Browsing EECS Faculty Scholarship by Author "Wang, Pu"
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Capacity analysis of aerial small cells
Pokkunuru, Akarsh; Zhang, Qin; Wang, Pu (IEEE, 2017)Providing high-speed communication for mobile users in remote geographic areas or after a disaster occurs is not only critical but also challenging. To counter such challenge, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been ... -
Channel Modeling of MI Underwater Communication using Tri-directional Coil Antenna
Guo, Hongzhi; Sun, Zhi; Wang, Pu (IEEE, 2015)While underwater wireless communications have been investigated and implemented for decades, existing solutions still have difficulties in establishing reliable and low-delay wireless underwater links among small-size ... -
Control traffic balancing in software defined networks
Lin, Shih-Chun; Wang, Pu; Luo, Min (Elsevier, 2016-09-04)To promise on-line and adaptive traffic engineering in software defined networks (SDNs), the control messages, e.g., the first packet of every new flow and network traffic statistics, should be forwarded from software ... -
Delay-based maximum power-weight scheduling with heavy-tailed traffic
Lin, Shih-Chun; Wang, Pu; Akyildiz, Ian F.; Luo, Min (IEEE, 2017-08)Heavy-tailed (HT) traffic (e.g., the Internet and multimedia traffic) fundamentally challenges the validity of classic scheduling algorithms, designed under conventional light-tailed (LT) assumptions. To address such a ... -
Distributed cross-layer protocol design for magnetic induction communication in wireless underground sensor networks
Lin, Shih-Chun; Akyildiz, Ian F.; Wang, Pu; Sun, Zhi (IEEE, 2015-07)Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) enable many applications such as underground pipeline monitoring, power grid maintenance, mine disaster prevention, and oil upstream monitoring among many others. While the ... -
Distributed throughput optimal scheduling in the presence of heavy-tailed traffic
Xia, Shuang; Wang, Pu (IEEE, 2015-06)The heavy tailed traffic in wireless networks fundamentally challenges the applicability of conventional throughput optimal scheduling algorithms. To encounter this, the stability performance of distributed maximum weight ... -
Distributed timely throughput optimal scheduling for the Internet of Nano-Things
Akkari, Nadine; Wang, Pu; Jornet, Josep Miquel; Fadel, Etimad; Elrefaei, Lamiaa A.; Malik, Muhammad Ghulam Abbas; Almasri, Suleiman; Akyildiz, Ian F. (IEEE, 2016-12)Nanotechnology is enabling the development of miniature devices able to perform simple tasks at the nanoscale. The interconnection of such nano-devices with traditional wireless networks and ultimately the Internet enables ... -
Energy and spectrum-aware MAC protocol for perpetual wireless nanosensor networks in the Terahertz Band
Wang, Pu; Jornet, Josep Miquel; Abbas, Malik M.G.; Akkari, Nadine; Akyildiz, Ian F. (Elsevier, 2013-07-25)Wireless NanoSensor Networks (WNSNs), i.e., networks of nanoscale devices with unprecedented sensing capabilities, are the enabling technology of long-awaited applications such as advanced health monitoring systems or ... -
A framework for QoS-aware traffic classification using semi-supervised machine learning in SDNs
Wang, Pu; Lin, Shih-Chun; Luo, Min (IEEE, 2016)In this paper, a QoS-aware traffic classification framework for software defined networks is proposed. Instead of identifying specific applications in most of the previous work of traffic classification, our approach ... -
Improving network connectivity in the presence of heavy-tailed interference
Wang, Pu; Akyildiz, Ian F. (IEEE, 2014-10)The heavy tailed (HT) traffic from wireless users, caused by the emerging Internet and multimedia applications, introduces a HT interference region within which network users will experience unbounded delay with infinite ... -
Joint physical and link layer error control analysis for nanonetworks in the Terahertz band
Akkari, Nadine; Jornet, Josep Miquel; Wang, Pu; Fadel, Etimad; Elrefaei, Lamiaa A.; Malik, Muhammad Ghulam Abbas; Almasri, Suleiman; Akyildiz, Ian F. (Springer International Publishing AG, 2016-05)Nanonetworks consist of nano-sized communicating devices which are able to perform simple tasks at the nanoscale. The limited capabilities of individual nanomachines and the Terahertz (THz) band channel behavior lead to ... -
Jointly optimized QoS-aware virtualization and routing in software defined networks
Lin, Shih-Chun; Wang, Pu; Luo, Min (Elsevier B.V., 2016-02-26)Software Defined Networks (SDNs) have been recognized as the next-generation networking paradigm that decouples the network control plane from the data forwarding plane. A logically centralized controller is responsible ... -
Multiple frequency band channel modeling and analysis for magnetic induction communication in practical underwater environments
Guo, Hongzhi; Sun, Zhi; Wang, Pu (IEEE, 2017-08)While underwater communications have been investigated for decades, existing solutions still have difficulties in establishing reliable and low-delay links among small-size devices. The magnetic induction (MI) communication ... -
On Localization for Magnetic Induction-based Wireless Sensor Networks in Pipeline Environments
Tan, Xin; Sun, Zhi; Wang, Pu (IEEE, 2015-06)The wireless sensor networks can enable the real-time monitoring in the pipeline environments, which can facilitate important applications such as structure identification and fault diagnosis. The magnetic induction ... -
On the stability of dynamic spectrum access networks in the presence of heavy tails
Wang, Pu; Akyildiz, Ian F. (IEEE, 2015-02)The heavy-tailed nature in dynamic spectrum access networks challenges the applicability of conventional network stability criterion. To counter this problem, a new stability criterion, namely moment stability, is introduced, ... -
QoS-aware adaptive routing in multi-layer hierarchical software defined networks: a reinforcement learning approach
Lin, Shih-Chun; Akyildiz, Ian F.; Wang, Pu; Luo, Min (IEEE, 2016)Software-defined networks (SDNs) have been recognized as the next-generation networking paradigm that decouples the data forwarding from the centralized control. To realize the merits of dedicated QoS provisioning and fast ... -
Realizing underwater communication through magnetic induction
Akyildiz, Ian F.; Wang, Pu; Sun, Zhi (IEEE, 2015-11)The majority of the work on underwater communication has mainly been based on acoustic communication. Acoustic communication faces many known problems, such as high propagation delays, very low data rates, and highly ... -
Research challenges for traffic engineering in software defined networks
Akyildiz, Ian F.; Lee, Ahyoung; Wang, Pu; Luo, Min; Chou, Wu (IEEE, 2016)SDN is an emerging networking paradigm that separates the network control plane from the data forwarding plane with the promise to dramatically improve network resource utilization, simplify network management, reduce ... -
A roadmap for traffic engineering in SDN-OpenFlow networks
Akyildiz, Ian F.; Lee, Ahyoung; Wang, Pu; Luo, Min; Chou, Wu (© 2014 Elsevier B.V., 2014-10-04)Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that separates the network control plane from the data forwarding plane with the promise to dramatically improve network resource utilization, simplify ... -
SoftAir: a software defined networking architecture for 5G wireless systems
Akyildiz, Ian F.; Wang, Pu; Lin, Shih-Chun (Elsevier B.V., 2015-07-15)One of the main building blocks and major challenges for 5G cellular systems is the design of flexible network architectures which can be realized by the software defined networking paradigm. Existing commercial cellular ...