Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at IU South Bend. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Wayne State University in August 2005. His research interests include wireless networks and mobile computing, real-time computing, wireless sensor networks, and network security.

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Teaching

             A106: Introduction to Computing, Fall 2008

             A515: Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Fall 2008

             C490: Embedded and Real Time Systems, Fall 2008

Schedule

Research Interests

            - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

            - Quality of Service and Real-time Computing

            - Distributed and Embedded Systems

            - Wireless Sensor Networks

            - Network Security

Recent Publications

• D. Rajan, C. Poellabauer, X. Hu, L. Zhang, and K. Otten, "Wireless Channel Access Reservation for Embedded Real-time Systems," to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Atlanta, GA, October 2008.
• L. Zhang, Y. Cheng, X. Zhou, "Rate Avalanche: The Performance Degradation in Multi-rate 802.11 WLANs," Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), DPDNS workshop, Miami, FL, April 2008.
• H. Jaffar, X. Zhou, L. Zhang, "DIBS: Dual Interval Bandwidth Scheduling for Short-term Differentiation, " Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), PMEO-UCNS workshop, Miami, FL, April 2008.
• J. Yi, C. Poellabauer, X. Hu, D. Rajan, and L. Zhang, "Cooperative Network and Energy Management for Reservation-based Wireless Real-Time Environments," Refereed Work-in-Progress at the 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), St. Louis, MO, April 2008.
• L. Zhang, Q. Cheng, Y. Wang, and S. Zeadally, "A Novel Distributed Sensor Positioning System Using the Dual of Target Tracking,", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 246-260, IEEE Computer Society Press, February 2008.
• D. Ippoliti, X. Zhou, L. Zhang, "Packet Scheduling for Fair Bandwidth Sharing and Delay Differentiation," Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 2007.
• L. Zhang, X. Zhou, and Q. Cheng "Landscape-3D: A Robust Localization Scheme for Sensor Networks over Complex 3D Terrains," Proceedings of  31^st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Tampa, FL, November 2006.  
• L. Zhang and Q. Cheng "Landscape(T): A Robust and Low-cost Sensor Positioning System Using the Dual of Target Tracking," Poster Proceedings of  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), San Francisco, CA, June 2006.    
• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "Enabling End-to-end QoS over Hybrid Wired-Wireless Networks," Wireless Personal Communications (WPC) Journal,  Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 167-185, Springer, 2006.
• L. Zhang, Q. Cheng, Y. Wang, and S. Zeadally, "Landscape: A High Performance Distributed Positioning Scheme for Outdoor Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Montreal, Canada, August 2005.
• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "HARMONICA: Enhanced QoS Support with Admission Control for IEEE 802.11 Contention-based Access," Proceedings of 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Toronto, Canada, May 2004. 
• S. Zeadally and L. Zhang, "Enabling Gigabit Network Access to End Users," Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Gigabit Wireless, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 340-353, IEEE Press, February 2004.

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Professional Services

    Conference Services

• Program Co-Chair: WiMAN 2008, WiMAN 2007
• Publicity Co-Chair: The 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Protocols (MobiWac 2007)
• Technical Program Committee member of ARES 2009, Mobilware 2009, AINA 2009, COMNETS 2008, MobiWac 2008, Infoscale 2008, LCN 2008, EUC 2008, ...

    Journal Editorship

• Guest Editor: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), a special issue on Self-adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems
• Guest Editor: Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal,  a special issue on Wireless Mesh Networks

    Journal Reviewer

• Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, 2008
• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2008
• Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, 2008
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2008, 2007
• Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2008, 2007
• Journal of Computers and Applications, Acta, 2008
• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Elsevier, 2008
• Computer Communications, Elsevier, 2008, 2007, 2004
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2007
• ACM/Kluwer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2007
• Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal, Wiley InterScience, 2007, 2005
• Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2006, 2005
• IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2006
• Future Generation Computer Systems - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, Elsevier, 2006
• IEEE Network Magazine, 2005
• Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Troubador, 2005
• IEEE Communications Letters, 2004

Contact

• Office: Northside Hall 331, 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634.
• Phone: (574) 520-4297

• Email:

• Web: http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang