PKU-Bell Labs Joint Lab on Software Technologies is a joint organization formed by Peking University and Bell Labs.

The Joint Lab is established to support research in some primary fields of computer science. It is aimed to meet the needs of both parties. This Joint Lab conducts research in the following areas: feature interaction, system integration and interoperability, software reuse, software component technology, domain engineering, distributed object technology, network protocol testing and data networking.

• The design and implementation of IKE protocol
• The research on the feature interaction of VoIP system
• Software and communication protocol feature interaction
• System integration and interoperability
• Research on software component composition, supported by the State 863 High-Tech Program
• Research on industrializing technologies for massive software production, supported by the key project in the State 9th Five-year Plan
• Research and application of component-based software development

Director: Professor Fuqing Yang

Professor Yang is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ph.D. student Advisor in the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University. She has experience of more than 40 years in teaching and doing research. She has made many outstanding achievements, and published 6 books and more than 70 papers.

Her principal research areas include: System Software, Software Engineering and Industrializing Technology of Software Production.

Associate Director: Professor Hong Mei

Professor Mei is a Professor and Ph.D. student Advisor in the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University. In the recent years, he has undertaken several national research projects and, from 1999.3 to 2000.4, he worked at Bell Labs in U.S. as a visiting scientist. He has published more than 70 papers.

His principal research areas include: Software Reuse, Software Component Technology, Distributed Object Technology, Domain Engineering and Programming Language.

Tsinghua -Bell Labs Joint Lab on optical communication networking system is established by Tsinghua University and Bell Labs Research China in May, 2000.

The Joint Lab is to promote the advanced research on optical communication network and does research in the following fields: Management of Optical Networks, Protocol and Signaling, IP over WDM, Planning and Design of Optical Networks, Strategy of OXC and OADM, Optimized Collocation of Resources, QoS of Communication, Survivability of the Optical Networks, etc.

• The design and implementation of RSVP-TE based UNI-C tester
• The implementation of RSVP-TE protocol
• OUNI (Optical User Network Interface) testbed
• Optical network interface and management
• Major project of the fundamental research on optical networks, supported by NSFC and Bell Lab Research China
• The project on major techniques of State CAINONET Optical Network
• Study of Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON), supported by the National 863 Program
• Intelligent management of Tbit/s optical nodes, supported by NSFC
• University project of basic scientific research on wide-band high-speed optical networks
• A State "973" Plan project on integrated opto-electronic devices of optical networks

Director of the Joint Lab: Professor Hanyi Zhang

Professor Zhang has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University since 1965. For the past ten years, he joined and headed more than ten state projects including "External-cavity tunable semiconductor laser", "WDM all optical demonstration network", "Fundamental research of WDM all optical network", "OXC facility of CAINONET", "Integrated OADM for WDM all optical network", etc. He has won eight awards from China for his contributions in scientific research, and published more than 100 papers. He is the Editor of the Chinese Journal of Laser (English edition) and the Editor of the Journal of Infrared and Laser Engineering. He is the Vice Secretary General of the Chinese Optical Society.

Professor Bingkun Zhou

Professor Zhou is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice-president of the Chinese Optical Society, fellow of OSA. He has been engaged in laser and optoelectronics research for a long time. His interests include laser physics and devices, semiconductor laser and applications, semiconductor laser pumped solid-state laser, doped fiber amplifiers and lasers, high-speed optical fiber communications and optical switching. He has got scientific achievements in the areas of "Semiconductor laser pumped solid state laser", "Fiber ring cavity and their application", DWDM optical fiber communications and eight national awards. He is the author and co-author of over 100 papers and one book: "Laser Principle", which won the state excellent prize.

Professor Chongcheng Fan

During 1989-1991, Professor Fan was a visiting research scientist at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Now he is the Academic Committee Chair of the Electronics Engineering Department and a member of the International Academic Exchange Committee of the University. His research interest includes DWDM systems, optical fiber nonlinearity, dispersion management and optimization, system modeling software package, etc. He led and participated in many research projects on the topics mentioned above. He has more than 70 published papers and presentations, and is the co-author of a graduate-level textbook on Guided-Wave Optics.

Professor Yili Guo

Professor Guo had headed many projects on optoelectronics and nonlinear photonics. His current interest includes DWDM optical networks and intelligent data networks, OXC, OADM and the optical nonlinearities in the networks. He was a visiting research scientist at Tokyo Institute of Technology (1987), University College London (1990-1991), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1995). Professor Guo has published over 100 papers in professional journals and is the coauthor of the books ＾Optoelectronics and Lightwave Technology￣ (John Wiley, 1992), ＾Nonlinear Photonics￣ (Springer-Verlag and CUHK Press, 2002). He received a State Award of Advanced Science and Technology (Second Grade) from the State Science and Technology Commission of China for his contributions on the wide-band tunable nonlinear high power laser.

Professor Yanhe Li

Professor Li is Vice Dean of Information School, Tsinghua University and a senior member of Electronics Society of China. His research interest includes semiconductor opto-electronics, integrated opto-electronics, high-speed fiber transmission systems and WDM optical networks. He was a visiting scholar at University California, Irvine (1994-1996). He either participated in or headed many research projects sponsored by the National 863 Program and the National Natural Science Foundation. He won two awards from the State Education Ministry and has more than 40 papers and presentations published.

Professor Xiaoping Zheng

Professor Zheng got his PhD degree and is a professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Tsinghua University. He has taken part in 863 high technology grand projects, grand projects funded by National Natural Science, 973 Natural Key Basis Research and Development Plan, and so on. He is supported by the Main Teacher Plan of National Education Committee. His principal research areas include: optical network element technology and system technology. He led the project of automatic switched optical network (ASON) sponsored by the National 863 Program.

Tsinghua - Bell Labs Joint Laboratory on Communication was established in May, 2000. The main goal of the research lab is to conduct the advanced research on communication.

• Instant messaging on MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network)
• An IPv6 testbed for wireless Ad Hoc networks
• The implementation of routing protocols in wireless Ad Hoc networks
• Mobile IPv6 and mobile Internet
• Utility based radio resource management in wireless networks
• Relationship of FER and BER in wireless environments
• Other hot topics in wireless and mobile communication fields

Director of the Joint Lab: Professor Zhisheng Niu

Prof. Niu graduated from Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After two-year research at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, he joined Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994, where he is now a full professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering. His current research interests include queuing and teletraffic theory, performance evaluation of high-speed broadband information networks, and wireless ATM/IP networks. He has published more than 60 journal and conference papers so far and been serving as the technical program committee members of 9 international conferences.

Prof. Niu is a senior member of the IEEE and the Vice Chair of Technical Activity Committee of Asia-Pacific Board of IEEE Communication Society, a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), a member of Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and a member of the Chinese Society of Operation Research. He received the PAACS Friendship Award from the IEICE of Japan in 1991 and the Best Paper Award (1st prize) from the 6th Chinese Youth Conference on Communication Technology in 1999. He also received the Japanese Government Research Awards for Foreign Specialists from Science and Technology Agency (STA) of Japan and the Award for the Telecommunications Advancement Research Fellowship from Telecommunication Advancement Organization (TAO) of Japan in 1995.

Professor Zhixing Yang

Prof. Yang graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970. He is now a full professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, deputy director of State Key Laboratory on Microwave and Digital Communication, deputy director of the Research Institute of Communication and Microwave. His major interests are in the areas of digital microwave communication, ultra-speed optical fiber communication, remote sensor ground receiving, and hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) access systems.

Founded in May, 2000, Tsinghua - Bell Labs Joint Laboratory on Computer Networking is a joint organization formed by Tsinghua University and Bell Labs Research China.

The Joint Lab is to promote the advanced research of computer network technologies, formal technique and protocol engineering.

The Joint Lab is conducting research in the following areas: protocol testing, passive testing, formal technique, routing protocols, protocol implementations, etc.

• PPP implementation (phase I and II )
• Passive testing and its application
• Buffer management and packet scheduling
• Implementation of ICMPv6 protocol

Director of the Joint Lab: Professor Jianping Wu

Professor Wu is a professor in Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, and is CERNET Director. His research interests include high speed computer network, Internet, protocol and network testing, formal method. According to the excellent works on building computer network, especially the high speed network in China, six distinguished awards were got in recent years. More than 120 papers have been published in the academic journals and proceedings of international conferences.

Dr. Xia Yin

Assistant Professor, Ph.D (2000)

Research Interests: Formal Method, Network Protocols Testing and Application, High-Speed Network Technique, Computer Network Architecture.

Dr. Ke Xu

Assistant Professor, Ph.D (2001)

Research Interests: Architecture of Computer Network, Distributed Real-time Operating System, Performance Analysis and Simulation of Computer Network.

• Indoor wireless location system
• A testbed for MPLS networks supporting QoS
• Adaptive rate multimedia transmission in wireless networks
• MPLS testbed and research
• Wireless LAN: RoD and VoD on mobile IPv6
• DVD broadcast system with user's remote control quality
• Algorithm for cellular mobile station location
• The key technology of next generation mobile communication
• Smart antenna
• Medical image remote transportation at real-time

ISCAS-Bell Labs Joint Lab on Communication Technologies is a joint organization formed by Institute of Software and Bell Labs founded in 2000. The Joint Lab is established to support research in some primary fields of communication technologies by utilizing the resources of ISCAS and Bell Labs. The Joint Lab conducts research in the following areas: Network Protocol, Formal Description of Protocol, Protocol Simulation, QoS, and Embedded Operating System.

• The design and implementation of IPv6-based multicast routing protocol
• Research and implementation on IP packet header compression
• Development of IEEE 1394 protocol stack and equipment implementation, supported by the National 863 High-Tech Program
• Dynamic network simulation, supported by the National 863 High-Tech Program
• Research on multimedia communication network theory and high quality software, supported by the National 973 Fundamental Research Program

Members of Bell Labs Research China

Director: Professor Zhimei Wu

Professor Wu is a Ph.D. student Advisor in the Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research areas include Computer Network, Data Communication, ISDN, ATM and Internet Interworking Technology, and Multimedia Communication System.

Bell Labs Research China signed a joint funding agreement with National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on September 1 st , 2000. According to the agreement, the two sides funded jointly some of NSFC's major research projects and young scholar foundation projects.

Based on the agreement, a joint lecture was held in Beijing on October 19, 2000. Dr. Tingye Li delivered a lecture "Optical Communication - Meeting the Demand of the Information Society".

Youth Funding Project: "Research on Realizing OXC Control Panel with MPLS", Wang Sheng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China .

Key Project: "Research on the Critical Technologies in Optical Network Management", Li Yanhe, Tsinghua University.

Youth Funding Project: "Study on the Spatio-Temporal Domain Joint Channel Estimation of Wireband CDMA Mobile Systems", Zhang Linrang, Xi'an Electronics Science and Technology University.

Youth Funding Project: "Research on Internet-based High-speend CDN Key Technologies", Li Zimu, Tsinghua University.

Key Project: "Research on Feature Interaction and Interoperability in Software ", Mei Hong, Peking University.

Youth Funding Project: "Study on the Propagation and Response Model of Malicious Mobile Code in Internet", Duan Haixin, Tsinghua University.

Youth Project: "Research on the Simulation and Channel Estimation in Multi-user MIMO-OFDM System", Zhang Jianhua, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Youth Funding Project: "Research on the Viability of the Reticular Intellectual Optical Network", Yu Hongfang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.