Qiang (John) Ye Assistant Professor, PhD, SMIEEE Adjunct Professor, Memorial University 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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Research Interests

• Network slicing for 5G
• AI-assisted 5G/6G wireless networking
• SDN/NFV
• Autonomous vehicular networks
• Edge intelligence
• 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

Research Grants

• University of Calgary Start-Up Grants, 2023-2026 (Awarded)
  University of Calgary
  PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• NSERC Discovery Grants, 2022-2027 (Awarded)
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• NSERC Discovery Grants - Discovery Launch Supplement, 2022-2027 (Awarded)
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• Dean of Science Start-Up Grants, 2021-2023 (Awarded)
  Memorial University of Newfoundland
  PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• Faculty Research Grant (FRG), 2020-2021 (Awarded)
  Minnesota State University, Mankato
  PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• Research Contracts, 2020-2022 (Awarded)
  Thin Film Technologies
  PI: Prof. Xuanhui Wu, Co-PI: Prof. Qiang Ye
• CETL Faculty Fellows Program, 2020-2021 (Awarded)
  Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
  Minnesota State University, Mankato