Dr. Liang Cheng's research on distributed sensing and computing

Select results of our group in this area: Bridged the gap between theory and practice in critical wireless radius/power design for wireless sensor networks; Designed and developed Wireless Signal Networks as a proof of concept for real-time and global subsurface characterization.

    Refereed Journal Papers
  1. Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, Suk-Un Yoon, Muhannad T. Suleiman, and Liang Cheng, Geotechnical sensing using electromagnetic attenuation between radio transceivers, Journal of smart materials and structures, Vol. 21, No. 12, 2012.
  2. Suk-Un Yoon, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Liang Cheng, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface event detection and classification using wireless signal networks, Sensors, Vol. 12, No. 11, 2012.
  3. Siavash Dorvash, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, An iterative modal identification algorithm for structural health monitoring using wireless sensor networks, Earthquake and Spectra, Journal of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in press (accepted for publication on January 2012).
  4. Shengpu Liu and Liang Cheng, A context-aware reflective middleware framework for distributed real-time and embedded systems, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 205-218, February 2011.
  5. Jun Peng and Liang Cheng, A Distributed MAC Scheme for Emergency Message Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Issue on Vehicular Communications Networks, Vol. 56, Issue 6, pp. 3300-3308, 2007.
  6. Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, A Lightweight Approach to Mobile Multicasting in Wireless Sensor Networks, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, pp. 36-45, 2007.
  7. Qiang Wang, Yaoyao Zhu, and Liang Cheng, Reprogramming wireless sensor networks: challenges and approaches, IEEE Network, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 48-55, May/June 2006.
  8. Qing Ye, Yuecheng Zhang, and Liang Cheng, A study on the optimal time synchronization accuracy in wireless sensor networks, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 549-566, July 2005.
  9. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, PLACE: protocol for location and coordinates estimation -- a wireless sensor network approach, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 670-693, December 2004. Ranked as No. 10 in the ScienceDirect's TOP 25 Hottest Articles within the journal Computer Networks from October to December 2004.

    Book Chapters
  10. Lisa Frye and Liang Cheng, Topology management for wireless sensor networks, Chapter 2 in Guide To Wireless Sensor Networks , Springer Verlag, S. Misra, S. C. Misra, and I. Woungang (Editors), ISBN: 1848822170, pp. 27-46, June 2009.
  11. Dale Parson, Qing Ye, and Liang Cheng, Hybrid open hash tables for network processors, in High-Performance Packet Switching Architectures, Springer-Verlag, Elhanany, Itamar; Hamdi, Mounir (Eds.), ISBN: 1-84628-273-X, 2007.
  12. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, Robust Routing in Sensor Networks, in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 0387254838, December 2005.
  13. Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks, in Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Auerbach Publications, ISBN: 0849328322, August 2005.

    Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers
  14. Yuehua Wang, Zhong Zhou, Ling Liu, Liang Cheng, and Wei Wu, Topological Similarity-based Scheme for Large-scale Group Communication Services, Proceedings of IEEE 21st Int. Conf on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN2012), Munich, Germany, July 30 - Aug. 02, 2012.
  15. Xiaotong Zhang, Qiong Luo, Liang Cheng, Yadong Wan, Hongling Song and Yanhong Yang, CRTRA: Coloring Route-Tree based Resource Allocation Algorithm for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, accepted by 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, April 1-4, 2012.
  16. Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Zi Wang, Xiaotong Zhang, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface Monitoring using Low Frequency Wireless Signal Networks, in the WIP session of IEEE Percom 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, March 19-23, 2012.
  17. Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Liang Cheng, Real time global subsurface monitoring using new application of wireless signal networks, proof of concept, ASCE Geo-congress Conference, March 2012.
  18. Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, and Liang Cheng, Challenges of subsurface geo-sensing and monitoring using wireless signal networks, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2012, March 2012.
  19. Siavash Dorvash, Xu Li, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Network Architecture Design of an Agile Sensing System with Sandwich Wireless Sensor Nodes, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2012, San Diego, CA, March 2012.
  20. Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, and Muhannad T. Suleiman, A radio propagation model for wireless underground sensor networks, in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Houston, TX, December 2011. A technical report can be found here.
  21. Zi Wang, Shamim N. Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Sandwich node architecture for task preemption in wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring applications, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 13-15, 2011.
  22. Elizabeth Labuz, Shamim Pakzad, and Liang Cheng, Damage Detection and Localization in Structures: A Statistics Based Algorithm Using a Densely Clustered Sensor Network, in Proceedings of the 2011 Structures Congress, Las Vegas, April 14-16, 2011.
  23. Xu Li and Liang Cheng, Determinate Bounds of Design Parameters for Critical Connectivity in Wireless Multi-hop Line Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference 2011, Cancun, Mexico, March 28-31, 2011.
  24. Suk-Un Yoon, Liang Cheng, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Sibel Pamukcu, Muhannad T. Suleiman, Subsurface geo-applications of wireless signal networks, in Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2011, San Diego, California, March 6-10, 2011.
  25. Xu Li, Siavash Dorvash, Liang Cheng, Shamim Pakzad, An implementation of a data-transmission pipelining algorithm on imote2 platforms, in Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2011, San Diego, California, March 6-10, 2011.
  26. Ehsan Ghazanfari, Suk-Un Yoon, Yi Dong, Xu Li, Carlos Medina, Donald Seserko, Liang Cheng, Tae Sup Yun, and Sibel Pamukcu, Subsurface Geo-event Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the Geo-Frontiers 2011, Dallas, TX, Mar. 13-16, 2011.
  27. Xu Li and Liang Cheng, Critical Link Quality for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Student Workshop, San Diego, California, March 14, 2010.
  28. S. Dorvash, S.N. Pakzad, E. Labuz, M. Chang, X. Li, L. Cheng, Validation of a Wireless Sensor Network using Local Damage Detection algorithm for Beam-Column Connections, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010.
  29. Xu Li, Siavash Dorvash, Liang Cheng, and Shamim Pakzad, Pipelining in Structural-Health-Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010.
  30. Xu Li, Tae sup Yun, Liang Cheng, Sibel Pamukcu and Yi Dong, In-situ Geo-characterization Using Wireless Functional Signals, in Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2010, San Diego, California, March 7-11 2010.
  31. Liang Cheng and Shamim Pakzad, Agility of Wireless Sensor Networks for Earthquake Monitoring of Bridges, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'09), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 17 - 19, 2009.
  32. Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, DTP: Double-pairwise Time Protocol for Disruption Tolerant Networks, in the Proceeding of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008) , pp. 345-352, Beijing, China, June 17 - 20, 2008. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  33. Shengpu Liu and Liang Cheng, Active Message Oriented Adaptation Middleware for Collaborative Applications in Heterogeneous Environments, in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008) , pp. 1866-1870, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.
  34. Shengpu Liu and Liang Cheng, Local Tree Based Geometric Routing, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications 2007 (ICC 2007) , pp. 5478-5483, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.
  35. Shengpu Liu and Liang Cheng, Efficient Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring, in the Proceeding of 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (also in the Proceeding of the 3rd IEEE Annual Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON'06), New York City, pp. 823-829, June 2006.
  36. Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, Shenfu Du, and Michael W. Bigrigg, Topology maintenance of wireless sensor networks in node failure-prone environments, in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, pp. 886 - 891, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April 23-25, 2006.
  37. Liang Cheng, Multi-hop positioning and risk-tolerant robust wireless sensor networks, in the Conference CD Proceedings of Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA, April 27-28, 2005.
  38. Yunfeng Zhang and Liang Cheng, Issues in applying wireless sensor networks to health monitoring of large-scale civil infrastructure systems, ASCE Structure Congress 2005, New York City, New York, April 20-24, 2005.
  39. Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, A study of reconnecting the partitioned wireless sensor networks, Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking (ICN'05), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3420, Part I., pp. 561-568, Reunion Island, April 17-21, 2005.
  40. Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, Secure wireless sensor networks with network processors, 2005 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, March 16-18, 2005
  41. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, A distributed protocol for multi-hop underwater robot positioning, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 2004, pp. 480 - 484, Shenyang, August 22-26, 2004.
  42. Qiang Wang and Liang Cheng, AwareWare: an adaptation middleware for heterogeneous environments, in Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Vol. 3, pp. 1406-1410, Paris, June 20-24, 2004.
  43. Liang Cheng, Yuecheng Zhang, Tian Lin, and Qing Ye, Integration of wireless sensor networks, wireless local area networks, and the Internet, in Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2004), pp.462-467, Taipei,   March 21-24, 2004.
  44. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, Flossiping: A new routing protocol for wireless sensor networks, in Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2004), pp. 1218-1223, Taipei, March 21-24, 2004.
  45. Liang Cheng, Tian Lin, Yuecheng Zhang, and Qing Ye, Monitoring wireless sensor networks by heterogeneous collaborative groupware, ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference (Sicon'04), pp. 130-134, New Orleans, January 27-29, 2004.
  46. Wenbin Ma, Baoning Wu, Wei Zhang, and Liang Cheng, Implementation of a lightweight service advertisement and discovery protocol for mobile ad hoc networks, IEEE Globecom 2003, pp. 1023-1027, San Francisco, December 1-5, 2003.
  47. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, A robust affordable routing in wireless sensor networks, in Proceedings of VTC 2003 - Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks, pp. 2829-2833, Orlando, October 6-9, 2003.
  48. Yuecheng Zhang and Liang Cheng, Cross-layer optimization for sensor networks, New York Metro Area Networking Workshop 2003, New York City, September 12, 2003.
  49. Liang Cheng, Service advertisement and discovery in mobile ad hoc networks, Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, in conjunction with the ACM 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New Orleans, November 16-20, 2002.
  50. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Service discovery and invocation for mobile ad hoc networked appliances, in the CDROM Proceeding of the 2nd International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA 2000), New Brunswick, November 30 - December 1, 2000.
  51. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Hybrid cluster computing with mobile objects, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on High-Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region (HPC-Asia 2000), pp. 909-914, Beijing, May 14-17, 2000.
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