Faculty Profile

Haitao Zheng

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Haitao Zheng

Contacts

Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

tel: (805) 893-3560
fax: (805) 893-8553
htzheng@cs.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

The fundamental concept behind Intelligent Networking is to push Human brain-power into end-devices. Human are intelligent and adaptive. We sense neighborhood environment, adapt to dynamics and variations, and learn from past experiences to change future behavior. This is so called cognitive cycle.

Our approach is to apply the concept of cognitive to network elements that allows networks to manage themselves in a self-aware and adapative manner. Areas to be addressed include self-organizing networks, adaptive routing and MAC protocol design, network resource management, topology discovery/control, security as well as network infrastructures.

Research Groups

Biography

Since Sept. 2005, Dr. Haitao (Heather) Zheng has been an assistant professor in Computer Science Department, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. Before that she held research positions in Bell-Labs, Murray Hill and Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Zheng has been researching on wireless networking and Cognitive Radios. In 2006, her work on Cognitive Radios was featured in MIT Technology Review as an Top-10 Emerging Technology, and she recently became a fellow of World Technology Network. In 205, she was one of MIT Technology Review's TR35 -- Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35 for her work on cognitive radios. She received 2002 Bell Laboratories President's Gold Award from Lucent Bell-Labs, and 1998-1999 George Harhalakis Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Institute of System Research, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Zheng was admitted to the highly gifted class of Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China at age of 15, and graduated with the highest honor.


Awards/Honors

  • Featured in MIT Technology Review magazine March/April 2006 issue on 10 Emerging Technologies, 2006
  • Fellow of World Technology Network, 2006
  • MIT Technology Review's TR35 -- Top 35 Innovators under the age of 35, 2005
  • Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award, 2002
  • George Harhalakis Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 1998-1999
  • Institute for Systems Research Fellowship, 1995 – 1998

Selected Publications

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  • Spectrum Sharing through Distributed Coordination in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, special issue on Cognitive and software defined radio, and adaptive wireless communication systems, 2007 (to appear), J. Zhao, H. Zheng and G. Yang
  • Group-Mobility-Aware Spectrum Management for Future Digital Battlefields, MILCOM, October, 2006, H. Zheng, J. Shi and L. Cao
  • Utilization and Fairness in Spectrum Assignment for Opportunistic Spectrum Access, ACM Monet, June, 2006, C. Peng, H. Zheng and B. Y. Zhao, web link
  • Device-centric Spectrum Management, IEEE Dyspan 2005, November, 2005, H. Zheng and L. Cao, web link
  • Distributed Coordination in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks, IEEE Dyspan 2005, November, 2005, J. Zhao, H. Zheng and G. Yang, web link
  • Distributed paging and registration in wireless networks, IEEE Network Magazine, 2005, S. Das, T. Klein, K. Leung, S. Mukherjee, G. Rittenhouse, L. Samuel, H. Viswanathan and H. Zheng
  • Distributed Radio Link Control Protocol in an All-IP Cellular Network, IEEE VTC Fall, 2005, S. Das, T. Klein, K. Leung, S. Mukherjee, G. Rittenhouse, L. Samuel, H. Viswanathan and H. Zheng
  • Distributed Spectrum Allocation via Local Bargaining, IEEE SECON 2005, 2005, L. Cao, H. Zheng, web link
  • Joint Cross-layer Design for Wireless QoS Content Delivery, Special Issue on Cross Layer Interaction for Communications, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005, J. Chen, T. Lv and H. Zheng
  • Optimizing ARQ Performance in High Speed Downlink Systems with Scheduling, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, iss. 2, 2005, 495-506, H. Zheng and H. Viswanathan, web link