Shensheng Tang

Job title

Professor of Physics and Engineering
Physics & Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences

Highlight

Dr. Tang is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at Bethel University. Prior to joining Bethel, he held faculty and research appointments at several universities across the United States, serving as a postdoctoral research fellow, assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor over a career spanning more than two decades. He has taught a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical engineering and computer engineering and is dedicated to creating an engaging, supportive, and academically rigorous learning environment for students from diverse backgrounds. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Tang brings more than ten years of full-time industry experience in the wireless communications sector. He has served as a hardware engineer, team leader, and department manager, contributing to product design, development, and engineering management across a variety of wireless technology projects. Dr. Tang is actively engaged in professional and scholarly service. He has served as Editor-in-Chief, Editor, and Guest Editor for numerous international journals and has held leadership and committee roles for many international conferences. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is a Senior Member of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization.

Started at Bethel

2024

Education

Tianjin University - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1990
University of Toledo - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2006

Awards

● MWSU 2012 Dr. James V. Mehl Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award.

● Best Paper Award in the 2016 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2016).

● Excellent Presentation Award in the 8th IEEE International Conference on Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN 2016).

● Spotlight Paper for the July 2013 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

● Marquis Who's Who in America, 2010 ed., 2013 ed., 2014 ed., 2015 ed, 2016 ed.

● Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 10th, 11st, 12th Editions.

Publications

Selected Publications (Publication List):

[1] S. Tang, "Performance Modeling and Optimization for a Fog-based IoT Platform", IoT (an MDPI journal), Vol. 4, No. 2, pp183-201, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot4020010

[2] S. Tang, "Modeling and Performance Analysis of a Cloud Computing System using an Open Queueing Network with Multi-Server Queues", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 1-12, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2023.132549

[3] Y. Liang, Y. Xie, S. Tang, S. Yu, X. Liu and J. Hu, "Network Traffic Content Identification Based on Time-Scale Signal Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 2607-2624, May-June 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2022.3186665.

[4] S. Tang, "Transient Analysis of a Finite Queueing System with Bulk Arrivals in IoT-Based Edge Computing Systems", IoT (an MDPI journal), Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 435–449, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot3040023

[5] S. Tang, M. Sinare and Y. Xie, "FPGA Based DFT System Design, Optimization and Implementation Using High-Level Synthesis", International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 47-61, 2022.(PDF)

[6] H. Ma, Y. Xie, S. Tang, J. Hu and X. Liu, "Threat-Event Detection for Distributed Networks Based on Spatiotemporal Markov Random Field", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 1735-1752, May-June 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2020.3036664.

[7] S. Tang and Y. Xie, "Availability Modeling and Performance Improving of a Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) System", IoT (an MDPI journal), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 310–325, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/iot2020016

[8] S. Tang, J. O’Rourke, and G. Tang, "Traffic modelling of an integrated 5G/Wi-Fi network with generally distributed user-dwell times", International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 242-254, 2020. (Inderscience Research Spot News Releases: Connecting Wi-Fi and 5G)

[9] S. Tang, A. Trautman, and H. Nguyen, "On Energy-Based Quality of Detection (QoD) for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks", International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 214-221, 2016.

[10] S. Tang and B. Davis, "Analysis and Control of Quality of Information (QoI) for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 103-113, 2015.

[11] S. Tang, C. Hale, and H. Thaker, "Reliability Modeling of Power Transformers with Maintenance Outage", Systems Science & Control Engineering, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 316-324, 2014.

[12] Y. Xie, J. Hu, Y. Xiang, S. Yu, S. Tang, and Y. Wang, "Modeling Oscillation Behavior of Network Traffic by Nested Hidden Markov Model with Variable State-Duration", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 1807-1817, Sep. 2013.

[13] S. Tang, "An Analytic Traffic Model with Adaptive QoS Control in an Unreliable Wireless Sensor Network", Telecommunication Systems, Springer Publisher, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 415-424, Aug. 2013.

[14] Y. Xie, S. Tang, Y. Xiang, and J. Hu, "Resisting Web Proxy-based HTTP Attacks by Temporal and Spatial Locality Behavior", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 1401-1410, July 2013. (The Spotlight Paper for the July 2013 issue of the IEEE TPDS)

[15] S. Tang and W. Li , "An Epidemic Model with Adaptive Virus Spread Control for Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Vol. 6, No.4, pp. 201-210, 2011.

[16] S. Tang, "Traffic Modeling of a Finite-Source Power Line Communication Network", Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 261-270, August 2011.

[17] S. Tang and B. L. Mark, "Analysis of Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing with Markovian Call Arrivals and Phase-type Service", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 3142-3150, June 2009.

[18] S. Tang and B. L. Mark, "Modeling and Analysis of Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing with Unreliable Spectrum Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1934-1943, Apr. 2009.

[19] A. E. Leu, B. L. Mark, and S. Tang, "Analysis of Handoff Interference and Outage along Arbitrary Trajectories in Cellular Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 3597-3607, Sep. 2008.

[20] S. Tang and W. Li, "An Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Scheme with Preemptive Priority for Integrated Voice/Data Mobile Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 2874-2886, Oct. 2006.

Professional organizations, committees, and boards

● Senior Member of IEEE (ComSoc, CS)

● Member of ACM SIGMETRICS

● Member of INFORMS

● Full Member of Sigma Xi

● Editor in Chief (08/2024 - present), Journal of Science and Engineering Research (JSER)

● Editor in Chief (03/2022 - 12/2025), Journal of Smart Technology Applications (JSTA)

● Editor (08/2026 - present), Computer Networks and Communications (CNC)

● Editor (06/2023 - present), Advances in Knowledge-Based Systems, Data Science, and Cybersecurity

● Editor (10/2022 - present), IoT (an international, peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI)

● Editor (12/2021 - 12/2023), Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (IOTCC)

● Editor (01/2022 - 04/2023), International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT)

● Editor (2015 - 2024), International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Communication for Industrial Systems (IJWMCIS)

● Lead Guest Editor (2014-2015), Special Issue on Spectrum-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks for International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)

● Area Editor (2010 - 2013), International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS)

● International Conferences Program Chair

● Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

AAMLDS 202 6 (Steering Committee), CVAI 2026, CTCNet 2025 (Steering Committee), PCDS 2025, ITCC 2025, WiMoNe 2025, ACC6G 2025, CWOC 2025, CNIOT 2024, PCDS 2024, DMCIT 2024, ITCA 2023, IAECST 2023, DMCIT 2023, ICCSN 2023, CNIOT 2023, MILCOM 2022 Track 2, IEEE ICCSN 2022, CNIOT 2022, IEEE ICCSN 2021, ICWOC 2021, ICHMI 2021, IEEE ICCSN 2020, IEEE ICCSN 2019, IEEE ICCT 2018, AICCC 2018, IEEE ICCSN 2018, IEEE WCNC2018-IWSS, CSoNet 2018, IEEE ICCSN 2017, IEEE WCNC2017-IWSS, ChinaCom 2016, IEEE ICCSN 2016, ITC 2016, ACCSE 2016, IEEE WCNC2016-IWSS, IEEE WCNC2015-IWSS, WMCIS 2015, INTERNET 2014, WINSYS 2014, ICCCN 2013 (SEP track), WINSYS 2013, MOPAS2013, WINSYS 2012, MOPAS2012, MOPAS 2011, WMuNeP 2011, ChinaCom2010-WCN, WINSYS 2010, MOPAS 2010, WINSYS 2009, ChinaCom2009-WCN, WMuNeP 2009, ITNG 2009-MRM, ACM IWCMC2008, IEEE VTC2008-Fall, ACM WMuNeP2008, Ambi-Sys2008, HPSR2008.

Research interests

Wireless communications and networking, Computer networks, Cloud and fog computing, Embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT), FPGA-based system design, and System modeling and performance evaluation.

Website

https://people.bethel.edu/~sht54857/index.htm