Lin Cai

  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Director of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

Ph.D., E&CE, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2010

Research Interests

Lin Cai鈥檚 research is in the area of wireless communication and networking. Her research interests include green radio communication networks, wireless Internet of Things (IoT networks, broadband multimedia services, and intelligent radio resource management.

Awards

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER AWARD: Fundamental Studies of Sustainable Wireless Communication System Powered by Renewable Energy, 2016-2020.

The Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, USA, 2011.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.

Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award, University of Waterloo, 2010.

Publications

For a complete list, see

L. X. Cai, Y. Liu, H. Luan, X. Shen, J. W. Mark, and H. V. Poor, 鈥淪ustainability analysis and resource management of wireless mesh networks,鈥 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.32, no.2, pp.345,355, 2014.

H. Luan, L. X. Cai, J. Chen, X. Shen, and F. Bai , 鈥淓ngineering a distributed Infrastructure for Large-Scale Cost-Effective Content Dissemination over Urban Vehicular Networks,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol.63, no.3, pp.1419,1435, 2014.

Y. Liu, L. X. Cai, X. Shen, and H. Luo, "Deploying cognitive cellular networks under dynamic resource management," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol.20, no.2, pp.82,88, 2013.

Z. Zheng, L. X. Cai, R. Zhang, and X. Shen, 鈥淩NP-SA: Joint relay placement and sub-carrier allocation in wireless communication networks with sustainable energy,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.11, no.10, pp.3818,3828, 2012.

Y. Liu, L. X. Cai, and X. Shen, 鈥淪pectrum-aware opportunistic routing in multi-hop cognitive radio networks,鈥 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.30, no.10, pp.1958-1968, 2012.

L. X. Cai, Y. Liu, H. Luan, X. Shen, J. Mark, and H. V. Poor, 鈥淒imensioning network deployment and resource management in green mesh networks,鈥 IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine SI on Technologies for Green Radio Communication Networks, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 58 - 65, 2011.

F. Hou, L. X. Cai, X. Shen, and J. Huang, 鈥淎synchronous multi-channel MAC design with difference set based hopping sequences,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1728 - 1739, 2011.

H. Luan, L. X. Cai, and X. Shen, 鈥淚mpact of network dynamics on user鈥檚 video quality: analytical framework and QoS provision,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 64-78, 2010.

L. X. Cai, L. Cai, and X. Shen, and J. W. Mark, 鈥淩EX: a Randomized EXclusive region based scheduling scheme for mmWave WPANs with directional antenna,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2010.

L. X. Cai, L. Cai, and X. Shen, J. W. Mark, and Q. Zhang, 鈥淢AC protocol design and optimization for multi-hop Ultra-wideband networks,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 4056-4065, August 2009.

L. X. Cai, X. Shen, J.W. Mark, and L. Cai, 鈥淐apacity analysis and MAC enhancement for UWB broadband wireless access networks,鈥 Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 3265-3277, August, 2007.

L. X. Cai, X. Shen, J. W. Mark, L. Cai, and Y. Xiao,鈥淰oice capacity analysis of WLAN with unbalanced traffic,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 752-761, 2006.

Books

Z. Zheng, L. X. Cai, and X. Shen, Sustainable Wireless Networks, Springer Briefs in Computer Science, ISBN 978-3-319-02468-4, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-02469-1, 2013.