Dr. Feng Cao received a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1997. He has since worked with leading research institutions and industrial organizations, including SGI Cray Research, Honeywell Technology Center, NTT Multimedia Communications Labs, and Cisco Systems. Currently, he is a research engineer with the Cisco Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group (CIAG). Feng has published more than 20 papers in international journals such as IEEE Transactions and for international conferences such as ICC.
Research Interests:
His research interests include network and security, peer-to-peer computing, mobile computing, and multimedia communications.
CIAG Research Projects:
Security Analysis and Recommendation for the Transition of Critical Infrastructure to IP Telephony
IP-based Emergency Telephony Service (ETS) and Government Emergency Telephony Service (GETS)
IP Telephony Security Framework
Standards Committee Engagements:
IETF, TIA, and PTSC
List of Publications:
F. Cao, et. al., "Call Filtering and Tracking in IP Telephony", Proceeds of IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2003) August, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
F. Cao, "Reliable Routing in Circulant Networks", to appear in Telecommunication Systems Journal.
F. Cao, H. Fang, M. Conlon, "Performance Analysis of Measurement-Based Call Admission Control on Voice Gateways", Proceedings of Internet Telephony Workshop 2001 (IPTEL'2001), April, 2001, New York City, U.S.A.
F. Cao, et. al., "Approaches to Providing Guaranteed Quality of Service for VoIP through Call Admission Control on Voice Gateways", Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (SSGRR-2000), July, 2000, L'Aquila, Italy.
F. Cao, J. Smith, and K. Takahashi, "An Architecture of Distributed Media Servers for Supporting Guaranteed QoS and Media Indexing", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'99), June, 1999, Florence, Italy
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J. Huang, Y. Wang, and F. Cao, "On Developing Distributed Middleware Services for QoS- and Criticality-based Resource Negotiation and Adaptation", Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems, 16, pp 187-221, 1999.
F. Cao, D.Z Du and S. Teng, "Fault-tolerant Properties Pyramid Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computer, Vol.48, no.1, pp.88-93, 1999.
F. Cao, et al., "Scalability of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Passive Star Networks with Range Limited Tunable Transceivers", Photonic Network Communications, Vol 1:2, pp 125-146, 1999.
F. Cao and A. Borchers, "Optimal transmission schedules for lightwave networks embedded with de Bruijn graphs", Theoretical Computer Science, 222, pp. 113-131, 1999.
F. Cao, D. H. C. Du and A. Pavan, "Topological Embedding into WDM Optical Passive Star Networks with Tunable Transmitters of Limited Tuning Range", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 47, No. 11, November, 1998.
D.Z. Du, F. Cao, and D.F. Hsu, "De Bruijn digraphs, Kautz diagraphs, and their generalizations", Chapter 3 of "Combinatorial Network Theory", pp. 65-105, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
F. Cao, D. H. C. Du and A. Pavan, "Design of WDM Optical Passive Star Networks with Tunable Transceivers of Limited Tuning Range", Proceedings of the International Conference and Communications (ICC'98), June 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
F. Cao, "Reliable Routing in Circulant Networks", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Telecommunication System, Modeling and Analysis (ATSMA'98), March 1998, Nashville, USA.
A. Pavan, F. Cao, and D. Du, "Scalability of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Passive Star Networks with Range Limited Tunable Transceivers", Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC'98), February, 1998, Arizona, U.S.A.
F. Cao, "Routing and topology embedding in lightwave networks", Handbook of combinatorial optimization, Vol. 3, 171--239, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Boston, MA, 1998.
J. Huang, Y. Wang, and F. Cao, "GRMS: A Global Resource Management System for Distributed QoS and Criticality Support", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems(ICMCS'97), June 1997, Ottawa, Canada.
F. Cao, D.Z Du and S. Teng, "Fault-tolerant properties Pyramid Networks", Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97), July, 1997, Las Vegas, USA.
F. Cao, "Reliability Analysis of Partitioned Optical Passive Stars Networks", Proceedings of The 22nd IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN'97), October, 1997, Minneapolis, USA.
F. Cao and A. Borchers, "Optimal Transmission of Embedding of De Bruijn Graphs in Optical Passive Star Networks", Proceedings of The 5th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks(ICCCN'96), October, 1996, Maryland, USA.
D. Du, F. Cao, and F. Hsu,, "de Bruijn digraphs, Kautz digraphs, and their generalizations", Combinatorial network theory, 65--105, Appl. Optim., 1, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1996.
F. Cao, D. Du, B. Gao, P. Wan, and P. Panos, "Minimax problems in combinatorial optimization: Minimax and applications", 269--292, Nonconvex Optim. Appl., 4, Kluwer Acad. Publ. Dordrecht, 1995.
F. Cao, "Determining the performance ratio of algorithm MULTIFIT for scheduling", Minmax and Applications, D.Z. Du and P.M. Pardalos (eds), Page 79-96, 1995.
