Mingyue Ji
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Announcement
Starting in August 2024, I will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida as an Associate Professor.
Openings
We will have multiple PhD openings for Fall 2025 working in the general area of machine learning; cloud/edge computing; wireless communications, networking and sensing; information theory and coding. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail with your current CV or drop by my office. I will be happy to discuss. Please check samples of our research talks on our YouTube channel.
Short Bio and Research Interests
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of EdgeAI lab at the University of Utah.
I received my PhD in 2015 at Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC),
Los Angeles, USA. I received my MS degrees in Electrical Engineering (focusing on wireless networks) from University of California, Santa Cruz and in Electrical
Engineering (focusing on information and signal processing) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden, and obtained my Bachelor Degree in Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China.
Previously, I was a Staff II System Design Scientist at Broadcom Limited, San Diego.
Prof. Daniela Tuninetti from UIC, Prof. Hua Sun from UNT and myself delivered the tutorial on “Distributed Function Retrieval: a Storage and Privacy Perspective” at
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2021)
held (virtually) in Melbourne Australia in July 2021. The tutorial was
scheduled for July 16th 2021, MDT. The video can be found here and the slides can be found here.
My research interests lie in the fascinating intersection of machine learning, distributed computing and storage, communication and networking, and information theory. In particular, we are focusing on developing AI algorithms and edge hardware platforms, applying AI to IoT, wireless sensing and wireless networking, and understanding the fundamentals of AI from optimization and information theoretic perspectives.
News
(07/2024) Starting in August 2024, I will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida as an Associate Professor.
(07/2024) New Journal Paper on Privacy in Federated Learning Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Congratulations, All!!
On the Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys, K. Wan, X. Yao, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(06/2024) Prof. Daniela Tuninetti from UIC, Prof. Hua Sun from UNT and myself delivered a tutorial titled “Secure Private Cache-aided Distributed Function Retrieval” on June 9th, 2024, at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
(05/2024) New Paper on the Fundamentals of Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning Accepted by ICML 2024, Congratulations, All!!
A New Theoretical Perspective on Data Heterogeneity in Federated Averaging, J. Wang, S. Wang, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(04/2024) New Journal Paper on Physics-informed Neural Network-based Channel Modeling Accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Congratulations, All!!
(04/2023) The third PhD student in EdgeAI lab, Jiayi Wang, successfully completed her defense. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!! Her PhD Thesis title is “The Fundamentals of Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data”.
(04/2024) Our Senior Clinic Project on the application of Edge AI sponsored by L3Harris and titled “Benchmarking Machine Learning Devices for Radio Frequency Spectrum Sensing” won the Most Innovative amd Societal Impact Awards in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the U.
The project poster can be found here.
See the Awards below.
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(04/2024) New Journal Paper on Privacy in Federated Learning Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Congratulations, All!!
The Capacity Region of Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, T. Mi and G. Caire.
(04/2024) 4 Paper Accepted in IEEE ISIT 2024. The topics are elastic computing, private computation and secure aggregation in Federated Learning. Congratulations, All!!
Decentralized Uncoded Storage Elastic Computing with Heterogeneous Computation Speeds, W. Huang, X. You, K. Wan, R. C. Qiu and M. Ji.
On Multi-Message Private Computation, A. Gholami, K. Wan, T. Jahani-Nezhad, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
On the Optimality of Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys Against User Dropouts and User Collusion, Z. Zhang, J. Liu, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G Caire.
Optimal Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, T. Mi and G. Caire.
(04/2024) We changed the name of our lab to EdgeAI lab since we are more focusing on developing AI algorithms and edge hardware platforms, applying AI to IoT, wireless sensing and wireless networking, and understanding the fundamentals of AI.
(04/2024) New Paper Accepted in the 2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP). Congratulations, All!!
Statistical and Neural Network for Real Sensor-Data-Driven Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Applications, I. Nasim, V. Agarwal, J. E. Daw, M. Ji, and S. K. Kasera.
(03/2024) Our paper titled “HawkRover: An Autonomous mmWave Vehicular Communication Testbed with Multi-sensor Fusion and Deep Learning” won the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking (ISICN) 2024. Congratulations to our high school student, Ethan Zhu from Green Canyon High School, North Logan, Utah, and Dr. Haijian Sun from University of Georgia.
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(03/2024) Our new NSF medium project is on the ECE news. See here for more details.
(03/2024) New ArXiv e-prints:
Decentralized Uncoded Storage Elastic Computing with Heterogeneous Computation Speeds, W. Huang, X. You, K. Wan, R. C. Qiu and M. Ji.
(03/2024) New Paper Accepted in DySPAN FAST (Field Trials for Advanced Spectrum Sharing) Workshop 2024. Congratulations, All!!
SPARC-LoRa: A Scalable, Power-efficient, Affordable, Reliable, and Cloud Service-enabled LoRa Networking System for Agriculture Applications, X. Wang, B. Hatasaka, Z. Liu, S. Tope, M. Karkhanis, S. Noh, F. Sium, R. V. Mural, H. Kim, C. Mastrangelo, L. Zang, J. Schnable and M. Ji.
(02/2024) I will serve as a panel co-chair for IEEE CCNC 2025.
(02/2024) I will serve as a track (Testbeds, Experimentation and Datasets for Communications and Networking) co-chair for IEEE CCNC 2025.
(02/2024) New Demo Paper Accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2024. Congratulations, All!! Special thanks to our collaborators, Prof. Zhangyu Guan's WINGS Lab, from the University at Buffalo!!
UnionLabs: AWS-based Remote Access and Sharing of NextG and IoT Testbeds, M. McManus, T. Rinchen, S. M. Suhail, S. Santhinivas, A. Dey, S. Pagidimarri, Y. Cui, J. Hu, J. Zhang, X. Wang, M. Ji, N. Mastronarde and Z. Guan.
(01/2024) New Paper Accepted in ICLR 2024 for spotlight presentation (5%). This is a joint work with Dr. Shiqiang Wang from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
(01/2024) New ArXiv e-prints:
SPARC-LoRa: A Scalable, Power-efficient, Affordable, Reliable, and Cloud Service-enabled LoRa Networking System for Agriculture Applications, X. Wang, B. Hatasaka, Z. Liu, S. Tope, M. Karkhanis, S. Noh, F. Sium, R. V. Mural, H. Kim, C. Mastrangelo, L. Zang, J. Schnable and M. Ji.
(01/2024) New Paper Accepted in IEEE ICC 2024. Congratulations, All!!
Uncoded Storage Coded Transmission Elastic Computing with Straggler Tolerance in Heterogeneous Systems, X. Zhong, J. Kliewer and M. Ji
(01/2024) Tutorial Accepted. Prof. Daniela Tuninetti from UIC, Prof. Hua Sun from UNT and myself will deliver a tutorial titled “Secure Private Cache-aided Distributed Function Retrieval” at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
(01/2024) New ArXiv e-prints with Ethan Zhu from Green Canyon High School, North Logan, Utah:
(12/2023) New Patent Granted. Congratulations to INL and University of Utah!!
Systems, devices, and methods for scheduling spectrum for spectrum sharing, A Bhuyan, M. Ji and S. K. Kasera.
(11/2023) New Paper Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Congratulations, All!!
Coded Caching with Private Demands and Caches, A. Gholami, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(10/2023) I co-chaired for and delivered an invited talk at 5th Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things on October 6, 2023.
My talk title is ‘‘A New Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-enabled Distributed Power Allocation Scheme for mmWave and sub-6GHz Cellular Networks ".
Some photos can be found here.
(10/2023) New ArXiv e-prints:
The Capacity Region of Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, T. Mi, G. Caire.
(09/2023) Received new NSF Supplement Award for “Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Decentralized Intelligent Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks (DISH-uNET) via Hardware-software Co-design”, Oct. 2023 to Sep. 2025. This award will help us to implement physical layer and MAC layer schemes for OTFS on POWDER and AERPAW. Thanks for NSF.
(08/2023) Received new NSF Medium Award titled “Collaborative Research: CIF: Medium: Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multi-user Private Function Retrieval”, Oct. 2023 to Sep. 2027. Thanks for NSF. This is a joint award with Prof. Daniela Tuninetti (UIC) and Prof. Hua Sun (UNT).
(08/2023) Won the 2023 Outstanding ECE Research Award of the University of Utah.
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(07/2023) Two Papers Accepted in IEEE Asilomar 2023, Congratulations, All!!
Rethinking the Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning, J. Wang, S. Wang. R.-R. Chen and M. Ji (invited paper).
A Novel Scheme for Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with User-to-user Privacy, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(06/2023) Received INL grant titled “Multi-band Wireless Architecture for Nuclear Power Plants: University of Utah Research Scope”. Support from INL and DOE is gratefully acknowledged. This is a joint grant with Prof. Sneha Kumar Kasera (PI) from School of Computing, and with Dr. Vivek Agarwal from INL.
(06/2023) New ArXiv e-prints:
(06/2023) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Congratulations, All!!
On the Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching with Correlated Files of Combinatorial Overlaps, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(06/2023) New Paper Accepted by ICML 2023 Workshop FL, Congratulations, All!!
A New Theoretical Perspective on Data Heterogeneity in Federated Optimization, J. Wang, S. Wang, R.-R. Chen and Mingyue Ji
(04/2023) The second PhD student in
group, Xiang Zhang, completed his defense with flying color. Congratulations!!
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(04/2023) Our Senior Clinic Project titled “Sensor-Scheduling Strategy in Electronic Support” won the Outstanding Electric Engineering Project Award.
See the group on stage below.
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(04/2023) New Papers Accepted by IEEE ISIT 2023, congratulations!!
Fundamental Limits of Distributed Linearly Separable Computation Under Cyclic Assignment, W. Huang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, R. C. Qiu and G. Caire.
(03/2023) New Invited Paper by IEEE ICIT 2023, congratulations!!
Distributed Power Allocation for 6-GHz Unlicensed Spectrum Sharing via Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, X. Zhang, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji.
(03/2023) New Papers Accepted by IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop - Data Driven Intelligence for Networks and Systems (DDINS), congratulations!!
A Novel Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-enabled Distributed Power Allocation Scheme for mmWave Cellular Networks, X. Zhang, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji. The presentation video can be found here.
(02/2023) PhD students, Mr. Won Joon Yun and Mr. Hanykyul Baek, advised by Dr. Joongheon Kim from Korea University started visiting our lab for 6 weeks.
(01/2023) New Papers Accepted by IEEE ICC 2023, congratulations!!
Matrix Multiplication with Straggler Tolerance in Coded Elastic Computing via Lagrange Code, X. Zhong, J. Kliewer and M. Ji. The presentation video can be found here.
GroupSecAgg: Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Key, K. Wan, X. Yao, H. Sun, M. Ji, G. Caire.
(12/2022) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Networking, Congratulations, All!!
SlimFL: Federated Learning with Superposition Coding over Slimmable Neural Networks, W. Yun, Y. Kwak, H. Baek, S. Jung, M. Ji, M. Bennis, J. Park, J. Kim.
(12/2022) New Paper Accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2023, congratulations!!
Federated Learning with Flexible Control, S. Wang, J. Perazzone, M. Ji and K. S. Chan.
(11/2022) Received INL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) grant titled “Artificial-Intelligence-based Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of Wirelessly Transmitted Data in Nuclear Industry”. Support from INL and DOE is gratefully acknowledged. This is a joint grant with Prof. Sneha Kumar Kasera from School of Computing, and with Drs. Vivek Agarwal, Joshua E. Daw, and Shannon L. Eggers from INL.
(11/2022) I am appointed as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
(09/2022) New Paper Accepted by NeurIPS 2022, special thanks to Shiqiang Wang from IBM IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, congratulations:
A Unified Analysis of Federated Learning with Arbitrary Client Participation, S. Wang and M. Ji.
(09/2022) Received new NSF Award titled “Collaborative Research: SWIFT: Decentralized Intelligent Spectrum Sharing in UAV Networks (DISH-uNET) via Hardware-software Co-design”, Oct. 2022 to Sep. 2025. Thanks for NSF.
(08/2022) Received new NSF Award titled “U.S.-Ireland R & D Partnership: Smart Radio Environments with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces – Communications Through Blockage in Millimeter-wave Systems (REFLECT-MMWAVE)”, Aug. 2022 to Aug. 2025. Thanks for NSF.
(08/2022) Won the 2022 Outstanding ECE Teaching Award of the University of Utah.
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(08/2022) Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2021.
(08/2022) Welcome to the new PhD student, Yanyu Hu, to join our lab.
(08/2022) New ArXiv e-prints:
On Coded Caching with Correlated Files, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire, submited to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022.
(07/2022) New Paper Accepted by IEEE CCDWN at WiOpt 2022:
A New Design Framework for Heterogeneous Uncoded Storage Elastic Computing, M. Ji, X. Zhang, K. Wan. The presentation video can be found here.
(07/2022) New Invited Paper at IEEE SPAWC 2022:
Finite-length Analysis of D2D Coded Caching via Exploiting Asymmetry in Delivery, X. Zhang and M. Ji.
(07/2022) New ArXiv e-prints:
Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys, K. Wan, X. Yao, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire, submited to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022.
(05/2022) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
On the Fundamental Limits of Device-to-Device Private Caching under Uncoded Cache Placement and User Collusion, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire
(05/2022) New ArXiv e-prints:
A Unified Analysis of Federated Learning with Arbitrary Client Participation, S. Wang and M. Ji.
(05/2022) New Invited Paper at IEEE WAMICON 2022:
Secure mmWave Spectrum Sharing with Autonomous Beam Scheduling for 5G and Beyond, A. Bhuyan, M. Ji, X. Zhang, S. K. Kasera and S. Sarkar.
(04/2022) Two papers accepted by IEEE ISIT 2022, congratulations, all!!
Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multiuser PIR: The Two-message Two-user Case, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
Coded caching with private demands and caches, A. Gholami, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(03/2022) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications:
Uncoordinated Spectrum Sharing in Millimeter Wave Networks Using Carrier Sensing, S. Sarkar, X. Zhang, A. Bhuyan, M. Ji and S. K. Kasera.
(03/2022) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
Cache-Aided Matrix Multiplication Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire.
(02/2022) I will serve as the chair of Caching, Computing and Delivery in Wireless Networks (CCDWN) Workshop at WiOpt 2022, in Torino, Italy, September 19, 2022. Please consider submit your recent work. All information will be provided very soon.
(01/2022) Received NSF CAREER Award titled “CAREER: Heterogeneous Elastic Computing over the Cloud - from Theory to Practice”, Feb. 2022 to Jan. 2027. Thanks for NSF.
(01/2022) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications:
Throughput-Outage Scaling Behaviors for Wireless Single-Hop D2D Caching Networks with Physical Model, M-C. Lee, A. F. Molisch and M. Ji.
(12/2021) New Journal Paper Accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Private Information Retrieval, Private Coded Computing over Distributed Servers, and Privacy in Distributed Learning:
On Secure Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(12/2021) Our paper titled “A Practical Algorithm Design and Evaluation for Heterogeneous Elastic Computing with Stragglers” won the Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2021.
(12/2021) Two New Papers Accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2022:
Communication-Efficient Device Scheduling for Federated Learning Using Stochastic Optimization, J. Perazzone, S. Wang, M. Ji and K. S. Chan.
Joint Superposition Coding and Training for Federated Learning over Multi-Width Neural Networks, H. Baek, W. J. Yun, Y. Kwak, S. Jung, M. Ji, M. Bennis, J. Park and J. Kim.
(12/2021) New Paper Accepted by AAAI 2022:
Demystifying Why Local Averaging Helps: Convergence Analysis of Hierarchical SGD, J. Wang, S. Wang, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(11/2021) New Paper Accepted by IEEE DySPAN 2021:
A Q-Learning-based Approach for Distributed Beam Scheduling in mmWave Networks, X. Zhang, S. Sarkar, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji.
(11/2021) I will serve as one of the Co-chairs of Wireless Communication Symposium at IEEE ICC 2023.
(10/2021) Received new grant titled “Visual-Enhanced Cooperative Traffic Operations (VECTOR) System” Sponsored by the US Department of Energy. July 2022 – December 2025. Thanks for DOE.
(10/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(10/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
Combination Networks with End-user-caches: Novel Achievable and Converse Bounds under Uncoded Cache Placement, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and P. Piantanida.
(09/2021) I will deliver an invited talk titled “Recent Results on Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval and Open Problems” at CCDWN Workshop as part of WiOpt on October 18, 2021.
(09/2021) I will deliver an invited talk titled “A Non-cooperative Distributed Beam Scheduling Framework for mmWave Cellular Networks” at 3rd Buffalo Day for 5G and Wireless Internet of Things on November 19, 2021.
(09/2021) I will serve as a Publicity Co-chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
(08/2021) Listed as one of the Top 15% Undergraduate Teachers of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for Fall 2020.
(08/2021) Welcome to the new PhD students, Xin Yao, Xi (Leo) Wang and Xi Zhong, to join our group.
(08/2021) We started a new senior clinic project sponsored by L3Harris Technologies on Deep Learning based PA Distortion Compensations in Digital Communication Systems. Welcome Matthew Crump, Jack Sorensen, Eldar Muhic and Riley Richards.
(08/2021) New paper accepted by IEEE Globecom 2021:
A Practical Algorithm Design and Evaluation for Heterogeneous Elastic Computing with Stragglers, N. Woolsey, J. Kliewer, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(08/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
On the Tradeoff Between Computation and Communication Costs for Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(07/2021) New ArXiv e-prints:
A New Design Framework for Heterogeneous Uncoded Storage Elastic Computing, M. Ji, X. Zhang and K. Wan.
(07/2021) New ArXiv e-prints:
A Practical Algorithm Design and Evaluation for Heterogeneous Elastic Computing with Stragglers, N. Woolsey, J. Kliewer, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(07/2021) Prof. Daniela Tuninetti from UIC, Prof. Hua Sun from UNT and myself delivered the tutorial on “Distributed Function Retrieval: a Storage and Privacy Perspective” at 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2021). held (virtually) in Melbourne Australia in July 2021. The tutorial was scheduled for July 16th 2021, MDT. The slides can be found here. The video will be shared later.
(07/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. This is our first journal paper accepted in IEEE Computer Society.
FLCD: A Flexible Low Complexity Design of Coded Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, X. Wang, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(07/2021) New paper accepted by 2021 ICML International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality:
Communication and Energy Efficient Slimmable Federated Learning via Superposition Coding and Successive Decoding, Hankyul Baek, Won Joon Yun, Soyi Jung, Mingyue Ji, Joongheon Kim, Jihong Park, and Mehdi Bennis.
(07/2021) New paper accepted by IEEE Asilomar 2021:
A Non-cooperative Game-based Approach to Distributed Beam Scheduling in Millimeter-Wave Networks, X. Zhang, S. Sarkar, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji.
(06/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications:
A Non-cooperative Game-based Distributed Beam Scheduling for 5G mm-Wave Cellular Networks, X. Zhang, S. Sarkar, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji.
(06/2021) Three New Journal Papers accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
A Combinatorial Design for Cascaded Coded Distributed Computing on General Networks, N. Woolsey, R-R. Chen and M. Ji.
A New Combinatorial Coded Design for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, R-R. Chen and M. Ji.
On the Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(06/2021) New ArXiv e-prints:
Throughput-Outage Scaling Behaviors for Wireless Single-Hop D2D Caching Networks with Physical Model–Analysis and Derivations, M-C. Lee, A. F. Molisch and M. Ji.
(04/2021) The first graduated PhD student on our group, Nicholas Woolsey, won the Best ECE Dissertation Award and delivered an ECE seminar titled “Combinatorial Coded Designs for Efficient Communication and Computation on Heterogeneous Networks” on April 23, 2021.
See a photo of Nick below.
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(04/2021) Our senior design project on Coded Elastic Computing over Wireless Edge Computing Systems was a great success and Merek Goodrich won the Project Design Excellence award, Congratulations to Merek!!
See the Github page: here.
See a photo of Merek below.
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(04/2021) Our senior design project on Features Exchange in Federated Learning was a great success and Tiffany (Xintong) Liu won the Project Design Excellence award, Congratulations to Tiffany!! The paper will be uploaded very soon.
See a photo of Tiffany below.
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(04/2021) Our senior design project on Implementation of Gradient Coding over Raspberry Pis was a great success and Henry Crandall won the Project Design Excellence award, Congratulations to Henry!!
See the Github page: here.
See a photo of Henry below.
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(04/2021) Three papers accepted by IEEE ISIT 2021, congratulations, all!!
A New Design of Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with Uncoded Prefetching, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
On Secure Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
Cache-Aided Matrix Multiplication Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire.
(04/2021) Our Clinic project (second year) sponsored by L3Harris on Wireless Named Data Networking (NDN) over LoRa was a great success. Congratulations to all (Jack Fahey, Kevin Chau, Ye Zhou and Camden Ewell)!!
See the final report: here.
(03/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
On Optimal Load-Memory Tradeoff of Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire.
(02/2021) New ArXiv e-prints:
Uncoordinated Spectrum Sharing in Millimeter Wave Networks Using Carrier Sensing, S. Sarkar, X. Zhang, A. Bhuyan, M. Ji and S. K. Kasera.
(02/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications:
(02/2021) Prof. Daniela Tuninetti from UIC, Prof. Hua Sun from UNT and myself have been selected to deliver the tutorial on “Distributed Function Retrieval: a Storage and Privacy Prospective” at the upcoming 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2021), to be held (virtually) in Melbourne Australia in July 2021. The tutorial is tentatively scheduled for July 17th 2021.
(02/2021) I will serve as one of the Co-Chairs with Prof. Shaowei Wang from Nanjing University for the ALGORITHMS AND THEORY TRACK of IEEE MASS 2021.
(02/2021) New ArXiv e-prints:
A New Design of Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with Uncoded Prefetching, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
On Secure Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(02/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
Coded Elastic Computing on Machines with Heterogeneous Storage and Computation Speed, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(01/2021) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
On the Fundamental Limits of Fog-RAN Cache-aided Networks with Downlink and Sidelink Communications, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(01/2021) Following papers are accepted by IEEE ICC 2021 and IEEE WCNC 2021, congratulations, all!!
Throughput-Outage Scaling Laws for Wireless Single-Hop D2D Caching Networks with Physical Models, M.-C. Lee, A. F. Molisch and M. Ji.
Predicting Needs in Future Decentralized Networks through Analysis of Barrage Relay Networks, N. Woolsey, M. Ji and B. Kraczek.
(12/2020) Our new Youtube channel is ready beyond teaching.
(12/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
A Non-cooperative Game-based Distributed Beam Scheduling for 5G mm-Wave Networks, X. Zhang, S. Sarkar, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji.
(12/2020) New Invited Paper by Entropy (Feature Paper):
Cache-Aided General Linear Function Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire.
(12/2020) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
Optimal Throughput-Outage Analysis of Cache-Aided Wireless Multi-Hop D2D Networks, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji and A. F. Molisch.
(12/2020) The first PhD student, Nicholas Woolsey, completed his defense. Congratulations!!
Watch the video: here.
Here is a defense photo.
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(10/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Local Averaging Helps: Hierarchical Federated Learning and Convergence Analysis, J. Wang, S. Wang, R.-R. Chen, M. Ji.
(10/2020) I will teach ECE 6520 Information Theory. Please register if you are interested.
(10/2020) I will serve as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
(10/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
On the Fundamental Limits of Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(10/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
On the Tradeoff Between Computation and Communication Costs for Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(09/2020) We started a new senior clinic project sponsored by L3Harris Technologies on Wireless Named Data Networking (NDN). This is a continuation of the clinic project last year. Welcome Jack Fahey. Kevin Chau, Ye Zhou and Camden Ewell.
(09/2020) Tiffany Liu, Merek Goodrich and Henry Crandall jointed our group for their individual Senior Project on distributed and federated learning on hardware.
(08/2020) Bryan Hatasaka joined our group as a research assitant for his Master Degree in Computing Engineering. He will work on low power wireless IoT networks sponsored by the DOE ARPA-E project.
(08/2020) Three papers accepted in IEEE Globecom 2020. Congratulations, all!!
Topological Coded Distributed Computing, K. Wan, M. Ji and G. Caire (video).
Optimal Throughput–Outage Analysis of Cache-Aided Wireless Multi-Hop D2D Networks – Derivations of Scaling Laws, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji and A. F. Molisch (video).
Cache-Aided Modulation for Heterogeneous Coded Caching over a Gaussian Broadcast Channel, M. Bayat, K. Wan, M. Ji and G. Caire (video).
(08/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
FLCD: A Flexible Low Complexity Design of Coded Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, X. Wang, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
Coded Elastic Computing on Machines with Heterogeneous Storage and Computation Speed, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
A Combinatorial Design for Cascaded Coded Distributed Computing on General Networks, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
(08/2020) Two papers accepted in IEEE Asilomar 2020. Congratulations, all!!
A Stochastic Optimization Framework for Distributed Beam Scheduling in 5G mm-Wave Networks over non-cooperative Operators, X. Zhang, S. Sarkar, A. Bhuyan, S. K. Kasera and M. Ji (video).
Enabling Uncoordinated Spectrum Sharing in Millimeter Wave Networks Using Carrier Sensing, S. Sarkar, X. Zhang, A. Bhuyan, M. Ji and S. K. Kasera.
(07/2020) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
Uncoded Placement with Linear Sub-Messages for Private Information Retrieval from Storage Constrained Databases, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(07/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
A New Combinatorial Coded Design for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
(07/2020) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications:
Towards Finite File Packetizations in Wireless Device-to-Device Caching Networks, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(07/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Cache-Aided Matrix Multiplication Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Distributed Linearly Separable Computation, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
(06/2020) Our paper, “Cache-Assisted Dynamic Video Delivery for Mobile Users” with Minseok Choi, Albert No and Joongheon Kim and Edited by Cong Shen, was published in IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Communications – Review.
(06/2020) Our group Github page is up and can be found here.
(06/2020) I will serve as a program committee member at the Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality at ICML 2020.
(05/2020) Congratulations to Sean Hammond and Jake Maschoff for successfully defending the Master Project titled “Developing LoRa Face within Named-Data-Networking”.
(05/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Optimal Throughput–Outage Analysis of Cache-Aided Wireless Multi-Hop D2D Networks – Derivations of Scaling Laws, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji and A. F. Molisch.
(04/2020) Our Clinic project sponsored by L3Harris on Wireless Named Data Networking (NDN) over LoRa was a great success and Bryan Hatasaka won the Project Design Excellence award. Congratulations to all (Bryan Hatasaka, Katlynne Bills, Garrick Clegg, Jason Stauffer, Thomas Van Hook)!!
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(04/2020) Our senior design project on Coded Machine Learning was a great success and Michael Crabtree won the Project Design Excellence award, Congratulations to all (Michael Crabtree, Mary Richardson, Yu-Hsiang (Jerry) Hu)!!
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(04/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Topological Coded Distributed Computing, K. Wan, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(04/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Combination Networks with End-user-caches: Novel Achievable and Converse Bounds under Uncoded Cache Placement, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and P. Piantanida, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
(03/2020) Five papers accepted in IEEE ISIT 2020. Congratulations, all!!
A New Design Framework on D2D Coded Caching with Optimal Rate and Less Subpacketizations, X. Zhang and M. Ji (video).
Cache-aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, and G. Caire (video).
Heterogeneous Computation Assignments in Coded Elastic Computing, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji (video).
Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire (video).
Novel Converse for Device-to-Device Demand-Private Caching with a Trusted Server, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire (video).
(03/2020) New invited paper in The Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks (CCDWN) 2020 workshop in IEEE WiOpt, 2020.
Cache-aided Interference Alignment for Multiuser Private Information Retrieval, X. Zhang, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji and G. Caire (video).
(01/2020) Two papers accepted in IEEE ICC 2020. Congratulations, all!!
Coded Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous Function Assignments, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji (video).
Device-to-Device Private Caching with Trusted Server, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire.
(01/2020) Serve as TPC member for IEEE PIMRC 2020.
(01/2020) New ArXiv e-prints:
Heterogeneous Computation Assignments in Coded Elastic Computing, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
Cache-Aided Modulation for Heterogeneous Coded Caching over a Gaussian Broadcast Channel, M. Bayat, K. Wan, M. Ji, G. Caire.
On Optimal Load-Memory Tradeoff of Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
(12/2019) Serve as TPC member for IEEE ISIT 2020.
(12/2019) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:
Fundamental Limits of Decentralized Data Shuffling, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji, G. Caire and P, Piantanida.
(12/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Fundamental Limits of Device-to-Device Private Caching with Trusted Server, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
(11/2019) Received INL Wireless Security Institute grant titled “Secure mmWave Spectrum Sharing with Autonomous Beam Scheduling”. Support from INL and DOE is gratefully acknowledged.
(10/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Private Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Uncoded Storage Constrained Databases with Reduced Sub-Messages, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(09/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Device-to-Device Private Caching with Trusted Server, K. Wan, H. Sun, M. Ji, D. Tuninetti and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE ICC 2020
(08/2019) Received DOE Advanced Research Project Aency-Energy (ARPA-E) grant titled Low‐Cost Ultra‐Low‐Power Wireless Chemical Sensor Networks for Early Detection of Invasive Parasitic Weeds and Herbivores in BioFuel Crops. Support from the DOE is gratefully acknowledged.
(08/2019) Welcome our new Master students Sean Hammond, Jake Maschoff and Erik Swenson, and undergraduate researcher Sophie Wang.
(08/2019) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications:
Markov Decision Policies for Dynamic Video Delivery in Wireless Caching Networks, M. Choi, A. No, M. Ji and J. Kim
(08/2019) Welcome our new Ph.D. student Jiayi Wang and undergraduate researcher Tiffany Liu (selected for participation in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)).
(08/2019) Serve as TPC member for ICC 2020.
(08/2019) New Journal Paper accepted by IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications:
Throughput-Outage Analysis and Evaluation of Cache-Aided D2D Networks with Measured Popularity Distributions, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji, A. F. Molisch and N. Sastry.
(07/2019) Two papers have been accpeted by IEEE Globecom 2019, congratulations!!
Performance of Caching-Based D2D Video Distribution with Measured Popularity Distributions, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji, A. F. Molisch and N. Sastry.
An Optimal Iterative Placement Algorithm for PIR from Heterogeneous Storage-Constrained Databases, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(06/2019) We started a senior clinic project sponsored by L3Harris Technologies on Wireless Named Data Networking (NDN). Welcome Bryan Hatasaka, Katlynne Bills, Jason Stauffer, Thomas Van Hook and Garrick Clegg.
(06/2019) We started a senior project on Federated Learning sponsored by
group. Welcome Michael Crabtree, Mary Richardson, Ian Lehamnn and Yun-Hsiang (Jerry) Hu.(06/2019) Welcome our new undergraduate researcher Joseph Lyman. He will work on wireless networking for Internet of Things (IoT).
(06/2019) One paper has been accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019 Workshop on Coding Theory for Large-Scale Machine Learning (CodML):
Coded Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous Function Assignments, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji
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(05/2019) Our group received the 2019 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award for the paper on “Wireless Device-to-Device Caching Networks: Basic Principles and System Performance”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, Issue: 1, pp. 176-189, Jan. 2016.”
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(05/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
On the Fundamental Limits of Fog-RAN Cache-aided Networks with Downlink and Sidelink Communications, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
(05/2019) Nick Woolsey will go to Army Research Laboratory (ARL) for an internship, congratulations!!
(04/2019) Our seninor design project on Edge Computing and Distributd Machine Learning (Federated Learning) was a success and won Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Project Individual Award (Collin Tate) and Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Presentation Award (David Moody). Congratulations to all!!
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See the code on Github
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From the right to the left: Keoki Daley, Joshua Nett, David Moody, Collin Tate, Justin Olsen and Mingyue Ji
(04/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
An Optimal Iterative Placement Algorithm for PIR from Heterogeneous Storage-Constrained Databases, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(03/2019) New Journal Paper:
G. Vettigli, M. Ji, K. Shanmugam, J. Llorca, A. M. Tulino and G. Caire, Efficient Algorithms for Coded Multicasting in Heterogeneous Caching Networks, Entropy, 21(3), 324.
(03/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Fundamental Limits of Decentralized Data Shuffling, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji, G. Caire and P, Piantanida, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
(03/2019) New ArXive e-prints:
Coded Distributed Computing with Heterogeneous Function Assignments, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(03/2019) Four papers have been accepted by ISIT 2019, congratulations to all!!
A Novel Cache-aided Fog-RAN Architecture, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
On Coded Caching with Correlated Files, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
Cascaded Coded Distributed Computing on Heterogeneous Networks, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
A New Design of Private Information Retrieval for Storage Constrained Databases, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(02/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Markov Decision Policies for Dynamic Video Delivery in Wireless Caching Networks, M. Choi, A. No, M. Ji and J. Kim.
Throughput-Outage Analysis and Evaluation of Cache-Aided D2D Networks with Measured Popularity Distributions, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji, A. F. Molisch, N. Sastry.
(02/2019) Invited talk at ITA 2019:
New Combinatorial Designs for Coded Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, X. Zhang, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(02/2019) Our paper is accepted by IEEE Internationl Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019.
Cache-aided Interference Management Using Hypercube Combinatorial Cache Designs, X. Zhang, N. Woolsey and M. Ji
(01/2019) New ArXiv e-prints:
Cascaded Coded Distributed Computing on Heterogeneous Networks, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
A New Design of Private Information Retrieval for Storage Constrained Databases, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
A New Design Framework on Device-to-Device Coded Caching with Optimal Rate and Significantly Less Subpacketizations, X. Zhang and M. Ji.
On Coded Caching with Correlated Files, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(01/2019) I am offering a new course: ECE/CS 6960 Fundamentals of Cloud Systems in Spring 2019.
(01/2019) Serve as TPC member for ISIT 2019
(01/2019) Serve as Founding Members of IEEE SIG on Intelligent Internet Edge (IIE).
(12/2018) Serve as TPC member for WF-5G’19.
(11/2018) new arXiv e-prints:
Novel Inter-file Coded Placement and D2D Delivery for a Cache-aided Fog-RAN Architecture, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and G. Caire.
(09/2018) Invited as a TPC member for IEEE WCNC 2019.
(08/2018) Received National Science Foundation (NSF) award titled Dynamic Space Frequency Multiplexing - A New Paradigm for Filterbank Multicarrier Spectrum Access. Support from the NSF is gratefully acknowledged.
(08/2018) One paper accepted by IEEE Allerton 2018:
Fundamental Limits of Distributed Data Shuffling, K. Wan, D. Tuninetti, M. Ji and P. Piantanida.
(08/2018) Starting a senior design project on wireless edge computing (team: David Moody, Justin Olson, Collin Tate, Keoki Daley, Joshua Nett).
(07/2018) Received National Science Foundation (NSF) award titled Fundamental Limits of Caching Networks with General Topologies. Support from the NSF is gratefully acknowledged.
(06/2018) Recieved National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) grant titled Connected Vehicle System Design for Signalized Atertials. Support from the NITC and DOT is gratefully acknowledged.
(06/2018) Received the University of Utah Seed Grant. Support from University of Utah Research Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
(06/2018) New arXiv e-prints:
Performance of Caching-Based D2D Video Distribution with Measured Popularity Distributions, M.-C. Lee, M. Ji, A. F. Molisch and N. Sastry
(05/2018) Invited to serve as the guest edtior for MDPI Electronics Special Issue “Distributed Computing and Storage”.
(04/2018) Invited as a TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2018.
(03/2018) Two papers accepted by IEEE ISIT 2018:
On the Benefits of Asymmetric Coded Cache Placement in Combination Networks with End-User Caches, K. Wan, M. Ji, P. Piantanida and D. Tuninetti.
A New Combinatorial Design of Coded Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(02/2018) One paper acccepted by IEEE ICC Workshop - Information-Centric Edge Computing and Caching for Future Networks.
Coded Caching in Wireless Device-to-Device Networks Using a Hypercube Approach, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(02/2018) New arXiv e-prints:
A New Combinatorial Design of Coded Distributed Computing, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted for publication.
(02/2018) Invited talk at ITA 2018.
(01/2018) Welcome our new Ph.D. student Xiang Zhang.
(01/2018) I will serve as IEEE Signal Processing Society Utah Chapter Chair.
(12/2017) New arXiv e-prints:
Towards Practical File Packetizations in Wireless Device-to-Device Caching Networks, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji, submitted for publication.
(12/2017) Two papers accepted by IEEE ICC 2018:
Caching in Combination Networks: Novel Multicast Message Generation and Delivery by Leveraging the Network Topology, K. Wan, M. Ji, P. Piantanida and D. Tuninetti.
Analysis of Discrete-Time MIMO OFDM-Based Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation, A. RezazadehReyhani, A. Farhang, M. Ji, R.-R. Chen and B. Farhang-Boroujeny.
(11/2017) One papaer accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018:
Fundamental Limits of Wireless Distributed Computing Networks, M. Ji and R.-R. Chen.
(08/2017) One paper accepted by IEEE Allerton 2017
Novel Inner Bounds with Uncoded Cache Placement for Combination Networks with End-User-Caches, K. Wan, M. Ji, P. Piantanida and D, Tuninetti.
(07/2017) One paper accepted by IEEE Globecom 2017
Device-to-Device Caching Networks with Subquadratic Subpacketizations, N. Woolsey, R.-R. Chen and M. Ji.
(07/2017) One paper accepted by IEEE ITW 2017
Novel Outer Bounds for Combination Networks with End-User-Caches, K. Wan, M. Ji, P. Piantanida and D, Tuninetti
(07/2017) Invited as a TPC member for IEEE WCNC 2018.
(04/2017) One paper accepted by IEEE ISIT 2017
Fundamental Limits of Distributed Caching in Multihop D2D Wireless Networks, M. Ji, R.-R. Chen, G. Caire and A. F. Molisch.
(03/2017) Invited as a TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2018.