Sha Liu
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: liusha AT cse.ohio-state.edu
Address: 395 Dreese Lab
2015 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Telephone: (614) 292-0056


Biography (Resume)

I received my B.S. degree of Statistics and M.E. degree of Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China at July 2001 and July 2004 respectively. From September 2004, I started pursueing Ph.D. degree of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. My advisor is Prof. Prasun Sinha, and my current research interest is energy efficient MAC and routing layer design for wireless sensor networks.

Education

09/2004~06/2008 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State U University
Advisor: Prasun Sinha
Dissertation Title: Energy Efficient MAC Layer Design for Wireless Sensor Networks (Slides)
01/2005~08/2007 Master of Applied Statistics (M.A.S.)
The Ohio State University
09/2001~07/2004 M.E. in Computer Science
University of Science and Technology of China
Advisor: Shoubao Yang.
Thesis Title: Collaborative SCTP: A Collaborative Approach to Improve the Performance of SCTP over Wired-cum-Wireless Networks
09/1997~07/2001 B.S. in Statistics
University of Science and Technology of China
Thesis Title: Survey Sampling Methods in Censored Life Experiments

Projects

Convergent MAC (CMAC): an energy efficient MAC layer protocol with anycast for wireless sensor networks

Publications

Conferences/Workshops

Sha Liu, Rahul Srivastava, Can Emre Koksal, and Prasun Sinha, "Achieving Energy Efficiency with Transmission Pushbacks in Sensor Networks", To appear in Proc. IWQoS'08, June 2008.

Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, and Prasun Sinha, "CMAC: An Energy Efficient MAC Layer Protocol Using Convergent Packet Forwarding for Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. SECON'07, June 2007, pp. 11-20. (Slides) (Acceptance Rate: 21.3%=63/296, Best Paper Finalist)

Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, and Prasun Sinha, "Scalable Data Aggregation for Dynamic Events in Sensor Networks", in Proc. SenSys'06, Nov. 2006, pp. 181-194.

Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, and Prasun Sinha, "On the Potential of Structure-free Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", in Proc. Infocom'06, April 2006, pp. 1-12.

Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, and Prasun Sinha, "Dynamic Sleep Scheduling using Online Experimentation for Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. SenMetrics'05, July 2005, pp.166-174.

Sha Liu, Shoubao Yang, and Weifeng Sun, "Collaborative SCTP: A Collaborative Approach to Improve the Performance of SCTP over Wired-cum-Wireless Networks", in Proc. LCN'04, Nov. 2004, pp.276-283. (Slides)

Sha Liu, and Shoubao Yang, "The Impact of DAD on Handoff Performance of Mobile IPv6 and Test of MLD-Based DAD", in Proc. ICMU'04, Jan. 2004, pp. 192-195.

Jounals

Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, and Prasun Sinha, "CMAC: Energy Efficient MAC Layer Design for Sensor Networks with Anycast", Under Submission.

Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, and Prasun Sinha, "Dynamic Forwarding over Tree on DAG for Scalable Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008.

Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, and Prasun Sinha, "Structure-Free Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 6, Issue 8, Aug. 2007, pp. 929-942.

Technical Reports

Sha Liu, Rahul Srivastava, Can Emre Koksal and Prasun Sinha, "Optimizing Energy Consumption with Transmission Pushbacks in Sensor Networks", Technical Report, July 2007.

Book Chapters

Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, and Prasun Sinha, "Protocols for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", chapter in book titled Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications, Editors: Yingshu Li, My Thai, and Weili Wu, Springer Verlag's book series: Network Theory and Applications, 2005.

Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu and Prasun Sinha, "Ad-hoc Routing Protocols", chapter in book titled Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Edited by A. Boukerche, CRC/Hall Publisher, 2004.

Teaching

CS&E 100: Introduction to Computing Technolgy [Au'05 ~ Au'07]

Awards

2007 Travel grant of SECON'07
2004 Travel grant of LCN'04
2000 USTC Outstanding Student Scholarship Grade 2
1999 USTC Outstanding Student Scholarship Grade 2
1998 RSD-Sanyo Scholarship
1997 USTC Outstanding Student Scholarship Grade 1