A research paper from the CAS Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Information in USTC received the Best Paper Award from the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2015). The paper entitled “QoS-Aware Flexible Traffic Engineering with OpenFlow-Assisted Agile IP-Forwarding Interchanging” was written by Prof. ZHU Zuqing’s group. All authors are from USTC, which is the only affiliation of this award-winning paper, and Prof. ZHU Zuqing is the corresponding author.

 

 

IEEE ICC is one of the two flag-ship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, together with IEEE GLOBECOM. Being held in every June, this conference covers almost every research area in the networking and communications community, including communication theory, signal processing for communications, wireless communications, wireless networking, optical networks and systems, communication software and multimedia, and information systems security etc. This year, the conference’s Best Paper Award Committee selected 12 best papers for different research areas out of 3342 submissions, while the paper from Prof. ZHU’s group was selected as the only best paper in the Communications Software, Service and Multimedia Applications Symposium.

 

The paper proposed to use IP-forwarding interchanging (i.e., exchanging packets between IPv4 and IPv6 according to the network status) enabled by OpenFlow to realize quality-of-service (QoS) aware flexible traffic engineering (F-TE) in a hybrid network where IPv4 and IPv6 coexist. Specifically, the authors had different IP domains interconnected by OpenFlow switches managed by a centralized controller, and designed the network system to facilitate online, adaptive and per-flow-based IP-forwarding interchanging for link utilization optimization with the considerations on applications' QoS requirements. They also implemented the design in a semi-practical network testbed, and demonstrated the advantages of F-TE with experiments that included simultaneous video streaming and file transfer.

 

Prof. ZHU Zuqing received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, in 2007. From 2007 to 2011, he worked in the Service Provider Technology Group of Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA, as a senior engineer. In Jan. 2011, he joined USTC, where he currently is a full professor. Since then, ZHU and his group have published 32 journal papers in several prestigious IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, etc. He has also received several Best Paper Awards from ICC 2013, GLOBECOM 2013, and ICNC 2014. Prof. ZHU is an editorial board member of a few well-known journals, such as IEEE Communications Magazine, Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking, etc. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Member of OSA.