Refereed Conference Papers

Yanyan Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “'Cooperative Boundary Detection for Spectrum Sensing Using Dedicated Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

Kaishun Wu, Haoyu Tan, Hoi Lun Ngan and Lionel M. Ni, “Chip Error Pattern Analysis in IEEE 802.15.4,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Mini-Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

Hongzi Zhu, Luoyi Fu, Guangtao Xue, Yanmin Zhu, Minglu Li and Lionel M. Ni, “Impact of Traffic Influxes: Understanding Exponential Inter-Contact Time in VANETs,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Mini-Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

Chen Qian, Yunhuai Liu, Hoilun Ngan and Lionel Ni, “Scalable Arbitration Protocol for Dynamic Contactless RFID Systems,” in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.

Dian Zhang, Yanyan Yang and Lionel Ni, “Link-centric Probabilistic Coverage Model for Transceiver-free Object Detection in Wireless Networks,” in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.

Siyuan Liu, Yunhuai Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Jianping Fan and Minglu Li, “Towards Mobility-based Clustering,” The 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010), Washington, DC, July 25-28, 2010.

Kaishun Wu, Haoyu Tan, Yunhuai Liu, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “'Side Channel: Bits over Interference,” The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 20-24, 2010.

Zhang Xiong, Wuman Luo, Lei Chen and Lionel M. Ni, “Data Vitalization: A New Paradigm for Large-Scale Dataset Analysis,” Proc. of the 2010 IEEE 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010), pp. 251-258, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010.

Hanjiang Luo, Kaishun Wu, Zhongwen Guo, Lin Gu and Lionel M. Ni, “SID: Ship Intrusion Detection with Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011.

Dian Zhang, Yunhuai Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “RASS: A Real-time, Accurate and Scalable System for Tracking Transceiver-free Objects,” in Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2011), Seattle, USA, March 21-25, 2011.

Michael M. Li, Jiangchuan Zheng and Lionel M. Ni, “Removing Noise in Large Scale Real-life Mobile Phone Social Networks,” NetSci2011, The International School and Conference on Network Science, Budapest, Hungary, June 6-10, 2011.

Kaishun Wu, Jiang Xiao, Youwen Yi, Min Gao and Lionel M. Ni, “FILA: Fine-grained Indoor Localization,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, Florida.

Dian Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Xiaonan Guo, Min Gao and Lionel M. Ni, “On Distinguishing the Multiple Radio Paths in RSS-based Ranging,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, Florida.

Kaishun Wu, Haochao Li, Lu Wang, Youwen Yi, Yunhuai Liu, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “hJam: Attachment Transmission in WLANs,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2012, March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, Florida.

Siyuan Liu, Lei Kang, Lei Chen and Lionel Ni, “Distributed Incomplete Pattern Matching via a Novel Weighted Bloom Filter,” in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012), Macau, June 18-21, 2012.

Xiaonan Guo, Dian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “Localizing Multiple Objects in an RF-based Dynamic Environment,” in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012), Macau, June 18-21, 2012.

Haoyu Tan, Huajian Mao, Lionel M. Ni, Nong Xiao and Wuman Luo, "Exploration of ground truth from raw GPS data" in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UbiComp '12), pp. 118-125, Beijing, China, August 2012.

Jiangchuan Zheng and Lionel M. Ni, “An Unsupervised Framework for Sensing Individual and Cluster Behavior Patterns From Human Mobile Data,” in Proc. of the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 5-8, 2012.

Haoyu Tan, Wuman Luo and Lionel Ni, “CloST: A Hadoop-based Storage System for Big Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics,” in Proc. of The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Maui, USA, October 29 to November 2, 2012.

Liang Yin, Kaishun Wu, Sixing Yin, Shufang Li and Lionel Ni, “Digital Dividend Capacity in China: A Developing Country's Case Study,” in Proc. of The 2012 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2012), Bellevue, Washington, USA, October 16-19, 2012.

Jiang Xiao, Kaishun Wu, Youwen Yi, Lu Wang and Lionel M. Ni, “FIMD: Fine-grained Device-free Motion Detection,” Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012), Singapore, December 17-19, 2012.

Liang Yin, Kaishun Wu, Sixing Yin, Shufang Li and Lionel Ni, “Reuse of GSM White Space Spectrum for Cognitive Femtocell Access,” Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012), Singapore, December 17-19, 2012.

Haochao Li, Kaishun Wu, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “CUTS: Improving Channel Utilization in Both Time and Spatial Domains in WLAN,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013.

Siyuan Liu, Ramayya Krishnan, Emma Brunskill and Lionel M. Ni, “Modeling Social Information Learning among Taxi Drivers,” in Proc. of The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013), Goldcoast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013.

Jiangchuan Zheng, Siyuan Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “Effective Routine Behavior Pattern Discovery from Sparse Mobile Phone Data via Collaborative Filtering,” in Proc. of the 2013 IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2013), San Diego, USA, March 18-22, 2013.

Jiansu Pu, Siyuan Liu, Ye Ding, Huamin Qu and Lionel M. Ni, “T-Watcher: A New Visual Analytic System for Effective Traffic Surveillance,” in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2013), Milan, Italy, June 3-6, 2013.

Ye Ding , Siyuan Liu, Jiansu Pu and Lionel M. Ni, “HUNTS: A Trajectory Recommendation System for Effective and Efficient Hunting of Taxi Passengers,” in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2013), Milan, Italy, June 3-6, 2013.

Jiang Xiao, Kaishun Wu, Youwen Yi, Lu Wang and Lionel M. Ni, “Passive Device-free Indoor Localization Using Channel State Information,” in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013), Philadelphia, USA, July 8-11, 2013.

Wuman Luo, Haoyu Tan, Lei Chen and Lionel M. Ni, “Finding Time Period-Based Most Frequent Path in Big Trajectory Data,” in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM-SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data, New York, June 22-27, 2013.

Jiangchuan Zheng and Lionel M. Ni, “Time-dependent Trajectory Regression on Road Networks via Multi-Task Learning,” in Proc. of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13), Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 14–18, 2013.

Jiangchuan Zheng and Lionel M. Ni, “An Unsupervised Learning Approach to Social Circles Detection in Ego Bluetooth Proximity Network,” in Proc. of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2013), Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 September 2013.

Refereed Journal Articles

[1]Yunhuai Liu, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “Opportunity-based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 405-416, March 2010.

[2]Hanhua Chen, Jun Yan, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “TSS: Efficient Term-Set Search in Large Peer-to-Peer Textual Collections,” in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 969-980, July 2010.

[3]Yanyan Yang, Yunhuai Liu and Lionel Ni, “Level the Buffer Wall: Fair Channel Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Computer Communications, Volume 33, Issue 12, pp. 1370-1379, July 2010.

[4]Lionel M. Ni, Dian Zhang and Michael R. Souryal, “RFID-based Localization and Tracking Technologies,” in IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 45-51, April 2011.

[5]Hongzi Zhu, Minglu Li, Luoyi Fu, Guangtao Xue, Yanmin Zhu, and Lionel M. Ni, “Impact of Traffic Influxes: Revealing Exponential Inter-Contact Time in urban VANETs,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1258-1266, August 2011.

[6]Chen Qian, Hoilun Ngan, Yunhao Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “Cardinality Estimation for Large-scale RFID Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1441-1454, September 2011.

[7]Yunhuai Liu, Yanmin Zhu, Lionel M. Ni and Guangtao Xue, “A Reliability-Oriented Transmission Service in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 2100-2107, December 2011.

[9]Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Lei Chen, Yunhao Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “Optimizing Bloom Filter Settings in Peer-to-Peer Multi-keyword Searching,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 692-706, April 2012.

[10]Kaishun Wu, Haoyu Tan, Hoi-Lun Ngan, Yunhuai Liu and Lionel M. Ni, “Chip Error Pattern Analysis in IEEE 802.15.4,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 543-552, April 2012.

[11]Lei Kang, Kaishun Wu, Jin Zhang, Haoyu Tan and Lionel M. Ni, “DDC: A Novel Scheme to Directly Decode the Collisions in UHF RFID Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 263-270, Feb. 2012.

[12]Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Xucheng Luo, Yunhao Liu, Tao Gu, Kaiji Chen and Lionel M. Ni, “BloomCast: Efficient and Effective Full-Text Retrieval in Unstructured P2P Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 232-241, Feb. 2012.

[13]Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Sinno Jialin Pan, Jie Yin, Lionel M. Ni and Qiang Yang, “Tracking Mobile Users in Wireless Networks via Semi-Supervised Co-Localization,” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 587-600, March 2012.

[14]Lei Kang, Jin Zhang, Kaishun Wu, Dian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “RCSMA: Receiver-based Carrier Sense Multiple Access in UHF RFID Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 735-743, April 2012.

[15]Marco Conti, Sajal K. Das, Chatschik Bisdikian, Mohan Kumar, Lionel M. Ni, Andrea Passarella, George Roussos, Gerhard Tröster, Gene Tsudik, Franco Zambonelli, “Looking Ahead in Pervasive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Cyber-Physical Convergence,” in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 2-21, Feb. 2012.

[16]Min Gao, Qian Zhang, Lionel Ni, Yunhuai Liu and Xiaoxi Tang, “CardioSentinal: A 24-hour Heart Care and Monitoring System," in Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-78, March 2012.

[18]Yunhuai Liu, Lionel M. Ni and Chuanping Hu, “A Generalized Probabilistic Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks,” in IEEE JSAC, Vol. 30, No., pp. 1780-1788, October 2012.

[19]Chen Qian, Yunhao Liu, Hoilun Ngan and Lionel M. Ni, “ASAP: Scalable Collision Arbitration for Large RFID Systems,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2012.

[20]Li Lu, Jinsong Han, Lei Hu and Lionel M. Ni, “Dynamic Key-Updating: Privacy-Preserving Authentication for RFID Systems,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 153912, 12 pages, 2012.

[21]Kaishun Wu, Jiang Xiao and Lionel M. Ni, “Rethinking the Architecture Design of Data Center Networks”, Frontiers of Computer Science, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp. 596-603, October 2012.

[22]Dian Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Xiaonan Guo, Lionel M. Ni, "RASS: A Real-Time, Accurate, and Scalable System for Tracking Transceiver-Free Objects," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 996-1008, May 2013.

[23]Kaishun Wu, Jiang Xiao, Youwen Yi, Dihu Chen, Xiaonan Luo and Lionel M. Ni, “CSI-based Indoor Localization,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2012.

[24]Kaishun Wu, Haochao Li, Lu Wang, Youwen Yi, Yunhuai Liu, Dihu Chen, Xiaonan Luo, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “hJam: Attachment Transmission in WLANs,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, September 2012.

[25]Siyuan Liu, Yunhuai Liu, Lionel Ni, Minglu Li and Jianping Fan, “Detecting Crowdedness Spot in City Transportation,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1527-1539, May 2013.

[26]Lu Wang, Kaishun Wu, Mounir Hamdi and Lionel M. Ni, “Attachment-Learning for Multi-Channel Allocation in Distributed OFDMA-based Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1712-1721, April 2013.

[27]Siyuan Liu, Lei Kang, Lei Chen and Lionel M. Ni, “How to Conduct Distributed Incomplete Pattern Matching,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.

[28]Siyuan Liu, Lionel M. Ni and Ramayya Krishnan, “Fraud Detection from Taxis' Driving Behaviors,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013.

[29]Haochao Li, Kaishun Wu, Qian Zhang and Lionel M. Ni, “CUTS: Improving Channel Utilization in Both Time and Spatial Domians in WLANs,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.

[30]Dian Zhang, K.Z. Lu, Yu Feng, Yunhuai Liu, Zong Min and Lionel M. Ni, “Fine-grained Localization for Multiple Transceiver-free Objects by using RF-based Technologies,” accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013.