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most citedSoftware-Defined and Virtualized Future Mobile and Wireless Networks: A Survey

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cs.NI2020★ 125 cited

Edge Intelligence: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications

Dianlei Xu, Tong Li, Yong Li +5

Edge intelligence refers to a set of connected systems and devices for data collection, caching, processing, and analysis in locations close to where data is captured based on arti…

cs.NI2019

Coalition Formation Games Based Sub-Channel Allocation for Device-to-Device Underlay mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Han Shi, Yong Li +2

Small cells in the millimeter wave band densely deployed underlying the macrocell have been regarded as one of promising candidates for the next generation mobile networks. In the…

cs.NI2018★ 32 cited

QoS-aware Full-duplex Concurrent Scheduling for Millimeter Wave Wireless Backhaul Networks

Weiguang Ding, Yong Niu, Hao Wu +2

The development of self-interference (SI) cancelation technology makes full-duplex (FD) communication possible. Considering the quality of service (QoS) of flows in small cells den…

cs.NI2018

Relay-Assisted and QoS Aware Scheduling to Overcome Blockage in mmWave Backhaul Networks

Yong Niu, Weiguang Ding, Hao Wu +4

In the scenario where small cells are densely deployed, the millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless backhaul network has been widely used. However, mmWave is easily blocked by obstacles,…

cs.NI2018

Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Multicast Scheduling with the Multi-Level Codebook in mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Liren Yu, Yong Li +3

With the exponential growth of mobile data, there are increasing interests to deploy small cells in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to underlay the conventional homogeneous macrocel…

cs.NI2018

Mobility-aware Caching Scheduling for Fog Computing in mmWave Band

Yong Niu, Yu Liu, Yong Li +3

As an extension of cloud computing, fog computing at the edge of networks provides low latency, location awareness, and real-time interactions. At the same time, millimeter wave (m…

cs.NI2018★ 1 cited

Barriers in Seamless QoS for Mobile Applications

Mohammad A. Hoque, Hassan Abbas, Tong Li +3

For seamless QoS, it is important that all the stakeholders, such as the hosts, applications, access networks, routers, and other middleboxes, follow a single protocol and they tru…

cs.NI2017★ 67 cited

Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Energy Efficient Multicast Scheduling in mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Yu Liu, Yong Li +3

To keep pace with the rapid growth of mobile traffic demands, dense deployment of small cells in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands has become a promising candidate for next generation…

cs.NI2015★ 120 cited

Understanding Mobile Traffic Patterns of Large Scale Cellular Towers in Urban Environment

Huandong Wang, Fengli Xu, Yong Li +2

Understanding mobile traffic patterns of large scale cellular towers in urban environment is extremely valuable for Internet service providers, mobile users, and government manager…

cs.NI2015

Energy Efficient Scheduling for mmWave Backhauling of Small Cells in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li +2

Heterogeneous cellular networks with small cells densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocells are emerging as a promising candidate for the fifth generation…

cs.NI2015★ 1 cited

Exploiting Multi-Hop Relaying to Overcome Blockage in Directional mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li +2

With vast amounts of spectrum available in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band, small cells at mmWave frequencies densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocell n…

cs.NI2015★ 47 cited

Exploiting Device-to-Device Communications to Enhance Spatial Reuse for Popular Content Downloading in Directional mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Li Su, Chuhan Gao +3

With the explosive growth of mobile demand, small cells in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands underlying the macrocell networks have attracted intense interest from both academia and i…

cs.NI2015★ 25 cited

Boosting Spatial Reuse via Multiple Paths Multi-Hop Scheduling for Directional mmWave WPANs

Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li +4

With huge unlicensed bandwidth available in most parts of the world, millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in the 60 GHz band has been considered as one of the most promising can…

cs.NI2015★ 148 cited

Exploiting Device-to-Device Communications in Joint Scheduling of Access and Backhaul for mmWave Small Cells

Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li +3

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, there has been an increasing interest in deploying small cells of higher frequency bands underlying the conventional homogeneous ma…

cs.NI2015★ 153 cited

A Survey of Millimeter Wave (mmWave) Communications for 5G: Opportunities and Challenges

Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin +2

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, the fifth generation (5G) mobile network would exploit the enormous amount of spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to gre…

cs.NI2014

Virtual Machine Migration Planning in Software-Defined Networks

Huandong Wang, Yong Li, Ying Zhang +1

In this paper, we examine the problem of how to schedule the migrations and how to allocate network resources for migration when multiple VMs need to be migrated at the same time.…

cs.NI2014★ 13 cited

Cross-Layer Software-Defined 5G Network

Mao Yang, Yong Li, Long Hu +4

In the past few decades, the world has witnessed a rapid growth in mobile communication and reaped great benefits from it. Even though the fourth generation (4G) mobile communicati…

cs.NI2014★ 224 cited

Software-Defined and Virtualized Future Mobile and Wireless Networks: A Survey

Mao Yang, Yong Li, Depeng Jin +3

With the proliferation of mobile demands and increasingly multifarious services and applications, mobile Internet has been an irreversible trend. Unfortunately, the current mobile…