SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY TOPICS:   RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Big Data, Machine Learning, and Crowdsourcing
• Security, Privacy, and Survivability
• Wireless Networking and Internet of Things
• Smart Grid and Cloud Computing

• Multipath Routing and QoS Routing
• Coverage/Conncetivity and Localization in Sensor Networks
• Algorithms and Optimization

Big Data, Machine Learning, and Crowdsourcing:

• Jing Wang, Jian Tang, Zhiyuan Xu, Yanzhi Wang, Guoliang Xue, Xing Zhang, Dejun Yang;
  "Spatiotemporal modeling and prediction in cellular networks: a big data enabled deep learning approach";
  INFOCOM'2017: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  May 1-4, 2017, Atlanta, USA.
  PDF

• Xiang Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Ruozhou Yu, Dejun Yang, Jian Tang;
  "Truthful incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing";
  INFOCOM'2015: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  April 26-May 1, 2015, Hong Kong, China.
  PDF

• Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, and Jian Tang;
  "Crowdsourcing to smartphones: incentive mechanism design for mobile phone sensing";
  MOBICOM'2012: ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking;
  August 22-26, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
  Over 1100 citations according to Google Scholar. Its journal version (published in 2016) has over 350 citations.
  PDF: Slide
  

  An enhanced and improved version of the paper appears as
  Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, and Jian Tang;
  "Incentive mechanisms for crowdsensing: crowdsourcing with smartphones";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking;
  Vol. 24 (2016), pp. 1732-1744.
  PDF

• Xiang Sheng, Jian Tang, Xuejie Xiao, Guoliang Xue;
  "Sensing as a service: challenges, solutions and future directions";
  IEEE Sensors Journal,
  Vol. 13 (2013), pp. 3733-3741.
  Over 200 citations according to Google Scholar
  PDF

Privacy, Security, and Survivability:

• Lingjun Li, Xinxin Zhao, Guoliang Xue;
  "Systems and Methods for Authenticating a User through an Unobservable Re-authentication System";
  United States Patent No. US 9996803;
  issued on June 12, 2018. PDF

• Xinxin Zhao, Lingjun Li, Guoliang Xue, Gail-Joon Ahn;
  "Efficient anonymous message submission";
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing;
  accepted for publication. PDF

• Lingjun Li, Xinxin Zhao, Guoliang Xue;
  "Proximity authentication system for smartphones";
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing;
  accepted for publication. PDF

• K. He, J. Chen, R. Du, Q. Wu, G. Xue, X. Zhang;
  "DeyPoS: Deduplicatable dynamic proof of storage for multi-user environments";
  IEEE Transactions on Computers;
  accepted for publication. PDF

• D. Huang, S. Misra, M. Verma, G. Xue;
  "PACP: An efficient pseudonymous authentication-based conditional privacy protocol for VANETs";
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems;
  Vol. 12 (2011), pp. 736-746. PDF

• Guoliang Xue, Ravi Gottapu, Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman;
  "A polynomial time algorithm for computing disjoint lightpath pairs in minimum isolated failure immune WDM optical networks";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON);
  Vol. 22(2014), pp. 470-483. DOI PDF

• Lingjun Li, Xinxin Zhao, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Unobservable re-authentication for smartphones";
  NDSS'2013: ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium;
  February 24-27, 2013, San Diego, USA. PDF (Over 300 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Truthful incentive mechanisms for K-anonymity location privacy";
  INFOCOM'2013: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  April 14-19, 2013, Turin, Italy.

• Linjun Li, Xinxin Zhao, and Guoliang Xue;
  "An identity authentication protocol in online social networks";
  AsiaCCS'2012: ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security;
  May 01-03, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

• Xinxin Zhao, Lingjun Li, Guoliang Xue and Gabriel Silva;
  "Efficient anonymous message submission";
  INFOCOM'2012: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, USA. PDF

• Weiyi Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Jian Tang, and Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman;
  "Faster algorithms for constructing recovery trees enhancing QoP and QoS";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON);
  Vol. 16 (2008), pp. 642-655.

• Guoliang Xue, Li Chen, and Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman;
  "Quality of service and quality of protection issues in preplanned recovery schemes using redundant trees";
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC);
  Vol. 21(2003), pp. 1332-1345.

Smart Grid:

• Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang;
  "How Smart Devices, Online Social Networks and the Cloud Will Affect the Smart Grid's Evolution";
  IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter;
  January 2013.

• Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Evolving smart grid information management cloudward: A cloud optimization perspective";
  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG);
  Vol. 4(2013), pp. 111-119.

• Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang;
  "Managing smart grid information in the cloud: Opportunities, model, and applications";
  IEEE Network; Vol. 26, Issue 4(2012), pp. 32-38.

• Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang;
  "Smart Grid -- the new and improved power grid: a survey";
  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST);
  Vol. 14 (2012), pp. 944-980.
  (Over 3000 citations according to Google Scholar)

Game Theory and Network Science:

• Yuhui Zhang, Dejun Yang, Jian Lin, Ming Li, Guoliang Xue, Jian Tang, Lei Xie;
  "Spectrum auctions under physical interference model";
  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN);
  accepted for publication PDF

• Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, and Jin Zhang;
  "A game theoretic approach to stable routing in max-min fair networks";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON); accepted for publication.
  The conference version was Runner-up of Best Paper Award at
  ICNP'2010: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols;
  October 5-8, 2010, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1-9. PDF, SLIDE

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "HERA: An optimal relay assignment scheme for cooperative networks";
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC);
  Vol. 30 (2012), pp. 245-253. PDF

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Channel allocation in non-cooperative multi-radio multi-channel wireless networks";
  INFOCOM'2012: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, USA.

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Truthful auction for cooperative communications";
  MobiHoc'2011: ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing;
  May 16-20, 2011, Paris, France, pp. 89-98.
  PDF: A technical error in the original paper has been fixed.

Resource Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks:

• Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Resource allocation in load-constrained multihop wireless networks";
  INFOCOM'2012: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  March 25-30, 2012, Orlando, USA.

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "OPRA: optimal relay assignment for capacity maximization in cooperative networks";
  ICC'2011: IEEE International Conference on Communications;
  June 5-9, 2011, Kyoto, Japan. PDF, SLIDE
  Winner of Best Paper Award

• Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "ESPN: Efficientt server placement in probabilistic networks with budget constraint";
  INFOCOM'2011: IEEE International Conference on Compuer Communications;
  April 10-15, 2011, Shanghai, China; pp. 1269-1277. PDF, SLIDE

• Jian Tang, Guoliang Xue and Weiyi Zhang;
  "Interference-aware topology control and QoS routing in multi-channel wireless mesh networks";
  MobiHoc'2005: ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing;
  May 25-28, 2005, Urbana-Champaign, USA, pp. 68-77. PDF
  (Over 600 citations according to Google Scholar)

Multipath Routing and QoS Routing:

• Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "MAP: Multi-constrained anypath routing in wireless mesh networks";
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC);
  Vol. 12(2013), pp. 1893-1906.

• Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Distributed algorithms for multipath routing in full-duplex wireless networks";
  MASS'2011: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems;
  October 17-22, 2011, Valencia, Spain; pp.102-111. PDF
  Winner of Best Paper Award

• Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang;
  "Polynomial time approximations for multi-path routing with bandwidth and delay constraints";
  INFOCOM'2009: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  April 19-25, 2009, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 558-566.

• Guoliang Xue, Weiyi Zhang, Jian Tang, and Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman;
  "Polynomial time approximation algorithms for multi-constrained QoS routing";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON);
  Vol. 16 (2008), pp. 656-669.
  (Over 130 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Guoliang Xue, Arunabha Sen, Weiyi Zhang, Jian Tang, and Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman;
  "Finding a path subject to many additive QoS constraints";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON);
  Vol. 15(2007), pp. 201-211.
  (Over 120 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Guoliang Xue and Weiyi Zhang;
  "Multiconstrained QoS routing: Greedy is good";
  Globecom'2007: IEEE Global Communications Conference;
  November 26-30, 2007, Washington DC, pp. 1866-1871.
  Winner of Best Paper Award

• Guoliang Xue;
  "Minimum cost QoS multicast and unicast routing in communication networks";
  IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM);
  Vol. 51(2003); pp. 817-824.

Coverage/Conncetivity and Localization in Sensor Networks:

• Dejun Yang, Satyajayant Misra, Xi Fang, Guoliang Xue, and Junshan Zhang;
  "Two-tiered constrained relay node placement in wireless sensor networks: computational complexity and efficient approximations";
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC);
  in press. PDF

• Satyajayant Misra, Dong Hong, Guoliang Xue, and Jian Tang;
  "Constrained relay node placement in wireless sensor networks: formulation and approximations";
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON);
  Vol. 18(2010), pp. 434-447.

• Errol Lloyd and Guoliang Xue;
  "Relay node placement in wireless sensor networks";
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TOC);
  Vol. 56(2007), pp. 134-138.
  (Over 500 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Weiyi Zhang, Guoliang Xue, and Satyajayant Misra;
  "Fault-tolerant relay node placement in wireless sensor networks: problems and algorithms";
  INFOCOM'2007: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage, USA, pp. 1649-1657.
  (Over 200 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Bin Hao, Jian Tang, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Fault-tolerant relay node placement in wireless sensor networks: formulation and approximation";
  HPSR'2004: IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing;
  April 19-21, 2004, Phoenix, USA; pp. 246-250.
  (Over 150 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Xiuzhen Cheng, A. Thaeler, Guoliang Xue, and Dechang Chen;
  "TPS: A time-based positioning scheme for outdoor wireless sensor networks";
  INFOCOM'2004: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications;
  March 7-11, 2004, Hong Kong, China, pp. 2685-2696.
  (Over 360 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Min Ding, Xiuzhen Cheng, and Guoliang Xue;
  "Aggregation tree construction in sensor networks";
  VTC'2003: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference;
  October 4-9, 2003, Orlando, USA, pp. 2168-2172.
  (Over 260 citations according to Google Scholar)

• Guohui Lin and Guoliang Xue;
  "Steiner tree problem with minimum number of Steiner points and bounded edge-length";
  Information Processing Letters (IPL);
  Vol. 69(1999), pp. 53-57. PDF
  (Over 270 citations according to Google Scholar)

Algorithms and Optimization:

• Guoliang Xue and Yinyu Ye;
  "An efficient algorithm for minimizing a sum of p-norms";
  SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT);
  Vol. 10(2000), pp. 551-579. PDF

• Guoliang Xue, Ted Lillys, and David Dougherty;
  "Computing the minimum cost pipe network interconnecting one sink and many sources";
  SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT);
  Vol. 10(2000), pp. 22-42. PDF

• Guoliang Xue and Yinyu Ye;
  "An efficient algorithm for minimizing a sum of Euclidean norms with applications";
  SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT);
  Vol. 7(1997), pp. 1017-1036. PDF
  NOTE: In this paper, we proposed a polynomial time algorithm for solving this problem.
  The theoretical time complexity of our algorithm is still the best as of today.
  (Over 120 citations according to Google Scholar)
  

• Brett Averick, Richard Carter, Jorge More, and Guoliang Xue;
  "THE MINPACK-2 TEST PROBLEM COLLECTION", 74 pages;
  Argonne National Laboratory Mathematics and Computer Science Division; TM 150;
  June 1992. PDF
  (Over 250 citations according to Google Scholar)
  Copy documented by Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the DOE.
  NOTE: An unpublished technical report can also have a big impact.

• J. Ben Rosen and Guoliang Xue;
  "On the convergence of a hyperboloid approximation procedure for the perturbed Euclidean multifacility location problem";
  Operations Research;
  Vol. 41(1993); pp. 1164-1171. PDF
  NOTE: In this paper, we resolved a 20-year old open problem by proving the convergence of the algorithm.

• J. Ben Rosen and Guoliang Xue;
  "On the convergence of Miehle's algorithm for the Euclidean multifacility location problem";
  Operations Research;
  Vol. 40(1992); pp. 188-191. PDF
  NOTE: In this paper, we resolved a 30-year old open problem by disproving the convergence of the algorithm.