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20092023
most citedFast Deployment of UAV Networks for Optimal Wireless Coverage

207 citations · 1.5k across the 65 of their papers we have counts for

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65 papers

cs.CR2023

Location Privacy Protection Game against Adversary through Multi-user Cooperative Obfuscation

Shu Hong, Lingjie Duan

In location-based services(LBSs), it is promising for users to crowdsource and share their Point-of-Interest(PoI) information with each other in a common cache to reduce query freq…

cs.GT2023

Regulating Clients' Noise Adding in Federated Learning without Verification

Shu Hong, Lingjie Duan

In federated learning (FL), clients cooperatively train a global model without revealing their raw data but gradients or parameters, while the local information can still be disclo…

cs.GT2022

When Congestion Games Meet Mobile Crowdsourcing: Selective Information Disclosure

Hongbo Li, Lingjie Duan

In congestion games, users make myopic routing decisions to jam each other, and the social planner with the full information designs mechanisms on information or payment side to re…

eess.SY2022★ 12 cited

Online Pricing Incentive to Sample Fresh Information

Hongbo Li, Lingjie Duan

Today mobile users such as drivers are invited by content providers (e.g., Tripadvisor) to sample fresh information of diverse paths to control the age of information (AoI). Howeve…

cs.NI2022★ 2 cited

To Help or Disturb: Introduction of Crowdsourced WiFi to 5G Networks

Shugang Hao, Lingjie Duan

After upgrading to 5G, a network operator still faces congestion when providing the ubiquitous wireless service to the crowd. To meet users' ever-increasing demand, some other oper…

cs.GT2022★ 1 cited

Dynamic Pricing for Client Recruitment in Federated Learning

Xuehe Wang, Shensheng Zheng, Lingjie Duan

Though federated learning (FL) well preserves clients' data privacy, many clients are still reluctant to join FL given the communication cost and energy consumption in their mobile…

cs.NI2021

Optimal UAV Hitching on Ground Vehicles

Lihua Ruan, Lingjie Duan, Jianwei Huang

Due to its mobility and agility, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising technology for various tasks, such as sensing, inspection and delivery. However, a typical…

cs.DS2021★ 1 cited

Online Ride-Hitching in UAV Travelling

Songhua Li, Minming Li, Lingjie Duan +1

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising solution to provide delivery and other mobile services to customers rapidly, yet it drains its stored energy quickly wh…

cs.DC2021★ 1 cited

Average-Case Analysis of Greedy Matching for D2D Resource Sharing

Shuqin Gao, Costas Courcoubetis, Lingjie Duan

Given the proximity of many wireless users and their diversity in consuming local resources (e.g., data-plans, computation and even energy resources), device-to-device (D2D) resour…

cs.IT2021★ 5 cited

Double-IRS Aided MIMO Communication under LoS Channels: Capacity Maximization and Scaling

Yitao Han, Shuowen Zhang, Lingjie Duan +1

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to extend the wireless signal coverage and support the high performance communication. By intelligently adjusting the…

cs.GT2020★ 2 cited

Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Coded Machine Learning

Ningning Ding, Zhixuan Fang, Lingjie Duan +1

A distributed machine learning platform needs to recruit many heterogeneous worker nodes to finish computation simultaneously. As a result, the overall performance may be degraded…

cs.DS2020

Online Maximum -Interval Coverage Problem

Songhua Li, Minming Li, Lingjie Duan +1

We study the online maximum coverage problem on a line, in which, given an online sequence of sub-intervals (which may intersect among each other) of a target large interval and an…

cs.GT2020

Distributed Double Auctions for Large-Scale Device-to-Device Resource Trading

Shuqin Gao, Costas Courcoubetis, Lingjie Duan

Mobile users in future wireless networks face limited wireless resources such as data plan, computation capacity and energy storage. Given that some of these users may not be utili…

cs.IT2020★ 13 cited

Cooperative Double-IRS Aided Communication: Beamforming Design and Power Scaling

Yitao Han, Shuowen Zhang, Lingjie Duan +1

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to support high performance wireless communication. By adaptively configuring the reflection amplitude and/or phase o…

eess.SY2020★ 1 cited

Dynamic Pricing and Mean Field Analysis for Controlling Age of Information

Xuehe Wang, Lingjie Duan

Today many mobile users in various zones are invited to sense and send back real-time useful information (e.g., traffic observation and sensor data) to keep the freshness of the co…

cs.IT2020★ 2 cited

Towards Reliable UAV Swarm Communication in D2D-Enhanced Cellular Network

Yitao Han, Liang Liu, Lingjie Duan +1

In the existing cellular networks, it remains a challenging problem to communicate with and control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm with both high reliability and low latenc…

eess.SP2019★ 3 cited

Jamming-assisted Proactive Eavesdropping over Two Suspicious Communication Links

Haiyang Zhang, Lingjie Duan, Rui Zhang

This paper studies a new and challenging wireless surveillance problem where a legitimate monitor attempts to eavesdrop two suspicious communication links simultaneously. To facili…

cs.GT2019★ 3 cited

Strategic Learning Approach for Deploying UAV-provided Wireless Services

Xinping Xu, Lingjie Duan, Minming Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless services to a group of mobile users simultaneously. The paper aims to address a chal…

cs.IT2019★ 2 cited

Dynamic Pricing for Controlling Age of Information

Xuehe Wang, Lingjie Duan

Fueled by the rapid development of communication networks and sensors in portable devices, today many mobile users are invited by content providers to sense and send back real-time…

cs.GT2019

Regulating Competition in Age of Information under Network Externalities

Shugang Hao, Lingjie Duan

Online content platforms are concerned about the freshness of their content updates to their end customers, and increasingly more platforms now invite and pay the crowd to sample r…

cs.NI2019

Economic Analysis of Rollover and Shared Data Plans

Xuehe Wang, Lingjie Duan

In today's growing data market, wireless service providers (WSPs) compete severely to attract users by announcing innovative data plans. Two of the most popular innovative data pla…

cs.NI2019★ 81 cited

Energy-saving deployment algorithms of UAV swarm for sustainable wireless coverage

Xiao Zhang, Lingjie Duan

Recent years have witnessed increasingly more uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for rapidly providing wireless coverage to ground users. Each UAV is constrained in its e…

cs.IT2019

Jamming-assisted Eavesdropping over Parallel Fading Channels

Yitao Han, Lingjie Duan, Rui Zhang

This paper advances the proactive eavesdropping research by considering a practical half-duplex mode for the legitimate monitor and dealing with the challenging case that the suspi…

cs.GT2019

Learning Large Electrical Loads via Flexible Contracts with Commitment

Pan Lai, Lingjie Duan, Xiaojun Lin

Large electricity customers (e.g., large data centers) can exhibit huge and variable electricity demands, which poses significant challenges for the electricity suppliers to plan f…