Title: Network Science and Wireless Networks

Speaker: Kwang-Cheng Chen

Abstract:

Network science has been shown great potential in diverse comprehension of Internet, data analytics, complex systems, nonlinear dynamics, molecular biology, social systems and science, and human behavior, since its birth in 1999. With social media dominating the Internet traffic and wide applications of Internet of Things (IoT), it is of great interests in understanding its applications to wireless networks and wireless communication systems. From basic random graphical analysis with the help of stochastic geometry, we will demonstrate applying the knowledge of network science to various aspects of wireless network design, as a starting point toward this intellectual challenge.

Bio:

Kwang-Cheng Chen worked with SSE, COMSAT, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and National Tsing Hua University, in mobile communications and networks during 1987-1998. Since 1998, Dr. Chen has been with National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, and is the Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for academic affairs in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University. He has been actively involving in the organization of various IEEE conferences as General/TPC chair/co-chair, and has served in editorships with a few IEEE journals and many special issues in IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, and IEEE JSTSP. He has served in IEEE VTS Fellow Evaluation Committee and IEEE Fellow Committee since 2007, and in IEEE Communications Society Emerging Technology Committee 2013-2015. Dr. Chen also actively participates in and has contributed essential technology to various IEEE 802, Bluetooth, and 3GPP wireless standards. He has authored and co-authored over 200 IEEE journal and conference papers and near 30 granted US patents. He co-edited (with R. DeMarca) the book Mobile WiMAX published by Wiley in 2008, and authored the book Principles of Communications published by River in 2009, and co-authored (with R. Prasad) another book Cognitive Radio Networks published by Wiley in 2009. Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow and has received a number of awards including the 2011 IEEE COMSOC Wireless Communications Recognition Award and has led research toward a few award-winning papers published in the IEEE journals and conferences, with most recent 2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Award. He visited HP Labs. in 1997, TU Delft in 1998, Aalborg University in 2008, and Massachusetts of Institute of Technology in 2012-2013 and 2014. Dr. Chen’s research interests include wireless communications, network science, and data analytics.