Xiang

Research Interests:

Free Space Optical Communications: optimize and prototype a free space optical (FSO) communications platform to be used in drone-assisted wireless networks and smart grid networks. The following figure shows the testbed of the tunable FSO system, where an FSO receiver receives data streams carried by two different optical beams from two different FSO transmitters based on the TDM manner.

Drone-assisted Mobile Access Networks: design the drone assisted mobile access network architecture to enable drone mounted base station (DBS) to help macro base station deliver traffic to ground users; develop dynamic DBS placement strategies by applying machine learning technologies; investigate wireless backhauling solutions and resource allocation methods in drone assisted mobile access networks.
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC): design and develop network and protocols to achieve the MEC framework; develop software-defined network and network function virtualization solutions for MEC; investigate efficient resource management and workload allocation strategies for MEC by incorporating machine learning technologies.
Internet of Things (IoT): design communications protocols to reduce the energy consumption of IoT devices; develop the semantic IoT framework to improve the interoperability among IoT devices; investigate security solutions to defend the IoT system against various attacks.

News

[Dec 2020] Dr. Sun is serving on the technical program committee (TPC) for BRAINS'2021 (Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services).
[2020] Our paper "An FSO-based Drone Charging System for Emergency Communications" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
[2020] Our paper "Caching IoT Resources in Green Brokers at the Application Layer" has been accepted by EdgeComm workshop of SEC 2020.
[2020] Our paper "Jointly Optimizing User Clustering, Power Management, and Wireless Channel Allocation for NOMA based Internet of Things" has been accepted by the Digital Communications and Networks.
[2020] Our papers "MF-HER: Marine Mammal-Friendly Based High Spectral-Efficient Routing for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" and "Node Energy Consumption Balanced Multi-Hop Transmission for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Based on Clustering Algorithm" have been accepted by the IEEE Access.
[May 2020] Dr. Sun is serving on the technical program committee (TPC) for CCNC 2021 (2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)).
[Apr 2020] Dr. Sun is serving on the technical program committee (TPC) for Globecom2020 (2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference).
[Apr 2020] Our paper "Optimizing Networked Flying Platform Deployment and Access Point Association in FSO-based Fronthaul Networks" has been accepted by the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
[Jan 2020] Our paper "FSO as Backhaul and Energizer for Drone-assisted Mobile Access Networks" (invited paper) has been accepted by the ICT Express.
[Dec 2019] Dr. Sun is serving on the technical program committee (TPC) for BRAINS'2020 (Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services).
[Dec 2019] Our paper "Jointly Optimized 3D Drone Mounted Base Station Deployment and User Association in Drone Assisted Mobile Access Networks" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
[Oct 2019] Our paper "Hierarchical modulation PAM4 with digital Nyquist pulse-shaped for flexible multi-ONU provisioning in NG-TDM PON" has been accepted by the Elsevier Optical Fiber Technology.
[Oct 2019] Our paper "Nyquist Four-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation Scheme (PAM4) based on Hierarchical Modulation in IM/DD-TDM PON with Hybrid Equalization" has been accepted by the Elsevier Optics Communications.
[Sep 2019] Our paper "An FSO-based Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Emergency Communications" has been accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
[Sep 2019] Our paper "SoarNet" has been accepted by the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
[Sep 2019] Dr. Sun is appointed as a technical committee member of the Elsevier Computer Communications journal.
[Jul 2019] Our paper "A Cooperative Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Disaster Emergency Communications" has been accepted by the 2019 IEEE Globecom.
[Jun 2019] Dr. Sun is serving as a publicity co-chair for EAI QShine 2019.
[May 2019] Our paper "Mobile Edge Computing Empowers Internet of Things" has been selected for Best Tutorial Paper Award by the IEICE Communications Society.
[Apr 2019] Dr. Sun received the 2019 Outstanding Doctorial Dissertation Award by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
[Oct 2018] Xiang is appointed as an Associate Editor of Digital Communications and Networks.
[Sep 2018] Our paper "Placing Multiple Drone Base Stations in Hotspots" has been accepted by the 39th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2018.
[May 2018] Xiang's research, entitled "Enabling Semantic Mashup in Internet of Things", has been selected as InterDigital Innovation Award 2018.
[Mar 2018] Xiang is serving as a symposium co-chair in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019).

Services

Editorial Board

Associate Editor of Digital Communications and Networks.

Technical Committee

Computer Communications.

Chair/Co-chair

Publicity and Social Media Chair of the 15th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine 2019).
Symposium co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2019.

Technical Program Committee:

IEEE CCNC 2018-2021, Globecom 2020, BRAINS 2020-2021, MobiEdge 2018, SENSORNETS 2021

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