Publications

Journal Publications:

1. 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. 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. Yuchen Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Yinlong Xu, and Haibin Kan.
   Data collection maximization in IoT-sensor networks via an energy-constrained UAV.
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.159-174, IEEE, 2023.
   CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
4. 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.
5. Daizong Liu, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Haozhao Wang, and Ruixuan Li.
   Few-shot temporal sentence grounding via memory-guided semantic learning.
   To appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Acceptance date: Nov. 21, 2022.
   CCF-B.
6. Yang Bai, Lixing Chen, Jianhua Li, Jun Wu, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, and Jie Xu.
   Multi-core federated learning for mobile edge computing platforms.
   To appear in IEEE Internet of Things, 2022.
   中科院一区.
7. Jing Li, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Quan Chen, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, and Albert Zomaya.
   Digital twin-assisted, SFC-enabled service provisioning in edge computing.
   To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Acceptance date: Dec. 1, 2022.
   CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Albert Zomaya, and Song Guo.
    Budget-aware user satisfaction maximization on service provisioning in mobile edge computing.
    To appear in Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. XX, Acceptance date: September 6, 2022.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
11. Jingxiang Liu, Jian Peng, Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Tang Liu, Xi Peng, Zichuan Xu, Zheng Li, and Xiaohua Jia.
    Maximizing sensor lifetime via multi-node partial-charging on sensors.
    To appear in Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. XX, Acceptance date: August 3, 2022.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
12. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Yuchen Li, and Xiaohua Jia.
    Service home identification of multiple-source IoT applications in edge computing.
    To appear in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol.XX, Acceptance date: May 17, 2022.
    CCF-A
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, and Wanlei Zhou.
    Service provisioning for multi-source IoT applications in mobile edge computing.
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 18, No. 2, Article No. 17, pp. 1 – 25, 2022.
    CCF-B.
17. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Yuchen Li, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, and Song Guo.
    Throughput maximization of delay-aware DNN inference in edge computing by exploring DNN model partitioning and inference parallelism.
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, acceptance date Nov. 2, 2021.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
18. 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.
19. Zichuan Xu, Lizhen Zhou, Haipeng Dai, Weifa Liang, Wanlei Zhou, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu and Guowei Wu.
    Energy-aware collaborative service caching in a 5G-enabled MEC with uncertain payoffs.
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 70, No. 2, pp. 1058 – 1071, 2021.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 5.083.
20. Jing Wu, Pan Zhou, Qimei Chen, Zichuan Xu, Xiaofeng Ding, and Hao Jiang.
    Blockchain-based privacy-Aware contextual online learning for collabrative edge-cloud-enabled nursing system in Internet of Things.
    To appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. 中科院一区
21. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Wanlei Zhou, and Jin Zhao.
    Maximizing user service satisfaction for delay-sensitive IoT applications in edge computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 1199 – 1212, 2021.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
22. Yichen Liu, Pan Zhou, Lei Yang, Yulei Wu, Zichuan Xu, Kai Liu, and Xiumin Wang.
    Privacy-preserving context-based electric vehicle dispatching for energy scheduling in microgrids: An online learning approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics on Computational Intelligence, to appear, IEEE, 2021.
23. Xiaofeng Ding, Lin Chen, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Shiping Wen, John C.S. Lui, and Hai Jin.
    Dynamic Online Convex Optimization with Long-term Constraints via Virtual Queue.
    Information Sciences, Vol. 577, pp. 140 – 161, Elsevier, 2021.
    Impact Factor 5.91.
24. Weifa Liang, Yu Ma, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia, and Wanlei Zhou.
    Request reliability augmentation with service function chain requirements in mobile edge computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, IEEE, 2021.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
25. 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.
26. Zeyue Xue, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Xiumin Wang, Yulai Xie, Xiaofeng Ding, and Shiping Wen.
    A Resource-Constrained and Privacy-Preserving Edge Computing Enabled Clinical Decision System: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9, No. 11, pp. 9122 – 9138, 2021.
    中科院一区, Impact Factor: 5.967.
27. Pan Zhou, Shimin Gong, Zichuan Xu, Lixing Chen, Yulai Xie, Changkun Jiang, and Xiaofeng Ding.
    Trustworthy and Context-Aware Distributed Online Learning with Autoscaling for Content Caching in Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1032 – 1047, 2021.
28. 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.
29. Pan Zhou, Yulai Xie, Ben Niu, Lingjun Pu, Zichuan Xu, Hao Jiang, and Huawei Huang.
    QoE-aware 3D Video Streaming via Deep Reinforcement Learning in Software Defined Networking Enabled Mobile Edge Computing.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 419 – 433, 2021.
    Impact Factor 5.213.
30. Tong Wu, Pan Zhou, Binghui Wang, Ang Li, Xueming Tang, Zichuan Xu, Kai Chen, and Xiaofeng Ding.
    Joint Traffic Control and Multi-Channel Reassignment for Core Backbone Network in SDN-IoT: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 231 – 245, 2021.
    Impact Factor 5.213.
31. 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.
32. Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Jian Peng, Dezhong Peng, Tang Liu, Xiaohua Jia, and Sajal Das.
    Approximation algorithms for the generalized team orienteering problem and its applications. 
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 176 – 189, 2021.
    CCF-A
33. Zichuan Xu and Weifa Liang.
    Algorithms for NFV-enabled multicasting in mobile edge computing.
    To appear as a chapter in the book entitled “Fog/Edge Computing for Security, Privacy, and Applications”, edited by Jie Wu and Wei Chang, Springer, 2020.
34. Qing Guo, Jian Peng, Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Xiaohua Jia, Zichuan Xu, Yanbing Yang and Minghui Wang. Minimizing the longest tour time among a fleet of UAVs for disaster area surveillance. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.XX, Acceptance date: Nov. 11, 2020. CCF-A, Impact Factor 5.112.
35. 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 author.
36. Zichuan Xu, Zhiheng Zhang, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Omer F. Rana, and Guowei Wu.
    QoS-Aware VNF placement and service chaining for IoT applications in multi-tier mobile edge networks.
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol.16, No.3, Article No. 23, June 2020.
    CCF-B.
37. Mike Jia, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Meitian Huang, and Yu Ma.
    QoS-aware cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol.8, No. 2, pp. 623-634, 2020.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 5.967.
38. Zhenjie Guo, Jian Peng, Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Weigang Wu, Zichuan Xu, and Yue Wu.
    Minimizing redundant sensing data transmissions in energy-harvesting sensor networks via exploring spatial data correlations.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 512 – 527, 2021.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 9.515.
39. Wei Du, Ang Li, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Xiumin Wang, Hao Jiang, and Dapeng Oliver Wu.
    Approximate to be Great: Communication efficient and privacy-preserving large-scale distributed deep learning in Internet of Things.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 11678 – 11692, 2020.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 9.515.
40. Yugen Qin, Qiufen Xia, Zichuan Xu, Pan Zhou, Alex Galis, Omer F. Rana, Jiankang Ren, and Guowei Wu.
    Enabling multicast slices in edge networks.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 8485 – 8501, 2020.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 9.515.
41. Qiufen Xia, Zheng Lou, Wenzheng Xu, and Zichuan Xu.
    Near-optimal and learning-driven task offloading in a 5G multi-cell mobile edge cloud. 
    Computer Networks , Vol.176, Elsevier, 2020.
    CCF-B.
42. Yifan Yang, Jie Xu, Zichuan Xu, Pan Zhou, and Tie Qiu.
    Quantile context-aware social IoT service big data recommendation with D2D communication.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 5533 – 5548, 2020.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 9.515.
43. Guochang Yuan, Zichuan Xu*, Binxu Yang, Weifa Liang, Wei Koong Chai, Daphné Tuncer, Alex Galis, George Pavlou, and Guowei Wu. 
    Fault tolerant placement of stateful VNFs and dynamic fault recovery in cloud networks. 
    Computer Networks , Vol.166, Elsevier, 2020.
    CCF-B, *Corresponding author.
44. Yu Ma, Weifa Liang, Jie Wu and Zichuan Xu.
    Throughput maximization of NFV-enabled multicasting in mobile edge cloud networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , Vol.31, No.2, pp. 393-407, IEEE, Feb., 2020.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
45. Pan Zhou, Qiben Yan, Kehao Wang, Zichuan Xu, Shouling Ji, and Kaigui Bian.
    Jamsa: A utility optimal contextual online learning framework for anti-jamming wireless scheduling under reactive jamming attack.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No 3, pp. 1862 – 1878, 2020.
46. 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.
47. 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.
48. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Meitian Huang, Mike Jia, Song Guo, and Alex Galis.
    Efficient NFV-enabled multicasting in SDNs.
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 63, No. 7, pp2052–2070, IEEE, 2019.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 4.671.
49. Jiankang Ren, Zichuan Xu, Chao Yu, Chi Lin, Guowei Wu, and Guozhen Tan.
    Execution allowance based fixed priority scheduling for probabilistic real-time systems.
    Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 152, pp. 120 – 133, Elsevier, 2019.
    CCF-B
50. Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, and Lin Yao.
    Big network data.
    Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks,  Springer, 2019.
51. Yu Ma, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, and Song Guo.
    Profit maximization for admitting requests with network function services in distributed clouds.
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 30, No. 5,  IEEE, 2019.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
52. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Alex Galis, Yu Ma, Qiufen Xia and Wenzheng Xu.
    Throughput optimization for admitting NFV-enabled requests in cloud networks.
    Computer Networks, Vol.143, pp.15-29, Elsevier, 2018. 
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 2.516.
53. Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Xiaohua Jia, Zichuan Xu, Li Zheng and Yiguang Liu.
    Maximizing sensor lifetime with the minimal service cost of a mobile charger in wireless sensor networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, (IEEE TMC), Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 2564-2577,  2018.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 4.474.
54. Mike Jia, Weifa Liang, Meitian Huang, Zichuan Xu, and Yu Ma.
    Routing cost minimization and throughput maximization of NFV-enabled unicasting in software-defined networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol.15, No. 2, pp. 732-745, IEEE, 2018.
    Impact Factor 3.286.
55. Binxu Yang, Wei Koong Chai, Zichuan Xu*, Konstantinos Katsaros, and George Pavlou.
    Cost-efficient NFV-Enabled mobile edge-cloud for low latency mobile applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol.15, No. 1, pp.475 – 488, 2018. *Corresponding author.
    Impact Factor 3.286.
56. Likun Wang, Lin Yao, Zichuan Xu, Guowei Wu, and Mohammad S. Obaidat.
    CFR: A cooperative link failure recovery scheme in software-defined networks.
    International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol.31, No. 10, pp.1 – 15, 2018.
    Impact Factor 1.066.
57. Gang Sun, Dan Liao, Dongcheng Zhao, Zichuan Xu, Hongfang Yu.
    Live migration for multiple correlated virtual machines in cloud-based data centers.
    IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Vol. 11, No.2, pp. 279-291, IEEE, 2018.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 4.418.
58. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, and Qiufen Xia.
    Efficient embedding of virtual networks to distributed clouds via exploring periodic resource demands. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Vol.6, No.3, 2018.
    中科院一区，Impact Factor 5.967.
59. Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Song Guo, and Yinlong Xu.
    Online unicasting and multicasting in software-defined networks.
    Computer Networks, Vol.132, Elsevier, 2017.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 2.516.
60. 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.
61. Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, and Song Guo.
    Efficient algorithms for throughput maximization in software-defined networks with consolidated middleboxes.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol.14, No. 3, pp.631-645, IEEE, 2017.
    Impact Factor 3.286.
62. Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    Data locality-aware big data query evaluation in distributed clouds.
    The Computer Journal, Vol.60, No. 6, pp.791-809, 2017.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 0.787.
63. Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    The operational cost minimization in distributed clouds via community-aware user data placements of social networks.
    Computer Networks, Vol.112, pp. 263-278, Elsevier, 2017.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 2.516.
64. 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.
65. Qiufen Xia, Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, and Albert Zomaya.
    Collaboration- and fairness-aware big data management in distributed clouds.
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Vol.27, No.7, pp.1941–1953, 2016.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 3.402.
66. Zichuan Xu and Weifa Liang.
    Operational cost minimization for distributed data centers through exploring electricity price diversity.
    Computer Networks, Vol. 83, pp.59-75, Elsevier,  2015.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 2.516.
67. Zichuan Xu and Weifa Liang.
    Collusion-resistant repeated double auctions for relay assignment in cooperative networks.
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.1196-1207, 2014.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 4.951.
68. Xu Xu, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    Remote monitoring cost minimization for an unreliable sensor network with guaranteed network throughput.
    Information Processing in Agriculture, Vol.1, No.2, pp.83-94, Elsevier, 2014.
69. Weifa Liang, Pascal Schweitzer, and Zichuan Xu,
    Approximation algorithms for capacitated minimum spanning forest problems in wireless sensor networks with a mobile sink,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.62, No. 10, pp. 1932–1944, 2013.
    CCF-A, Impact Factor 2.961.
70. Weifeng Sun, Qiufen Xia, Zichuan Xu, Mingchu Li, Zhenquan Qin.
    A game theoretic resource allocation model based on extended second price sealed auction in grid computing.
    Journal of Computers, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.65–75, 2012.
71. Guowei Wu, Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, Jiankang Ren.
    An energy-aware multi-core scheduler based on generalized tit-for-tat cooperative game.
    Journal of Computers, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.106–115, 2012.
72. Guowei Wu, Jiankang Ren, Feng Xia, Lin Yao, Zichuan Xu, Pengfei Shang.
    A game theoretic approach for interuser interference reduction in body sensor networks.
    International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol. 2011, 2011.
73. Guowei Wu, Jiankang Ren, Lin Yao, Zichuan Xu.
    ITFBS: adaptive intrusion-tolerant scheme for body sensor networks in smart space applications.
    IET communications, Vol.5, No. 17, pp.2509–2517, 2011.
74. Guowei Wu, Zichuan Xu.
    Temperature-aware task scheduling algorithm for soft real-time multi-core systems
    Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 83, No. 12, Elsevier, 2579-2590, 2010.
    CCF-B, Impact Factor 1.25.

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Conference Publications: 

1. 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.
2. Jiahao Zhu, Daizong Liu, Pan Zhou, Xing Di, Yu Cheng, Song Yang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, Yao Wan, Lichao Sun and Zeyu Xiong. 
   Rethinking the Video Sampling and Reasoning Strategies for Temporal Sentence Grounding. 
   Proc of EMNLP’22, Abu Dhabi, 2022. 
3. Zhi Luo, Youqi Li, Lixing Chen, Zichuan Xu, and Pan Zhou. 
   Data poisoning attack to X-armed bandits. 
   Proc of IEEE TrustCom’22, Wuhan, IEEE, 2022. 
4. Xueqing Wang, Liang Wang, Zhiwen Yu, Zichuan Xu, Yao Zhang, and Weibo Chu. 
   Pricing in the open market of crowdsourced video edge caching: A newcomer perspective. 
   Proc of IEEE IPCCC’22, Austin, IEEE, 2022. 
5. Yuhua Sun, Tailai Zhang, Xingjun Ma, Pan Zhou, Jian Lou, Zichuan Xu, Xing Di, Yu Cheng, Lichao Sun. 
   Backdoor attacks on crowd counting. 
   Proc of ACM MM’22, Lisbon, ACM, 2022. 
   CCF-A.
6. Jing Li, Song Guo, Weifa Liang, Quan Chen, Zichuan Xu, and Wenzheng Xu. 
   SFC-enabled reliable service provisioning in mobile edge computing via digital twins. 
   Proc of IEEE MASS’22, Denver, IEEE, 2022. 
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Yinzhen Wang, Xing Di, Kai Zou, Yu Cheng, Zichuan Xu, Pan Zhou.
   Unsupervised temporal video grounding with deep semantic clustering.
   Proc of AAAI’22, Vancouver, Canada, 2022. 
   CCF-A.
10. Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Xing Di, Yu Cheng, Zichuan Xu, and Pan Zhou.
    Memory-guided semantic learning network for temporal sentence grounding.
    Proc of AAAI’22, Vancouver, Canada, 2022. 
    CCF-A.
11. Houxiang Fan, Binghui Wang, Pan Zhou, Ang Li, Zichuan Xu, Cai Fu, Hai (Helen) Li, and Yiran Chen.
    Reinforcement Learning-Based Black-Box Evasion Attacks to Link Prediction in Dynamic Graphs.
    Proc of HPCC’21, IEEE, 2021.
12. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Yuchen Li, Zichuan Xu, Xiaohua Jia.
    Delay-Aware DNN Inference Throughput Maximization in Edge Computing via Jointly Exploring Partitioning and Parallelism.
    Proc of LCN’21, IEEE, 2021.
13. Zichuan Xu, Dongqi Liu, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Haipeng Dai, Qiufen Xia, and Pan Zhou.
    Online Learning Algorithms for Offloading Augmented Reality Requests with Uncertain Demands in MECs.
    Proc of ICDCS’21, Washington DC, IEEE, 2021.
    CCF-B.
14. Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Jianfeng Dong, Pan Zhou, Yu Cheng, Wei Wei, Zichuan Xu, and Yulai Xie. 
    Context-aware Biaffine Localizing Network for Temporal Sentence Grounding.
    Proc of CVPR’21, IEEE, 2021.
    CCF-A.
15. 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. Junqi Zhang, Zheng Li, Wenzheng Xu, Jian Peng, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Xiaojiang Ren, and Xiaohua Jia. 
    Minimizing the number of deployed UAVs for delay-bounded data collection of IoT devices.
    Proc of INFOCOM’21, IEEE, 2021.
    CCF-A.
17. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Mengyu Chen, and Zichuan Xu.
    Mobility-Aware Dynamic Service Placement in D2D-Assisted MEC Environments.
    IEEE WCNC 2021, Nanjing, China, 2021.
18. Daizong Liu, Shuangjie Xu, Xiaoyang Liu, Zichuan Xu, Wei Wei, and Pan Zhou.
    Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network based Mask Reconstruction for Video Object Segmentation.
    AAAI, 2021. CCF-A.
19. 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.
20. Daizong Liu, Xiaoye Qu, Xiaoyang Liu, Jianfeng Dong, Pan Zhou and Zichuan Xu.
    Jointly cross- and self-modal graph attention network for query-based moment localization.
    Proc of ACM Multimedia’20, United States, ACM, 2020.
    CCF-A.
21. Xiaoye Qu, Pengwei Tang, Zhikai Zou, Yu Cheng, Jianfeng Dong, Pan Zhou and Zichuan Xu.
    Fine-grained iterative attention network for temporal language localization in videos.
    Proc of ACM Multimedia’20, United States, ACM, 2020.
    CCF-A.
22. Zichuan Xu, Yugen Qin, Pan Zhou, John C. S. Lui, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Wenzheng Xu and Guowei Wu.
    To cache or not to cache: Stable service caching in mobile edge-clouds of a service market.
    Proc of ICDCS’20, Singapore, IEEE, 2020.
    CCF-B.
23. Zichuan Xu, Shengnan Wang, Shipei Liu, Haipeng Dai, Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang and Guowei Wu.
    Learning for exception: Dynamic service caching in 5G-enabled MECs with bursty user demands.
    Proc of ICDCS’20, Singapore, IEEE, 2020.
    CCF-B.
24. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Zichuan Xu, and Jin Zhao. Maximizing the quality of user experience of using services in edge computing for delay-sensitive IoT applications. Proc of MSWiM’20, ACM, Nov.16 — 29, Spain, 2020.
25. Jing Li, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, and Wanlei Zhou.  Provisioning virtual services in mobile edge computing for IoT applications with multiple sources. Proc of IEEE 45th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) IEEE, Nov.16 — Nov. 19, Sydney, 2020.
26. Qiufen Xia, Wenhao Ren, Zichuan Xu*, Pan Zhou, Wenzheng Xu, and Guowei Wu.
    Learn to optimize: Adaptive VNF provisioning in mobile edge clouds.
    Proc of SECON’20, Como, Italy, IEEE, 2020.
    CCF-B.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Zhiheng Zhang, Zichuan Xu, Guowei Wu, Jiaxin Wang, Haozhe Ren, and Guochang Yuan.
    Trust-aware service chaining in mobile edge clouds with VNF sharing. Proc of CSCWD, Dalian, IEEE, 2020.
30. Qiufen Xia, Luyao Bai, Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Omer F. Rana, and Guowei Wu.
    Learning based online query evaluation for big data analytics in mobile edge clouds. Proc of ICC’20, Dublin, IEEE, 2020.
31. Zichuan Xu, Yutong Zhang, Weifa Liang, Qiufen Xia, Omer F. Rana, Alex Galis, Guowei Wu, and Pan Zhou.
    NFV-enabled multicasting in mobile edge clouds with resource sharing.
    Proc of 48th Intl Conf on Parallel Processing (ICPP’19) , August, 2019.
    CCF-B.
32. Qiufen Xia, Luyao Bai, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Lin Yao, and Lei Wang.
    QoS-Aware Proactive Data Replication for Big Data Analytics in Edge Clouds.
    Proc of 48th Intl Conf on Parallel Processing (ICPP’19) Workshops , August, 2019.
33. Likun Wang, Lin Yao, Zichuan Xu, Guowei Wu, and Mohammad S. Obaidat.
    A QoS and cost aware fault tolerant scheme in multi-controller SDNs.
    Proc of IEEE GLOBECOM’18, Dec, 2018.
34. Binxu Yang, Zichuan Xu, Wei Koong Chai, Weifa Liang, Daphné Tuncer, Alex Galis, and George Pavlou
    Algorithms for fault-tolerant placement of stateful virtualized network functions.
    Proc of IEEE ICC’18, May, 2018
35. Yu Ma, Weifa Liang and Zichuan Xu.
    Online revenue maximization in NFV-enabled SDNs.
    Proc of IEEE ICC’18, May, 2018.
36. Mike Jia, Weifa Liang, Meitian Huang, Zichuan Xu, and Yu Ma.
    Throughput maximization of NFV-enabled unicasting in Software-Defined Networks.
    IEEE Globecom’17, Dec, 2017.
37. Mike Jia, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    QoS-aware task offloading in distributed cloudlets with virtual network function services.
    Proc of the 20th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), ACM, Nov, 2017.
38. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Meitian Huang, Mike Jia, Song Guo, and Alex Galis.
    Approximation and online algorithms for NFV-enabled multicasting in SDNs.
    Proc of IEEE ICDCS’17, June, 2017.
    CCF-B.
39. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Alex Galis, and Yu Ma.
    Throughput maximization and resource optimization in NFV-enabled networks.
    Proc of IEEE ICC’17, May, 2017.
40. Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    QoS-aware data replications and placements for query evaluation of big data analytics. 
    Proc of IEEE ICC’17, IEEE, May, 2017.
41. Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Mike Jia, and Song Guo.
    Throughput maximization in software-defined networks with consolidated middleboxes.
    Proc of 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), IEEE, 2016.
    ERA A, CORE A
42. Meitian Huang, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Wenzheng Xu, Song Guo and Yinlong Xu.
    Dynamic routing for network throughput maximization in Software-Defined Networks.
    Proc of INFOCOM’16 IEEE, 2016.
    CCF-A
43. Mike Jia, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu and Meitian Huang.
    Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks.
    Proc of INFOCOM’16, IEEE, 2016.
    CCF-A
44. Wenzheng Xu, Weifa Liang, Xiaohua Jia, and Zichuan Xu.
    Maximizing sensor lifetime in a rechargeable sensor network via partial energy charging on sensors.
    Proc of 13th Annual Conf on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON’16),IEEE, 2016.
    ERA B
45. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Wenzheng Xu, Mike Jia, and Song Guo.
    Capacitated cloudlet placements in wireless metropolitan area networks.
    Proc. of the 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2015.
    ERA A, CORE A.
46. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, and Qiufen Xia.
    Electricity cost minimization in distributed clouds by exploring heterogeneities of cloud resources and user demands.
    Proc. of The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS). 2015.
    ERA B, CORE B
47. Gang Sun, Guanghua Yang, Dan Liao, Zichuan Xu, and Kai Luo.
    Efficient mapping of hybrid virtual network across multiple domains.
    Proc. of Global Communications Conference (Globecom’15), 2015.
    ERA B, CORE B
48. Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    Data Locality-Aware Query Evaluation for Big Data Analytics in Distributed Clouds.
    Proc. of 2014 International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, 2014.
49. Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, and Bingbing Zhou.
    Online algorithms for location-aware task offloading in multi-tiered mobile clouds.
    Proc. of 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 2014.
50. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, and Qiufen Xia.
    Efficient virtual network embedding via exploring periodic resource demands.
    Proc. of the 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), IEEE, 2014.
    ERA A, CORE A.
51. Zichuan Xu and Weifa Liang.
    Minimizing the operational cost of data centers via geographical electricity price diversity,
    Proc. of 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE, June, 2013.
    ERA B, CORE B.
52. Xu Xu, Weifa Liang, and Zichuan Xu.
    Minimizing remote monitoring cost of wireless sensor networks,
    Proc. of Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’13), IEEE, 2013.
    ERA B, CORE B.
53. Zichuan Xu and Weifa Liang,
    Collusion-resistant repeated double auctions for cooperative communications,
    Proc. of 9th Annual International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), IEEE, 2012.
    ERA B, CORE B.
54. Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, and Yinlong Xu.
    Network lifetime maximization in delay-tolerant sensor networks with a mobile sink,
    Proc. of 8th Intl Conf. on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), IEEE, 2012.
    ERA B, CORE B.
55. Guowei Wu, Jiankang Ren, Feng Xia, Lin Yao, and Zichuan Xu.
    DISG: Decentralized inter-user interference suppression in body sensor networks with non-cooperative game.
    Proc. of Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, IEEE, 2010
56. Guowei Wu, Zichuan Xu, Qiufen Xia, Jiankang Ren, Feng Xia.
    Task allocation and migration algorithm for temperature-constrained real-time multi-core systems.
    Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Green Computing and Communications, IEEE/ACM, 2010.
57. Qiufen Xia, Weifeng Sun, Zichuan Xu, Mingchu Li.
    A Novel Grid Resource Scheduling Model Based on Extended Second Price Sealed Auction.
    Proc. of International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), IEEE, 2010.
58. Lin Yao, Xiangwei Kong, Zichuan Xu.
    A task-role based access control model with multiconstraints.
    Proc. of Networked Computing and Advanced Information Management (NCM’08), IEEE, 2008.

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Books:

1.  Guowei Wu, Zichuan Xu, and Lin Yao.
   Principles of the design of embedded systems,
   China Machine Press, 2010. (In Chinese). 
2. Tie Qiu, Yulong Yu, and Zichuan Xu.
   Programming in Linux,
   Tsinghua University Press, 2010. (In Chinese)                                               

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Chinese Journal Publications:

1. Qiufen Xia, Mingchu Li, Zichuan Xu, and Guowei Wu.
   Research on thermal aware real-time scheduling.
   Computer Engineering and Applications. Vol. 47, No. 26, pp.27-31, 2011.
2. Guowei Wu, Zichuan Xu, and Lin Yao.
   Research of thermal aware multi-core Linux scheduling algorithm.
   Computer Engineering and Applications. Vol. 45, No. 24, pp.72-76, 2010.
3. Tie Qiu, Zichuan Xu, and He Jiang.
   Smartcar road status recognition based on fuzzy control.
   Computer Engineering and Applications. Vol. 45, No. 14, pp.213-216, 2009.