candidate
Jin Tang, PhD Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. Carol Davids)
Yu Liu, PhD Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. Chi Zhou)
Cheng Li, Master
Yin Shao, Master (co-supervised with Prof. Chi Zhou)

Funded Research Projects

Squeezing the Most Out of Wireless Access and Backhaul Networks: A Generic Cross-Layer Analytical Approach, PI, National Science Foundation, Sept. 2008 to Aug. 2011.
Seamless Integration of Hybrid Access Networks, NEC Research Agreement, starting from Jan. 2008.
A Security Framework for Fixed/Mobile Converged Networks, Motorola University Partnership in Research (UPR) Program, Aug. 2007 to Sept. 2008.
A Scalable Application-Enabling Fabric for Next Generation Internet, Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF), IIT, Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2007.

Selected Professional Activities

Associated Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Technical Program Co-Chair, Wireless Networking Symposium, IEEE ICC 2009
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2009
Technical Program Co-Chair, General Symposium, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2008
Workshops Chair, The Fifth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2008)

Awards

First Place Student Research Poster award, Graduate Division, IIT Research Day, May, 2008.
Best paper award, International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness (QShine’07), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 14-17, 2007.
Best Paper Award (3rd Place), IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference (EIT), Chicago, Illinois, May 17-20, 2007.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 2004
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2002, 2003
University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, 2001, 2002

Journal Publications

X. Ling, Y. Cheng, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen, "A renewal theory based analytical model for the contention access period of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 2340-2349, Jun. 2008.
Y. Cheng, A. Leon-Garcia, and I. Foster, "Towards an autonomic service management framework: A holistic vision of SOA, AON, and autonomic computing", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 138-146, May 2008.
Y. Cheng, X. Ling, L. Cai, W. Song, W. Zhuang, X. Shen, and A. Leon-Garcia, "Statistical multiplexing, admission region, and contention window optimization in multiclass Wireless LANs", ACM Wireless Networks, to appear.
X. Ling, Y. Cheng, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen, "Voice capacity analysis of WLANs with channel access prioritizing mechanisms", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 82-89, Jan. 2008.
Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, and X. Ling, "Towards an FBM model based network calculus framework with service differentiation", Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 335-346, Dec. 2007.
W. Song, Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, "Improving voice and data services in cellular/WLAN integrated network by admission control", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. 4025-4037, Nov. 2007.
Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang and L. Wang, "Calculation of loss probability in a finite size partitioned buffer for quantitative assured services", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 1757-1771, Sept. 2007.
X. Ling, J. W. Mark, X. Shen, and Y. Cheng, "A generic framework for modeling MAC protocols in Wireless broadband access networks", IEEE Network, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 28-33, Sept.-Oct. 2007.
Y. Cheng, X. Ling, W. Song, L. Cai, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "A cross-layer approach for WLAN voice capacity planning", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 678-688, May 2007.
W. Song, W. Zhuang, and Y. Cheng, "Load balancing for cellular/WLAN integrated networks", IEEE Network, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 27-33, Jan./Feb. 2007.
Y. Cheng, R. Farha, M. S. Kim, A. Leon-Garcia, and J. W.-K. Hong, "A general architecture for autonomic service and network management", Elseview Journal of Computer Communications, vol. 29, no. 18, pp. 3691-3709, Nov. 2006
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Dynamic inter-SLA resource sharing in path-oriented differentiated services networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 657-670, Jun. 2006.
R. Q. Hu, Y. Qian, Y. Cheng, and S. Kota "Cross-layer design for call admission control of a high capacity geo satellite network with on-board cross-connect", International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, to appear.
Y. Cheng, W. Song, W. Zhuang, A. Leon-Garcia and R. Hu, "Efficient resource allocation for policy-based wireless/wireline interworking", Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 661-679, Oct. 2006.
C.W. Leong, W. Zhuang, Y. Cheng, and L. Wang, "Optimal resource allocation and adaptive call admission control for voice/data integrated cellular networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 654-669, Mar. 2006.
Y. Cheng, R. Farha, A. Tizghadam, M. S. Kim, M. Hashemi, A. Leon-Garcia, and J. W.-K. Hong "Virtual network approach to scalable IP service deployment and efficient resource management", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 76-84, Oct. 2005.
Y. Cheng, H. Jiang, W. Zhuang, Z. Niu, and C. Lin, "Efficient resource allocation for China's 3G/4G wireless networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 76-83, Jan. 2005.
C.W. Leong, W. Zhuang, Y. Cheng, and L. Wang, "Call admission control for wireless systems supporting integrated on/off voice and best effort data services", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 778-790, May 2004.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Effective bandwidth of multiclass Markovian traffic sources and admission control with dynamic buffer partitioning", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1524-1535, Sept. 2003.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "DiffServ resource allocation for fast handoff in wireless mobile internet", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 130-136, May 2002.

Book Chapters

X. Ling, L. X. Cai, X. Shen, J. W. Mark and Y. Cheng, "Performance analysis of MAC protocols for WLAN with heterogeneous traffic", in Medium Access Control Protocols in Wireless Networks, H. Wu and Y. Pan, eds., Nova Science Publishers, 2008.
Y. Cheng, X. Liu, and W. Zhuang, "Fast soft handoff support and DiffServ resource allocation in wireless mobile Internet", in Mobile and Wireless Internet: Protocols, Algorithms and Systems, K. Makki, N. Pissinou, K. (S.) Makki, and E.K. Park, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Dynamic inter-SLA resource sharing in differentiated services networks based on effective bandwidth allocation", in Communications, Information and Network Security, V. Bhargava, H.V. Poor, V. Tarokh, and S. Yoon, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

Conference Papers

H. Li, Y. Cheng, C. Zhou, "Multi-hop effective bandwidth based routing in multi-radio wireless mesh networks", IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, to appear.
Y. Hao, Y. Cheng, K. Ren, "Distributed key management with protection against RSU compromise in group signature based VANETs", IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, to appear.
H. Li, Y. Cheng, C. Zhou, Y. Chang, "Efficient resource allocation for multicode transmission over multipath channels", IEEE IWCMC 2008, to appear.
J. Tang, C. Davids, Y. Cheng, "How IMS works in an open source environment", QShine 2008, to appear.
X. Tian, Y. Cheng, K. Ren, and B. Liu, "Multicast with an application-oriented networking (AON) approach'', IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.
C. Hu, S. wang, J. Tian, B. Liu, Y. Cheng, and Y. Chen, "Accurate and efficient traffic monitoring using adaptive non-linear sampling method'', IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, Apr. 13-18, 2008.
X. Tian, Y. Cheng, R. Q. Hu, and Y. Qian, "Service oriented architecture (SOA) for integration of field bus systems", IEEE GLOBECOM'07 , Washington DC, Nov. 26-30, 2007.
Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, and X. Ling, "FBM model based network-wide performance analysis with service differentiation ", in Proc. International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Vancouver, Canada, August 14 - 17, 2007. (Best Paper Award)
X. Ling, K. Liu, Y. Cheng, X. Shen and J. W. Mark, "A Novel Performance Model for Distributed Prioritized MAC Protocols", IEEE GLOBECOM'07, Washington DC, Nov. 26-30, 2007, to appear.
Y. Cheng, V. Ravindran, and A. Leon-Garcia, "Internet traffic characterization using packet-pair probing", in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'07, Anchorage, Alaska, May 6-12, 2007.
Y. Cheng, V. Ravindran, A. Leon-Garcia, and H.-H. Chen, "New exploration of packet-pair probing for available bandwidth estimation and traffic characterization", in Proc. IEEE ICC'07, Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 24-28, 2007.
Y. Cheng, X. Ling, "Capacity analysis of a voice/video integrated wireless LAN", in Proc. 2007 Electro/Information Technology Conference, Chicago, IL, May 17-20, 2007. (Best Paper Award, 3rd place)
X. Ling, Y. Cheng, J.W. Mark, and X. Shen, "A general analytical model for the IEEE 802.15.4 contention access period", in Proc. IEEE WCNC 2007, Hongkong, China, Mar. 11-15, 2007.
Y. Cheng, L. Cai, X. Ling, W. Song, W. Zhuang, X. Shen, and A. Leon-Garcia, "Improvement of WLAN QoS capability via statistical multiplexing," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27- Dec. 1, 2006
Y. Cheng, X. Ling, L. Cai, W. Song, W. Zhuang, X. Shen, and A. Leon-Garcia, "Statistical multiplexing, admission region, and contention window optimization in multiclass Wireless LANs", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine) 2006 , Waterloo, Canada, Aug. 2006.
W. Song, Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, "Improving voice and data service provisioning in cellular/WLAN integrated networks by admission control", in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27- Dec. 1, 2006
W. Zha, R. Hu, Y. Qian, and Y. Cheng, "An adaptive MAC Scheme to achieve high channel throughput and QoS differentiation in a heterogeneous WLAN", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine) 2006, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 2006.
R. Hu, W. Zha, Y. Qian, and Y. Cheng, "An adaptive p-persistent 802.11 MAC Scheme to achieve maximum channel throughput and QoS provisioning," in Proc. IEEE WCNC'06, vol. 3, pp.1705-1710, 2006.
Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, and A. Leon-Garcia, "Call level service differentiation for efficient SLA management," Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM'05, vol. 2, pp. 996-1001, 2005.
Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang, A. Leon-Garcia, and R. Hu, "Efficient resource allocation for SLA based wireless/wireline interworking," Proc. IEEE BROADNETS, vol. 1, pp.561-570, 2005
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Calculation of loss probability in a partitioned buffer with self-similar input traffic," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM'04, vol. 3, pp. 1453-1457, Dec. 2004.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Simulation study of the effective bandwidth for multiclass Markovian sources in a partitioned buffer," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM'03, vol. 6, pp. 3144-3148, Dec. 2003.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Effective bandwidth of multiclass Markovian traffic sources and admission control with dynamic buffer partitioning," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM'02, vol. 3, pp. 2548-2552, Nov. 2002.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "A DiffServ resource allocation scheme supporting fast handoff in IP-based wireless networks," Proc. 2002 International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond (3Gwireless'02), pp. 316-321, San Francisco, CA, May 2002.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Efficient resource allocation over MPLS differentiated services networks," Proc. 2002 International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond (3Gwireless'02), pp. 749-754, San Francisco, CA, May 2002.
Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Optimal buffer partitioning for multiclass Markovian traffic sources," Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM'01, vol. 3, pp. 1852-1856, Dec. 2001.

PhD Thesis

Y. Cheng, "Efficient resource allocation in differentiated services networks", University of Waterloo, Canada, August, 2003

Invited Talk

Y. Cheng, "Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking", Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, June, 2008
Y. Cheng, "Edge-Based Internet Traffic Characterization by Packet-Pair Dispersion Measurement", Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, June, 2008
Y. Cheng, "New Packet-Pair Dispersion Techniques for Bandwidth Estimation and Traffic Characterization", Department of Electrical Engineering, Northen Illinois University, May, 2008
Y. Cheng, "A Cross-Layer Framework for Wireless Access Network Capacity Analysis", Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, February, 2008
Y. Cheng, "Quantitative QoS and Efficient resource allocation in differentiated services networks", IEEE Vehicular Technology Chapter Presentation, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, November, 2005

Last updated in Aug. 2008 by Y. Cheng.

Yu Cheng Assistant Professor