Nan Cen

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Northeastern University
M.S. in Electrical Engineering - State University of New York at Buffalo (2014)
M.S. in Information Science and Engineering - Shandong University, Jinan, China (2011)
B.S. in Information Science and Engineering - Shandong University, Jinan, China (2008)

Nan Cen earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, where she worked in the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory under Professor Tommaso Melodia. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2014, and both her B.S. and M.S. in Information Science and Engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From 2011 to 2012 she was a software developer at Alcatel-Lucent Co. in Qingdao, China. She worked as a summer intern at Bell Labs in 2014 and at IBM in 2010. Her research focused on visible light networking, visible light beamforming, resource allocation, protocol design, multimedia transmission over wireless sensor networks, compressed sensing applications, Internet of Things, massive MIMO and its applications in 5G, and software-defined networks. She was the recipient of the N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship at MobiHoc 2015 and served as Chair of the IEEE Shandong University Student Branch from 2009 to 2011.

Publications

2022

Journals & Magazines

N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “Compressed Sensing Based Low-Power Multi-View Video Coding and Transmission in Wireless Multi-Path Multi-Hop Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2022)Journal

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2020

Journals & Magazines

Z. Guan, N. Cen, T. Melodia, and S. Pudlewski. “Distributed Joint Power, Association and Flight Control for Massive-MIMO Self-Organizing Flying Drones.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2020)Journal

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2019

Journals & Magazines

N. Cen, J. Jagannath, S. Moretti, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “LANET: Visible-Light Ad Hoc Networks.” Ad Hoc Networks (2019)Journal

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Conference Papers

N. Cen, N. Dave, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “LiBeam: Throughput-Optimal Cooperative Beamforming for Indoor Visible Light Networks.” IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (2019)Conference

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2018

Conference Papers

Z. Guan, N. Cen, T. Melodia, and S. Pudlewski. “Self-Organizing Flying Drones with Massive MIMO Networking.” Proc. of Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net) (2018)Conference

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2017

Journals & Magazines

N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “Interview Motion Compensated Joint Decoding for Compressively Sampled Multiview Video Streams.” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2017)Journal

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2015

Journals & Magazines

S. Pudlewski, N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “Video transmission over lossy wireless networks: A cross-layer perspective.” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2015)Journal

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Conference Papers

N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia. “Multi-view Wireless Video Streaming Based on Compressed Sensing: Architecture and Network Optimization.” Proc. of ACM Intl. Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) (2015)Conference

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2011

Conference Papers

J. Sun, N. Cen, and D. Yuan. “Implementation of a 2x2 MIMO-OFDM Real-Time System on DSP/FPGA Platform.” Proc. of International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (2011)Conference

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