The Wireless System Research Group (WiSeR) at the University of Houston conducts research on a variety of communication, networking and system issues in Cyber Physical Systems. Our focus is on advancing the fundamental understanding and development of efficient robust solutions. Our projects span core system building blocks, data and network management tools and services, mathematical principles, and application of wireless communication and networking to scientific, industrial and health-care disciplines. Our research is currently supported by National Science Foundation , UH Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR), Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

Expectation for group members

Weekly status update via email by Friday
Paper critique and pariticipation of weekly group seminar
Bi-weekly individual meeting
MS students: One submitted paper by graduation
Ph.D. students: 8 points (acceptance to tier-one IEEE/ACM journal/conferences counts 2 pts; others 1 pt)

Three INFOCOM papers accepted to the main conference

Posted on 19. Nov, 2011 by admin

Congratulations to Khuong, and Dr. Yunghsiang Han (visiting Professor in summer, 2011)

Khuong's work concerns 1) k-anonymous location privacy in participatory sensing applications and 2) localization and tracking in presence of sensor location uncertainty.

Dr. Han's work advanced the state-of-the-art on exact data regeneration subject to Byzantine failures.

Congratulations to Huy Nguyen for Receiving Exchange Research Student Scholarship

Posted on 19. Nov, 2011 by admin in scholarship

The scholarship is supported by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Dept. of Computing. It facilitates Huy to conduct research with researchers in PolyU for 3 months.

WiSeR receives two NSF grants

Posted on 19. Nov, 2011 by admin in grants, NSF

http://www.cs.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2011/0816_wirelessCoexistence.php

http://www.cs.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2011/0816_bridges.php

Huy's Binary Independent Component Analysis (bICA) paper accepted into TSP!

Posted on 27. Mar, 2011 by admin

This paper lays the theoretical foundation for bICA, where binary observables are OR mixtures of latent independent sources. Several applications in the domain of cognitive radio networks, spectrum monitoring, network monitoring have been studied.

WiSeR received two REU supplement grants

Posted on 06. Mar, 2011 by admin

The grants will recruit undergraduate students to conduct research on the following topics:

1. Cross-layer security attacks in wireless networks (software defined radio programming, Python)

2. Design of sensing modules with energy harvesting capability (circuit design, use of measurement equipment)

3. Demonstration for active sensing (embedded system programming, C/C++)

Three INFOCOM Papers Accepted!

Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by admin in publication

Congratulations to Khuong, Nam, Pallavi, Guanbo for having their papers accepted into the INFOCOM 2011 main conference.

Khuong's work concerns sensor coverage in face of uncertainty in location. He devised a novel computational geometry based approach in characterizing the minimum sensing range required for k-coverage.

Nam and Guanbo's work deals with device identification using physical layer signatures. The main application is to detect spoof or sybil attacks in wireless networks.

New Mobile & Cloud Computing Course Offered

Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by admin in cloud computing, course, mobile computing

Cloud and mobile computing are considered the top 2 of the 10 strategic technology in 2011 by Gartner Inc. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, as part of the Hawaii project, a new course on mobile & cloud computing is offered by Dr. Zheng in Spring 2011.