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• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and A. Afana, “Online distributed optimization with efficient communication via temporal similarity,” to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hoboken, New Jersey, May 2023.
• J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, and G. Boudreau, “Periodic updates for constrained OCO with application to large-scale multi-antenna systems,” in press, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Delay-tolerant OCO with long-term constraints: algorithm and its application to network resource allocation,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 147 - 163, February 2023.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, Z. Zhu, E. T. Fapi, H. Dalal, “Joint consensus matrix design and resource allocation for decentralized learning,” in Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking Conference (Networking), June 2022
• N. Eshraghi and B. Liang, “Improving dynamic regret in distributed online mirror descent using primal and dual information,” in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2022.
• N. Eshraghi and B. Liang, “Dynamic regret bounds without Lipschitz continuity: Online convex optimization with multiple mirror descent steps,” in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2022.
• N. Eshraghi and B. Liang, “Dynamic regret of online mirror descent for relatively smooth convex cost functions,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2395 – 2400, February 2022.
• J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Online model updating with analog aggregation in wireless edge learning,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), online conference, May 2022.
• Y. Li, B. Liang, and A. Tizghadam, “Robust online learning against malicious manipulation and feedback delay with application to network flow classification,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 2648 - 2663, August 2021.
• S. Chowdhury, B. Liang, A. Tizghadam, and I. Albanese, “Flow-packet hybrid traffic classification for class-aware network routing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, December 2021.
• R. Ghanavi, B. Liang, and A. Tizghadam, “Generative adversarial classification network with application to network traffic classification,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, December 2021.
• A. Ramezani-Kebrya, A. Khisti, and B. Liang, "On the generalization of stochastic gradient descent with momentum," available online at https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04564.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Delay-tolerant constrained OCO with application to network resource allocation,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), online conference, May 2021.
• Y. Li, B. Liang, and A. Tizghadam, “Robust online learning against malicious manipulation with application to network flow classification,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), online conference, May 2021.
• N. Eshraghi and B. Liang, “Distributed online optimization over a heterogeneous network with any-batch mirror descent,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), online conference, July 2020.
• J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, and G. Boudreau, “Online precoding design for downlink MIMO wireless network virtualization with imperfect CSI,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), online conference, July 2020.
• Y. Li, B. Liang, and A. Tizghadam, "Robust network flow classification against malicious feature manipulation," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), online conference, June 2020.
• S. Chowdhury, B. Liang, and A. Tizghadam, “Explaining class-of-service oriented network traffic classification with superfeatures,”in Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Big DAta, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA), Orlando, Florida, December 2019.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, "Single restart with time stamps for parallel task processing with known and unknown processors," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 187 - 220, January 2020.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, "Delay and cost optimization in computational offloading systems with unknown task processing times," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1422 -1438, October - December 2021.
• Y. Gong, B. Li, B. Liang, and Z. Zhan, “Chic: Experience-driven scheduling in machine learning clusters,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Phoenix, Arizona, June 2019.
• S. Sundar and B. Liang, "Task dispatch through online training for profit maximization at the cloud," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop on Network Intelligence: Machine Learning for Networking, Paris, France, April 2019.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, “Semi-online algorithms for computational task offloading with communication delay,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1189 - 1201, April 2017.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, “Single restart with time stamps for computational offloading in a semi-online setting,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, Georgia, May 2017.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, “One-restart algorithm for scheduling and offloading in a hybrid cloud,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Qualify of Service (IWQoS), Portland, Oregon, June 2015.

• J. Wang and B. Liang, “Distributed online min-max load balancing with risk-averse assistance,” to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Hong Kong, China, July 2023.
• E. Meskar and B. Liang, “Fair multi-resource allocation in heterogeneous servers with an external resource type,” in press, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Networking.
• E. Meskar and B. Liang, “ MAGIKS: Fair multi-resource allocation game induced by Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Special Issue on Optimization and Economics of Fog/Edge Networks, vol. 3, pp. 797 – 810, 2022.
• E. Meskar and B. Liang, “Fair multi-resource allocation in mobile edge computing with multiple access points,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (Mobihoc), online conference, October 2020.
• S. Sundar, J. P. Champati, and B. Liang, "Multi-user task offloading to heterogeneous processors with communication delay and budget constraints," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1958 - 1974, July-September 2022.
• E. Jiang and B. Liang, “Socially optimal correlated equilibrium in class-anonymous offloading game with computing access points,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), online conference, June 2020
• T. Q. Dinh, B. Liang, T. Q.S. Quek, and H. Shin, “Online resource procurement and allocation in a hybrid edge-cloud computing system,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 2137 – 2149, March 2020.
• N. Eshraghi and B. Liang, “Joint offloading decision and resource allocation with uncertain task computing requirement,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Paris, France, April 2019.
  
• M.-H. Chen, B. Liang, and M. Dong, “Multi-user multi-task offloading and resource allocation in mobile cloud systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 6790 - 6805, October 2018.
• Y. Azar, J. P. Champati, and B. Liang, “2-Approximation algorithm for a generalization of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines,” Information Processing Letters, vol. 139, pp. 39 - 43, November 2018.
• S. Sundar, J. P. Champati, and B. Liang, “Completion time minimization in multi-user task scheduling with heterogeneous processors and budget constraints,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) Short Paper, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2018.
• E. Meskar and B. Liang, “Fair multi-resource allocation for mobile edge computing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop on Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks (IECCO), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2018.
• S. Sundar and B. Liang, “Offloading dependent tasks with communication delay and deadline constraint,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2018
• S. Sundar and B. Liang, “Gaming and learning approaches for multi-user computation offloading (Invited Paper),” in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 2017.
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, “Efficient minimization of sum and differential costs on machines with job placement constraints,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, Georgia, May 2017.
• M.-H. Chen, B. Liang, and Min Dong, “Joint offloading and resource allocation for computation and communication in mobile cloud with Computing Access Point,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, Georgia, May 2017.
• B. Liang, “Mobile edge computing,” in Key Technologies for 5G Wireless Systems, V. W. S. Wong, R. Schober, D. W. K. Ng, and L.-C. Wang, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• W. Wang, B. Li, B. Liang, and J. Li, “Multi-resource fair sharing for datacenter jobs with placement constraints,” in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2016. (Full-version technical report)
• M.-H. Chen, M. Dong, and B. Liang, “Multi-user mobile cloud offloading game with computing access point,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Pisa, Italy, October 2016.
• W. Wang, B. Li, B. Liang, and J. Li, “Towards multi-resource fair allocation with placement constraints,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS Poster, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, June 2016.
• M.-H. Chen, B. Liang, and M. Dong, “Joint offloading decision and resource allocation for multi-user multi-task mobile cloud,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.
• S. Sundar and B. Liang, “Communication augmented latest possible scheduling for cloud computing with delay constraint and task dependency,” in Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing (GSNC), San Francisco, California, April 2016.
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Optimal online multi-instance acquisition in IaaS clouds," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 3407 – 3419, December 2015.
• M.-H. Chen, B. Liang, and. M. Dong, “A Semidefinite relaxation approach to mobile could offloading with computing access point,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015.
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Multi-resource fair allocation in heterogeneous cloud computing systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 2822 – 2835, October 2015. (Earlier version in IEEE INFOCOM 2014).
• W. Wang, D. Niu, B. Liang, and B. Li "Dynamic cloud instance acquisition via IaaS cloud brokerage," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1580 - 1593, June 2015. (Version with Appendix)
• J. P. Champati and B. Liang, "Energy compensated cloud assistance in mobile cloud computing," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.
• W. Wang, D. Niu, B. Li, and B. Liang, “Dynamic cloud resource reservation via cloud brokerage,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2013.
• W. Wang, B. Li, and B. Liang, “To reserve or not to reserve: Optimal optimal online multi-instance acquisition in IaaS clouds,” in Proceedings of the USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), San Jose, California, June 2013.
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Revenue maximization with dynamic auctions in IaaS cloud markets," short paper, in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Qualify of Service (IWQoS), Montreal, Quebec, June 2013.
• W. Wang, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Towards optimal capacity segmentation with hybrid cloud pricing," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China, June 2012.

• C. Zhang, M. Dong, and B. Liang, “Ultra-low-complexity algorithms with structurally optimal multi-group multicast beamforming in large-scale systems,” in press, to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
• T. Feng, X. Gu, and B. Liang, “Random caching design for multi-user multi-antenna HetNets with interference nulling,” in press, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, and G. Boudreau, “Online multi-cell coordinated MIMO wireless network virtualization with imperfect CSI,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 10455 - 10471, December 2022.
• C. Zhang, M. Dong, and B. Liang, “Fast first-order algorithm for large-scale Max-Min Fair multi-group multicast beamforming,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1560 – 1564, August 2022.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Online distributed coordinated precoding for virtualized MIMO networks with delayed CSI,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 5, pp 1012 – 1016, May 2022.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Semi-online precoding with information parsing for cooperative MIMO wireless networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), online conference, May 2022.
• L. He, B. Liang, J. Li, and M. Sheng, “Joint observation and transmission scheduling in agile satellite networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 4381 - 4396, December 2022.
• J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, “Distributed coordinated precoding for MIMO cellular network virtualization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 106 – 120, January 2022.
• A. Ramezani-Kebrya, B. Liang, M. Dong, and G. Boudreau, “Robust design of multi-cell D2D communication under partial CSI,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2404 – 2418, February 2022.
• J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, and G. Boudreau, “Online downlink MIMO wireless Network virtualization in fading environments,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 2019.
• Y. Xu, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Maximizing spatial alpha-fairness in multi-tier multi-rate spatial Aloha networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 2036 - 2051, March 2019.
  
• M. Soltanizadeh, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Power minimization in wireless network virtualization with massive MIMO,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop on 5G Architecture, Kansas City, Missouri, May 2018.
• R. AliHemmati, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Multi-channel resource allocation towards ergodic rate maximization for underlay device-to-device communication,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1011 - 1025, February 2018.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, “Optimizing cluster size through handoff analysis in user-centric cooperative wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 766 – 778, February 2018.
• M. Sheng, J. Wen, J. Li, B. Liang, and X. Wang, “Performance analysis of heterogeneous cellular networks with HARQ under correlated interference,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 8377 – 8389, December 2017.
• I. Trigui, S. Affes, and B. Liang, “Unified stochastic geometry modeling and analysis of cellular networks in LOS/NLOS and shadowed fading,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 5470 – 5486, December 2017.
• R. AliHemmati, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Power allocation for underlay device-to-device communication over multiple channels,” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 467 - 480, September 2018.
• A. Remezani-Kebrya, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Robust power optimization for device-to-device communication in a multi-cell network under partial CSI,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017.
• A. Ramezani-Kebrya, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Joint power optimization for Device-to-Device communication in cellular networks with interference control,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 5131 – 5146, August 2017.
• S. Huang, B. Liang, and J. Li, “Distributed interference and delay aware design for D2D communication in large wireless networks with adaptive interference estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 3924 – 3939, June 2017.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, “Stochastic geometric analysis of handoffs in user-centric cooperative wireless networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, California, April 2016.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Handoff rate analysis in heterogeneous wireless networks with Poisson and Poisson cluster patterns," in Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, Hangzhou, China, June 2015.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Radio resource allocation in heterogeneous wireless networks: a spatial-temporal perspective," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, China, April 2015.
  
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Rate maximization through structured spectrum allocation and user association in heterogeneous cellular networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 4510 – 4524, October 2015.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Stochastic geometric analysis of user mobility in heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Part 2, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2212 - 2225, October 2015. (Earlier version in ACM MSWiM 2014.)
• Y. Lin, W. Bao, W. Yu, and B. Liang, "Optimizing user association and spectrum allocation in HetNets: a utility perspective," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Part 1, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1025 – 1039, June 2015.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Stochastic analysis of uplink interference in two-tier femtocell networks: open versus closed access," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 6200 – 6215, October 2015.
  
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Uplink interference analysis for two-tier cellular networks with diverse users under random spatial patterns," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1252 - 1265, March 2015.
• H. Ju, B. Liang, J. Li, Y. Long, and X. Yang, "Adaptive cross-network cross-layer design in heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 655 - 669, February 2015.
• S. Sun, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "On stochastic feedback control for multi-antenna beamforming: formulation and low-complexity algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 4731 – 4745, September 2014.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Near-optimal spectrum allocation in multi-tier cellular networks with random inelastic traffic," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, May 2014.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, “Structured spectrum allocation and user association in heterogeneous cellular networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2014.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "Insensitivity of user distribution in multicell networks under general mobility and session patterns," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 6244 - 6254, December 2013.
  
• H. Ju, B. Liang, J. Li, and X. Yang, "Dynamic joint resource optimization for LTE-Advanced relay networks,"IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 5668 - 5678, November 2013.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, “Understanding the benefits of open access in femtocell networks: stochastic geometric analysis in the uplink,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Barcelona, Spain, September 2013.
• W. Bao and B. Liang, "On the insensitivity of user distribution in multicell networks under general mobility and session patterns," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini Conference, Turin, Italy, April 2013.
• A. Farbod and B. Liang, "Structured admission control policies in heterogeneous wireless networks with mesh underlay," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
• A. H. Zahran, B. Liang, and A. Saleh, "Mobility modeling and performance evaluation of heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 1041 - 1056, August 2008.
• A. Farbod and B. Liang, "Efficient structured policies for admission control in heterogeneous wireless networks," ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 309 - 323, December 2007.
• B. Liang, S. Drew, and D. Wang, "Performance of multiuser network-aware prefetching in heterogeneous wireless systems," ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 99 -110, January 2009 (Online First edition appeared February 2007).
• A. H. Zahran and B. Liang, "A generic framework for mobility modeling and performance analysis in next-generation heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 92 - 99, September 2007.
• A. H. Zahran, B. Liang, and A. Saleh, "Impact of technology overlap in next-generation wireless heterogeneous systems," in Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Atlanta, Georgia,  May 2007.
• A. H. Zahran, B. Liang, and A. Saleh, "Signal threshold adaptation for vertical handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks," ACM/Spring Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on Soft Radio Enabled Heterogeneous Networks, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 625-640, August 2006.

• A. Abu Al Haija, M. Dong, B. Liang, and G. Boudreau, “Efficient multi-user quantize-forward relaying in massive MIMO HetNets,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2018.
• A. Abu Al Haija, M. Dong, B. Liang, and G. Boudreau, “Low-complexity design of decode-forward relaying in massive MIMO heterogeneous networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Kalamata, Greece, June 2018.
• A. Abu Al Haija, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and S. H. Seyedmehdi, “Design and simplification of quantize-forward relaying in massive MIMO HetNets,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop on 5G Ultra Dense Networks, Kansas City, Missouri, May 2018.
• A. Ramezani-Kebrya, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and R. Casselman, “Interference minimization in cooperative relay beamforming with multiple communicating pairs,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 6514 – 6527, October 2017.
• A. Ramezani-Kebrya, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and R. Casselman, "Per-relay power minimization for multi-user multi-channel cooperative relay beamforming," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 3187 - 3198, May 2016.
• A. Remezani-Kebrya, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and R. Casselman "Optimal cooperative relay beamforming for interference minimization," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, United Kingdom, June 2015.
• M. Dong, B. Liang, and Q. Xiao, "Unicast multi-antenna relay beamforming with per-antenna power control: optimization and duality," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 23, pp. 6076 - 6090, December 2013.
• M. Dong, M. Hajiaghayi, and B. Liang, "Optimal fixed gain linear processing for amplify-and-forward multichannel relaying," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 6108 – 6114, November 2012.
• M. Dong, Q. Xiao, and B. Liang, "Optimal multi-antenna relay beamforming with per-antenna power control," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2012.
• M. Hajiaghayi, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Jointly optimal bit loading, channel pairing and power allocation for multi-channel relaying," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Orlando, Florida, March 2012.
• M. Hajiaghayi, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Jointly optimal channel and power assignment for dual-hop multi-channel multi-user relaying,"IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1806 – 1814, October 2012. Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5314. 
• M. Hajiaghayi, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Jointly optimal channel pairing and power allocation for multi-channel multi-hop relaying," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 4998 – 5012, September 2011.
• M. Hajiaghayi, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Maximizing lifetime in relay cooperation through energy-aware power allocation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 4354 – 4366, August 2010.
• M. Hajiaghayi, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Using limited feedback in power allocation design for a two-hop relay OFDM system," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

• S. Sun, B. Liang, M. Dong, and J. Taylor, "Phase balancing using energy storage in power grids under uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 3891 - 3903, September 2016. (Preliminary version in the American Control Conference).
  
• S. Sun, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Distributed real-time power balancing in renewable-integrated power grids with storage and flexible loads," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 2337 - 2349, September 2016. (Preliminary version in IEEE SmartGridComm)
  
• S. Sun, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Real-time power balancing in electric grids with distributed storage," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1167 – 1181, June 2014.
• S. Sun, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Real-time welfare-maximizing regulation allocation in dynamic aggregator-EVs System," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1397 - 1409, May 2014. (Preliminary version in IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems.)
• S. Sun, M. Dong, and B. Liang, "Distributed regulation allocation with aggregator coordinated electric vehicles," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Vancouver, British Columbia, October, 2013.

• W. Wang, C. Feng, B. Li, and B. Liang, "On the fairness-efficiency tradeoff for packet processing with multiple resources," in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Sydney, Australia, December 2014. (see also technical report)
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Low complexity multi-resource fair queueing with bounded delay," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, April 2014.
• W. Wang, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Multi-resource round robin: a low complexity packet scheduler with dominant resource fairness," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Gottingen, Germany, October 2013.(see also technical report)
  
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "On fairness-efficiency tradeoffs for multi-resource packet processing," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2013, 6 pages. (invited paper)
  
• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Multi-resource generalized processor sharing for packet processing," in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Qualify of Service (IWQoS), Montreal, Quebec, June 2013.
• J. Deng, Y. Han, and B. Liang, "Fairness index based on variational distance,"in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.

• H. Ju, B. Liang, J. Li, and X. Yang, "Dynamic power allocation for throughput utility maximization in interference-limited networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 22 – 25, February 2013.
• M. Lotfinezhad, B. Liang, and E. Sousa, "Optimal control of constrained cognitive radio networks with dynamic population size," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Diego, California, March 2010.
• M. Lotfinezhad, B. Liang, and E. Sousa, "On stability region and delay performance of linear-memory randomized scheduling for time-varying networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1860 – 1873, December 2009.
• M. Lotfinezhad, B. Liang, and E. Sousa, "Dynamic control of tunable sub-optimal algorithms for scheduling of time-varying wireless networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Enschede, The Netherlands, June 2008. Extended version at http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4594

• S. Mehdian and B. Liang, "Jointly optimal selection and scheduling for lossy transmission of dependent frames with delay constraint," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Qualify of Service (IWQoS), Hong Kong, China, May 2014.
• G. Ji and B. Liang, "Stochastic rate control for scalable VBR video streaming over wireless networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2009.
• G. Ji and B. Liang, and A. Saleh, "Buffer schemes for VBR video streaming over heterogeneous wireless networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
• G. Liang and B. Liang, "Balancing interruption frequency and buffering penalties in VBR video streaming," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
• G. Liang and B. Liang, "Effect of delay and buffering on jitter-free streaming over random VBR channels," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1128 – 1141, October 2008.
• T. Small, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Topology affects the efficiency of network coding in peer-to-peer networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, May 2008.
• T. Small, B. Liang, and B. Li. "Scaling laws and tradeoffs in peer-to-peer live multimedia streaming," in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, California, October 2006.
• T. Small, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Outreach: peer-to-peer topology construction towards minimized server bandwidth costs," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 35-45, January 2007.

• W. Wang, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Designing truthful spectrum double auctions with local markets," with supplemental document, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 75 – 88, January 2014. ( Earlier version in SECON'11)
• J. Lau and B. Liang, "Optimal pricing for selfish users and prefetching in heterogeneous wireless networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007.

• Y. Lin, B. Liang, and B. Li, "SlideOR: oline opportunistic network coding in wireless mesh networks," in Proceedings of the Mini-Conference track of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Diego, California, March 2010.
• Y. Lin, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Passive loss inference in wireless sensor networks based on network coding," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
• Y. Lin, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Priority random linear codes in distributed storage systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1653-1667, November 2009.
• Y. Lin, B. Li, and B. Liang. "CodeOR: opportunistic routing in wireless mesh networks with segmented network coding," in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Orlando, Florida, October 2008.
• Y. Lin, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Geometric random linear codes in sensor networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, May 2008.
• Y. Lin, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Efficient network coded data transmissions in disruption tolerant networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Pheonix, Arizona, April 2008.
• Y. Lin, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Stochastic analysis of network coding in epidemic routing," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Delay and Disruption Tolerant Wireless Communication Systems, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 794 – 808, June 2008.
• Y. Lin, B. Liang, and B. Li, "Data persistence in large-scale sensor networks with decentralized fountain codes," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007. (This version contains post-publication corrections.)

• S. A. Hejazi and B. Liang, "Throughput analysis of multiple access relay channel under collision model," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Diego, California, March 2010.
• S. Vakil and B. Liang, "Effect of joint cooperation and multi-hopping on the capacity of wireless networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), San Francisco, California, 2008. Extended version at http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3569
• S. Vakil and B. Liang, "Decentralized multiuser diversity with cooperative relaying in wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), June 2007.
• S. Vakil and B. Liang, "Cooperative diversity in interference limited wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 3185 – 3195, August 2008.

• M. Lotfinezhad, B. Liang, and E. Sousa, "Adaptive cluster-based data collection in sensor networks with direct sink access," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 884 – 897, July 2008.
• K. Yuen, B. Liang, and B. Li, "A distributed framework for correlated data gathering in sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 578 – 593, January 2008.
• M. Lotfinezhad and B. Liang, "Effect of partially correlated data on clustering in wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara, California, October 2004.

Wireless Relay Placement

• A. Abdrabou, B. Liang, and W. Zhuang, "Delay analysis for sparse vehicular sensor networks with reliability considerations," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 4402-4413, September 2013.
• A. So and B. Liang, "Optimal placement and channel assignment of relay stations in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks by modified Bender's decomposition," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 118 – 135, January 2009. (invited from IFIP Networking 2007)
• A. So and B. Liang, "Enhancing WLAN capacity by strategic placement of tetherless relay points," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 522-535, May 2007.
• A. So and B. Liang, "An efficient wireless extension point placement algorithm in urban rectilineal WLANs," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 532 – 547, January 2008.

Ad Hoc Networking

• B. Liang and M. Dong, "Packet prioritization in multihop latency aware scheduling for delay constrained communication," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 819-930, May 2007. (Early version in ACM MobiHoc'06)
• J. Eshet and B. Liang, "Randomly ranked mini slots for fair and efficient medium access control in ad hoc networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 481-493, May 2007.
• B. Liang and Z. J. Haas, "Hybrid routing in ad hoc networks with a dynamic virtual backbone," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1392-1405, June 2006.
• B. Liang and Z. J. Haas, "Optimizing route-cache lifetime in ad hoc networks," in Proceedings of the 22th IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.
• Z. J. Haas, J. Deng, B. Liang, P. Papadimitratos, and S. Sajama, "Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, John G. Proakis, Editor, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.
• B. Liang and Z. J. Haas, "Virtual backbone generation and maintenance for ad hoc network mobility management," in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE INFOCOM, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
• Z. J. Haas and B. Liang, "Ad-hoc mobility management with randomized database groups," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1999.
• Z. J. Haas and B. Liang, "Ad hoc mobility management with Uniform Quorum Systems," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 228-240, April 1999.

Predictive Mobility Management

• Y. Fang, Z. J. Haas, B. Liang, and Y.-B. Lin, "TTL prediction schemes and effects of inter-update time distribution on wireless data access," ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 607–619, September 2004.
• B. Liang and Z. J. Haas, "Predictive distance-based mobility management for multi-dimensional PCS networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 718-732, October 2003.
• B. Liang and Z. J. Haas, "Predictive distance-based mobility management for PCS networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM), New York, New York, March 1999.