MAC Protocol Design in Full-Duplex Enabled Wireless Networks / Wireless Networks (PDF)

Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He is currently an Associate Researcher at the Frontier Research Center, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include 6G networks, pervasive network intelligence, digital twin, and network virtualization.
Ning Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2015.,He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada. His research interests include connected vehicles, mobile edge computing, wireless networking, and machine learning. He was a recipient ofthe NSERC PDF Award in 2015 and six best paper awards from IEEE GLOBECOM in 2014, IEEE WCSP in 2015, IEEE ICC in 2019, IEEE ICCC in 2019, the IEEE Technical Committee on Transmission Access and Optical Systems in 2019, and the Journal of Communications and Information Networks in 2018. He is/was also the TPC Chair of the IEEE SAGC 2020, the Track Chair of several international conferences, including IEEE VTC 2020, IEEE ICC 2022, AICON 2020, and CollaborateCom 2020, and the co-chair of numerous international workshops. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Systems Journal, and the Guest Editor of several international journals, such as IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science).
Weihua Zhuang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, all in electrical engineering. Since 1993, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, where she is a University Professor and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in wireless communication networks. Her current research focuses on network architecture, algorithms and protocols, and service provisioning in future communication systems. She is the recipient of Women's Distinguished Career Award in 2021 from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, R.A. Fessenden Award in 2021 from IEEE Canada, Award of Merit in 2021 from the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario), and Technical Recognition Award in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks in 2017 from IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Zhuang is a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). She is the Executive Vice President and an elected member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013), an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2005-2009), General Co-Chair of IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2021, Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2017 Fall and 2016 Fall, TPC Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2011).