Name: Peng Yang

Academic Title: Associate Professor

Email: yangpeng@hust.edu.cn

Research Interests:

artificial intelligence and its application in next-generation networking, mobile edge computing, video streaming and analytics

Education:

Ph.D degree, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2018

B.E. degree, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2013

Employment and Working Experience:

Associate Professor, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2000-present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Sept. 2018 - Dec. 2019

Teaching:

Multimedia Technique and Application, Video Processing and Communication

Selected Publications:

1. S. Wang, Y. Guo, N. Zhang, P. Yang, A. Zhou, and X. Shen, Delay-aware Microservice Coordination in Mobile Edge Computing: A Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, accepted. 

2. J. Chen, H. Wu, P. Yang, F. Lyu, and X. Shen, Cooperative Edge Caching with Location-based and Popular Contents for Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, accepted. 

3. P. Yang, F. Lyu, W. Wu, N. Zhang, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Edge Coordinated Query Configuration for Low-Latency and Accurate Video Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4855-4864, July 2020. 

4. Y. Tang, P. Yang, W. Wu, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen, Interference Mitigation via Cross-Tier Cooperation in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 201-213, Mar. 2020. 

5. S. Yan, P. Yang, Q. Ye, W. Zhuang, X. Shen, X. Li, and J. Rao, Transmission Protocol Customization for Network Slicing: A Case Study of Video Streaming, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 20-28, Dec. 2019. 

6. P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, L. Yu, J. Zhang, and X. Shen, Content Popularity Prediction Towards Location-Aware Mobile Edge Caching, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 915-929, Apr. 2019. (ESI Highly Cited Paper) 

7. S. Zhang, W. Quan, J. Li, W. Shi, P. Yang, and X. Shen, Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Network Slicing with Content Pushing and Caching, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 2114-2127, Sept. 2018. 

8. S. Zhang, P. He, K. Suto, P. Yang, L. Zhao, and X. Shen, Cooperative Edge Caching in User-Centric Clustered Mobile Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1791-1805, Aug. 2018. 

9. P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, K. Yang, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Identifying the Most Valuable Workers in Fog-Assisted Spatial Crowdsourcing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1193-1203, Oct. 2017. 

10. P. Yang, N. Zhang, Y. Bi, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Catalyzing Cloud-Fog Interoperation in 5G Wireless Networks: An SDN Approach, IEEE Network, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 14-20, Sept./Oct. 2017. 

11. N. Zhang, S. Zhang, P. Yang, O. Alhussein, W. Zhuang, and X. Shen, Software Defined Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 101-109, July 2017. (ESI Highly Cited Paper) 

12. J. Chen, H. Zhou, N. Zhang, P. Yang, L. Gui, and X. Shen, Software Defined Internet of Vehicles: Architecture, Challenges and Solutions, Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 14-26, June 2016. (Best Paper Award)

Conference Papers

1. F. Lyu, J. Ren, P. Yang, N. Cheng, Y. Zhang, and X. Shen, SoSA: Socializing Static APs for Edge Resource Pooling in Large-Scale WiFi System, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, 2020. (Acceptance Rate 19.8%)

2. Q. Liu, P. Yang, M. Yang, and L. Yu, CKCD: A Fair and Low Latency Queue Control Algorithm for Heterogeneous TCP Flows, in Proc. of ICNC, Big Island, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 725-730. (Acceptance Rate 24.9%) 

3. X. Cao, Y. Li, J. Han, P. Yang, F. Lyu, D. Guo, and X. Shen, Online Worker Selection Towards High Quality Map Collection for Autonomous Driving, in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2019. 

4. P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, F. Lyu, L. Yu, and X. Shen, Asymptotic Optimal Edge Resource Allocation for Video Streaming via User Preference Prediction, in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Shanghai, China, 2019. 

5. Y. Tang, P. Yang, W. Wu, J. W. Mark, and X. Shen, Cooperation-Based Interference Mitigation in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks, in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Shanghai, China, 2019. 

6.M. Yang, P. Yang, C. Wen, Q. Liu, J. Luo, and L. Yu, Adaptive-BBR: Fine-Grained Congestion Control with Improved Fairness and Low Latency, in Proc. of IEEE WCNC, Marrakech, Morocco, 2019. 

7. P. Yang, N. Zhang, S. Zhang, L. Yu, J. Zhang, and X. Shen, Dynamic Mobile Edge Caching with Location Differentiation, in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, 2017. 

8. S. Zhang, N. Zhang, X. Fang, P. Yang, and X. Shen, Cost-Effective Vehicular Network Planning with Cache-Enabled Green Roadside Units, in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Paris, France, 2017.

Professional Activities

IEEE Member

Technical Program Committee Member

IEEE VTC-Fall, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016

Session Chair

IEEE VTC-Fall 2017, IEEE GLOBECOM 2017

Reviewer for

IEEE Communications Magazine

IEEE Wireless Communications

IEEE Network

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

IEEE Access

IET Communications

Journal of Communications and Information Networks

a number of IEEE conferences, including GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, PIMRC, VTC, WCSP