Bo Han

Office:	4160 A. V. Williams Building
Phone:	+1 301 405 2724
Fax:	+1 301 405 6707
Mail:	Department of Computer Science
	University of Maryland
	College Park, MD 20742

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland. I'm jointly advised by Prof. Bobby Bhattacharjee and Prof. Aravind Srinivasan. I am also working closely with Dr. Lusheng Ji and Dr. Seungjoon Lee from AT&T Labs - Research, and Dr. Francesco Gringoli from University of Brescia.

Research Interests

Wireless Networks, including Wireless LAN (WLAN), Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks

Mobile Computing, focused on Smartphone-Based Content Distribution

Distributed Algorithms and Randomized Algorithms

Internet Routing and Network Protocol Conformance Test

Research Projects

Mobile Content Distribution and Information Dissemination

Partial Packet Recovery for 802.11

802.11 Communication Bit Errors Study

Selected Publications (Google Scholar)

eDiscovery: Energy Efficient Device Discovery for Mobile Opportunistic Communications
Bo Han and Aravind Srinivasan
Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2012), to appear.
Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do: Identifying Influential Mobile Users Through Random Walks [ PDF ]
Bo Han and Aravind Srinivasan
Proc. of the 13th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC 2012), pp. 5-14, Jun. 2012
Are All Bits Equal? -- Experimental Study of IEEE 802.11 Communication Bit Errors [ PDF ]
Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Bobby Bhattacharjee, and Robert R. Miller
Accepted for publication, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation [ PDF ]
Bo Han, Pan Hui, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marathe, Jianhua Shao, and Aravind Srinivasan
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 821-834, May 2012
Maranello: Practical Partial Packet Recovery for 802.11 [ PDF ]
Bo Han, Aaron Schulman, Francesco Gringoli, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Lorenzo Nava, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Robert Miller
Proc. of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2010), pp. 1-14, Apr. 2010
Channel Access Throttling for Improving WLAN QoS
Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Robert R. Miller, Bobby Bhattacharjee
Proc. of the 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), pp. 1-9, Jun. 2009
All Bits Are Not Equal -- A Study of IEEE 802.11 Communication Bit Errors
Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Robert R. Miller
Proc. of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2009), pp. 1602-1610, Apr. 2009
Distributed Strategies for Channel Allocation and Scheduling in Software-Defined Radio Networks
Bo Han, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav Marathe, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Aravind Srinivasan
Proc. of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2009), pp. 1521-1529, Apr. 2009
Zone-Based Virtual Backbone Formation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Bo Han
Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 183-200, Jan. 2009
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy File Block Matching
Bo Han, Pete Keleher
Proc. of the USENIX 2007 Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2007), pp. 199-204, Jun. 2007
Clustering Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Weakly-Connected Dominating Set
Bo Han, Weijia Jia
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 727-737, Jun. 2007
Performance Evaluation of Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Based Wireless Mesh Networks
Bo Han, Weijia Jia, Lidong Lin
Computer Communications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 782-792, Feb. 2007
Design and Analysis of Connected Dominating Set Formation for Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Bo Han, Weijia Jia
Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2005), pp. 7-12, Oct. 2005
Design and Implementation of 3G-324M - An Event-Driven Approach
Bo Han, Haohuan Fu, Ji Shen, Pui-on Au, Weijia Jia
Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2004-Fall (VTC 2004-Fall), pp. 2108-2112, Sep. 2004
Click here (by date) or here (by type, not updated) for a complete list of my research publications.

Selected Awards

Student Travel Grant for MobiCom/MobiHoc 2010, NSF, September 2010
Student Travel Grant for NSDI 2010, USENIX, April 2010
Travel Award for Illinois Wireless Summer School at UIUC, NSF, Aug. 2009
Computer Science Department Travel Grant for MobiCom/Hoc 2007, University of Maryland, Sep. 2007
Travel Award for Tutorial on Algorithms for Next Generation Networks, DIMACS, Aug. 2007
Student Travel Grant for USENIX 2007, USENIX, Jun. 2007
Computer Science Department Travel Grant for TridentCom 2007, University of Maryland, May 2007
Goldhaber Award, University of Maryland, May 2007
Block Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2006 - 2008
Research Activities Funds, City University of Hong Kong, 12/2005 - 06/2006
Research Tuition Scholarship, City University of Hong Kong, 04/2005 - 03/2006

Professional Services

Program committee member for international conferences and workshops

Technical Program Committee member of the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013)
Technical Program Committee member of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013
Technical Program Committee member of Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, IEEE ICC 2013
Technical Program Committee member of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012)
Technical Program Committee member of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012
Technical Program Committee member of the 4th Annual Extreme Conference on Communication - The Alpine Expedition (ExtremeCom 2012)
Student Program Committee member of the 3rd InternationalWorkshop on Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students (S3 2011)

Reviewer for several international journals and conferences including

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)
Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC)
Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)
Springer Wireless Networks (WINET)
Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN)
IEICE Transactions on Communications
ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS)
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)

Upcoming Conferences

Conference	Location (2010)	Acceptance Ratio (%)				Date
Conference	Location (2010)	2007		2006		Abstract	Paper	Notification	Conference
SIGCOMM	New Delhi, India	13.6	35/258	12.4	37/298	01/22/2010	01/29/2010	05/10/2010	08/30/2010
MOBICOM	Chicago, IL	11.1	26/233	11.7	35/298	03/05/2010	03/12/2010	06/21/2010	09/XX/2010
NSDI	San Jose, CA	23.8	27/113	25.4	28/110	09/25/2009	10/02/2009	12/18/2009	04/28/2010
MobiSys	San Francisco, CA	20.9	22/105	15.8	19/120	12/04/2009	12/11/2009	03/03/2010	06/15/2010
SIGMETRICS	New York, NY	17.1	29/170	13.7	30/219	11/02/2009	11/09/2009	02/09/2010	06/14/2010
IMC		24.4	21/86	21.9	34/155
MOBIHOC	Chicago, IL	18.5	27/146	9.7	31/318	02/12/2010	02/19/2010	06/04/2010	09/XX/2010
CoNEXT	Philadelphia, PA	20.3	28/138	22.1	19/86				11/30/2010
INFOCOM	San Diego, CA	18.0	252/1400	18.0	252/1400	07/24/2009	07/31/2009	11/21/2009	03/15/2009
ICNP	Kyoto, Japan	14.5	32/220	14.2	33/232	04/09/2010	04/16/2010	07/20/2010	10/05/2010

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Last Modified: Thur. December 24 08:06:30 2009