2012

1. May 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Kimberly A. Kosta as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2012.
2. May 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Kevin Jenks as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2012.
3. May 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Tiara Fencher as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2012.
4. May 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Jeremie Boris Ebozoa Ebini as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2012.
5. May 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Conner Hansen  as a graduate research assistant (RA) during Summer 2012.
6. May 2012, Dr. Yang Xiao's new edited book: “Communication and Networking in Smart Grids,” CRC, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN-10: 1439878730, ISBN-13: 978-1439878736, 2012.
7. May 2012, Jing Liu  passed her dissertation proposal, entitled "Accountability in Smart Grids and Medical Sensor Networks," Congratulation!
8. May 2012, Lei Zeng had a journal paper accepted.
9. Apr. 2012, Jing Liu had another journal paper accepted.
10. Apr. 2012, So far, among 5 PHD graduates from W4-Net Lab, 2 of them went for faculty positions directly, 2 went for industry jobs at beginning and then moved back for faculty positions, and only one went for industry job.
11. Apr. 2012, Yanping Zhang passed her dissertation oral defense, entitled "Surveillance and Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Design, Analysis, and Evaluation," She is on her way to become a faculty member. Congratulation!
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13. Apr. 2012, Zhifeng Xiao had another journal paper accepted.
14. Apr. 2012, Zhifeng Xiao and Nandhakumar Kathiresshan had a journal paper accepted.
15. Apr. 2012, Zhifeng Xiao won 2012 Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award. Congratulation!
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17. Mar. 2012,  Bo Fu, Jingcheng Gao, Xiannuan Liang, Jing Liu, Miao Peng, Zhifeng Xiao, Lei Zeng, and Yanping Zhang served as members of Technical Program Committee (TPC), The 50th ACM Southeast Conference (ACM SE 2012). http://cs.ua.edu/acmse2012/committees/program.shtml
18. Mar. 2012, Yanping Zhang accepted an offer for a tenure-track assistant professor position from The Department of Computer Science at Gonzaga University. Congratulation!
19. Mar. 2012, Xiannuan Liang had a journal paper accepted.
20. Mar. 2012, Yanping Zhang obtained at least two offers for a tenure-track assistant professor position as well as some other job offers.
21. Mar. 2012, Yanping Zhang is looking for a faculty position and obtained more than 5 on-site interviews. Good luck to her.
22. Feb. 2012, Jingcheng Gao has a conference paper accepted.
23. Feb. 2012, Jing Liu has a conference paper accepted.
24. Feb. 2012, Jingcheng Gao obtained GENI travel grant award to attend GENI meeting (GEC 13)
25. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Weston Jones as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
26. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Miles Hutcherson as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
27. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Ronald H Phillips as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
28. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Jeremie Boris Ebozoa Ebini  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
29. Feb. 2012, Prof. Jong Min Lee (from South Korea) visit W⁴-NET  for one year.
30. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Jackie Wade Becton as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
31. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Breanna Tucker  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
32. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Alicia Simon  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
33. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Michael Phillips as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
34. Feb. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Yujun Liu  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
35. Jan. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Forrest Wright  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
36. Jan. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Evan T. Rosemore  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
37. Jan. 2012, W⁴-NET  hired Tiara Fencher as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2012.
38. Jan. 2012, The University of Alabama football team, Crimson Tide, won The National championship on Jan. 9 2011. This is the 14th time for Crimson tide to win the national championship.  Congratulation! Roll Tide Roll !
39. Jan. 2012, Xiannuan Liang had a journal paper accepted.
40. Jan. 2012, Bo Fu has a conference paper accepted.
41. Jan. 2012, Ming Lei had a journal paper accepted.

2011

1. Nov. 2011, Jing Liu had a journal paper accepted.
2. Nov, 2011, Miao Peng passed Dissertation Proposal Defense, entitled: Design, Analysis, and Theoretical Bounds in Acoustic and RF Sensor Networks.  Congratulation!
3. Nov. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao had a journal paper accepted.
4. Oct. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Jason Bowman  as a graduate research assistant (GRA) starting from Fall 2011.
5. Oct. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Kirk LeGrone  as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2011.
6. Oct. 2011, Alina Olteanu accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Computer Science department at "Spiru Haret" University, Bucharest, Romania, starting Oct. 2011. Congratulation!
7. Oct. 2011, Daisuke Takahashi and Ke Meng had a paper accepted by a journal.
8. Oct. 2011, Dr. Hui Chen obtained another NSF funding. Congratulation!
9. Oct. 2011, Bo Fu had a paper accepted by a conference
10. Sep. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Deahndra T. Grigles  as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2011.
11. Sep. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Forrest Wright as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2011.
12. Sep. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Evan T. Rosemore as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2011.
13. Sep. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao and Lei zeng obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending the conference, GLOBECOM 2011.
14. Sep. 2010, Frank Haizhon Li got tenure and promoted to associate professor ! Congratulation!
15. Sep. 2010, Bo Fu passed Qualifying exam ! Congratulation!
16. Sep. 2010, Lei Zeng passed Qualifying exam ! Congratulation!
17. Aug. 2010, Miao Peng had an another IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
18. Aug. 2011, Rainny Shuyan Xie is planning her wedding and will soon get married.  Congratulation!
19. Aug. 2011, Fnu Shalini graduated with her Master Degree.  Congratulation!
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21. Aug. 2011, Ke Meng Graduation Party
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24. Aug. 2011, Ke Meng graduated with his PhD Degree.  Congratulation!
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26. Jul. 2011, Lei Zeng had a conference paper accepted.
27. Jul. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao had a conference paper accepted.
28. Jul. 2011, Bo Fu had a journal paper accepted.
29. Jun. 2011, Dr. Hui Chen visited Dept. of Computer Science of The Univ. of Alabama and had a dinner with current W4-Net members.
30. Jun. 2011, Miao Peng had a journal paper accepted.
31. May 2011, Ke Meng passed his dissertation oral defense, entitled "Wi-Fi Attack Mitigation: Analysis, Design, and Implementation," Congratulation!
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33. May 2011, Shraddha Sen passed her thesis oral defense, entitled "Log Analysis Technique: Picviz," Congratulation!
34. May 2011, Drs. Yang Xiao,  Frank Haizhon Li, and Hui Chen's new edited book: " Handbook on Security and Networks," World Scientific Publishing Co.,ISBN-10: 9814273031, ISBN-13: 978-9814273039, 2011.
35. Apr. 2011, Miao Peng had a journal paper accepted.
36. Apr. 2011, Jingcheng Gao and Jing Liu had a journal paper accepted.
37. Apr. 2011, Ke Meng and Daisuke Takahashi had a journal paper accepted.
38. Apr. 2011, Ke Meng got a job offer from our collaborating company: IAI. Congratulation!
39. Apr. 2011, Mike Nolen has a journal paper accepted.
40. Mar. 2011, Dr. Yang Xiao's new edited book: "Bio-inspired Computing and Networking," CRC Press; ISBN-10: 1420080326, ISBN-13: 978-1420080322, 2011.
41. Mar. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending the conference, INFOCOM 2011.
42. Feb, 2011, Bo Fu won Upsilon Pi Epsilon Outstanding Graduate Award in Computer Science in Spring 2011,  Congratulation!
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44. Feb, 2011, Ke Meng won Outstanding Graduate Research Award in Computer Science, 2011,  Congratulation!
45. Feb, 2011, Yanping Zhang passed Dissertation Proposal Defense, entitled: Wireless Surveillance Systems: Design, Analysis, and Evaluation.  Congratulation!
46. Feb. 2011, Yanping Zhang had another journal paper accepted.
47. Feb. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao had a conference paper accepted.
48. Feb. 2011, Yanping Zhang had a conference paper accepted.
49. Feb. 2011, Nandhakumar Kathiresshan and Zhifeng Xiao had a conference paper accepted.
50. Feb. 2011, Xiannuan Liang had one journal paper accepted.
51. Feb. 2011, Yanping Zhang had one journal paper accepted.
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53. Jan. 2011, W4-NET Best Researcher Award:   Congratulation!
    • 2010 W4-Net Best Researcher Award: Bo Fu. His award citation reads "For contributions to high quality research in a funded research, as well as helping obtain grants to support the continuous research."
54. Jan. 2011, W⁴-NET  hired Caitlyn Terrell Smith  as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2011.
55. Jan. 2011, Zhifeng Xiao passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!

2010

1. Dec. 2010, Fnu Shalini passed his thesis oral defense, entitled "ProtoGENI Security: THREATS TO RESOURCES AND RUN-TIME INTERACTIONS," Congratulation!
2. Dec. 2010, Ke Meng passed Dissertation Proposal Defense, entitled: Wi-fi Attack and Mitigation: Analysis, Design and Implementation.  Congratulation!
3. Dec. 2010, Jingcheng Gao, Sneha Rao, and Fnu Shalini had one conference paper accepted.
4. Dec. 2010, New Awards by Department from FY 2002 through FY 2010

5. FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010
   $2,814,120	$2,793,306	$1,617,365	$7,871,577	$5,817,991	$7,021,585	$5,558,740	$6,572,766	$6,078,853

6. Nov. 2010, Miao Peng and Jing Liu attended Qshine 2010 to present two papers:
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8. Nov. 2010, Autumn Nicole Smith had one book chapter accepted.
9. Nov. 2010, Drs. Yang Xiao, Hui Chen, and Frank Haizhon Li's new edited book: "Handbook on Sensor Networks," World Scientific Publishing Co., ISBN-10: 9812837302, ISBN-13: 978-9812837301, 2010,2010.
10. Nov. 2010, Alina Olteanu was nominated for Outstanding Dissertation Award of the school  Congratulation!
11. Oct. 2010, Nandhakumar Kathiresshan passed his thesis oral defense, entitled "Eagle eye: An Accountable Logging Framework For Distributed Systems," Congratulation!
12. Oct. 2010, Alina Olteanu  and Jing Liu had one conference paper accepted.
13. Oct. 2010, Miao Peng had one conference paper accepted.
14. Oct. 2010, Daisuke Takahashi and Jing Liu had one journal paper accepted.
15. Oct. 2010, Ke Meng obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending the conference, MILCOM 2010.
16. Oct. 2010, Bo Fu obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending the conference, GLOBECOM 2010.
17. Oct. 2010, Shraddha Sen passed her thesis proposal defense, entitled "Log Analysis Technique: Picviz,"    Congratulation!
18. Sep. 2010, Jing Liu and Jingcheng Gao have one paper accepted by a conference.
19. Sep. 2010, Hui Chen obtained two NSF grants.  Congratulation!
20. Sep. 2010, Jing Liu passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
21. Sep. 2010, Jingcheng Gao passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
22. Aug. 2010, Percentage of New STEM Jobs by Area through 2018    
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24. Aug. 2010, Yanping Zhang and Xiannuan Liang have an ACM Transactions journal paper accepted
25. Aug. 2010, Xiannuan Liang passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
26. Aug. 2010, Fnu Shalini passed her thesis proposal defense, entitled "ProtoGENI Security: Threats to Resources and Traffic in ProtoGENI"    Congratulation!
27. Aug. 2010, Nandhakumar Kathiresshan passed his thesis proposal defense, entitled "Eagle eye: An Accountable Logging Framework For Distributed Systems,"    Congratulation!
28. Aug. 2010, Neil Adams has a book chapter accepted.
29. Jul. 2010, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) is now indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) !
30. Jul. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Fnu Shalini as a research assistant during Summer 2010.
31. Jul. 2010, Xiannuan Liang and Ke Meng have a conference paper accepted
32. Jul. 2010, Daisuke Takahashi and Ke Meng have two conference papers accepted
33. Jul. 2010, Yanping Zhang got a baby girl.   Congratulation!
34. Jun. 2010, Bo Fu has a conference paper accepted
35. Jun. 2010, Miao Peng has a conference paper accepted
36. Jun. 2010, Li Liu, Andrew Faulkner, and Keith Weber have a journal paper accepted
37. May 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Matthew D Kinnaman as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2010.
38. May 2010, Zhifeng Xiao has a conference paper accepted
39. May 2010, Yanping Zhang has a journal paper accepted
40. May. 2010, Prof. Yang Xiao's new edited book: "Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” , CRC Press, ISBN-10: 1420067117, ISBN-13: 978-1420067118, 2010.
41. May 2010, Frank Haizhon Li got married.   Congratulation!
42. May 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Nianxiang Li as a research assistant during Summer 2010.
43. May 2010, Jing Liu has a journal paper accepted
44. Apr. 2010, W4-NET Best Researcher Awards:   Congratulation!

               

    • 2009 W4-Net Best Researcher Award: Alina Olteanu. Her award citation reads "For contributions to high quality research in security analysis, security modeling, and tradeoff analysis of security and performance."
    • 2009 W4-Net Best Undergraduate Researcher Award: Shuyan Xie. Her award citation reads "For contributions to high quality undergraduate research in nursing homes, medical errors, and primate studies."
    • 2008 W4-Net Best Researcher Award: Ke Meng. His award citation reads "For contributions to high quality R&D (research and development) in a funded research, as well as helping obtain grants to support the continuous research."
    • 2007 W4-Net Best Researcher Award: Daisuke Takahashi. His award citation reads "For contributions to high quality research in telemedicine and accountability."
    • Link: http://www.cs.ua.edu/~yangxiao/W4-NET_Awards.html
45. Apr. 2010, Shuyan Xie got fully funded from IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology) for her entire PhD years in Ireland.  Congratulation!
46. Apr. 2010, Xiannuan Liang has a paper accepted by a conference
47. Mar. 2010, Alina Olteanu had an another journal paper accepted.
48. Mar. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Autumn Nicole Smith as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2010.
49. Mar. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Neil W. Adams as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2010.
50. Mar. 2010, Michael J. Plyler has a conference paper accepted.
51. Mar. 2010, Ke Meng has a conference paper accepted.
52. Mar. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Justin William Floyd as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2010.
53. Mar. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Christy Jee-Young McGee as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2010.
54. Mar. 2010, Zhifeng Xiao has a conference paper accepted.
55. Mar. 2010, Li Liu has a conference paper accepted.
56. Feb. 2010, W⁴-NET  hired Thomas Watts as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2010.
57. Feb. 2010, Zhifeng Xiao obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending the conference, INFOCOM 2010.
58. Jan. 2010, Miao Peng passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
59. Jan. 2010, Zhifeng Xiao has a conference paper accepted.
60. Jan. 2010, The University of Alabama football team, Crimson Tide, (rank #1 in the USA), won The National championship on Jan. 7 2010. This is the 13th time for Crimson tide to win the national championship.  Congratulation! Roll Tide Roll !
61. Jan. 2010, Daisuke Takahashi just got a baby boy. Congratulation!
62. Jan. 2010, Xianghui Cao had an another IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
63. Jan. 2010, Prof. Xiao stepped down from Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA), and quitted several associate editor positions including (Wiley) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, (Wiley) Security and Communication Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking,  and (Wiley) International Journal of Communication Systems.
64. Jan. 2010, Alina Olteanu had an another IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted. This will be her third IEEE Trans. papers.
65. Jan. 2010, Daisuke Takahashi has a journal paper accepted.

2009

1. Dec. 2009, Shuyan Xie had a journal paper accepted
2. Dec. 2009, The University of Alabama football team, Crimson Tide, (rank #1 in the USA), won SEC championship and will play the National Title Championship on Jan. 7 2010. Congratulation!
3. Nov. 2009, Daisuke Takahashi has a paper accepted by a conference.
4. Nov. 2009, Lei Zeng will be hired as RA starting at Spring 2010.
5. Oct. 2009, Ming Lei had a journal paper accepted
6. Oct. 2009, Alina Olteanu had an another IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted
7. Sep. 2009, Xiannuan Liang had an IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted
8. Sep. 2009, Xiannuan Liang had another paper accepted by a conference
9. Sep. 2009, Haizhon Li had a journal paper accepted
10. Sep. 2009, Alina Olteanu had an IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted
11. Sep. 2009, Songqing Yue had a paper accepted by a conference
12. Sep. 2009, Xiannuan Liang had a paper accepted by a conference
13. Sep. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Stephanie Higginbotham as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2009.
14. Aug. 2009, Xiannuan Liang and Nanxiang Li had a paper accepted by a conference
15. Aug. 2009, Miao Peng had a paper accepted by a conference
16. Aug. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Jake Burchfield as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2009.
17. Aug. 2009, Ke Meng passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
18. Aug. 2009, Yanping Zhang passed qualifying exam.  Congratulation!
19. Aug. 2009, Alina Olteanu graduated with her PhD Degree.  Congratulation!
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24. Aug. 2009, Yanping Zhang had one journal paper accepted.
25. July 2009, We moved to Science & Engineering Complex (SEC)
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27. July 2009, Hui Chen has one IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
28. July 2009, Jing Liu, Hui Chen, Srinivas Dodle, and Vikas Singh have a paper accepted by an IEEE journal.
29. July 2009, Jing Liu has a paper accepted by a journal.
30. July 2009, Xianghui Cao has one IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
31. June 2009, Faculty offices and research Labs will move to the new building, Science & Engineering Complex (SEC), July 1 or July 2. Prof. Xiao's office will be 3416 Science & Engineering Complex (SEC), and W⁴-NET  will be 3420 Science & Engineering Complex (SEC).
32. June 2009, Xianghui Cao Went back to Zhejiang University.
33. June 2009, Hui Chen has one IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
34. June 2009, Shuyan Xie has one book chapter accepted.
35. June 2009, Miao Peng has one IEEE Transactions journal paper accepted.
36. May 2009, Miao Peng obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending a conference.
37. May 2009, Miao Peng has another conference paper accepted.
38. May 2009, Miao Peng has one conference paper accepted.
39. May 2009, Xiannuan Liang has one conference paper accepted.
40. May 2009, Yanping Zhang has another conference paper accepted.
41. May 2009, Yanping Zhang and Hui Chen have a paper accepted by a journal.
42. May 2009, Alina Olteanu passed her Dissertation Defense.  Congratulation!
43. May 2009, Yanping Zhang obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending a conference.
44. May 2009, Michael Galloway, Yanping Zhang, and Peng Shao have one book chapter accepted.
45. May 2009, Songqing Yue and Xihui Zhang have one book chapter accepted.
46. May 2009, Yanping Zhang had two papers accepted by a conference.
47. Apr. 2009, W⁴-NET  will hire Zhifeng Xiao as a RA starting from Summer and continuing during Fall 2009.
48. Apr. 2009, Lei Zeng accepted a RA/TA assistantship of W⁴-NET  and will join W⁴-NET  as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2009.
49. Apr. 2009, Bo Fu accepted a RA/TA assistantship of W⁴-NET  and will join W⁴-NET  as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2009.
50. Apr. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Taylor Anderson as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.
51. Apr. 2009, Samantha St. Clair, an undergraduate research assistant of W⁴-NET , given an oral presentation, entitled "Determining the Probability Distribution of the Detection Time in Wireless Sensor Networks" at the Second Annual University of Alabama Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference on April 13 2009, at The University of Alabama. Samantha St. Clair was supported by both W⁴-NET  and NSF REU grants.
52. Apr. 2009, Shuyan Xie, an undergraduate research assistant of W⁴-NET , presented a poster, entitled "Technology Practice in Nursing Homes" at the Second Annual University of Alabama Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference on April 13 2009, at The University of Alabama. Shuyan Xie was supported by both W⁴-NET  and NSF REU grants.
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54. Apr. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Jake Burchfield as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.
55. Apr. 2009, Alina Olteanu's Dissertation Defense is scheduled at East Engineering 110, Friday, May 8, 2009, at 11:00 am
56. Apr. 2009, Yanping Zhang had another journal paper accepted.
57. Mar. 2009, Bama Table Tennis Team at a tournament:
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59. Mar. 2009, Yanping Zhang, Miao Peng, and Hui Chen had a journal paper accepted.
60. Mar. 2009, Xiannuan Liang obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending a conference.
61. Mar. 2009, W⁴-NET  currently is a team of

    • 9 Ph.D. students

    • 4 Undergraduate students (supported by NSF)

    • 2 Master Students

    • 2 Visiting Scholars/Professors

    • We plan to hire 2-3 additional Ph.D. students for Fall 2009.

62. Mar. 2009, Shraddha Sen joined W4-Net as a master student.
63. Mar. 2009, Prof. Yang Xiao and Prof. YI Pan's new edited book: "Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs,” ISBN-10: 0471720690, ISBN-13: 978-0471720690, Wiley, 2009.
64. Mar. 2009, Miao Peng has a paper accepted by a conference.
65. Mar. 2009, Yanping Zhang has a paper accepted by a conference.
66. Mar. 2009, Ke Meng had a paper accepted by a journal.
67. Mar. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Jon Lauer as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.
68. Feb. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Samantha St. Clair as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.
69. Feb. 2009, Xiannuan Liang got a conference paper accepted.
70. Feb. 2009, Jing Liu got a journal paper accepted.
71. Feb. 2009, Alina Olteanu obtained an award for Outstanding Graduate Research Award for 2009. Congratulation!
72. Feb. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Parker Robbins as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.
73. Feb. 2009, Alina Olteanu obtained an award for Graduate Student Research and Travel Support for attending a conference in Dresden, Germany.
74. Feb. 2009, Alina Olteanu finalized her dissertation title as "Network Security: Design, Analysis and Tradeoff Evaluation".
75. Jan. 2009, Nandhakumar Kathiresshan joined W4-Net as a master student.
76. Jan. 2009, Prof. SeungHyun Oh recently joined W4-Net as a visiting professor for one year.
77. Jan. 2009, Dept. of CS at Univ. of Alabama, funding proposal submissions and awarded funding in the past 6 years

    Year	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
    Submissions	19.88	29.65	25.12	26.05	33.83	59.40
    Awarded	$2,096,908	$1,327,474	$6,309,680	$5,73 4,500	$7,021,584	$5,252,000 (estimate)

78. Jan. 2009, Daisuke Takahashi won Outstanding Research by a Masters Student for the College of Engineering for 2008-2009. Congratulation!
79. Jan. 2009, W⁴-NET  hired Shuyan (Rainny) Xie as an undergraduate research assistant during Spring 2009.

2008

1. Dec. 2008, Alina Olteanu has two papers accepted by IEEE ICC 2009.
2. Dec. 2008, Li Liu has a paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2009.
3. Dec. 2008, Alina Olteanu was nominated (by CS department) to be an Outstanding Research by a Doctor's Student 
4. Dec. 2008, Daisuke Takahashi was nominated (by CS department) to be an Outstanding Research by a Masters Student 
5. Dec. 2008, Shuyan (Rainny) Xie visited Thomasville Nursing home for telemedicine research purpose, Dec. 2008.
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7. Dec. 2008, Alina Olteanu attended IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 to present two papers.
8. Nov. 2008, W⁴-NET  hired Stephanie Cantu as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2008.
9. Nov. 2008, W⁴-NET  hired Holly Kennedy as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2008.
10. Nov. 2008, Mr. Zhifeng Xiao will join W⁴-NET  in Spring 2009 as Ph.D. student.
11. Nov. 2008, Songqing Yue will be supported as a Research Assistant (RA) of W⁴-NET  starting Jan. 2009.
12. Oct. 2008, Madhulika Kamboj has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
13. Oct. 2008, Praveer Bahri has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
14. Oct. 2008, Yanping Zhang has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
15. Oct. 2008, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by a journal.

16. Oct. 2008, Based on Department Head Dr. Cordes at Graduate Student Orientation: For Department of Computer Science at University of Alabama,

    • $5.252M was received in new funding awards during Oct. 1, 2007 -Sep. 2008,

    • 12 faculty members received funding awards during Oct. 1, 2007 -Sep. 2008.

17. Oct. 2008, W⁴-NET  currently is a team of

    • 8 Ph.D. students

    • 2 Undergraduate students (supported by NSF)

    • 1 Visiting Scholar

    • We plan to hire another undergraduate student Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 and another Ph.D. student Spring 2009.

    • Another Visiting scholar is planning to join in the team in 2009.

18. Oct. 2008, 2009 USA ranking of Universities, click here: UniversityRank_2009.html . University of Alabama ranks 83.
19. Sep. 2008, W⁴-NET  hired Heather headley as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2008.
20. Sep. 2008, Alina Olteanu obtained graduate school travel fund for presenting a paper in a conference.
21. Sep. 2008, Xianghui Cao has one paper accepted in a conference.
22. Sep. 2008, W⁴-NET  hired Shuyan (Rainny) Xie as an undergraduate research assistant during Fall 2008.
23. Aug. 2008, Ke Meng, Songqing Yue, and Jing (Chris) Liu attended OPNETWORK 2008
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25. Aug. 2008, Prof. Yang Xiao and Prof. Fei Hu's new edited book: Cognitive Radio Networks,” ISBN-10: 1420064207, ISBN-13: 978-1420064209, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
26. Aug. 2008, Yanping Zhang has a conference paper accepted.
27. Aug. 2008, Daisuke Takahashi  has a conference paper accepted.
28. Aug. 2008, Ming Lei has a conference paper accepted.
29. Aug. 2008, Prof. Yang Xiao attended IEEE Senior Member Review Panel Meeting on Aug. 23 in Birmingham, AL.
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31. Aug. 2008, Kaveh Ghaboosi visited W4-Net Lab and Prof. Yang Xiao from Aug. 21 to Aug. 23, and gave a talk in the department on Aug.22,  entitled, Medium Access Control in the Next Generation Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges & Open Issues.     \
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33. Aug. 2008, Prof. Yang Xiao attended Xiannuan Liang' s wedding at Changchun, China on Aug. 10 2008. Congratulation to Xiannuan Liang !
34. Jul. 2008, Ke Meng obtained graduate school travel fund for presenting a paper in a conference.
35. Jul. 2008, Ke Meng has one paper accepted by a conference.
36. Jun. 2008, Alina Olteanu has two papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
37. Jun. 2008, Research Assistant (& Teaching Assistant) Positions for Ph.D. Students for Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
38. Jun., 2008, Supports for undergraduate students are available (Summer 2008 and Fall 2008)
39. Jun. 2008, Hui Chen has a journal paper accepted.
40. Jun. 2008, Mr.  JingchengGao will join W⁴-NET  in Fall. 2008 as Ph.D. student.
41. Jun. 2008, Prof. Yang Xiao and Prof. Hui Chen's new edited book: Mobile Telemedicine: A Computing and Networking Perspective, Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, ISBN-10: 1420060465 , ISBN-13: 978-1420060461.
42. Jun. 2008, W⁴-NET  Lab currently supports five journal special issues for WCN, IJTA, MONET, WCMC, and Telecommunications Systems.
    • Journal special Issue on "Wireless Network Security" for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009. (Open).
    • Special Issue on "Electronic – Health,” of International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA), (Open).
    • Journal Special Issue on "Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions,” of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET),  (Open).
    • Journal Special Issue on "Wireless Monitoring and Control" of (Wiley) Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing,  (Open).
    • Journal Special Issue on "Security for Multimedia and Ubiquitous Applications" of (Springer) Telecommunication Systems, (Open).
43. May. 2008, Prof. Yang Xiao gave a half day tutorial "Security Issues in Sensor Networks" in IEEE ICC 08, Beijing, China.
44. May. 2008, Li Liu and Prof. Yang Xiao attended IEEE ICC 08 to present multiple papers in Beijing, China. 

    

45. May. 2008, W⁴-NET  hired Abdul Samad Shaikh as an undergraduate research assistant during Summer 2008.
46. May. 2008, Ming Lei has one journal paper accepted.
47. May, 2008, Supports for undergraduate students are available (Summer 2008 and Fall 2008)
48. May. 2008, W⁴-NET ’s research has been currently supported by
    • the US National Science Foundation (NSF),
    • U.S. Army Research,
    • Fleet & Industrial Supply Center San Diego (FISCSD),
    • The University of Alabama's Research Grants Committee.
49. May. 2008, Research Assistant (& Teaching Assistant) Positions for Ph.D. Students for Spring 2009
50. May. 2008, Mr.  Jing (Chris) Liu will join W⁴-NET  in Fall. 2008 as Ph.D. student.
51. May. 2008, Mr.  Songqing Yue will join W⁴-NET  in Fall. 2008 as Ph.D. student.
52. Apr. 2008, Policy for Ph.D. qualifying exams will be changed soon to focus more on student research and publications. Instead of taking 4 exams out of 6 subjects, it contains a literature review for depth and taking courses (A or B) for breadth.
53. Apr. 2008, Based on NIH new policy, 
    • Effective April 7, 2008, the revised policy requires that all peer-reviewed manuscripts generated from NIH funding must be submitted to PubMed Central, the NIH digital archive of journal literature, at the time of acceptance of the article for publication. 
    • Effective May 25, 2008, the revised policy requires that NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number when citing an article that falls under the policy and is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator’s NIH award.
54. Apr. 2008, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA) is now available on the public PubMed Central (PMC) site under the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). 
55. Mar. 2008, Daisuke Takahashi has one paper accepted by a journal.
56. Mar. 2008, W⁴-Net Lab moved to EE 125.
57. Feb. 2008, Yanping Zhang has a conference paper accepted.
58. Feb. 2008, Hui Chen has a conference paper accepted.
59. Jan. 2008, Michael J. Plyler has the 4-th paper accepted as a book chapter.
60. Jan. 2008, Michael J. Plyler has the 3rd paper accepted as a book chapter.
61. Jan. 2008, Daisuke Takahashi has one conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2008.
62. Jan. 2008, Haizhon Li has one conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2008.
63. Jan. 2008, Ming Lei has two conference papers accepted by IEEE ICC 2008.
64. Jan. 2008, Xianghui Cao has one conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2008.
65. Jan. 2008, Li Liu has one conference paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2008.
66. Jan. 2008, Michael J. Plyler has another paper accepted as a book chapter.
67. Jan. 2008, Michael J. Plyler has one paper accepted as a book chapter.

2007

1. Dec. 2007, Alina Olteanu will be supported as a Research Assistant (RA) of W⁴-NET  starting Jan. 2008. Therefore, for Spring 2008, 6 Ph.D. students will be supported as RAs of W⁴-NET . Furthermore, we will hire at least 2 additional Ph.D. students for Fall 2008: RA Positions .
2. Dec. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi has the 3^rd journal paper accepted.
3. Dec. 2007, Haizhon Li has one conference paper accepted by IEEE WCNC 2008.
4. Dec. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi has the 2^nd journal paper accepted.
5. Nov. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao gave a half day tutorial "Security Issues in Sensor Networks" in IEEE GLOBECOM 07, Washington D.C.
6. Nov. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi, Ming Lei, Li Liu, Prof. Hui Chen, and Prof. Yang Xiao attended IEEE GLOBECOM 07 to present multiple papers in Washington D.C. 

1. Nov. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi has one journal paper accepted by IEEE WCNC 2008.
2. Nov. 2007, Ke Meng will be supported as a Research Assistant (RA) of W⁴-NET  starting Jan. 2008. Therefore, for Spring 2008, 5 Ph.D. students will be supported as RAs of W⁴-NET . Furthermore, we will hire additional 2 Ph.D. students for Fall 2008: RA Positions.
3. Oct. 2007, Xianghui Cao will join W⁴-NET  in Dec. 2007 as a visiting scholar.
4. Oct. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology,  AUERBACH, ISBN-10: 142004351X, ISBN-13: 978-1420043518.
5. Nov. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi obtained graduate school travel fund for presenting a paper in IEEE GLOBECOM 07.
6. Sep. 2007, Mr. Xiannuan Liang will join W⁴-NET  in Jan. 2008 as Ph.D. student with RA support.
7. Sep. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Security in Distributed and Networking Systems. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007, ISBN-13 978-981-270-807-6, ISBN-10 981-270-807-3.
8. Aug. 2007, Some messages of Department Chair Dr. Cordes at Graduate Student Orientation:
   • For graduate students:
     • graduate school is different from undergraduate: undergraduate is primarily exam-oriented, while graduate students should build your day around your research activities instead of classes;
   • Facts:
     • During last year, the CS department has 7 faculty members received new external funding awards;
     • During last year, the CS department has $9.366M in new external funding;
     • During last year, four (4) faculty members of the CS department have over $1M in external funding;
9. Aug. 2007, Do you know the average starting salaries for new Computer Science graduates ? Click here.
10. Aug. 2007, An interesting article: Don't Become a Scientist! by Jonathan I. Katz.
11. Aug. 2007, Prof. H. Chen from Virginia State University joined W⁴-NET  Lab as a faculty.
12. Aug. 2007, Quinton Alexander has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
13. Aug. 2007, Lauren Biggers has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
14. Aug. 2007, Daisuke Takahashi has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
15. Aug. 2007, One of Prof. Xiao's co-authored papers was ranked Top 10 - ten most popular articles published in IEEE Communication Society and The 47th of the IEEE Top-100 in June in IEEE Explore: WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS: WIMAX AND BEYOND - Investigation of Bandwidth Request Mechanisms under Point-to-Multipoint Mode of WiMAX Networks
16. Aug. 2007, Hiring additional 4 Ph.D. students for Aug. 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008. RA Position
17. July 2007, Haizhon Li has one paper accepted by a journal.
18. July 2007, Daisuke Takahashi  has one paper accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
19. July 2007, Li Liu has one paper accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
20. July 2007, Ming Lei has two papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
21. July 2007, Hui Chen has two papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
22. June 2007, Hui Chen has one paper accepted by IEEE Transactions.
23. June 2007, Jeff J. Robertson has one paper accepted as a Book Chapter.
24. May 2007, Prof. Xiao was invited to serve as an associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
25. May 2007, Hui Chen obtained two offers of a tenure-track assistant professor position, and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position from Virginia State University, after 5 on-site interviews in five universities. Congratulation!
26. May 2007, Michael Galloway has one paper accepted as a journal paper.
27. May 2007, Venkata Krishna Rayi has one paper accepted as a journal paper.
28. Apr. 2007, One of Prof. Xiao's papers, "A Survey of Energy-Efficient Scheduling Mechanisms in Sensor Networks", is ranked as one of five most viewed articles for the journal ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).
29. Apr. 2007, Hui Chen has another paper accepted as a conference paper.
30. Apr. 2007, Xihui Zhang and Hui Chen have one paper accepted as a conference paper.
31. Mar. 2007, Hui Chen has one paper accepted by IEEE Transactions.
32. Prof. Yang Xiao is currently serving Editor-in-chief for International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA).
33. Mar. 2007, Hui Chen had been invited to his fourth on-site interview for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Good Luck!
34. Feb. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing , IAuerbach Publications, CRC Press 2006, ISBN: 0849379210.
35. Feb. 2007, Hui Chen had been invited to his third on-site interview for a tenure-track assistant professor position.
36. Feb. 2007, Krishna Sumanth Velidi has one paper accepted as a book chapter.
37. Jan. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Adaptation Techniques in Wireless Multimedia Networks, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1-59454-883-8, Hardbound, 2007.
38. Jan. 2007, Haizhon Li had a paper accepted in a journal.
39. Jan. 2007, Haizhon Li and Lilian P. Kalyanapu have one paper accepted as a book chapter.
40. Jan. 2007, Prof. Xiao is the Champion for Singles of Table Tennis Tournament at University of Alabama.
41. Jan. 2007, Prof. Xiao and Zheng Wang are the Champion for Doubles of Table Tennis Tournament at University of Alabama.
42. Jan. 2007, Hui Chen serves as a co-guest editor for a journal special issue (with Prof. Xiao).
43. Jan. 2007, Hui Chen serves as a co-editor for a book (with Prof. Xiao).
44. Jan. 2007, Hui Chen has one paper accepted by IEEE ICC 2007.
45. Jan. 2007, Hui Chen had been invited to his second on-site interview for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Good Luck!

2006

1. Dec. 2006-Jan. 2007, Prof. Yang Xiao visited two colleges of Jilin University, China and gave two talks.
2. Dec. 2006, Prof. Yang Xiao visited two colleges of Zhejiang University, China and gave two talks.
3. Dec. 2006, Hui Chen had been invited to his first on-site interview for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Good Luck!
4. Dec. 2006, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1-59454-396-8, Hardbound, 2006.
5. Dec. 2006, Larissa Klimpel had one paper accepted as a book chapter.
6. Dec. 2006, Hui Chen has two papers accepted by IEEE WCNC 2007.
7. Dec. 2006, Mike Nolen has two papers accepted by IEEE WCNC 2007.
8. Dec. 2006, Daisuke Takahashi has a paper accepted by IEEE WCNC 2007.
9. Oct. 2006, International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) will be moving to 6 issues per year in 2007, and 8 issues per year from 2008.
10. Oct. 2006, Hui Chen had one paper accepted by IEEE Transactions.
11. Oct. 2006, Book Promotion for Wireless Network Security, Springer, good through 11/30/06
12. Oct. 2006, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Wireless Network Security, Springer, ISBN: 0-387-28040-5, Hardbound, 2006.
13. Sep. 2006, Hui Chen had one paper accepted by IEEE Transactions.
14. Sep. 2006,  Inaugural issue of International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN) had been published and can be downloaded at here for free; Prof. Yang Xiao serves as Editor-in-Chief.
15. Sep. 2006,  Inaugural issue of International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) had been published and can be downloaded at here for free; Prof. Yang Xiao serves as Editor-in-Chief.
16. Aug. 2006, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Security in Sensor Networks, CRC Press, ISBN: 0849370582, Hardbound, 2006.
17. Aug. 2006, Haizhon Li had one paper accepted by IEEE Transactions.
18. Jul. 2006, Prof. Xiao attended NSF Panel on Technological Challenges in Hybrid Communications Systems.
19. Jul. 2006, The University of Alabama was named a top 50 public university in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 2006.
20. Jun. 2006, Hui Chen had four papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2006.
21. Jun. 2006, Xihui Zhang had one paper accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2006.
22. Jun. 2006, William Stewart had one paper accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2006.
23. Jun. 2006, Prof. Xiao was invited to serve a panelist of NSF, Technological Challenges in Hybrid Communications Systems, 2006.
24. Jun. 2006, Daniel Kay had a paper accepted as a book chapter.
25. May. 2006, Sakshi Sethi had a paper accepted in a journal.
26. May. 2006, Prof. Xiao attended NSF Panel on Wireless Security.
27. May. 2006, Prof. Xiao visited Department of Computer Science of Georgia State University for one month.
28. May. 2006, Prof. Xiao had moved to Department of Computer Science of The University Alabama.
29. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao attended Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)'s funding panel in Toronto, Canada.
30. Apr. 2006, Walker Bolton had a paper accepted in a journal.
31. Apr. 2006, Hui Chen's passed his Ph.D. Oral Defense. Congratulations!
32. Apr. 2006, Hui Chen's dissertation defense (entitled Cache Access Algorithms and Replacement Policies for Wireless Data Access) was scheduled on Apr. 21, 2006, 9-11AM, Room: DH 215. Everyone is welcome.
33. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao was invited to serve as TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2007.
34. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao's published paper (co-authored with his Ph.D. student Haizhon Li): "Voice and Video Transmissions with Global Data Parameter Control for the IEEE 802.11e Enhance Distributed Channel Access,”  is the top 3 of The Top 50 most Downloaded Articles for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2004 from IEEE Xplore.
35. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao's published paper (co-authored with Dr. Pan and Dr. Li): "Design and Analysis of Location Management for 3G Cellular Networks,” is the top 4 of The Top 50 most Downloaded Articles for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems in 2004 from IEEE Xplore.
36. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao's published paper: "IEEE 802.11n: enhancements for higher throughput in wireless LANs" is also among Top 100 Documents Accessed of Feb 2006 in all the papers and documents in IEEE Xplore. (June 2006)
37. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao was invited to serve Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)'s Telecommunications expert committee for funding reviews in Toronto, Canada, 2006.
38. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao was invited to serve a panelist of NSF Cyber Trust 2006,
39. Apr. 2006, Prof. Xiao's published paper: "IEEE 802.11n: enhancements for higher throughput in wireless LANs" is in The February 2006 list of the ten most popular articles published in IEEE Communication Society periodicals viewed online, based on PDF views through IEEE Xplore.
40. Mar. 2006, A Research Assistant (RA) position for a Ph.D. student.
41. Mar. 2006, Hui Chen had a paper accepted in a journal.
42. Feb. 2006, Hui Chen had a paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. So far, Hui Chen have 4 papers published/accepted as IEEE Transactions papers.
43. Jan. 2006, Mike Nolen had a paper accepted as a journal paper.
44. Jan. 2006, Kamal Dass had a paper accepted as a book chapter.
45. Jan. 2006, Prof. Yang Xiao received Best Paper Award for one of his papers in IEEE CCNC 06 conference.

2005

1. Dec. 2005, Venkata Krishna Rayi had a paper accepted as a book chapter.
2. Dec. 2005, Hui Chen had three papers accepted by IEEE ICC 06 conference.
3. Dec. 2005, Prof. Yang Xiao (with Prof. Yi Pan) serves as a Series Editor for the book series on "Computer and Network Security," since 2005, World Scientific Publishing Co.; In this book series, many state-of-art books in computer and network security will be written/edited by famous educators/researchers in computer security and network security fields in the world.
4. Nov.-Dev. 2005, Hui Chen and Prof. Yang Xiao attended IEEE GLOBECOM conference and presented papers in the conference.
5. Nov. 2005, Hui Chen was awarded to BEST POSTER on Spring 2005 Student Research Day, Computer Science Department, The University of Memphis, for the paper poster: "Pipeline Paging for Wireless Systems," co-authored with Prof. Yang Xiao. 
6. Nov. 2005, Hui Chen obtained Donovan Student Travel Enrichment Award from the college for presenting his three papers in IEEE GLOBECOM 2005.
7. Nov. 2005, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Wireless Lans And Bluetooth, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1594544328, Hardbound, 2005.
8. Oct. 2005, Derek Wong had a paper accepted as a book chapter.
9. Oct. 2005, Swapna Shroff had a paper accepted as a book chapter.
10. Sep. 2005, Haizhon Li had a paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
11. Sep. 2005, Haizhon Li had a paper accepted by IEEE CCNC 2006.
12. Prof. Yang Xiao is currently serving Editor-in-chief for International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet).
13. Sep. 2005, Christopher Janecek, Julia Nordstad, and Senhua Yu had a paper accepted by a journal.
14. Sep. 2005, William Stewart had a paper accepted by a journal.
15. Aug. 2005, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Security and Routing in Wireless Networks, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 1-59454-316-X, Hardbound, 2005.
16. Prof. Yang Xiao is currently serving Editor-in-chief for International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN).
17. Jul. 2005, Haizhon Li passed his Ph.D. Oral Defense. Congratulations!
18. Jul. 2005, Hui Chen had three papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2005.
19. Jun. 2005, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by IEEE BROADNETS 2005.
20. Jun. 2005, Hui Chen passed Ph.D. Candidacy Exam. Congratulations!
21. May 2005, Haizhon Li accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position from University of South Carolina. Congratulation!
22. May 2005, Haizhon Li had been obtained 2 offers among 4 on-site interviews for an assistant professor position. Congratulation!
23. Apr. 2005, Prof. Yang Xiao serves as a panelist of NSF Cyber Trust 2005, in NSF, Washington DC.
24. Apr. 2005, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
25. Mar. 2005-May 2005, Haizhon Li had been invited to 6 universities for on-site interviews for a tenure-track assistant professor position, and had been 4 universities for on-site interviews. Good Luck!
26. Mar. 2005, Haizhon Li passed Ph.D. Candidacy Exam. Congratulations!
27. Mar. 2005, Prof. Yang Xiao's new book: Design and Analysis of Wireless Networks, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN:1-59454-186-8, Hardbound, 2005.
28. Feb. 2005, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
29. Feb. 2005, Haizhon Li had a paper accepted by Networking 2005, also appeared in Springer-Verlag LNCS.

2004

1. Nov.28-Dec.3 2004, Hui Chen, Haizhon Li, and Prof. Yang Xiao attended IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 to present three technical papers.
2. Nov. 2004, Hui Chen passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congratulations!
3. Nov. 2004, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by IEEE WCNC 2005.
4. Sep. 2004, Haizhon Li passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exams. Congratulations!
5. Aug. 2004, Hui Chen had a paper accepted by CAMAD'04, (in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2004).
6. Aug. 2004, Haizhon Li obtained Donovan Student Travel Enrichment Award from the college for presenting a paper in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2004.
7. Aug. 2004, Haizhon Li had a paper accepted by AWIN'04, (in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2004).
8. Aug. 2004, Prof. Yang Xiao was elected to an IEEE Senior Member.