Professor Song Chong
Head, Communications & Computing Division
Director of Network Systems Laboratory

Email: mailto:songchong@kaist.edu
URL: http://netsys.kaist.ac.kr
Office phone: +82-42-350-3473
Mobile phone: +82-10-9929-3473
Fax: +82-42-350-3410

Research Interest
Education
Professional Experience
Professional Activities
Awards
Books
International Journal Publication
International Conference Publication
International Patent
Invited Talks
Past Graduate Students

 

 
 
 
RESEARCH

Mobile networks, cellular networks, WiFi networks, mobile applications, future mobile Internet


EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1995, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA
M.S., 1990, Control & Instrumentation Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea
B.S., 1988, Control & Instrumentation Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea .


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Head, January 2009 - 2010
Communications and Computing Division (31 faculty)
Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejon, Korea


Professor & Director of Network Systems Laboratory, March 2000 - present
Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejon, Korea


Visiting Professor, August 2004 - August 2005
Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Texas at Austin, USA


Professor, September 1996 - February 2000
Department of Electrical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

 

Member of Technical Staff, December 1994 - August 1996
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editor, Computer Communications journal, 2009-present
Editor, Journal of Communications and Networks, 2002-present
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Future Internet, Journal of Communications and Networks, 2007
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Future Internet, Telecommunications Review, 2008

Vice President, Korea Information and Communications Society, 2008-present
Co-founder & Mobile Working Group Chair, Future Internet Forum, 2007-present

Steering Committee
International Symposium on Mobile Wireless Networks Optimization (WiOpt)
International Conference on Future Internet (CFI)
Future Internet Forum (FIF)
Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI)
Networked Video Workshop (NV)

General Chair, 7th International Symposium on Mobile Wireless Networks Optimization (WiOpt 2009)

Technical Program Chair
International Conference on Future Internet (CFI 2010)
International Conference on Communications and Broadband Networking (ICBN 2004)
KAIST Networking Seminar Series 2004-2009
Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI 2004, 2008, 2010)

Technical Program Committee
IEEE INFOCOM 1997, 1999, 2004, ACM CoNEXT 2008, ITC Specialist Seminar 2008, ITC 2009, WiOpt 2007, 2008, ACM WiNTECH 2008, Packet Video 2002, 2003, IEEE LEOS 2009, CFI 2006-2010, IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, IEEE ICC 2005, IEEE VTC 2006, PCM 2005, APCC 2006, ICOIN 2005, 2007, 2008, WMCNR 2008, UKC 2008, Future Internet Summer Camp 2008, 2009, Future Internet Winter Camp 2008, 2009


Officer of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) in 2006-2008


Officer of IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Board (APB) in 1998-1999, 2004-2005, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009


AWARDS
1. Silver Prize at the 17th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize Awards, 2010 (with K. Lee)

2. Silver Prize at the 14th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize Awards, 2007 (with J. Jeon)

3. Silver Prize at the 13th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize Awards, 2006 (with K. Son)

4. Bronze Prize at the 9th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize Awards, 2002 (with M. Shin)

5. AT&T Trailblazer Award, 1995


BOOKS

1. S. Chong, “Mobility Models in Opportunistic Networks” chapter in Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: The Cutting Edge Directions, to be published by Wiley in Mid 2012.


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATION

M. Conti, S. Chong, S. Fdida, W. Jia, H. Karl, Y. Lin, P. Mahonen, M. Maier, R. Molva, S. Uligh and M. Zukerman.
"Research Challenges Toward the Future Internet."
to appear in Networking Science (invited paper), 2011.


Seongik Hong, Injong Rhee, Seong Joon Kim, Kyunghan Lee and Song Chong.
"On Analyzing Routing Performance of Human-Driven Delay Tolerant Networks using Truncated Levy Walk Model."
to appear in Networking Science (invited paper), 2011.


Kyunghan Lee, Seongik Hong, Seong Joon Kim, Injong Rhee and Song Chong.
"SLAW: Self-similar Least Action Human Walk."
to appear in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking.


Kyuho Son, Soohwan Lee, Yung Yi and Song Chong.
"REFIM: A Practical Interference Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks."
IEEE Journal on Selected Arears in Communications, vol.29, no.6, pp1260-1272, June 2011.


Injong Rhee, Minsu Shin, Seongik Hong, Kyunghan Lee, Seong Joon Kim and Song Chong.
"On the Levy Walk Nature of Human Mobility: Do Humans Walk like Monkeys?."
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol.19, no.3, pp630-643. June 2011


Hyang-Won Lee, Jeong-woo Cho and Song Chong.
"A Distributed Max-Min Flow Control Algorithm for Multi-rate Multicast Flows."
Computer Networks, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 1727-1738, Aug. 2010.


Jeong-woo Cho, Jeonghoon Mo and Song Chong.
"Joint Network-wide Opportunistic Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-cell Networks."
IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications. vol. 8, no. 3, pp1520-1531, Mar 2009.


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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

Jeongho Kwak, Kyuho Son, Yung Yi and Song Chong
"Impact of Spatio-Temporal Power Sharing Policies on Cellular Network Greening."
WiOpt 2011.


Bruno Nardelli, Jinsung Lee, Kangwook Lee, Yung Yi, Song Chong, Edward Knightly and Mung Chiang.
"Experimental Evaluation of Optimal CSMA."
IEEE INFOCOM 2011.


Kyunghan Lee, Yoora Kim, Song Chong, Injong Rhee and Yung Yi.
"Delay-Capacity Tradeoffs for Mobile Networks with Levy Walks and Levy Flights."
IEEE INFOCOM 2011.


Kyunghan Lee, Joohyun Lee, Song Chong, Yung Yi and Injong Rhee.
"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?"
ACM CoNEXT 2010.


Kyunghan Lee, Yung Yi, Jaeseong Jeong, Hyungsuk Won, Injong Rhee and Song Chong.
"Max Contribution : On Optimal Resource Allocation in Delay Tolerant Netowrks."
IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.


Kyuho Son, Soohwan Lee, Yung Yi and Song Chong.
"Practical Dynamic Interference Management in Multi-carrier Multi-cell Wireless Networks: A Reference User Based Approach."
WiOpt 2010.


Kyunghan Lee, Seongik Hong, Seong Joon Kim, Injong Rhee and Song Chong.
"SLAW: A New Mobility Model for Human Walks."
IEEE INFOCOM 2009.


Injong Rhee, Minsu Shin, Kyunghan Lee, Seongik Hong and Song Chong.
"On the Levy-walk Nature of Human Mobility."
IEEE INFOCOM 2008.


M. Shin, S. Chong,and I. Rhee
"Dual-resource TCP/AQM for processing-constrained networks."
IEEE INFOCOM 2006.


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INTERNATIONAL PATENT

",Method for Multi-Priority, Multicast Flow Control in Packet Switch"
등록번호 : US-6212582. 등록일 : 2001


"Low-Loss,Fair Bandwidth Allocation Flow Control in a Packet Switch,"
등록번호 : US-5983278. 등록일 : 1999


"First-Order Rate Based Flow Control with Adaptive Queue Threshhold,"
등록번호 : US-5864538. 등록일 : 1999


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INVITED TALKS

"SLAW: A Mobility Model for Human Walks," The Korea Transportation Institute, March 28, 2011.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" KT, Bundang, Korea, March 25, 2011.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" Wi-Fi Day, LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 21, 2011.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" SK Telecom, Seoul, Korea, Jan. 28, 2011.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" KT, Seoul, Jan. 4, 2011.

"Human Mobility: Measurements, Analysis and Implications" High Speed Network (HSN) Workshop 2011, Kyungju, Korea, Jan. 21, 2011.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" TTA Ethernet Forum WLAN WG meeting, Chunan, Korea, Nov. 5, 2010.

"Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?" Dagstuhl Seminar for Impact of Human Mobility on Communications, Dagstuhl, Germany, Oct. 6, 2010.

"Understanding Human Mobility Patterns Towards Disruption Tolerant Networking" 2010 Northeastern Asian Symposium on ICT: Next Generation Networks and Network Security, Xian, China, Sept. 16, 2010.

"Wireless Mesh Network" KICS Lecture Series on Mobile Wireless Communication, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, August 2010.

"Small Cells and Mobility: The Next Opportunity" SK Telecom, Bundang, Korea, April 26, 2010.

"Hot Topics in Wireless Mobile Networking" KAIST EE Faculty Colloquium, April 15, 2010.

"Understanding Human Mobility Patterns Towards Disruption Tolerant Networking" Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , Singapore, Jan. 21, 2010.

"Understanding Human Mobility Patterns Towards Disruption Tolerant Networking" Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , Singapore, Jan. 21, 2010.

“Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?,” Nanyang Technological University (NTU) , Singapore, Jan. 21, 2010.

“Understanding Human Mobility Patterns Towards Disruption Tolerant Networking,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) , Trondheim, Norway, Jan. 8, 2010.


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PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS

Yoora Kim (Post-doc in 2010): now Post-doc at OSU with Prof. Ness Shroff

Kyuho Son (PhD in 2010, MS in 2004): now Post-doc at USC with Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Thesis: “Utility-optimal Load Balancing and Interference Management in Multi-cell Networks”

Kyunghan Lee (PhD in 2009, MS in 2004): now Post-doc at NCSU with Prof. Injong Rhee
Thesis: “Understanding Human Mobility and its Impact on Wireless Mobile Networks”

Hyangwon Lee (PhD in 2007, MS in 2003): now Post-doc at MIT with Prof. Eytan Modiano
Thesis: “Utility-based Cross-layer Radio Resource Management in Wireless Networks”

Wonseok Park (PhD in 2006): now with LG Electronics
Thesis: “A Joint Congestion Control and Burst Contention Control Design for Optical Burst Switching Networks”

Minsu Shin (PhD in 2006): now with SK Telecom
Thesis: “Bandwidth Allocation with Processing Constraint”

Jeongwoo Cho (PhD in 2005): now Senior Researcher at EPFL with Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Thesis: “A Control-theoretic Approach to Flow Control in Communication Networks”

Hyungkeun Ryu (PhD in 2005): now with Korea Telecom
Thesis: “Flow-controlled IP Trunking for Traffic Engineering in IP Networks”

Seoungjun Bae (PhD in 2004): now with ETRI
Thesis: “Parallel Multimedia Streaming over the Internet”

Jihyun Lee (MS in 2009): now with LG Electronics

Youngki Kim (MS in 2009): now with Korea Telecom

Jeongho Jeon (MS in 2008): now PhD student in EE, U. of Maryland with Prof. Anthony Ephremides

Anseok Lee (MS in 2008): now with ETRI

Cheoljung Kim (MS in 2006): now with ETRI

Seungho Song (MS in 2006): now with SK Telecom

Dongho Kim (MS in 2005): now PhD student in ECE, UIUC with Prof. Yih-Chun Hu

Byungkwon Moon (MS in 2005): now with ETRI

Junsung Kim (MS in 2004): now PhD student in ECE, CMU with Prof. Raj Rajkumar

Sangyoon Yi (MS in 2003): now PhD student in Management Science, KAIST

Hyungje Cho (MS in 2002): now with SK Telecom

Hyunhee Chung (MS in 2000): now with Samsung Electronics

Joonyoung Park (MS in 2000): now with Samsung Electronics

Soonhwan Kwon (MS in 2000): now with Samsung Electronics

Junghoon Kim (MS in 2000) : now with AMD Korea

Jongmin Son (MS in 2000): now with Samsung Electronics

Jaeyoung Lee (MS in 2000): now with LG Electronics

Hyunmok Joung (MS in 1999): now with Samsung Electronics

Sangdo Park (MS in 1999): now with Samsung Electronics

Sangho Lee (MS in 1999): now with Samsung Electronics

 

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