Dr. Qiang (John) Ye's Homepage - University of Calgary

Qiang (John) Ye

Assistant Professor, PhD, SMIEEE
Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Email: qiang.ye@ucalgary.ca
Tel: (403) 220-7601
Office: ICT 352B

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News

Congratulations! Dr. Ye has been named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2024 (by Stanford University)! [Link].
Sept 13, 2024 - Our paper "Augmenting Backpressure Scheduling and Routing for Wireless Computing Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Aug 28, 2024 - Our paper "Learning-Assisted Dynamic VNF Selection and Chaining for 6G Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Congratulations! Dr. Ye has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) in 2024! [Link].
Jul 16, 2024 - Our paper "Mobility-Adaptive Digital Twin Modeling for Post-Disaster Network Traffic Prediction" was accepted by IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, USA, October 7-10, 2024.
Jul 03, 2024 - Our paper "Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Reverse Offloading in Cooperative Vehicle Edge Computing" was accepted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), Hangzhou, China, August 7-9, 2024.
Jun 16, 2024 - Our paper "Transmission Protocol Customization for On-demand Tile-based 360° VR Video Streaming" was accepted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Hangzhou, China, August 7-9, 2024.
Congratulations! Dr. Ye has received the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) Exemplary Editor Award! [Link].
Feb 28, 2024 - Our paper "Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Maritime MEC with Energy Harvesting" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Jan 24, 2024 - Our paper "Model-Assisted Learning for Adaptive Cooperative Perception of Connected Autonomous Vehicles" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Jan 19, 2024 - Our paper "(Com)2Net: A Novel Communication and Computation Integrated Network Architecture" was accepted by IEEE Network.
Starting Nov 20, 2023 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Oct 19, 2023 - Our paper "RIS-aided Passive Detection for LSS Targets: A GNSS Multipath-assisted Scheme" was accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
Starting Sept, 2023 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Sept 05, 2023 - Our paper "Resource Provisioning for Heterogeneous Services in UAV-Assisted MEC Systems" was accepted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Dalian, China, August 10-12, 2023.
Sept 04, 2023 - Our paper "An Efficient Localization Scheme With Velocity Prediction for Large-Scale Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Sept 01, 2023 - Our paper "Blockchain-based Collision Avoidance Access Protocol for UAV Swarm" was accepted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), Dalian, China, August 10-12, 2023.
Starting Sept. 1st, 2023 - Dr. Ye has joined the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, as an Assistant Professor!
Aug 14, 2023 - Our paper "Low-Cost Federated Broad Learning for Privacy-Preserved Knowledge Sharing in the RIS-Aided Internet of Vehicles" was accepted by Engineering.
Aug 07, 2023 - Our paper "DetFed: Dynamic Resource Scheduling for Deterministic Federated Learning over Time-sensitive Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Jul 27, 2023 - Our paper "Game Theoretical Incentive for USV Fleet-Assisted Data Sharing in Maritime Communication Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Jul 18, 2023 - Our paper "Delay-Optimized Multi-User VR Streaming via End-Edge Collaborative Neural Frame Interpolation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
May 06, 2023 - Our paper "Millimeter Wave Full-Duplex Networks: MAC Design and Throughput Optimization" was accepted by The 31st Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC), Montreal, Canada, July 4-7, 2023.
Mar 13, 2023 - Our paper "Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation for Edge-Cloud Collaboration in Internet of Vehicles via Deep Reinforcement Learning" was accepted by IEEE Systems Journal.
Feb 8, 2023 - Our paper "Learning-Aided Multi-UAV Online Trajectory Coordination and Resource Allocation for Mobile WSNs" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS on PerAI-6G -- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Workshop on Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G Networks, New York Area, USA, May 17-20, 2023.
Jan 18, 2023 - Our paper "Augmenting Backpressure Scheduling and Routing for Wireless Computing Networks" was accepted by IEEE ICC -- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy, May 28-June 01, 2023.
Jan 18, 2023 - Our paper "Joint Caching and Computing Resource Reservation for Edge-Assisted Location-Aware Augmented Reality" was accepted by IEEE ICC -- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy, May 28-June 01, 2023.
Jan 1, 2023 - Our paper "Two-Timescale Learning-Based Task Offloading for Remote IoT in Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Dec 21, 2022 - Our paper "Drone-Small-Cell-Assisted Resource Slicing for 5G Uplink Radio Access Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Dec 15, 2022 - Dr. Ye was invited to give an IEEE Vehicular Technology Chapter Seminar, titled "Joint RAN Slicing and Computation Offloading for Cloud-Enabled Autonomous Vehicular Networks" at the BBCR lab, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Since Dec, 2022 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as a Program Co-chair of the Graduate Student Symposium in "The 36th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CANAI)", Montreal, Canada, Jun. 5-9, 2023 (Closed).
Since Oct 11, 2022 - Dr. Ye has been serving as a Publication Co-chair in "The 12th IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (IEEE ICCC)", Dalian, China, Aug. 10-12, 2023 (Closed).
Since September, 2022 - Our organized special issue on "Ubiquitous Intelligence for Internet of Vehicles", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine has been open for paper submissions (Closed).
Aug 29, 2022 - Our paper "Clustering-Enabled Prioritized Access Control for Massive Machine-Type Communications in Smart Grid" was accepted by IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), London/Beijing, China, Sept. 26-29, 2022.
Aug 25, 2022 - Our book chapter "Network Slicing for 5G Networks and Beyond" was published in Springer Book Serious on Wireless Networks - Broadband Communications, Computing, and Control for Ubiquitous Intelligence.
Since July, 2022 - Our organized special issue on "AI-empowered Resource Provision and Service Scheduling in Multi-Clouds", Journal of Cloud Computing (Impact Factor: 3.895) has been open for paper submissions (Closed).
Starting July, 2022 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
Starting July, 2022 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as the TPC co-chair for "Track 9: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications, Vehicular Networks, and Telematics" on IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall) (Closed).
July 4, 2022 - Dr. Rong Zheng from McMaster University, Canada visited us and gave a research seminar titled "The Data Scarcity Problem in Understanding Older Adult Mobility".

Since June, 2022 - Our organized special issue on "Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Future Wireless Systems", Sensors Journal (Impact Factor: 3.847) has been open for paper submissions (Closed).
June 19, 2022 - Our workshop "W6: Digital-twin-assisted AI for 6G Wireless Networking" on IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring) was successfully held in Helsinki, Finland!
Many thanks to our General/TPC chairs and TPC members for all the help in making the workshop successful!
Special thanks to Dr. Xianbin Wang and Dr. Trung Q. Duong for giving great keynote speeches!

June 16, 2022 - Our paper "Demand-Oriented Allocation with Fairness in Multi-Operator Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Systems" was accepted by IEEE iThings'22 WKSHPS on FMobile.
Since May 2022 - Dr. Ye has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member in recognizing his outstanding contributions to the profession and his significant academic performance!
Since April 11, 2022 - Dr. Ye has received the prestigious 5-Year NSERC Discovery Grants and the Discovery Launch Supplement Award! [News]
March 21, 2022 - Our paper "Efficient Uplink Transmission in Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Networks With Multiband Antennas" was accepted by IEEE Communications Letters.
March 1, 2022 - Our book "Intelligent Resource Management in Vehicular Networks" was published by Springer Verlag.

February 10, 2022 - Our paper "FedTSE: Low-Cost Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserved Traffic State Estimation in IoV" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM'22 WKSHPS on BigSecurity.
January 11, 2022 - Our paper "Joint Pricing and Task Allocation for Blockchain Empowered Crowd Spectrum Sensing" was accepted by Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.
January 1, 2022 - Our book "Intelligent Resource Management for Network Slicing in 5G and Beyond" was published by Springer Verlag.

December 23, 2021 - Our organized workshop "W6: Digital-twin-assisted AI for 6G Wireless Networking", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring 2022) is open for paper submissions (Closed).
December 7, 2021 - Our paper "Learning-based Computation Offloading for IoRT through Ka/Q-Band Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Networks" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Starting December 1, 2021 - Our organized special issue on "Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Resource Orchestration for Quality of Service Provisioning in 6G", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing is open for submissions (Closed).
Starting December 2021 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.
Starting November 2021 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
We have organized a "2022 IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G Networks (PerAI-6G)" [CFP] (Closed).
We have organized a special research topic on "Machine Learning–Based Design and Operation of Next Generation Communication Systems", Frontiers in Communications and Networks Journal [CFP] (Closed).
July 3, 2021 - Our paper "Learning-Based Transmission Protocol Customization for VoD Streaming in Cybertwin-Enabled Next Generation Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
July 3, 2021 - Our paper "Joint Virtual Network Topology Design and Embedding for Cybertwin-Enabled 6G Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
June 7, 2021 - Our paper "Joint RAN Slicing and Computation Offloading for Autonomous Vehicular Networks: A Learning-Assisted Hierarchical Approach" was accepted by IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology.
May 18, 2021 - Our paper "Drone-Small-Cell-Assisted Resource Slicing for 5G Uplink Radio Access Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
May 16, 2021 - Our paper "Two-level Soft RAN Slicing for Customized Services in 5G-and-beyond Wireless Communications" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
January 24, 2021 - Our paper "Learning-Based Computing Task Offloading for Autonomous Driving: A Load Balancing Perspective" was accepted by IEEE ICC -- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14-23, 2021.
January 7, 2021 - Our paper "Multi-Service Function Chain Embedding with Delay-Guarantee: A Game-Theoretical Approach" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
September 1, 2020 - Our paper "Learning-Based Proactive Resource Allocation for Delay-Sensitive Packet Transmission" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
August 6, 2020 - Our paper "Edge-Aided Computing and Transmission Scheduling for LTE-U-Enabled IoT" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
March 4, 2020 - Our paper "A Hierarchical Soft RAN Slicing Framework for Differentiated Service Provisioning" was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
January 28, 2020 - Our paper "A Virtual Network Customization Framework for Multicast Services in NFV-enabled Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
January 13, 2020 - Our paper "Traffic Engineering for Service-Oriented 5G Networks with SDN-NFV Integration" was accepted by IEEE Network Magazine.
January 13, 2020 - Our paper "Dynamic Flow Migration for Embedded Services in SDN/NFV-Enabled 5G Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
December 23, 2019 - Our paper "Low-Complexity User Selection Algorithm for Multiuser Transmission in mmWave WLANs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
December 22, 2019 - Our paper "SDATP: An SDN-Based Traffic-Adaptive and Service-Oriented Transmission Protocol" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking.
Starting November 2019 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.
Starting November 2019 - Dr. Ye has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Wireless Networks Journal.
November 24, 2019 - Our paper "A Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network" was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
October 24, 2019 - Our paper "SDN/NFV Empowered Future IoV with Enhanced Communication, Computing, and Caching" was accepted by Proceedings of the IEEE.
August 12, 2019 - Our paper "Transmission Protocol Customization for Network Slicing: A Case Study of Video Streaming" was accepted by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.
August 10, 2019 - Our paper "SDATP: An SDN-Based Adaptive Transmission Protocol for Time-Critical Services" was accepted by IEEE Network Magazine.
July 18, 2019 - Our paper "Partial NOMA-Based Resource Allocation for Fairness in LTE-U System" was accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM -- IEEE Global Communications Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2019.
July 18, 2019 - Our paper "2TM-MAC: A Two-Tier Multi-channel Interference Mitigation MAC Protocol for Coexisting WBANs" was accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM -- IEEE Global Communications Conference, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2019.
June 25, 2019 - Our paper "A High Accuracy Integrated Bagging-Fuzzy-GBDT Prediction Algorithm for Heart Disease Diagnosis" was accepted by IEEE/CIC ICCC -- IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, Changchun, China, Aug. 11-13, 2019.
May 17, 2019 - Our paper "Spectrum Resource Management for Multi-Access Edge Computing in Autonomous Vehicular Networks" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
May 04, 2019 - Our paper "SDN-Based Resource Management for Autonomous Vehicular Networks: A Multi-Access Edge Computing Approach" was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
February 03, 2019 - Our paper "An SDN-Based Transmission Protocol with In-Path Packet Caching and Retransmission" was accepted by IEEE ICC -- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
February 03, 2019 - Our paper "Delay-Aware Flow Migration for Embedded Services in 5G Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE ICC -- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
January 28, 2019 - Our paper "A Delay Modeling Framework for Embedded Virtual Network Function Chains in 5G Networks" was accepted by IEEE Future Networks Tech Focus.
July 25, 2018 - Our paper "Dynamic Radio Resource Slicing for a Two-Tier Heterogeneous Wireless Network" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
July 18, 2018 - Our paper "Game-Theoretic Optimization for Machine-Type Communications Under QoS Guarantee" was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
July 15, 2018 - Our paper "Joint VNF Placement and Multicast Traffic routing in 5G Core Networks" was accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM -- IEEE Global Communications Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
July 15, 2018 - Our paper "Online Joint VNF Chain Composition and Embedding for 5G Networks" was accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM -- IEEE Global Communications Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
July 15, 2018 - Our paper "Reinforcement Learning-Based Computing and Transmission Scheduling for LTE-U-Enabled IoT" was accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM -- IEEE Global Communications Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018 (nominated for Best Paper Award).
July 09, 2018 - Our paper "End-to-End Delay Modeling for Embedded VNF Chains in 5G Core Networks” was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
April 20, 2018 - Our paper "End-to-End Quality of Service in 5G Networks: Examining the Effectiveness of a Network Slicing Framework" was accpeted by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada (Sept 2023 - Now).
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada (Sept 2021 - Aug 2023).
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN, USA (Sept 2019 - Aug 2021).
Research Associate, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (Dec 2018 - Sept 2019).
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (Dec 2016 - Nov 2018).

Education

Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (May 2012 - Sept 2016).
M.E., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China (Sept 2009 - Apr 2012).
B.E., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China (Sept 2005 - Jul 2009).

Brief Biography

Qiang (John) Ye received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2016. Since Sept. 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada. Before joining UCalgary, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada from Sept. 2021 to Aug. 2023 and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, from Sept. 2019 to Aug. 2021, respectively. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Associate from Dec. 2016 to Sept. 2019. He has published over 70 research articles on top-ranked journals and conference proceedings. He is/was the General, Publication, Program Co-chairs for different reputable international conferences and workshops, e.g., IEEE ICCC'23, CANAI'23, IEEE VTC’22, IEEE INFOCOM’22, and IEEE IPCCC’21. He serves/served as Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, ACM/Wireless Networks, and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He also serves/served as the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Region 7 Chapter Coordinator (2024) and the Regions 1-7 Chapters Coordinator (2022-2023), and the IEEE Communications Society Southern Alberta Chapter Vice Chair (2024). Dr. Ye received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) in 2024 and the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking Exemplary Editor Award in 2023. Dr. Ye has been has been named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2023 and 2024 (by Stanford/Elsevier). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Awards

World’s Top 2% Scientists (by Stanford/Elsevier), 2024.
Best Paper Award, IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2024.
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) Exemplary Editor Award, 2023.
Faculty of Engineering (FoE) Award (three times), University of Waterloo, 2012-2016.
International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo, 2012-2016.
First Prize in National Postgraduate Mathematic Contest in Modeling, China, 2011.
Outstanding Undergraduate Students (two times), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 2006-2008.