Yu Cheng, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: Siegel Hall 106
Phone: 312.567.7996
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email: cheng@iit.edu
Web: Personal Webpage

Expertise

Education

B.E., EE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1995
M.E., EE, Beijing, China, 1998
Ph.D., ECE, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2003

Research

Dr. Cheng joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology in August 2006. His research interests include service- oriented networking, autonomic network management, Internet performance analysis, quality of service provisioning, and resource allocation, wireless networks, and wireless/wireline interworking. He received a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in 2004.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

Y. Cheng, X. Ling, W. Song, L. Cai, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, “A cross-layer analytical approach for WLAN voice capacity region,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, to appear.

Y. Cheng, W. Zhuang and L. Wang, "Calculation of loss probability in a finite size partitioned buffer for quantitative assured services", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear.

Y. Cheng, V. Ravindran, and A. Leon-Garcia, “Internet traffic characterization using packet-pair probing,” IEEE INFOCOM 2007, to appear.

W. Song, W. Zhuang, and Y. Cheng, "Load balancing for cellular/WLAN integrated networks", IEEE Network, to appear.

Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Dynamic inter-SLA resource sharing in path-oriented differentiated services networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 657-670, Jun. 2006.

Y. Cheng, W. Song, W. Zhuang, A. Leon-Garcia and R. Hu, "Efficient resource allocation for policy-based wireless/wireline interworking", Kluwer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications, to appear.

C.W. Leong, W. Zhuang, Y. Cheng, and L. Wang, "Optimal resource allocation and adaptive call admission control for voice/data integrated cellular networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 654-669, Mar. 2006.

Y. Cheng, R. Farha, A. Tizghadam, M. S. Kim, M. Hashemi, A. Leon-Garcia, and J. W.-K. Hong "Virtual network approach to scalable IP service deployment and efficient resource management", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 76-84, Oct. 2005.

Y. Cheng, H. Jiang, W. Zhuang, Z. Niu, and C. Lin, "Efficient resource allocation for China's 3G/4G wireless networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 76-83, Jan. 2005.

C.W. Leong, W. Zhuang, Y. Cheng, and L. Wang, "Call admission control for wireless systems supporting integrated on/off voice and best effort data services", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 778-790, May 2004.

Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "Effective bandwidth of multiclass Markovian traffic sources and admission control with dynamic buffer partitioning", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1524-1535, Sept. 2003.

Y. Cheng and W. Zhuang, "DiffServ resource allocation for fast handoff in wireless mobile internet", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 130-136, May 2002.