The Homepage of Dr. Feng XIA

PhD, SMIEEE, MACM
Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor School of Software, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China Email: f.xia{at}ieee{dot}org; f.xia{at}acm{dot}org URL: http://FengXia.NET []


Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (DUT Phone Lab): http://dutphonelab.org

- Brief Bio - Experience - Research Interests - Publications - Activities - Teaching - Honors - Contact - Group/Lab -

Dr. Feng Xia is on the Editorial Board of several international journals. He is also the Guest Editor of several journal special issues. He serves as General Chair, PC Chair, Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair, or PC Member of a number of conferences. Dr. Xia has authored/co-authored one book (research monograph published by Springer) and 110+ scientific papers in international journals and conferences (with 50+ indexed by ISI SCIE, 60+ indexed by EI Compendex). His research interests include mobile social computing, network science, and cyber-physical systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE SMC Society, and a member of ACM and ACM SIGMobile.

What is NEW!

	[01/2013] Two PhD Positions in Mobile and Social Computing available (click for details)
	[01/2013] Two Post-doc Positions in Mobile Social Computing or Network Science available (pls contact me if you are interested)
	[01/2013] 2013年拟招收博士生1-2名(国内普通招考, 全职或在职), 欢迎报考或硕博连读; 如有兴趣, 敬请联系.
	[00/2013] 常年招收优秀本科生实习; 如有兴趣, 敬请联系.
	[00/2013] 2014年拟招收3名（工学）硕士研究生, 欢迎报考或保送读研; 如有兴趣, 敬请联系.
	[01/2013] CALL FOR PAPERS: PhoneCom 2013: The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Sensing, Networking and Computing with Smartphones, in conjunction with IEEE CPSCom 2013, Beijing, China, August 20-23, 2013; Deadline: April 20, 2013

Experience

Mar 2009 - Present	Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor, School of Software Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, China
Apr 2007 - Feb 2009	Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China
Apr 2007 - Jul 2008	Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
2006	PhD, in Control Discipline, College of Information Science and Engineering Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China Advisor: Academician Prof. Youxian Sun
2001	B.Eng., College of Information Science and Engineering Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China

Research Interests

	Mobile Social Computing mobile social networking, recommender systems, social and community intelligence, mobile and social media, social informatics, mobile cloud computing, content dissemination and sharing, e-learning, smart communities
	Network Science social network analysis, big data analysis and mining, mobile ad hoc networking, socially-aware networking, ad hoc social networking, bio/nature-inspired networking
	Cyber-Physical Systems intelligent systems, ubiquitous computing, mobile sensing, internet of things, mobile internet, wireless sensor and actuator networks, feedback computing

Selected Publications

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Under Review
	Selfishness in Delay Tolerant Social Networks
	Safety Challenges and Solutions in Mobile Social Networks
	Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Learning Implementation: Story of Developing Nations
	Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies and Applications
	BeeCup: A Bio-Inspired Energy-Efficient Clustering Protocol for Mobile Learning
	Mobile Multimedia Recommendation in Smart Communities
*Journal (Corresponding Author)**
	Jiafu Wan, Min Chen, Feng Xia, Di Li, and Keliang Zhou. From machine-to-machine communications to cyber-physical systems, Computer Science and Information Systems, to appear, 2013.
	Tie Qiu, Yanhong Ding, Feng Xia*, Honglian Ma. A Search Strategy of Level-Based Flooding for the Internet of Things, Sensors, 2012, 12(8):10163-10195.
	Chi Lin, Guowei Wu, Feng Xia, Mingchu Li, Lin Yao, Zhongyi Pei. Energy Efficient Ant Colony Algorithms for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 6, November 2012, Pages 1686–1702.
	Weifeng Sun, Tong Fu, Feng Xia*, Zhenquan Qin, Rong Cong. A Dynamic Channel Assignment Strategy Based on Cross-layer Design for Wireless Mesh Networks, International Journal of Communication Systems, 2012, 25:1122–1138.
	Yang Liu, Zhikui Chen, Feng Xia, Xiaoning Lv and Fanyu Bu. An integrated scheme based on service classification in pervasive mobile services, International Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 25, Issue 9, pages 1178–1188, September 2012.
	Lin Yao, Guowei Wu, Jia Wang, Feng Xia*, Chi Lin, Guojun Wang. A Clustering K-anonymity Scheme for Location Privacy Preservation, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E95-D No.1 pp.134-142, Jan 2012.
	Tie Qiu, Wei Wang, Feng Xia*, Guowei Wu, and Yu Zhou. A Failure Self-recovery Strategy with Balanced Energy Consumption for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Journal of Computers, Jan 2012.
	Zhikui Chen, Feng Xia*, Tao Huang, Fanyu Bu, Haozhe Wang. A Localization Method for the Internet of Things, Journal of Supercomputing, accepted 2011.
	Guowei Wu, Feng Xia*, Lin Yao, Yan Zhang, and Yanwei Zhu. A Hop-by-hop Cross-layer Congestion Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Software, Dec 2011.
	Haifeng Liu, Feng Xia*, Zhuo Yang, and Yang Cao. An Energy-Efficient Localization Strategy for Smartphones, Computer Science and Information Systems, 2011
	Feng Xia, Xue Yang, Haifeng Liu, Da Zhang and Wenhong Zhao. Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Localization with Indoor Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Science and Information Systems, 2011
	Feng Xia, Ruonan Hao, Yang Cao, Lei Xue. A Survey of Adaptive and Real-time Protocols Based on IEEE 802.15.4, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2011
	Feng Xia, Ruixia Gao, Linqiang Wang and Ruonan Hao. Real-Time Performance Analysis of Infrastructure-based IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function, Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, 2011
	Guowei Wu, Jiankang Ren, Feng Xia*, Lin Yao, Zichuan Xu, Pengfei Shang. A Game-Theoretic Approach for Inter-User Interference Reduction in Body Sensor Networks, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2011, Article ID 329524, 12 pages, 2011.
	Feng Xia, Alexey Vinel, Ruixia Gao, Linqiang Wang and Tie Qiu. Evaluating IEEE 802.15.4 for Cyber-Physical Systems, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2011, Article ID 596397, 14 pages, 2011. DOI:10.1155/2011/596397
	Guowei Wu, Dongze Lu, Feng Xia*, Lin Yao. A Fault-Tolerant Emergency-Aware Access Control Scheme for Cyber-Physical Systems, Information Technology and Control, 2011, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 29-40.
	Guowei Wu, Jiankang Ren, Feng Xia*, and Zichuan Xu. An Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Communication Scheme for Body Sensor Networks, Sensors, 10(11), 9590-9608, 2010.
	Guowei Wu, Chi Lin, Feng Xia*, Lin Yao, He Zhang, and Bing Liu. Dynamical Jumping Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, 10(3):2416-2437, 2010.
	Feng Xia. QoS Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks, Sensors, vol.8, no.2, pp. 1099-1110, 2008.
	Feng Xia, Wenhong Zhao, Youxian Sun and Yu-Chu Tian. Fuzzy Logic Control Based QoS Management in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks, Sensors, vol.7, no.12, pp. 3179-3191, 2007.
	Feng Xia, Guosong Tian, Youxian Sun. Feedback Scheduling: An Event-Driven Paradigm, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol.42, no.12, pp. 7-14, Dec. 2007.DOI:10.1145/1341752.1341753.
	Feng Xia, Yu-Chu Tian, Yanjun Li and Youxian Sun. Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network Design for Mobile Control Applications, Sensors, vol.7, no.10, pp.2157-2173, 2007.
Conference
	Zhen Chen, Feng Xia, Rui Cheng, Jialiang Kang, Cui Li. OnCampus: A Mobile Personal Assistant for College Students, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Singapore, November 2012.
	Sheng Zhao, Feng Xia, Zhen Chen, Zhen Li and Jianhua Ma. MobiMsg: A Resource-Efficient Location-Based Mobile Instant Messaging System, The 2nd International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA12), 1-3 Nov 2012, Xiangtan, China.
	Fatemeh Kaveh-Yazdy, Mohammad-Reza Zare-Mirakabad, Feng Xia. A Novel Neighbor Selection Approach for KNN: A Physiological Status Prediction Case Study, 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, China, August 2012.
	Feng Xia, Linqiang Wang, Daqiang Zhang, Xue Zhang, Ruixia Gao. Ada-MAC: An Adaptive MAC Protocol for Real-time and Reliable Health Monitoring, IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), Bangkok, Thailand, May 27-31, 2012.
	Feng Xia, Ruonan Hao, Yang Cao, Lei Xue. ART-GAS: An Adaptive and Real-Time GTS Allocation Scheme for IEEE 802.15.4, The Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC 2011), November 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
	Feng Xia and Jianhua Ma, Building Smart Communities with Cyber-Physical Systems, 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP’11), Symposium on Social and Community Intelligence, Beijing, China, September 2011, pp: 1-6. Invited Paper.
	Feng Xia, Wei Zhang, Fangwei Ding, Ruonan Hao, A-GPS Assisted Wi-Fi Access Point Discovery on Mobile Devices for Energy Saving, IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS), August 2011, Da Nang, Vietnam
	Fangwei Ding, Feng Xia, Wei Zhang, Xuhai Zhao, Chengchuan Ma. Monitoring Energy Consumption of Smartphones, The 4th IEEE Int Conf on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), The 1st International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom), IEEE, Dalian, China, Oct 19-22, 2011.
	Ziyu Lv, Feng Xia, Guowei Wu, Lin Yao, Zhikui Chen. iCare: A Mobile Health Monitoring System for the Elderly, The 3rd IEEE/ACM Int Conf on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), IEEE, Hangzhou, China, December 18-20, 2010.
	Rui Cheng, Zhuo Yang and Feng Xia. iZone: A Location-Based Mobile Social Networking System, Third International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), IEEE, December 18-20, 2010, Dalian, China.
	Longhua Ma, Tengkai Yuan, Feng Xia, Ming Xu, Jun Yao, Meng Shao. A High-confidence Cyber-Physical Alarm System: Design and Implementation, IEEE/ACM Internet of Things Symposium (IOTS), in conjunction with GreenCom 2010, IEEE, Hangzhou, China, December 18-20, 2010.
	Feng Xia, Zhenzhen Xu, Lin Yao, Weifeng Sun, Mingchu Li. Prediction-Based Data Transmission for Energy Conservation in Wireless Body Sensors, The Int Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN), in conjunction with the 5th Annual Int Wireless Internet Conf (WICON), IEEE, Singapore, March 2010, pp: 1-9. Invited Paper.
	Feng Xia, Longhua Ma, Jinxiang Dong, and Youxian Sun. Network QoS Management in Cyber-Physical Systems, The Int.Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), IEEE, Chengdu, China, pp. 302-307, July 2008.
Miscellaneous
	Feng Xia. Quality-of-Service Management for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, Postdoctoral Research Report, Zhejiang University, Feb 2009.

Professional Activities

	Editorial Board Member: - Sensors - Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Int. J. of Communication Systems - Control Engineering and Applied Informatics - Journal of Computers - Journal of Software - Int. J. of Computational Science and Engineering - Journal of Convergence Information Technology - Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks - Journal of Convergence - Int. J. on Advances in Networks and Services - Int. J. of Network and Mobile Technologies
	Guest Editor: - Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on Network Protocols and Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, 2013 - Sensors, Special Issue on Ubiquitous Sensing, 2012 - Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, Special Issue on Internet of Things: Technologies and Applications, 2012 - International Journal of Communication Systems, Special Issue on Internet of Things, 2012 - Journal of Supercomputing, Special Issue on Green Computing and Communications, 2012 - Journal of Computers, Special Issue on Parallel Algorithms, Scheduling and Architectures, 2012 - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special Issue on Sensor Networks for High-Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems, 2011 - Computer Science and Information Systems, Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Networks and Software, 2011 - Journal of Software, Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Data Processing, 2011 - Sensors, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2009
	Steering Committee Member, iThings12, CPSCom12, iThings11
	Advisory Board Member, ITST11
	General Chair, PhoneCom13, PhoneCom12, TACPS12, PhoneCom11, HotCPS11, ICUMT11, CPSA11, MobiCPS10, EaCN10, IOTS10, ICUMT10
	Executive Chair, CPSCom11
	Technical Program Committee Chair, GlobeCom-ETSD12, iThings11, GreenCom10, ICNS09
	Workshop Chair, CPSCom10
	Publicity Chair, BCFIC12, GreenCom11, ICESS11, BCFIC11, PAAP10
	Organizing Committee Member, WCICA04
	Program Committee Member, IWCMC13, CSE12, ICISA12, ICUMT12, NPC12, MENS12, WORCS12, GrC12, ITST12, ICC-SCPA12, IWCMC12, ICNS12, IDP12, GrC11, ISPA11, WCN11, Globecom-SCPA11, MobiWIS11, EMC11, IWCMC11, BCFIC11, ICNS11, ICISA11, CSE10, ICUMT10, ICNS10, EMC10, MINES10, ICWN10, ESA10, PDPTA10, NCM10, IDC10, NISS10, INC10, ICCIT09, ICIS09, NCM09, KES08, PDPTA08, ICWN08, ESA08, ICCIT08, and NCM08
	Invited Reviewer for numerous prestigious journals, including e.g.: - IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing - IEEE Trans on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ACM Trans on Embedded Computing Systems
	Invited Talks: - Energy Management of Smartphones, Nokia Academic Symposium, Beijing, China, 15 Nov 2011. - Building Smart Communities with Cyber-Physical Systems, ACM UBICOMP’11 Symposium on Social and Community Intelligence, Beijing, China, Sep 2011

Teaching

	Computer Networking (Spring 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
	Advanced Computer Networks (Fall 2010, 2011)
	Cloud Computing (Spring 2011, 2012, 2013)
	Internet of Things (Fall 2011)

Honors & Awards

	IEEE Senior Member, 2012-
	Outstanding Backup Academic Leader of Dalian City, 2012
	Outstanding Master Supervisor of Dalian University of Technology, 2012
	Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE CPSCom 2011
	Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE iThings 2011
	Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 11th Edition, 2011-2012
	Outstanding Employee of the Year, Dalian University of Technology, 2010
	Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE/ACM GreenCom 2010
	Marquis Who's Who in the World, 27th - 30th Editions, 2010 - 2013
	MDPI Certificate of Editorial Achievement, 2009
	Winner of First-Class Grant of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2007
	Winner of ZJU Grant for PhD Students Pursuing the ‘Top 100 Doctoral Dissertations in China’, 2006
	Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, 2001; 2006, Top 5%
	Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University, 2001 (Ranking No. 1 in 97 Honors students); 2006
	Academic Star, Zhejiang University (Awarded to the Top 10 in 6000 PhD students, ranking No.1), 2006
	Zhu Ke-Zhen Scholarship, Zhejiang University (Awarded to the Top 8 in 17000 postgraduates, the *highest honor* of Zhejiang University), 2005
	HP (Hewlett-Packard) Scholarship, HP Corporation and Ministry of Education of China (Awarded to Top 75 students in Chinese universities), 2005
	Best Poster Award, PhD Forum of College of Info Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2005
	Top Ten Postgraduates in Academic Activities, Zhejiang University (Awarded to the Top 10 in 17000 postgraduates), 2004
	BENQ Green Card Engineer, 2000
	Huawei Scholarship, 2004
	EASTCOM Scholarship, 1999; 2003
	ZTE Scholarship, 2000
	The First-Class Scholarship, Zhejiang University, multiple times
	Outstanding Student, Zhejiang University, multiple times
	Outstanding Student Leader, Zhejiang University, multiple times

Contact Info

Mailing Address: School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China

Tel: +86-411-87571582

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- since Apr 2009