Research Projects
Selected Publications
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Machine Learning and Online Optimization
- J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, Joint
online optimization of model training and analog aggregation for
wireless edge learning, in press, to appear in the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking.
- F. Moradi Kalarde, B. Liang, M. Dong, Y. Ahmed, and H. T. Cheng, Power
minimization in federated learning with over-the-air aggregation and
receiver beamforming, to appear in Proceedings of the ACM
International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of
Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Montreal, QC, Canada,
October 2023.
- W. Xu, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and H. Sokun, Probabilistic
client sampling and power allocation for wireless federated learning,
in
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor
and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, ON, Canada,
September 2023.
- C. Zhang, M. Dong, B. Liang, A. Afana, and Y. Ahmed, Joint
downlink-uplink beamforming for wireless multi-antenna federated
learning, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks
(WiOpt), Singapore, August 2023. (Slides)
- J. Wang, B. Liang, M. Dong, G. Boudreau, and A. Afana, Online
distributed optimization with efficient communication via temporal
similarity, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
Computer Communications (INFOCOM), New York City, NY, USA, May
2023. (Slides)
- 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),
Catania, Italy, June 2022. (Slides)
- 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), Palo
Alto, CA, USA, June 2022.
- J. Wang and B. Liang, Gradient
and projection free distributed online min-max resource optimization,
in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) Learning for
Dynamics and Control (L4DC), Palo Alto, CA, USA, June 2022. (This
version contains post-publication corrections.)
- 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, GA, USA, June 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. (Slides)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Resource Management in Cloud and Edge Computing
- J. Wang and B. Liang, Distributed
online min-max load balancing with risk-averse assistance, 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, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1244 1262, June 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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. 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.
Stochastic Modeling and Resource Management in Wireless Networks
- J. Wang, M. Dong, B. Liang, G. Boudreau, and H. Abou-zeid, Hierarchical
semi-online optimization for cooperative MIMO networks with
information parsing, in press, to appear in IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- C. Zhang, M. Dong, and B. Liang, Ultra-low-complexity
algorithms with structurally optimal multi-group multicast beamforming
in large-scale systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 71, pp. 1626 - 1641, 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
Spectrum and Power Allocation in Wireless Relaying
- 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.
Dynamic Control in Smart Energy Systems
- 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.
Fairness and Prioritization
- 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.
Dynamic Control in Wireless Networks
- 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
Transmission and Topology Control for Multimedia Streaming
- 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.
Pricing and Economics in Wireless Access
- 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.
Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks
- 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.)
Capacity of Wireless Relaying
- 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.
Cooperation and Clustering for Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks
- 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. 607619, 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.
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