Zhangyu Guan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo - SUNY (Courtesy)

Address: 5-207 Keller Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: zguan@umn.edu; guan@buffalo.edu

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

News

Aug. 2025: I joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. [New Webpage]

July 2025: Our project “UnionLabs: Facilitating Shared Access to Heterogeneous Wireless Testbeds Through Grassroots-Driven Federation” has been awarded by the NSF CIRC program! In collaboration with the University of Florida, we aim to launch a grassroots initiative to democratize access to wireless research testbeds with a wide range of hardware resources and network environments, and to accelerate the development of an open, mature experimental ecosystem for the wireless research community. We sincerely thank the NSF and the broader community for their kind support!

June 2025: I am honored to join the Organizing Committee for IEEE INFOCOM 2026, which will be held from May 19 to 22, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan, and to serve as a Demo/Posters Co-Chair.

May 2025: Congratulations to WINGS Lab undergraduate students Yijie Yin and Yuanzangnan Gao on their admissions to prestigious graduate programs! Yijie has been admitted to the Master’s program at the University of Pennsylvania, and Yuanzangnan has been admitted to Waseda University in Japan.

May 2025: Dr. Maxwell McManus will join the WINGS Lab as a Senior Research Engineer starting June 1, 2025. He will lead our research efforts in domain adaptation for intelligent unmanned aerial systems.

April 2025: I am honored to receive the Senior Teacher of the Year Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at the University at Buffalo.

Dec. 2024: Congratulations to Tenzin Rinchen for joining Google as a Cloud Consultant for Application Modernization.

Dec. 2024: Congratulations to Shreshta Shekar and Sindhu Thukkamuthu! Shreshta will join the Silicon Design Team at AMD as a Software Engineer, and Sindhu will join Synopsys Inc as an ASIC Physical Design Engineer.

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, starting August 2025. Prior to this, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo. I received my Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Shandong University, China, in 2010. From 2009 to 2010, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University at Buffalo, where I later worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2012 to 2015. Between 2015 and 2018, I was an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. I am the Director of the Wireless Intelligent Networking and Security (WINGS) Lab. My research interests include zero-touch computing and networking, space-air-ground integrated networking, wireless network security, and software and testbed infrastructure for future networks.

Current Research Areas

  Wireless Sensing, Communications and Networking for Advanced Air Mobility 
UAVs (aka “drones”) have been envisioned as a key tool for a wide set of new applications, thanks to their unique characteristics such as fast deployment, high mobility, processing capabilities, and small size. However, the resource orchestration in UAV-enabled wireless systems is rather challenging, primarily because the high-mobility UAVs will increase significantly the complexity of modeling, control and optimization of the resulting wireless systems. We investigate new sensing, communication and networking technologies to enable safe, secure and intelligent wireless UAV applications, e.g., Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).

  AI-Enabled Ultra-broadband NextG Networks  
Most of traditional data-driven control based on AI/ML algorithms highly relies on the availability of a sufficient amount of well-labeled, contextual data for policy training. It is challenging to collect sufficient training data while minimizing the interaction of the agents with the physical environments and ensuring good policy generalizability. To address these challenges, we explore new digital twin-based approach to accelerate the data generation and policy training in AI-enabled ultra-broadband NextG networks that may operate across microwave, mmWave as well as sub-THz frequency bands.

Experimentation and Softwarization for Future Wireless Networks   The wireless research community still lacks a mature shared facility to support rigorous and repeatable experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems. The goal of this research is to address three grand challenges with experimental wireless research in diversity, generalizability, and accessibility by creating a grassroots campaign to democratize access to 5G/6G and IoT testbeds with heterogeneous hardware, software, and computing resources, spanning space, aerial, ground, underwater, and underground domains.

UAV Design, Fabrication, Testing and Optimization   The WINGS Lab has established comprehensive facilities and capabilities for the end-to-end development of advanced UAV platforms, tailored to support a broad spectrum of mission requirements.

Printable Circuits for 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

	Maxwell McManus [Website] Ph.D. Graduate (Jan. 2020 - May 2025, NDSEG Fellow) Senior Research Engineer (Started June 2025) Co-advised with Dr. Nicholas Mastronarde at the University at Buffalo
	Yuqing Cui [Website] Ph.D. Student (Started Jan. 2023) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship
	Josh (Zhaoxi) Zhang [Website] Ph.D. Student (Started Jan. 2023) Co-advised with Dr. Nick Mastronarde
	Sidharth Santhinivas [Website] Ph.D. Student (Started Jan. 2023)
	Annoy Dey Ph.D. Student (Started Jan. 2025)
	Chenzhi Zhao Ph.D. Student (Starting August 2025)

WINGS Alumni

	Albert Wain Undergraduate Student McNair Research Fellow
	Yijie Yin Undergraduate Student (Graduated May 2025) ⟹ Master Student at University of Pennsylvania
	Yuanzangnan Gao Undergraduate Student (Graduated May 2025) ⟹ Master Student at Waseda University, Japan
	Tenzin Rinchen Research Assistant (Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024) ⟹ Google
	Sindhu Thukkamuthu Research Assistant (Feb. 2024 - Dec. 2024) ⟹ Synopsys
	Shreshta Sheker Research Assistant (Feb. 2024 - Dec. 2024) ⟹ AMD
	Dave Satterlee Software Engineer VOCAL technologies
	Jiangqi Hu [Website] Ph.D. Graduate (Graduated May 2024) ⟹ Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University
	Yixiao Shang Undergraduate Student (Graduated May 2024) ⟹ Master Student at University of Southern California
	Xiaohong Guo Undergraduate Student (Graduated May 2024) ⟹ Master Student at Georgia Institute of Technology
	Shashank Pagidimarri M.S. Student (Graduated Dec. 2023) ⟹ Research Foundation of City University of New York
	David Bone M.S. Student (Graduated Dec. 2023) US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
	Shaik Mohammed Suhail Research Assistant (Graduated Dec. 2023) ⟹ ANDRO Computational Solutions
	Sabarish Krishna Moorthy [Website] Ph.D. Graduate (Graduated May 2023) ⟹ ANDRO Computational Solutions
	Haolun Li M.S. Student (Graduated May 2023) ⟹ ANDRO Computational Solutions
	Zhiyuan Zhao M.S. Student (Graduated May 2023) ⟹ Northrop Grumman
	Ishita Dhopeshwar M.S. Student (Graduated Dec. 2022) ⟹ Tarana Wireless
	Ranjith Samuel Suresh Kumar M.S. Student (Graduated Dec. 2021) ⟹ Viridi
	Ankush Hari M.S. Student (Graduated May 2021) ⟹ Qualcomm
	Chencheng Lu M.S. Student (Graduated May 2021) ⟹ Automotive Robotics

Publications

Annoy Dey, Maxwell McManus, Josh (Zhaoxi) Zhang, Guanying Sun, Nicholas Mastronarde, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, and Zhangyu Guan, "AirTwinX: A High-Fidelity Digital Twin for Advanced Air Mobility with Ray Tracing," Demo at IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, January 10-13, 2025. [pdf] [bibtex] Yuqing Cui, Maxwell McManus, Zhaoxi (Josh) Zhang, Hatef Nouri, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris Pados, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Nicholas Mastronarde, and Zhangyu Guan, "WaveBox: Software-Defined RF Generator with Seamless Waveform Switching and Open Integration," Demo at IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, January 10-13, 2025. [pdf] [bibtex] Sidharth Santhinivas, Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar, Maxwell McManus, Hatef Nouri, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris Pados, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Nicholas Mastronarde, and Zhangyu Guan, "Resilient Communications with Lightweight Signature Synchronization on MPSoC Radios," Demo at IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, January 10-13, 2025. [pdf] [bibtex] Maxwell McManus, Yuqing Cui, Zhaoxi (Josh) Zhang, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Michael Medley, Nicholas Mastronarde, and Zhangyu Guan, "On the Effects of Modeling on the Sim-to-Real Transfer Gap in Twinning the POWDER Platform," in Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Testbeds as a Service for Future Networks: Challenges & State of the Art, Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 2024. [pdf] [bibtex] Maxwell McManus, Tenzin Rinchen, Annoy Dey, Sumanth Thota, Zhaoxi (Josh) Zhang, Jiangqi Hu, Xi (Leo) Wang, Mingyue Ji, Nicholas Mastronarde, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Michael Medley, and Zhangyu Guan, "Cloud-Based Federation Framework and Prototype for Open, Scalable, and Shared Access to NextG and IoT Testbeds," in Proc. of the 18th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH'24), Washington, D.C., November 2024. [pdf] [bibtex] Maxwell McManus, Tenzin Rinchen, Shaik Mohammed Suhail, Sidharth Santhinivas, Annoy Dey, Shashank Pagidimarri, Yuqing Cui, Jiangqi Hu, Josh (Zhaoxi) Zhang, Xi (Leo) Wang, Mingyue Ji, Nicholas Mastronarde, and Zhangyu Guan, "Demo: UnionLabs: AWS-based Remote Access and Sharing of NextG and IoT Testbeds," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada, 20–23 May 2024. [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, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 3128-3142, December 2023. [pdf] [bibtex] 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), vol. 237, December 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] 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] 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] 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 First Runner-up Award) 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] 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] 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] N. Mastronarde, D. Russell, Z. Guan, G. Sklivanitis, D. Pados, 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 Runner-Up Award) 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] 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] 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, 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, 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] 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] 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, "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] 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] 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] 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] 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. 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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. 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] 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] 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 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, 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, "Optimal and Fair Resource Allocation for Multiuser Wireless Multimedia Transmissions," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009. [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 12073277, RFID Antenna, RFID Tag and Method for Fabricating Such RFID Antenna [Certificate] 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

Demo/Posters Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Tokyo, Japan, May 19 - 22, 2026

Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Chicago, USA, October 6-8, 2025

TPC Chair, IEEE Workshop on Generative AI (GAI) and Edge Intelligence in Wireless Sensing, Communication, and Networking (GAI-EdgeNet), Fort Worth, TX, May 2025

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

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, January 2024 - present

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

TPC Member

IEEE INFOCOM, 2016-2026

IEEE MASS, 2017-2019, 2021-2024

IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015-2024

IEEE ICC, 2018-2025

IEEE MILCOM, 2016-2019, 2021, 2022

IEEE PIMRC, 2013-2017, 2020-2024

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 2020-2024

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 2021-2024

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

6th 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