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Senior Lecturer in Computing and Information Systems

Dr Sijing Zhang obtained his BSc and MSc degrees, both in Computer Science, from Jilin ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (Changchun, China) in 1982 and 1988 respectively. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of York (York, UK) in 1997.

Sijing joined the Network Technology Research Centre (NTRC) of Nanyang Technological ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (Singapore) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1996, and he then returnedÌýÌýto the UK to work as a Research Fellow with the Centre for Communications Systems Research (CCSR) of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) in 1998.

He joined the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Derby (Derby, UK) as a Senior Lecturer in 2000. Since October 2004, he has been working as a Senior Lecturer with the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.

In his spare time, Sijing enjoys jogging, playing table tennis and some DIY activities at home.

Teaching Areas

Research Interests

• Real-Time Communications over LAN’s and MAN’s
• Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms
• QoS Provisions in Wireless Networks
• Network Protocol Analysis and Performance Evaluation

Publications

• Refereed Journal Papers:
• Refereed Conference Papers:

PhD Supervisions

1. Sustainable scheduling policies for radio access networks based on LTE technologyÌýÌý(2010-2013)
2. Modelling Indoor Wave PropagationÌýÌý(2008-2011
3. Parallel Simulation Studies for 3G/4G Mobile Communication Networks (2006 – 2009)
4. IEEE 802.16e Mobile WiMAX Automatic Radio Network Planning (2006 – 2009)
5. Developing Agent-based Personalization Support Architecture for Mobile Advertising (2006 – 2009)
6. Real-Time Communication with the Timed-Token MAC Protocol (2005 – 2008)

Internal Activities

• Member of the IRAC: Institute for Research in Applicable Computing
• Member of the CWIND: Centre for Wireless Network Design

External Activities

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Communications Letters, etc. and several international conferences (e.g., IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom).
• PhD Examiner, De Montfort ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, 2006
• Member of Program Committees, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC07, London, UK, 15-17 April 2007), 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007).
• Committee Member of the Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK

Contact Details

Dr Sijing Zhang
T: +44 (0)1582 743756