Tian Lan Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Engineering Quadrangle, Olden Street Princeton, NJ 08544 Email: tlan@princeton.edu

I am a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Princeton University.  I am working on fairness, stability and security in communication networks with Prof. Mung Chiang.

I received my M.S. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2005, and B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Tsinghua University in 2003.

Research

Optimization is a very useful tool in engineering. Not only does it provide algorithmic solutions for convex problems, it can also be used a as a modeling language for formulating research problems.

Achieving optimality is clearly nice. However, there are many situations where only suboptimal solutions are practically computable and implementable. When simple yet suboptimal solutions are required, we take a look beyond optimality, and study the performance of suboptimal solutions in several different contexts, e.g., flow-level stability, fairness, and Byzantine-attack resilience.

Publications

1. Tian Lan, David Kao, and Mung Chiang. “An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness” Technical report (a short version has been submitted to NetEcon’09 Workshop), May 2009.

2. Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang. “Secure and Reliable Distributed Storage: Unifying Algorithms, Resilience Metric and Evaluation Framework” Submitted to ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS), February 2009.

3. Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang. “Multi-path Key Establishment Against REM Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks” Submitted to IEEE Globecom, January, 2009.

4. Tian Lan, Xiaojun Lin, and Mung Chiang. “How Bad Is Suboptimal Rate Allocation?” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Networking, August 2008.

5. Tian Lan, Xiaojun Lin, Mung Chiang, and Ruby Lee. “How Bad Is Suboptimal Rate Allocation?” In proceedings of INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

6. Mung Chiang, Prashanth Hande, Tian Lan, and Chee Wei Tan. “Power Control in Cellular Networks” Now Publishers Inc, 2008.

7. Wei Yu and Tian Lan. “Transmitter Optimization for the Multi-Antenna Downlink with Per-Antenna Power Constraints” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, (IEEE SPS 2008 Best Paper Award), June 2007.

8. Tian Lan, Prashanth Hande and Mung Chiang. “Joint Beamforming and Power Control for Optimal SIR Distribution in Cellular Uplinks” In proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2006.

9. Wei Yu and Tian Lan. “Downlink Beamforming with Per-Antenna Power Constraints” In proceedings of IEEE SPAWC Workshop, June 2005.

10. Tian Lan and Wei Yu. “Input Optimization for Multi-Antenna Broadcast Channels with Per-Antenna Power Constraints” In proceedings of IEEE Globecom, November 2004.

11. Wei Yu and Tian Lan. “Minimax Duality of Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channels” In proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2004.

Resume

A copy of my resume can be obtained here.

Contact Information

Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Engineering Quadrangle, Olden Street Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

Office: Equad, F310  Email:  tlan @ princeotn.edu Web:    http://www.princeton.edu/~tlan FAX:    1-609-258-3745

Last Modified: 05/20/2009