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Optimal Cloudlet Placement and User to Cloudlet Allocation in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks by Jia, Mike, Jiannong Cao, Weifa Liang

“…Mobile applications are becoming increasingly computation-intensive, while the computing capability of portable mobile devices is limited. A powerful way to…”
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Charging Utility Maximization in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks by Charging Multiple Sensors Simultaneously by Ma, Yu, Liang, Weifa, Xu, Wenzheng

“…Wireless energy charging has been regarded as a promising technology for prolonging sensor lifetime in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs). Most…”
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Reliability-Aware Network Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks by Li, Jing, Liang, Weifa, Huang, Meitian, Jia, Xiaohua

“…The Mobile Edge-Cloud (MEC) network has emerged as a promising networking paradigm to address the conflict between increasing computing-intensive applications…”
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Efficient Scheduling of Multiple Mobile Chargers for Wireless Sensor Networks by Xu, Wenzheng, Liang, Weifa, Lin, Xiaola, Mao, Guoqiang

“…In this paper, we study the deployment of multiple mobile charging vehicles to charge sensors in a large-scale wireless sensor network for a given monitoring…”
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Approximation Algorithms for Charging Reward Maximization in Rechargeable Sensor Networks via a Mobile Charger by Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Jiugen Shi, Guoqiang Mao, Das, Sajal K.

“…Wireless energy transfer has emerged as a promising technology for wireless sensor networks to power sensors with controllable yet perpetual energy. In this…”
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Maximizing Throughput of Delay-Sensitive NFV-Enabled Request Admissions via Virtualized Network Function Placement by Huang, Meitian, Liang, Weifa, Ma, Yu, Guo, Song

“…Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has attracted significant attention from both industry and academia as an important paradigm change in network service…”
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Data Collection Maximization in Renewable Sensor Networks via Time-Slot Scheduling by Ren, Xiaojiang, Liang, Weifa, Xu, Wenzheng

“…In this paper we study data collection in an energy renewable sensor network for scenarios such as traffic monitoring on busy highways, where sensors are…”
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Cost Minimization for Rule Caching in Software Defined Networking by Huawei Huang, Song Guo, Peng Li, Weifa Liang, Zomaya, Albert Y.

“…Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging network paradigm that simplifies network management by decoupling the control plane and data plane, such that…”
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Efficient Algorithms for the Identification of Top- k Structural Hole Spanners in Large Social Networks by Wenzheng Xu, Rezvani, Mojtaba, Weifa Liang, Yu, Jeffrey Xu, Chengfei Liu

“…Recent studies show that individuals in a social network can be divided into different groups of densely connected communities, and these individuals who…”
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Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks by Jia, Mike, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Meitian Huang

“…With advances in wireless communication technology, more and more people depend heavily on portable mobile devices for businesses, entertainments and social…”
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Collusion-Resistant Repeated Double Auctions for Relay Assignment in Cooperative Networks by Xu, Zichuan, Liang, Weifa

“…Cooperative communication effectively enhances the channel capacity of wireless networks by allowing some single-antenna nodes to relay data for other nodes…”
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Near-Optimal Routing Protection for In-Band Software-Defined Heterogeneous Networks by Huang, Huawei, Guo, Song, Liang, Weifa, Li, Keqiu, Ye, Baoliu, Zhuang, Weihua

“…Facing the spectrum supply-demand gap, heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a promising approach to achieve drastic gains in network coverage and capacity…”
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Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Minimum Forest Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink by Weifa Liang, Schweitzer, P., Zichuan Xu

“…To deploy a wireless sensor network for the purpose of large-scale monitoring, in this paper, we propose a heterogeneous and hierarchical wireless sensor…”
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Collaboration- and Fairness-Aware Big Data Management in Distributed Clouds by Qiufen Xia, Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Zomaya, Albert Y.

“…With the advancement of information and communication technology, data are being generated at an exponential rate via various instruments and collected at an…”
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Minimum-energy all-to-all multicasting in wireless ad hoc networks by Weifa Liang, Brent, R., Yinlong Xu, Qingshan Wang

“…A wireless ad hoc network consists of mobile nodes that are powered by batteries. The limited battery lifetime imposes a severe constraint on the network…”
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Performance Analysis of Raptor Codes Under Maximum Likelihood Decoding by Wang, Peng, Mao, Guoqiang, Lin, Zihuai, Ding, Ming, Liang, Weifa, Ge, Xiaohu, Lin, Zhiyun

“…In this paper, we analyze the maximum likelihood decoding performance of Raptor codes with a systematic low-density generator-matrix code as the pre-code. By…”
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Efficient Embedding of Virtual Networks to Distributed Clouds via Exploring Periodic Resource Demands by Xu, Zichuan, Liang, Weifa, Xia, Qiufen

“…Cloud computing built on virtualization technologies promises provisioning elastic computing and bandwidth resource services for enterprises that outsource…”
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Minimizing the Longest Charge Delay of Multiple Mobile Chargers for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks by Charging Multiple Sensors Simultaneously by Xu, Wenzheng, Liang, Weifa, Kan, Haibin, Xu, Yinlong, Zhang, Xinming

“…Wireless energy charging has emerged as a very promising technology for prolonging sensor lifetime in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs). Existing…”
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Monitoring Quality Maximization through Fair Rate Allocation in Harvesting Sensor Networks by Weifa Liang, Xiaojiang Ren, Xiaohua Jia, Xu Xu

“…In this paper, we consider an energy harvesting sensor network where sensors are powered by reusable energy such as solar energy, wind energy, and so on, from…”
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Quality-Aware Target Coverage in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks by Ren, Xiaojiang, Liang, Weifa, Xu, Wenzheng

“…Sensing coverage is a fundamental problem in wireless sensor networks for event detection, environment monitoring, and surveillance purposes. In this paper, we…”
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