Hao Che


416 Yates, 325 Nedderman Hall
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019-0015

Email: hche@cse.uta.edu & hao_che@hotmail.com

Phone: 817.272.3631

Homepage: http://crystal.uta.edu/~hche

 

 

EDUCATION

                  

                Ph.D. in Communications and Networking, August 1998, Department of Electrical & Computer          Engineering,  University of Texas at Austin

 

                M.S. in Physics,  August 1994,  Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington

 

                B.S. in Astrophysics, August 1984, Department of Astronomy,  Nanjing University, China

 

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 

Sept. 2002 – Present            Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Computer Science and

                                                Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington, TX

July 2001- Aug. 2002           System Architect/Embedded System Engineer, Santera Systems, Inc.,                                                                      Dallas, TX

                                                Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State                                                                        University

Aug. 2000 – July 2001         System Architect/Embedded System Design Engineer, Santera Systems,                                                                 Inc., Dallas, TX, and Assistant Professor (tenure track), on leave of                                                                         absence from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State                                                                          University

Aug. 1998 – July. 2000        Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Electrical Engineering,                Penn State University, University Park, PA            

                Aug. 1989 – Aug. 1991        Research Scientist, Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, China

                Aug. 1984 – July 1989         Lecturer, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

·         Technical program committee members, IEEE INFOCOM2007/2004, IEEE ICCCN2003/2006, PDCS2006, Broadnets 2006 and IEEE UIC 2007.

·         Organizer and session chair of an invited session on the Future Internet Architectures, Broadnets 2006 general Symposium

·         Co-chair of track three: Computer Communication and Networks track, the 4th International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2006).

·         One session co-chair, PDCS2006

·         Two session chairs, IEEE ICCCN2003

·         Reviewer of books and papers for Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems, IEEE JSAC, INFOCOM, ICCCN,  Automata, Proceedings of IEE, Physics Review, and Physics Review Letters

·         Regular attendee of the IETF Meetings

·         Member of IEEE and IEE

 

HONORS

·         Guest Professor, College of Computer Science and College of Software Engineering, Sichuan University, China, since May, 2006

·         Best Paper Award nomination at IEEE INFOCOM’98 for his paper on IP switching

·         Recommended by IEEE INFOCOM’98 for the publication of his IP switching paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

·         Winner of IEEE Student Travel Fund to IEEE INFOCOM98

·         Invited talk at the CSIIR and IOC 1st Annual Workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 14-15, March, 2005 (http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/events.shtml

·         Invited talk at the 1st COST-NSF Workshop (NeXtworking’03), Greece, June 2003  (http://www.di.uoa.gr/~istavrak/costnsf/Welcome.html)

·         Invited Seminars: Sichuan University 2006, Tsinghua University 2004/2006, Chinese Academy of Science 2006, Beijing Telecommunications University 2004, Yunnan University 2002/3.

·         Invited talk at the 34th Allerton conference, 1996, for his paper on Traffic Modeling

·         Invited talk at the American Physics Society Annual Conference, 1996, for his paper on magnetic phase transition

 

 

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

 

·         2006 – 2009:                   350,000 HK Yuan, Research Grants Council in Hong Kong, with Zhijun Wang at                                   Hong Kong Polytechical University

·         2006:                               $3,600 equipment fund awarded by Intel

·         2005 – 2007:                   $130,000 NSF funded collaborative research with Constantino Lagoa

·         2002 – 2005:                   $340,000 NSF funded collaborative research with Constantino Lagoa

·         2003 – 2004:   $100,000 NSF subaward from UT Austin on cross-layer design in wireless                                                              networks

·         1999 – 2000:   $140,000 research contract with Ameritech on forward-looking analysis and

design of an ATM based IP core for Ameritech networks.

·         1998 – 2000:   $300,000 NSF fund with his advisor at UT/Austin for their work on IP switching

·         1994 – 1998:   multi-year contract with Southwestern Bell on various R&D research projects

·         1997 – 1998:   a contract with Cisco Systems Inc. on the analysis of IP switching architecture

 

      

ADVISEES

 

        At Penn State University:

·         Xiaoning He (Ph.D.), now a system architect with NTT, CA

·         Ye Tung (Ph.D.), now an assistant professor of EE at Southern Alabama University

·         Siyang Zheng (M.S.), now a Ph.D. candidate at CALTECH

·         Fusun Ananc (M.S.), now a software engineer with Agilent Technologies

·         Yingying Hou (M.S.), now a software engineer with Santera Systems

·         Zhijun Wang (M.S.), now a Ph.D. candidate at UT/Arlington

 

       At the University of Texas at Arlington:

 

·         Mingtsai Chen                     Ph.D.      Spring 2009 expected

·         Indradip Ghosh                   Ph.D.      Fall 2009 expected     co-supervised with Dr. Das

·         Hun Jung                              Ph.D.      Fall 2009 expected     co-supervised with Dr. Das

·         Miao Ju                                 M.S.        Fall 2007 expected

·         Sukruth Gupta                     M.S.        Fall 2006 expected

·         Anil Kumar                           M.S.        Fall 2007 expected

·         Sundar Velayutham            M.S.        Spring 2005, now a software engineer with Dell Computers

·         Umapathi Masila                M.S.        Summer 2005, now a software engineer with Microsoft

·         Puneet Konghot                  M.S.        Summer 2004, now a software engineer with Wipro, India

·         Manoj Gupta                        M.S.        Summer 2004, now a manager with Lucent, India

·         Ashwin Gopal                      M.S.        Summer 2004, now a software engineer with GTE

·         Chethan Kumar                   M.S.        Fall 2004, now a software engineer with Dell Computers

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

At Penn State University:                   EE367 Communication Systems, EE/CSE458 Communication Networks,

                                                                EE560 Probability and Stochastic Processes

At UT Arlington:                                 CSE5344 Computer Networks I, CSE6392 Multi-Service Switching Architecture, CSE6392 Network Processor Architecture, CSE5392 Internet Design Principles  

 

RELATED INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

 

Played a key role in successfully architecting and implementing a multi-service switched router.   The responsibilities include:

·         overall architecture design

·         architecture design for data path functions

·         embedded microcode programming of a fully programmable network processor to enable all the data path functions in hardware

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal/book Chapter Submissions/Publications:

 

In Computer Communications/Networking 

 

  1. H. Che, Z. Wang, K. Zheng, and B. Liu, “DRES: Dynamic Range Encoding Scheme for TCAM Coprocessors,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  2. C. Li, H. Che, and S. Q. Li, “A New Channel Fade Duration Model for Exploiting Multi-User Diversity Gain and Supporting Delay Sensitive Applications,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  3. C. Z. Li, H. Che, and S. Q. Li, “A Wireless Channel Capacity Model for Quality of Service,” in press, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Jan. 2007.
  4. Z. Kai, H. Che, Z. Wang, B. Liu, “TCAM-based Distributed Parallel Packet Classification Algorithm with Range-Matching Solution,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 55, No. 8,  August 2006.
  5. B. Movsichoff, C. Lagoa, and H. Che, “Minimal Feedback Optimal Algorithms for Traffic Engineering in Computer Networks,” to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Nov. 2007.
  6. N. Laoutaris, H. Che, and I. Stavrakakis, “The LCD Interconnection of LRU Caches and Its Analysis,” Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 63, No. 7, pp. 609-634, 2006.
  7. B. Movsichoff, C. Lagoa, and H. Che, “Decentralized Optimal Traffic Engineering in Connectionless Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 293-303,  Feb. 2005.
  8. Z. Wang, H. Che, M. Kumar, and S. Das, “CoPTUA: Consistent Policy Table Update Algorithm for TCAM Without Table Lock,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 53, no. 12,  pp. 1602-1628, Dec. 2004.
  9. Z. Wang, S. Das, H. Che, and M. Kumar, “SACCS: Scalable Asynchronous Cache Consistency Scheme for Mobile Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Nov. 2004.
  10. B. Movsichoff, C. Lagoa, and H. Che, “"A Sliding Mode Approach to Traffic Engineering in Computer Networks", Advances in Communication Control Networks Series : Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol.  308, edited by Sophie Tarbouriech, Chaouki Abdallah and John Chiasson,  August 2004.
  11. C. Lagoa, H. Che, and B. Movsichoff, “Adaptive Control Algorithms for Decentralized Optimal Traffic Engineering in the Internet,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 12, No. 3, June 2004.
  12. Y. Tung and H. Che, “A flow caching mechanism for fast packet fowarding,” Computer Communications 25, pp. 1257-1262, 2002.
  13. H. Che, Y. Tung, and Z. Wang, “Hierarchical Web Caching Systems: Modeling, Design, and Experimental Results,”   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 1305-1314, 2002.
  14. H. Che, S. Zheng, and X. Hong, “An Integrated Model for Performance Analysis of Multiple Class-of-Service Internet,” Proceedings of IEE in Communications, vol. 149, No. 3, pp. 139 – 146, June 2002.
  15. X. He and H. Che, “TCP Performance Analysis and Optimization Over DMT Based ADSL Systems,” Computer Communications, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 322-328, Feb. 2002.

16.     S. Taha, H. Che, and S. Q. Li, “MPOA Flow Classification Design and Analysis Based on Neural Network Technique,” Computer Communications, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 1007-1018, June 2001.

17.     C. Lagoa and H. Che, “Decentralized Optimal Traffic Engineering for the Internet,” SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 3, No. 5, Oct. 2000.

18.      H. Che, S.Q. Li, and A. Lin, "Adaptive Resource Management for IP/ATM Hybrid Switching Systems,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 544-557, 1998.

  1. H. Che and S. Q. Li, "Fast Algorithms for Measurement-Based Traffic Modeling," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 612-625, June 1998.

In Condensed Matter Physics:

20.     N. G. Fazleev, H. Che, J. L. Fry, and D. L. Lin, "Critical properties of the Potts Model", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 76, p. 6347, 1994.

21.     D. L. Lin, H. Che, W. Lai, and T. F. George, "Critical Temperature of Ising Films with Cubic Lattices", Physics Review E, Vol. 49, p. 2155, 1994.

  1. H. Che, D. L. Lin, Y. Xia, H. Zheng, and H. X. Li , "Indirect Exchange Interaction in a Thin Film of Rare-Earth Metals", Physics Review B, Vol. 46, p. 13501, 1992.
  2. D. L. Lin, H. Che, and Y. Xia, "Critical Temperature of (d+1)-Dimensional Ising Films", Physics Review A, Vol. 46, p. 1805, 1992.
  3. Y. Xia, H. Che, D. L. Lin, and H. M. Wang, "Equivalence of Linked-Cluster Expansion and Variational Cumulamt Expansion in High Temperature Limit", Physics Review B, Vol. 46, p. 3125, 1992.
  4. H. Che, Y. Xia, D. L. Lin, and H. Zheng, "Interface Spin Waves in a Bilayer of Two-Sublattice Ferrimagnets", Physics Review B, Vol. 44, p. 9444, 1991.
  5. Z. Ding, Y. Xia, L. Bin, H. Che, and X. Zeng, “Spin Wave Spectra of Two-Sublattice Heisenberg Ferrimagnetic Thin Films”, Solid State Communications, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 273-276, 1991.

27.     H. Che, Y. Xia, H. M. Wang, X. M. Qiu, "Model for Magnetic Phase Transitions of RBa2Cu3O6+x Compounds", Physics Letters A, Vol. 146, p. 343, 1990.

28.     H. Che, Y. Xia, H. Wang, and Y. Song, “Variational-Cumulant Expansion on Simple Ising Model”, Communications of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 12, pp. 273-289, 1989.

Conference Submissions/Publications in Communications/Networking:

  1. H. Che, M. Gupta, S. Velayutham, C. Lagoa, and Z. Wang, “INTESER: A Integrated Solution to Provide QoS, Traffic Engineering, and Fault Tolerance in an MPLS Network,” the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Nov. 2006.
  2. H. Che, C. Kumar, and B. Menasinahal, “A Fast Latency Bound Estimation Algorithm for a Multithreaded Network Processor,” the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Nov. 2006.
  3. Y. Cui, H. Che, C. Lagoa, and Z. Zheng, “A Least Interference Path Algorithm for MPLS Traffic Engineering,” The 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06), Sept. 3-6, 2006.
  4. H. Che, W. Su, C. Lagoa, K. Xu, C. Liu, and Y. Cui, “An Integrated, Distributed Traffic Control Strategy for the Future Internet,” The ACM SIGCOMM INM Workshop 2006.
  5. Y. Cui, H. Che, and Z. Zheng, “A Least Interference Path Algorithm for MPLS Traffic Engineering,” the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06), Sept. 3, 2006
  6. Z. Wang, U. Mani, H. Che, and Miao Ju, “A Rate Adaptive Hybrid MAC Protocol for Wireless Cellular Networks,” International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2006), July 29-31, 2006.
  7. C. Z. Li, H. Che, S. Q. Li, and D. P. Wu, “A new wireless channel fade duration model for exploiting multi-user diversity gain and its Applications,” the IEEE International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM2006), Jun. 26, 2006
  8. Z. Liu, H. Che, K. Zheng, S. Chen, C. Hu, and B. Liu, “Trace Driven Comparison of Latency Hiding Techniques for Network Processors,” accepted by IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2006), Jun. 11, 2006.
  9. H. Che, C. Kumar, and B. Menasinahal, “Fundamental Network Processor Performance Bounds,” accept by the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA05).
  10. Z. Kai, H. Che, Z. Wang, B. Liu, “TCAM-based Distributed Parallel Packet Classification Algorithm with Range-Matching Solution,” IEEE INFOCOM’05, March 2005.
  11. C. Li, H. Che, and S. Li, “Quality of Service Aware Adaptive Modulation and Coding for Nakagami Fading Channels,” in the Proceedings of WNCG Wireless Networking Symposium, Oct. 2004.
  12. P. Konghot and H. Che, “Removing Cell Demultiplexing Performance Bottleneck in ATM Pseudo Wire Emulation over MPLS Networks,”  in the Proceedings of IEEE ICCCN’2003.
  13. H. Che, Y. Wang, and Z. Wang, “A Rule Grouping Technique for Weight-Based TCAM Coprocessors,” in the Proceedings of IEEE Hot Interconnects, 2003.
  14. X. He and H. Che, “Resource Provisioning in a Multi-service Enabled ADSL System,” in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications, Vol. 2, pp. 1105—1112, 2003.

43.     Z. Wang, S. Das, H. Che, and M. Kumar, “A cooperative Asynchronous Ca