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Overview

Weifa Liang is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.

Their work focuses extensively on several subfields, including:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence

Main topics within their research encompass:

  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Age of Information Optimization
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • UAV Applications and Optimization
  • IoT Networks and Protocols
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Weifa Liang has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Mobility-Aware and Delay-Sensitive Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks" (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • "Data Collection Maximization in IoT-Sensor Networks via an Energy-Constrained UAV" (2021) in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • "Energy-Aware Inference Offloading for DNN-Driven Applications in Mobile Edge Clouds" (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • "Minimizing the Maximum Charging Delay of Multiple Mobile Chargers Under the Multi-Node Energy Charging Scheme" (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • "Throughput Maximization of Delay-Aware DNN Inference in Edge Computing by Exploring DNN Model Partitioning and Inference Parallelism" (2021) in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Zichuan Xu
  • Wenzheng Xu
  • Xiaohua Jia
  • Jing Li
  • Qiufen Xia

The key publication venues where Weifa Liang frequently contributes are:

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Best Publications

  • Optimal Cloudlet Placement and User to Cloudlet Allocation in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

    Mike Jia;Jiannong Cao;Weifa Liang

  • Constructing minimum-energy broadcast trees in wireless ad hoc networks

    Weifa Liang

  • Efficient Algorithms for Capacitated Cloudlet Placements

    Zichuan Xu;Weifa Liang;Wenzheng Xu;Mike Jia

  • Prolonging Network Lifetime via a Controlled Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Weifa Liang;Jun Luo;Xu Xu

  • Online Data Gathering for Maximizing Network Lifetime in Sensor Networks

    Weifa Liang;Yuzhen Liu

  • Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks

    Mike Jia;Weifa Liang;Zichuan Xu;Meitian Huang

  • Capacity of Cooperative Vehicular Networks with Infrastructure Support: Multiuser Case

    Jieqiong Chen;Guoqiang Mao;Changle Li;Weifa Liang

  • Charging Utility Maximization in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks by Charging Multiple Sensors Simultaneously

    Yu Ma;Weifa Liang;Wenzheng Xu

  • Efficiently computing k-edge connected components via graph decomposition

    Lijun Chang;Jeffrey Xu Yu;Lu Qin;Xuemin Lin

  • Finding maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs from a large graph

    Rui Zhou;Chengfei Liu;Jeffrey Xu Yu;Weifa Liang

  • Maximizing Sensor Lifetime with the Minimal Service Cost of a Mobile Charger in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Wenzheng Xu;Weifa Liang;Xiaohua Jia;Zichuan Xu

  • Approximation Algorithms for Charging Reward Maximization in Rechargeable Sensor Networks via a Mobile Charger

    Weifa Liang;Zichuan Xu;Wenzheng Xu;Jiugen Shi

  • Maintaining Large-Scale Rechargeable Sensor Networks Perpetually via Multiple Mobile Charging Vehicles

    Weifa Liang;Wenzheng Xu;Xiaojiang Ren;Xiaohua Jia

  • A Unified Spatio-Temporal Model for Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction

    Peibo Duan;Guoqiang Mao;Weifa Liang;Degan Zhang

  • Pyramid: Enabling Hierarchical Neural Networks with Edge Computing

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  • Efficient Scheduling of Multiple Mobile Chargers for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Wenzheng Xu;Weifa Liang;Xiaola Lin;Guoqiang Mao

  • Data Collection Maximization in IoT-Sensor Networks Via an Energy-Constrained UAV

    Yuchen Li;Weifa Liang;Wenzheng Xu;Zichuan Xu

  • Mobility-Aware and Delay-Sensitive Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks

    Yu Ma;Weifa Liang;Jing Li;Xiaohua Jia

  • Approximate coverage in wireless sensor networks

    Yuzhen Liu;Weifa Liang

  • Approximate minimum-energy multicasting in wireless ad hoc networks

    Weifa Liang

  • Throughput maximization for online request admissions in mobile cloudlets

    Qiufen Xia;Weifa Liang;Wenzheng Xu

  • Charging utility maximization in wireless rechargeable sensor networks

    Xiaoguo Ye;Weifa Liang

  • Capacity of Cooperative Vehicular Networks with Infrastructure Support: Multi-user Case

    Jieqiong Chen;Guoqiang Mao;Changle Li;Weifa Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zichuan Xu
Zichuan Xu Dalian University of Technology
Wenzheng Xu
Wenzheng Xu Sichuan University
Song Guo
Song Guo Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jeffrey Xu Yu
Jeffrey Xu Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaohua Jia
Xiaohua Jia City University of Hong Kong
Alex Galis
Alex Galis University College London
Maria E. Orlowska
Maria E. Orlowska Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Hong Shen
Hong Shen Sun Yat-sen University
Guoqiang Mao
Guoqiang Mao Xidian University
Omer F. Rana
Omer F. Rana Cardiff University

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