Qiang Ye Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland S. J. Carew Building 240 Prince Phillip Drive St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 3X5 Email: qiangy@mun.ca Tel: (709)864-4550 Office: EN-2033

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News

• 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 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] (Paper Submission Deadline: Dec. 20, 2021).
• 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] (Paper Submission Deadline: Nov. 22, 2021).
• 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), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada (Sept. 2021 - Now).
• 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.Sc., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China (Sept. 2009 - Apr. 2012).
• B.Sc., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China (Sept. 2005 - Jul. 2009).

Brief Biography

• Qiang Ye has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, since September 2021. Before joining the Memorial University, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, from September 2019 to August 2021. He had been a Post-Doctoral Fellow from Dec. 2016 to Nov. 2018 and then a Research Associate from Dec. 2018 to Sept. 2019 at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, working with Prof. Weihua Zhuang and Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen. He was the coordinator of the Sofeware-Defined Networking (SDN) Group in the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab from 2017-2019. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in Sept. 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Weihua Zhuang. He received the M.Sc. degree in Communication and Information System, under the supervision of Prof. Su Pan, and the B.Sc. degree in Networking Engineering from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, China, in 2012 and 2009, respectively.

Awards

• IEEE GLOBECOM' 18, Best Paper Award Nomination, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 9-13, 2018.
• 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.