Lei Ding, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2012)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - University at Buffalo, SUNY (2012)
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering - Beijing Institute of Technology (2006)

Research Interests

Lei Ding received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY) on May 18, 2012, successfully defending her thesis titled “Cross-layer Routing and Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks”. She worked in the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Tommaso Melodia. Prior to her doctoral studies, Lei received her M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she was an electrical engineer at Motorola China R&D Networks Lab in Beijing, China. Her research focused on 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, and testbed evaluation of ad hoc wireless networks. After completing her Ph.D., she became a Research Scientist at Intelligent Automation Inc., working on networking and security areas.

Publications

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, and J. Matyjas. "Distributed Resource Allocation in Cognitive and Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks Through Joint Routing, Relay Selection and Spectrum Allocation", Computer Networks (Elsevier) (2015),

L. Ding, K. Gao, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, and J. Matyjas. "All-spectrum Cognitive Networking through Jointly Optimal Distributed Channelization and Routing", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2013),

L. Ding, Y. Sagduyu, T. Melodia, . J. Li an J. Feldman, and J. Matyjas. "CREATE-NEST: A Distributed Cognitive Radio Network Platform with Physical Channel Awareness", Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Military Communications (MILCOM) (2013),

L. Ding, Y. Sagduyu, J. Yackoski, B. Azimi-Sadjadi, R. J. Li, and T. Melodia. "High Fidelity Wireless Network Evaluation for Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks", Proc. SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference (2012),

K. Gao, L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, and J. Matyjas. "Spread-spectrum Cognitive Networking: Distributed Channelization and Routing", Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) (2011),

Z. Guan, L. Ding, T. Melodia, and D. Yuan. "On the Effect of Cooperative Relaying on the Performance of Video Streaming Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks", Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC) (2011),

L. Ding, P. Nagaraju, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, and J. Matyjas. "Software-defined Joint Routing and Waveform Selection for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) (2010),

P. Nagaraju, L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, and J. Matyjas. "Implementation of a Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Algorithm on USRP2 Radios", Demo at IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) (2010),

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, and J. Matyjas. "Distributed Routing, Relay Selection, and Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive and Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) (2010),

P. Nagaraju, L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, and J. Matyjas. "Demo at IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)", Demo at IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) (2010),

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, and M. Medley. "Cross-layer Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2010),

L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, and M. Medley. "ROSA: Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) (2009),

L. Ding, S. Pudlewski, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, J. Matyjas, and M. Medley. "Distributed Spectrum Sharing for Video Streaming in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Cross-layer Design in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2009),