Ing-Ray Chen

Professor


Ing-Ray Chen

Department of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
7054 Haycock Road
Falls Church, VA 22043

Tel: (703) 538-8376
Fax: (703) 538-8348
Email: irchen at cs.vt.edu

- Biography
- Teaching Schedule
- Professional Activities
- Grant Activities
- Recent Journal Paper Publication
- Recent Conference Paper Publication


Biography

Ing-Ray Chen received the BS degree from the National Taiwan University, and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Houston, University Park.

He is a professor of Department of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was on the faculty of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, during 1995-96, and Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Mississippi during 1989-1994. His research interests are in mobile and pervasive computing, security, sensor networks, multimedia, data management, reliability and performance analysis, and real-time intelligent systems.

Dr. Chen is a member of the IEEE/CS and ACM.


Professional Activities


Grant Activities


Spring 2009 Teaching Schedule


CS 5214 Modeling and Evaluation of Computer Systems, Class Time: Tuesday 4-7pm, Office Hours: T,TH 3-4pm


Recent Journal Paper Publication

- O. Yilmaz and I.R. Chen,
``Utilizing Call Admission Control for Pricing Optimization of Multiple Service Classes in Wireless Cellular Networks,''
Computer Communications,
accepted to appear 2009.

- S. George and I.R. Chen,
``Movement-based checkpointing and logging for failure recovery of database applications in mobile environments,''
Distributed and Parallel Databases,
Vol. 23, No. 3, June 2008, pp. 189-205.

- J.H. Cho, I.R. Chen, and M. Eltoweissy,
``On optimal batch rekeying for secure group communications in wireless networks,''
ACM/Springer Wireless Networks,
Vol. 14, No. 6, December 2008.

- W. He and I.R. Chen,
``Proxy-based hybrid cache management in Mobile IP systems,''
Information Processing Letters,
Vol. 106, No. 1, 2008, pp. 26-32.

- J.H. Cho, I.R. Chen and D.C. Wang,
``Performance optimization of region-based group key management in mobile ad hoc networks,''
Performance Evaluation,
Vol. 65, No. 5, 2008, pp 319-344.

- I.R. Chen, W. He and B. Gu,
``DMAP: integrated mobility and service management in Mobile IPv6 systems,''
Wireless Personal Communications,
Vol. 43, No. 2, Oct. 2007, pp.711-723.

- I.R. Chen, W. He and B. Gu,
``Proxy-based regional registration for integrated mobility and service management for network cost minimization in Mobile IP systems,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 50, No. 3, 2007, pp. 281-293.

- A.P. Speer and I.R. Chen,
``Effect of redundancy on mean time to failure of wireless sensor networks,''
Computation and Concurrency: Practice and Experience,
Vol. 19, No. 8, 2007, pp. 1119-1128.

-I.R. Chen, B. Gu and S.T. Cheng
``On integrated location and service handoff schemes for reducing network cost in personal communication systems,''
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
Vol. 5, No. 2, 2006, pp. 179-192.

- S.T. Cheng, C.Y. Wang and I.R. Chen,
"Filtering strategies for TFC selection schemes in 3GPP W-CDMA systems,"
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
Vol. 5, No. 5, May 2006, pp. 1023-1032.

- I.R. Chen, O. Yilmaz and I.L. Yen,
``Admission control algorithms for revenue optimization with QoS guarantees in mobile wireless networks,''
Wireless Personal Communications
Vol. 38, No. 3, Aug. 2006, pp. 357-376.

- W. Hao, J. Fu, J. He, I.L. Yen, F. Bastani and I.R. Chen,
"Extending proxy caching capability: issues and performance,"
WWW Journal
Vol. 9, No. 3, 2006, pp. 253-275.

-B. Gu and I.R. Chen,
``Performance analysis of location-aware mobile service proxies for reducing network cost in personal communication systems''
ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET),
Vol. 10, No. 4, 2005, pp. 453-463.

-I.R. Chen, B. Gu, S. George and S.T. Cheng,
``On failure recoverability of client-server applications in mobile wireless environments,''
IEEE Transactions on Reliability,
Vol. 54, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 115-122.

- J.W. Wilson and I.R. Chen,
``Performance analysis of location-based group membership and data consistency algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks,''
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Vol. 1, No. 8, 2005.

-I.R. Chen, S.T. Li and I.L. Yen,
``Adaptive QoS control based on benefit optimization for video servers providing differentiated services,''
Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications,
Vol. 25, 2005, pp. 167-185.

-I.R. Chen, N.A. Phan and I.L. Yen
``Update propagation algorithms for supporting disconnected write in mobile wireless systems with data broadcasting capability,''
Journal of Wireless Personal Communication,
Vol. 34, No. 3, Aug. 2005, pp. 227-253.

-S.T. Li, I.R. Chen, H.C. Hsieh and I.L. Huang,
``The development of web-based KTV services over campus broadband networks,''
Journal of Internet Technology,
Vol. 5, No. 4, 2004, pp. 213-219.

-I.R. Chen, D.C. Wang and C.P. Chu,
``Analyzing reconfigurable algorithms for managing replicated data,''
Journal of Systems and Software,
Vol. 72, No. 3, 2004, pp. 417-430.

-D.C. Wang, I.R. Chen, C.P. Chu, and I.L. Yen,
``Replicated object Management with periodic maintenance in mobile wireless systems,''
Journal of Wireless Personal Communication,
Vol. 28, 2004, pp. 17-33.

-S. Kim, F.B. Bastani, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``Systematic reliability analysis of a class of application-specific embedded software frameworks,''
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
Vol. 30, No. 4, 2004, pp. 218-230.

-I.R. Chen and B. Gu,
``Quantitative analysis of a hybrid replication with forwarding strategy for efficient and uniform location management in mobile wireless networks,''
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, pp. 3-15.

-I.R. Chen and N. Verma
``A cost-based admission control algorithm for digital library multimedia systems storing heterogeneous objects,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 46, No. 6, Oct. 2003, pp. 645-659.

-S.T. Cheng, C.M. Chen and I.R. Chen,
``Performance evaluation of an admission control algorithm: dynamic threshold with negotiation,''
Performance Evaluation,
Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 1-13.

-I.R. Chen, D.C. Wang and C.P. Chu,
``Analyzing user-perceived dependability and performance characteristics of voting schemes for managing replicated data,''
Distributed and Parallel Databases,
Vol. 14, No. 3, 2003, pp. 199-219

-I.R. Chen, N.A. Phan and I.L. Yen,
``Algorithms for supporting disconnected write operations for wireless web access in mobile client-server environments,''
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002, pp. 46-58

-I.R. Chen and B. Gu,
``A comparative cost analysis of degradable location management algorithms in wireless networks,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 45, No. 3, 2002, pp. 304-319.

-S.T. Cheng and I.R. Chen,
``A self-adjusting quality of service control scheme,''
Information Processing Letters,
Vol. 83, No. 6, 2002, pp. 337-344.

-I.R. Chen, T.M. Chen and C. Lee,
``Agent-based forwarding strategies for reducing location management cost in mobile networks,''
ACM/Baltzer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET),
Vol. 6, No. 2, 2001, pp. 103-113.

-I.L. Yen, L. Dai, B. Chen, and I.R. Chen
``A nonblocking atomic transaction processing algorithm with real-time properties,''
International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering,
Vol. 8, No. 4, 2001, pp. 391-408.

-I.R. Chen, D.C. Wang and C.P. Chu,
``Response time behavior of distributed voting algorithms for managing replicated data,''
Information Processing Letters
Vol. 75, No. 6, 2000. pp. 247-253.

-S.T. Cheng, C.M. Chen and I.R. Chen,
``Dynamic quota-based admission control with subrating in multimedia servers,''
ACM/Springer Journal on Multimedia Systems,
Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000, pp. 83-91

-I.R. Chen, T.M. Chen and C. Lee,
``Analysis and comparison of location strategies for reducing registration cost in PCS networks,''
Wireless Personal Communications,
Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000, pp. 117-136.

-I.R. Chen and S.A. Banawan,
``Performance and stability analysis of multilevel data structures with deferred reorganization,''
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Vol. 25, No. 5, Sept/Oct 1999, pp. 690-700.

-I.R. Chen, T.M. Chen and C. Lee
``Performance evaluation of forwarding strategies for location management in mobile networks,''
The Computer Journal
Vol. 41, No. 4, 1998

-I.R. Chen and T.H. Hsi,
``Performance analysis of admission control algorithms
based on reward optimization for real-time multimedia servers,''

Performance Evaluation
Vol. 33, No. 2, 1998, pp. 89 - 112.

-I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``Reliability assessment of multiple-agent cooperating systems,''
IEEE Transactions on Reliability,
Vol. 46, No. 3, Sept. 1997.

-I.R. Chen,
``Effect of parallel planning on system reliability of real-time expert systems,''
IEEE Transactions on Reliability,
Vol. 46, No.1, March 1997, pp. 81-87.

-I.R. Chen and C.M. Chen,
``Threshold-based admission control policies for multimedia servers,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 39, No. 9, 1996, pp. 757-766.

-I.R. Chen and D.C. Wang,
``Analysis of replicated data with repair dependency,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 39, No. 9, 1996, 767-779.

-I.R. Chen and T.W. Tsao,
``A reliability model for real-time rule-based expert systems'',
IEEE Transactions on Reliability,
Vol. 44, No. 1, March, 1995, pp. 54-62.

-I.R. Chen, F.B. Bastani, and T.W. Tsao,
``On the reliability of AI planning software in real-time applications,''
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
Vol. 7, No. 1, Feb. 1995, pp. 4-13.

-I.R. Chen,
``Stochastic Petri net analysis of deadlock detection algorithms
in transaction database systems with dynamic locking,''

The Computer Journal,
Vol. 38, No. 9, 1995, pp. 717-733.

-I.R. Chen and I.L. Yen,
``Analysis of probabilistic error checking on storage systems,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 38, No. 5, 1995, pp. 348-354.

-I.R. Chen,
``On applying imprecise computation to real-time AI systems,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 38, No. 6, 1995, pp. 434-442.

-I.R. Chen,
``A degradable B-tree with periodic data reorganization,''
The Computer Journal,
Vol. 38, No. 3, 1995, pp. 245-252.

-I.R. Chen and B. Poole,
``Performance evaluation of rule grouping on a real-time expert system architecture,''
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
Vol. 6, No. 6, Dec. 1994, pp. 883-891.

-I.R. Chen and F.B. Bastani,
``Warm standby in hierarchically structured process--control programs,''
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Concise),
Vol. 20, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 658-663.

-F.B. Bastani and I.R. Chen,
``Assessment of the reliability of AI programs'',
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools,
Vol. 2. No. 2, 1993, pp. 235-247.

-I.R. Chen, and S.A. Banawan,
``Modeling and analysis of concurrent maintenance policies for data structures using pointers,''
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
Vol. 19, No. 9, Sept. 1993, pp. 902-911.

-F.B. Bastani, I.R. Chen, and T.W. Tsao,
``A software reliability model for AI programs'',
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering,
Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993, pp. 99-114.

-F.B. Bastani and I.R. Chen,
``On the reliability of embedded AI systems,''
IEEE Expert,
Vol 8, No.2, April 1993, pp. 72-78.


Recent Conference Paper Publication

- O. Yilmaz and I.R. Chen,
``A Comparative Performance Analysis of CAC Reward Optimization Algorithms in Wireless Networks,''
IEEE 23rd International Conference on. Advanced Information Networking and Applications,
Bradford, UK, May, 2009.

- W. He and I.R. Chen,
``DMAP-FR: Integrated Mobility and Service Management with Failure Recovery Support for Mobile IPv6 Systems,''
6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generation,
Las Vegas, USA, April 2009.

- J.H. Cho, I.R. Chen and P.G. Feng
``Effect of Intrusion Detection on Failure Time of Mission-Oriented Mobile Group Systems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,''
14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing,
Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2008.

- J.H. Cho and I.R. Chen,
``Effect of Intrusion Detection on Secure Group Communications in Hierarchically Structured Group Architectures,''
4th IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security,
Montreal, Canada, October 2008.

- O. Yilmaz and I.R. Chen,
``On QoS guarantees with reward optimization for servicing multiple priority classes in wireless networks,''
IEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'08),
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, August 2008.

- J.H. Cho, I.R. Chen and P.G. Feng,
``Performance Analysis of Dynamic Group Communication Systems with Intrusion Detection Integrated with Batch Rekeying in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,"
1st IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks,
Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.

- O. Yilmaz and I.R. Chen, G. Kulczycki and W. Frakes,
``Spillover-Partitioning Call Admission Control for Revenue Optimization with QoS Guarantees for Multiple Service Classes in Mobile Wireless Networks,"
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks,
Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.

- I.R. Chen and D.C. Wang,
``Modeling and Analysis of Regional Registration Based Mobile Multicast Service Management,''
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Modelling and Analysis of Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 2007.

- W. He, I.R. Chen, and B. Gu,
``A Proxy-Based Integrated Cache Consistency and Mobility Management Scheme for Mobile IP Systems,''
IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07),
Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.

- I.R. Chen, W. He and B. Gu,
``DMAP: an efficient and scalable integrated mobility and service management scheme for Mobile IPv6 systems,''
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks,
Tampa, FL, Nov. 2006.

- A.P. Speer and I.R. Chen,
``On optimal path and source redundancy for achieving QoS and maximizing lifetime of query-based wireless sensor networks,''
14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS),
Monterey, California, USA, Sept. 2006.

- O. Yilmaz and I.R. Chen,
``Utilizing call admission control for deriving optimal pricing of multiple service classes in wireless cellular networks,''
12th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Minneapolis, July 2006.

- S. George, I.R. Chen, and Y. Jin,
``Movement-based checkpointing and logging for recovery in mobile computing systems,"
ACM 5th Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
Chicago, USA, June 2006.

- I.R. Chen, J.H. Cho and D.C. Wang,
``Performance characteristics of region-based group key management in mobile ad hoc networks,''
1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing
Taichung, Taiwan, June, 2006.

- A.P. Speer and I.R. Chen,
``Effect of redundancy on mean time to failure of data sensor systems,''
1st IEEE International Workshop on Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks,
Vienna, Austria, April 2006.

- J.H. Cho and I.R. Chen,
``On design tradeoffs between security and performance in wireless group communicating systems,''
IEEE 1st Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec),
Boston, Nov. 2005.

- J.H. Cho, I.R. Chen and M. Eltoweissy,
``Optimization of batch rekey interval for secure group communications in wireless networks,''
2005 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (Wirelesscom 2005),
Maui, Hawaii, USA, July 2005.

- Y. Fan, I.R. Chen and M. Eltoweissy,
``On optimal key disclosure interval for mTESLA: analysis of authentication delay versus network cost,''
2005 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks,Communications, and Mobile Computing (Wirelesscom 2005),
Maui, Hawaii, USA, July 2005.

- W. Hao, Q. Ma, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``Extending proxy caching for e-commerce applications,''
Seventh International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research,
Dallas, TX, June 2004.

- I.R. Chen, J.W. Wilson, F. Driscoll and K. Rigopoulos,
``Performance analysis of location-based data consistency algorithms in mobile ad hoc networks,''
10th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Newport Beach, CA, July 2004.

- I.R. Chen and N. Verma,
`` Admission control algorithms integrated with pricing for revenue optimization with QoS guarantees in mobile wireless networks,''
10th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Newport Beach, CA, July 2004.

- Q. Ma, W. Li, I.L. Yen, F.B. Bastani and I.R. Chen,
``Survivable systems based on an adaptive NMR algorithm,''
18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004.

- L.A. DaSilva, S.F. Midkiff and I.R. Chen,
``A hands-on course on wireless and mobile systems design,''
2004 Workshop on Pervasive Computing Education,
Orlando, FL, March, 2004.

- S. Kim, F.B. Bastani, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``High-assurance synthesis of security services from basic microservices,''
14th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering,
Denver, Colorado, Nov. 2003.

- W. Hao, Q. Ma, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``A Weblet environment to facilitate proxy caching of web processing components,''
15th IASTED Inter. Conf. Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems,
Marina del Rey, CA, USA, Nov. 2003.

- I.R. Chen and N.A. Phan,
``Update propagation algorithms for supporting disconnected operations in mobile wireless systems with data broadcasting,''
2003 IEEE Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks (held in conjunction with ICDCS 2003),
Providence, Rhode Island, USA, May 2003.

- I.R. Chen and N. Verma,
``Simulation study of a class of autonomous host-centric mobility prediction algorithms for cellular and ad hoc networks,''
36th Annual Simulation Symposium,
Orlando, FL, USA, March 2003.

- F.B. Bastani, S. Kim, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``Reliability assessment of framework-based distributed embedded software systems,''
13th IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering,
Annapolis, Maryland, Nov. 2002.

- F.B. Bastani, K. Sung, I.L. Yen and I.R. Chen,
``An architecture-based comparison of verification and statistical reliability assessment methods for embedded software systems,''
5th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing,
Washington DC, May 2002.

-I.R. Chen and E. Fox,
``Design and analysis of a set-top box for video streaming services,''
2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking,
Durham, North Carolina, March, 2002.

-I.R. Chen, S.T. Li and I.L. Yen,
``QoS control algorithms based on benefit optimization for video servers providing differentiated services,''
2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking,
Durham, North Carolina, March, 2002.

-S.T. Li, I.R. Chen and H.C. Hsieh,
``An open RTSP-based multimedia presentation system,''
7th IEEE 2001 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems,
Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 2001.

-I.R. Chen and S.T. Li,
``A cost-based admission control algorithm for handling mixed workloads in multimedia server systems,''
8th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2001),
Kyongju City, Korea, June 2001.

-I.R. Chen, N.A. Phan and I.L. Yen,
``Analysis of algorithms for supporting disconnected write operations in mobile client-server environments,''
5th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2001),

Dallas, Texas, March 2001.


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