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20202023
most citedA Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy

1.3k citations · 1.7k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.MM2023

Edge-Assisted Lightweight Region-of-Interest Extraction and Transmission for Vehicle Perception

Yan Cheng, Peng Yang, Ning Zhang +1

To enhance on-road environmental perception for autonomous driving, accurate and real-time analytics on high-resolution video frames generated from on-board cameras be-comes crucia…

cs.RO2023

Channel-Aware Distillation Transformer for Depth Estimation on Nano Drones

Ning Zhang, Francesco Nex, George Vosselman +1

Autonomous navigation of drones using computer vision has achieved promising performance. Nano-sized drones based on edge computing platforms are lightweight, flexible, and cheap,…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

FadMan: Federated Anomaly Detection across Multiple Attributed Networks

Nannan Wu, Ning Zhang, Wenjun Wang +2

Anomaly subgraph detection has been widely used in various applications, ranging from cyber attack in computer networks to malicious activities in social networks. Despite an incre…

eess.SP2022★ 56 cited

Mobile Wireless Rechargeable UAV Networks: Challenges and Solutions

Yuntao Wang, Zhou Su, Ning Zhang +1

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can help facilitate cost-effective and flexible service provisioning in future smart cities. Nevertheless, UAV applications generally suffer severe…

cs.CL2022★ 10 cited

Hierarchical BERT for Medical Document Understanding

Ning Zhang, Maciej Jankowski

Medical document understanding has gained much attention recently. One representative task is the International Classification of Disease (ICD) diagnosis code assignment. Existing…

cs.CR2022★ 1.3k cited

A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy

Yuntao Wang, Zhou Su, Ning Zhang +4

Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to pl…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Towards Tailored Models on Private AIoT Devices: Federated Direct Neural Architecture Search

Chunhui Zhang, Xiaoming Yuan, Qianyun Zhang +3

Neural networks often encounter various stringent resource constraints while deploying on edge devices. To tackle these problems with less human efforts, automated machine learning…

cs.NI2021★ 78 cited

D3PG: Dirichlet DDPG for Task Partitioning and Offloading with Constrained Hybrid Action Space in Mobile Edge Computing

Laha Ale, Scott A. King, Ning Zhang +2

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce service latency for data processing in the Internet of Things, by provisioning computing resources a…

cs.NI2021★ 21 cited

Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Learning for Mobile Edge Computing Resource Planning in Smart Cities

Laha Ale, Ning Zhang, Scott A. King +1

A smart city improves operational efficiency and comfort of living by harnessing techniques such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect and process data for decision making. To…

cs.NI2021★ 239 cited

Delay-aware and Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Laha Ale, Ning Zhang, Xiaojie Fang +3

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are inte…

cs.RO2021

LoRa Backscatter Assisted State Estimator for Micro Aerial Vehicles with Online Initialization

Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Ning Zhang +1

The advances in agile micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have shown great potential in replacing humans for labor-intensive or dangerous indoor investigation, such as warehouse managemen…

eess.SY2021

Topology Learning Aided False Data Injection Attack without Prior Topology Information

Martin Higgins, Jiawei Zhang, Ning Zhang +1

False Data Injection (FDI) attacks against powersystem state estimation are a growing concern for operators.Previously, most works on FDI attacks have been performedunder the assum…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Attributed Graph Alignment

Ning Zhang, Ziao Wang, Weina Wang +1

Motivated by various data science applications including de-anonymizing user identities in social networks, we consider the graph alignment problem, where the goal is to identify t…

cs.IT2021

Performance Analysis for Cache-enabled Cellular Networks with Cooperative Transmission

Tianming Feng, Shuo Shi, Shushi Gu +3

The large amount of deployed smart devices put tremendous traffic pressure on networks. Caching at the edge has been widely studied as a promising technique to solve this problem.…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

New Upper Bounds on the Error Probability under ML Decoding for Spinal Codes and the Joint Transmission-Decoding System Design

Aimin Li, Shaohua Wu, Jian Jiao +2

Spinal codes are a type of capacity-achieving rateless codes that have been proved to approach the Shannon capacity over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and the bi…

cs.CR2020★ 19 cited

Binary Black-box Evasion Attacks Against Deep Learning-based Static Malware Detectors with Adversarial Byte-Level Language Model

Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Ning Zhang, James Hu +2

Anti-malware engines are the first line of defense against malicious software. While widely used, feature engineering-based anti-malware engines are vulnerable to unseen (zero-day)…

math.MG2020★ 1 cited

Convex Floating Bodies of Equilibrium

D. I. Florentin, C. Schuett, E. M. Werner +1

We study a long standing open problem by Ulam, which is whether the Euclidean ball is the unique body of uniform density which will float in equilibrium in any direction. We answer…