Rui Hou received the B.Eng and M.Eng degrees from Wuhan University, Hubei, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, the Ph.D. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2006. He is currently a Professor with the College of Computer Science, South-Central Minzu University, China. He was sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council as a National Senior Visiting Scholar, and conducted research in the Lab. Signaling, Communications, and Networking, with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Colorado State University, USA, from 2014 to 2015. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in international publications. His main research interests include next generation internetworking technologies, network security, and wireless sensor networks. He is a member of IEEE, CCF, and IEICE.