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Research interests

I am broadly interested in data communications and networked systems, with a current focus on wireless networks. My PhD thesis focused on using network coding to improve throughput in wireless mesh networks. Nowadays I am working on improving 802.11n based MIMO-OFDM WLAN.

Publications (Journal/Conference)

  • Daniel Halperin, Wenjun Hu, Anmol Sheth and David Wetherall. Predictable 802.11 packet delivery from wireless channel measurements. To appear in Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2010.

  • Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Medard and Jon Crowcroft. XORs in the air: Practical wireless network coding. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 2008. [PDF] Journal version of SIGCOMM paper below. Awarded 2009 IEEE Bennett Prize.

  • Bjorn Scheuermann, Wenjun Hu and Jon Crowcroft. Near-Optimal Co-ordinated Coding in wireless multihop networks. In Proceedings of CoNEXT 2007. [PDF]

  • Christos Gkantsidis, Wenjun Hu, Peter Key, Bozidar Radunovic, Pablo Rodriguez and Steluta Gheorghiu. Multipath Code Casting for wireless mesh networks. In Proceedings of CoNEXT 2007. [PDF]

  • Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Medard and Jon Crowcroft. XORs in the air: Practical wireless network coding. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2006. [PDF]

  • Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Wenjun Hu, Hariharan Rahul and Muriel Medard. The importance of being opportunistic: Practical network coding for wireless environments (invited paper). In Proceedings of 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2005. [PDF]

  • Elgan Huang, Wenjun Hu, Jon Crowcroft and Ian Wassell. Towards commercial ad hoc network applications - A radio dispatch system. In Proceedings of MobiHOC 2005. [PDF]

Miscellaneous

  • Daniel Halperin, Wenjun Hu, Anmol Sheth and David Wetherall. 802.11 with multiple antennas for dummies. In ACM SIGCOMM CCR Editorial, January 2010. [PDF]

  • Qunfeng Dong, Jianming Wu, Wenjun Hu and Jon Crowcroft. Practical network coding in wireless networks (extended abstract). In MobiCom 2007.

  • Elgan Huang, Wenjun Hu, Jon Crowcroft and Ian Wassell. Towards commercial ad hoc network applications: A radio dispatch system. Chapter 10, Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks from Theory to Reality, Nova Science Publishers, 2007.

  • Wenjun Hu, Miguel Castro, Jon Crowcroft, Greg O'Shea and Antony Rowstron. Network coding with traffic engineering. In CONEXT 2006 Student Workshop.

  • Wenjun Hu, Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Dina Katabi and Jon Crowcroft. Sending more for less bandwidth and power - A systems approach to Network Coding. In SOSP 2005 Work-in-progress. [Abstract, talk]

  • Wenjun Hu and Jon Crowcroft. MIRRORS: An integrated framework for capturing real world behaviour for models of ad hoc networks (poster). In Proceedings of MobiHOC 2005. [Abstract, poster] (Full paper available as Computer Laboratory Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-631.)

Talks

  • Making better use of wireless links with effective SNR, Microsoft Research Asia, November 2009.
  • The more the merrier: A measurement study of multi-antenna 802.11n networks, University of British Columbia, May 2009.
  • E=mc2: Energising wireless mesh networks with Multipath Code Casting, MPI for Software Systems, August 2007.
  • E=mc2: Energising wireless mesh networks with Multipath Code Casting, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, June 2007.
  • E=mc2: Energising wireless mesh networks with Multipath Code Casting, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 2007.
  • E=mc2: Energising wireless mesh networks with Multipath Code Casting, University of Arizona CS Research Colloquium, March 2007.
  • Practical network coding for wireless networks, Cambridge Statistical Lab Networks Seminar, February 2006.
  • Practical network coding for wireless networks, UCL CS Networks Seminar, November 2005.
  • MIRRORS: towards an integrated framework to modelling realistic ad hoc networks, IBM Watson Lab Mobile PIC Seminar, July 2005.
  • Towards an integrated approach to modelling ad hoc networks, UCL CS Mobile Systems Seminar, December 2004.



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Last updated: 23 January 2010