Wei Liu

Ph.D Candidate

Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINET)

Wireless Information Networking Group (WING)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Florida

446 Engineering Building
Gainesville,
Florida 32611
Tel(o): (352) 392-2746
Email: liuw@ufl.edu

[EDUCATION] [RESEARCH INTERESTS] [PUBLICATIONS] [PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


EDUCATION 

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, May 2005 (expected)

¡°Cross-Layer Design for Resource-Aware Protocols in Heterogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc Networks¡±

Advisor: Dr. Yuguang ¡°Michael¡± Fang

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M.E., Electrical and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, June 2001

¡°Network Management with CORBA/SNMP Gateway¡±

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B.E., Electrical and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, June 1998


RESEARCH INTERESTS      


PUBLICATIONS

        Book Chapters

1. Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, ¡°Performance optimization using multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks,¡± in Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks, edited by M. Cheng, Y. Li, and D-Z. Du, Kluwer, 2005.

2. Xiang Chen, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Resource allocation and call admission control in mobile wireless networks,¡± in Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networks, edited by A. Boukerche, CRC Press.

            Papers in Refereed Journals

1. Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°DELAR: a device-energy-load aware relaying framework for heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks,¡± submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

2. Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Secure incentive engineering in mobile ad hoc networks¡±, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

3. Wenjing Lou, Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°A multipath protocol for secure and reliable data collection in wireless sensor networks,¡± submitted to Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.

4. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Location-based security mechanisms for wireless sensor networks,¡± submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on Security in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks).

5. Xiaojiang Du, DapengWu, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Efficient multi-class routing protocol for heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,¡± submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

6. Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°SPREAD: improving network security by multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± under revision for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

7. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Securing ad hoc networks with certificateless public keys,¡± under revision for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

8. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°MASK: an anonymous on-demand routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks,¡± under revision for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

9. Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°A robust and energy-efficient data dissemination framework for wireless sensor networks,¡± accepted for publication in ACM Wireless Networks (WINET). (This paper was selected from the First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2004) for fast track publication.)

10. Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°An efficient QoS routing algorithm for delay sensitive applications,¡± Computer Networks, vol.47, no.1, pp. 87-104, Jan. 2005.

11. Xiang Chen, Wei Liu, Hongqiang Zhai, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Location-aware resource management in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± accepted for publication in ACM Wireless Networks (WINET).

12. Wei Liu, Xiang Chen, Yuguang Fang, and John M. Shea, ¡°Courtesy piggybacking: supporting differentiated services in multihop mobile ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 380-393, Oct.-Dec., 2004. (This paper was selected from IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2004) for fast track publication.)

13. Zhenying Wang, Bingxin Shi, and Wei Liu, ¡°A distributed dynamic heuristic for delay-constrained least-cost multicast routing,¡± Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 331-344, 2000.

14. Zhengying Wang, Bingxin Shi, and Wei Liu, ¡°A distributed dynamic delay-constrained least-cost multicast routing heuristic,¡± Journal of Software, vol.12, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2001.

15. Wei Liu and Bingxin Shi, ¡°Service level agreement in internet,¡± Journal of Telecommunication Science, 2000.

16. Wei Liu, Bingxin Shi, and Fenghua Xue, ¡°An application of expert system in network fault management,¡± Journal of Data Communications, 2000.

Papers in Refereed Conferences

1.  Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°-----------------------,¡± submitted (double blind review).

2. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Securing sensor networks with location-based keys,¡± to appear in IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC 2005), New Orleans, LA, March 2005.

3. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, and Wenjing Lou, ¡°Anonymous communications in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± to appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2005), Miami, FL, March 2005.

4. Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Yuguang Fang, and Tan F. Wong, ¡°Scalable and robust data dissemination in wireless sensor networks,¡± IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2004), Dallas, TX, Nov.-Dec. 2004.

5. Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°DELAR: Device/Energy/Load Aware Relaying in heterogeneous wireless ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2004), Monterey, CA, Oct.-Nov. 2004.

6. Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Anonymous handshakes in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2004), Monterey, CA, Oct.-Nov. 2004.

7. Jianfeng Wang, Hongqiang Zhai, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Reliable and efficient packet forwarding by utilizing path diversity in wireless ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2004), Monterey, CA, Oct.-Nov. 2004.

8. Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Managing wireless sensor networks with supply chain strategy,¡± First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2004), Dallas, TX, Oct. 2004.

9. Xiang Chen, Wei Liu, Yuguang Fang, and Mario Yuang, ¡°Supporting QoS with location aware pre-reservation in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 2004.

10. Wei Liu and Yuguang Fang, ¡°Courtesy Piggybacking: supporting differentiated service in multihop ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2004), Hong Kong, China, March 2004.

11. Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°SPREAD: enhancing data confidentiality in mobile ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2004), Hong Kong, China, March 2004.

12. Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, Xiang Chen, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°A QoS-enabled MAC architecture for prioritized services in IEEE 802.11 WLANs,¡± IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2003), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2003.

13. Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°SPREAD: Improving network security by multipath routing,¡± IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2003), Boston, MA, Oct. 2003.

14. Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°A simulation study of security performance using multipath routing in ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 03), Orlando, FL, Oct. 2003.

15. Wei Liu, Yuguang Fang, and Yonggoo Kwon, ¡°Performance enhancement in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks,¡± IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 03), Orlando, FL, Oct. 2003.

16. Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, ¡°A selection function based distributed algorithm for delay-constraint least-cost unicast routing,¡± IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, AK, May 2003.


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

        

Referee for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless

Communications, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Wiley

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IEEE INFOCOM 2005, IEEE

ICC 2005, IEEE WCNC 2005, IEEE ICC 2004, IEEE LANMAN 2004, IEEE WCNC

2004, IEEE CCNC 2004, IEEE VTC 2003, and etc.


Updated on December 19, 2004.

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