Division of Science and Engineering - Faculty duan

Dr. Qiang Duan
Assistant Professor of Information Science and Technology

Email: qduan@psu.edu           
Phone: 215-881-7872
Office: Woodland 336

Educational Background: 
Ph.D.  Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
M.S.  Telecommunications and Electronic Systems
B.S.  Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests
Data communications and networking, the next generation networks, Internet architectures and services, the service-oriented architecture, Cloud and Grid computing, and Web services

Selected publications list

Book Chapters

  1. Q. Duan, “Delay Performance Characteristics of Packet Switched Networks,” Chapter 10 in book Data Engineering: Mining, Information, and Intelligence (ISBN: 978-1-4419-0175-0), Springer, pp. 203 – 222, October 2009.
  2. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in High-Speed Packet Switches,” Chapter 8 in book Computer Networking and Networks (ISBN: 1-59454-830-7), Nova Science Publishers Inc., pp. 191-243, September 2006.

Journal Articles

  1. Q. Duan, “End-to-End Modeling and Analysis for Network Virtualization in the Next Generation Internet,” accepted, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems.
  2. Q. Duan, “Network Service Description and Discovery for High-Performance Ubiquitous and Pervasive Grids,” in press, ACM Transaction of Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
  3. Q. Duan and E. Lu, “Network Service Description and Discovery for the Next Generation Internet,” International Journal of Computer Networks, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 46-65, Dec. 2009.
  4. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Statistical Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 609-629, June 2008.
  5. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches with Traffic Aggregation,” International Journal of Computers and Applications, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 283-290, Aug. 2007.
  6. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in Combined Input and Cross-point Queued Switches without Output Queuing Match,” Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 830-840, Feb. 2007.
  7. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in Multistage Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 147-168, Oct. 2004.
  8. Q. Duan, X. Li and L. Zhang, “Network Calculus-Based Delay Performance Analysis for QoS Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Journal of Interconnection Networks, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 131-146, June 2003.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Q. Duan, “Access Network Discovery and Selection in Network Virtualization for the Next Generation Mobile Internet,” Proc. of the 2010 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN’10), July 2010.
  2. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation in Buffered Crossbar Switches for Supporting Network Virtualization,” Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR’10), June 2010.
  3. Q. Duan, “Applying the Service-Oriented Architecture for Network Discovery and Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Networking Environments,” Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (NBiS’09), August 2009.
  4. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Architecture for Access Network Discovery and Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networking Environments,” Proc. of the 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS’09), July 2009
  5. Q. Duan, “Network Service Description and Discovery in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Grids,” Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GlobeCom’08) Workshop on Service Discovery and Composition in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Environments, Nov. 2008
  6. Q. Duan and E. Lu, “Network Service Description and Discovery for the Next Generation Internet,” Proc. of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS’07), Nov. 2007.
  7. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Description and Discovery for High-Performance Grid Computing,” Proc. of the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA’07), June 2007.
  8. Q. Duan, M. Talley, and N. Seetha, “QoS-Based Network Service Broker for High-Performance Grid Applications,” Proc. of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’07), May 2007.
  9. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Abstraction and Discovery for the Diversified Internet,” Proc. of the IEEE 2007 Sarnoff Symposium, April 2007.
  10. Q. Duan and Y. Zhou, “Dynamic Buffer Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in Combined Input and Cross-point Buffered Switches,” Proc. of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS’06), Nov. 2006.
  11. Q. Duan and H. Wei, “A Multi-Purpose Networking Laboratory for Net-Centric Computing Education,” Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA’06), July 2006.
  12. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches with Traffic Aggregation,” Proc. of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS’05), Nov. 2005.
  13. Q. Duan, C. Hu, and H. Wei, “Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems with Interval Methods,” Proc. of the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’05), March 2005.
  14. Q. Duan, “QoS Performance Comparison between Combined Input and Cross-point Queuing Switches and Output Queuing Switches,” Proc. of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (CCN’04), Nov. 2004.
  15. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Probabilistic Delay Guarantee in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Communications (ICC’04), June 2004.
  16. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Probabilistic Packet Delay Guarantee in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 23rd Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC’04), April 2004.
  17. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches by Emulating Output Queuing Switch,” Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’03), Sept. 2003.
  18. Q. Duan, X. Li and L. Zhang, “Delay Performance Analysis for the Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’03), March 2003.
  19. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’02), Oct. 2002.

Teaching Interests and courses taught:

Teaching Interests
Data communications and computer networking, telecommunications, system analysis and design, system integration, programming language, Cloud and Grid computing, and Web services

Courses taught
CMPSC121 Introduction to programming
IST220 Networking and telecommunications
IST301 Information and organizations
IST402 Emerging networking technologies
IST420 Fundamental system integration
IST421 Advanced system integration