Guohong Cao

Guohong Cao received his B.S. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Ohio State University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State in 1999, where he is currently a professor.

His research interests are wireless networks and mobile computing. He has published more than one hundred papers in the areas of sensor networks, wireless network security, data dissemination, resource management, and distributed fault-tolerant computing. His work has been supported by NSF (CAREER, ITR, NeTS/NOSS, CT), Army Research Office, DoD/Muri, PDG/TTC, HK CERG, and industry companies, Cisco, Narus, Telcordia, IBM, and 3ETI. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and has served on the program committee of many conferences. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2001.

Research Interests:

Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Wireless Network Security

Selected Publications:

1. Zhang, W., M. Tran, S. Zhu, G. Cao. September 2007. A Compromise-Resilient Scheme for Pairwise Key Establishment in Dynamic Sensor Networks. To appear in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and computing (ACM MobiHoc 2007). Quebec, Canada.
   
2. Shao, M., S. Zhu, W. Zhang, G. Cao. May 2007. pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007). pp. 1298-1306. Anchorage, Alaska.
   
3. Yin, L, G. Cao. January 2006. Supporting Cooperative Caching in Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 5(1):77-89.
   
4. Zhang, W., G. Cao. March 2005. Group Rekeying for Filtering False Data in Sensor Networks: A Predistribution and Local Collaboration-Based Approach. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005. pp. 503-514. Miami, FL.
   
5. Cao, G. September/October 2003. A Scalable Low-Latency Cache Invalidation Strategy for Mobile Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15(5):1251-1265.