Welcome to MC Lab. EI Dept. HUST

      Media and Communication Laboratory is one branch of Wireless Broadband Communication and Multimedia System Research Center，Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Our research fields include rate-distortion theory for wireless channel, multimedia information processing, media content and security, wireless sensor network, vision computing and computer graphics.
      This lab has close cooperation with several international universities, including University of California at Los Angeles, Temple University,U.S. and McGill University, Canada.
      In 2009, MC Lab. got a great progress in research fields. Some papers have been published on top journal including IEEE Trans on PAMI, IEEE Trans on IP, and top conferences, INFOCOM, CVPR. More detail see "Select Publications in MC Lab".

Chen Tian

Curriculum Vitae

Name： Chen Tian
Gender： Male
Date of Birth： Feb, 1978
Birthplace： China
Specialty： Communication and information system
Degree： Ph.D. Candidate
Email： tian_chen1978@hotmail.com
Tel： +86-13237131186 (M)
Mailing Address： Poly Garden, Guanshan-yi Road, Hong-shan District, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China
Zip Code： 430074

Education

1. Sep. 2005 – Present
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China
Pursuing Doctor’s degree

2. Sep. 2000 – June.2003
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China
Master of Electronic and Information

3. Sep. 1996 - July 2000
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China
Bachelor of Electronic and Information

Summary

Plenty of background IT education. In-depth understanding of communication systems and embedded systems

Fluent English Speaking & Writing, TOEFL 647(Jan 2003)

Plenty experience in TCP/IP protocol stack, especially in route protocol and tunnel protocol.

In-depth understanding of mobile communication systems.

Well understood the whole 3G CDMA telecommunication system’s architecture and network layer, data link layer protocols.

Familiar with network-layer theories, algorithms and simulation tools /languages. Eg: Opnet/ProtoC.

Familiar with principle theories and algorithms of digital signal processing and simulation tools. Eg: Matlab

Familiar with mainstream embedded system developing, including Vxworks, Linux, WinCE

Familiar with Device Driver Development on windows platform. Have written a lot of device drivers. Have developed a PPP-Over-Ethernet driver for ADSL in off hours (10,100 lines of C codes).

Good at programming with languages such as C, C++, Matlab, JAVA;

Have written a lot of C/C++ programs With Visual C++ and Borland C++ Builder. Despite my research projects, I am also one of the top software engineers in my department.

Familiar with many platform including Windows, Linux, Vxworks, WinCE, especially familiar with windows kernel.

Familiar with software engineering and software project administration, has my own group in the company.

Also implemented a lot of M-functions algorithms in Matlab for scientific calculation and system simulation.

Familiar with CISCO router and switch, have experience in network planning.

Express implicit and good at communication with group member.

Publications

[1] Chen Tian, Hongbo Jiang, Xue Liu, Wenyu Liu, and Yi Wang.Towards Minimum Traffic Cost and Minimum Response Latency: A Novel Dynamic Query Protocol in Unstructured P2P Networks. In Proceedings of 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'08). Portland, OR, September 2008. PDF

[2] Chen Tian, Wenyu Liu, Jiang Jin etc. Localization and Synchronization for 3D Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, LNCS UIC07

[3] Chen Tian, Wenyu Liu, A Novel IPv6 Communication Framework: Mobile SHIM6 (M-SHIM6), Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.

[4] Yimin Yu, Zailu Huang, Tian Chen and Zhou Zongyi, Aggressive Location Restoration Proposal Based on Pointer, High Technology Letters, v 12, n 2, June, 2006, p 136-142

[5] Yumin Yu, ZaiLu Huang, Chen Tian, Zongyi Zhou, A location restoration proposal in PCS network, 2005 2nd International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, v 2005, 2005 2nd International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, 2005, p 1627967

[6] Chen Tian, Zongyi Zhou, Yimin Yu, Yidu Zhang, Mobile IP Design and Implementation for Multi-mode Mobile Terminal. Communications Technology (China). 2003, 1: 81~84

[7] Yimin Yu, Zongyi Zhou, Chen Tian, Voluntary and Smooth Location Recovery Based on Pre-turn Pointer, Communication transaction(China), 2003, 11

Technique Report

[1] Tian Chen, Liu Wenyu, Hongbo Jiang, Wang Yi, Tri-Message: A Light-Weight Time Synchronization Protocol for High Latency and Resource-Constrained Networks , Sep 2007 DOC

Research Experience

1. Feb.2005 - Present
Lecturer in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, Full-time

May.2007 - Present
Research Leader in “Next Generation Content Distribution Network” Group with 6 members

Oct.2006 - Present
Research Leader in “Advanced A-D system” Group with 12 members

Feb.2005 - Present
Research Leader in “Underwater Sensor Networks” Group with 10 members

2. May. 2003 - Feb.2005

Product Manager in Department of Wireless Product in United Platform (China) Ltd. Shenzhen, China, Full-time

July.2004 - Feb.2005
Product Manager of the project” Remote OAM System” of an industrial wireless net-bridge. In charge of the product Planning & Modular design & Detail design & Programming & testing. The product is a web-oriented embeded system for vxworks platform. Both local and remote OAM, and both synchronous and asynchronous process, are implemented.

Feb. 2004 - July.2004
Product Manager of the project ”Wireless Pad”(ODM by TW). In charge of the product Planning & Schedule & Marketing. The product is a variant of win CE smart display with CDMA/GPRS/WiFi connection.

Nov. 2003 - Feb. 2004
Software Manager of the project “Mobile AP”. In charge of software design and implementation. The product is based on an existing AP platform (Embeded Linux & C )and adds broadband CDMA as a new uplink alternative.

May. 2003 - Nov. 2003
Core network leader of the project “IPWireless System(3GPP)”. In charge of special all-IP 3GPP core network design and implementation. The project is based on the IPWireless System(www.ipwireless.com), a variant of 3GPP Wireless Data Packet solution.

3. Sep. 2000 - May. 2003

Researcher & Engineer in Department of Communication Software in Hanwang High Technology Inc., Wuhan, China, Part-time.

July. 2002 - May. 2003
Main research member of the project “Network Flux Research on 3G wireless communication system”, supported by Hanwang High Technology Inc. Wuhan. , In charge of the flux analysis & model construction with Opnet Simulation.

The project aims at find out possible bottlenecks in the High-Data-Rate Wireless Mobile IP-Communication System. A city-area 3G wireless network model was build for the project with Opnet, which include 30 base stations and hundreds of mobile terminals.

March. 2002 - July. 2002
Main research member of the project “Designing and Implementation of Mobile IP (RFC2002) on multi-mode mobile terminal”, supported by Hanwang High Technology Inc., Wuhan, and WW Technology Inc. Shanghai. In charge of system architecture designing flow simulation with Opnet Simulate implementation on windows platform.

The project provides heterogeneous mobility and seamlessly homogeneous mobility for roaming multi-mode IP terminals, which has multiple wireless access devices. The project was tested in July 2002,and was totally successful.

Sep. 2001 - March. 2002
Main research member of the project “Mobility’s Control over PPP link in wireless communication”, supported by Hanwang High Technology Inc., Wuhan, in charge of flow designing and simulation with Opnet Simulate.

The project is an add-on for Point-to-Point Protocol, which provides mobility support over PPP link in wireless IP system. The design has been submitted to apply for National patent, and was accepted by SIPO (State Intellectual Property of P.R.C, application-number 02115779.0).

July. 2001 - Sep. 2001
Main research member of the project “Compression of RTSP Packet head ”, supported by Hanwang High Technology Inc. Wuhan, in charge of algorithm designing ;

Sep.2000 - July. 2001
Joined in the project “IP Quality of Service Management for multimedia communication in wireless environment”, research IP QoS improvement on wireless network-layer (OSI model).

Main software developer of the project “Radio Link Protocol for CDMA2000” for Hanwang High Technology Inc. Wuhan .In charge of protocol implementation in mobile terminal.

Main software developer of the project “Mobile Terminal’s Device Driver on Windows Platform” for Hanwang High Technology Inc. Wuhan.

Main software developer of the project “Bit-Error-Ratio Monitoring System for CDMA2000” for Hanwang High Technology Inc. Wuhan, which is main method for wireless channel estimation.

4. Nov.1999 - June. 2000

Praxis in Hanwang High Technology Inc., Wuhan.

Main developer of the project “Remote Control System for CDMA Base Station”. In charge of software development (using 89c51 ASM).

Awards and Honors

1. “Award for Outstanding Students” , awarded yearly to top 6 postgraduates among 40 postgraduate students in Hanwang High Technology Inc. by Hanwang High Technology Inc., Feb. 2002

2. “Award for Outstanding Ministry for Student”, awarded yearly for 6 students among 180 students by Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Feb. 1998

3. “Scholarship for Outstanding freshman” , awarded yearly for the top 10 percents of freshmen in each department by Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Aug. 1996