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Publications (163)

cs.IT2021

Joint Optimization of Preamble Selection and Access Barring for MTC with Correlated Device Activities

Wang Liu, Ying Cui, Lianghui Ding +4

Most existing works on random access for machine-type communication (MTC) assume independent device activities. However, in several Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, device ac…

math.OC2024

Lipschitz stability of least-squares problems regularized by functions with -cone reducible conjugates

Ying Cui, Tim Hoheisel, Tran T. A. Nghia +1

In this paper, we study Lipschitz continuity of the solution mappings of regularized least-squares problems for which the convex regularizers have (Fenchel) conjugates that are $\m…

math.OC2016

On the Asymptotic Superlinear Convergence of the Augmented Lagrangian Method for Semidefinite Programming with Multiple Solutions

Ying Cui, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh

Solving large scale convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problems has long been a challenging task numerically. Fortunately, several powerful solvers including SDPNAL, SDPNAL+ and…

nucl-th2023

Probing the nucleon effective mass splitting with the light particle emission

Fang-Yuan Wang, Jun-Ping Yang, Xiang Chen +5

In this work, we first analyze the correlations among different nuclear matter parameters which are obtained by the 119 effective Skyrme interaction sets. The values of the correla…

cs.IT2021

Robust Optimization of Instantaneous Beamforming and Quasi-static Phase Shifts in an IRS-assisted Multi-Cell Network

Yuhang Jia, Ying Cui, Wuyang Jiang

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe…

cs.IT2020

Jointly Sparse Support Recovery via Deep Auto-encoder with Applications in MIMO-based Grant-Free Random Access for mMTC

Wanqing Zhang, Shuaichao Li, Ying Cui

In this paper, a data-driven approach is proposed to jointly design the common sensing (measurement) matrix and jointly support recovery method for complex signals, using a standar…

cs.IT2016

Optimal Caching and User Association in Cache-enabled Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Ying Cui, Fan Lai, Stephen Hanly +1

Heterogenous wireless networks (Hetnets) provide a powerful approach to meet the massive growth in traffic demands, but also impose a significant challenge on backhaul. Caching at…

cs.LG2023

Optimization and Optimizers for Adversarial Robustness

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Le Peng +3

Empirical robustness evaluation (RE) of deep learning models against adversarial perturbations entails solving nontrivial constrained optimization problems. Existing numerical algo…

math.OC2024

Variational Theory and Algorithms for a Class of Asymptotically Approachable Nonconvex Problems

Hanyang Li, Ying Cui

We investigate a class of composite nonconvex functions, where the outer function is the sum of univariate extended-real-valued convex functions and the inner function is the limit…

math.OC2023

The Minimization of Piecewise Functions: Pseudo Stationarity

Ying Cui, Junyi Liu, Jong-Shi Pang

There are many significant applied contexts that require the solution of discontinuous optimization problems in finite dimensions. Yet these problems are very difficult, both compu…

physics.optics2025

Multispectral radiation temperature inversion based on Transformer-LSTM-SVM

Ying Cui, Kongxin Qiu, Shan Gao +7

The key challenge in multispectral radiation thermometry is accurately measuring emissivity. Traditional constrained optimization methods often fail to meet practical requirements…

cs.IT2015

Stochastic Throughput Optimization for Two-hop Systems with Finite Relay Buffers

Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, Meixia Tao

Optimal queueing control of multi-hop networks remains a challenging problem even in the simplest scenarios. In this paper, we consider a two-hop half-duplex relaying system with r…

cs.LG2009

Delay-Optimal Power and Subcarrier Allocation for OFDMA Systems via Stochastic Approximation

Vincent K. N. Lau, Ying Cui

In this paper, we consider delay-optimal power and subcarrier allocation design for OFDMA systems with subcarriers, mobiles and one base station. There are queues at…

cs.IT2016

Scaled VIP Algorithms for Joint Dynamic Forwarding and Caching in Named Data Networks

Fan Lai, Feng Qiu, Wenjie Bian +2

Emerging Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architectures seek to optimally utilize both bandwidth and storage for efficient content distribution over the network. The Virtual In…

cs.IT2016

Analysis and Optimization of Caching and Multicasting in Large-Scale Cache-Enabled Wireless Networks

Ying Cui, Dongdong Jiang, Yueping Wu

Caching and multicasting at base stations are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. However, existing analysis and designs do not ful…

stat.ME2022

On Efficient and Scalable Computation of the Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Mixture Models

Yangjing Zhang, Ying Cui, Bodhisattva Sen +1

In this paper we study the computation of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) in multivariate mixture models. Our first approach discretizes this infinite dimens…

cs.PF2011

A Survey on Delay-Aware Resource Control for Wireless Systems --- Large Deviation Theory, Stochastic Lyapunov Drift and Distributed Stochastic Learning

Ying Cui, Vincent K. N. Lau, Rui Wang +2

In this tutorial paper, a comprehensive survey is given on several major systematic approaches in dealing with delay-aware control problems, namely the equivalent rate constraint a…

nucl-th2018

Impact parameter smearing effects on isospin sensitive observables in heavy ion collisions

Li Li, Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li +3

The validity of impact parameter estimation from the multiplicity of charged particles at low-intermediate energies is checked within the framework of ImQMD model. The simulations…

cs.IT2017

Temporal-Spatial Aggregation for Cache-Enabled Wireless Multicasting Networks with Asynchronous Content Requests

Jifang Xing, Ying Cui, Vincent Lau

Existing multicasting schemes for massive content delivery do not fully utilize multicasting opportunities in delay tolerant content-oriented applications. In this paper, we propos…

nucl-th2025

Investigation of the neutron-proton effective mass splitting via heavy ion collisions: Constraints and Implications

Junping Yang, Meiqi Sun, Ying Cui +4

The neutron-proton effective mass splitting () is investigated through analyses of heavy-ion collisions using the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model with…

cs.IT2022

Analysis and Optimization of A Double-IRS Cooperatively Assisted System with A Quasi-Static Phase Shift Design

Gengfa Ding, Feng Yang, Lianghui Ding +1

The analysis and optimization of single intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted systems have been extensively studied, whereas little is known regarding multiple-IRS-assisted…

stat.ME2026

Learning Interpretable Point-Based Clinical Risk Scores via Direct Optimization

Ying Cui, Albert M Li, Vivek Charu +3

Many clinical risk scores are deployed as additive rules with nonnegative integer points assigned to relevant binary predictive features. These integer weights not only make the sc…

math.OC2024

On Algorithms for Projection onto the Top--sum Sublevel Set

Jake Roth, Ying Cui

The \emph{top--sum} operator computes the sum of the largest components of a given vector. The Euclidean projection onto the top--sum sublevel set serves as a crucial sub…

eess.SP2020

Jointly Sparse Signal Recovery and Support Recovery via Deep Learning with Applications in MIMO-based Grant-Free Random Access

Ying Cui, Shuaichao Li, Wanqing Zhang

In this paper, we investigate jointly sparse signal recovery and jointly sparse support recovery in Multiple Measurement Vector (MMV) models for complex signals, which arise in man…

cs.MM2021

Adaptive Streaming of 360 Videos with Perfect, Imperfect, and Unknown FoV Viewing Probabilities in Wireless Networks

Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu +2

This paper investigates adaptive streaming of one or multiple tiled 360 videos from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to one or multiple single-antenna users, respectively, in a mu…

cs.IT2016

Optimal Dynamic Multicast Scheduling for Cache-Enabled Content-Centric Wireless Networks

Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, Meixia Tao

Caching and multicasting at base stations are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. However, existing scheduling designs do not make…

cs.LG2025

Exact Reformulation and Optimization for Direct Metric Optimization in Binary Imbalanced Classification

Le Peng, Yash Travadi, Chuan He +2

For classification with imbalanced class frequencies, i.e., imbalanced classification (IC), standard accuracy is known to be misleading as a performance measure. While most existin…

cs.IT2020

Jointly Sparse Signal Recovery via Deep Auto-Encoder and Parallel Coordinate Descent Unrolling

Shuaichao Li, Wanqing Zhang, Ying Cui

In this paper, utilizing techniques in compressed sensing, parallel optimization and deep learning, we propose a model-driven approach to jointly design the common measurement matr…

math.OC2022

Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Approaches for Affine Chance-Constrained Stochastic Programs

Ying Cui, Junyi Liu, Jong-Shi Pang

Chance-constrained programs (CCPs) constitute a difficult class of stochastic programs due to its possible nondifferentiability and nonconvexity even with simple linear random func…

cs.IT2018

Uncoded Placement Optimization for Coded Delivery

Sian Jin, Ying Cui, Hui Liu +1

We consider the classical coded caching problem as defined by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, where a server with a library of files of equal size is connected to users via a shared…

cs.IT2021

Device Activity Detection for Massive Grant-Free Access Under Frequency-Selective Rayleigh Fading

Yuhang Jia, Ying Cui, Wuyang Jiang

Device activity detection and channel estimation for massive grant-free access under frequency-selective fading have unfortunately been an outstanding problem. This paper aims to a…

cs.LG2010

Queue-Aware Dynamic Clustering and Power Allocation for Network MIMO Systems via Distributive Stochastic Learning

Ying Cui, Qingqing Huang, Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we propose a two-timescale delay-optimal dynamic clustering and power allocation design for downlink network MIMO systems. The dynamic clustering control is adaptive…

eess.SY2012

Delay-aware BS Discontinuous Transmission Control and User Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Downlink Coordinated MIMO Systems

Ying Cui, Vincent K. N. Lau, Yueping Wu

In this paper, we propose a two-timescale delay-optimal base station Discontinuous Transmission (BS-DTX) control and user scheduling for downlink coordinated MIMO systems with ener…

cs.NI2026

Sensing in Low-altitude Wireless Networks: Systems, Techniques, and Developments

Zihao Tao, Yiming Zhao, Hongtao Zhao +2

The highly dynamic and safety-critical characteristics of low-altitude airspace render sensing an indispensable component of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN). Although sensing…

nucl-th2018

Effect of energy conservation on in-medium $\mbox{NN}\to \mbox{N}Δ$ cross section in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter

Ying Cui, Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li

In this paper, the in-medium cross section is calculated in the framework of the one-boson exchange model by including the isovector mesons, i.e. and

cs.IT2017

New Order-Optimal Decentralized Coded Caching Schemes with Good Performance in the Finite File Size Regime

Sian Jin, Ying Cui, Hui Liu +1

A decentralized coded caching scheme based on independent random content placement has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, and has been shown to achieve an order-optimal memory…

nucl-th2023

Probing the neutron-skin of unstable nuclei with heavy ion collisions

Junping Yang, Xiang Chen, Ying Cui +2

To improve the constraints of symmetry energy at subsaturation density, measuring and accumulating more neutron skin data for neutron rich unstable nuclei is naturally required. Ai…

cs.CV2019

End-to-end feature fusion siamese network for adaptive visual tracking

Dongyan Guo, Jun Wang, Weixuan Zhao +3

According to observations, different visual objects have different salient features in different scenarios. Even for the same object, its salient shape and appearance features may…

cs.NI2023

Joint Service Caching and Computing Resource Allocation for Edge Computing-Enabled Networks

Mingun Kim, Hewon Cho, Ying Cui +1

In this paper, we consider the service caching and the computing resource allocation in edge computing (EC) enabled networks. We introduce a random service caching design consideri…

cs.IT2019

Analysis and Optimization of Successful Symbol Transmission Rate for Grant-free Massive Access with Massive MIMO

Gang Chen, Ying Cui, Hei Victor Cheng +2

Grant-free massive access is an important technique for supporting massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for Internet-of-Things (IoT). Two important features in grant-free mas…

cs.IT2020

Joint Optimal Software Caching, Computation Offloading and Communications Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing

Wanli Wen, Ying Cui, Tony Q. S. Quek +2

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge comput…

math.OC2017

On the R-superlinear convergence of the KKT residues generated by the augmented Lagrangian method for convex composite conic programming

Ying Cui, Defeng Sun, Kim-Chuan Toh

Due to the possible lack of primal-dual-type error bounds, the superlinear convergence for the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) residues of the sequence generated by augmented Lagrangian m…

cs.CV2024

DiffCalib: Reformulating Monocular Camera Calibration as Diffusion-Based Dense Incident Map Generation

Xiankang He, Guangkai Xu, Bo Zhang +3

Monocular camera calibration is a key precondition for numerous 3D vision applications. Despite considerable advancements, existing methods often hinge on specific assumptions and…

physics.geo-ph2021

A tighter constraint on Earth-system sensitivity from long-term temperature and carbon-cycle observations

Tony E. Wong, Ying Cui, Dana L. Royer +1

The long-term temperature response to a given change in CO2 forcing, or Earth-system sensitivity (ESS), is a key parameter quantifying our understanding about the relationship betw…

cs.IT2013

Dynamic Partial Cooperative MIMO System for Delay-Sensitive Applications with Limited Backhaul Capacity

Ying Cui, Vincent K. N. Lau, Huang Huang

Considering backhaul consumption in practical systems, it may not be the best choice to engage all the time in full cooperative MIMO for interference mitigation. In this paper, we…

math.OC2025

Subgradient Regularization: A Descent-Oriented Subgradient Method for Nonsmooth Optimization

Hanyang Li, Ying Cui

In nonsmooth optimization, a negative subgradient is not necessarily a descent direction, making the design of convergent descent methods based on zeroth-order and first-order info…

math.OC2015

On the convergence properties of a majorized ADMM for linearly constrained convex optimization problems with coupled objective functions

Ying Cui, Xudong Li, Defeng Sun +1

In this paper, we establish the convergence properties for a majorized alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for linearly constrained convex optimization problems whos…

nucl-th2025

Bayesian method for quantifying the non-Gaussian fluctuations in low-intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

Xinyu Wang, Xiang Chen, Junping Yang +4

In this work, we present a model-independent method to quantify the non-Gaussian fluctuations in the observable distributions, which are assessed by the difference between the meas…

hep-ph2006

The Possible Heavy Tetraquarks , and

Ying Cui, Xiao-Lin Chen, Wei-Zhen Deng +1

Assuming X(3872) is a tetraquark and using its mass as input, we perform a schematic study of the masses of possible heavy tetraquarks using the color-magnetic i…

math.OC2026

Decomposition and Successive Decomposition Methods and Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

Yiqing Zhai, Ying Cui, Danny H. K. Tsang

Existing results on decomposition methods and algorithms for nonconvex problems are minimal. Parallel decomposition algorithms do not exist for nonconvex problems with coupling non…

cs.CV2022

Imbalanced Classification in Medical Imaging via Regrouping

Le Peng, Yash Travadi, Rui Zhang +2

We propose performing imbalanced classification by regrouping majority classes into small classes so that we turn the problem into balanced multiclass classification. This new idea…

cs.LG2021

Optimization-Based GenQSGD for Federated Edge Learning

Yangchen Li, Ying Cui, Vincent Lau

Optimal algorithm design for federated learning (FL) remains an open problem. This paper explores the full potential of FL in practical edge computing systems where workers may hav…

cs.IT2015

User-Centric Interference Nulling in Downlink Multi-Antenna Heterogeneous Networks

Yueping Wu, Ying Cui, Bruno Clerckx

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) have strong interference due to spectrum reuse. This affects the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of each user, and hence is one of the limiting…

nucl-th2021

In-medium pion dispersion relation and medium correction of near the threshold energy of pion production

Ying Cui, Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li

Transport models cannot simultaneously explain very recent data on pion multiplicities and pion charged ratios of Sn+Sn in the reaction at 0.27 A GeV. This stimulates further inves…

cs.IT2019

Low Complexity Algorithms for Robust Multigroup Multicast Beamforming

Guangda Zang, Hei Victor Cheng, Ying Cui +4

Existing methods for robust multigroup multicast beamforming obtain feasible points using semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and Gaussian randomization, and have high computational comp…

cs.IT2022

Joint Optimization of Preamble Selection and Access Barring for Random Access in MTC with General Device Activities

Wang Liu, Ying Cui, Feng Yang +2

Most existing random access schemes for machine-type communications (MTC) simply adopt a uniform preamble selection distribution, irrespective of the underlying device activity dis…

cs.IT2020

Rate Splitting for Multi-Antenna Downlink: Precoder Design and Practical Implementation

Zheng Li, Chencheng Ye, Ying Cui +2

Rate splitting (RS) is a potentially powerful and flexible technique for multi-antenna downlink transmission. In this paper, we address several technical challenges towards its pra…

cs.NI2026

COMETS: Coordinated Multi-Destination Video Transmission with In-Network Rate Adaptation

Yulong Zhang, Ying Cui, Zili Meng +2

Large-scale video streaming events attract millions of simultaneous viewers, stressing existing delivery infrastructures. Client-driven adaptation reacts slowly to shared congestio…

eess.SP2021

Energy-efficient Cooperative Offloading for Edge Computing-enabled Vehicular Networks

Hewon Cho, Ying Cui, Jemin Lee

Edge computing technology has great potential to improve various computation-intensive applications in vehicular networks by providing sufficient computation resources for vehicles…

cs.LG2010

Queue-Aware Distributive Resource Control for Delay-Sensitive Two-Hop MIMO Cooperative Systems

Rui Wang, Vincent K. N. Lau, Ying Cui

In this paper, we consider a queue-aware distributive resource control algorithm for two-hop MIMO cooperative systems. We shall illustrate that relay buffering is an effective way…

cs.LG2026

Understanding Quantization-Aware Training: Gradients at Quantized Weights Bias to the Low-Loss Basin

Hanyang Li, Jianhao Ma, Ying Cui

Post-training quantization (PTQ) converts a trained full-precision model into low-bit weights without task-level retraining, while quantization-aware training (QAT) incorporates qu…

cs.IT2017

Random Caching Based Cooperative Transmission in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Wanli Wen, Ying Cui, Fu-Chun Zheng +2

Base station cooperation in heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) is a promising approach to improve the network performance, but it also imposes a significant challenge on bac…

cs.DC2021

Optimization-based Block Coordinate Gradient Coding

Qi Wang, Ying Cui, Chenglin Li +2

Existing gradient coding schemes introduce identical redundancy across the coordinates of gradients and hence cannot fully utilize the computation results from partial stragglers.…

cs.LG2021

Clustering by Orthogonal NMF Model and Non-Convex Penalty Optimization

Shuai Wang, Tsung-Hui Chang, Ying Cui +1

The non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) model with an additional orthogonality constraint on one of the factor matrices, called the orthogonal NMF (ONMF), has been found a prom…

cs.MM2021

Optimal Transmission of Multi-Quality Tiled 360 VR Video in MIMO-OFDMA Systems

Chengjun Guo, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu +1

In this paper, we study the optimal transmission of a multi-quality tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) video from a multi-antenna server (e.g., access point or base station) to multipl…

cs.CV2019

SiamCAR: Siamese Fully Convolutional Classification and Regression for Visual Tracking

Dongyan Guo, Jun Wang, Ying Cui +2

By decomposing the visual tracking task into two subproblems as classification for pixel category and regression for object bounding box at this pixel, we propose a novel fully con…

cs.IT2019

Optimal Multi-View Video Transmission in OFDMA Systems

Wei Xu, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu +1

In this letter, we study the transmission of a multi-view video (MVV) to multiple users in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system. To maximally improve tra…

cs.IT2018

Energy-Efficient Multi-View Video Transmission with View Synthesis-Enabled Multicast

Wei Xu, Yuzhuo Wei, Ying Cui +1

Multi-view videos (MVVs) provide immersive viewing experience, at the cost of heavy load to wireless networks. Except for further improving viewing experience, view synthesis can c…

nucl-th2020

Insights on pion production mechanism and symmetry energy at high density

Yangyang Liu, Yongjia Wang, Ying Cui +5

The cross sections, which take into account the -mass dependence of M-matrix and momentum , are applied on the calculation of pion production within the fr…

cs.IT2018

The Connectivity of Millimeter-Wave Networks in Urban Environments Modeled Using Random Lattices

Kaifeng Han, Kaibin Huang, Ying Cui +1

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication opens up tens of giga-hertz (GHz) spectrum in the mmWave band for use by next-generation wireless systems, thereby solving the problem of spe…

cs.IT2016

Analysis and Optimization of Caching and Multicasting in Large-Scale Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Ying Cui, Dongdong Jiang

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a powerful approach to meet the dramatic mobile traffic growth, but also impose a significant challenge on backhaul. Caching and m…

cs.IT2017

Structural Properties of Uncoded Placement Optimization for Coded Delivery

Sian Jin, Ying Cui, Hui Liu +1

A centralized coded caching scheme has been proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen to reduce the worst-case load of a network consisting of a server with access to N files and connected…

cs.IT2022

Low-complexity Robust Optimization for an IRS-assisted Multi-Cell Network

Yuhang Jia, Wuyang Jiang, Ying Cui

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe…

cs.LG2010

Distributive Stochastic Learning for Delay-Optimal OFDMA Power and Subband Allocation

Ying Cui, Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we consider the distributive queue-aware power and subband allocation design for a delay-optimal OFDMA uplink system with one base station, users and indep…

cs.IT2019

Optimal Multi-Quality Multicast for 360 Virtual Reality Video

Kaixuan Long, Chencheng Ye, Ying Cui +1

A 360 virtual reality (VR) video, recording a scene of interest in every direction, provides VR users with immersive viewing experience. However, transmission of a 360 VR video whi…

cs.IT2019

Analysis and Optimization of Outage Probability in Multi-Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Systems

Zijian Zhang, Ying Cui, Feng Yang +1

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a promising solution for designing spectral and energy efficient wireless systems. In this letter, we study a multi-IRS-ass…

cs.IT2016

Stochastic Content-Centric Multicast Scheduling for Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, Meixia Tao

Caching at small base stations (SBSs) has demonstrated significant benefits in alleviating the backhaul requirement in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). While many existin…

cs.IT2021

Statistical Device Activity Detection for OFDM-based Massive Grant-Free Access

Yuhang Jia, Ying Cui, Wuyang Jiang

Existing works on grant-free access, proposed to support massive machine-type communication (mMTC) for the Internet of things (IoT), mainly concentrate on narrow band systems under…

math.OC2021

On Degenerate Doubly Nonnegative Projection Problems

Ying Cui, Ling Liang, Defeng Sun +1

The doubly nonnegative (DNN) cone, being the set of all positive semidefinite matrices whose elements are nonnegative, is a popular approximation of the computationally intractable…

cs.IT2019

Optimal Multi-View Video Transmission in Multiuser Wireless Networks by Exploiting Natural and View Synthesis-Enabled Multicast Opportunities

Wei Xu, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu

Multi-view videos (MVVs) provide immersive viewing experience, at the cost of traffic load increase for wireless networks. In this paper, we would like to optimize MVV transmission…

cs.IT2015

Optimization-Based Linear Network Coding for General Connections of Continuous Flows

Ying Cui, Muriel Médard, Edmund Yeh +2

For general connections, the problem of finding network codes and optimizing resources for those codes is intrinsically difficult and little is known about its complexity. Most of…

cs.IT2018

Optimal Multicast of Tiled 360 VR Video in OFDMA Systems

Chengjun Guo, Ying Cui, Zhi Liu

In this letter, we study optimal multicast of tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) video from one server (base station or access point) to multiple users in an orthogonal frequency divis…

cs.IT2022

Rate Splitting for General Multicast

Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Sheng Yang +3

Immersive video, such as virtual reality (VR) and multi-view videos, is growing in popularity. Its wireless streaming is an instance of general multicast, extending conventional un…

cs.IT2020

Optimal Wireless Streaming of Multi-Quality 360 VR Video by Exploiting Natural, Relative Smoothness-enabled and Transcoding-enabled Multicast Opportunities

Kaixuan Long, Ying Cui, Chencheng Ye +1

In this paper, we would like to investigate optimal wireless streaming of a multi-quality tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) video from a server to multiple users. To this end, we prop…

cs.MM2025

Enhancing Neural Adaptive Wireless Video Streaming via Lower-Layer Information Exposure and Online Tuning

Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Yuhang Jia +2

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its promising potential in the realm of adaptive video streaming and has recently received increasing attention. However, existing DR…

cs.IT2020

Optimal Streaming of 360 VR Videos with Perfect, Imperfect and Unknown FoV Viewing Probabilities

Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Chengjun Guo +1

In this paper, we investigate wireless streaming of multi-quality tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) videos from a multi-antenna server to multiple single-antenna users in a multi-carr…

cs.IT2016

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Multi-User Mobile Edge Computing

Junfeng Guo, Zhaozhe Song, Ying Cui

To increase mobile batteries' lifetime and improve quality of experience for computation-intensive and latency-sensitive applications, mobile edge computing has received significan…

cs.IT2015

Enhancing the Delay Performance of Dynamic Backpressure Algorithms

Ying Cui, Edmund M. Yeh, Ran Liu

For general multi-hop queueing networks, delay optimal network control has unfortunately been an outstanding problem. The dynamic backpressure (BP) algorithm elegantly achieves thr…

q-bio.QM2025

Multiscale Cross-Modal Mapping of Molecular, Pathologic, and Radiologic Phenotypes in Lipid-Deficient Clear Cell Renal CellCarcinoma

Ying Cui, Dongzhe Zheng, Ke Yu +8

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibits extensive intratumoral heterogeneity on multiple biological scales, contributing to variable clinical outcomes and limiting the eff…

cs.IT2019

Optimal Caching Designs for Perfect, Imperfect and Unknown File Popularity Distributions in Large-Scale Multi-Tier Wireless Networks

Chencheng Ye, Ying Cui, Yang Yang +1

Most existing caching solutions for wireless networks rest on an unrealistic assumption that the file popularity distribution is perfectly known. In this paper, we consider optimal…

cs.IT2019

Optimization-based Decentralized Coded Caching for Files and Caches with Arbitrary Size

Qi Wang, Ying Cui, Sian Jin +3

Existing decentralized coded caching solutions cannot guarantee small loads in the general scenario with arbitrary file sizes and cache sizes. In this paper, we propose an optimiza…

cs.IT2022

An Optimization Framework for General Rate Splitting for General Multicast

Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui, Sheng Yang +1

Immersive video, such as virtual reality (VR) and multi-view videos, is growing in popularity. Its wireless streaming is an instance of general multicast, extending conventional un…

math.OC2017

Quadratic growth conditions for convex matrix optimization problems associated with spectral functions

Ying Cui, Chao Ding, Xinyuan Zhao

In this paper, we provide two types of sufficient conditions for ensuring the quadratic growth conditions of a class of constrained convex symmetric and non-symmetric matrix optimi…

nucl-th2024

An extended Skyrme momentum dependent potential in asymmetric nuclear matter and transport models

Junping Yang, Xiang Chen, Ying Cui +3

Based on an extended Skyrme momentum-dependent interaction (MDI), we derive an isospin asymmetric equation of state, isospin-dependent single-particle potential and the Hamiltonian…

cs.IT2016

User-Centric Interference Nulling in Downlink Multi-Antenna Heterogeneous Networks

Ying Cui, Yueping Wu, Dongdong Jiang +1

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), strong interference due to spectrum reuse affects each user's signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), and hence is one limiting factor of network p…

cs.IT2017

Joint and Competitive Caching Designs in Large-Scale Multi-Tier Wireless Multicasting Networks

Zitian Wang, Zhehan Cao, Ying Cui +1

Caching and multicasting are two promising methods to support massive content delivery in multi-tier wireless networks. In this paper, we consider a random caching and multicasting…

nucl-th2023

Bayesian reconstruction of impact parameter distributions from two observables for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

Xiang Chen, Li Li, Ying Cui +3

To reconstruct the impact parameter distributions from the selected events sample or centrality, which is defined by two-observables, at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions, w…

cs.IT2016

A Linear Network Code Construction for General Integer Connections Based on the Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Ying Cui, Muriel Médard, Fan Lai +4

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network co…

nucl-th2024

Novel Pauli blocking method in quantum molecular dynamics type models

Xiang Chen, Junping Yang, Ying Cui +3

In this work, we propose a novel method for calculating the occupation probability in the Pauli blocking of the quantum molecular dynamics type models. This method refines the desc…

eess.SP2021

Power-Efficient Wireless Streaming of Multi-Quality Tiled 360 VR Video in MIMO-OFDMA Systems

Chengjun Guo, Lingzhi Zhao, Ying Cui +2

In this paper, we study the optimal wireless streaming of a multi-quality tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) video from a multi-antenna server to multiple single-antenna users in a mul…