Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Shen, Xuemin (Sherman)"
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Computation Offloading and Task Scheduling on Network Edge
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-06)The Fifth-Generation (5G) networks facilitate the evolution of communication systems and accelerate a revolution in the Information Technology (IT) field. In the 5G era, wireless networks are anticipated to provide ... -
Connectivity-Aware Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-13)Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a promising emerging technology that enables a wide range of appealing applications in road safety, traffic management, and passengers and driver comfort. The deployment of VANETs to ... -
Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)To support increasing data-intensive wireless applications, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as the most promising wireless technology that offers high data rate connections by exploiting a large swath of ... -
Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)The advancement of battery and electronic technologies pushes forward transportation electrification, accelerating the commercialization and prevalence of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The development of PEVs is closely ... -
Intelligent Multi-Dimensional Resource Management in MEC-Assisted Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-27)Benefiting from advances in the automobile industry and wireless communication technologies, the vehicular network has been emerged as a key enabler of intelligent transportation services. Allowing real-time information ... -
Low-Complexity Multi-User MIMO Algorithms for mmWave WLANs
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Very high throughput and high-efficiency wireless local area networks (WLANs) have become essential for today's significant global Internet traffic and the expected significant global increase of public WiFi hotspots. Total ... -
Multi-Dimensional Resource Orchestration in Vehicular Edge Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)In the era of autonomous vehicles, the advanced technologies of connected vehicle lead to the development of driving-related applications to meet the stringent safety requirements and the infotainment applications to improve ... -
Multi-Drone-Cell 3D Trajectory Planning and Resource Allocation for Drone-Assisted Radio Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Equipped with communication modules, drones can perform as drone-cells (DCs) that provide on-demand communication services to users in various scenarios, such as traffic monitoring, Internet of things (IoT) data collections, ... -
Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization for Vehicular Communication Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Recently, vehicular networks (VANETs), has become the key technology of the next-generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS). By incorporating wireless communication and networking capabilities into automobiles, ... -
Performance Analysis of Drive-thru Internet Access
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)Drive-thru Internet is considered to be an important solution to provide Internet access for vehicles. By deploying cost-effective and high bandwidth roadside WiFi networks, a vehicle can upload/download considerable data ... -
Privacy-Preserving and Regulation-Enabled Mechanisms for Blockchain-based Financial Services
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the success of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology has attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry. As a distributed ledger technology, blockchain provides decentralization and ... -
Radio Resource Management in LTE-Advanced Systems with Carrier Aggregation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-16)In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for wireless broadband services from fast growing mobile users, the Long Term Evolution -Advanced (LTE-A) standard has been proposed to effectively improve the system capacity ... -
Resource Allocation in SDN/NFV-Enabled Core Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)For next generation core networks, it is anticipated to integrate communication, storage and computing resources into one unified, programmable and flexible infrastructure. Software-defined networking (SDN) and network ... -
Resource and Interference Management in UAV-Cellular Network
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-01)The future Sixth-Generation (6G) network is anticipated to extend connectivity for millions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) worldwide and support various innovative use cases, such as cargo transport, inspection, and ... -
Security and Privacy for Mobile Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)With the ever-increasing demands of people's social interactions, traditional online social networking applications are being shifted to the mobile ones, enabling users' social networking and interactions anywhere anytime. ... -
Security and Privacy in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-16)Smart grid utilizes different communication technologies to enhance the reliability and efficiency of the power grid; it allows bi-directional flow of electricity and information, about grid status and customers requirements, ... -
Security and Privacy Preservation in Mobile Advertising
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Mobile advertising is emerging as a promising advertising strategy, which leverages prescriptive analytics, location-based distribution, and feedback-driven marketing to engage consumers with timely and targeted advertisements. ... -
Security and Privacy Preservation in Mobile Crowdsensing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-09)Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a compelling paradigm that enables a crowd of individuals to cooperatively collect and share data to measure phenomena or record events of common interest using their mobile devices. Pairing ...