Wei Koong Chai

Dr Wei Koong Chai

  • u_wchai at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Associate Head of School of Computing and Engineering
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Biography

Wei Koong Chai is the Associate Head of School of Computing and Engineering within the Faculty of Media, Science and Technology at Bournemouth University (BU). Previously, he was the Deputy Head of Department of Computing and Informatics. He holds the role of the Director of the Computing and Informatics Research Center (CIRC) and heads the Future and Complex Networks Research Group (FlexNet). Prior to joining BU, he was with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK. He led the successful delivery of several collaborative research projects.

He has successfully raised research funding from both EU and UK funding bodies. He has published papers in fully refereed international conferences and journals and contributed chapters to books. His research work has been constantly receiving citations, recording over 4,000 citations to date (source: Google Scholar). He also serves on the technical program committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences and workshops...

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Research

Dr. Chai's research spans across heterogeneous networks, including wired/wireless networks and cyber physical systems.

His current research interests include:

* Information-centric Networking (ICN) - Name-based resolution systems, in-network caching, information resilience.

* Communications in Cyber Physical Systems - Communication infrastructures for smart grid applications.

* Network Science - Complex networks, epidemic theory.

He was previously involved in research on quality of service, resource management (e.g., for satellite networks and wireless mesh networks), cross-layer design (specifically on interaction of protocols at different layers), traffic engineering, and network optimization.

He is always looking for PhD students who have great potential. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Chai with your CV in order to advise you for the possibility of funding.

Favourites

  • Karaliopoulos, M., Mastakas, O., Chai, W.K., 2023. Matching Supply and Demand in Online Parking Reservation Platforms. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (3), 3182-3193.
  • Chai, W.K., 2018. Modelling Spreading Process Induced by Agent Mobility in Complex Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 5 (4), 336-349.
  • Yang, B., Chai, W.K., Xu, Z., Katsaros, K.V., Pavlou, G., 2018. Cost-Efficient NFV-Enabled Mobile Edge-Cloud for Low Latency Mobile Applications. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 15 (1), 475-488.
  • Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2017. Path-Based Epidemic Spreading in Networks. IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, 25 (1), 565-578.
  • Chai, W.K., Wang, N., Katsaros, K.V., Kamel, G., Pavlou, G., Melis, S., Hoefling, M., Vieira, B., Romano, P., Sarri, S., Tesfay, T.T., Yang, B., Heimgaertner, F., Pignati, M., Paolone, M., Menth, M., Poll, E., Mampaey, M., Bontius, H.H.I., Develder, C., 2015. An Information-Centric Communication Infrastructure for Real-Time State Estimation of Active Distribution Networks. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 6 (4), 2134-2146.
  • Psaras, I., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2014. In-network cache management and resource allocation for information-centric networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 25 (11), 2920-2931.
  • Chai, W.K., Karaliopoulos, M., Pavlou, G., 2009. Providing proportional TCP performance by fixed-point approximations over bandwidth on demand satellite networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8 (7), 3554-3565.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Good health and well-being

"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"

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Decent work and economic growth

"Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all"

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Industry, innovation and infrastructure

"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"

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Sustainable cities and communities

"Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"

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Journal Articles

Books

  • Chai, W.K., Kozhabek, A., 2024. Digitally Transformed Education: Are We There Yet? IFIP TC3 OCCE 2024 Conference book of Abstracts. IFIP.

Chapters

  • Chai, W.K., Georgiades, M., Spirou, S., 2016. Toward information centric networking: Research, standardization, business, and migration challenges. Media Networks Architectures Applications and Standards.
  • Barsocchi, P., Birnbacher, U., Chai, W.K., Cuevas, A., Davoli, F., Gotta, A., Mancuso, V., Marchese, M., Mongelli, M., Novella, J.I.M., Potortì, F., Tsigkas, O., 2007. Resource management and network layer. Resource Management in Satellite Networks Optimization and Cross Layer Design.
  • Avgeropoulos, K., Chai, W.K., Giambene, G., Giannetti, S., Hongfei, D., Kueh, V.Y.H., Niebla, C.P., Pasqualetti, V., Sali, A., Tsigkas, O., 2007. Access schemes and packet scheduling techniques. Resource Management in Satellite Networks Optimization and Cross Layer Design.

Conferences

  • Georgiades, M., Christodoulou, L., Chari, A., Wang, K., Ho, K.H., Hou, Y., Chai, W.K., 2025. Federated Learning for Early Cardiac Anomaly Prediction in Cross-Silo IoMT Environments. Proceedings 2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things Dcoss Iot 2025.
  • Sallal, M., Gorman, B., Mavengere, N., Dogan, H., Roushan, G., Henderson, H., Chai, W., Orman, T., 2024. Strategies towards supporting the use of generative AI within higher education. In: IFIP TC3 OCCE 2024 Conference 27/02/2024 Bournemouth UK.
  • Zheng, G., Chai, W.K., Katos, V., 2021. The Sequence-to-Sequence Architecture with An Embedded Module for Long-Term Traffic Speed Forecasting with Missing Data. 2021 26th International Conference on Automation and Computing System Intelligence Through Automation and Computing Icac 2021.
  • Zheng, G., Chai, W.K., Katos, V., 2019. An ensemble model for short-term traffic prediction in smart city transportation system. Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference Globecom.
  • Derviskadic, A., Romano, P., Get, C., Chai, W.K., Develder, C., Zanni, L., Pignati, M., Paolone, M., 2018. Design and experimental validation of an LTE-Based synchrophasor network in a medium voltage distribution grid. 20th Power Systems Computation Conference Pscc 2018.
  • Yang, B., Xu, Z., Chai, W.K., Liang, W., Tuncer, D., Galis, A., Pavlou, G., 2018. Algorithms for fault-tolerant placement of stateful virtualized network functions. IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2018-May.
  • Li, J., Phan, T.K., Chai, W.K., Tuncer, D., Pavlou, G., Griffin, D., Rio, M., 2018. DR-Cache: Distributed Resilient Caching with Latency Guarantees. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 15/04/2018 Honolulu, HI, USA.
  • Chai, W.K., Sourlas, V., Pavlou, G., 2017. Providing Information Resilience Through Modularity-Based Caching in Perturbed Information-Centric Networks. Proceedings of the 29th International Teletraffic Congress Itc 2017, 1, 214-222.
  • Yang, B., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., Katsaros, K.V., 2016. Seamless Support of Low Latency Mobile Applications with NFV-Enabled Mobile Edge-Cloud. Proceedings 2016 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking Cloudnet 2016, 136-141.
  • Parisis, G., Sourlas, V., Katsaros, K.V., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2016. Enhancing multi-source content delivery in content-centric networks with fountain coding. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks Ccdwn 2016.
  • Chai, W.K., Kyritsis, V., Katsaros, K.V., Pavlou, G., 2016. Resilience of interdependent communication and power distribution networks against cascading failures. 2016 IFIP Networking Conference IFIP Networking and Workshops IFIP Networking 2016, 37-45.
  • Katsaros, K.V., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2015. Bloom filter based inter-domain name resolution: A feasibility study. Icn 2015 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Centric Networking, 39-48.
  • Chai, W.K., Katsaros, K.V., Strobbe, M., Romano, P., Ge, C., Develder, C., Pavlou, G., Wang, N., 2015. Enabling smart grid applications with ICN. Icn 2015 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Centric Networking.
  • Katsaros, K.V., Yang, B., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2015. Low latency communication infrastructure for synchrophasor applications in distribution networks. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2014, 392-397.
  • Katsaros, K.V., Chai, W.K., Vieira, B., Pavlou, G., 2014. Supporting smart electric vehicle charging with information-centric networking. Proceedings of the 2014 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality Reliability Security and Robustness Qshine 2014, 174-179.
  • Psaras, I., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2012. Probabilistic in-network caching for information-centric networks. Icn 12 ACM Proceedings of the Information Centric Networking Workshop, 55-60.
  • Chai, W.K., He, D., Psaras, I., Pavlou, G., 2012. Cache "less for more" in information-centric networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 7289 LNCS (PART 1), 27-40.
  • He, D., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2011. Leveraging in-network caching for efficient content delivery in content-centric network. In: Proceedings of the London Communication Symposium, London, UK 08/09/2011 London.
  • Psaras, I., Clegg, R.G., Landa, R., Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2011. Modelling and evaluation of CCN-caching trees. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 6640 LNCS (PART 1), 78-91.
  • Chai, W.K., Galis, A., Charalambides, M., Pavlou, G., 2010. Federation of Future Internet Networks. 2010 IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops NOMS 2010, 209-216.
  • Rubio-Loyola, J., Astorga, A., Serrat, J., Chai, W.K., Mamatas, L., Galis, A., Clayman, S., Cheniour, A., Lefevre, L., Mornard, O., Fischer, A., Paler, A., De Meer, H., 2010. Platforms and software systems for an autonomic internet. Globecom IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference.
  • Chai, W.K., Ho, K.H., Charalambides, M., Pavlou, G., 2009. A policy-driven network management system for the dynamic configuration of military networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 5637 LNCS, 108-121.
  • Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., Evans, B., 2007. Providing proportional loss differentiation over bandwidth on demand satellite networks. 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference.
  • Chai, W.K., Karaliopoulos, M., Pavlou, G., 2007. Providing relative service differentiation to TCP flows over split-TCP geostationary bandwidth on demand satellite networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4517 LNCS, 17-29.
  • Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., 2007. Cross-layer enhancement to TCP slow-start over geostationary bandwidth on demand satellite networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4712 LNCS, 86-98.
  • Chai, W.K., Pavlou, G., Evans, B., 2007. Providing proportional loss differentiation over bandwidth on demand satellite networks. 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference.
  • Chai, W.K., Ho, K.H., Pavlou, G., 2006. Achieving relative service differentiation for TCP traffic in satellite IP networks using congestion pricing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4003 LNCS, 246-258.
  • Chai, W.K., Karaliopoulos, M., Pavlou, G., 2005. Scheduling for proportional differentiated service provision in geostationary bandwidth on demand satellite networks. Globecom IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 6, 3722-3727.
  • Sun, Z., Chai, W.K., 2003. Satellite emulator for IP networking based on LINUX. 21st International Communications Satellite Systems Conference and Exhibit.
  • Chai, W.K., Sun, Z., 2003. QoS Measurement of Multimedia Traffic Via Multi-service Satellite System. In: International Working Conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs '03) 21/07/2003 Ilkley, UK.
  • Sun, Z., Liang, L., Chai, W.K., Cruickshank, H., 2003. Internet QoS Measurement and Traffic Modelling. In: 2nd International Conference on Conformance Testing and Interoperability (ATS-CONF 2003) 20/01/2003 Stuttgart, Germany.

Theses

  • Chai, W.K., 2007. Relative Service Differentiation over Bandwidth on Demand Satellite Networks. University of Surrey.

Preprints

Others

  • Chai, W., Annakage, U., Mehrizi-Sani, A., Rajapakse, A., Bhargava, B., Chauduri, N., Hauser, C., Wadduwage, D., Ribeiro Campos Andrade, S., Pathirana, V., Katsaros, K.V., Chakrabortty, A., Terzija, V., Leelaruji, R., Das, R., Weekes, T., Paolone, M., Hillberg, E., Judd, S., Perez Castro, J., Rietveld, G., Lira, R., Vanfretti, L., Piccagli, D., Farantatos, E., Yamashita, K., 2017. Application of phasor measurement units for monitoring power system dynamic performance. Cigré. Published.

PhD Students

  • Zeyu Deng. Advancements in 6G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) Radio Access Technologies, (In progress)
  • Michael-Sam Vidza. Modelling, prediction and control,of the spread of aquaculture disease, (In progress)
  • Alan Knipmeyer. Cryptanalysis in Distributed Environments and Quantum proof Encryption, (In progress)
  • Xiaoqi Weng. AI-Driven IR Data Synthesis from Decriptive Prompts, (In progress)
  • Binxu Yang, 2018. On the Design of a Cost-efficient Resource Management Framework for Low Latency Applications (Completed), (Completed)
  • Ge Zheng. Deep Learning Models for Traffic Prediction in Urban Transport Networks, (Completed)
  • Assemgul Kozhabek. Complex Urban Road Networks: Static Structures and Dynamic Processes, (Completed)
  • Nikos Ntemkas
  • Karin Ermert. Understanding and Modelling of Complex Academic Mobility Networks

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Mobile, Wireless and Pervasive Technology
  • Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • MSc Individual Project
  • Network Science

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Advanced Networks
  • Infrastructure Strategy
  • Final Year Project
  • Network Configuration and Management (2021 only)
  • Internet and Wide Area Networks

Grants

  • Open Platform for Rapid Prototyping of Smart Environment Applications (High Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), 01 Jun 2021). Awarded
  • A Context-Adaptive Content Ecosystem Under Uncertainty (CONCERT) (CHIST-ERA, 01 Jan 2014). In Progress
  • Cyber-Secure Data and Control Cloud for Power Grids (C-DAX) (European Commission, 01 Oct 2012). Completed
  • Cyber-Secure Data and Control Cloud for Power Grids (C-DAX) (European Commission, 01 Oct 2012). Completed
  • COntent Mediator architecture for content-aware nETworks (European Commission, 01 Jan 2010). Completed
  • Information Resilience in Information-Centric Networking (BU PhD studentship). In Progress
  • Smart Transportation Network for Smart City Planning (Bournemouth-Christchurch-Poole (BCP) Council). In Progress
  • Modelling, prediction and control of the spread of aquaculture diseases (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science). Awarded

External Responsibilities

  • PLOS, Editorial Board Member - PLOS Complex Systems (2023-), https://journals.plos.org/complexsystems/
  • Arden University, External Examiner (2019-)
  • University College London, Visiting Academic (2016-), http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~wchai
  • University College London, Honorary Senior Research Fellow (2016-), http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~wchai/
  • National Science Centre, Grant Reviewer (-30102015)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Associate College Member
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Associate Editor (IEEE Access)

Internal Responsibilities

  • Programme Leader, BSc in Software Engineering
  • Programme Leader, BSc in Computing
  • Programme Leader, BSc in Computer Science
  • Programme Leader, BSc in Data Science & Analytics
  • Chair, Teaching Committee
  • Programme Leader (PL), BSc Computer Networks
  • Lead, Future and Complex Network Research Group (FLEXNET)

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Nonlinear Dynamics, 20 Sep 2025
  • PLoS Complex Systems, 21 Aug 2023
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Anonymous peer review, 29 Nov 2017
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jan 2016
  • IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, Anonymous peer review, 01 Nov 2015
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2014
  • IEEE Communications Letters, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2013
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2012
  • IEEE Communications Magazine, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2012
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Anonymous peer review, 01 Sep 2012
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Anonymous peer review, 01 Sep 2012
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jan 2012
  • IEEE Internet Computing, Anonymous peer review
  • IEEE Access, Anonymous peer review
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Anonymous peer review
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Anonymous peer review
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Anonymous peer review
  • Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN), Anonymous peer review
  • Ad Hoc Networks, Anonymous peer review
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Anonymous peer review
  • Complexity, Anonymous peer review

Qualifications

  • PGCE in Education Practice (Bournemouth University, 2018)
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering (University of Surrey, 2007)

Honours

  • ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award Nomination (ACM SIGCOMM, 2024)
  • Top 1% most cited/downloaded papers in the ACM Digital Library from those published between 2012-2014 (ACM SIGCOMM, 2024)
  • Best Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC) 2021 (IEEE, 2021)
  • Best Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC) 2021 (IEEE, 2021)
  • Top 5 Highest Cited Research in Computer Communications (Elsevier Computer Communications, 2016)
  • Certificate for Highly Cited Research (Elsevier, 2016)
  • Best Paper Award at IFIP Networking 2012 (International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), 2012)

Memberships

  • IEEE, Senior Member (2004-),
  • ACM, Member,

External Media and Press

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