Prof. Weihua Zhuang visited LION

Prof. Zhuang visited LION on Dec. 17 and delivered a fabulous talk on the fifth generation (5G) communication networks at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Faculty members, students, and former BBCR members at SJTU attended this event.

The 5G networks will accommodate a wide range of emerging services with diverse service quality requirements. The network will integrate a variety of network resources and technologies to support high transmission rate and to enhance quality of experience to mobile users. The traditional one-size-fits-all network architecture cannot efficiently meet the needs of different services, due to the poor scalability, limited adaptability, and inflexibility. Network function virtualization (NFV) enabled by software defined networking (SDN) technology is a promising approach for an agile and flexible 5G networking infrastructure. In this presentation, Prof. Zhuang gave an overview of several recent studies for 5G networks, including dynamic radio resource slicing in wireless network virtualization, computing and transmission resource allocation in the core network, and how to establish a customized virtual network topology for multicast services. She concluded her presentation with a brief discussion of some open research topics.

Biography: Dr. Weihua Zhuang has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University ofWaterloo, Canada, since 1993, where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. She is the recipient of 2017 Technical Recognition Award from IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc &Sensor Networks Technical Committee, one of 2017 ten N2Women (Stars in ComputerNetworking and Communications), and a co-recipient of several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. Dr. Zhuang was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013), Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE VTC Fall 2017 and Fall 2016, and the Technical Program Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. Dr. Zhuang is an elected member in the Board of Governors and VP Publicationsof the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.