Kun Tan received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997, 1999, and 2002 respectively.
He joined Microsoft Research Asia as an Associate Researcher, in April 2002. He is now a Researcher in Wireless and Networking Group. His research interests include transport protocols, congestion control, delay-tolerant networking, and wireless networks and systems. He is a member of both ACM and IEEE. He has filed 30 pending patents and 3 granted patents after he joined Microsoft.
Dr. Tan studied Multimedia Transmission and Transcoding in the Internet and wireless networks in his Ph.D thesis work. He implemented a content-sensitive streaming protocol for video over wireless networks, when he visited Siemens Corporate Research in New Jersey in 2001. After graduated and joined Microsoft, he has studied various issues related to transport and congestion control for wireless networks and very high-speed Internet. He developed the STODER method for spurious timeouts detection for TCP over slow wireless links and then the Compound TCP for the very-high speed Internet links.
Recently, he focuses on building a high performance software radio platform, named Sora, based on general purpose multi-core processor. He is also interested in various issues related to clean-slate design of wireless networks.
- Kun Tan, He Liu, Ji Fang, Wei Wang, Jiansong Zhang, Mi Chen, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, SAM: Enabling Practical Spatial Multiple Access in Wireless LAN, in The 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM Mobicom2009), Beijing, China, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2009
- Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors, in 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation 2009, USENIX, 2009
- Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Lei Shi, Yongguang Zhang, and Songwu Lu, DCell: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Network Structure for Data Centers, in SIGCOMM08, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2008
- Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Yongguang Zhang, and Qian Zhang, Proactive Scan: Fast Handoff with Smart Triggers for 802.11 Wireless LAN, in INFOCOM 07, 2007
- Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen, Yongguang Zhang, Yanlin Li, and Kun Tan, BeepBeep: A High Accuracy Acoustic Ranging System using COTS Mobile Devices, in SenSys 07, 2007
- Kun Tan, Jingmin Song, Qian Zhang, and Murari Sridharan, A Compound TCP Approach for High-speed and Long Distance Networks, in INFOCOM 06, IEEE, 2006
Contact:
Email: kuntan (at) microsoft (dot) com
Phone: +86-10-58963120 (Office)
What's new
- Soft-LTE is demoed at Mobicom 2009. (first LTE implementation in software radios; Honored Metion Award)
- Our SAM paper is accepted in Mobicom 2009!
- Sora wins the best paper award (and best demo award) in NSDI 2009, Boston!
- Sora paper is accepted in NSDI 2009.
Recent external activities
- TPC member, ACM Mobicom 2009
- TPC member, ACM MobiHoc 2009
- TPC Chair, MobiArch '09, The 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture
- TPC member, IWCMC 2009
Projects
- Sora: high performance software radio platform using general purpose multi-core processor.
- WiFi-related
- Fast handoff of IEEE 802.11 WLAN
- Dichotomy: a practical architecture to exploit channel diversity
- Multichannel Overlay MAC
- SNR-Guided Rate Adaptation
- Compound TCP
