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Office:  851 S. Morgan, M/C 154, Dept. of ECE, Rm. SEO-1009, Univ. of Illinois- Chicago

Phone:  (312) 996-5494

Email:   ycao@ece.uic.edu 

 

 

Education:

Ph.D., in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Computer Networking),

           University of Illinois at Chicago, (2006), GPA 4.0/4.0

M.S.,  in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Wireless Communication and Signal Processing),

           Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecomm., (2001), GPA 3.92/4.0

B.S.,   in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Telecommunication),

           Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecomm., (1998), GPA 3.59/4.0

 

 

 

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Research Interests:

 

  • Computer network modeling, simulation, analysis
  • Network routing algorithms and optimizations
  • High-speed hybrid IP/optical and all-optical networking
  • Wireless communication, ad hoc and sensor networks
  • Signal processing for digital communications

 

Research Experiences:

 

Research Assistant (2002─2006), University of Illinois at Chicago

Conduct independent research on the service provisioning to support bandwidth-intensive collaborative applications in optical networks; Participate in collaboration in the project of inter-domain secure optical network service provisioning.

The major research projects that I participated in are:

1.      The OptIPuter  (NSF Grant OCI-0225642)

2.      StarLight (NSF Grant OCI-0229642)

3.      Optical Networking: Intelligent Signalling and Control (NSF Grant SCI-0123399)

4.      Integrated Service Optical Networks (DoE Grant DE-FG02-03ER25566)

Research Assistant (1998─2001), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Participated in the research of improving the performance of CDMA wireless communication systems with smart antenna and interference cancellation technologies.

 

Research Proposals

 

  • Networking: Loss-balanced multicast in all-optical WDM networks.
  • Networking: Complementary-combined wavelength converter and splitter placement for optical network planning.
  • Networking: Traffic grooming for efficient group multicast in hybrid optical-electronic networks.
  • Communication: Wireless CDMA signal reception combining adaptive antenna array and interference cancellation.

 

Research Accomplishments (Phd phase):

My PhD research in optical networking focuses on the service provisioning to support bandwidth-intensive collaborative applications in optical networks. Specifically, two types of collaborative applications are studied: multicast and groupcast. In multicast, a single traffic source simultaneously delivers traffic to a set of destinations; while in groupcast, a group of nodes concurrently share common traffic streams that may originate from any arbitrary subset nodes of the group. To effectively provision the collaborative applications, both network planning and resource allocation are dealt with. (Click here for details)

The summary of my PhD dissertation can be found here.

 

Research Topics that I Plan to Investigate:

 

1.      Multi-layer IP/WDM traffic engineering and signaling/control

2.      Network service reliability and survivability

3.      Ad Hoc and wireless sensor networks

4.       Physical/MAC layer design for 3G/4G systems

 

 

 

 

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Teaching Assistant (Spring 2006), University of Illinois at Chicago

Be responsible for laboratory instructing in the following college-level course: Circuit Analysis.

Teaching Assistant (Fall 2001─ Fall2002), University of Illinois at Chicago

     Be responsible for laboratory instructing in the following college-level courses:

Circuit Analysis; Electronic (I); Electronic (II).

Teaching Assistant (Spring 2000), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

     Assumed responsibility of the following college-level course: Digital Signal Processing.

 

 

 

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and the use of these papers is limited to non-profit purposes only.

 

Journal/Transaction Publications:

[1]     Y. Cao and O. Yu, “Groupcast in wavelength-routed WDM networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4286-4295, Nov. 2006.

[2]     Y. Cao and O. Yu, “Optimization of loss-balanced multicast in all-optical WDM networks,” Springer Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Special Issue on Communication Networks and Internet Applications, vol. 12, no. 1-2, pp. 71-82, Sept. 2006.

[3]     O. Yu and Y. Cao, “Placement of light splitters and wavelength converters for efficient multicast in all-optical WDM networks,” IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, vol. E89-D. no. 2, pp. 709-718, Feb. 2006. [pdf]

[4]     O. Yu, A. Li, Y. Cao, L. Yin, M. Liao, and H. Xu, “Multi-domain lambda grid data portal for collaborative grid applications,” Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Section on iGrid 2005: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 993-1003, Oct. 2006.

 

Conference/Workshop Publications:

[5]     Y. Cao and O. Yu, “On the study of group multicast in WDM networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), vol. 3, pp. 1625-1630, May 2005. [pdf]

[6]     Y. Cao and O. Yu, “QoS-guaranteed routing and wavelength assignment for group multicast in optical WDM networks,” in Proc. 9th IFIP/IEEE Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2005), pp. 175-184, Feb. 2005. [pdf]

[7]     O. Yu and Y. Cao, “Dynamic groupcast traffic grooming in WDM networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006). (published)

[8]     O. Yu and Y. Cao, “Mathematical formulation of optical multicast with loss-balanced light-forest,” in Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2005), pp. 1968-1972, Nov. 2005.

[9]     Y. Cao and O. Yu, “Optimal placement of light splitters and wavelength converters for multicast in WDM networks,” in Proc. 3rd International Conference on. Communication, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2005), vol. 1, pp. 585-589, May 2005. [pdf]

[10] O. Yu, M. Liao, and Y. Cao, “Synchronous stream optical switching,” in Proc. IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on Networks for Grid (GridNets 2005), pp. 524-529, Oct. 2005. [pdf]

[11]  B. Zheng and Y. Cao, “SASOPIC: An improved scheme of smart antennas receiver for CDMA system,” in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2002), vol. 2, pp. 1359-1362. Aug. 2002.

[12] Y. Cao and B. Zheng, “A new scheme for DS-CDMA detection combining smart antennas and parallel interference canceller,” in Proc. International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT 2000), vol. 1, pp. 156-159, Aug. 2000.

 

 

 

 

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       IEEE       (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

       ACM       (Association for Computing Machinery)

       IEICE     (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)

       UIC         (University of Illinois at Chicago)

       ECE.UIC             (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department)

       EVL.UIC             (Electronic Visualization Lab)

       NWC.ECE.UIC  (Networking and Wireless Communication Lab)

 

Email: ycao@ece.uic.edu