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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Google Scholar Profile : Citations: 2700+, H-Index: 27

Research Interests

• Network slicing for 5G
• AI-assisted B5G/6G wireless communication and networking
• Digital-twin-assisted wireless networking
• SDN/NFV
• Autonomous vehicular networks
• Edge intelligence for IoT
• Networking protocols for IoT
• End-to-end performance modeling
• Space-air-ground integrated networking
• Wireless body area networks

Representative Research

• Network slicing for 5G Wireless

• Dynamic radio resource slicing for two-tier 5G wireless networks
• Two-level soft radio access network slicing and resource scheduling
• Aerial-assisted network deployment and resource slicing
• Spectrum slicing for autonomous vehicular networks


• Publication: DynamicSlicing, SoftSlicing&Scheduling, AerialSlicing, SpectrumSlicing

• Network slicing for 5G core

• E2E transmission and computing resource slicing
• E2E packet-level delay modeling for embedded virtual networks
• Customized virtual network topology design and function placement


• Publication: E2ESlicing, E2EDelayModeling, TopologyDesign&FunctionPlacement

• Intelligent networking and computing for autonomous driving

• Learning-assisted computating task offloading
• Hierarchical radio resource slicing and task offloading


• Publication: LearningBasedOffloading, HierarchicalSlicing&Offloading

• Slice-level transport protocol customization

• SDN/NFV-enabled adaptive transmission protocol (SDATP) for time-critical services
• Learning-assisted transmission protocol for video-on-demand (VoD) streaming services


• Publication: SDATP, SDP-VS

• Adaptive medium access control (MAC) protocols for IoT

• Traffic-adaptive MAC switching for single-hop mobile networks
• QoS-oriented hybrid MAC for a single-hop IoT-enabled mobile network supporting heterogeneous services
• Adaptive MAC for an IoT-enabled two-hop mobile network


• Publication: MAC-Switching, HybridMAC, TwoHopMAC