Lin Cai, Ph. D. (Waterloo) Assistant Professor  Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Victoria   Victoria , BC, Canada,  V8W 3P6 Office: EOW 317 Tel: 1-250-721-8691, Fax: 1-250-721-6052 Email: cai at ece dot uvic dot ca

Research Interests and Research Group

• Ubiquitous networking:
  
• Wireless/wireline interworking
• Medium access control
  
• Resource and mobility management
• Cooperative diversity systems and cognitive radio networks
  
• Cross-layer design for wireless cellular systems, mesh and ad hoc networks
  
• Broadband home and personal area networks, UWB and mmWave networks
  
• Underwater communications and sensor networks
• Vehicular communication networks
  
• TCP/IP networking: 
• Flow and congestion control, protocol design and performance analysis
  
• End-to-end QoS provisioning
• Content/multimedia distribution networking:
  
• Distributed multimedia delivery system design and performance analysis
• IPTV distribution technologies
  

What's New

Ruonan Zhang got the 2009/2010 Albert Hung Chao Hong award, Nov. 2009.

Fengdan Wan's thesis has been selected for the final competition (only four theses are selected in the final competition list) by the WAGS/UMI distinguished master thesis awards committee, Oct. 2009.

Emad Shihab has been awarded NSERC PGS D3 scholarship, 2009. He has also been awarded Wlater C. Sumner Fellowship, 2009.

Call for Papers and Conference Statistics:

Book chapters and special issues

Networking conference

Wireless and mobile network control

Networking conference statistics

Cryptography and security related conference

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on "Vehicular Communications Networks"