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Pan Zhou

Ph.D.

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Address: Atlantic Drive, 75 5th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
E-mail: pzhou9@ece.gatech.edu


Short Biography

Pan Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georiga Tech) in 2011. His supervision is John H. Weitnauer, Jr., Chair Professor Dr. John A. Copeland. He also received a master degree of Computer Engineering from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georiga Tech in 2010 and a MS degree from Electrical and Information Engineering Departemnt at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST) in 2008. He was once a member of the Advanced Class of HUST which consists of selected students from its 6 departments, such as computer science, electrical engineering, telecommunications, control, etc.

His Ph.D. research area is wireless communications and networking. His PhD minor is applied proabbility thoery. He had tight acedemic connections with researchers on operational research in School of ISYE and MATH of Georiga Tech during his PhD. These interesting topics included: game theory, advanced probability theory, stochastic theory, queueing theory, and advanced optimization theory, etc.

 

Honors and Awards

  • Best Master Thesis Award, issued by Government of Hubei Province, P.R. China,Year 2010.
  • Merit Award of Research, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Year 2008.
  • Student Travel Grants, IEEE ChinaCom, Shanghai, Year 2007.
  • First Rank Paper Award, in Annual Academic Conference of Electro. and Inform. Department, HUST, Wuhan, P.R. China,Year 2007.

Researches

  • Wireless networks: Cognitive radio, wireless sensor and ad hoc newtorks, etc.
  • Wireless network scheluding: Stochastic & Probabilistic Method, Queuing Theory, Graph Theory, Optimization and Game Theory approaches, Network science on large scale wireless networks (i.e.connectivity, capacity, delay, information dissemination problems)
  • Wireless communications problems: OFDMA scheduling for (WiMAX, LTE) networks, MIMO/Cooperative Communications, etc.
  • Wireless security problems

Skills

  • Programming Skills: C/C++, Java, etc.
  • Web skills: Java, .NET Framework, .Net 2007, JBuilder, Eclipse. HTML/DHTML, JSP, ASP, Severlet, XML, JavaScript.
  • Database and Server Softwares: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 10g, and IBM DB2, Mysql, Weblogic, Tomcat.
  • Network Protocols: 802.11b, TCP/IP protocol, RTP/RTSP, RTCP, etc.
  • Network Simulators: MATLAB/Simulink, GTNET simulator, NS2/3.
  • Multimedia Standard: MPEG 2. 3. 4. H.264, etc.

List of Publications

Journals

  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland, "Energy-efficient Joint Power and Rate Control with Interference Price for Cognitive Radios: A Game-Theoretic Approach," submitted to journal publication, 2010.
     
  • P. Zhou and G.Miao, "Cross-layer Design for Congestion Control and Scheduling in Multi-hop OFDMA Wireless Networks," submitted for journal publication, 2010. 
     
  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland, "Capacity and Delay Scaling in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks Under the Impact of Primary User Activity," submitted to IEEE transactions on Wireless Communications, 2011.
     
  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland, "Learning Through Reinforcement for Repeated Power Control Game in Cognitive Radio Networks," to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue "Game Theory in Wireless Communications", 2011.
     

Conferences

  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland,"Asynchronous Power Control Game with Channel Outage Constraints for Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2011), Kyoto, Japan, June, 2011. 
     
  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland,"Capacity and Delay Scaling in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks: Impact of Primary User Activity," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, Florida, Dec. 2010.  
     
  • P. Zhou, Y. Chang and J. Copeland,"Learning Through Reinforcement for Repeated Power Control Game in Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, Florida, Dec. 2010.  
     
  • P. Zhou, G. Miao and B. Bing, "Joint Congestion Control and Scheduling in Multi-hop OFDMA Wireless Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov, 2009.
     
  • P. Zhou, W. Liu, W. Yuan, W. Cheng and S. Wang, "An Energy-Efficient Cooperative MISO-based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2009) , Budapest, Hungary, April, 2009.
     
  • P. Zhou, W. Yuan, W. Liu and W. Cheng, "Joint Power and Rate Control in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Game-theoretic Approach,"IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May, 2008.
     
  • Z. Liang, W. Liu, P. Zhou and F. Gao , "Randomized Multi-user Strategy for Spectrum Sharing in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Network," IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2008) , Cognet Workshop, Beijing, China, May,2008. 
     
  • P. Zhou, W. Liu, W. Yuan and W. Cheng, "Energy-Efficient Joint Power and Rate Control via Pricing in Wireless Data Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2008) , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March, 2008.
     
  • W. Liu, K. Xu, P. Zhou, Y. Ding and W. Cheng, "A Joint Utility-lifetime Optimization Algorithm for Cooperative MIMO Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2008) , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March,2008.
     
  • P. Zhou, W. Liu and K. Xu, "An Energy-efficient Multihop Cooperative Transmission Protocol Design for Sensor Networks," poster paper, The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2007), Dublin, Ireland, October, 2007. 
     
  • P. Zhou, X. Pei and K. Xu, "A Semi-centralized Approach for Optimized Multi-hop Virtual MIMO Wireless Sensor Networks," The Second IEEE International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (IEEE ChinaCom 2007), shanghai, China, August, 2007.
     
  • K. Xu, C. Diana, W. Cheng and P. Zhou, "A V-BLAST Based Virtual MIMO Transmission Scheme for Sensor Network Lifetime Maximization," The 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference(IEEE VTC 2007 fall), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, September, 2007.

Professional Experiences

  • Summer Internship, Mobile Communications and Networking Research, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton Campus, NJ, May, 2010-Aug, 2010
    • Advisor, Dr. Honghai Zhang
    • Worked on project,"Inter-cell Power Control for Throughput Enhancement in Uplink LTE", final presentation slides.
    • Designed an effective inter-cell power control algorithm, and achieved a 4% throughput enhancement for LTE standard with an optimized OFDMA scheduling algorithm.  
  • Summer Internship, Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications(GCATT), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, May, 2009-Aug, 2009
    • Worked on project, "Smoothing algorithms for Living Video over Internet"
    • Worked on Live555 platform, and based on H.264, RTCP, RTSP, TCP/IP protocals,
    • Designed Smoothing algorithm design by C++: leaky buck algorithm, greedy algorithm for video streams.
    • Testified smoothing algorithm for mpg4, mp3, mpg3 video stream over Internet.
  • Research Asistantship, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, July, 2006-May, 2008
    • Advisor, Dr. Wei Liu
    • Worked on project, Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China under grant No. 60602029, project " Research on Key Issues on Cognitive Radio Networks"
    • Worked on project, Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China under grant No. 60572049, project " Information Processing and
      Transmission on Reconstractable MIMO-based Wireless Sensor Network      ".
    • Used mathematics: nonlinear optimizations, game thoerys, Network utility maximiation (NUM) frameworks.
    • Pulicated a series of papers on MIMO-based sensor networks resource allocations and optimizations.
  • Summer Internship, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, May, 2006-Oct, 2006
    • worked on the project, " Information system design for The Science & Technology Management platform of MOE, P. R.C. ", launched by Ministry of Education (MOE) The People's Republic of China
    • Used technologies: JAVA, JSP, Servelet, .NET Framework 3.0, ASP.NET, DB2, ORacale 10g,
      Javascript, AJAX, Web Services, SQL Server 2005.
    • Led parts of the Microsoft .NET technology development team through the development of
      software solutions for the data processing of experts' applications.
    • Used UML language and standard degsin pattern to model and design the Web logic.

Service to the Community

  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
     
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
     
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology reviewer.
     
  • Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) reviewer.
     
  • Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) reviewer.
     
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011reviewer.
     
  • IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 reviewer.
     
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 reviewer.
     
  • IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2009 reviewer.
     
  • IEEE IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011reviewer.
     
  • ACM The 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom) 2009 reviewer.

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