Hongwei Zhang
Email: hongwei@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-2143
Title(s):
Richardson Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Center for Wireless, Communities and Innovation (WiCI)
Office
Durham613 Morrill Rd
Ames, IA 500112100
Office
391D Durham Center, 613 Morrill Rd., Ames, IA 50011
Information
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University (2006)
M.S., Computer Engineering, Chongqing University, China (2000)
B.S., Computer Engineering, Chongqing University, China (1997)
Research Areas
Core Area(s): Computing and networking systems, cyber-physical-human systems
Department’s Strategic Area(s): Cyber infrastructure; data, decisions, networks & autonomy
Publications
Representative Publications | Google Scholar Profile
- Taimoor Ul Islam, Joshua Ofori Boateng, Md Nadim, Guoying Zu, Mukaram Shahid, Xun Li, Tianyi Zhang, Salil Reddy, Wei Xu, Ataberk Atalar, Vincent Lee, Yung-Fu Chen, Evan Gossling, Elisabeth Permatasari, Christ Somiah, Owen Perrin, Zhibo Meng, Reshal Afzal, Sarath Babu, Mohammed Soliman, Ali Hussain, Daji Qiao, Mai Zheng, Ozdal Boyraz, Yong Guan, Anish Arora, Mohamed Selim, Arsalan Ahmad, Myra B. Cohen, Mike Luby, Ranveer Chandra, James Gross, Kate Keahey, Hongwei Zhang, Design and Implementation of ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications, Vol. 263, Computer Networks (Elsevier) , May 2025
- Muhammad A. Imran, Marco Zennaro, Olaoluwa R. Popoola, Luca Chiaraviglio, Hongwei Zhang, Pietro Manzoni, Jaap van de Beek, Robert Stewart, Mitchell A. Cox, Luciano Mendes, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Exploring the Boundaries of Connected Systems: Communications for Hard-to-Reach Areas and Extreme Conditions, Proceedings of the IEEE, July 2024
- Zhibo Meng, Hongwei Zhang, Joint Scheduling and Power Control for Predictable Per-Packet Reliability in URLLC, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2024
- Zhibo Meng, Hongwei Zhang, James Gross, Scheduling with Probabilistic Per-Packet Real-Time Guarantee for Industrial URLLC, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), 2024 (Best Student Paper Award)
- Gourav Prateek Sharma, Dhruvn Patel, Joachim Sach, Marilet De Andrade, Janos Farkas, Janos Harmatos, Balazs Varga, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Raheeb Muzaffar, Mahin Atiq, Frank Duerr, Dietmar Bruckner, Edgardo Montesdeoca, Drissa Houatra, Hongwei Zhang, James Gross, Towards Deterministic Communications in 6G Networks: State of the Art, Open Challenges and the Way Forward, IEEE Access, September 2023
- Matthias Sander-Frigau, Tianyi Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Ahmed E. Kamal, Arun K. Somani, Physical Wireless Resource Virtualization for Software-Defined Whole-Stack Slicing, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2021 (Best Paper Award)
- Chuan Li, Hongwei Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Jayanthi Rao, Le Yi Wang, George Yin, Cyber-Physical Scheduling for Predictable Reliability of Inter-Vehicle Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 69(4):4192-4206, April 2020
- Thu Nguyen, Le Yi Wang, George Yin, Hongwei Zhang, Shengbo Eben Li, Keqiang Li, Impact of Communication Erasure Channels on Control Performance of Connected and Automated Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 76(1):29-43, 2018
- Shengbo Eben Li, Yang Zheng, Keqiang Li, Feng Gao, Yujia Wu, Hongwei Zhang, J. Karl Hedrick, Dynamical Modeling and Distributed Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems, 9(3):46-58, 2017 (The 2017 – 2020 Outstanding Survey Paper Award)
- Hongwei Zhang, Xiaohui Liu, Chuan Li, Yu Chen, Xin Che, Feng Lin, Le Yi Wang, George Yin, Scheduling with Predictable Link Reliability for Wireless Networked Control, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 16(9):6135-6150, 2017
- Hongwei Zhang, Xin Che, Xiaohui Liu, Xi Ju, Adaptive Instantiation of the Protocol Interference Model in Wireless Networked Sensing and Control, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 10(2), January 2014
- Hongwei Zhang, Lifeng Sang, Anish Arora, Comparison of Data-driven Link Estimation Methods in Low-power Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 9(11), November 2010
- Hongwei Zhang, Anish Arora, Young-ri Choi, Mohamed Gouda, Reliable Bursty Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Network, Computer Communications (Elsevier), special issue on “Sensor-Actuator Networks”, 30(13), September 2007
- A. Arora, R. Ramnath, E. Ertin, P. Sinha, S. Bapat, V. Naik, V. Kulathumani, Hongwei Zhang, H. Cao, M. Sridhara, S. Kumar, N. Seddon, C. Anderson, T. Herman, N. Trivedi, C. Zhang, M. Gouda, Y. R. Choi, M. Nesterenko, R. Shah, S. Kulkarni, M. Aramugam, L. Wang, D. Culler, P. Dutta, C. Sharp, G. Tolle, M. Grimmer, B. Ferriera, K. Parker, ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2005
Primary Strategic Research Area
Secure Cyberspace & Autonomy
Departments
Affiliations
Interests
5G and beyond neCyber-Physical SystemsOpen innovationOpen sourcePredictable ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)Wireless networking for control and AR/VR systems