Bong-Hwan OH PH.D.

LECTURER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR), SCHOOL OF INTERNET OF THINGS

Dr. Bong-Hwan Oh is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Internet of Things, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 2009, 2011, and 2016, respectively.

He worked as a research fellow at the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey, UK, from 2016 to 2019. He took charge of the networking part to enable the deployment of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based transport network in the 5G testbed system constructed with various industry partners (Huawei, Vodafone, etc.).

From 2019 to 2020, he joined as a senior researcher in the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) which is the only research institute for military technologies in South Korea and developed an advanced satellite system for military communications.

His research interests include SDN/P4, IoT networks, In-network computing, 5/6G, transport layer protocols, and satellite communications.

Personal HP: https://bonghwanoh.github.io/

* I am looking for Ph.D. candidates who are self-motivated and enthusiastic for research in IoT networks and general networking areas. Please contact me by email if you are interested.


  • Ph.D., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2016
  • M.S., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2011
  • B. S., Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2009


  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2020 to Present
  • Senior Researcher, Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Daejeon, Korea, 2019 to 2020
  • Research Fellow, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 2016 to 2019
  • Postdoc Researcher, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Mar.2016 to Aug.2016


  • IoT
  • TSN/DetNet
  • network softwarization
  • SDN/P4
  • transport layer protocols
  • satellite communications


  • Frimpong, Emmanuel Obeng, Bong-Hwan Oh, Taehoon Kim, and Inkyu Bang. 2023. "Physical-Layer Security with Irregular Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Networks" Sensors 23, no. 4: 1881. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23041881
  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, and Ning Wang, "A Lightweight Scheme of Active-port Aware Monitoring in Software-Defined Networks", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 2888-2901, September 2021
  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Ning Wang and Rahim Tafazolli, "Priority-based Flow Control for Dynamic and Reliable Flow Management in SDN", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 1- 13, December 2018
  • Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "Feedback-based Path Failure Detection and Buffer Blocking Protection for MPTCP", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Issue 6, pp. 3450- 3461, December 2016
  • Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "Constraint-based Proactive Scheduling for MPTCP in Wireless Networks", Computer Networks (2015), Volume 91, 14, pp. 548-563, November 2015
  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Jechan Han, Kyungmin Kim, Jaiyong Lee, "A New Receiver-Based Retransmission Scheme with TFRC", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 2091-2094, December 2012.
  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Jechan Han and Jaiyong Lee, "Timer and Sequence based Packet Loss Detection Scheme for Efficient Selective Retransmission in DCCP", Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS 119, Part 1), pp.112-120, December 2010.
  • (Korean Journal) Bong-Hwan Oh, Seog-gyu Kim and Jaiyong Lee, "Retransmission Persistence Management with ARQ in Multi-Hop Wireless Network", The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 10, September 2014.
  • (Korean Journal) Bong-Hwan Oh, Hanah Kim and Jaiyong Lee, "Packet Scheduling Scheme and Receiver-Based Recovery Scheme for MPTCP in Heterogeneous Networks", The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, Vol. 37B, No. 11, November 2012.


  • Bong-Hwan Oh, Serdar Vural, Rahulan Yogaratnam, Ning Wang, and Rahim Tafazolli, " Performance Evaluation of a Virtualized Mobile Core Network in Indoor Environments", Proceedings of The International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Jun 2018.
  • Peng Qian, Ning Wang, Bong-Hwan Oh, and Rahim Tafazolli, "Optimization of Webpage Downloading Performance with Content-aware Mobile Edge Computing", Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), Aug 2017.
  • David Lake, Gerry Foster, Serdar Vural, Yogaratnam Rahulan, Bong-Hwan Oh, Ning Wang and Rahim Tafazolli, "Virtualising and orchestrating a 5G evolved packet core network", IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Jul 2017.
  • Jinhwan Kim, Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "' Receive Buffer based Path Management for MPTCP in heterogeneous networks", IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM), May 2017.
  • Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "'Centralized retransmission management with SDN in multihop wireless access network", The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization, Feb 2016.
  • Hanah Kim, Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "Improvement of MPTCP Performance in heterogeneous network using packet scheduling mechanism", The 18th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications, October, 2012.
  • Bong-Hwan Oh and Jaiyong Lee, "One-way Delay Estimation using Packet Intervals for Efficient Retransmission", International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering (CNSI 2011), May 2011.


  • Invited speaker: A special session of the 26th Joint Conference on Communications and Information, Korea


  • "Time-Sensitive Networking(TSN)/Deterministic Networking (DetNet) based transport network infrastructure and management scheme for IoT networks", RDF-20-02-03, XJTLU, 09/2021-08/2024


  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management(TNSM), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), International Journal of Communication Systems, IEEE communication letters
  • TPC member: 2018 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)
  • Advisory experience: SK Telecom – Public Safety (PS) LTE


  • Introduction to Networking (IoT209TC)
  • Introduction to Internet of Things (IOT104TC)
  • Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (IOT103TC)


  • PGcert at University of Liverpool, Aug, 2022
  • Fellow, Higher Education Authority (HEA), 2022


  • Academic Excellence Award for Teaching Innovation Award, 2022-2023, XJTLU Entrepreneur College
  • Committee Outstanding Member Award, XJTLU Library Affairs Committee, 2022-2023
  • Committee Outstanding Member Award, XJTLU Library Affairs Committee, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022
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