Weihua Zhuang (莊衛華, 庄卫华)

Weihua Zhuang (莊衛華, 庄卫华)
Professor, PhD, FIEEE, PEng
Electrical and Computer Engineering

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 Multimedia 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

IEEE Fellow, 2008, for contributions to mobile communications and networks.
Marsland Fellowship, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, for demonstrated exceptional achievements in research, teaching, and dedication to the department, the university, December 2008.
The Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Hong Kong, July 2008.
The 2008 Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.
The Outstanding Performance Award, 2008, University of Waterloo, for outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service.
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 Distinguished Performance Award, 2006, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, for outstanding contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service.
The Outstanding Performance Award, 2005, University of Waterloo, for outstanding achievements in teaching, scholarship, and service.
The Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2001 from the Ontario Government for demonstrated excellence of scientific and academic contributions.

Editorship and Lectureship

Courses Taught

ECE614 Communications over Fading Dispersive Channels (Winter 2009)
ECE604 Stochastic Processes (Fall 2008)
ECE414 Wireless Communications (Winter 2008)
ECE316 Probability Theory and Random Processes
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 (since 2007)

H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "QoS-driven MAC-layer resource allocation for wireless mesh networks with non-altruistic node cooperation and service differentiation," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, to appear.
P. Wang and W. Zhuang, "A collision-free MAC scheme for multimedia wireless mesh backbone," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 3577-3589, July 2009.
A. Abdrabou and W. Zhuang, "Statistical QoS routing for IEEE 802.11 multihop ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1542 - 1552, March 2009.
H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Pareto optimal resource management for wireless mesh networks with QoS assurance: joint node clustering and subcarrier allocation," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1573 - 1583, March 2009.
H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Novel packet-level resource allocation with effective QoS provisioning for wireless mesh networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 694-700, Feb. 2009.
W. Song and W. Zhuang, "Multi-service load sharing for resource management in the cellular/WLAN integrated network," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 725-735, Feb. 2009.
H. Shan, W. Zhuang, Z. Wang, "Distributed cooperative MAC for multi-hop wireless networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 126-133, 2009.
P. Wang, H. Jiang, and W. Zhuang, "A new MAC scheme supporting voice/data traffic in wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1491-1503, Dec. 2008.
P. Wang, H. Jiang, W. Zhuang, and H.V. Poor, "Redefinition of max-min fairness in multi-hop wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 12, pp.4786-4791, Dec. 2008.
H. Jiang, P. Wang, W. Zhuang, and H.V. Poor, "Service time analysis of a distributed medium access control scheme," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 3988-3998, Oct. 2008.
A. Abdrabou and W. Zhuang, "Stochastic delay guarantees and statistical call admission control for IEEE 802.11 single-hop ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 3972-3981, Oct. 2008.
P. Wang and W. Zhuang, "A token-based scheduling scheme for WLANs supporting voice/data traffic and its performance analysis,"IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 4, April 2008.
H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "An optimization framework for balancing throughput and fairness in wireless networks with QoS support," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 584-593, Feb. 2008.
A. Abdrabou and W. Zhuang, "Service time approximation in IEEE 802.11 single-hop ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 305-313, Jan. 2008.
H.T. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Joint power-frequency-time resource allocation in clustered wireless mesh networks," IEEE Network, vol. 22, no. 1. pp.45-51, Jan./Feb. 2008.
H. Jiang, P. Wang, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "An interference aware distributed resource management scheme for CDMA-based wireless mesh backbone." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 4558-4567, Dec. 2007.
W. Song, Y. Cheng, and 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 service," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 1757-1771, Sept. 2007.
H.Jiang, K.-H. Liu, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "An effective resource management scheme for UWB networks with simultaneous transmissions," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 3005-3015, Aug. 2007.
H. Jiang, P. Wang, and W. Zhuang, "A distributed channel access scheme with guaranteed priority and enhanced fairness," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 2114-2125, June 2007.
H. Jiang, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, "Distributed medium access control for next generation CDMA wireless networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Next Generation CDMA vs. OFDMA for 4G Wireless Applications, vol. 14, no. 3, pp.25-31, June 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, H. Jiang, and W. Zhuang, "Performance analysis of the WLAN-first scheme in cellular/WLAN interworking," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1932-1943, May 2007.
P. Wang, H. Jiang, and W. Zhuang, "Capacity inprovement and analysis for voice/data traffic over WLAN," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 4. pp. 1530-1541, April 2007.
H. Jiang and W. Zhuang, "Effective packet scheduling with fairness adaptation in ultra-wideband wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 680-690, Feb. 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.

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Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Ho Ting (Anderson) Cheng (PhD)
Subodha Gunawardena (PhD)
Yu-Kai Huang (PhD, visiting)
Hao Liang (PhD)
Shaohe Lv (PhD, visiting)
Hany Samuel (PhD)
Md. Forkan Uddin (PhD)
Khadige Abboud (MASc)
Waleed Al-Asmary (MASc)
Khaled Ali (MASc)
Atef Abdrabou (PDF)
Hangguan Shan (PDF)

Recent Supervised Theses

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 (now a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Waterloo and University of Toronto).
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 MPS Inc., 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 (currently a faculty member at Sharif University of Technology and Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran).
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 (subsequently employed by Motorola, Wuhan, China).
Z. Li, "Resource allocation in multiband OFDM systems," MASc, 2006.
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).

Last updated in September 2009 by W. Zhuang.