Funded Research Projects in Networking

• • Principal Investigator, CPS: Breakthrough: Analysis, Identification and Mitigation of Delay Performance Bottlenecks of Network Infrastructure in Cyber-Physical Systems, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2018-2023
  • Principal Investigator, Performance Analysis of Substation Automation Systems for Smart Grids, supported by ABB, Inc. and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2014-2015
  • Principal Investigator, An Integrated Environment-Independent Approach to Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009-2012 (2-slide introduction)
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A Wirelessly Preemptive Sensing System for Quasi-Realtime Earthquake Monitoring of Bridges, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009-2012 (2-slide introduction)
    
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Wireless Signal Networks for Subsurface Modeling and Geo-Event Characterization, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009-2011 (3-slide introduction)
    
  • Principal Investigator, Network Management for Heterogeneous Networks, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2008-2009
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Enhanced Disruption/Fault Tolerant Bundle Delivery (EDIFY) System, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2005-2006
  • Principal Investigator, A Wireless Sensor Network for Earthquake Response Monitoring, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2004-2005
  • Principal Investigator, Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networking for Public Safety Applications, supported by Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation, 2004
  • Principal Investigator, Routing and Switching in All-Fiber Networks, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Center for Optical Technologies, 2003-2004

Select Peer-reviewed Research Publications in Networking

About 100 papers in various research areas of networking, such as Network Calculus, TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking), DTN (Disruption Tolerant Networks), and Ad Hoc Networks, published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences such as IEEE ToMC, ToVT, ToWC, ICDCS, ACM e-Energy, ICCPS, INFOCOM and ICNP.

• Boyang Zhou, Isaac Howenstine, Liang Cheng, and Steffen Bondorf, Breaking Cyclic Dependencies for Network Calculus using Service Partitioning, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 32-42, 2024.
• Boyang Zhou and Liang Cheng, TSN-VM: A Real-time and Distributed Algorithm for Scheduling-Violation Mitigation in Time-Sensitive Networking, 2023
• Chuwen Zhang, Zerui Tian, Boyang Zhou, Liang Cheng, et al. TSN-Peeper: an Efficient Traffic Monitor in Time-Sensitive Networking. The The 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2022), October-November 2022
• Boyang Zhou and Liang Cheng. A reality-conforming approach for QoS performance analysis of AFDX in cyber-physical avionics systems. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2021), June 2021
• Boyang Zhou, Isaac Howenstine, Siraphob Limprapaipong, and Liang Cheng, A survey on network calculus tools for network infrastructure in real-time systems, IEEE Access, pp. 1-18, 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3043600, Dec. 2020.
• Chuwen Zhang, Yi Wang, Ruyi Yao, Boyang Zhou, Liang Cheng, Yang Xu, Xiaoguang Li, Jian Cheng and Bin Liu, Packet-size aware scheduling algorithms in guard band for time sensitive networking, CCF Transactions on Networking, 2020.
• Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Xiaoguang Ma, Combining measurements and network calculus in worst-case delay analyses for networked cyber-physical systems, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Poster session, April 29-May 2, 2019, Paris, France.
• Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Xiaoguang Ma, Bounding network-induced delays for time-critical services in avionic systems using measurements and network calculus, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), WiP session, April 16-18, 2019, Montreal, Canada.
• Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Mooi Choo Chuah, Detecting payload attacks on programmable logic controllers (PLCs), IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Beijing, China, May 2018
• Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Xiaoguang Ma, Analyzing Worst-Case Delay Performance of IEC 61850-9-2 Process Bus Networks Using Measurements and Network Calculus, in the Proceeding of The Eighth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Hong Kong, May 17-19, 2017.
• Bjoern Dusza, Christoph Ide, Liang Cheng and Christian Wietfeld, CoPoMo: a context-aware power consumption model for LTE user equipment, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 615-632, 2013.
• Qing Ye, Liang Cheng, Mooi Choo Chuah, and Brian D. Davison, Performance Comparison of Different Multicast Routing Strategies in Disruption Tolerant Networks, Computer Communications, Vol. 32, No. 16, pp. 1731-1741, 2009.
• Jun Peng, Biplab Sikdar, and Liang Cheng, Multicasting with Localized Control in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 52-64, 2009.
• Doraid Dalalah, Liang Cheng, and Gregory L. Tonkay, Modeling End-to-End Wireless Lossy Channels – A Finite-State Markov Approach, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1236-1243, 2008
• Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, DTP: Double-pairwise Time Protocol for Disruption Tolerant Networks, in the Proceeding of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), pp. 345-352, Beijing, China, June 17 – 20, 2008. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
• Jun Peng and Liang Cheng, A Distributed MAC Scheme for Emergency Message Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Issue on Vehicular Communications Networks, Vol. 56, Issue 6, pp. 3300-3308, 2007
• Jun Peng, Liang Cheng, and Biplab Sikdar, A Wireless MAC Protocol with Collision Detection, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 1357-1369, 2007
• Qiang Wang, Yaoyao Zhu, and Liang Cheng, Reprogramming wireless sensor networks: challenges and approaches, IEEE Network, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 48-55, 2006