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

• Dr. Ruonan Zhang has joined Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China with exceptional promotion to Associate Professor, May 2010.
• Yuanqian Luo got the IEEE ComSoc travel grant for attending IEEE ICC 2010, May 2010.
• Dr. Lin Cai has been a recipient of the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award (125 awards nationwide across all science and engineering fields), April 2010.
• Yi Dong, Bo Li, Xudong Liu, and Yangke Xiao have won the 3rd-place prize with $1000 cash award in the 2010 BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge, May 2010,  for their project entitled "Software Defined Radio for Long Distance Walkie-Talkie".
  
• Dr. Ruonan Zhang got the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, March 2010.
• Zhe Yang got the IEEE ComSoc travel grant for attending IEEE Infocom 2010, Mar. 2010.
• Zhe Yang has been nominated by NSERC for the prestigious Vanier CGS award, Jan. 2010.
  
• 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"