Profile
Dr Hui Cheng received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Northeastern University, China in July 2001 and March 2004 respectively and his PhD degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong in November 2007. From January 2008 to July 2010, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leicester. Dr Hui Cheng joined the University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer in October 2010.
Teaching Areas
- Secure Data Communication
- Optimisation and Artificial Intelligence
- Wireless Communication and Network
Research Interests
- Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Optimisation Problems
- Mobile Ad Hoc Network
- Intelligent Routing, Multicast
- Channel Assignment in Wireless Mesh Network
- Wavelength Assignment in Optical Network
Research Projects
- EPSRC Standard Research Scheme (Grant Ref: EP/E060722/1), Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications. (as a postdoc RA)
- HK ITC Guangdong-HK Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme (Grant Ref: GHP/049/06), Seamless Communication and Mobility in Advanced Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. (as a PhD student)
- The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (Grant Ref: PolyU 5170/03E), QoS Mobile Group Communications - A Unifying Framework. (as a PhD student)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program (jointly supported by Bell Lab Research China) (Grant Ref: 60003006), Research on Intelligent Routing Mechanisms in IP/DWDM optical Internet. (as a Master student)
Selected Publications
Journals
- Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, "Joint QoS Multicast Routing and Channel Assignment in Multiradio Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks using Intelligent Computational Methods", accepted by Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier Science).
- Shengxiang Yang, Hui Cheng, Fang Wang, "Genetic Algorithms with Immigrants and Memory Schemes for Dynamic Shortest Path Problem in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 52-63, January 2010.
- Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, "Genetic Algorithms with Immigrants Schemes for Dynamic Multicast Problems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier Science), Vol. 23, Issue. 5, pp. 806-819, August 2010.
- Hui Cheng, Xingwei Wang, Shengxiang Yang, Min Huang, Jiannong Cao, " QoS Multicast Tree Construction in IP/DWDM Optical Internet by Bio-inspired Algorithms", Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier Science), Vol. 33, Issue. 4, pp. 512-522, July 2010.
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xiaopeng Fan, "GMZRP: Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM/Springer), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 165-177, April 2009.
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das, Shengxiang Yang “Stability-aware multi-metric clustering in mobile ad hoc networks with group mobility”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (John Wiley & Sons), Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 759-771, 2009.
- Hui Cheng, Xingwei Wang, Shengxiang Yang, Min Huang, “A Multipopulation Parallel Genetic Simulated Annealing based QoS Routing and Wavelength Assignment Integration Algorithm for Multicast in Optical Networks”, Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier Science), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 677-684, March 2009.
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Hongke Zhang, "GrLS: Group-based Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 3693-3707, November 2008.
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, "A Design Framework and Taxonomy for Hybrid Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 62-73, 3rd Quarter 2008.
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, "A Fast and Efficient Multicast Algorithm for QoS Group Communications in Heterogeneous Network", Computer Communications (Elsevier Science), Vol. 30, Issue. 10, pp. 2225-2235, July 2007. (This paper is one of the Top 25 Hottest Articles published in Computer Communications, July - September 2007.)
- Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, "A Heuristic Multicast Algorithm to Support QoS Group Communications in Heterogeneous Network", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 831-838, May 2006.
- Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao, Hui Cheng, Min Huang, "QoS Multicast Routing for Multimedia Group Communications Using Intelligent Computational Methods", Computer Communications (Elsevier Science), Vol. 29, Issue. 12, pp. 2217-2229, August 2006.
Book Chapters
- Hui Cheng, Xingwei Wang, Min Huang, Shengxiang Yang, "A Review of Personal Communications Services", Mobile Computing Research and Applications (Chapter 8, pp. 149-165, ISBN: 978-1-60741-101-7, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2009).
External Activities
- Publication Co-Chair, The 5th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-2011), Crete, Greece, 27-29 June, 2011.
- PC Member, The 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Paris, France, April, 2011.
- Program Co-Chair, The 2010 International Workshop on Intelligent Sensor and Wireless Networks (IntelNet 2010), Bradford, UK, 29 June - 1 July, 2010.
- PC Member, The 2010 International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2010), Valencia, Spain, 24-26 October, 2010.
- PC Member, The 4th ACM International Workshop on Context-Aware and Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-29 September, 2010.
- PC Member, 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2010), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE'10), Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.
- PC Member, The 2009 International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2009), Madeira, Portugal, 5-7 October, 2009.
- PC Member, The 4th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom'09), Xi'an, China, 26-28 August, 2009.
- PC Member, 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE'09), Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.
- PC Member, The 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2009), Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 April, 2009.
- PC Member, The 43rd International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Information and Network Security Symposium, Beijing, China, 19-23 May, 2008.
- PC Member, The 3rd International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom'08), Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium and Network and Information Security Symposium, Hangzhou, China, 25-27 August, 2008.
- PC Member, 2008 SIWN International Conference on Networking, Internet and Mobile Communications (NIMC 2008), Glasgow, UK, 22-24 July, 2008.
- Publicity Chair, The 5th International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'07), Toronto, Canada, 25 June, 2007.
- Publicity Co-chairs, The 4th International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'06), Niagara-Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA, 26 June, 2006.
Contact Details
Dr Hui Cheng
E: hui.cheng@beds.ac.uk
T: +44(0)1582 743480
