Dr. Liang Cheng's researh on system instrumentation and analytics

Select results of our group in this area: Designed and developed open-source context-aware middleware (MARCHES) with a new architecture shift from single to multiple component-chains in middleware design that enables real-time application adaptation and reflection in heterogeneous environments and systems; Solved a major network service provider's bandwidth measurement problem and the solution was also used by a thrid-party Internet Speed Test tool.

Patent
  1. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Method and system for adapting a network application based on classifying types of communication links using fuzzy logic, US Patent Number 6,766,309.


    2. Refereed Journal Papers
  2. Bjoern Dusza, Christoph Ide, Liang Cheng and Christian Wietfeld, CoPoMo: A Context-Aware Power Consumption Model for LTE User Equipment, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, accepted for publication, 2013.
  3. Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Jeff Heflin, Traffic-based Reasoning Intrusion Detection System using Ontology, Special collection on ontologies and semantics in communication systems and networks, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, accepted for publication, 2013.
  4. Lisa Frye, Zhongliang Liang, and Liang Cheng, Performance Analysis and Evaluation of an Ontology-based Heterogeneous Multi-tier Network Management System, accepted by the Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2013.
  5. 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.
  6. Doraid Dalalah, Liang Cheng, and Gregory L. Tonkay, Modeling End-to-End Wireless Lossy Channels - A Finite-State Markov Approach, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1236-1243, 2008.
  7. Yanjun Shen, Bingwen Wang, Fangxin Chen, and Liang Cheng, A new multi-output neural model with tunable activation function and its applications, Neural Processing Letters (Springer/Kluwer) , Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 85-104, Nov 2004.
  8. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Accurate bandwidth measurement in xDSL service networks,Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 25, No. 18, pp. 1699-1710, 2002.
  9. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Piecewise network awareness service for wireless/mobile pervasive computing,Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM/Springer MONET), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 269-278, 2002.
  10. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Java-based accurate bandwidth measurement tools for digital subscriber network networks, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 9, pp. 333-344, 2002 (extended from our Best Paper of ICATM'01).
  11. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Fuzzy reasoning for wireless awareness, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (Springer) , Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 15-26, 2001.


    12. Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers
  12. Bjoern Dusza, Christoph Ide, Liang Cheng, and Christian Wietfeld, An Accurate Measurement-Based Power Consumption Model for LTE Uplink Transmissions, accepted by the INFOCOM 2013 Demo/Poster Session, Turin, Italy, April 2013.
  13. Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Jeff Heflin, An Ontology-Based System to Identify Complex Network Attacks, accepted by The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems, part of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012.
  14. Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Randy Kaplan, A Methodology to Identify Complex Network Attacks, in Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'11), Las Vegas, July 18-21, 2011.
  15. Lisa Frye and Liang Cheng, A Network Management System for a Heterogeneous, Multi-tier Network, in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010.
  16. Jianshuang Cui, Liang Cheng, and Tieke Li, A Multistage Algorithm for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) 2009, Hong Kong, Dec. 8-11, 2009.
  17. 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.
  18. Qiang Wang and Liang Cheng, FEAT: improving accuracy in end-to-end available bandwidth measurement, in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, pp. 1-4, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.
  19. Wenbin Ma and Liang Cheng, Network Modeling and Policies for Traffic Groooming in Heterogeneous WDM Grooming Networks, in Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis, pp. 227-240, Reading, PA, October 5-8, 2006.
  20. Hua Lin and Liang Cheng, Modeling network bandwidth of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks, in Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2005: International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 3563-3568, Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005.
  21. Qiang Wang and Liang Cheng, A flexible awareness measurement and management architecture for adaptive applications, IEEE Globecom 2004, pp. 2118-2122, Dallas, November 29 - December 3, 2004.
  22. 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.
  23. Liang Cheng, Wireless awareness service for wireless intelligent networks, in Proceedings of the 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Communication (APCC2003), Vol. 2, pp. 561-564, Penang, September 21-24, 2003.
  24. Jian Zhang, Liang Cheng, and Ivan Marsic, Models for non-intrusive estimation of wireless link bandwidth, in Proceeding of Personal Wireless Communication 2003, published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISSN 0302-9743), Vol. 2775, pp. 334-348, 2003.
  25. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Modeling and prediction of session throughput of constant bit rate streams in wireless data networks, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'03), Vol. 3, pp. 1733-1741, New Orleans, March 16-20, 2003.
  26. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Lightweight models for prediction of wireless link dynamics in wireless/mobile local area networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, pp. 98-101, Ewing, March 13, 2002
  27. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Bandwidth measurement in xDSL networks, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on ATM (ICATM2001), pp. 222-226, Seoul, April 23-25, 2001 (a Best Paper selected for Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering).
  28. Liang Cheng and Ivan Marsic, Wireless awareness for multimedia applications, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies (ICCT2000), pp. 1376-1382, Beijing, August 21-24, 2000.
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