Biography

Lingjie Duan is an Associate Professor (Tenured) in the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design.  He received Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. During 2011, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California at Berkeley. Note that in 2017 Clarivate ranked SUTD as the fifth-most influential scientific research institution in telecommunications.

Lingjie Duan has been actively working and contributing to the interdisciplinary research field combining computer networks and game theory. He has used optimization and game theory extensively as both modeling languages and solution tools to study the cooperative or competitive interplay among various parties in communications and networking. He received 2016 SUTD Excellence in Research Award, and in 2015 he received the 10th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He was also the Finalist of Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2014 under Engineering Science track. He has many highly-cited top engineering and business publications, and his works on network economics attract ever-increasing attention from academia and industry. Among his recent publications, 6 journal papers were classified as ESI Highly Cited Papers (one during 2014-2015, one during 2015-2016, two in 2017, and one in 2018) by the ISI Essential Science Indicator on Web of Science. He is an Editor of both IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC). He is also in a SWAT team member on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was also an Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST) from 2016 to 2019. He also served as Guest Editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and networking. He is a General Chair of WiOpt 2023 Conference. Besides, he also served as the Co-Chair of Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium of IEEE ICC 2019, the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE WiOPT 2018, the Co-Chair of VTC 2017 Future Trends and Emerging Technologies track, the Program Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM’2014 GCCCN Workshop, ICCS’2014 special session on Economic Theory and Communication Networks,  the Wireless Communication Systems Symposium of IEEE ICCC 2015, the GCNC Symposium of IEEE ICNC 2016, and IEEE INFOCOM’2016 GSNC Workshop. He is also the Publicity Co-chair of IEEE WCNC 2017. He is a technical program committee (TPC) member of many leading conferences in communications and networking (e.g., ACM MobiHoc, IEEE INFOCOM, WiOPT, SECON, ICC, GLOBECOM and WCNC). He served as a General Chair of WiOpt 2023. He co-leads the SUTD Wireless Innovation Centre (SWIC). His CV can be downloaded here, and the ORCID link is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-6507

Experiences

  • Associate Head of Pillar (Research), Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2023/1-
  • Associate Professor (tenured), Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2019/6-
  • Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 2012/8 – 2019/5.
  • Ph.D., Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2012
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), 2011

Research Interests

  • Wireless Communications and Computer Networking
  • Network Economics and (Algorithmic) Game Theory
  • Mobile Crowdsourcing
  • Distributed AI and multi-agent systems
  • Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Green communication networks
  • Wireless and Network Security

Journal Editorship

Conference Chair

  • General Chair, WiOpt 2023 conference
  • Co-chair, IEEE ICC 2019 Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium.
  • Workshop Co-chair, IEEE WiOPT 2018.
  • Track Co-chair, IEEE VTC 2017 Future Trends and Emerging Technologies track.
  • Publicity Co-chair, IEEE WCNC 2017 Conference.
  • Program Co-chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing (GSNC).
  • Program Co-chair, IEEE ICNC 2016: Green Computing, Networking, and Communications (GCNC) Symposium.
  • Co-Chair, IEEE SIG on Green and Sustainable Networking with Cognition and Cooperation – IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing
  • Co-chair, IEEE ICCC 2015: Wireless Communications Systems (WCS) Symposium.
  • Program Co-chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2014 Workshop: The First International Workshop on Green Cognitive Communications and Computing Networks (GCCCN 2014), Toronto.

Research Awards

  • The Top 2% Scientists, Released by Stanford University, 2021.
  • SUTD Excellence in Research Award, SUTD, Jan. 2017.
  • 2017 SUTD Long Service Award, SUTD, Jan. 2018.
  • 10th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2015.
  • Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2014 (Finalist in Engineering Science), Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2014.
  • CUHK Global Scholarship for Research Excellence – CNOOC Grants, 2011

Research Grants

  • PI, “Privacy-protected AI methods for restricted surveillance of mobile communications,” , SUTD Kickstarter Initiative (SKI) Grant, SGD$0.5 million, 2023/11 –
  • PI, “Dynamic crowdsourcing mechanisms for decarbonising urban passenger transportation and package delivery,” Joint SMU-SUTD Grant, SGD$0.3 million, 2023/10 –
  • PI, “To motivate human-in-the-loop learning of complex traffic networks”, MOE Tier 2 Grant, SG$0.67 million, 2022 –
  • Co-PI, “Towards collaborative and holistic testing for open RAN solutions,” SUTD SKI Grant, SG$0.5 million, 2021-
  • PI, “Towards Federated Learning Against Advanced Attacks,” Temasek Laboratories Seed Research Project Grant, SGD $85,000, 2022/1 –
  • PI, “Towards Federated Learning Against Intelligent Poisoning Attacks,” Temasek Laboratories Seed Research Project Grant, SGD $85,000, 2021/1 – 2021/12.
  • PI, “Theory and Methods for User-Provided Wireless Markets over Complex Networks,” MOE Tier 2 Grant, SG$0.442 million, 2017-2020.
  • PI, “Proactive information surveillance in wireless networks,” Temasek Laboratories Seed Research Project Grant, SGD $50,000, 2016/6 – 2017/5.
  • Co-PI, “CISDeM: Cross-functional Information Systems for Decision Making,” Ministry of Defense, Singapore, SG$ 4.67 Million, 2014 – 2017.
  • Co-PI, “Advancing Security of Public Infrastructure using Resilience and Economics,” National Research Foundation (NRF), SG$ 5.3 Million, 2015-2019.
  • PI, “Green Wireless Networks with Energy and Communication Cooperation,” SUTD-ZJU Joint Collaboration Grant (Project no.: ZJUR 041407), Feb. 2015 – Jan. 2018.
  • Co-PI, “Cognitive Small Cells for Self-Organizing Networks,” SUTD-MIT International Design Center Grant (Project no.: IDSF1200106OH), Jan. 2013 – Jan. 2016.
  • PI, “Incentive Mechanism Design for Cognitive Radio Networks,” SUTD Start-up Research Grant (Project no.: SRG ESD 2012 042), Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2015

Members of Network Economics & Optimization Lab, NEOL [Click to see more NEOL group photos]

  • Yunshu Liu (PhD from Chinese University of Hong Kong), postdoc fellow, 2024-
  • Pengcheng Dai (PhD from Southeast University), postdoc fellow, 2024 –
  • Yimeng Sun (PhD from Northeastern University), postdoc fellow, 2024 – (Co-supervised with Yun Fong Lim at SMU)
  • Yang Cao (PhD from Dalian University of Technology), postdoc fellow, 2022 – 
  • Shugang Hao (PhD from SUTD), postdoc fellow, 2022 –
  • Songhua Li (PhD from City University of Hong Kong), postdoc fellow, 2022-
  • Jiale Zhang (Master from Hunan University), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2024/1 – (Co-supervised with Bikram Das)
  • Yiting Hu (Master from Beihang University), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2023/9 –
  • Ngoh Sisui (Bachelor from SUTD), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2021/2-
  • Hongbo Li (Bachelor from Shanghai Jiao Tong University),PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2020/9-

Alumni and Visitors of Network Economics & Optimization Lab

  • Shu Hong (Bachelor from Southeast University), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2018/9- 2023/7. [Now Postdoc Fellow at The University of British Columbia (UBC)]
  • Shuqin Gao, PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2017/9- 2022/8. (Now a postdoc fellow with Costas Courcoubetis at CUHK-SZ)
  • Dr. Abhishek Pal Majumder (PhD from University of North Carolina), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design, 2021. (Now Lecturer at University of Reading, UK.)
  • Dr. Zhe Wang, (PhD from University of New South Wales), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2014/9 – 2015/9 and 2017/2 – 2020/4. (Now a Full Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology.)
  • Yitao Han (Bachelor from Zhejiang University), SUTD-NUS Joint PhD student, 2016/9-2021/8. (Now a Research Engineer at Huawei Lab Singapore.)
  • Dr. Haiyang Zhang (PhD from Southeast University), Postdoctoral fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2017/4-2020/2. (Now a Postdoc at The Weizmann Institute of Science)
  • Dr. Xuehe Wang (PhD from Nanyang Technological University), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2015/7-2019. [Now Associate Professor at Sun-Yat-Sen University.]
  • Dr. Pan Lai (PhD from Nanyang Technological University), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2015/9-2019/12. [Now Hubei Province 100 Talents and Associate Professor at South-Central University for Nationalities]
  • Dr. Xiao Zhang (PhD from City University of Hong Kong), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2016/11- 2018/11. [Now Hubei Province 100 Talents and Associate Professor at South-Central University for Nationalities]
  • Xinping Xu, (Bachelor from Nanjing University), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2015/9-2020/8 [Xinping was visiting student at Purdue University in 2019 and now an Analyst in Shell Business Operations Singapore.]
  • Yunpeng Li, (Bachelor from Zhejiang University), PhD student, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2014/9 – 2019/7. [He is a visiting student at MIT co-supervised by Prof. John Tsitsiklis in 2018.]
  • Dr. Jie Xu, (PhD from University of Science and Technology of China), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2015 – 2017. (Youth Thousand Talent Plan of China) [Now an Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.]
  • Dr. Yu-Pin Hsu, (PhD from Texas A&M University), MIT-SUTD Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow, [Jointly supervised by Prof. Eytan Modiano at MIT], 2014/10 – 2016/10. [Now Assistant Professor at National Taipei University]
  • Dr. Wang Feng (PhD from Fudan University), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2017. [Now Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Technology]
  • Changkun Jiang, PhD student (co-supervised with Prof. Jianwei Huang), Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012/8 – 2017/6. [Now Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University]
  • Yinghao Guo, PhD student (Co-instructed with Prof. Rui Zhang), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2012/8 – 2016/6. [Now Senior Standard Engineer at Huawei Technologies]
  • Harivina Gunnaasankaraan (PhD from University of New Castle), Research Assistant, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2016/11- 2017/10.
  • Linda Her, (Master from Texas A&M University), Research Assistant, SUTD, 2014/9-2015/9.
  • Hyojung Lee, visiting PhD student (co-supervised with Prof. Yung Yi), Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, 2015/9-2016/2. [Now Senior Researcher in Blockchain Research Lab, Samsung SDS]
  • Shijie Cai, visiting PhD student (co-supervised with Prof. Jing Wang), Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2013/12 – 2014/5.
  • Dr. Yueling Che, (PhD from Nanyang Technological University), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2013/8 – 2016/8. [Now Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University]
  • Dr. Shimin Gong, (PhD from Nanyang Technological University), Postdoc research fellow, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2014/2 – 2014/8. [Now Associate Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University]
  • Dr. Shengming Cai, (PhD from Nanyang Technological University), Research assistant, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, 2013/12 – 2014/8. [Now Research Engineer at Huawei Technologies]
  • Dr. George Iosifidis, visiting scholar, Department of Computer and Communications Engineering, University of Thessaly (UTH) and CERTH, Greece, 2013/5 – 2013/6. [Now Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin]
  • Dr. Quansheng Guan, visiting scholar, School of Electronic and Information, South China University of Technology, 2013/6 – 2013/8. [Now Full Professor at South China University of Technology]
  • Jianping He, visiting PhD student (Co-supervised with Prof. Jiming Chen), State Key Lab of Industrial Control Technology, Department of Control, Zhejiang University, 2013/7 – 2013/9.  [Now Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University (Youth Thousand Talent Plan of China)]
  • Yanjiao Chen, visiting PhD student (co-supervised with Prof. Qian Zhang), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013/1 – 2013/6. [Now Full Professor at Wuhan University]

Selected Publications (Google Scholar) [Click HERE to view a quick summary] [My CV can be downloaded HERE.]

Mobile Crowdsourcing and Multi-agent Machine Learning

  • J. Xu, L. Duan, B. Shou, and J. Huang, “Information freshness in service systems with strategic customers,” Production and Operations Management (POM), forthcoming.
  • Q. Lin, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Learning from Social Interactions: Personalized Pricing and Buyer Manipulation,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Download Conference version here]
  • S. Zheng, W. Yuan, X. Wang, and L. Duan, “Adaptive federated learning via new entropy approach,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. Online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14966
  • Q. Lin, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Personalized Pricing through Strategic User Profiling in Social Networks,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, forthcoming. [Download conference version here]
  • H. Li and L. Duan, “Distributed learning for congestion games,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024. [Online Technical Report]
  • H. Li and L. Duan, “Human-in-the-loop Learning for Dynamic Congestion Games,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. Online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.15599
  • S. Ngoh, A. P. Majumder, and L. Duan, “Robust Clustered Federated Learning Against Malicious Agents,” The 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2024–Spring. [Online Technical Report]
  • S. Hao and L. Duan, “To save mobile crowdsourcing from cheap-talk: A game theoretic learning approach,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • F. Li, Y. Chai, H. Yang, P. Hu, and L. Duan, “Incentivizing massive unknown workers for budget-limited crowdsensing: From off-line and on-line perspectives,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, forthcoming. Online: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12113 
  • X. Wang, S. Zheng, and L. Duan, “Dynamic pricing for client recruitment in federated learning,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), forthcoming. [Online Technical Report].
  • X. Xu, J. Zhang, M. Li, L. Duan, and L. Xie, “A family of strategyproof mechanisms for activity scheduling,” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AGNT), forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • X. Xu, X. Lin, and L. Duan, “Design and performance analysis of partial computation output schemes for accelerating coded machine learning,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • S. Li and L. Duan, “Age of Information Diffusion on Social Networks: Optimizing Multi-stage Seeding Strategies,” to appear in ACM Mobihoc 2023 Conference. (Acceptance Rate: 22%) [Online Technical Report]
  • H. Li and L. Duan, “When congestion games meet mobile crowdsourcing: selective information disclosure,” to appear in The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [Online Technical Report, Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14029 ] [Slides available here]
  • S. Hong and L. Duan, “Location privacy protection game against adversary through multi-user cooperative obfuscation,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report to Download]
  • S. Gao, C. Courcoubetis, and L. Duan, “Distributed Double Auction Mechanisms for Large-Scale Device-to-Device Resource Trading,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), forthcoming. [Online Tech Report]
  • H. Li and L. Duan, “Online pricing incentive to sample fresh information,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, forthcoming. [Online Tech Report]
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Dynamic Pricing and Mean Field Analysis for Controlling Age of Information,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.10050.pdf 
  • S. Li, M. Li, L. Duan, and V. C.S. Lee, “Online algorithms for the maximum k-interval coverage problem,” Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • S. Hao and L. Duan, “To Help or Disturb: Introduction of Crowdsourced WiFi to 5G Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08261
  • S. Hong and L. Duan, “Multi-user Privacy Cooperation Game by Leveraging Users’ Service Flexibility,” The 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). [Online Version here]
  • N. Ding, Z. Fang, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Optimal Incentive and Load Design for Distributed Coded Machine Learning,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), forthcoming. [Conference Version here]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08715
  • Y. Zhang, L. Duan, and N.-M. Cheung, “Accelerating Federated Learning on non-iid data against stragglers,”SECON WS 2022 – Distributed ML,  [Online Version here]
  • S. Gao, C. Courcoubetis, and L. Duan, “Average-Case Analysis of Greedy Matching for D2D Resource Sharing,” WiOPT Conference 2021. [Online Technical Report]
  • Q. Lin, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Personalized pricing through user profiling in social networks,” to appear in WiOPT Conference 2021. [Technical Report here]
  • J. Yan, S. Bi, L. Duan, and Y.-J. A. Zhang, “Pricing-driven service caching and task offloading in mobile edge computing,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02154.pdf
  • X. Xu, B. Li, M. Li, and L. Duan, “Two-facility location games with minimum distance requirement,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • N. Ding, Z. Fang, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Incentive mechanism design for distributed coded machine learning,” to appear in IEEE INFOCOM 2021. (Acceptance rate: 19.9%). [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08715
  • S. Li, M. Li, L. Duan, and V. C.S. Lee , “Online maximum k-intervals coverage problem,” in COCOA 2020 Conference. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10938
  • Y. Li, C. Courcoubetis, L. Duan, and R. Weber, “Optimal pricing for peer-to-peer sharing with network externalities,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09616
  • S. Gao, C. Courcoubetis, L. Duan, “Distributed Double Auctions for Large-scale Device-to-Device Resource Trading,” in the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2020). (Acceptance Rate: 15%). [Online Technical Report].
  • P. Lai, C. Courcoubetis, L. Duan, S. Galelli, “Economic controls for smart water distribution networks undergoing supply failures,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report].
  • Y. Han, S. Zhang, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Cooperative Double-IRS Aided Communication: Beamforming Design and Power Scaling,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.01846.pdf
  • S. Hao and L. Duan, “Regulating competition in age of information under network externalities,” accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01841
  • Y.-P. Hsu, E. Modiano, and L. Duan, “Scheduling Algorithms for Minimizing Age of Information in Wireless Broadcast Networks with Random Arrivals,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07419.pdf 
  • Y. Chen, X. Gong, R. Ou, L. Duan, and Q. Zhang, “CROWDCACHING: Incentivizing D2D-Enabled Caching via Coalitional Game for IoT,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, forthcoming. [Online Available Here]
  • X. Xu, M. Li, and L. Duan, “Strategyproof Mechanisms for Activity Scheduling,” to appear as full paper in AAMAS Conference 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 23%). [Online].
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Economic Analysis of Rollover and Shared Data Plans,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07970
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Dynamic pricing for controlling age of information,” to appear in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2019. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01185.pdf and [ONLINE POSTER HERE]
  • S. Hao and L. Duan, “Economics of Age of Information Management under Network Externalities,” to appear in the Twentieth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc), 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 23.7%). [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01841.pdf  and [ONLINE SLIDES HERE]
  • L. Duan, B. Li, M. Minming, and X. Xu (corresponding author), “Heterogeneous two-facility location games with minimum distance requirement,” to appear in AAMAS 2019 Conference (full paper). (Acceptance rate: 24%). [Online Technical Report].
  • Y. Li, C. Courcoubetis, and L. Duan, “Recommending paths: Follow or not follow?” to appear in INFOCOM 2019 Conference. (Acceptance rate: 19.7%). [Online Tech Report] and [ONLINE SLIDES HERE]
  • Y. Li, C. Courcoubetis, L. Duan, and R. Weber, “Optimal pricing for a peer-to-peer sharing platform under network externalities,” in Proc. NetEcon workshop, 2018.
  • F. Wang, L. Duan, and J. Niu, “Optimal Pricing of User-Initiated Data-Plan Sharing in a Roaming Market,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06236
  • X. Wang, L. Duan, and J. Zhang, “Mobile Social Services with Network Externality: From Separate Pricing to Bundled Pricing,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07496
  • Y.P. Hsu and L. Duan, “To motivate social grouping in wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01795
  • F. Gu, J. Niu, and L. Duan, “WAIPO: A fusion-based collaborative indoor localization system on smartphones,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, forthcoming.
  • C. Jiang, L. Gao, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Scalable Mobile Crowdsensing via Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05343
  • Y. Chen, L. Duan, and Q. Zhang, “Financial analysis of network deployment,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, forthcoming.
  • Y. Li, C. Courcoubetis, and L. Duan, “Dynamic routing for social information sharing,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03397 
  • X. Wang, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “User-initiated data plan trading via a personal hotspot market,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online].
  • L. Duan, L. Huang, C. Langbort, A. Pozdnukhov, J. Walrand, and L. Zhang, “(Editorial)Human-in-the-loop mobile networks: A survey of recent advancements,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, forthcoming.
  • Y. Guo, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Cooperative local caching under heterogeneous file preferences,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04516
  • Y.-P. Hsu, E. Modiano, and L. Duan, “Age of Information: Design and Analysis of Optimal Scheduling Algorithms,” to appear in ISIT 2017.
  • C. Jiang, L. Gao, L. Duan, and J. Huang, “Data-centric mobile crowdsensing,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.06055.pdf
  • X. Gong, L. Duan, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “When social network effect meets congestion effect in wireless networks: Data usage equilibrium and optimal pricing,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, forthcoming. [Online].
  • H. Lee, L. Duan, and Y. Yi, “On the competition of CDN companies: Impact of new telco-CDNs’ federation,” in Proc. IEEE WiOpt 2016 Conference.
  • Y. Guo, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Optimal pricing and load sharing for energy saving with communications cooperation,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 951-964, 2016. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.8402.pdf
  • X. Gong, L. Duan, and X. Chen, “When network effect meets congestion effect: Leveraging social services for wireless service,” in Proc. of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc’15), 2015. [Acceptance rate: 14.8%]
  • L. Duan, J. Huang, and B. Shou, “Pricing for local and global WiFi markets,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1056-1070, 2015. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4355
  • L. Duan, T. Kubo, K. Sugiyama, J. Huang, T. Hasegawa, and J. Walrand, “Motivating smartphone collaboration in data acquisition and distributed computing,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 2320-2333, Oct. 2014.
  • L. Duan, J. Huang, and B. Shou, “Optimal pricing for local and global WiFi markets,” accepted by Proc. of The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13). [Acceptance Rate: 17%].
  • L. Duan, J. Huang, and J. Walrand, “Economic analysis of 4G network upgrade,” accepted by Proc. of The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13). [Acceptance Rate: 17%]. This work was presented as an invited talk at 2012 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW).
  • L. Duan, T. Kubo, K. Sugiyama, J. Huang, T. Hasegawa, and J. Walrand, “Incentive mechanisms for smartphone collaboration in data acquisition and distributed computing,” in Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’12), Orlando, Florida, US, Mar. 2012. [Acceptance Rate: 17.9%].

UAV-assisted communication networks

  • J. Li, G. Sun, L. Duan, and Q. Wu, “Multi-objective optimization for UAV swarm-assisted IoT with virtual antenna arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • S. Li, M. Li, L. Duan, and V. C.S. Lee, “Efficient algorithms for ride-hitching in UAV travelling,” Theoretical Computer Science, forthcoming. [Available online here]
  • K. Wang, X. Zhang, L. Duan, and J. Tie, “Multi-UAV Cooperative Trajectory for Servicing Dynamic Demands and Charging Battery,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08357
  • Y. Han, L. Liu, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Towards reliable UAV swarm communication in D2D-enhanced cellular network,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04897
  • Y. Che, Y. Lai, S. Luo, K. Wu, and L. Duan, “UAV-aided information and energy transmissions for cognitive and sustainable 5G networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • Z. Wang and L. Duan, “Chase or Wait: Dynamic UAV Deployment to Learn and Catch Time-Varying User Activities,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 22 (3), pp. 1369 – 1383, 2023. [Online Technical Report]. (ESI Highly Cited Paper of 2023)
  • Z. Wang, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Adaptive Deployment for UAV-Aided Communication Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03267.pdf
  • S. Li, M. Li, L. Duan, and V. C.S. Lee, “Online Ride-Hitching in UAV Travelling,” in COCOON Conference 2021. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09606
  • X. Zhang and L. Duan , “Energy-saving deployment algorithms of UAV swarm for sustainable wireless coverage,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.11221.pdf
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Economic Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Provided Mobile Services,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report].
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Dynamic pricing and capacity allocation of UAV-provided mobile services,” to appear in INFOCOM 2019 Conference. (Acceptance rate: 19.7%). [Online Tech Report] and [ONLINE SLIDES HERE]
  • X. Xu, L. Duan, and M. Li, “UAV Placement Games for Optimal Wireless Service Provision,” in IEEE WiOPT, 2018. [Online Tech Report].
  • X. Xu, L. Duan, and M. Li, “Strategic learning approach for deploying UAV-provided wireless services,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00301 
  • L. Wang, Y. L. Che, J. Long, L. Duan and K. Wu, “Multiple Access mmWave Design for UAV-aided 5G Communications,” in IEEE Wireless Communications.
  • X. Wang and L. Duan, “Economics of UAV-provided Mobile Services,” in Proc. NetEcon workshop, 2018. (Copyright held by authors.) [Online Tech Report]
  • X. Zhang and L. Duan, “Fast deployment of UAV networks for optimal wireless coverage,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05616

Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks

  • P. Lai, L. Duan, and X. Lin, “Learning large electrical loads via flexible contracts with commitment,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, forthcoming. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09169.pdf
  • B. Li, Q. Yang, L. Duan, and Y. Sun, “Operator-as-a-consumer: A novel energy storage sharing approach under demand charge,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, forthcoming. [Online Technical Report]
  • H. Kim, H. Lee, L. Duan, and I. Lee, “Sum-rate maximization methods for wireless powered communication networks in interference channel,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, forthcoming.
  • J. Xu, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Cost-aware cellular networks powered by smart grid and energy harvesting,” in the chapter of Key Technologies for 5G Wireless Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • J. Xu, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Energy Group-Buying with Loading Sharing for Green Cellular Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), forthcoming. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06093
  • K. Li, W. Ni, L. Duan, M. Abolhasan, and J. Niu, “Wireless power transfer and data collection in wireless sensor networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, forthcoming. [Online Report].
  • Y. Che, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Dynamic Base Station Operation in Large-Scale Green Cellular Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), forthcoming. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07469 
  • S. Cai, Y. Che, L. Duan, J. Wang, S. Zhou, and R. Zhang, “Green heterogeneous networks through dynamic small-cell operation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), forthcoming. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.01453v1.pdf [An ESI Highly Cited Paper]
  • Y. L. Che, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Spatial throughput maximization of wireless powered communication networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 1534-1548, 2015. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3107
    [An ESI Highly Cited Paper during 2015–2016. ]
  • Z. Wang, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Adaptively directional wireless power transfer for large-scale sensor networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), forthcoming. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01353
  • S. Gong, L. Duan, and N. Gautam, “Optimal scheduling and beamforming design in relay networks with energy harvesting constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), forthcoming.
  • Y. Che, J. Xu, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Multi-antenna wireless powered communication with co-channel energy and information transfer,” IEEE Communications Letters, forthcoming.
  • J. Xu, L. Duan, and R. Zhang, “Cost-aware green cellular networks with energy and communication cooperation,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 257-263, 2015. [Online]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4139
    [An ESI Highly Cited Paper in 2017 (data from Web of Science).]
  • S. Gong, L. Duan, and P. Wang, “Robust optimization of cognitive radio networks powered by energy harvesting,” to appear in Proc. of The 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’15). [Acceptance Rate: 19%].
  • Y. Guo, J. Xu, L. Duan, R. Zhang, “Joint energy and spectrum cooperation for cellular communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 3678-3691, 2014. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1756

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Research Openings

Multiple research positions are now available in my group:

  • PhD Students
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellows
  • MIT-SUTD Joint Postdoc
  • Visiting PhD Students
  • Visiting Scholars

Please click on Openings for details.

Current Collaborations

  • Prof. Eytan Modiano (MIT)
  • Prof. Jean Walrand (UC Berkley)
  • Prof. Kang G. Shin (U Michigan)
  • Prof. Qian Zhang (HKUST)
  • Prof. Jianwei Huang (CUHK)
  • Prof. Costas Courcoubetis (SUTD)
  • Prof. Rui Zhang (NUS)
  • Prof. Junshan Zhang (ASU)
  • Prof. Gautam Natarajan (TAMU)
  • Prof. Biying Shou (CityU)
  • Dr. Alex W. Min (Intel Labs, US)
  • Dr. Teruyuki Hasegawa (KDDI R&D Labs Japan)

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  • 2024/5: serve in IEEE INFOCOM'2025 TPC
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  • 2023/12: Invited talk at CUHK-SZ [slides]
  • 2023/11: Awarded SKI grant on privacy-protected AI
  • 2023/10: Awarded SMU-SUTD grant on crowdsourcing for urban transportation
  • 2023/9: Talk at Pharma Logistics MasterClass
  • 2023/8: Organized WiOPT 2023 in Singapore 
  • 2023/2: Talk at George Washington University [Slides here]
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  • 2023/1: WiOpt 2023 conference calls for papers now [CFP]
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  • 2022/3: MOE Tier 2 project on V2X information learning and sharing starts
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