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Dr. Qiang Ni ( )
Welcome to my homepage
Short
Bio: I am a Reader in the Electronic
& Computer Engineering Division, School of Engineering
& Design at Brunel University,
Uxbridge, West London, UK.
Prior
to that, I
was a Lecturer at ECE Department, Brunel University till July 2010. Between 2004 and 2005 I
was a senior researcher at the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. From 2001 to 2004, I was a research fellow at the Planete Group, INRIA
Sophia Antipolis, France.
My
research work in France can be found at INRIA. Previously, I was with the Department
of Electronics & Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
(HUST), Wuhan, P.R. China.
In 2000, I visited the Wireless and Networking Group of Microsoft
Research, Asia
Lab and conducted research at the Microsoft Research Asia Lab.
I received my Ph.D. degree in engineering from the HUST,
China. During my college study, I took a training program in TCP/IP
networking engineering at the Cisco
Networking Academy and received a Best
Student Award from the Cisco Networking Academy.
My
current research interests are pervasive
wireless and mobile communications networks including Wireless LANs
(802.11 WiFi), Wireless MANs (802.16 WiMaX), Wireless PANs (Ad-hoc, Sensors & 802.15.3
UWB), 802.20 MBWA, 3G/4G LTE mobile cellular networks and their
applications to Smart Grids/Smart Home Communications, Intelligent
Transportation and Internet of Things.
I am a Senior
Member of IEEE, Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Member of IET and
Cambridge Wireless. In the past I was a Voting Member at the IEEE 802.11
Wireless LAN Standard Working Group.
Research
Areas:
Link to the Intelligent
Wireless Communication Networking Research Group.
- Wireless Multiple Access
Techniques;
- Intelligent Wireless communication network
design, performance analysis & optimization, QoS
provisioning, and modeling;
- Integrated heterogeneous multi-hop,
multi-radio, multi-channel wireless mesh networks (e.g., IEEE
802.11/802.16/802.15/802.20, 2G, 3G, 4G, DVB-H/T);
- Cross-layer (e.g. Joint PHY/MAC/Application
Layers) optimizations for mobile wireless communication networks;
- Wireless Locationing/Positioning,
and Sensoring Techniques;
- Cognitive multi-radio/multi-channel/mutil-hop adaptation and open Spectrum;
- Wireless standardization activities (See my contributions at IEEE 802.11n/802.11e, IEEE 802.16, IEEE
802.20 Working Groups);
- Smart Grids/Smart Home and Intelligent
Transportation Systems.
Research
Projects and Funding:
Collaboration
of New Funding Project Opportunities (e.g. EPSRC, Royal Society, RAEng, EU FP7, Industry-sponsored, International)
are very welcome.
- I am leading the Intelligent
Wireless Communication Networking Research Team within the Wireless
Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC).
- Principal Investigator, UK EPSRC
Grant (EP/G070350/1), Title: QoS-Enabled
Power Efficient Next-Generation Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
Lead Partner: Motorola.
- Co-Investigator & Member of
the Consortium, EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Smart Grid Project,
Title: HiPerDNO - High Performance Computing
Technologies for Smart Distribution Network Operation. Joint
ICT-Energy, Grant No: 248135, 4.4M Euro, duration: 2010-2013, 11
partners, e.g. Brunel (Coordinator), IBM, University of Oxford, EDF,
INDRA.
- Principal Investigator, UK EPSRC
CASE Award on Optimisation of OFDMA-based Wireless Access Networks.
Industrial Partner: Motorola.
- Principal Investigator, UK PMI2
Project link with China, funded by British Council.
- Principal Investigator, a project
Funded by the UK West Focus Organisation, Nov 2006 - Mar 2007.
- Principal Investigator, UK EPSRC
CASE Award for New Academics.
- Senior Research Fellow in the project
"Wireless Networks & Communications: QoS
Provisioning and Resource Management" funded by the Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI) -- NCNRC (National Communications
Network Research Center). It is
a joint project with Intel Corporation and several Irish
universities (EUR 5.6M, Grant No. 03/IN3/I396). See my contributed
publications there.
- Co-Investigator, "Adaptive
Air-Interface and Link-Layer Communication Protocols for MIMO-OFDM
4G Mobile & Wireless Communication System"
funded by the National Science Foundation of China (RMB 7M in total,
1M funding to HUST, Grant No. 60496310).
- Research fellow & Expert Research
Engineer involved in the French National Telecommunication and
Network Project VTHD++ (Next-Generation
Very High-Speed Communication Networks). See my
activities and contributed publications there.
- Member, "High-speed
Broadband Wireless IP Mobile Communication System and
Technology" funded by the Chinese 863 Hi-Tech Research
and Development Program (Grant No. 2001AA123014).
Selected
Recent Publications:
Copyright Notice: The following papers are copyrighted by the
corresponding publishers, you can download them only if you follow their
rules (e.g., for personal use or academic use).
Selected IEEE
Standard Contributions:
- Qiang Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti and Y. Xiao. "AFR
Partial MAC Proposal for IEEE 802.11n". IEEE 802.11n
Standard Working Group Draft Proposal Document: IEEE
802.11-04-0950-00-000n, August 13, 2004. (.pdf)
- Qiang Ni, P. Ansel, and T. Turletti.
"A Fair Scheduling Scheme for HCF". IEEE 802.11e
Working Group Document: IEEE 802.11-03-0577-01-000e, July 23, 2003.
(.pdf)
Selected Academic Research Papers:
- C.
Zarakovitis, Qiang Ni, D. Skordoulis. "Cross-Layer
Design for Single-Cell OFDMA Systems with Heterogeneous QoS and Partial CSIT". IEEE WCNC 09, April
5-8 2009, Budapest.
- T.
Li, Qiang Ni, D. Malone, D. Leith, Y. Xiao, T. Turletti. "Aggregation with Fragment
Retransmission for Very High-Speed WLANs". IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 17,
No. 2, April 2009, pp. 591-604.
- A.
Vinel, Qiang Ni, D. Staehle, A. Turlikov.
"Capacity Analysis of Reservation-based Random Access for
Broadband Wireless Access Networks". IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 27, Issue 2,
February 2009, pp. 172 - 181.
- Qiang
Ni, J. Jehanzeb
et al. "A Minimum Distance guided Genetic Algorithm for
Multi-User Detection in a Multi-Carrier CDMA Wireless Broadband
System". Broadnets 08, Sept. 2008,
pp. 500 - 505.
- Qiang
Ni, et al. "Investigation
of Bandwidth Request Mechanisms under Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Mode
of WiMAX Networks". IEEE
Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 5, May 2007, pp. 132-138. <This paper was rated as one of the ten most
popular articles published in ComSoc (IEEE
Communications Society) and as a 47th of the IEEE Top-100 in June
2007 and as a 82nd of the IEEE Top-100 in August 2007>
(.pdf)
- Qiang
Ni. "Performance
Analysis and Enhancements for IEEE 802.11e Wireless Networks".
IEEE Network, Vol. 19, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 21-27.
<This paper was rated as the Top 100
downloaded IEEE documents as measured by the IEEE Xplore - Top 60th in Aug. 2005 and Top 78th in
Oct. 2005> (.pdf)
- Y.
Xiao, H. Li, K. Wu, K. K. Leung, and Qiang Ni. "On
Optimizing Backoff Counter Reservation and
Classifying Stations for the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Wireless LANs".
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol.
17, No. 7, July 2006, pp. 713-722.
- Qiang
Ni, T. Li, T. Turletti,
and Y. Xiao. "Saturation
Throughput Analysis of Error-Prone 802.11 Wireless Networks".
Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
(JWCMC), Vol. 5, Issue 8, Dec. 2005, pp. 945-956. (.pdf)
- Qiang
Ni, Q. Zhang, W. Zhu. "SARLM: Sender-adaptive and
Receiver-driven Layered Multicast for Scalable Video". IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 01), Japan,
August 22-25, 2001. A
full version in IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology (CSVT),
Vol. 15, Issue 4, April 2005, pp. 482-495.
- G. Cantieni, Qiang
Ni, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti. "Performance
Analysis under Finite Load and Improvements for Multirate
802.11b". Elsevier Computer Communications
Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 10, June 2005, pp. 1095-1109. <This paper was rated as the Top 4-th hottest
article within the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal during
the period of April 2005 - June 2005>
- P.
Ansel, Qiang Ni, and T. Turletti. "FHCF:
A Simple and Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e".
Springer/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks
and Applications (MONET), Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 391-403. (.pdf)
- Qiang
Ni, I. Aad,
C. Barakat, and T. Turletti.
"Modelling and
Analysis of Slow CW Decrease for IEEE 802.11 WLAN".
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personnel, Indoor and
Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2003), Beijing, China, September
2003. A
full version in
Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 14,
September 2005, pp. 1605-1617.
- Qiang Ni, L. Romdhani,
and T. Turletti. "A Survey of QoS
Enhancements for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN".
Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
(JWCMC), John Wiley & Sons Publisher, Vol. 4, Issue 5, August
2004, pp. 547-566. (.pdf)
Professional
Services:
- Editor of Wiley
Journal of Security and Communication Networks.
- Voting member of the
IEEE
802.11 Working Group standards (2003-2006);
- Member of IEEE;
- Track Chair, The 2008 International
Symposium on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-08),
IEEE, Australia, Oct. 13 - 15, 2008;
- Publicity/Sponsorship Chair, ICST Mobilight
09, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009;
- Session Chair, IEEE Broadnets 2008, London, UK, Sept 8-11, 2008;
- Program Chair of the
3rd International Workshop on Performance Analysis and Enhancement
of Wireless Networks (PAEWN 08), to be held in conjunction with
the IEEE AINA 2008;
- TPC member, IEEE Globecom
2009;
- TPC member, The 66th IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2007 - Fall), Wireless
Applications Track, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-3
October 2007;
- TPC member, The 8th IEEE International
Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
(WOWMOM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, 18-21 June 2007;
- TPC member, IEEE International Symposium
on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07) to
be held in Canada, May 21-23, 2007;
- TPC member, Services and Applications
Program, IEEE
WCNC 2007
(IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007), Hong
Kong, March 2007;
- TPC member, The
31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Tampa,
Florida, USA, 14-16 November 2006;
- Publicity Chair and TPC member, International Wireless
Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) - Symposium on Mobile Computing,
Vancouver, Canada, 2006;
- TPC member, The First
IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation and
Enhancement of Wireless and Mobile Networks (PEWMN 2006),
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, April 18-April 20,
2006;
- TPC member, International Wireless
Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) - Symposium
on WLAN and WPAN, Vancouver, Canada, 2006;
- TPC member, The First International Workshop on Wireless
Personal and Local Area Networks (WILLOPAN 2006), New
Delhi, India, January 8th, 2006;
- TPC member, The First IEEE
International Workshop on Security and Pervasive Multimedia
Environments (MultiSec 2005),
Irvine, California, USA, December 12-14, 2005;
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member, IEEE GLOBECOM
05 conference - Symposium on Computer and Network Security,
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2005;
- TPC member, IEEE
WirelessCom 2005 conference - Symposium on
Wireless Local and Personal Area Networks, Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii, USA, June
13-16th, 2005;
- TPC member, 2005
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Nassau Inn in Princeton, NJ, USA,
April 18-19, 2005;
- TPC member, WiOPT'05 (Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and
Wireless Networks), Trentino,
Italy, April 3-7, 2005;
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) member, IEEE VTC 2003
- Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Symposium, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 4-9, 2003;
- Session Chair, Wireless Networking Symposium
of IEEE
ICC 2004 (International Conference on Communications),
Paris, France, June 20-24, 2004;
- Technical Specialist Reviewer, WiOPT'04
(Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks), University of
Cambridge, UK, March 24 - 26, 2004;
- Reviewer for journals: IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications (ToWC), IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Techology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications (JSAC), IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network,
IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, Wiley
Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (JWCMC),
Springer/Kluwer Journal of Mobile
Networking and Applications (MONET), Elsevier Computer
Communications Journal (ComCom), ACM MC2R
Journal, IEE Proceedings of Communications, JCN, etc.;
- Reviewer for conferences: IEEE Infocom 2005/2004, IEEE ICC 05, IEEE WCNC 05,
IEEE WiOPT 05, IEEE WCNC 2004/03, IEEE ICC
2003, IEEE VTC 2003, IEEE Globecom 2003, WiOPT 2004/03, IEEE WONS, IEEE ICDCS 2003, IEEE
NGC 2002, etc.
- Examiner for PhD/Mphil
thesis.
Contact:
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