Recent News:
Thomas Hou receives Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (April 2013)
Tom Hou elected chair of IEEE INFOCOM conference (Feb. 2013)
Hou team awarded $800,000 for spectrum sharing research (Jan. 2013)
Hou receives NSF grant for cloud privacy research (Aug. 2012)
Tom Hou promoted to Professor (June 2012)
Improving wireless networks (2012 Annual Report)
Increasing collaborations with researchers from Nanjing (May 2011)
$1 million from NSF to research wireless networks (May 2011)
Hou publishes book on cognitive radio networks (Feb. 2010)
Hou named College of Engineering Fellow (May 2008)
Research team maximizing wireless video sensor network life (Feb. 2004)
Unlocking the potential of wireless video networks (2003 Annual Report)
Office: 2040-K Torgersen
Mailing Address: 302 Whittemore (0111)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-2950
Fax: (540) 231-8292
vt.edu Email: thou
Title: Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 1998
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1993
B.E., Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, 1991
Teaching Interests:
Wireless Networks, Foundations of Networking, Network Simulation
Research Interests:
Network Optimizations, Wireless Networks, Cross-layer Design
Textbooks Published
Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks: Principles and Practice
By Alexander Wyglinski, Maziar Nekovee, and Thomas Hou
(Academic Press/Elsevier, 2010)