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

Dr. Kui Ren joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IIT in Fall 2007. Dr. Ren’s research interests are in network and system security, wireless networks, ubiquitous computing, Internet security, information assurance, and applied cryptography. Currently, he is working on wireless sensor and mesh network security. For more information, please visit his website.

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, 2007

Kui 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