Lei Ding

Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

E-mail: leiding@buffalo.edu

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Biography

Lei Ding received her M.S. Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing, China in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she was an electrical engineer at Motorola China R&D Networks Lab , Beijing, China.
On May 18th 2012, Lei Ding successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled "Cross-layer Routing and Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks".

She is currently a Research Scientist at Intelligent Automation Inc. working on networking and security areas.

Research

Cross-layer optimization for cognitive radio networks and cooperative communication networks.
Design and experimentation of PHY, MAC, routing, and transport protocols for wireless distributed networks.
Testbed evaluation of ad hoc wireless networks.

More details can be found in research projects.

Journal Publications

L. Ding, K. Gao, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "All-spectrum Cognitive Networking through Joint Distributed Channelization and Routing," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in press, 2013.
K. Gao, L. Ding, "Adaptive Binary Spreading Sequence Assignment using Semidefinite Relaxation," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Issue 1, Pages 94-97, February 2013.
Z. Guan, D. Yuan, H. Zhang, L. Ding, "Cooperative Bargaining Solution for Efficient and Fair Spectrum Management in Cognitive Wireless Networks," International Journal of Communication Systems, in press, 2013.
L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, M. Medley, "Cross-layer Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 1969-1979, May 2010. [pdf] [bibtex]

Conference Publications

L. Ding, Y. Sagduyu, T. Melodia, J. Li, J. Feldman, J. Matyjas, "CREATE-NEST: A Distributed Cognitive Radio Network Platform with Physical Channel Awareness," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), San Diego, CA, USA, November 2013.
L. Ding, Y. Sagduyu, J. Yackoski, B. Azimi-Sadjadi, J. Li, R. Levy, and T. Melodia, "High Fidelity Wireless Network Evaluation for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 2012.
K. Gao, L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Spread-spectrum Cognitive Networking: Distributed Channelization and Routing," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM), Baltimore, MD November 2011. Best Paper Award Runner-up for IEEE MILCOM 2011 Track 3 [pdf] [bibtex]
Z. Guan, L. Ding, T. Melodia, D. Yuan, "On the Effect of Cooperative Relaying on the Performance of Video Streaming Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011. [pdf] [bibtex]
K. Gao, L. Ding, " Towards Joint Routing and Spread-Spectrum Channelization in Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks," in Student Workshop of ACM International Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Philadelphia, PA, November 2010.
L. Ding, P. Nagaraju, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Software-defined Joint Routing and Waveform Selection for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Jose, CA, October 2010. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, "Distributed Routing, Relay Selection, and Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive and Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) Boston, MA, June 2010 [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, M. Medley, "ROSA: Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Ding, S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, M. Medley, "Distributed Spectrum Sharing for Video Streaming in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of International Workshop on Cross-layer Design in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, September 2009, Niagara Falls, CA. [pdf] [bibtex]

Demos and Exhibits

L. Ding, Y. Sagduyu, T. Melodia, J. Li, "CR-NEST: A Cognitive Radio Network Emulator and Simulator Testbed," Demo in ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and (Mobicom), Las Vegas, NV, September 2011.
P. Nagaraju, L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Implementation of a Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Algorithm on USRP2 Radios," Demo in IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, June 2010.

Service

Reviewer
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Communication Letters, Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Computer Networks (Elsevier), Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer), Journal of Sensors (Hindawi), International Journal of Communication Systems, Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer), Journal of Sensors (Hindawi).
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2013/2011/2009/2008, IEEE INFOCOM 2013/2012/2011/2010, IEEE MILCOM 2012/2011/2009/2008, IEEE ICC 2012/2010, IEEE WCNC 2012, IEEE MASS 2011/2008/2009, IEEE SECON 2010/2009, IEEE ICDCS 2010, IEEE PIMRC 2009, IEEE MSN 2009, ISWCS 2009, AMC BuildSys 2009, IEEE VTC 2009-Spring, IQ2S 2009, IFIP Networking 2009, ICST ADHOCNETS 2009, ACM MSWiM 2009, ACM Q2SWinet 2008, IEEE WiMob 2009/2008, ACM PE-WASUN 2008, IEEE CogNet 2008, IEEE IPCCC 2008.