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Guoliang Xing

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

E-mail:  glxing AT msu.edu (work); guoliang.xing AT gmail.com (personal)
Phone: (517) 588-3038;  Fax: (517) 432-1061
3115 Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1226

My Google homepage;   Group homepage; Experimental Laboratory for Advanced Networking and Systems (eLANS) 

News

·        3/2013, one paper is accepted to MobiSys 2013.

·        1/2013, two papers on volcano monitoring and in situ power meter are accepted to IPSN 2013.

·        1/2013, the Supero paper is selected as one of three candidates for the Best Paper Award at PerCom 2013.

·        12/2012，two papers on residential power usage profiling and WiFi performance monitoring are accepted to PerCom 2013 as full papers. 

·        8/2012, awarded new NSF grant on Networked Sensing Systems.

·        8/2012, invited to serve on TPC of MobiSys 2013 and ICCPS 2013.

·        8/2012, two papers on Cyber-Physical Systems accepted to RTSS 2012.

·        7/2012, traveled to Ecuador and deployed the first 6 stations on Volcano Tungurahua (news article here and here ); see some photos on the project website.

·        7/2012, Jun successfully defended his Ph.D thesis, congratulations to Jun!

·        6/2012, joined the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)

·        5/2012, joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)

·        4/2012, served as the Chair of RTSS Wireless Sensor Networks Track 2012

·        3/2012, one paper accepted to MobiSys 2012.

·        1/2012, one paper accepted to IPSN 2012.

·        Awarded a new grant from NSF: “VolcanoSRI: 4D Volcano Tomography in a Large-Scale Sensor Network”, $1.8M (with WenZhan Song, Georgia State University, Jonathan Lees, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), 2011-2015,

·        Invited to serve on TPC of PerCom 2012 and MobiSys 2012.

·        7/2011, one paper is accepted to SenSys 2011.

·        7/2011, one paper is accepted to RTSS 2011.

·        7/2011, invited to attend the Faculty Summit organized by Microsoft Research.

·        3/2011, one paper is accepted to MobiSys 2011.

·        1/2011, two papers are accepted to ICDCS 2011.

·        11/2010, two papers are accepted to INFOCOM 2011.

·        10/5/2010, our paper "Beyond Co-existence: Exploiting WiFi White Space for ZigBee Performance Assurance" wins the Best Paper Award at ICNP 2010! 

·        10/5/2010, our paper "Passive Interference Measurement in Wireless Sensor Networks" is selected as a Best Paper Award candidate (6 out of 170 submissions) at ICNP 2010!   

·         9/2010, awarded an NSF grant on aquatic sensor networks (2010-2013, PI, Co-PI: Prof. Xiaobo Tan).

·        8/2010, all of our four submissions are accepted to IEEE RTSS, the premier conference on real-time systems and networking.

·        7/2010, both of our two submissions are accepted to IEEE ICNP, a premier conference on networking.

·        6/2010, our ZiFi paper is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2010, acceptance ratio 33/233=14.2%!

·        5/2010, a paper is accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2010.

·        3/2010, NSF CAREER Award, 2010-2015.

·        12/2009, paper "Negotiate Power and Performance in the Reality of RFID Systems" is accepted to PerCom 2010 as best paper candidate (3 out of 227 submissions), congrats to Xunteng!

·        11/2009, paper "Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks" is accepted to Infocom 2010, congrats to Rui!

·        9/15/2009 - Awarded NSF project CNS 0916576, PI, 2009-2012.

·         8/21/2009 - Two papers are accepted to IEEE RTSS, the premier conference on real-time systems and networks. Congrats to Rui, Mo, and Jun!

·        6/2009 - Our fusion paper is accepted to MobiCom 2009! The acceptance ratio of the conference is 30/282=10.6%. Congrats to Rui!

·        4/13-16, 2009 - Attended the CPS week and co-organized the Demo/Poster session of RTAS 09.

Research Projects

For details of our projects, visit our group homepage.

Cyber-Physical and Sensor Systems

  • Aquatic diffusion profiling using robotic fish 
  • Volcano monitoring using wireless sensor networks
  • Datacenter thermal monitoring
  • Residential power usage profiling

 

Wireless Networking 

  • Passive interference measurement
  • Coexistence in open radio spectrum

 

Smartphone Systems

  • Visible light-based near field communication
  • Smartphone-based body sensor networks

 Selected Publications

(Former and current students/postdocs supervised by Dr. Xing are underlined)

 

2013

1.      LEAD: Leveraging Protocol Signatures for Improving Wireless Link Performance, Jun Huang, Yu Wang, Guoliang Xing, The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), acceptance ratio: 33/210 = 15.7%. new!

 

2.      WizNet: A ZigBee-based Sensor System for Distributed Wireless LAN Performance Monitoring, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing, Xunteng Xu, Jianping Wang, Lin Gu, The 11th  IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2013, acceptance ratio: 18 full papers out of 170 submissions = 10.6%. new!

 

3.      Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring, Dennis E. Phillips, Rui Tan, Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami, Guoliang Xing, Jinzhu Chen, David K. Y. Yau, The 11th  IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2013, acceptance ratio: 18 full papers out of 170 submissions = 10.6%, selected as one of three candidates for the Best Paper Award.  new!

 

4.      Volcanic Earthquake Timing using Wireless Sensor Networks, Guojin Liu, Rui Tan, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing, WenZhan Song, Jonathan Lees, The 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), acceptance ratio: 24/115=21%. new!

 

5.      Nemo: A High-fidelity Noninvasive Power Meter System for Wireless Sensor Networks, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing, The 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), acceptance ratio: 24/115=21%. new!

2012

 

1.      ZiFind: Exploiting Cross-Technology Interference Signatures for Energy-Efficient Indoor Localization, Yuhang Gao, Jianwei Niu, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing, The 31th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), acceptance raio: 280/1613 = 17/%. new!

 

2.      Spatiotemporal Aquatic Field Reconstruction Using Robotic Sensor Swarm, Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaobo Tan, Jianxun Wang, Ruogu Zhou, The 33st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2012, acceptance ratio: 35/157=22%. new!

3.      A High-Fidelity Temperature Distribution Forecasting System for Data Centers, Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Yu Wang, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Bill Punch, Dirk Colbry, The 33st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2012, acceptance ratio: 35/157=22%. new!

4.      COBRA: Color Barcode Streaming for Smartphone Systems, Tian Hao, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing,  The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 25 – June 29, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, acceptance ratio: 32 / 182 = 17.5%. new!

5.      Accuracy-Aware Aquatic Diffusion Process Profiling Using Robotic Sensor Networks, Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan, The 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 16-20, 2012 Beijing, China, acceptance ratio: 22/147 = 14.9%. new!

6.      Exploiting Statistical Mobility Models for Efficient WiFi Deployment, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia, Guoliang Xing, Minming Li, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in press.

7.      Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sinks, Wang Liu, Kejie Lu, Jianping Wang, Guoliang Xing, Liusheng Huang, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 61(6), 2012.new!

8.      Minimum Transmission Power Configuration in Real-Time Sensor Networks with Overlapping Channels, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Yanjun Yao, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 9(3): 1-31, December 2012. (accepted to appear)

9.      Fidelity-Aware Real-Time Utilization Control for Cyber-Physical Systems, Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, and Xing Fu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 23(12): 1-14, December 2012. (Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems, accepted to appear)

10.   Leveraging Thermal Dynamics in Sensor Placement for Overheating Server Component Detection, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Cheng-Xian Lin, the third IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2012), San Jose, California, June 2012. (Acceptance rate: 18/60 = 30%)

2011

1.      PBN: Towards Practical Acitvity Recognition Using Smartphone-Based Body Sensor Networks, Matthew Keally, Gang Zhou, Guoliang Xing, Jianxin Wu, Andrew Pyles, ACM SenSys, Seattle, WA, 2011, acceptance ratio: 24/123=19.5.

2.      WizSync: Exploiting Wi-Fi Infrastructure for Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Tian Hao, Ruogu Zhou, Guoliang Xing, Matt Mutka, the 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Vienna, Austria, November 29 - December 2, 2011, acceptance ratio: 21%.

3.      Exploiting FM Radio Data System for Adaptive Clock Calibration in Sensor Networks, Liqun Li, Guoliang Xing, Limin Sun, Wei Huangfu, Ruogu Zhou, Hongsong Zhu, The 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 28 – July 1, Washington DC, USA, acceptance ratio: 25 / 141 = 17.7%.

4.      Accuracy-aware Interference Modeling and Measurement in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jun Huang, Shucheng Liu, Guoliang Xing, Hongwei Zhang, Jianping Wang, Liusheng Huang, The 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 20-24, 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

5.      Towards Optimal Sensor Placement for Hot Server Detection in Data Centers, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, Jinzhu Chen, Cheng-Xian Lin and Yixin Chen, The 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 20-24, 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

6.      Energy Provisioning in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks, Shibo He, Jiming Chen, Fachang Jiang, David K. Yau , Guoliang Xing, Youxian Sun, The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 10-15, Shanghai, China, acceptance ratio: 291 / 1823 = 15.9%.

7.      Exploiting Sensing Diversity for Confident Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Matthew Keally, Gang Zhou, Guoliang Xing, The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 10-15, Shanghai, China, acceptance ratio: 291 / 1823 = 15.9%.

8.      Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Cyber-Physical Systems, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhaohui Yuan, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), in press.

9.      Exploring the Interplay between Computation and Communication in Distributed Real-Time Scheduling, Xinfa Hu, Guoliang Xing, Joseph Y.-T. Leung, IEEE Transactions on Computers, in press.

10.   Exploiting Data Fusion to Improve the Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, in press.

11.   Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-based Surveillance Networks, Xiangmao Chang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Yixian Yang, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),  vol.22, no.8, pp.1407-1414, Aug. 2011.

12.   Fast Release/Capture Sampling in Large-scale Sensor Networks, Shaoliang Peng, Guoliang Xing, Shanshan Li, Weijia Jia, Yuxing Peng, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), in press.

13.  Localized and Configurable Topology Control in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Xiaohua Jia, Robert Pless, Ad Hoc Networks, in press.

14.   Performance Analysis of Real-Time Detection in Fusion-Based Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Benyuan Liu,  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 22 , Issue 9, Pages: 1564 - 1577, 2011.

15.   Read More with Less: An Adaptive Approach to Energy-Efficient RFID Systems, Xunteng Xu, Lin Gu, Jianping Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Shing-Chi Cheung, IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 29, NO. 8, SEPTEMBER 2011

2010

1.      Beyond Co-existence: Exploiting WiFi White Space for ZigBee Performance Assurance, Jun Huang, Guoliang Xing, Gang Zhou, Ruogu Zhou, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Kyoto, Japan, on October 5-8, 2010, acceptance ratio: 31/170 = 18.2%, Best Paper Award! (1 out of 170 submissions).

2.      Passive Interference Measurement in Wireless Sensor Networks, Shucheng Liu, Guoliang Xing, Hongwei Zhang, Jianping Wang, Jun Huang, Mo Sha, Liusheng Huang, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Kyoto, Japan, on October 5-8, 2010, acceptance ratio: 31/170 = 18.2%, Best Paper Candidate (6 out of 170 submissions).

3.      Quality-driven Volcanic Earthquake Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jinzhu Chen, Wenzhan Song, Renjie Huang, The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), November 30 - December 3, 2010 San Diego, CA, USA.

4.      System-level Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), November 30 - December 3, 2010 San Diego, CA, USA.

5.      Adaptive Voice Stream Multicast over Low-power Wireless Networks, Liqun Li, Guoliang Xing, Qi Han, Limin Sun, The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), November 30 - December 3, 2010 San Diego, CA, USA.

6.      Fidelity-Aware Utilization Control for Cyber-Physical Surveillance Systems, Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, Xing Fu, The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), November 30 - December 3, 2010 San Diego, CA, USA.

7.      ZiFi: Wireless LAN Discovery via ZigBee Interference Signatures, Ruogu Zhou, Yongping Xiong, Guoliang Xing, Limin Sun, Jian Ma, The 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Chicago, USA, September 2010, acceptance ratio: 33/233=14.2%.

  1. Barrier Coverage with Sensors of Limited Mobility, Anwar Saipulla, Benyuan Liu, Guoliang Xing, Xinwen Fu, Jie Wang, The 11th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Chicago, USA, September 2010.
  2. Efficient Coverage Maintenance Based on Probabilistic Distributed Detection, Guoliang Xing; Xiangmao Chang; Chenyang Lu; Jianping Wang; Ke Shen, Robert Pless; Joseph A. O’Sullivan, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted for publication, to appear.
  3. Cross-layer Sleep Scheduling Design in Service-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks, Jianping Wang, Deying Li, Guoliang Xing, Hongwei Du, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1622-1633, 2010.
  4. Mobile Scheduling for Spatiotemporal Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing; Jianping Wang; Zhaohui Yuan, Rui Tan; Limin Sun; Qingfeng Huang; Xiaohua Jia; Hing Cheung So, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 1851-1866, December 2010.
  5. Negotiate Power and Performance in the Reality of RFID Systems, Xunteng Xu, Lin Gu, Jianping Wang, Guoliang Xing, the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 29 - April 2, 2010, Mannheim, Germany, acceptance ratio: 27/227=12%, best paper candidate (3 out of 227 submissions)
  6. Real-Time Data Aggregation in Contention-based Wireless Sensor Networks, Jun Zhang, Xiaohua Jia, Guoliang Xing, ACM transactions on Sensor Networks, accepted, to appear.
  7. Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhaohui Yuan, the 29th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, acceptance ratio:  276/1575=17.5%.
  8. Exploiting Overlapping Channels for Minimum Power Configuration in Real-Time Sensor Networks, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Yanjun Yao, European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), February 17-19, 2010, Coimbra, Portugal, acceptance ratio: 22/109=20%.
  9. Watchdog: Confident Event Detection in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, Matt Kelly, Gang Zhou, Guoliang Xing, 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), April 12 - 15, 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.


  2009

1.     Impact of Data Fusion on Real-Time Detection in Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS),  December 1-4, 2009, Washington, D.C.

2.     Multi-channel Interference Measurement and Modeling in Low-Power Wireless Networks, Guoliang Xing, Mo Sha, Jun Huang, Gang Zhou, Xiaorui Wang and Shucheng Liu, the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 1-4, 2009, Washington, D.C.

3.     Data Fusion Improves the Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing, Rui Tan, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia, Chih-wei Yi, the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Sept. 20-25, Beijing, China, acceptance ratio: 30/282=10.6%.

4.     Exploiting Reactive Mobility for Collaborative Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang and Hing Cheung So, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted for publication, to appear.

5.     Link Layer Driver Architecture for Unified Radio Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Kevin Klues, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), accepted for publication, to appear.

6.     Dynamic Multi-resolution Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing, Minming Li, Hongbo Luo, Xiaohua Jia, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume 8 , Issue 9, 2009. 

7.     Sidewinder: A Predictive Data Forwarding Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Matthew Keally, Gang Zhou, Guoliang Xing, the 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), June 22-26, Rome, Italy, acceptance ratio: 81/431=18.8%.

8.     QVS: Quality-aware Voice Streaming for Wireless Sensor Networks, Liqun Li, Guoliang Xing, Limin Sun, the 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 22-26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, acceptance ratio: 74/455 = 16%.

9.     C-MAC: Model-driven Concurrent Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks, Mo Sha, Guoliang Xing, Gang Zhou, Shucheng Liu, Xiaorui Wang, the 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2009, acceptance ratio: 282/1435 = 19.6 %. 

10.  Flow-Based Real-Time Communication in Multi-Channel Wireless Sensor Networks, Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Xing Fu, Guoliang Xing, and Nitish Jha,  the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Cork, Ireland, February 2009, acceptance ratio: 23/145 = 15%.

 

2008

  1. SGF: A State-Free Gradient-Based Forwarding Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Pei Huang, Hongyang Chen, Guoliang Xing, Yongdong Tan, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 5 , Issue 2 (March 2009).
  2. Rendezvous Planning in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Elements, Guoliang Xing, Tian Wang, Zhihui Xie and Weijia Jia, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume 7 , Issue 12 (December 2008). 
     
  3. Fast Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-based Target Detection, Zhaohui Yuan, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Jianping Wang, the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, acceptance ratio: 44/189 = 23%.

  4. Collaborative Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Reactive Mobility, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang and Hing Cheung So, the 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), June 2-4, 2008, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

  5. Rendezvous Design Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Base Station, Guoliang Xing, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia, Minming Li, the 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong, acceptance ratio 44/300=14.6%.  

  6. Mobility-assisted Spatiotemporal Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Ke Shen, Qingfeng Huang, Xiaohua Jia and Hing Cheung So, the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Beijing, China, Jun 17-20, 2008, acceptance ratio 102/638=16%.
      

2007

  1. Minimum Power Configuration for Wireless Communication in Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing,  Chenyang Lu; Ying Zhang; Qingfeng Huang; Robert Pless, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 3 (2), June 2007.
  2. AnySense: a Video Communication Architecture for Urban Sensing Applications, Weijia Jia, Guoliang  Xing, Posco Tso, and Bin Dai, Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research, in conjunction with the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Nov. 6-9, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
  3. Rendezvous Planning in Mobility-assisted Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing, Tian Wang, Zhihui Xie and Weijia Jia, the 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 3-6, 2007, Tucson, Arizona, USA, acceptance ratio 44/171=25.7%.

  4. Dynamic Multi-resolution Data Dissemination in Storage-centric Wireless Sensor Networks, Hongbo Luo, Guoliang Xing, Minming Li, Xiaohua Jia, the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), October 22 - 26, 2007, Chania, Crete Island, Greece, acceptance ratio 41/161=24.8%.

  5. Link Layer Support for Unified Radio Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Kevin Klues, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 25-27, 2007, acceptance ratio 38/170=22.3%.

2006 and before

  1. Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration for Energy Conservation in Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing; Xiaorui Wang; Yuanfang Zhang; Chenyang Lu; Robert Pless; Christopher D. Gill, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 1 (1), 2005. Note: this paper and the shorter version that appeared at SenSys 2003 is one of the most widely cited works on the coverage problem in sensor networks. The total number of citations of the two papers is 358 according to Google Scholar.
     
  2. Impact of Sensing Coverage on Greedy Geographic Routing Algorithms, Guoliang Xing; Chenyang Lu; Robert Pless; Qingfeng Huang. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), special issue on Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks, 17(4), 2006, one of the seven papers out of 101 submissions that were accepted without any major revisions requested.
  3. Real-time Power-aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Octav Chipara, Zhimin He, Guoliang Xing, Qin Chen, Xiaorui Wang, Chenyang Lu, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, 14th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), New Haven, CT, 2006, acceptance ratio 27/152=17%.

  4. Minimum Power Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing; Chenyang Lu; Ying Zhang; Qingfeng Huang; Robert Pless, The Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), May, 2005, Urbana-Champaign, IL, acceptance ratio 40/281=14%. (presentation slides)

  5. Dynamic Wake-up and Topology Maintenance Protocols with Spatiotemporal Guarantees, Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Brandon Harris, Octav Chipara, International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), LA, CA, 2005, acceptance ratio 44/213=20.6%.

  6. A Spatiotemporal Query Service for Mobile Users in Sensor Networks, Chenyang Lu; Guoliang Xing; Octav Chipara; Chien-Liang Fok; Sangeeta Bhattacharya, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, OH, 2005, acceptance ratio 76/540=14%. (presentation slides)

  7. On Greedy Geographic Routing Algorithms in Sensing-Covered Networks, Guoliang Xing; Chenyang Lu; Robert Pless; Qingfeng Huang. The Fifth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), May, 2004, Tokyo, Japan, acceptance ratio 24/275=9%

  8. Co-Grid: An Efficient Coverage Maintenance Protocol for Distributed Sensor Networks, Guoliang Xing; Chenyang Lu; Robert Pless; Joseph A. O'Sullivan, The 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April, 2004, Berkeley, CA, acceptance ratio 50/145=34.4% (presentation slides)

  9. Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks, Xiaorui Wang; Guoliang Xing; Yuanfang Zhang; Chenyang Lu; Robert Pless; Christopher D. Gill, First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November, 2003, LA, CA, acceptance ratio 24/135=17.8%

  10. Middleware Specialization for Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems, Venkita Subramonian; Guoliang Xing; Christopher Gill; Chenyang Lu; Ron Cytron, 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May, 2004, Toronto, Canada, acceptance ratio 62/205=30.2%

 

Funding

NSF CNS-1218475, Performance Control in Networked Sensing Systems, PI, 2012-2015.
NSF OIA-1125163, VolcanoSRI: 4D Volcano Tomography in a Large-Scale Sensor Network, MSU PI, 2011-2015.
NSF ECCS 1029683, aquatic sensor networks, PI, 2010-2013.
NSF CAREER, performance-critical sensor networks, 2010-2015.
NSF CNS-0916576, performance assurance in crowded radio spectrum, MSU PI, 2009-2012.
Intramural Research Grants Program (IRGP), Michigan State University, 2009-2012.
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) of HK, 2008-2011 (withdrawn due to the leave of PI).
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) of HK, 2007-2009.

 

  Employment

2008 - Present, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

2006 - 2008, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong

2001 - 2006, Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington Univ. in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

5/2004-8/2004, Research Intern
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), CA.

  Education

D.Sc. Computer Science & Engineering, 2006
M.S.  Computer Science & Engineering, 2003
Washington Univ. in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

M.S.   Computer Science & Technology, 2001
B.S.   Electrical Engineering, 1998  
Xi'an JiaoTong University, Xi'an, China    

Group

Jun Huang (Ph.D, graduated in 2012)
Wahhab Al Bazrqaoe (Ph.D, 2013-)
Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami (Ph.D, 2011-)
Tian Hao (Ph.D, 2010-)
Yu Wang (Ph.D, 2010-)
Ruogu Zhou (Ph.D, 2009-)
Dennis Philips (Ph.D, 2009-)
Jinzhu Chen (Ph.D, 2010-)
Jing Yang (M.S, 2010-)

 Professional Service

Journal Editorial Board

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)    

Chair Positions

Program Chair, Sensor Network Track, The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2012.
Poster co-chair, The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2010
Demo/poster co-chair, The 15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (IEEE RTAS), 2009
Session chair, RTSS 2012, MobiSys 2012, MobiHoc 2010, Infocom 2010, RTSS 2009, MobiHoc 2008
Program Co-chair, The Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN), in
conjunction with ICDCS 2009
Publicity co-chair, The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems ( IEEE MASS), 2009
Program Co-chair, The Fifth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN), in
conjunction with ICDCS 2008
Program Co-chair, The First ACM International Workshop on Integrated Heterogeneous Sensor
Networks (HeterSenet) 2008, in conjunction with MobiHoc 2008
Publicity co-chair, The Fourth IEEE PerCom International workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems
for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), in conjunction with PerCom 2008

Select Technical Program Committees:

1.      The 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2013

2.      The 10th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2012

3.      Te 13th  international Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2012.

4.      The 31th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012

5.      The 10th IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), 2012

6.      The 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Wireless Sensor Networks area.

7.      The 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Wireless Sensor Networks area.

8.      The 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2011

9.      The 31th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Track on Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2011

10.   The 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2011

11.   The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2010

12.   The 31th The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) (main track, Wireless Sensor Networks track), 2010

13.   The 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2010

14.   The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2010

15.   The 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2010

16.   The 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010

17.   The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2010

18.   The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Track on Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2010

19.   The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2009, Track on Sensor Networks & Applications

20.   The 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) , the Sensor Networks and Applications Track, 2008

21.   The Ninth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2008

22.   The 11th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 2008

 

Teaching

Spring 2013 CSE422 Computer Networks

Fall 2012 CSE824: Advanced Computer Networking and Communications

Spring 2012 CSE422 Computer Networks

Fall 2011: CSE 910: Selected Topics in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

Spring 2011: CSE422 Computer Networks

Fall 2010: CSE 891 Selected Topics in Wireless Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems

Spring 2010: CSE422 Computer Networks

Fall 2009: CSE 824 Advanced Computer Networking and Communications 

Spring 2009: CSE422 Computer Networks