Zhangyu Guan

Assistant Professor

Wireless Intelligent Networking and Security Lab
Department of Electrical Engineering
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Address: 221 Davis Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 - 1920
Phone: (716) 645-1147
Email: guan@buffalo.edu

Biography | Research | Acknowledgment | Team | Publications | Service | Teaching | Links

News

Sept. 2023: Delivered a keynote on zero-touch wireless UAV networking at 5th IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms (SwarmNet) in Toronto.

Aug 2023: WINGS Lab received an NSF supplemental grant through the NSF-AFRL intern program to enhance the integration of our research in spectrum sharing for next-generation civilian and tactical wireless systems. Many thanks NSF and AFRL!

Aug 2023: WINGS Lab received an NSF supplemental grant to test new digital twin construction and intelligent spectrum sharing algorithms over the NSF PAWR platform AERPAW. Many thanks NSF, PAWR and AERPAW!

July 2023: Our SUNY IITG project "OpenIoTLab: The SUNY Laboratory Federation for Wireless Intelligent Internet of Things" was covered by UBNow News and Daily Sentinel.

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo (UB). I received my Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems from Shandong University in China in 2010. I was a visiting Ph.D. student at UB from 2009 to 2010. I also worked at UB as a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2012 to 2015. After that, I worked as an Associate Research Scientist with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University (Boston), from 2015 to 2018. I direct the Wireless Intelligent Networking and Security (WINGS) Lab at UB, focusing on research and technology transfer in zero-touch computing and networking, space-air-ground networking, wireless network security, software and testbed design for future networks, and printable electronic circuits.

Current Research Areas

  Zero-Touch Computing and Networking  
Enhance the automation of resource orchestration in complex networked wireless systems, and hence reduce the essential management complexity of wireless systems and accelerate their evolution, through integrated sensing, computing, learning and networking.

  AI-Enabled Ultra-broadband NextG Networks  
Enable broadband and low-latency integrated space-air-ground mobile networking over microwave, millimeter-wave and terahertz frequency bands.

  Testbed and Software for Future Networks  
Tackle the grand challenges in experimental wireless research, including diversity, generalizability and accessibility, towards developing an open experimental ecosystem for the wireless community, based on which researchers can conveniently share data, code, computing and hardware resources.

  Chip-based and Chipless RFID  
Design flexible and scalable RFID prototyping methods based on conductive thermal transfer printing technology, and enhance the reading range and coverage based on advanced radio frequency signal sensing and processing as well as communication techniques.

Acknowledgment

Team

Current Team

	Jiangqi Hu (Ph.D. Student, started August 2019) [Website] Intelligent Spectrum Management in 6G and Beyond
	Maxwell McManus (Ph.D. Student, started Jan. 2020) [Website] National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Co-advised with Dr. Scott Pudlewski at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Domain Adaptation for Digital Twin-Enabled Wireless Networks
	Liam Liu (Ph.D. Student, started Aug. 2022) [Website] MPSoC/RFSoC-based Software-defined Wireless Sensing, Computing and Networking
	Yuqing Cui (Ph.D. Student, started Jan. 2023) [Website] Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship Parallel/Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Wireless Systems
	Josh (Zhaoxi) Zhang (Ph.D. Student, started Jan. 2023) [Website] Co-advised with Dr. Nick Mastronarde Large-Scale Realtime Digital Twin Construction and Network Simulation
	Sidharth Santhinivas (Ph.D. Student, started Jan. 2023) [Website] MPSoC/RFSoC-based Software-defined Wireless Sensing, Computing and Networking
	Paulo DeMelo (Ph.D. Student, started Aug. 2023) MPSoC/RFSoC-based Software-defined Wireless Sensing, Computing and Networking
	Dave Satterlee (Research Support Specialist, started March 2023) Wireless Network Simulation, Emulation and Experimentation
	David Bone (M.S. Thesis Student, started Aug. 2022) Wireless Network Simulation, Emulation and Experimentation
	Shaik Mohammed Suhail (Research Assistant, started July 2023) OpenIoTLab: The SUNY Laboratory Federation for Wireless Intelligent Internet of Things
	Tenzin Rinchen (Research Assistant, started July 2023) OpenIoTLab: The SUNY Laboratory Federation for Wireless Intelligent Internet of Things

WINGS Alumni

	Sabarish Krishna Moorthy (Ph.D. Graduate, Graduated May 2023) [Website] Thesis: Enhancing the Automation for Resource Orchestration in Software-Defined Broadband Flying Networks Joined ANDRO Computational Solutions as Senior Scientist/Engineer for Radio Frequency Machine Learning
	Haolun Li (Master Student, Graduated May 2023) Thesis: An AWS-based Remote Access System for Software-Defined Wireless Testbeds Joined ANDRO Computational Solutions as Associate Scientist/Engineer
	Zhiyuan Zhao (Master Student, Graduated May 2023) Thesis: Software-defined Flying Wireless Networks Joined Northrop Grumman Corporation
	Ishita Dhopeshwar (Master Student, Graduated December 2022) Thesis: Antenna and Reader Design for Conductive Thermal Transfer Printing based RFID Production Joined Tarana Wireless
	Ranjith Samuel Suresh Kumar (Master Student, Graduated December 2021) Thesis: Software-defined Experimentation Platform for Wireless Drone Networks Joined Esensors Inc.
	Ankush Hari (Master Student, Graduated May 2021) Thesis: Development of an NS-3 Based Simulator for Swarm UAV Networks Joined Qualcomm
	Chencheng Lu (Master Student, Graduated May 2021) Thesis: RAFT - AWS-based Remote Access For Wireless Experimentation Platform Joined Automotive Robotics Incorporated

Publications

Journal and Magazines

S. K. Moorthy, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, and Z. Guan, "OSWireless: Hiding the Specification Complexity for Zero-Touch Software-Defined Wireless Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier), October 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] M. McManus, Y. Cui, J. Zhang, J. Hu, S. K. Moorthy, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, and Z. Guan, "Digital Twin-Enabled Domain Adaptation for Zero-Touch UAV Networks: Survey and Challenges," Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 236, November 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Hu, Z. Zhao, M. McManus, S. K. Moorthy, Y. Cui, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, and Z. Guan, "NeXT: Architecture, Prototyping and Measurement of a Software-Defined Testing Framework for Integrated RF Network Simulation, Experimentation and Optimization," Computer Communications (Elsevier), vol. 210, October 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, N. Mastronarde, S. Pudlewski, E. S. Bentley, and Z. Guan, "Swarm UAV Networking With Collaborative Beamforming and Automated ESN Learning in the Presence of Unknown Blockages," Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 231, July 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Hu, S. K. Moorthy, A. Harindranath, Zhaoxi Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, S. Pudlewski, and Z. Guan, "A Mobility-Resilient Spectrum Sharing Framework for Operating Wireless UAVs in the 6 GHz Band," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted for publication, April 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, Z. Guan, "Beam Learning in MmWave/THz-band Drone Networks Under In-Flight Mobility Uncertainties," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1945-1957, June 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, M. McManus, Z. Guan, "ESN Reinforcement Learning for Spectrum and Flight Control in THz-Enabled Drone Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 782-795, April 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, T. Melodia, "WNOS: Enabling Principled Software-Defined Wireless Networking," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1391-1407, June 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, H. Kulhandjian, T. Melodia, "Stochastic Channel Access in Underwater Networks With Statistical Interference Modeling," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 3020-3033, Oct. 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Cen, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, "Compressed Sensing based Low-Power Multi-view Video Coding and Transmission in Wireless Multi-path Multi-hop Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 3122 - 3137, Sept. 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] L. Bonati, S. D'Oro, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, S. Basagni, T. Melodia, "CellOS: Zero-touch Softwarized Open Cellular Networks," Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 180, Oct. 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, N. Cen, T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski, "Joint Power, Association and Flight Control for Massive-MIMO Self-Organizing Flying Drones," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1491-1505, August 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Cen, Jithin Jagannath, Simone Moretti, Z. Guan, Tommaso Melodia, "LANET: Visible-Light Ad Hoc Network," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 84, pp. 107-123, 2018. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan and T. Melodia, "The Value of Cooperation: Minimizing User Costs in Multi-broker Mobile Cloud Computing Networks," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 780-791, Oct.-Dec. 2017. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "Inter-view Motion Compensated Joint Decoding of Compressive-Sampled Multi-view Video Streaming," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1117-1126, June 2017. [pdf] [bibtex] L. Zhang, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "United Against the Enemy: Anti-jamming Based on Cross-layer Cooperation in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 5733-5747, Aug. 2016. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, G. E. Santagati, and T. Melodia, "Distributed Algorithms for Joint Channel Access and Rate Control in Ultrasonic Intra-body Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 3109-3122, Oct. 2016. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, D. Yuan, and D. Pados, "Distributed Resource Management for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks with Cooperative Relays," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1675-1689, June 2016. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, and G. Scutari, "To Transmit or Not to Transmit? Distributed Queueing Games for Infrastructureless Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1153-1166, April 2016. [pdf] [bibtex] S. Pudlewski, N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "Video Transmission over Lossy Wireless Networks: A Cross-layer Perspective," IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-22, Feb. 2015. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan and T. Melodia, "Cloud-assisted Smart-camera Networks for Energy-efficient 3D Video Streaming," IEEE Computer, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 60-66, May 2014. [pdf] [bibtex] Jiali Xu, Z. Guan, "Joint Relay Selection and Cognitive Spectrum Access Based on Genetic Algorithm in Cooperative Wireless Networks," The Journal of New Industrialization, vol. 5, 2014. Z. Guan, D. Yuan, H. Zhang, and L. Ding, "Cooperative Bargaining Solution for Efficient and Fair Spectrum Management in Cognitive Wireless Networks," International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 3441-3459, Nov. 2014. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, and D. Yuan, "Jointly Optimal Rate Control and Relay Selection for Cooperative Wireless Video Streaming," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1173-1186, August 2013. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, D. Yuan, and H. Zhang, "Optimal and Fair Resource Allocation for Multiuser Wireless Multimedia Transmissions," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009. [pdf] [bibtex]

Conference Papers

I. Dhopeshwar, M. McManus, D. Harrison, B. Ralston, C. Janson, A. Rae, A. Levesque, and Z. Guan, "Antenna Design and Measurements for Conductive Thermal Transfer Printing Based RFID Production," in Proc. of IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Toronto, Canada, 5-8 September, 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Mishra, Y. V. Iyengar, A. C. Raikar, N. Thomas, S. K. Moorthy, J. Hu, Z. Zhao, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, and Z. Guan, "Demo: Scaling Out srsRAN Through Interfacing Wirelessly srsENB With srsEPC," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), New York area, USA, May 17-20, 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Hu, M. McManus, S. K. Moorthy, Y. Cui, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, and M. Medley, "NeXT: A Software-Defined Testbed with Integrated Optimization, Simulation and Experimentation," in Proc. of IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF): WS5: Federated Testbed as a Service for Future Networks: Challenges & the State of the Art, Montreal, Canada, October 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] (Best Paper Award First Runner-up) S. K. Moorthy, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, "OSWireless: Enhancing Automation for Optimizing Intent-Driven Software-Defined Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Denver, Colorado, October 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] M. McManus, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, S. Zou, "On the Source-to-Target Gap of Robust Double Deep Q-Learning in Digital Twin-Enabled Wireless Networks," in Proc. of SPIE Conference Big Data IV: Learning, Analytics, and Applications, Orlando, Florida, April 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, A. Harindranath, M. McManus, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, "A Middleware for Digital Twin-Enabled Flying Network Simulations Using UBSim and UB-ANC," in Proc. of IEEE DCOSS Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), LA, California, June 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Mastronarde, D. Russell, Z. Guan, G. Sklivanitis, E. S. Bentley, M. Medley, "RF-SITL: A Software-in-the-loop Channel Emulator for UAV Swarm Networks," in Proc. of IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms (SwarmNet), Belfast, United Kingdom, June 14-17, 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, C. Lu, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, G. Sklivanitis, D. Pados, E. S. Bentley, and M. Medley, "CloudRAFT: A Cloud-based Framework for Remote Experimentation for Mobile Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics (RoboCom), Virtual Conference, January 2022. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Hu, S. K. Moorthy, A. Harindranath, Z. Guan, N. Mastronarde, E. S. Bentley, and S. Pudlewski, "SwarmShare: Mobility-Resilient Spectrum Sharing for Swarm UAV Networking in the 6 GHz Band," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), Virtual Conference, July 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, Z. Guan, S. Pudlewski, E. S. Bentley, "FlyBeam: Echo State Learning for Joint Flight and Beamforming Control in Wireless UAV Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Virtual/Montreal, Canada, 14-24 June, 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] M. McManus, Z. Guan, E. S. Bentley, S. Pudlewski, "Experimental Analysis of Cross-Layer Sensing for Protocol-Agnostic Packet Boundary Recognition," in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks (WiSARN), Virtual Conference, May 2021. [pdf] [bibtex] S. K. Moorthy, Z. Guan, "FlyTera: Echo State Learning for Joint Access and Flight Control in THz-enabled Drone Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), Como, Italy, June 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] [Video] S. K. Moorthy, Z. Guan, "LeTera: Stochastic Beam Control Through ESN Learning in Terahertz-Band Wireless UAV Networks," in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), Toronto, Canada, July 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] [Video] [source code] (Best Paper Award Runner-Up) A. Anand, R. S. Suresh Kumar, F. Malandra, Z. Sun, Z. Guan, "UBSpot: A Universal Broadband Flying Hotspot Experimental Testbed Toward Programmable Aerial-Ground Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Radio & Wireless Symposium (RWS): Internet of Things (IoT) and the mmWave Frontier, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 26-27 January 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] L. Bertizzolo, S. D'Oro, L. Ferranti, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski, "SwarmControl: An Automated Distributed Control Framework for Self-Optimizing Drone Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, July 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] [video] L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, "CoBeam: Beamforming-based Spectrum Sharing With Zero Cross-Technology Signaling for 5G Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, July 2020. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan and Tejas Kulkarni, "On the Effects of Mobility Uncertainties on Wireless Communications Between Flying Drones in the mmWave/THz Bands," in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), Paris, France, 29 April - 2 May 2019. [pdf] [bibtex] [source code] N. Cen, N. Dave, E. Demirors, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, "LiBeam: Throughput-Optimal Cooperative Beamforming for Indoor Visible Light Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Paris, France, 29 April - 2 May 2019. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, Nan Cen, T. Melodia, Scott Pudlewski, "Self-Organizing Flying Drones with Massive MIMO Networking," in Proc. of Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net), Capri, Italy, June 2018. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "Demo Abstract: WNOS: Software-defined Generation of Distributed Optimal Control Programs for Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, April 2018. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, L. Bertizzolo, E. Demirors, and T. Melodia, "WNOS: An Optimization-based Wireless Network Operating System," in Proc. of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Los Angeles, USA, June 2018. [pdf] [bibtex] [source code] Z. Guan and T. Melodia, "CU-LTE: Spectrally-Efficient and Fair Coexistence between LTE and Wi-Fi in Unlicensed Bands," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2016. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "Multiview Wireless Video Streaming Based on Compressed Sensing: Architecture and Network Optimization," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Symp. on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Hangzhou, China, June 2015. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, G. E. Santagati, and T. Melodia, "Ultrasonic Intra-body Networking: Interference Modeling, Stochastic Channel Access and Rate Control," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong S.A.R., PRC, April 2015. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Shi, Z. Guan, C. Qiao, T. Melodia, D. Koutsonikolas, and G. Challen, "Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones," Poster in ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb. 2015. [pdf] [bibtex] J. Shi, Z. Guan, C. Qiao, T. Melodia, D. Koutsonikolas, and G. Challen, "Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), Los Angeles, California, USA, Oct. 2014. [pdf] [bibtex] L. Zhang, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "Cooperative Anti-jamming for Infrastructure-less Wireless Networks with Stochastic Relaying," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, April 2014. [pdf] [bibtex] N. Cen, Z. Guan, and T. Melodia, "Joint Decoding of Independently Encoded Compressive Multi-view Video Streams," in Proc. of Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), San Jose, CA, December 2013. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, and G. Scutari, "Distributed Queuing Games in Interference-limited Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, and D. Yuan, "Stochastic Channel Access for Underwater Acoustic Networks with Spatial and Temporal Interference Uncertainty," in Proc. of ACM Intl. Conf. on UnderWater Networks and Systems (WUWNet), Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 2012. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, T. Melodia, D. Yuan, and D. A. Pados, "Distributed Spectrum Management and Relay Selection in Interference-Limited Cooperative Wireless Networks," in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 19-23, 2011. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan T. Melodia, and D. Yuan, "Optimizing Cooperative Video Streaming in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Salt Like City, Utah, June 27-29, 2011. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, L. Ding, T. Melodia, and D. Yuan, "On the Effect of Cooperative Relaying on the Performance of Video Streaming Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, D. Yuan, and H. Zhang, "Co-opetition Strategy for Collaborative Multiuser Multimedia Resource Allocation," in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009. [pdf] [bibtex] Q. Jin, D. Yuan, and Z. Guan, "Distributed Geometric-Programming-Based Power Control in Cellular Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Barcelona, Spain, April. 26-29, 2009. [pdf] [bibtex] Z. Guan, D. Yuan, and H. Zhang, "Novel Coopetition Paradigm Based on Bargaining Theory for Collaborative Multimedia Resource Management," in Proc. of IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC), Cannes, France, Sept 15-18, 2008. [pdf] [bibtex]

Intellectual Property - Patents

US 11240137, Distributed Wireless Network Operating System [Certificate] US 9924372, Method for Sharing of Unlicensed Radio Frequency Bands by Cellular LTE and WiFi Networks [Link] PCT/US14/58486, A Medium Access Control Scheme for Ultrasonic Communications in the Human Body Based on Second Order Statistics

Service

Conference Organizations

TPC Chair, IEEE Consumer Communications Networking Conference(CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, January 2025

TPC Vice Chair, IEEE Consumer Communications Networking Conference(CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, January 2024

Track Chair, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Boston, MA, October 2023

Chair for Information System (EDAS) for IEEE Consumer Communications Networking Conference(CCNC) 2021-2023

TPC Co-Chair, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), LA, California, May 2022

Organizing Committee Chair, 4th Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things, Buffalo, NY, Nov. 2022

Student Travel Award Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week, May3-6, 2022

TPC Chair, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), July 2021

Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking andCommunications (WiMob), Oct. 2021

Organizing Committee Chair, 3rd Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things, Buffalo, NY, November 2021

TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks (WiSARN 2021), 10-13 May 2021, Virtual Conference

Workshop Co-Chair for International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021), Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus June 7 – 9, 2021

General Co-Chair, 1st IEEE International Workshop on Communication and Networking for Swarms Robotics (RoboCom), January 2021, Virtual Conference

Organizing Committee Chair for the 2nd Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things, Nov. 20, 2020, Virtual Event

Student Travel Grants Chair, IEEE Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Como, Italy, June 2020

TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE), Beijing, China, April 2020

Organizing Committee Chair for the 1st Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things, Buffalo, NY, Nov. 2019

Student Travel Grants Chair, IEEE Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, June 2019

TPC Vice-chair for Information System (EDAS) for IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), Osaka, Japan, June 2017

Journal Editorship

Area Editor, Computer Networks (Elsevier), July 2019 - present

Guest Editor for MDPI Drones Special Issue “Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms”, Sept. 2020

TPC Member

IEEE INFOCOM, 2016-2024

IEEE MASS, 2017-2019, 2021-2023

IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015-2023

IEEE ICC, 2018-2024

IEEE MILCOM, 2016-2019, 2021, 2022

IEEE PIMRC, 2013-2017, 2020-2023

IEEE ICNC, 2012-2020, 2023

IEEE WCNC, 2012, 2014-2024

IEEE WONS, 2013-2014, 2016-2024

IEEE IPCCC, 2015-2023

IFIP NTMS, 2011-2012, 2014-2016, 2018-2020

IEEE SwarmNet, 2019-2022

IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2020-2023

ACM MobiArch 2022

Reviewer

Proposals: SUNY IITG - Innovative Instructional Technology Grants, NSF Review Panelist, NIST

IEEE Journals: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters

Elsevier Journals: Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Journal of Image Communication

Wiley Journals: International Journal of Communication Systems, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Conferences: INFOCOM, ICDCS, SECON, ICC, GLOBECOM, WUWNet, PIMRC, NTMS, MILCOM, WCNC, VTC, Med-Hoc-Net, MSN, Networking

Teaching

EE434/534: Principles of Networking (for undergraudate/graduate students), Spring 2021-2023

EE459/559: Programmable Networks (for undergraudate/graduate students), Spring 2019, 2020

EE701: The Internet of Things: From Technology to Applications (for graduate students), Fall 2019-2023

Links

5th Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things

Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems (WiNES) Lab@Northeastern University

Electrical Engineering@University at Buffalo

Information Science and Engineering@Shandong University