Wei Wei

Assistant professor in residence, CSE Department, University of Connecticut.

Computer Science & Engineering Department 
371 Fairfield Way
Unit 2155 
Storrs, CT 06269-2155

Office: ITE 258
Phone: (860) 486-4857 Fax: (860) 486-4817
E-mail Address: wei.wei at uconn.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006.
• M.S. of Applied Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004.
• M.S. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004.
• M.S. of Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2000.
• B.S. of Applied Mathematics, Peking University, 1992.

Publications

Book

• Inferring Hidden Network Properties from Network Measurements: A Modeling Approach
  Wei Wei
  VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2007.
  ISBN: 978-3-8364-2969-6

Journal Papers

• Detecting Node Failures in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks: A Probabilistic Approach
  R. Jin, B. Wang, W. Wei, X. Zhang, X. Chen, Y. Bar-Shalom and P. Willett.
  IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, Vol. 15, No. 7, July 2016.

• Twitter Volume Spikes and Stock Options Pricing
  Wei Wei, Yuexin Mao and Bing Wang.
  Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 73, Part B, January 2016, Pages 271-281.

• Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Networks with Multipacket Reception
  A. Russell, S. Vasudevan, B. Wang, W. Zeng, X. Chen, and W. Wei.
  IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 26, No. 7, pp. 1984-1998, July 2015.

• Delay Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Architecture Using Air Sniffers
  Wei Zeng, Jordan Cote, Xian Chen, Yoo-Ah Kim, Wei Wei, Kyoungwon Suh, Bing Wang and Zhijie Jerry Shi.
  Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 13, Part B, pp. 549-559, February 2014.

• Impact of In-Network Aggregation on Target Tracking Quality Under Network Delays
  Wei Wei, Ting He, Chatschik Bisdikian, Dennis Goeckel, Bo Jiang, Lance Kaplan, and Don Towsley.
  IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 31, NO. 4, APRIL 2013.

• Heavy Tails in Queuing Systems: Impact of Parallelism on Tail Performance
  Bo Jiang, Jian Tan, Wei Wei, Ness Shroff, Don Towsley.
  Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 50, Number 1, Pages 127-150, March 2013.

• Identifying 802.11 Traffic from Passive Measurements Using Iterative Bayesian Inference
  Wei Wei, Sharad Jaiswal, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, Kyoungwon Suh and Bing Wang.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 325 – 338, April 2012.

• Fault Localization Using Passive End-to-End Measurement and Sequential Testing for Wireless Sensor Networks 
  Bing Wang, Wei Wei, Hieu Dinh, Wei Zeng and Krishna R. Pattipati.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 439-452, March 2012.

• Fault-tolerant Monitor Placement for Out-of-band Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring
  Xian Chen, Yoo-Ah Kim, Bing Wang, Wei Wei, Zhijie (Jerry) Shi and Yuan Song.
  Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 62-74, January 2012.

• Model-based Identification of Dominant Congested Links
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 456-469, April 2011.

• Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits
  Bing Wang,  Wei Wei,  Zheng Guo and Don Towsley
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 25:1-23, August 2009.

• Classification of Access Network Types: Ethernet, Wireless LAN, ADSL, Cable Modem or Dialup?
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang, Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley.
  Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 17, pp. 3205-3217, December 2008.

• Application-layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs
  Bing Wang, Wei Wei, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, Krishna R. Pattipati, Zheng Guo and Zheng Peng.
  Performance Evaluation, Vol. 64, Issues 9-12, pp. 965-977, October, 2007.

• Continuous-time Hidden Markov Models for Network Performance Evaluation
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang and Don Towsley.
  Performance Evaluation, Vol. 49, Issues 1-4, pp. 129-146, September, 2002.

Publications

• Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits
  Bing Wang,  Wei Wei,  Zheng Guo and Don Towsley
  Proceedings of CoNEXT 2007, New York, NY, December,  2007.
  A longer version is currently available as UCONN CSE Technical Report BECAT/CSE-TR-06-7 [pdf].

• Passive Online Rogue Access Point Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing with TCP ACK-Pairs
  Wei Wei, Kyoungwon Suh, Bing Wang, Yu Gu, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley.
  Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2007), San Diego, CA, October,  2007.
  Technical report  [pdf].

• Application-layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs
  Bing Wang, Wei Wei, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, Krishna R. Pattipati, Zheng Guo and Zheng Peng.
  Proceedings of Performance (Performance 2007), Cologne, Germany, October, 2007.

• Classification of Access Network Types: Ethernet, Wireless LAN, ADSL, Cable Modem or Dialup?
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang, Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley.
  Proceedings of IEEE Infocom (Infocom 2005), Miami, Florida, March, 2005 [pdf].
  A longer version is currently available as UMass CMPSCI Technical Report 04-46 [pdf].

• Model-based Identification of Dominant Congested Links
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose.
  Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2003),  Miami Beach, Florida, October, 2003.

• Continuous-time Hidden Markov Models for Network Performance Evaluation
  Wei Wei, Bing Wang and Don Towsley.
  Performance Evaluation, Vol. 49, Issues 1-4, pp. 129-146, September, 2002.
  Proceedings of Performance (Performance 2002), Rome, Italy, September, 2002.