Contact Information

Dr Erwu Liu (刘儿兀)
Communications and Signal Processing Group,
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College,
South Kensington Campus,
London SW7 2AZ,UK.

Fax: +44-207-594-6302 (please alert me by email when sending me fax)  
Email: erwu.liu (at) imperial.ac.uk
Room: 809.

Biography

Erwu Liu received his MSc and PhD degrees in 1998 and 2001, respectively, both from the Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, CHINA.
In 2001, he joined Alcatel-Lucent as a project manager, and then a senior research scientist at the Research & Innovation (R&I) Center.
In 2007, he left Alcatel-Lucent and joined Imperial College London as a post-doctoral researcher (Research Associate).
Dr. Liu is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA), the ACM and the IEEE.
He has rich experience on both academia and industry, from wired, optical, to wireless networks.
Currently, his research interests include: Stochastic Geometry, Network Utility Maximization (NUM), Scheduling, Opportunistic Resource Allocation, QoS, Cooperative Routing, Cross-Layer Optimization in wireless networks, etc.

His hobbies include: Music/Movie, HTPC, Programming free softwares such as TTNews (天天新闻) and Tetris game:)

Research Interests

  • Cellular, WiMAX, Wireless Multi-hop Backhaul, Wireless Mesh and Ad-hoc/sensor Networks
  • Stochastic Geometry, Percolation Theory
  • Network Utility Maximization, Scheduling for Real-time Services
  • MAC Scheduling, Random Access Schemes, Cooperative Routing, Cross-Layer Design
  • Mathematical Analysis, OPNET-based Simulation
  • Capacity Optimisation Techniques for Ad-Hoc Networks
  • Proportional Fairness, Delay-aware Scheduling, Cooperative Transmission, Cognitive Networks
  • Queueing Theory, Probabilities and Statistics

    Conferencing

    Technical Program Committee (TPC) and Session Chair:

  • ICUMT 2009
  • PIMRC 2009
  • VTC 2008


    Referee for International Journals:

    Springer Wireless Personal Communications
    Elesevier Computer Networks
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    IEEE Transactions on Communications
    IEEE Communications Letters
    Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
    ETRI Journal
    OSA Optics Express
    OSA Journal of Optical Networking


    Referee for International Conferences:

    IEEE ICUMT, ACITA, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE IPCCC, IEEE CSNDSP, IEEE ICN, EW, IARIA AICT etc.