Publications 

Journal Articles/Book Chapters, Conference Articles, Posters/Demos/Workshops.

The pdfs of the papers will be posted after they are published, which are available by clicking on the title of the paper. For students' thesis, click here.
2016
  1. Sisi Xiong, Feiyi Wang, Qing Cao.  A Bloom Filter Based Scalable Data Integrity Check Tool for Large-scale Dataset. Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PSDW).
  2. Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Optimizing Checkpoint Data Placement with Guaranteed Burst Buffer Endurance in Large-scale Hierarchical Storage Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2016.
  3. Zhibo Wang, Honglong Chen, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Zhi Wang, Qian Wang, Achieving Location Error Tolerant Barrier Coverage for Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks Journal, 2016.
2015
  1. Jaehoon Jeong, Jinyong Kim, Taehwan Hwang, Fulong Xu, Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Qing Cao, Ming Liu, Tian He. TPD: Travel Prediction-Based Data Forwarding for Light-Traffic Vehicular Networks. Computer Networks Journal by Elsevier, accepted.
  2. Lipeng Wan, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Devesh Tiwari, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, and Qing Cao. A Practical Approach to Reconciling Availability, Performance, and Capacity in Provisioning Extreme-scale Storage Systems. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2015.
  3. Yanjun Yao, Sisi Xiong, Jilong Liao, Michael Berry, Hairong Qi, and Qing Cao. Identifying Frequent Flows in Large Datasets through Probabilistic Bloom Filters. 2015 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) (Part of FCRC 2015), to appear.
  4. Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Kuanyu Zheng, Yanjun Yao, and Qing Cao. Correlation-Aware Traffic Consolidation for Power Optimization of Data Center Networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Accepted to appear.
  5. Sisi Xiong, Yanjun Yao, Shuangjiang Li, Qing Cao, Tian He, Hairong Qi, Leon Tolbert, and Yilu Liu. kBF: Towards Approximate and Bloom Filter based Key-Value Storage for Cloud Computing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). Accepted to appear.
  6. Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao. Poster: Estimation-based Profiling for Code Placement Optimization in Sensor Network Programs. IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2015.
2014
  1. Lipeng Wan, Zhibo Wang, Zheng Lu, Hairong Qi, Wenjun Zhou, and Qing Cao. Poster: Towards Approximate Spatial Queries for Large-scale Vehicle Networks. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2014.
  2. Yanjun Yao, Sisi Xiong, Hairong Qi, Yilu Liu, Leon Tolbert, and Qing Cao. Efficient Histogram Estimation for Smart Grid Data Processing with the Loglog-Bloom-Filter. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG). Accepted to appear.
  3. Jilong Liao, Zhibo Wang, Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, and Hairong Qi. Smart Diary: A Smartphone-based Framework for Sensing, Inferring and Logging Users’ Daily Life. IEEE Sensors Journal, accepted.
  4. Zhibo Wang, Jilong Liao, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, and Zhi Wang. Friendbook: A Semantic-based Friend Recommendation System for Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), to appear.
  5. Wei Wang, Li He, Penn Markham, Hairong Qi, Yilu Liu, Qing Cao, and Leon Tolbert. Multiple Event Detection and Recognition through Sparse Unmixing for High-Resolution Situational Awareness in Power Grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), to appear.
  6. Lipeng Wan, Zheng Lu, Qing Cao, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral and Bradley Settlemyer. SSD-Optimized Workload Placement with Adaptive Learning and Classification in HPC Environments. 30th IEEE Storage Conference (MSST), 2014.
  7. Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. EDAL: an Energy-efficient, Delay-aware, and Lifetime-balancing Data Collection Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks.  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), accepted.  
  8. Xiao Ma, Jilong Liao, Seddik Djouadi, and Qing Cao. LIPS: Link Prediction as a Service for Data Aggregation Applications. Journal of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 2014, to appear.
  9. Sisi Xiong, Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao, and Tian He.  kBF: a Bloom Filter for Key-Value Storage with an Application on Approximate State Machines. In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM),  2014, to appear.
  10. Zhibo Wang, Honglong Chen, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, and Zhi Wang.  Fault Tolerant Barrier Coverage for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM),  2014, to appear.
2013
  1. Zhibo Wang, Jilong Liao, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, and Zhi Wang. Achieving k-barrier Coverage in Hybrid Directional Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2013, to appear.
  2. Shuo Guo, Heng Zhang, Ziguo Zhong, Jiming Chen, Qing Cao and Tian He. Detecting Faulty Nodes with Data Errors for Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transaction on Wireless Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2013, to appear.
  3. Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. EDAL: Energy-efficient, Delay-aware, and Lifetime-balancing Data Collection Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct, 2013.
  4. Jilong Liao, Kefa Lu, Qing Cao. Uno: A Privacy-Aware Distributed Storage and Replication Middleware for Heterogeneous Computing Platforms, In Proceedings of the Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct, 2013.
  5. Zhibo Wang, Jilong Liao, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Zhi Wang. Barrier Coverage in Hybrid Directional Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct, 2013.
  6. Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao.  Towards Instruction Level Record and Replay of Sensor Network Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and
    Telecommunication Systems (IEEE MASCOTS), 2013.
  7. Seung-Hwan Lim, James Horey, Edmon Begoli, Yanjun Yao, and Qing Cao, Performance Implications from Sizing a VM on Multi-core Systems: A Data Analytic Application's View, High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop (HPGC), 2013.
  8. Qingquan Zhang, Lingkun Fu, Yu Gu, Lin Gu, Qing Cao, Jiming Chen, Tian He.  Collaborative Scheduling in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Error Inference.  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), accepted for publication, 2013.
2012
  1. Yanjun Yao, Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, Rukun Mao. PhoneCon: Voice-driven SmartPhone Controllable Wireless Sensor Networks.  IEEE IPCCC,  Austin, Texas, December, 2012.
  2. Kefa Lu, Qing Cao, Michael Thomason.  Bugs or Anomalies? Sequence Mining Based Debugging in Wireless Sensor Networks.  In Proceedings of the Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct, 2012.
  3. Jilong Liao, Zhibo Wang, Qing Cao, and Hairong Qi.  Smart Diary: the Narrative of Your Daily Life.  Poster paper in NSF 2012 Southeastern Workshop on Cognitive Sensing, Computing & Networking and Their Applications in Human-Cyber-Physical Systems. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. August 15, 2012. 
  4. Yanjun Yao, Lipeng Wan, and Qing Cao. System Architecture and Operating Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks, book chapter, to appear in the Art of Senosr Networks, Springer, accepted in 2012, to be published in 2013-2014.
  5. Xiaodong Wang, Yanjun Yao, Xiaorui Wang, Kefa Lu, and Qing Cao.  CARPO: Correlation-Aware Power Optimization in Data Center Networks , In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Orlando, Florida, March 2012.

2011
  1. Qingquan Zhang, Yu Gu, Lin Gu, Qing Cao, and Tian He. Collaborative Scheduling in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Error Inference, In The 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Dec, 2011. (Best Paper Award)
  2. Jilong Liao, Qing Cao. Demo Abstract: Uno -  A Sharing Infrastructure for Semartphone Sensors and Files. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), November 2011.
  3. Zhibo Wang, Clay Taylor, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Zhi Wang. Demo Abstract: Friendbook: Privacy-preserving Friend Matching based on Shared Interests. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), November 2011.
  4. Xiao Ma, Seddik Djouadi and Qing Cao. LIPS: Link Prediction as a Service for Adaptive Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks (IEEE DCOSS), 2011. 
  5. Qing Cao, Xiaorui Wang, Hairong Qi, and Tian He. r-Kernel: An Operating System Foundation for Highly Reliable Networked Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM),  2011.
  6. Fulong Xu, Shuo Guo, Jaehoon Jeong, Yu Gu, Qing Cao, Ming Liu and Tian He,  Utilizing Shared Vehicle Trajectories for Data Forwarding in Vehicular Networks, In Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Mini-conference, 2011.
  7. Qing Cao, Raghul Gunasekaran, Hairong Qi. Rule-based data aggregation in a distributed diagnostic system. Book chapter in Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare Vol.3, to be published by American Scientific Publishers, invited, 2011, ISBN: 1-58883-158-2.
  8. Hairong Qi, Yilu Liu, Fran Li, Jiajia Luo, Li He, Kevin Tomsovic, Leon Tolbert, and Qing Cao. Increasing the Resolution of Wide-Area Situational Awareness of the Power Grid through Event Unmixing. In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2011. 
2010
  1. Qing Cao, Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao.  Energy-optimal Batching Periods for Asynchronous Multistage Data Processing on Sensor Nodes: Foundations and an mPlatform Case Study. In Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Stockholm, Sweden, April, 2010. (Best Paper Award)
2009 and before 
  1. Qing Cao, Dong Wang, and Tarek Abdelzaher.  End-User Diagnosis of Communication Paths in Sensor Network Systems. In the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2009.
  2. Liqian Luo, Qing Cao, Chengdu Huang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, and Michael Ward. Design, Implementation and Evaluation of EnviroMic: A Storage-Centric Audio Sensor Network. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2009. 
  3. Pascal Vicaire, Tian He, Qing Cao, Ting Yan, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, John Stankovic, and Tarek Abdelzaher. Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol 5, No. 1, Feb 2009. 
  4. Qing Cao, Debessay Kassa, Nam Pham, Yusuf Sarwar and Tarek Abdelzaher. Virtual Battery: An Energy Reserve Abstraction for Embedded Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (IEEE RTSS), December 2008. 
  5. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse, and Liqian Luo. Declarative Tracepoints: A Programmable and Application Independent Debugging System for Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), November 2008. 
  6. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher. Demo Abstract: Faithful Reconstruction of Application Behavior based on Event Traces in the LiteOS Operating System, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), April 2008. 
  7. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, and Tian He.  The LiteOS Operating System: Towards Unix-like Abstractions for Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), April 2008. 
  8. Qing Cao, Tian He, and Tarek Abdelzaher. uCast: Unified Connectionless Multicast for Energy Efficient Content Distribution in Sensor Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 2007. 
  9. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, and Tian He. Demo Abstract: An Interactive Unix Shell for Low-End Sensor Nodes with LiteOS, In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), 2007. 
  10. Tian He, Brian Blum, Qing Cao, John Stankovic, Sang Son, and Tarek Abdelzaher. Robust and timely communication over highly dynamic sensor networks. In Real-Time Systems Journal, Special Issue on Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks, 2007.
  11. Qing Cao. Poster: Cluster-Based Forwarding for Reliable End-to-End Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at the Vodafone Symposium 2007, Auburn University, March 2007.
  12. Liqian Luo, Qing Cao, C. Huang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, and Michael Ward. EnviroMic: Towards Cooperative Storage and Retrieval in Audio Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), 2007. Acceptance ratio: 13% 
  13. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He, and Robin Kravets. Cluster-Based Forwarding for Reliable End-to-End Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2007. Acceptance ratio: 18% 
  14. Tarek Abdelzaher, Qing Cao, Raghu Ganti, Dan Henriksson, Maifi Khan, Jin Heo, Chengdu Huang, Praveen Jayachandran, Hieu Khac Le, Liqian Luo, and Yu-En Tsai. Towards a Layered Architecture for Object-Based Execution in Wide-Area Deeply Embedded Computing. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (IEEE ISORC), May 2007, invited.
  15. Qing Cao and Tarek Abdelzaher. A Scalable Logical Coordinates Framework for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) November 2006. 
  16. Tian He, S. Krishnamurthy, Liqian Luo, Ting Yan, Bruce Krogh, Lin Gu, Radu Stoleru, Gang Zhou, Qing Cao, Pascal Vicaire, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, and J. Hui. VigilNet: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy-Efficient Surveillance. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), February 2006. 
  17. Qing Cao, Tian He, L. Fang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic and Sang Son. Efficiency Centric Communication Model for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2006. Acceptance ratio: 18% 
  18. Tian He, Pascal Vicaire, Ting Yan, Qing Cao, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, John Stankovic and Tarek Abdelzaher. Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2006. Acceptance ratio: 18%  
  19. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher. Demo Abstract: LiteOS, A Lightweight Operating System for C++ Software Development in Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), 2006. 
  20. Tian He, Pascal Vicaire, Ting Yan, Liqian Luo, Lin Gu, Gang Zhou, Radu Stoleru, Qing Cao, John Stankovic and Tarek Abdelzaher. Achieving Real-Time Target Tracking using Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (IEEE RTAS), April 2006. 
  21. Lin Gu, Dong Jia, Pascal Vicaire, Ting Yan, Liqian Luo, Ajay Tirumala, Qing Cao, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Bruce Krogh. Lightweight Detection and Classification for Wireless Sensor Networks in Realistic Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM Sensys), 2005. Acceptance ratio: 16.8% 
  22. Tian He, Liqian Luo, Ting Yan, Lin Gu, Qing Cao, Gang Zhou, R. Stoleru, Pascal Vicaire, Qiuhua Cao, John Stankovic, Sang Son and Tarek Abdelzaher. An Overview of the VigilNet Architecture. In Proceedings of the11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, (IEEE RTCSA), 2005, Invited paper.
  23. Qing Cao, Ting Yan, John Stankovic, and Tarek Abdelzaher. Analysis of Target Detection Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE DCOSS), June 2005. 
  24. Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He and John Stankovic. Towards Optimal Sleep Scheduling in Sensor Networks for Rare Event Detection. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), April 2005. Acceptance ratio: 20.6% 
  25. Tarek Abdelzaher, Brian Blum, Qing Cao, Yong Chen, David Evans, J George, S. George, Lin Gu, Tian He, Sudha Krishnamurthy, Liqian Luo, Sang Son, John Stankovic, Radu Stoleru, and Anthony Wood. EnviroTrack: Towards an Environmental Computing Paradigm for Distributed Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), 2004. Acceptance ratio: 17% 
  26. Qing Cao and Tarek Abdelzaher. A Scalable Logical Coordinates Framework for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (IEEE RTSS), December 2004. Acceptance ratio: 22%