Research Interests:

Network Reliability and Security, Optical Networks, Wireless Networks

List of Journal Publications and Referred Conference Proceedings:

S. Yuan, W. Waller and E. Delavina, “Heuristic algorithms for finding reliable lightpath under multiple failures,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, October 2009

S. Yuan, “Reliable lightpath routing in optical mesh networks under multiple link failures,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, pp. 114-120, July 2009

S. Yuan, “Maximum reliable path under multiple failures,” Proceedings, the Internationals Conference on Computational and Information Science 2009, vol. 2, pp. 333-337, April 30 – May 2, 2009.

S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, “Lightpath Routing for Maximum Reliability in Optical Mesh Networks,” Journal of Optical Networking (OSA), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 449-466, May 2008.

S. Yuan, “Minimum-Multiplicity Routing Problems of Multimedia Communications,” Proceeding, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 919-922, July 2007.

S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, “Dynamic Lightpath Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength-Continuity and Risk-Disjoint Constraints,” Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 91-112, June 2005.

S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, “Minimum Color Problem for Reliability in Mesh Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 4, pp. 2658- 2669, March 2005.

S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, “Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength Continuity Constraint,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 2019-2023, November 2004.

S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, “Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Risk-Disjoint Constraint,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1770-1774, November 2004.

K. Lu, J. P. Jue, T. Zhang, S. Yuan, I. Chlamtac, G. Xiao, “Blocking Analysis of Multi-fiber Wavelength-Routed Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1958-1962, November 2004.

S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, “Shared Protection Routing Algorithm for Optical Networks,” SPIE Optical Network Magazine, vol. 3, May/June Issue, 2002.

S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, “A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Shared Protection in Connection-oriented Networks,” Proceedings, SPIE OptiComm, August, 2001.

Patent

“System, method and apparatus for dynamic path protection in networks,” US Publication No. US-2005-0237950-A1 (Pending)

External Grants

nsf_lgCo-Primary Investigator, “REU Site: Research Experiences in Algorithm Design and Analysis for Students in Undergraduate Institutions,” National Science Foundation Award No. 0851984. Duration: 6/1/2009 - 5/31/2012. Award amount: $ 308,288.00      

nsf_lgCo-Primary Investigator, “Acquisition of a Computational Cluster Grid for Research and Education in Science and Mathematics,” National Science Foundation Award No. 0619312. Duration: 9/1/2006 – 8/31/2010. Award amount: $ 57,173.00

Internal Grants (totally $16,126)

Faculty Development Grant, 2009, University of Houston – Downtown

Faculty Development Grant, 2008, University of Houston – Downtown

Faculty Development Grant 2007, University of Houston – Downtown

Faculty Development Grant, 2005, University of Houston – Downtown

Organized Research Grant, 2009, University of Houston – Downtown

Organized Research Grant 2007, University of Houston – Downtown

Organized Research Grant 2005, University of Houston – Downtown

Awards

Excellence in Research Fellowship: Erik Johnson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas. ($24,000 annual stipend + full tuition)

Texas Public Education Grant Scholarship: University of Texas at Dallas.

Doctoral Scholarship: University of Texas at Dallas.

Truman Scholarship: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri at Columbia.

Scholarly Services

Editor:

International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms

Committee Services:

Member of IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), 2001 - present.

Session chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Hunan, China, July 2009

Session chair, WSEAS Internationals Conference on Computational and Information Science 2009. Houston, TX. April 30-May2, 2009.

Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-18, 2008.

Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, China, July 2007.

Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM, Dallas, TX, November 29 – December 3, 2004.

Member of Technical Program Committee, SPIE OptiComm, Denver, CO, August 2001.

Book reviews:

Geoffrey Steinberg, Information Technology, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2007.

K. Kazi, et al, Comprehensive Guide to Optical Networking Standards, Springer, 2004.

Hui Zang, WDM Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

Journal reviews:

International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, 2009

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2009

Computer Communications, 2005, 2006 & 2008

Journal of Communications and Networks, 2007

IEEE Multimedia, 2007

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2006

Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2005 & 2006

IEEE Communication Letters, 2006.

IEEE Journal of Systems and Software, 2006

IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005

Conference reviews:

IEEE INFOCOM, 2009

IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), 2003 – 2006, 2009

IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2008.

The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2008.

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007.

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2003 - 2006

IEEE Broadband Optical Networking Symposium (BroadNets), 2004 & 2005

International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech), 2004.

SPIE OptiComm, 2001-2003.

Professional Memberships

IEEE Member since 1993.

Faculty Mentor, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2004.