Biography

Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in telecommunication networks from Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina. He is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His current research interests include information assurance, network security, network management, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks, wireless sensor networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks, high-speed networks and the Internet. He has publications and patents in all these areas.
He was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) between July 2003 and July 2007. At UPRM, he taught courses on wireless networks, network design, network management, and network performance analysis. His research and curriculum development efforts were funded among others by National Science Foundation, General Motor, IBM, and PRIDCO, with more than $2 millions in total award amount during the four years at UPRM.
Prior to joining UPRM in July 2003, he worked for several start-up companies and consulting firms, in the areas of voice over IP, fiber optical switching, Internet packet video, network optimizations, and network planning as a technical advisor and a senior consultant. He also worked several years for the Wireless Systems Engineering Department, Nortel Networks in Richardson, Texas as a senior member of scientific staff and as a technical advisor. While at Nortel, he was a project leader for various wireless and satellite network product design projects, customer consulting projects, and advanced technology research projects. He was also in charge of a wireless standard development and evaluation project in Nortel.
He has been on numerous conference technical committees including serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 – Symposium on Wireless Communications and Networking, the General Chair of the International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007, the Technical Program Co-Chair of the Workshop on Information Assurance 2006 and 2007, and the Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE ICC 2009 and 2010 – Symposium on Wireless Communications. He is currently serving on the editorial board for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. He is also an Associate Editor for Security and Communication Networks Journal. He is the guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, special issue on Advances in Mobile Multimedia Networking and QoS, and special issue on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications, and the guest editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, special issue on Service-Oriented Broadband Wireless Network Architecture.
Dr. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.

Selected Most Recent Publications

Books

·    Yi Qian, Peter Müller, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Security in Wireless Networks and Systems, to be published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009.

·    Yi Qian, James Joshi, David Tipper, and Prashant Krishnamurthy, Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008.

Book Chapters

·    Yi Qian, and Nader Moayeri, “Medium Access Control Protocols for Vehicular Networks”, in Vehicular Networks: Techniques, Standards and Applications, Edited by Hassnaa Moustafa, and Yan Zhang, CRC Press, 2009.

·    Miguel A. Erazo, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Domingo Rodríguez, “Enabling Periodic Monitoring Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks: Design and Analysis of an Efficient MAC Protocol”, in Handbook on Sensor Networks, Edited by Yang Xiao, Hui Chen, and Frank H. Li, to be published by World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, “SIP and VoIP over Wireless Mesh Networks”, in VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security, Edited by Syed Ahson, and Mohammad Ilyas, CRC Press, 2008.

·    Yi Qian, Shafaq Chaudhry, and Ratan Guha, “Resource Management in WiMAX Networks”, in WiMax/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology, Edited by Yang Xiao, Auerbach Publications, 2008.

Journal Articles  

·    Bo Rong, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Rose Q. Hu, and Sghaier Guizani, “A Pyramidal Security Model for Large-Scale Group-Oriented Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: The Key Management Study”, accepted for publications, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

·    Xiangming Li, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Yi Qian, Bo Rong, and M. R. Soleymani, “A Welch Bound on the Efficiency of Spreading Codes with an Interference Free Window”, accepted for publications, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

·    Hui Guo, Kwok-Tung Lo, and Yi Qian, “Peer-to-Peer Live Video Distribution under Heterogeneous Bandwidth Constraints”, accepted for publications, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

·    Rose Q. Hu, Weiwei Hu, Mingzhou Jin, and Yi Qian, “Wavelength Retuning without Service Interruption in an All-Optical Survivable Network”, accepted for publications, to appear in International Journal of Communication Systems.

·    Weiwei Hu, Rose Q. Hu, and Yi Qian, “Survivable traffic grooming with non-service-interruptive wavelength retuning in a WDM mesh network”, International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol.21, No.8, pp.889-900, August 2008.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and Mohsen Guizani, “Call Admission Control Optimization in WiMAX Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.57, No.4, July 2008.

·    Sastri L. Kota, Yi Qian, Ekram Hossain, and Rajamani Ganesh, “Advances in Mobile Multimedia Networking and QoS – Part II”, Guest Editorial, IEEE Communications, Vol.46, No.7, pp.108-109, July 2008.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Rose Q. Hu, “Enhanced QoS Multicast Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.7, No.6, pp.2119-2130, June 2008.

·    Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and Shengli Fu, “WiMAX Networks: From Access To Service Platform”, IEEE Network, Vol.22, Issue 3, pp.38-45, May/June 2008.

·    Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Mohsen Guizani, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “A Distributed Key Management Scheme in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.7, No.2, pp.639-647, February 2008.

·    Fernando Miami, Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez, Yi Qian, and Paul Manz, “Ancile: Pervasively Shared Situational Awareness”, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp.48-50, January/February 2008.

·    Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Bo Rong, and David Tipper, “A Design of Optimal Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Security and Communication Networks, Vol.1, No.1, pp.75-85, January/February 2008

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “An Enhanced SIP Proxy Server for Wireless VoIP in Wireless Mesh Networks”, IEEE Communications, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp.108-113, January 2008

·    Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and David Tipper, “A Design for Secure and Survivable Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol.14, Issue 5, pp.30-37, October 2007.

·    Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Domingo Rodriguez, Wilson Rivera, and Manual Rodriguez, “A Cross-Layer Design Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Monitoring Applications”, Journal of Communication Software and Systems, Vol.3, No.3, pp.207-214, September 2007.

·    Sastri L. Kota, Yi Qian, Ekram Hossain, and Rajamani Ganesh, “Advances in Mobile Multimedia Networking and QoS”, Guest Editorial, IEEE Communications, Vol.45, No.8, pp.52-53, August 2007.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, “Integrated Downlink Resource Management for Multiservice WiMAX Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.6, No.6, pp.621-632, June 2007.

·     Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “A Secure and Service-Oriented Network Control Framework for WiMAX Networks”, IEEE Communications, Vol.45, No.5, pp. 124-130, May 2007.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “Adaptive Power Allocation and Call Admission Control in Multiservice WiMAX Access Network”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol.14, Issue 1, pp.14-19, February 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Dapeng Wu, Yi Qian, Yuguang Fang, and Robert Caiming Qiu, “Performance of An Aggregation-Based MAC Protocol for High-Data-Rate Ultra-Wideband Ad Hoc Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.56, No.1, pp.312-321, January 2007.

Conference Papers

·    Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Nader Moayeri, “A Secure VANET MAC Protocol for DSRC Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2008, New Orleans, LA, November 30 – December 4, 2008.

·    Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Yi Qian, and Shengli Fu, “A Novel Topology Control Scheme for Future Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2008, New Orleans, LA, November 30 – December 4, 2008.

·    Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Nader Moayeri, “Performance Evaluation of a Secure MAC Protocol for Vehicular Networks”, Proceedings of Milcom’2008, San Diego, CA, November 17 – 19, 2008.

·    Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Yi Qian, and Shengli Fu, “Performance of a Topology Control Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proceedings of Milcom’2008, San Diego, CA, November 17 – 19, 2008.

·    Hui Guo, Jiang Li, Yi Qian, and Ye Tian, “A Practical Routing Strategy in Delay Tolerant Networks using Multiple Pigeons”, Proceedings of Milcom’2008, San Diego, CA, November 17 – 19, 2008.

·    Hui Guo, Jiang Li, and Yi Qian, “HoP: Pigeon-assisted Forwarding in Partitioned Wireless Networks”, Proceedings of WASA08, Dallas, TX, October 26-28, 2008.

·    Bo Rong, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Michel Kadoch, “Call Admission Control for Mobile Agent Based Handoff in Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE ICC’2008, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

·    Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, and Yi Qian, “Capacity of Random Wireless Networks: Impact of Cooperative Network Coding”, Proceedings of IEEE ICC’2008, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

·    Yi Qian, and Nader Moayeri, “Design of Secure and Application-Oriented VANETs”, Proceedings of IEEE VTC’2008-Spring, Singapore, May 11-14, 2008.

·    Saowaphak Sasanus, David Tipper, and Yi Qian, “Impact of Signaling Load on the UMTS Call Blocking/Dropping”, Proceedings of IEEE VTC’2008-Spring, Singapore, May 11-14, 2008.

·   Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Bo Rong, and Hua Zhu, “Optimal Key Management for Secure and Survivable Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Domingo Rodriguez, Wilson Rivera, Manual Rodríguez, “Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Applications: A Design Framework”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “Increasing the Throughput of Wireless LANs via Cooperative Retransmission”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Shengli Fu, Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, and Murali Varanasi, “Cooperative Network Coding for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Tao Zhang, and Yi Qian, “On the Design of Future Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Xiaohua Tian, Yu Cheng, Rose Q. Hu, and Yi Qian, “Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Integration of Field Bus Systems”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom’2007, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

·   Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, Bo Rong, and David Tipper, “An Optimal Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of Milcom’2007, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007.

·   Miguel A. Erazo, Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and Domingo Rodriguez, “Analysis and Design of a MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Periodic Monitoring Applications”, Proceedings of Milcom'2007, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Sastri Kota, “A Novel Architecture for Future Wireless Mesh Networks”, Proceedings of Milcom'2007, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007.

·   Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, “Revenue and Fairness Guaranteed Downlink Adaptive Power Allocation in WiMAX Access Networks”, Proceedings of 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary, July 1-5, 2007.

·   Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, “Downlink Call Admission Control in Multiservice WiMAX Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE ICC’2007, Glasgow, UK, June 24-28, 2007.

·   Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, Ashwin Gumaste, and S.-Q. Zheng, “A Design Principle for Future High-Speed Networks”, Proceedings of High-Speed Networks Workshop 2007, in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2007, May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska.

·    Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and David Tipper, “Towards Survivable and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks”, WIA’2007, Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC’2007, New Orleans, LA, April 11-13, 2007.

·   Miguel A. Erazo Villegas, and Yi Qian, “SEA-MAC: Simple Energy Aware MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring”, Proceedings of ISWPC’2007, San Juan, PR, February 5-7, 2007.

·    Mohamad Y. Alsaadi, and Yi Qian, “Performance Study of a Secure Routing Protocol in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of ISWPC’2007, San Juan, PR, February 5-7, 2007.