Biography (CV)

Zheng Yang is currently a post-doc fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his B.E. degree in the Department of Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He is an author and co-author of over 20 research papers in premier journals and conferences related to wireless sensor networks and pervasive computing. He also serves as a technical program committee member of ICPADS'10, DCOSS'11, ICDCS'12, and a reviewer of a number of conferences and journals. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Education

Ph.D. Dissertation: Localization and Localizability in Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks

Research Interest

Wireless Sensor Networks, Pervasive Computing

Selected Publications (a full list of publications is here)

Book

Location, Localization, and Localizability - Location-awareness Technology for Wireless Networks         Yunhao Liu and Zheng Yang         1st Edition, Springer, Berlin, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4419-7370-2.         Read online for Springer subscribers

Journal

• Beyond Triangle Inequality: Sifting Noisy and Outlier Distance Measurements for Localization

        Zheng Yang, Lirong Jian, Chenshu Wu, and Yunhao Liu,

        ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), accepted to appear.

• Sea Depth Measurement with Restricted Floating Sensors

        Mo Li, Zheng Yang, and Yunhao Liu,

        ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), accepted to appear.

• Improving the Efficiency of Localization-Oriented Network Adjustment in Wireless Sensor Networks

        Tao Chen, Deke Guo, Zheng Yang, Honghui Chen, and Xueshan Luo

        IEEE Communication Letters, Volumn 15, Issue 9, September 2011, Page(s): 983 - 985

• Understanding Node Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

        Zheng Yang and Yunhao Liu

        IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted to appear.

• Beyond Trilateration: On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (PDF)

        Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, and Xiangyang Li

        IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volumn 18, Issue 6, December 2010, Page(s): 1806-1814.

• Beyond Rigidity: Obtain Localizability with Noisy Ranging Measurement

        Xiaoping Wang, Zheng Yang, Jun Luo, and Changxiang Shen

        International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages(s): 114-124.

• Location, Localization, and Localizability  (PDF) A Survey on location-awareness technology of wireless networks

        Yunhao Liu, Zheng Yang, Xiaoping Wang, and Lirong Jian

        Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 25(2): 274-297, Mar, 2010.

• Quality of Trilateration: Confidence based Iterative Localization (PDF)

        Zheng Yang and Yunhao Liu

        IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 21, issue. 5, pp. 631-640, May, 2010.

• PAS: Prediction-based Adaptive Sleeping for Diffusion Stimulus Monitoring Sensor Networks

        Zheng Yang, Bin Xu, Baijian Yang, Jingyao Dai, and Tao Gu

        Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), vol. 5, issue. 3-4, pp. 235-246, 2008

Conference

• Receiver Consensus: On-time Warning Delivery in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network

        Junliang Liu, Zheng Yang, and Ivan Stojmenovic,

        IEEE ICDCS 2012, Macau, China, June 18-21, 2012.

• WILL: Wireless Indoor Localization without Site Survey

        Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, and Wei Xi,

        IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 25-30, 2012.

• Edge Verifiability: Characterizing Outlier Measurements for Wireless Sensor Network Localization

        Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Tao Chen, et al.

        IEEE MASS 2011, Valencia, Spain, Oct 17-22, 2011.

• Whistle: Synchronization-Free TDOA for Localization

        Bin Xu, Ran Yu, Guodong Sun, and Zheng Yang

        IEEE ICDCS 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 20-24, 2011.

• Does Wireless Sensor Network Scale? A Measurement Study on GreenOrbs

        Yunhao Liu, Yuan He, Mo Li, et al.

        IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

• Localization in Non-localizable Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks: A Localizability-aided Approach

        Tao Chen, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Deke Guo, and Xueshan Luo

        IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

• Locating Sensors in the Wild: Pursuit of Ranging Quality

       Wei Xi, Yuan He, Yunhao Liu, Jizhong Zhao, Lufeng Mo, Zheng Yang, and XiangYang Li

       ACM SenSys 2010, Zurich, 2010

• ETOC: Obtaining Robustness in Component-based Localization

        Xiaoping Wang, Yunhao Liu, Zheng Yang, Junliang Liu, and Jun Luo

        IEEE ICNP 2010, Kyoto, Japan, 2010

• Beyond Triangle Inequality: Sifting Noisy and Outlier Distance Measurements for Localization  (PDF)

        Lirong Jian, Zheng Yang, and Yunhao Liu

        IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, USA, 2010

• Understanding Node Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks  (PDF, slides)

        Zheng Yang and Yunhao Liu

        IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, USA, 2010

• Beyond Trilateration: On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (The extended version of this paper is here)

        Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, and Xiangyang Li

        IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009

• Sensor Network Navigation without Locations (PDF)

        Mo Li, Yunhao Liu, Jiliang Wang, and Zheng Yang

        IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009

• Quality of Trilateration: Confidence based Iterative Localization (The extended version of this paper is here)

        Zheng Yang and Yunhao Liu

        IEEE ICDCS 2008, Beijing, China, 2008

• Sea Depth Measurement with Restricted Floating Sensors (PDF)

        Zheng Yang, Mo Li, and Yunhao Liu

        28th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2007.

Misc.

• Reading List for Network Localization

• 《物联网导论》

        刘云浩 编著，科学出版社，2010年

        教学课件ppt、讨论和勘误在“物联网论坛”

• Internet of Things: Concepts and Controversies （物联网：概念与争论）

        Hangzhou, China, Dec., 2010 (slides in Chinese)

• Localization and Localizability in Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks

        Ph.D. Thesis, June, 2010. (slides)

• On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

        Thesis Proposal, March, 2010. (slides)

• Open Issues in Localization

        Dongguan, China, Dec., 2009.