Kui Ren, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: Siegel Hall 319
Phone: 312.567.3481
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email:
kren@ece.iit.edu
Web:
Personal Webpage
Expertise
Education
- B.E., CHE, Zhejiang University, 1998
- M.E., MSE, Zhejiang University, 2001
- Ph.D., ECE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2007
Research
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, “Multi-user Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE SECON 2007, Jun. 18-21, San Diego, 2007Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, and Wenjing Lou, “Secure and Fault-tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Accepted, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, and Patrick J. Moran, “On Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks,” To appear, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC) (The conference version appears in WASA 2006, and receives Best Paper Award.)
Kai Zeng, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Patrick J. Moran, “Energy-Aware Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Energy Supply,” To appear, ACM Wireless Networks (WINET)
Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, “Privacy-enhanced, Attack-resilient Access Control in Pervasive Computing Environments with Optional Context Authentication Capability,” ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 12, pp. 79-92, 2007 (Special issue on Wireless Broadband Access)
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, “LEDS: Providing Location-aware End-to-end Data Security in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Apr. 23-29, Barcelona, Spain, 2006 (The full version is under revision for journal publication)
Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, and Wenjing Lou, “A New Approach for Random Key Pre-distribution in Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks,” Wiley Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (WCMC), Vol. 6, Issue 3, pp.307-318, 2006 (Special issue on Wireless Networks Security)
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng, “Routing Optimization Security in Mobile IPv6,” Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 50, Issue 13, pp.2401-2419, Elsevier, 2006
Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Robert H. Deng, and Kwangjo Kim, “A Novel Privacy Preserving Authentication and Access Control Scheme in Pervasive Computing Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 55, No. 4, pp.1373-1384, July 2006
Kui Ren, Tieyan Li, Zhiguo Wan, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng, and Kwangjo Kim, “Highly Reliable Trust Establishment Scheme in Ad-hoc Networks,” Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 45, Issue 6, pp.687-699, Elsevier, 2004

