Research Interests

• Wireless Ad Hoc Network
• Sharing Location Dependent Experience
• Data Lookup, Data Caching
• Fast Flooding 
• Wireless Sensor Network
  • Energy Aware Routing
  • Abnormal Detection
  • Security
• Multimedia Database
• Video Database System

Advisors

Dr. Ying Cai  and  Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong

Education

• Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Iowa State University, Jan.2005 - present
• MS in Computer Science at Iowa State University, Aug.2002 - Dec.2004

Publication

Kihwan Kim, Ying Cai, Wallapak Tavanapong, Efficicent Broadcasting in Homogeneous and Hetergogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc networks, 2005 (Under Review)

Kihwan Kim, Ying Cai, Wallapak Tavanapong ,A Priority Forwarding Technique for Efficient and Fast Flooding In Wireless Ad Hoc networks, In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 05), San Diego, CA, USA, Oct., 2005

Yu Cao, Wallapak Tavanapong, Kihwan Kim, Jonny Wong, JungHwan Oh, and Piete C. de Groen, A Framework for Parsing Colonoscopy Videos for Semantic units, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 04), Taipei, Taiwan Jun., 2004

Yu Cao, Wallapak Tavanapong, Kihwan Kim, Audio-assisted Scene Segmentation for Story Browsing, In Proceedings of the International Conference  on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 03), (LNCS 2728), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Jul. 2003

Wallapak Tavanpong, Wenlu Li, Kihwan Kim, Enhancing Information Quality for Web pages, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 02) (LNCS 2344), Cheju, Korea Feb., 2002

Courses

• Spring 2005
• Com S 552 -- Operating Systems: Advanced Concepts
  
  
• Fall 2004
• Com S 631 -- Computational Complexity
  
  
• Spring 2004
• Com S 531 -- Theory of Computation
  
  
• Fall 2003
• Com S 586 -- Advanced Network Architectures
• Com S 587 -- Principles of Network and Distributed Programming
• Cpre S 530 -- Advanced Protocol & Network Security
  
  
• Spring 2003
• ComS 561 -- Principles of Database Systems
• ComS 573 -- Machine Learning  
  
  
• Fall 2002
• ComS 511 -- Design & Analysis of Algorithms
• ComS 661 -- Advanced Topics in Database System  

    

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• How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM
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