Our group is in the Department of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines.
Much of our work focuses on game theoretic and optimization approaches to networking, IoT, mobile computing and sensing, security and privacy.
We are looking for self-motivated and hardworking students who are interested in tackling algorithmic, optimization, and economic challenges across different areas, including networking, crowdsourcing, smart grid, and security and privacy.
Congratulation to Dr. Jian Lin for passing the PhD defense.
Oct. 2019DJ received the IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize.
May. 2019Two papers have been accepted by ICDCS 2019.
April. 2019One paper has been accepted by Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
April. 2019DJ was invited as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Nov. 2018One paper has been accepted by Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
Oct. 2018Welcome Nan Jiang to join our gourp as a PhD student.
Sep. 2018One paper has been accepted by Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET).
July. 2018One paper has been accepted by Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
Jul. 2018One paper has been accepted by ICDCS 2018.
March. 2018One paper has been accepted by SECON 2018.
March. 2018Jian received 2017-18 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from CSM.
Jan. 2018Two papers have been accepted by INFOCOM 2018.
Nov. 2017One paper has been accepted by Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
Nov. 2017DJ received NSF funding for the project "NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Crowdsourced Spectrum Sensing through Sybil-proof Incentives," October 2017-September 2020.
Aug. 2017Two papers have been accepted by MASS 2017.
July 2017Our paper on capacity maximization in cognitive radio networks has been accepted by Transactions on Networking (TON).
June 2017Welcome Dr. Hua Jiang to our lab as a visiting scholar.
May 2017Our paper "BidGuard: A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing Incentive Mechanisms" has been accepted by CNS 2016.
Apr. 2016Congratulations to Yuhui Zhang for receiving her MS degree! Welcome her to join our group as a PhD student.
May 2016Jian and Ming passed the PhD qualifying exam.
May 2016DJ was invited to serve as a TPC member at INFOCOM 2017.
Mar. 2016Our paper "SpecWatch: Adversarial Spectrum Usage Monitoring in CRNs with Unknown Statistics" has been accepted by INFOCOM 2016.
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Sybil-Proof Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsensing, INFOCOM, 2017.
Sybil-Proof Online Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsensing, INFOCOM, 2018.
A Sybil-Resistant Truth Discovery Framework for Mobile CrowdsensingJian Lin, Dejun Yang, Kun Wu, Jian Tang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS) 2019
Incentive Mechanism for Multiple Cooperative Tasks with Compatible Users in Mobile Crowd Sensing via Online CommunitiesJia Xu, Zhengqiang Rao, Lijie Xu, Dejun Yang and Tao Li.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Incentivizing the Workers for Truth Discovery in Crowdsourcing with CopiersLingyun Jiang, Xiaofu Niu, Jia Xu, Dejun Yang, and Lijie Xu.IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS) 2019
Load Balancing for Interdependent IoT MicroservicesRuozhou Yu, Vishnu Teja Kilari, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019
Frameworks for Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsensing Incentive MechanismsJian Lin, Dejun Yang, Ming Li, Jia Xu, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Sybil-Proof Online Incentive Mechanisms for CrowdsensingJian Lin, Ming Li, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018
Online Quality-Aware Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowd Sensing with Extra BonusHui Gao, Chi Harold Liu, Jian Tang, Dejun Yang, Pan Hui, and Wendong Wang.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Personalized Privacy-preserving Task Allocation for Mobile CrowdsensingZhibo Wang, Jiahui Hu, Ruizhao Lv, Jian Wei, Qian Wang, Dejun Yang, and Hairong Qi.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Experience-driven Networking: a Deep Reinforcement Learning based ApproachZhiyuan Xu, Jian Tang, Jingsong Meng, Weiyi Zhang, Yanzhi Wang, Chi Harold Liu, and Dejun Yang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018
Pay On-demand: Dynamic Incentive and Task Selection for Location-dependent Mobile Crowdsensing SystemsZhibo Wang, Jiahui Hu, Jing Zhao, Dejun Yang, Honglong Chen, and Qian Wang.IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2018
Maximizing Capacity in Cognitive Radio Networks Under Physical Interference ModelMichael Brown, Colin Marshall, Dejun Yang, Ming Li, Jian Lin, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) 2017
Sybil-Proof Incentive Mechanisms for CrowdsensingJian Lin, Dejun Yang, Ming Li, Guoliang Xue, and Jian Tang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2017
QUAC: Quality-Aware Contract-Based Incentive Mechanisms for CrowdsensingMing Li, Jian Lin, Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, and Jian Tang.IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2017
Mobile Crowd Sensing via Online Communities: Incentive Mechanisms for Multiple Cooperative TasksJia Xu, Zhengqiang Rao, Lijie Xu, Dejun Yang, and Tao Li.IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2017
FIMI: A Constant Frugal Incentive Mechanism for Time Window Coverage in Mobile CrowdsensingJia Xu, Jianren Fu, Dejun Yang, Lijie Xu, Lei Wang, and Tao Li.Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) 2017
Incentivizing the Biased Requesters: Truthful Task Assignment Mechanisms in CrowdsourcingJia Xu, Hui Li, Yanxu Li, Dejun Yang, and Tao Li.IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2017
Robust Incentive Tree Design for Mobile CrowdsensingXiang Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Ruozhou Yu, Dejun Yang, and Jian Tang.IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2017
Optimal Crowdsourced Channel Monitoring in Cognitive Radio NetworksAhmed Mahmoud Salama, Ming Li, and Dejun Yang.IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2017
Spatiotemporal Modeling and Prediction in Cellular Networks: A Big Data Enabled Deep Learning ApproachJing Wang, Jian Tang, Zhiyuan Xu, Yanzhi Wang, Guoliang Xue, Xing Zhang, and Dejun Yang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2017
Enabling radio-as-a-service with truthful auction mechanismsJing Wang, Dejun Yang, Jian Tang, and M. Cenk Gursoy.IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC) 2017
SRAL: Shared Representative Appearance Learning for Long-Term Visual Place RecognitionFei Han, Xue Yang, Yiming Deng, Mark Rentschler, Dejun Yang, and Hao Zhang.IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2017
Towards Energy-efficient Task Scheduling on Smartphones in Mobile Crowd Sensing SystemsJing Wang, Jian Tang, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang.Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET) 2017
Game Theoretical Analysis of Coexistence in MIMO-Empowered Cognitive Radio NetworksYantian Hou, Ming Li, and Dejun Yang.International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2017
Countermeasures Against False-Name Attacks on Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for CrowdsourcingXiang Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Ruozhou Yu, Dejun Yang, and Jian Tang.IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) 2017
BidGuard: A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing Incentive MechanismsJian Lin, Dejun Yang, Ming Li, Jia Xu, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2016
Quality-Aware and Fine-Grained Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile CrowdsensingJing Wang, Jian Tang, Dejun Yang, Erica Wang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2016
SpecWatch: Adversarial Spectrum Usage Monitoring in CRNs with Unknown StatisticsMing Li, Dejun Yang, Jian Lin, Ming Li, and Jian Tang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2016
Enabling Green Mobile Crowd Sensing via Optimized Task Scheduling on Smartphones (Best Paper Award)Jing Wang, Jian Tang, Xiang Sheng, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang.IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2015
Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsensing: Crowdsourcing with SmartphonesDejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, and Jian Tang.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) 2015
Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for CrowdsourcingXiang Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Ruozhou Yu, Dejun Yang, and Jian Tang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2015
Optimal Payment Sharing Mechanism For Renewable Energy AggregationFarshad Harirchi, Tyrone Vincent, and Dejun Yang.IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 2014
Game Theoretic Analysis of Multiparty Access Control in Online Social NetworksHongxin Hu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Ziming Zhao, and Dejun Yang.ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) 2014
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Computing Disjoint Lightpath Pairs in Minimum Isolated Failure Immune WDM Optical NetworksGuoliang Xue, Ravi Gottapu, Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Krishnaiya Thulasiraman.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 470-483 2014
PROMISE: A Framework for Truthful and Profit Maximizing Spectrum Double AuctionsDejun Yang, Xiang Zhang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2014
A Game Theoretic Approach to Stable Routing in Max-Min Fair NetworksDejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra and Jin Zhang.IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 1947-1959 2013
Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for K-Anonymity Location PrivacyDejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2013
Crowdsourcing to Smartphones: Incentive Mechanism Design for Mobile Phone SensingDejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, and Jian Tang.ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2012
Two-Tiered Constrained Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks: Computational Complexity and Efficient ApproximationsDejun Yang, Satyajayant Misra, Xi Fang, Guoliang Xue, and Junshan Zhang.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1399-1411, August 2012
MAP: Multi-Constrained Anypath Routing in Wireless Mesh NetworksXi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1893-1906, August 2012
Truthful Auction for Cooperative Communications with Revenue Maximization (Best Paper Award)Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2012
Channel Allocation in Non-Cooperative Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless NetworksDejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2012
Resource Allocation in Load-Constrained Multihop Wireless NetworksXi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2012
Strategizing Surveillance for Resource-Constrained Event MonitoringXi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2012
HERA: An Optimal Relay Assignment Scheme for Cooperative NetworksDejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 245-253, February 2012
Smart Grid - The New and Improved Power Grid: A SurveyXi Fang, Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang.IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (CST), vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 944-980, 2011
Distributed Algorithms for Multipath Routing in Full-Duplex Wireless Networks (Best Paper Award)Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2011
OPRA: Optimal Relay Assignment for Capacity Maximization in Cooperative Networks (Best Paper Award)Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011
Truthful Auction for Cooperative Communications(A technical error in the original paper has been fixed)Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) 2011
ESPN: Efficient Server Placement in Probabilistic Networks with Budget ConstraintDejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2011
Consort: Node-constrained Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Mesh NetworksXi Fang, Dejun Yang, and Guoliang Xue.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2011
Routing in Max-min Fair Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach (Best Paper Runner-up)Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra and Jin Zhang.IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2010
Polynomial Time Approximations for Multi-Path Routing with Bandwidth and Delay ConstraintsSatyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, and Dejun Yang.IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2009