Economic Thinking of Communication Networks
Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Professor Jianwei Huang
Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
“Economic Thinking of Communication Networks”
Abstract: Today’s communication networks are highly complex, carry heterogeneous traffic in diverse environments, and are often owned by multiple profit-making entities. To successfully design, optimize, and upgrade such large distributed networks, it is important to develop innovative economic incentive mechanisms together with new technologies. We will first illustrate several important roles that economics can play in networking research. Then we will introduce a new paradigm of cooperative video streaming, where mobile users crowdsource their Internet connectivities and adaptively choose video downloading sequences and streaming qualities for their neighbors. We will show how users can effectively coordinate with each other in a distributed fashion through a new multi-dimensional auction mechanism. Finally, we will briefly discuss several ongoing research projects focusing on the nexus between economics and a wide range of networks.
Bio: Jianwei Huang is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University in 2005 and worked as a Postdoc Research Associate at Princeton University during 2005-2007. He has published 250+ technical papers and book chapters, which has been cited close to 10000 times according to Google Scholar with an H-index of 49. He is the co-author of 9 Best Paper Awards, including IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2011, the IEEE Communications Society Young Professional Best Paper Award in 2017, and Best (Student) Paper Awards from IEEE WiOpt 2015/2014/2013, IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, WiCON 2011, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, and APCC 2009. He has co-authored six books, including the textbook on "Wireless Network Pricing." He received the Chinese University of Hong Kong Young Researcher Award in 2014 and IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009.
Dr. Huang has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Cognitive Radio Series, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He has also served as a Series Editor of Wiley Information and Communication Technology Series, an Area Editor of Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, a Section Editor of Springer Handbook of Cognitive Radio, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Society Technology News. He has served as the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Cognitive Network Technical Committee and Multimedia Communications Technical Committee. He has served as the General/TPC/Symposium Co-Chairs of numerous leading international conferences, such as IEEE ICC 2020, IEEE GLOBECOM 2017/2013/2010, IEEE WiOpt 2018/2017/2012, IEEE ICCC 2015/2012, and IEEE SmartGridComm 2014. He is the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2015 and IEEE GLOBECOM Outstanding Service Award in 2010. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society, and he has delivered 120+ keynote/plenary/invited talks worldwide during the past 10 years. He is an IEEE Fellow since 2016 and a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2016 and 2017. More detailed information is available at http://jianwei.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Becton Seminar Room
2:30 PM