Jun Peng

Assistant Professor

Electrical Engineering Department

University of Texas - Pan American

Edinburg, TX 78541

Office: ENGR 3.232     Phone: 956-381-2688     e-mail: jpeng AT utpa DOT edu

Jun Peng received his PhD degree from the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY in 2004 and currently is an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of University of Texas - Pan American. Before he joined UTPA, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. Dr. Peng's research interests are in computer communication networks and embedded wireless networks. Particular topics include medium access control, congestion control, error control, routing, and security.    

Teaching

      Fall 2007    -- Microprocessor Systems  (ELEE-3435/CMPE-3437)       -- Communication Networks (ELEE-4390/CMPE-4390) 
      Fall 2007    -- Digital Systems - I (ELEE-2330)       -- Internet Protocols (ELEE-6399-01) 
      Spring 2007    -- Digital Systems - I (ELEE-2330)       -- Communication Networks (ELEE-4390)   
      Fall 2006         -- Digital Systems - I (ELEE-2330-01)    -- Digital Systems LAB (ELEE-2130-01 and ELEE-2130-02)

Research

Jun Peng  worked on several projects on medium access control, congestion control, error control, and protocol design and analysis. He published in these areas in referred conferences and journals.  He has recently been working on medium access control, broadcasting control, and security in wireless networks. 

• J. Peng, L. Cheng, and B. Sikdar, "A Wireless MAC Protocol with Collision Detection",  accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing  for  publication, 2007.
• J. Peng and L. Cheng, "Exploring a New Approach to Collision Avoidance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", the IFIP Networking, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007.
• J. Peng and L. Cheng, "Priority-Ensured Medium Access in Ad Hoc Networks", the 26th IEEE IPCCC, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2007.
• J. Peng, L. Cheng, and B. Sikdar, "A New MAC Protocol for Wireless Packet Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
• J. Peng and L. Cheng, "Revisiting Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA)", the 40th CISS, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "An Efficient and Scalable Loss Recovery Scheme for Video Multicast",  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 356-365, April 2005.
• J. Peng, "Timely and Lossless Medium Access in Ad Hoc Networks", the 39th CISS, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "Multi-layer Multicast Congestion Control in Satellite Environment", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 449-461, April 2004.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "A Multicast Congestion Control Scheme for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2003.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "Multicast Loss Recovery with Active Injection", IEEE ICCCN, Dallas, TX, October 2003.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "Rate Control over Repair Traffic in Multicast", Proceedings of the 37th CISS, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.
• J. Peng and B. Sikdar, "Routing-based Video Multicast Congestion Control", IFIP/IEEE MMNS, Santa Barbara, CA, October 2002.

Synergistic Activities

• TPC member of the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Globecom 2007
• TPC member of the Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium, IWCMC 2007
• Technical Program Session Chair, IEEE IPCCC 2007
• Technical reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• Technical reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Technical reviewer for IEEE Communication Letters
• Technical reviewer for IEEEWireless Communication Magzine
• Technical reviewer for IEEE INFOCOM 2003
• Technical reviewer for IEEEWCNC 2005,2006
• Technical reviewer for IEEE ICC 2006 and 2007
• Technical reviewer for IEEE VTC Fall 2007