CECNet2016

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yang Xiao
Department of Computer Science
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0290 USA

Dr. Yang Xiao currently is a full Professor of Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. His current research interests include communications/networks and computer/network security. He has published over 200 SCI-indexed journal papers and over 200 EI indexed refereed conference papers and book chapters related to these research areas. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF, U.S. Army Research, GENI, Fleet Industrial Supply Center-San Diego, FIATECH, and The University of Alabama’s Research Grants Committee.

Dr. Yang Xiao was a Voting Member of IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004, involving IEEE 802.11 (WIFI) standardization work. He is a Fellow of IET (FIET). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Security and Networks, and International Journal of Sensor Networks (SCI-index), and Journal of Communications. He had (s) been an Editorial Board or Associate Editor for 16 international journals, 6. He served (s) as a Guest Editor for over 20 times for different international journals. Dr. Xiao has delivered over 30 keynote speeches at international conferences around the world and gave more than 60 invited talks at different international institutes.

Speech Title: Flow-Net Accountable Logging and Applications
Abstract: Accountability implies that any entity should be held responsible for its own specific action or behavior so that the entity is part of larger chains of accountability. One of the goals of accountability is that once an event has transpired, the events that took place are traceable so that the causes can be determined afterward. The poor accountability provided by today’s computers and networks wastes a great deal of money and effort. This is due to the simple fact that today’s computing and network infrastructure was not built with accountability in mind. In this talk we introduce our previous work: accountable logging methodology called flow-net. We apply this methodology to many applications ranging from operating system design to computer networks.

Prof. Han-Chieh Chao
President, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Halien, Taiwan, China
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan, China

Speech Title: A Bacteria-Inspired Solution for 5G Mobile Communication
Abstract: A surge of innovation in technologies for 5G mobile communication is on the horizon, but its specification is still just being discussed. The only know is that 5G must introduce many novel hardware/software techniques, service types and network interfaces due to the requirement. There is very frequent interaction between these components that is like an ecosystem. An ecosystem has a very diverse species so that there are complex interaction happened. However, it can always maintain a balanced state because an ecosystem is a Self-Organizing Network (SON). 5G should consider to concept of SON so that the interaction of 5G functions can be well managed. This is the first step towards ecosystem by using biologically inspired method. This speech will introduce what is the biologically inspired method and how to use it for the real environment. Finally, we will present a novel network platform for 5G mobile communication system, viz Software Defined Wireless Bacteria-Inspired Network (SDWBIN). The SDWBIN platform integrates the concepts of molecular and bacterial communication into traditional mobile communications so that the features of molecule and bacteria (i.e., perception, infection and diffusion) could be applied to end devices, such as vehicle-to-vehicle, machine-to-machine and device-to-device. In order to realize the design of SDWBIN platform, we exploit the framework of Software Defined Wireless Network to implement the core network in SDWBIN. We expect that the proposed SDWBIN platform can tackle with the communication from an enormous number of devices in 5G systems

Information about other keynote speakers will be updated soon.

Invited Speakers

Mohsen Razzaghi
Mohsen Razzaghi received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Sussex in England, his Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sussex. After that, he has taught and served in several administrative positions in Iran and in the USA. Since 1986, he has been at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mississippi State University, where he became a tenured full professor in 1989 and has been the Department Head since 2006. During the academic years 2011-2012 and 2015-2016, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest, Romania.

His area of research centers on orthogonal functions, optimal control, wavelets, fractional calculus and their applications in engineering and science. He has over 160 refereed journal publications in prestigious international journals in mathematics, mathematical physics, and engineering. According to Google Scholar, several of his papers have been cited over 100 times, and one of his papers coauthored with one of his Ph.D. students was cited over 475 times.

Speech Title: HYBRID ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS IN ELECTRONICS PROBLEMS
Abstract: Orthogonal functions, often used to represent an arbitrary time function, have been used to solve various problems in electronics and engineering problems. Orthogonal functions may be widely classified into three families. The first includes sets of piecewise constant basis functions (e.g., block-pulse, Haar, Walsh, etc.). The second consists of sets of orthogonal polynomials (e.g., Chebyshev, Legendre, Laguerre etc.). The third are widely used sets of sine-cosine functions in the Fourier series. While orthogonal polynomials and sine cosine functions together form a class of continuous basis functions, piecewise constant basis functions have discontinuities or jumps.
Many functions encountered in the real world and electronics problems happen to be discontinuous (e.g. switching waveforms, signals in power electronic circuits etc.) with possible segments of dead time over the interval of definition (e.g. half-wave rectified output). For these functions, neither the continuous basis functions nor piecewise constant basis functions taken alone would form an efficient basis for the representation of functions. To meet the combined features of continuity and discontinuity we introduce the hybrid orthogonal functions. The term “hybrid” signifies combination of continuity and discontinuity features.
In the present work, the framework of hybrid of block-pulse functions and Legendre polynomials together with their properties are given. Several examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the technique and comparisons are made with existing results. The results indicate the value of the hybrid orthogonal function as a potential basis for function expansion in a large class of real-world and electronics problems.

Andy Kyung-yong, Yoon
Dr. Yoon graduated from Yonsei University, Korea, and obtained a Ph. D. of electric and electrical engineering. From the early days of his career, he mainly worked as a firmware and microprogramming developer for emulation and network communication. Also he covered multimedia engineering combined robot technologies and firmware for mobile phone. In 2000, established a mobile phone developer company in Korea and exported own branded mobile phone to Europe, Asia, and Latin America market. In 2009, became a visiting professor of Loyola University, USA and in 2011, appointed as a chair professor of San Martin University, Peru as well as appointed as a research professor of Yonsei University, Korea.

He is acting as an expert of mobile phone terminal and communication. Further his research areas are IoT, Machine-learning, Superconducting nuclear fusion, Wind power generator, and Solar PV generation system and recently performing research on O2O platform infrastructure technology, and indoor navigation system using INS combined BLE and WiFi radio map. He wrote up eight books for technologies and presented 400 technology contributions and papers.

Speech Title: A Study of Filtering Method for Accurate Indoor Positioning System using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons
Abstract: Fingerprinting technique is an essential element in the indoor positioning system (IPS). Common methods utilize Wi-Fi signals. However, most of the Wi-Fi, because it is pre-installed for other purposes, is difficult to fully used for fingerprinting. Bluetooth beacon fingerprinting (BBF) can be used to overcome the drawbacks of the Wi-Fi fingerprinting. With BBF cost reduction is possible, and it also has advantages that can flexibly correspond to the environment variation. This study determines whether it is possible to achieve IPS with implementation of BLE beacon-based fingerprinting. This study presents an optimized fingerprinting method for building a fingerprinting data. In order to increase the accuracy, we applied filtering and probabilistic smoothing technique of fluctuation correction to necessary part of the signal. Result of the study proposes that BLE beacon fingerprinting can be a replacement for Wi-Fi based fingerprinting.