Dr Zichuan Xu 

Professor | Ph.D. Advisor
School of Software,
Dalian University of Technology,
Dalian, China
email: z.xu@dlut.edu.cn

Recruiting: We are recruiting Postdocs, Ph.Ds, Masters, and research assistants for various interesting research topics and research projects on mobile edge computing, network function virtualization, big data, cloud computing, and algorithm design. Please contact me if you are interested.

What’s New:

  • 17/3/2023 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • 11/3/2023 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • 2/12/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM’23.
  • 28/10/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
  • 26/09/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • 09/05/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • 29/01/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • 11/01/2022 – Congratulations! One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Selected Publications: ( Full list is here)

  1. [TMC] Zichuan Xu, Dongrui Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, Omer F. Rana, and Hao Li. Energy or accuracy? near-optimal user selection and aggregator placement for federated learning in MEC. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.XX. No.YY, acceptance date: 16 March, 2023. CCF-A.
  2. [TC] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wenzheng Xu, Wenhao Ren, Haozhe Ren, and Pan Zhou. Stateful serverless application placement in MEC with function and state dependencies. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Acceptance date: March 9, 2023, CCF-A.
  3. [INFOCOM] Zichuan Xu, Yuexin Fu, Qiufen Xia, and Hao Li. Enabling age-aware big data analytics in serverless edge clouds. Proc. of INFOCOM’23, New York Area, 2023. CCF-A.
  4. [TPDS] Zichuan Xu, Dapeng Zhao, Weifa Liang, Omer F. Rana, Pan Zhou, Mingchu Li, Wenzheng Xu, Hao Li, and Qiufen Xia. HierFedML: aggregator placement and UE assignment for hierarchical federated learning in mobile edge computing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 328-345, 2023. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
  5. [ToN] Zichuan Xu, Haozhe Ren, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wanlei Zhou, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu, Guowei Wu, and Mingchu Li. Near optimal learning-driven mechanisms for stable NFV markets in multi-tier cloud networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 2601-2615, 2022. CCF-A.
  6. [TMC] Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, Lin Wang, Pan Zhou, John, C. S. Lui, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, and Guowei Wu. Stable service caching in MECs of hierarchical service markets with uncertain request rates. To appear in Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. XX, Acceptance date: January 28, 2022, CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
  7. [TMC] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Sid Chau, Weifa Liang, Haipeng Dai, Lixing Chen, Wenzheng Xu, Qiufen Xia, and Pan Zhou. Near-optimal and collaborative service caching in mobile edge clouds. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.XX, Acceptance date: January 11, 2022. CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
  8. [TPDS] Zichuan Xu, Liqian Zhao, Weifa Liang, Omer F. Rana, Pan Zhou, Qiufen Xia, Wenzheng Xu, and Guowei Wu. Energy-aware inference offloading for DNN-driven applications in mobile edge clouds. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 799-814, IEEE, 2021. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
  9. [TC] Zichuan Xu, Zhiheng Zhang, John C.S. Lui, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu, and Guowei Wu. Affinity-aware VNF placement in mobile edge clouds via leveraging GPUs. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 70, No. 12, pp. 2234 – 2248, 2021. CCF-A, Impact Factor: 2.711.
  10. [TPDS] Haozhe Ren, Zichuan Xu*, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, Omer F. Rana, Alex Galis, and Guowei Wu. Efficient algorithms for delay-aware NFV-enabled multicasting in mobile edge clouds with resource sharing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , Vol. 31, No.9, pp. 2050-2066, 2020. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402. *Corresponding.
  11. [TMC] Zichuan Xu, Wanli Gong, Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, Omer F. Rana, and Guowei Wu. NFV-enabled IoT service provisioning in mobile edge clouds. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp.1892 – 1906, 2021. CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
  12. [TMC] Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Mike Jia, Meitian Huang, and Guoqiang Mao. Task offloading with network function requirements in a mobile edge-cloud network. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.18, No. 11, pp. 2672-2685, IEEE, 2019. CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
  13. [TPDS] Qiufen Xia, Zichuan Xu*, Weifa Liang, Shui Yu, Song Guo, and Albert Zomaya. Efficient data placement and replication for QoS approximate query evaluation of big data analytics.  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.30, No. 12, pp.2677-2691, IEEE, 2019. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402. *Corresponding
  14. [TPDS] Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Mike Jia, and Song Guo. Efficient algorithms for capacitated cloudlet placements. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.27, No. 10, pp.2866–2880, 2016. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
  15. [INFOCOM] Zichuan Xu, Haozhe Ren, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wanlei Zhou, Guowei Wu, and Pan Zhou.  Near optimal and dynamic mechanisms towards a stable NFV market in multi-tier cloud networks. Proc of INFOCOM’21, IEEE, 2021. CCF-A.
  16. [MM] Zichuan Xu, Jiangkai Wu, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, Jiankang Ren and Huizhi Liang. Identity-aware attribute recognition via real-time distributed inference in mobile edge clouds. Proc of ACM Multimedia’20, United States, ACM, 2020. CCF-A.
  17. [INFOCOM] Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Sid Chau, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia and Pan Zhou. Collaborate or separate? Distributed service caching in mobile edge clouds. Proc of INFOCOM’20, Beijing, IEEE, 2020. CCF-A.
  18. [INFOCOM] Zichuan Xu, Wenhao Ren, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Qiufen Xia, Pan Zhou, and Mingchu Li. Schedule or wait: age-minimization for IoT big data processing in MEC via online learning. Proc of INFOCOM’22, London, IEEE, 2022. CCF-A.
  19. [ToN] Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Jiugen Shi, Guoqiang Mao, and Sajal K. Das. Approximation algorithms for charging reward maximization in rechargeable sensor networks via a mobile charger. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.25, No. 5, pp.3136-3174, IEEE/ACM, 2017. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.376.
  20. [INFOCOM] Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Jian Peng, Weifa Liang, Tang Liu, Xiaohua Jia and Sajal K. Das. Approximation algorithms for the team orienteering problem. Proc of INFOCOM’20, Beijing, IEEE, 2020. CCF-A.
  21. [INFOCOM] Wenzheng Xu, Dezhong Peng, Weifa Liang, Xiaohua Jia, Zichuan Xu*, Pan Zhou, Weigang Wu and Xiang Chen. Maximizing h-hop independently submodular functions under connectivity constraint. Proc. of INFOCOM’22, London, IEEE, 2022. CCF-A. *Corresponding
  22. [ToN] Wenzheng Xu, Tao Xiao, Junqi Zhang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu*, Xuxun Liu, Xiaohua Jia, and Sajal Das. Minimizing the deployment cost of UAVs for delay-sensitive data collection in IoT networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear, acceptance date Oct. 25, 2021. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.56. *Corresponding
  23. [ToN] Wenzheng Xu, Chen Xi Wang, Weifa Liang, Xiaohua Jia, Zichuan Xu*, Pan Zhou, Weigang Wu, and Xiang Chen. Approximation algorithm for the h-hop independently submodular maximization problem and its applications. To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. XX, Acceptance date: September 27, 2022. CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.56. *Corresponding.
  24. [TSC] Qiufen Xia, Wenhao Ren, Zichuan Xu*, Xin Wang, and Weifa Liang. When edge caching meets a budget: near optimal service delivery in multi-tiered edge clouds. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp.3634 – 3648, IEEE, 2022. CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.823. *Corresponding.