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• Biography:

• Research Interests:

  • Wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks: connectivity, energy-effiiency, capacity, etc.
  • Distributed systems and mobile computing.
  • Parallel/cluster simulations for large-scale networks.



• Representative Publications:

  1. Ning Li, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lui Sha. Design and Analysis of an MST-Based Topology Control Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 4(3): 1195-1206, May 2005 (preliminary version in IEEE INFOCOM 2003).
  2. Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou. Localized Fault-Tolerant Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. To appear in IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems (special issue on localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks) (preliminary version in ACM MOBICOM 2004).
  3. Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou. Localized Topology Control Algorithms for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (preliminary version in IEEE INFOCOM 2004).
  4. Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou. A Scalable, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Networks. To appear in ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks.
  5. Ning Li and Jennifer C. Hou. Topology Control in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks, Combinatorial Optimization in Communication Networks, D.-Z. Du, M. Cheng and Y. Li (Eds), Springer, 2005.
  6. Jennifer C. Hou, Ning Li, and Ivan Stojmenovic. Topology Construction and Maintenance in Sensor Networks, Handbook of Sensor Networks, I. Stojmenovic (Ed), John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  7. Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, and Ning Li, Power Management and Control in Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Y. Pan and Y. Xiao (Eds), Nova Science Publishers, 2005.
  8. A. Sobeih, W.-p. Chen, J. C. Hou, L. Kung, N. Li, H. Lim, H.-y. Tyan, H. Zhang. J-Sim: A Simulation and Emulation Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks. To appear in IEEE Wireless Communications.