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Short Bio
Research Interests
Professional Experience
Education
Academic Services
Ph.D. Thesis Overview
Publications
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SHORT BIO |
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I am currently a research associate at Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley. I work with the Open Application Environment team in the Service Layer Technologies group. Before joining Ericsson in Nov. 2009, I was a Ph.D. student in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, working with Professor Nalini Venkatasubranamian. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in Oct. 2009, thesis topic being "A middleware Approach to Information Dissemination in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks". I also hold a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, as well as a Master of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering and a Bachelor's degree both from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS |
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-- Mobile applications and their deployments
-- Social networking
-- Middleware for wireless and mobile computing
-- Wireless networking technologies
-- Wireless ad-hoc, mesh and disruption-tolerant networks
-- Information dissemination and content distribution
-- Pervasive computing and communications |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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> Ericsson Research
San Jose, CA
Nov. 2009 ~ Present
Research Associate
with the Open Application Environment team.
> Nokia Research Center
Palo Alto, CA
May 2008 ~ Dec. 2008
Research Intern
with the Social Proximity Networks team.
Studied and prototyped temporal-spatial opportunistic messaging applications on mobile devices, which enable multiple forms of communications by utilizing human encounters and mobilities through heterogeneous wireless connectivities. The prototype was implemented in Python on the Symbian S60 platform on Nokia N95 8GB smart phones.
> Nokia Research Center
Palo Alto, CA
Jun. 2007 ~ Dec. 2007
Research Intern
with the Wireless Grids and Collaborative Devices team.
Studied and prototyped video/voice streaming-enabled messaging and content sharing
applications on mobile devices, which help build proximity-based social networks through wireless peer-to-peer connections. The prototype was implemented in C on the Linux-based Maemo platform on Nokia N800 Internet tablets.
> ALi (Shanghai) Corporation
Shanghai, China
Mar. 2003 ~ Aug. 2003
Software Engineer
with the Rewritable DVD Recorder group.
Developed the UDF file system module for ALi DVD recorder chip firmware. The firmware was implemented in C. |
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ACEDEMIC
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> ISI 2010
(IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics)
May 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Technical Program Committee member
> WOWMOM
2008
(The 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile
and Multimedia Networks)
Jun. 2008, Newport Beach, CA
Web Designer and Manger |
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PH.D. THESIS OVERVIEW |
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My Ph.D. thesis deals with developing easily deployable solutions to reliable, fast and efficient information dissemination in heterogeneous wireless networks. Information dissemination refers to the delivery of application-generated content data from a source node to a group of mobile recipients with specific attributes (spatial attributes, temporal attributes, and social attributes, etc.). The communications between all nodes are carried out through wireless connectivities. The wireless networks they form can be heterogeneous in terms of the access technology they employ, whether there is a backbone overlay involved, and the continuity/intermittence of the connectivity between mobile nodes. Information dissemination in wireless networks is useful in many applications across various domains, spanning from emergency response to mobile social networking, where constraints and requirements vary widely. We adopt a middleware approach to adddress the challenges posed by the wireless information dissemination problem, which is resilient to the heterogeneity of the underlying networking environment while offering adaptive services to meet the applications' needs. Such a middleware approach transforms to a software package, that can be directly deployed on off-the-shelf mobile devices with ease. In particular, my Ph.D. thesis explores three classes of wireless information dissemination -- (i) instant dissemination in connected networks, (ii) delay-tolerant dissemination in disconnected networks, and (iii) scalable dissemination in hybrid networks. We propose algorithms and protocols to enable reliable, fast and efficient dissemination in these scenarios. In addition to extensive simulation-based performance evaluations, we further implement a middleware suite and two prototype applications on top of it to showcase the efficacy of our solutions. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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> RADcast: Enabling Reliability Guarantees for Content Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks
Bo Xing, Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
The 28th Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2009). April 19 - 25, 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
> An Experimental Study on Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc Mode for Mobile Device-to-Device Video Delivery
Bo Xing; Karim Seada; Nalini Venkatasubramanian
IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD 2009). April 24, 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
> Proximiter: Enabling Mobile Proximity-Based Content Sharing on Portable Devices (Demo Paper)
Bo Xing, Karim Seada and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2009). March 9 - 13, 2009. Galveston, Texas USA.
> PassItOn: An Opportunistic Messaging Prototype on Mobile Devices (Demo Paper)
Bo Xing, Karim Seada, Peter Boda and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
The 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009). January 10 - 12, 2009. Las Vegas, Nevada USA.
> Application Prototyping for Wireless Proximity Networks (Demo Paper)
Karim Seada, Yogesh Swami and Bo Xing
The Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2007). Co-located with ACM Mobicom, September 10, 2007. Montreal, Canada.
> Towards Reliable Application Data Broadcast in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Bo Xing, Mayur Deshpande, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Sharad Mehrotra
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007 (WCNC 2007). March 11 - 15, 2007. Hong Kong, China.
> CREW: A Gossip-based Flash-Dissemination System
Mayur Deshpande, Bo Xing, Iosif Lazardis, Bijit Hore, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Sharad Mehrotra
The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), pp. 45 - 52. July 4 - 7, 2006. Lisboa, Portugal.
> Multi-Constraint Dynamic Access Selection in Always Best Connected Networks
Bo Xing and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2005), pp. 56 ~ 64. July 17 - 21, 2005. San Diego, California USA. |
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