Kai Zeng

Teaching Assistant, Microelectronic Circuits I, Electrical and Computer Engineering Design, Discrete-time Signal and System Analysis, Principles of Communication Systems

Tutor, Analysis of Probabilistic Signals and Systems

Research [Top]

My research interests are in the areas of wireless ad hoc/sensor networks and mesh networks with emphases on throughput and energy efficient protocols, cross-layer design, routing, scheduling, and network security.

[Research @ WPI]

Efficient cross-layer protocol design for opportunistic routing in multi-rate wireless mesh networks

Proposed an efficient forwarding candidate coordination scheme using energy detection technique.
Involved in the implementation of the protocol in GlomoSim.

Secure link quality measurement in wireless sensor and mesh networks

Proposed a secure link quality measurement mechanism which prevents malicious nodes from reporting a false measurement result.

Opportunistic routing in multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh networks

Proposed a unified framework to compute the end-to-end throughput of opportunistic routing in multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh networks.

Geographic opportunistic routing in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Analyzed principles of the local behavior of geographic opportunistic routing.

Proposed an energy-efficient geographic opportunistic routing scheme in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.

Energy efficient protocols design in wireless sensor networks

Designed energy efficient geographic routing protocols in wireless sensor networks.

Implemented the protocols within the GloMoSim library on Linux.

Fault-tolerant event boundary detection in wireless sensor networks

Co-designed secure and fault-tolerant event boundary detection algorithms.

Implemented and simulated the algorithms in MATLAB.

Multipath routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks

Designed multipath geographic routing protocols in wireless Ad hoc networks.

Implemented the protocols within the GloMoSim library on Linux.

Random key pre-distribution in wireless sensor networks

Co-designed Random key pre-distribution protocols in wireless sensor networks.

Implemented the numerical simulation codes in Maple.

[Research @ HUST]

Admission control in wireless cellular networks

Designed admission control algorithms in wireless cellular networks with/without retrial.

Implemented and simulated the algorithms in OPNET.

Network performance monitor system, Project Manager

System architecture and communication protocols design.

Implemented center server program using Delphi on Windows platform.

Network performance monitor system transplantation

Transplanted the system from Linux+Unix+Oracle platform to Windows+SQL Server platform.

User interface and database design and implementation.

QoS study in wireless networks

Implemented and analyzed CIF-Q algorithm in NS-2 simulator on Linux.

Publications [Top]

[Published/Accepted Journal Papers]

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Jie Yang, and Donald R. Brown III, "On throughput efficiency of geographic opportunistic routing in multihop wireless networks", accepted by ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).
Kai Zeng, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Patrick J. Moran, "Energy aware efficient geographical routing in lossy wireless sensor networks with environmental energy supply", ACM Wireless Networks (WINET), 2007, [Online first].
Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, and Wenjing Lou, "Secure and Fault-tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 2008.
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, and Patrick J. Moran, "On Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 4136-4144, Nov. 2007.
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng, "Routing optimization security in mobile IPv6", Computer Networks, vol. 50, issue 13, pp.2401-2419, 2006.
Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, "A new approach for random key pre-distribution in large-scale wireless sensor networks", Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (Special Issue on Wireless Networks Security), vol. 6, issue 3, pp. 307-318, 2006.
Zeng Kai, Zhao Erdun, Shi Bingxin, ''Study of Admission Control in Mobile Wireless Cellular Networks with Reconnection Phenomenon'', Journal of HUST, March 2004.

[Manuscripts under review/revision]

Kai Zeng and Wenjing Lou, "On geographic collaborative routing in lossy wireless ad Hoc and sensor networks'', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, under review.
Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Hongqiang Zhai, and Kui Ren, "On end-to-end throughput of opportunistic routing in multirate and multihop wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), under revision.
Kai Zeng and Wenjing Lou, "Location-aided opportunistic forwarding in multirate and multihop wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), revision submitted.

[Conference Papers]

Kai Zeng, Zhenyu Yang, and Wenjing Lou, "On capacity of opportunistic routing in multi-radio multi-channel multi-hop wireless networks", submitted.
Kai Zeng, Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, "Towards secure link quality measurement in multihop wireless networks", accepted by GLOBECOM 2008.

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, and Hongqiang Zhai, "On End-to-end Throughput of Opportunistic Routing in Multirate and Multihop Wireless Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 15-17, 2008.

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, "Multi-rate geographic opportunistic routing in wireless ad hoc networks", IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM 2007), Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007.

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Jie Yang, and D. Richard Brown III, "On throughput efficiency of geographic opportunistic routing in multihop wireless networks", The Fourth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness (QShine 2007), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007. Best Paper Runner-up

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Jie Yang, and D. Richard Brown III, "On geographic collaborative forwarding in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks", International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2007), Chicago, IL, USA, August 1-3, 2007.

Kai Zeng, Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, ''Energy Aware Efficient Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Energy Supply", The Third International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2006), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 7-9, 2006.

Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, "Fault-tolerant event boundary detection in wireless sensor networks", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), November 27-December 1, 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Kui Ren, and Patrick J. Moran, "Energy-efficient geographic routing in environmentally powered wireless sensor networks", IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM 2006), Washington, DC, October 23-25, 2006.

Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, and Patrick J. Moran, "On broadcast authentication in wireless sensor networks", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4138, pp. 502-514. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2006), Xi'an, China, August 15-18, 2006. Best Paper Award

Kai Zeng, Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, "Geographic on-demand disjoint multipath routing in wireless ad hoc networks", IEEE MILCOM 2005, October 17-20, 2005, Atlantic City, NJ.

Kui Ren, Kai Zeng and Wenjing Lou, "On efficient key pre-distribution in large scale wireless sensor networks", IEEE MILCOM 2005, October 17-20, 2005, Atlantic City, NJ.

Kai Zeng, Jie Yang, Bingxin Shi. "Priority Admission Scheme for Mobile Cellular Networks with Retrial Phenomenon", IEEE International Conference on Computer and Devices for Communication 2004 (CODEC-04), January 1-3, 2004, Kolkata, India.

Zeng Kai, Zou Ling, "The Simulation and Analysis of the Wireless Packet Fair Queuing Algorithm on NS-2", Future Telecommunications Conference 2001, November 29-30, Beijing, China.

Professional Activities [Top]

Student Member of the IEEE (since 2004)
Associate Member of Sigma Xi (since 2008)
Reviewer of Conferences:

IEEE ICC

IEEE GLOBECOM

IEEE WCNC

IEEE MILCOM

IEEE MASS

ICST QShine
Reviewer of Journals

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Awards and Honors [Top]

Sigma Xi Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (one recipient per year), WPI, 2008
Infocom NSF Student Travel Grant, 2008

Best Paper Runner-up Award, QShine 2007

Best Paper Award, WASA 2006

Milcom Student Travel Grant, 2005, 2006, 2007

WPI Institute Fellowship, WPI Aug.2004-Aug.2005

Excellent Paper Award, HUST 2003

Scholarship for Academic Distinction, HUST 1999, 2002

Graduate with Distinction, HUST 2001

Skills [Top]

C, C++, Pascal, OTcl, Assembly language
VC, CBuilder, Matlab, Maple, Delphi, GloMoSim, OPNET, NS-2
Windows NT, Linux

Courses [Top]

Computer Networks, Modern Wireless Communication, Advanced DSP, Digital Communication, Analysis of Probabilistic/deterministic Signals and Systems
Stochastic Process, Numerical Analysis, Queuing Theory, Matrix Theory, Real Analysis, Discrete Math, Algorithm Design and Analysis
Cryptography and Data Security, Network Security

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