Current Projects

Our current focus can be categorized into the following R&D thrusts. Our technical motivation and research methodology can be found here.

1. Wireless ad hoc networks

• Dyanmic ad-hoc wireless networks (DAWN), supported by MURI/ARO (PI: Jennifer Hou; Co-PI: Nitin Vaidya)

 
• Towards building a high-performance, interference-mitigated and robust wireless mesh network, supported by Motorola Research (PI: Jennifer Hou)

2. Data-centric wireless sensor networks

• Analysis of fundamental behaviors with respect to coverage, connectivity, lifetime, power analysis, supported by NSF ANI program (PI: Jennifer Hou; Co-PIs: Lui Sha, P. R. Kumar) and MURI/ONR (PI: Lui Sha; Co-PIs: Jennifer Hou)

 
• Protocol design and systems prototyping for acoustic tracking, supported by MURI/ONR (PI: Lui Sha; Co-PI: Jennifer Hou)

 
• Detection, identification and tracking in sensor-cyber multi-domain networks: perimeter surveillance and plume detection applications, supported by ONR/Oak Ridge National Labs (PI: Jennifer Hou; Co-PI: David Yau; click here for the parent website)

3. Cyber physical systems for healthcare

• An open, dependable and evolvable software infrastructure for assisted-living, supported by NSF Computer Systems Research (PI: Jennifer Hou; Co-PIs: Marco Caccamo, Carl Gunter, Karrie Karahalios, Lui Sha)

4. Network modeling and simulation

• Enabling techniques for large-scale network simulation and emulation, supported by DARPA network modeling and simulation (NMS) program (PI: Jennifer Hou), NSF next generation software (NGS) program (PI: Jennifer Hou, Co-PI: Roy Campbell), and a unrestricted gift Cisco, Inc (PI: Jennifer Hou).

 
• J-Sim: design, implementation, and evaluation of a component-based, compositional network simulation and emulation environment, supported byDARPA/NMS (PI: Jennifer Hou), NSF/NGS (PI: Jennifer Hou, Co-PI: Roy Campbell), and a unrestricted gift from Cisco, Inc.

5. Network measurement and diagnostics

• Tomography: traffic measurement/control and topology construction, supported by NSF ITR (PI: Kihong Park; Co-PI: Jennifer Hou) and MURI/AFOSR (PI: Jennifer Hou)

 
• Intelligent network diagnostics (unfunded)

• QoS-driven multicast routing, supported by NSF ANI (PI: Jennifer Hou)

 
• Reliable multicast, supported by NSF ANI (PI: Jennifer Hou)

 
• Multicast congestion control, supported by NSF ANI (PI: Jennifer Hou)
• An Experimental Testbed for Research in Advanced Wireless Communications
  (PI: Mike Fitz, Co-PIs: Urbashi Mitra, Steve Ellingson, Jennifer Hou, Raj Jain, and Hitay Ozbay; NSF/Special Projects)

 
• On Temporal QoS and Fault Tolerance issues for ATM-based distributed environments
  (PI: Jennifer Hou; NSF/CAREER)

 
• Communication Middleware for QoS Control in Distributed Real-Time Environments
  (PI: Jennifer Hou, Co-PIs: Jason Han, Raj Jain; DARPA/ITO)

 
• Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Real-Time Task Management
  (PI: Jennifer Hou; DARPA/ITO)

 
• A Myrinet Testbed for Research in Distributed Real-Time Environments
  (PI: Jennifer Hou, Co-PIs: Ching-Chih Jason Han, Yuan F. Zheng, and Fusun Ozguner; NSF/CISE)

 
• Interactive medical data on demand: a high-performance image-based warehouse across heterogeneous environments
  (PI: Don Stredney, Co-PIs: Roger Crawfis, W.-C. Feng, Jennifer Hou, Renee Miller, D. Panda, P. Sadayappan, and Al Stutz; National Library of Medicine/NGI)

 
• Real-Time Communications in FDDI Networks and Dual Bus Networks

 
• Application of Distance- Constrained Scheduling to Real-Time Communications

 
• Design and Analysis of WDMA Protocol for Passive Star-Coupled Lightwave Networks

Acknowledgements

• NSF CAREER program (PI: Hou)
• NSF Instrumentation Grant for Research program (PI: Hou)
• NSF Special Projects in Networking (PI: Fitz; Co-PI: Hou)
• NSF Special Projects in Networking (PI: Hou; Co-PIs: Sha and Kumar)
• NSF Travel Grant program for International Processing in Sensor Networks (PI; 2002-2004)
• NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research program (PI: Hou)
• NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research program (PI: Hou)
• NSF Information Technology Research program (PI: Park; Co-PI: Hou)
• NSF Next Generation Software program (PI: Hou; Co-PI: Campbell)
• NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research program (PI: Hou; Co-PI: Ozbay)
• NSF Computer Systems Research program (PI: Hou; Co-PI: Caccamo, Gunter, Karahalios, Sha)
• NSF Network Technology and Systems program (PI: Hou; subcontractor: CUWiN)
• NSF Computing Research Infrastructure program (PI: Hou; Co-PIs: Y.-C. Hu, S. Meyn, and V. Veeravalli)
• NSF Computer Systems Research (EHS) program (PI: Sha; Co-PIs: Hou and Meseguer)
• NSF Small-Bussiness Technology Transfer (STTR) program (PI: Hou)
• DoD/AFOSR Multidiciplinary Research of Univresity Research program (PI: Hou; Prime University: UCSB)
• DoD/ARO Multidiciplinary Research of Univresity Research program (PI: Hou; Co-PI: Vaidya; Prime University: UCSC)
• DoD/ONR Multidiciplinary Research of Univresity Research program (PI: Sha; Co-PI: Caccamo, Hou; Prime University: UIUC)
• DARPA Embeddable Systems program (PI: Hou)
• DARPA/ITO Quorum program (PI: Hou)
• DARPA Network Modeling and Simulation program (PI: Hou; subcontractor to UC Berkeley)
• National Library of Medicine (PI: Stredney; Co-PI: Hou)
• Boeing-Information Trust Institute (PI: Hou; Co-PI: Meseguer)
• ONR/Oak Ridge National Laboratories (PI: Hou; subcontractor to ORNL)

• Cisco University Research program
• Fujitsu Labs of America
• Intel Curriculum Development for the Internet Exchange Architecture (IXA) program
• Motorola University Partnerships in Research Program.

• Richard T. Cheng Endowed Fellowship (Ahmed Sobeih 2002-2003)
• Brain Korea 21 Fellowship (Hyuk Lim 2002-2003, Joseph Jeon 2007-2008)
• Korea Research Foundation (Jong-Kwon Lee 2003-2004, Tae-Suk Kim 2005-2006, Kyung-Joon Park 2006-2007, and LaeYoung Kim 2006-2007)
• Vodafone Graduate Fellowship (Honghai Zhang 2003-2004, Ning Li 2004-2005, Ahmed Sobeih 2006-2008, and Yong Yang 2007-2008)
• Motorola Center for Communications Fellowship (Chunyu Hu 2005-2006)
• Taiwan Ministry of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (Tingyu Lin 2005-2006)
• Taiwan National Science Council Scholarship (Jen-Jee Chen 2007-2008)
• R C Lee Centenary Scholarship (Ray Lam 2006-2008)