Weihua Zhuang (莊衛華, 庄卫华)

Weihua Zhuang (莊衛華, 庄卫华)
Professor, PhD, FIEEE, FCAE, FEIC, PEng
Tier I Canada Research Chair

Broadband Communicationa Research (BBCR) Group
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Telephone: (519) 888-4567, Extension 35354
Department fax: (519) 746-3077
Email: wzhuang at uwaterloo dot ca
Home page: http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~wzhuang

Office: EIT 4159

Research Interests

Wireless Communications
Wireless Networking
Radio Positioning

Current research activities focus on wireless communications and networks: distributed resource allocation, mobility management, quality-of-service provisioning, medium access control, scheduling, call admission control, congestion control, routing, cross-layer design and optimization, heterogeneous wireless and wireline interworking, mobile user location in wireless networks.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), 2012.
Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), 2011.
Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks, 2010.
Fellow, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to mobile communications and networks, 2008.
The Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, 2008 .
The Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) for demonstrated excellence of scientific and academic contributions, the Ontario Government, 2001.

The Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, 2011.
The Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Ottawa, Canada, September 2010.
The Best Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
The Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Hong Kong, July 2008.
The Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Vancouver, August 2007.
The Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.
The Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Hong Kong, March 2007.

The Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, for outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service, 2011.
Marsland Fellowship, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, for demonstrated exceptional achievements in research, teaching, and dedication to the Department and the University, 2008.
The Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, for outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service, 2008.
The Distinguished Performance Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, for outstanding contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service, 2006.
The Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo, for outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service, 2005 .

Editorship, Lectureship, and Conference Organization

Symposia Chair, IEEE Globecom 2011, Houston, Texas, USA
TPC Co-Chair, Wireless Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom 2008
TPC Co-Chair, Cross Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium, Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2007
TPC Co-Chair, Cross Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium, Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2006
TPC Co-Chair, 1st ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP), 2005
TPC Chair, International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN), 2003

Courses Taught

ECE604 Stochastic Processes (Fall 2010)
ECE614 Communications over Fading Dispersive Channels (Winter 2011)
ECE316 Probability Theory and Random Processes (Winter 2010)
ECE414 Wireless Communications (Winter 2011)
ECE318 Communication Systems
ECE411 Digital Communications

Textbook

J.W. Mark and W. Zhuang, Wireless Communications and Networking, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-040905-7, 2003 (Adoption list of universities). The book has been translated to Chinese: 无线通信与网络, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, China, ISBN 7-120-00048-9, 2004.

Selected Recent Journal Publications (complete list)

H. Liang, B.J. Choi, A. Abdrabou, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "'Decentralized economic dispatch in microgrids via heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, to appear.
W. Zhuang and M. Ismail, "Cooperation in wireless communication networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, to appear.
W. Song and W. Zhuang, "Performance analysis of probabilistic multipath transmission of video streaming traffic over multi-radio wireless devices," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, to appear.
Z. Li, S. Guo, D. Zeng, S. Lu, D. Chen and W. Zhuang, "On the throughput of feedbackless segmented network coding in delay tolerant networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, to appear.
H. Liang and W. Zhuang, "'Efficient on-demand data service delivery to high-speed trains in cellular/infostation integrated networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, to appear.
B. J. Choi, H. Liang, X. Shen, and W. Zhuang, "DCS: Distributed asynchronous clock synchronization in delay tolerant networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear.
Y.-K. Huang, A.-C. Pang, P.-C. Hsiu, W. Zhuang, and P. Liu, "Distributed throughput optimization for ZigBee cluster-tree networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear.
H. Liang and W. Zhuang, "Cooperative data dissemination via roadside WLANs," IEEE Communications Magazine, to appear.
M. Ismail and W. Zhuang, "A distributed multi-service resource allocation algorithm in heterogeneous wireless access medium," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 425-432, Feb. 2012.
M. Ismail and W. Zhuang, "Network cooperation for energy saving in green radio communications," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 76-81, Oct. 2011. Digital Object Identifier:10.1109/MWC.2011.6056695
S. Gunawardena and W. Zhuang, "Capacity analysis and call admission Control in distributed cognitive radio networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 3110 – 3120, Sept. 2011. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TWC.2011.072011.110406
H. Shan, H.T. Cheng, and W. Zhuang, "Cross-layer cooperative MAC protocol in distributed wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 2603-2615, Aug. 2011. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TWC.2011.060811.101196
H.T. Cheng, H. Shan, and W. Zhuang, "Infotainment and road safety service support in vehicular networking: from a communication perspective," Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Integrated Vehicle Dynamics, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 2020-2038, August 2011.
H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Simple channel sensing order in cognitive radio networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 29, no. 4, April 2011.
A. Abdrabou and W. Zhuang, "Probabilistic delay control and road side unit placement for vehicular ad hoc networks with disrupted connectivity," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 129-139, Jan. 2011.

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Graduate Students

Khadige Abboud (PhD)
Sailesh Bharati (PhD)
Subodha Gunawardena (PhD)
Muhammad Ismail (PhD)
Hao Liang (PhD)
Kamal Rahimi Malekshan (PhD)
Neda Mohammadizadeh (PhD)
Hassan Omar (PhD)
Qinghua Shen (PhD)
Yong Zhou (PhD)

Recent Supervised Theses

Md. Forkan Uddin, "Throughput optimization in multihop wireless networks with random access," PhD, 2011 (currently an Assistant Professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh).
H. Samuel, "Reliable communications over heterogeneous wireless networks," PhD, 2010 (currently a Research Engineer at RIM, Waterloo).
H.T. Cheng, "Radio resource management for wireless mesh networks supporting heterogeneous traffic," PhD, 2009 (currently a Research Engineer at Huawei, Ottawa).
P. Wang, "Distributed medium access control for QoS support in wireless networks," PhD, 2008 (currently an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore).
A. Abdrabou, "Network-layer resource allocation for wireless ad hoc networks," PhD, 2008 (currently an Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE).
W. Song, "Resource allocation for cellular/WLAN integrated networks," PhD, 2007 (currently an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Canada).
H. Jiang, "QoS oriented resource allocation in wireless multimedia communications," PhD, 2006 (currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada). Hai Jiang received the "Outstanding achievement in graduate studies" award at the UW's Ninety-Third Convocation celebration.
Y. Cheng, "Efficient resource allocation in Differentiated Services networks," PhD, 2003 (currently an Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA).
V. Huang, "Efficient resource allocation in wideband CDMA multimedia communications," PhD, 2003 (currently employed by Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden).
L. Cong, "Mobile location in wideband CDMA cellular systems," PhD, 2003 (currently employed by Qualcomm, San Diego, USA).
A.H.S. Mohammadi, "Application of turbo-codes in digital communications," PhD, 2001 (currently a faculty member at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada).
M. Soleimanipour, "Optimal resource management in W-CDMA wireless multimedia systems," PhD, 1999 (subsequently employed as a faculty member at Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran).
Khaled Ali, "QoS support for voice packet transmission over cognitive radio networks," MASc, 2010 (currently a PhD student at the University of Calgary).
W. Alasmary, "The mobility impact in IEEE 802.11p infrastructureless vehicular networks," MASc, 2010 (currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto).
K. Abboud, "Modeling and analysis for emergency messaging delay in vehicular ad hoc networks," MASc, 2009 (currently a PhD student at the University of Waterloo).
F. Wang, "Adaptive weighted scheduling in cognitive radio networks", MASc, 2009.
Y. Zhang, "Vertical handoff between 802.11 and 802.16 wireless access networks", MASc, 2008.
T. AbdelKader, "QoS routing in wireless mesh network," MASc, 2008 (currently a PhD student at the University of Waterloo).
M. Alsabaan, "Link layer priority management techniques for supporting real time traffic in wireless mesh networks," MASc, 2007 (currently a PhD student at University of Waterloo).
S. Chang, "MAC protocol for integrated video/data services in WLAN," MASc, 2006 (currently employed by Symantec in San Francisco with a PhD degree from the Iowa State University).
Z. Li, "Resource allocation in multiband OFDM systems," MASc, 2006 (currently a PhD student at the University of Waterloo).
S. Teymori, "Packet scheduling for heavy-tailed traffic in wireless networks," MASc, 2004 (subsequently employed by Biolab Canada, Oakville, Ontario).
R. Zheng, "Scalable multiple description coding and distributed video streaming over 3G mobile networks," MASc, 2003 (subsequently employed by Huawei Tech., ShenZhen, China).
K.H.K. Chan, "An analysis of wireless high-speed data services for cellular CDMA systems," MASc, 2002 (subsequently employed by Qualcomm, San Diego).
X. Liu, "Inter-cluster soft handoff in 3G/IP Interworking," MASc, 2002 (subsequently employed by Research In Motion, Waterloo).
R.W.K. Ha, "Split-domain TCP-friendly protocol for MPEG-4 adaptive rate video streaming over 3G networks," MASc, 2002 (now employed by Philips Research, Shanghai, China).
C.W. Leong, "CAC for voice and data services in wireless communications," MASc, 2001 (subsequently employed by Banco Comercial de Macau).
J.S.Y. Lee, "Channel precoding with small envelope variations for pi/4-DQPSK and MSK over frequency-selective slow fading channels," MASc, 2000 (subsequently employed by Kaval Telecom, Toronto).
S. Lombardi, "Soft handoff in a CDMA packet switched wireless environment," MASc, 1998 (subsequently employed by Nortel, Dallas, TX).
J.Q. Chak, "Connection admission control for an indoor multimedia wireless DS-CDMA system," MASc, 1996 (subsequently employed by Lucent Wireless Lab, Toronto).
Y.-L. Chan, "Channel precoding with constant amplitude for QPSK over slowly fading channels using dimension partitioning technique," MASc, 1996 (subsequently employed by Clearnet, Toronto).
S.F. Manji, "Reverse link power control for multimedia packetized DS-CDMA in a slowly Rayleigh fading environment," MASc, 1996 (subsequently joining the PhD program at Rutgers University, New Jersey).
X. Zhang, "Channel assignment and sharing for wireless cellular networks," MASc, 1996 (subsequently employed by Lucent Technologies, New Jersey).