Publications

2024

• Managing Linux servers with LLM-based AI agents: An empirical evaluation with GPT-4
  Charles Cao, Feiyi Wang, Lisa Lindley, Zejiang Wang.
  Machine Learning with Applications, Volume 17, September 2024, 100570.
• A Two-Step Linear Programming Approach for Efficient Repeater Placement in Quantum Networks
  Romtham Sripotchanart, Weisheng Si, Rodrigo N Calheiros, and Charles Qing Cao.
  Computer Networks, 2024, to appear.
• LLM-Assisted Modeling and Simulations for Public Sector Decision-Making: Bridging Climate Data and Policy Insights
  Charles Cao, Jie Zhuang, Qiang He.
  AAAI-2024 Workshop on Public Sector LLMs: Algorithmic and Sociotechnical Design, 2024.
• Artificial intelligence and the National Violent Death Reporting System: A Rapid Review.
  Lisa Lindley, Christina Policastro, Brianne Dosch, Baco Ortiz, Joshua Gabriel, Charles Cao.
  CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2024.

2023

• Blockchain-based Runtime Attestation against Physical Fault Injection Attacks on Edge Devices
  Charles Cao, Jayne Wu, Hairong Qi, Shigetoshi Eda.
  ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2023.
• Parity Shadow Stack: Dynamic Instrumentation based Control Flow Security for IoT Devices
  Charles Cao.
  IEEE IPCCC, November 2023.
• Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices
  Qing Cao, Yunhe Feng.
  IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), 2023.
• More Effective Centrality-Based Attacks on Weighted Networks
  Mr. Balume S Mburano, Weisheng Si, Qing Cao and Weixing Zheng
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.

2022

• Higher-Order Markov Graph Based Bug Detection In Cloud-Based Deployments
  Qing Cao et al.
  2022 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 153-160, 2022. IEEE.
• PECS: A Pareto-Efficient And Envy-Free Cloud Resource Scheduler
  Qing Cao, Weisheng Si.
  2022 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 147-152, 2022. IEEE.

2021

• SocialCattle: IoT-Based Mastitis Detection And Control Through Social Cattle Behavior Sensing In Smart Farms
  Yunhe Feng, Fanqi Wang, Susan J Ivey, Jie Jayne Wu, Hairong Qi, Raul A Almeida, Shigetoshi Eda, Qing Cao.
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(12), 10130-10138, 2021. IEEE.

2020

• New Emoji Requests From Twitter Users: When, Where, Why, And What We Can Do About Them
  Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Wenjun Zhou, Zhibo Wang, Qing Cao.
  ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 3(2), 1-25, 2020. ACM New York, NY, USA.
• SenCAPTCHA: A Mobile-First CAPTCHA Using Orientation Sensors
  Yunhe Feng, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Scott Ruoti.
  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(2), 1-26, 2020. ACM New York, NY, USA.
• Toward More Effective Centrality-Based Attacks on Network Topologies
  Songwei Zhang, Weisheng Si, Tie Qiu, Qing Cao.
  ICC 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 1-6, 2020. IEEE.

2019

• The World Wants Mangoes and Kangaroos: A Study of New Emoji Requests Based on Thirty Million Tweets
  Yunhe Feng, Wenjun Zhou, Zheng Lu, Zhibo Wang, Qing Cao.
  The World Wide Web Conference, 2722-2728, 2019.
• Adaptive Path Tracing with Programmable Bloom Filters in Software-Defined Networks
  Sisi Xiong, Qing Cao, Weisheng Si.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2019-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 496-504, 2019, IEEE.
• Two-Level Index for Truss Community Query in Large-Scale Graphs
  Zheng Lu, Yunhe Feng, Qing Cao.
  2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 1-6, 2019, IEEE.
• Chasing Total Solar Eclipses on Twitter: Big Social Data Analytics for Once-in-a-Lifetime Events
  Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Zhonghua Zheng, Peng Sun, Wenjun Zhou, Ran Huang, Qing Cao.
  2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 1-6, 2019, IEEE.

2018

• A Multi-Granularity Perspective for Spatial Profiling of Mobile Apps
  Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Wenjun Zhou, Qing Cao, Xiaolin Li.
  Information Sciences, 430, 127-141, 2018, Elsevier.
• Inferring Correlation between User Mobility and App Usage in Massive Coarse-Grained Data Traces
  Zheng Lu, Yunhe Feng, Wenjun Zhou, Xiaolin Li, Qing Cao.
  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(4), 1-21, 2018, ACM New York, NY, USA.
• Secure Sharing of Private Locations through Homomorphic Bloom Filters
  Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Qing Cao.
  2018 IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), 107-113, 2018, IEEE.

2017

• Optimizing Checkpoint Data Placement with Guaranteed Burst Buffer Endurance in Large-Scale Hierarchical Storage Systems
  Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral.
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 100, 16-29, 2017, Academic Press.
• Achieving Location Error Tolerant Barrier Coverage for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Zhibo Wang, Honglong Chen, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Zhi Wang, Qian Wang.
  Computer Networks, 112, 314-328, 2017, Elsevier.
• Frequent Traffic Flow Identification through Probabilistic Bloom Filter and its GPU-Based Acceleration
  Sisi Xiong, Yanjun Yao, Michael Berry, Hairong Qi, Qing Cao.
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 87, 60-72, 2017, Academic Press.
• Optimizing the Performance of Sensor Network Programs through Estimation-Based Code Profiling
  Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, Wenjun Zhou.
  Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 42, 285-298, 2017, Elsevier.
• Cost-Effective Barrier Coverage Formation in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
  Zhibo Wang, Qing Cao, Hairong Qi, Honglong Chen, Qian Wang.
  Ad Hoc Networks, 64, 65-79, 2017, Elsevier.
• Approximate Cardinality Estimation (ACE) in Large-Scale Internet of Things Deployments
  Qing Cao, Yunhe Feng, Zheng Lu, Hairong Qi, Leon M Tolbert, Lipeng Wan, Zhibo Wang, Wenjun Zhou.
  Ad hoc networks, 66, 52-63, 2017, Elsevier.
• Approximate and Sublinear Spatial Queries for Large-Scale Vehicle Networks
  Lipeng Wan, Zhibo Wang, Zheng Lu, Yunhe Feng, Hairong Qi, Wenjun Zhou, Qing Cao.
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 67(2), 1561-1569, 2017, IEEE.
• Decentralized Search for Shortest Path Approximation in Large-Scale Complex Networks
  Zheng Lu, Yunhe Feng, Qing Cao.
  2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 130-137, 2017, IEEE.

Prior Years

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