PhD, MIEEE, MACM  

Associate Professor of Computer Science

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         []



 

 
The Cyber-Physical Systems Group at DUT: http://CPSChina.org  

 

 

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

Dr. Feng Xia has served on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals, and on the program committees of a number of international conferences. He has authored/co-authored one book (research monograph) and over 60 scientific papers (25 indexed by ISI SCIE, 28 indexed by EI Compendex). He is a member of IEEE and ACM, and the founding coordinator of the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at DUT.
 
What is NEW!
I'm looking for PhD and Master Students and Post-Doc Research Fellows in the broad area of cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, wireless networks, green computing, and software systems. If interested, email me! HOT!  
Research Assistant positions are available for undergraduates. HOT!  
[12/2009] An Invited Paper will appear at UBSN2010 (WICON workshop).
[11/2009] The Sensors Journal Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications, guest edited by Dr. Xia, was published. [Guest Editorial]
[8/2009] Dr. Xia joins the Technical Program Committee of ICNS2010.
[7/2009] Dr. Xia attends the ARTIST Summer School on Embedded Systems Design in China (July 19-24, 2009. Beijing)
[7/2009] Dr. Xia's profile will appear in the 2010 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World.
[6/2009] Dr. Xia joins the Editorial Board of International Journal of Network and Mobile Technologies.
[5/2009] Dr. Xia joins the Editorial Board of Journal of Convergence Information Technology.
[4/2009] Dr. Xia receives MDPI Certificate of Editorial Achievement.
[4/2009] Dr. Xia gives a talk on Cyber-Physical Systems at DUT. [Slides]
 
Experience
Mar 2009 - Present Associate Professor, 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
The Core Area of my research is Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In particular, I am interested in developing enabling technologies for human-centric cyber-physical systems that bridge the cyber, physical, and social worlds. Listed below are the majority of my current research interests.
Mobile Computing
location-based services, mobile healthcare, pervasive social computing, mobile cloud computing
Wireless Networking
quality of service, body sensor networks, internet of things, network convergence
Green Computing
power-aware computing, energy-efficient networking, feedback scheduling
 
Selected Publications
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Book

Feng Xia and Youxian Sun. Control and Scheduling Codesign: Flexible Resource Management in Real-Time Control Systems, Springer, 2008, 272 pages, ISBN: 978-3-540-78254-4. Jointly published with Zhejiang University Press in China. (research monograph)

Journal

Lin Yao, Lei Wang, Xiangwei Kong, Guowei Wu, Feng Xia. An Inter-Domain Authentication Scheme for Pervasive Computing Environment, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2010. DOI:10.1016/j.camwa.2010.01.010
Feng Xia. Editorial: Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications, Sensors, 2009, 9(11): 8824-8830. DIO:10.3390/s91108824
Feng Xia, Longhua Ma, Wenhong Zhao, Youxian Sun, Jinxiang Dong. Enhanced Energy-Aware Feedback Scheduling of Embedded Control Systems. Journal of Computers, 4(2): 103-111, 2009.
Feng Xia, Youxian Sun, Yu-Chu Tian. Feedback Scheduling of Priority-Driven Control Networks, Computer Standards and Interfaces, vol.31, pp.539-547, 2009, DOI:10.1016/j.csi.2008.03.020. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.074)
Feng Xia, Youxian Sun, Yu-Chu Tian, Moses O. Tad└, Jinxiang Dong. Fuzzy Feedback Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Embedded Control Systems, Int. J. of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol.5, no.2, pp.311-321, Feb 2009. (SCI Impact Factor: 2.791)
Chen Peng, Dong Yue, Zhou Gu and Feng Xia. Sampling period scheduling of networked control systems with multiple-control loops. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol.79, no.5, pp.1502-1511, Jan 2009. DOI:10.1016/j.matcom.2008.06.004 (SCI Impact Factor: 0.930)
Longhua Ma, Feng Xia, and Zhe Peng. Integrated Design and Implementation of Embedded Control Systems with Scilab. Sensors, 2008, 8(9), 5501-5515, DOI: 10.3390/s8095501. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
Feng Xia, Longhua Ma, Chen Peng, Youxian Sun, Jinxiang Dong. Cross-Layer Adaptive Feedback Scheduling of Wireless Control Systems. Sensors, 2008, 8(7), 4265-4281, DOI: 10.3390/s8074265. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
Feng Xia, Liping Liu, Longhua Ma, Youxian Sun, Jinxiang Dong. Performance-Aware Power Management in Embedded Controllers with Multiple-Voltage Processors. Information Technology Journal, 7(6): 942-947, 2008. DOI: 10.3923/itj.2008.942.947
Feng Xia, Longhua Ma, Zhe Peng. Programming Scilab in ARM Linux. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, vol.33, no.5, Article No. 10, Sep 2008.DOI: 10.1145/1402521.1402528
Feng Xia. QoS Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks, Sensors, vol.8, no.2, pp. 1099-1110, 2008. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
Feng Xia, Yu-Chu Tian, Youxian Sun, Jinxiang Dong. Neural feedback scheduling of real-time control tasks, Int. J. of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2965-2975, 2008.  (SCI Impact Factor: 2.791)
Feng Xia, Yu-Chu Tian, Youxian Sun, Jinxiang Dong. Control-Theoretic Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Embedded Controllers, IET Computers and Digital Techniques, 2(5): 377-385, Sep 2008, DOI:10.1049/iet-cdt:20070112.  (SCI Impact Factor: 0.316)
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.  (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
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.  (SCI Impact Factor:  0.163)
Feng Xia and Wenhong Zhao. Flexible Time-Triggered Sampling in Smart Sensor-Based Wireless Control Systems, Sensors, vol.7, no.11, pp. 2548-2564, 2007.  (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
Feng Xia. Feedback Scheduling of Real-Time Control Systems with Resource Constraints, Journal of Computer Science & Technology (JCS&T), Thesis Overview, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 256-257, October 2007.
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. (SCI Impact Factor: 1.870)
Feng Xia and Youxian Sun. Control-Scheduling Codesign: A Perspective on Integrating Control and Computing, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems - Series B, vol. 13, no. S1, pp. 1352-1358, 2006.
Feng Xia, Xiaohua Dai, Youxian Sun, and Jianxia Shou. Control Oriented Direct Feedback Scheduling, International Journal of Information Technology, vol.12, no.3, pp.21-32, 2006.
Shanbin Li, Yongqiang Wang, Feng Xia, Youxian Sun. Guaranteed cost control of networked control systems with time-delays and packet losses. International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, vol.4, no.4, pp.691-706, 2006. (SCI Impact Factor: 0.500)

Conference

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), Singapore, March 2010. Invited Paper.
Zhenzhen Xu, Feng Xia, Xianchao Zhang. Multi-robot Dynamic Task Allocation using Modified Ant Colony System, Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Shanghai, China, Nov 2009.
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.
Feng Xia and Youxian Sun. An Enhanced Dynamic Voltage Scaling Scheme for Energy-Efficient Embedded Real-Time Control Systems, Int. Conf. on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 3983, pp. 539-548, 2006.
Wenhong Zhao and Feng Xia. An Efficient Approach to Energy Saving in Microcontrollers, Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conf. (ACSAC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4186, pp. 595-601, 2006.
Xiaohua Dai, Feng Xia, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. An Energy-Efficient In-Network Aggregation Query Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. of the 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), Beijing, China, 2006, vol.3, pp. 255-258.
Wenhong Zhao and Feng Xia. Design and Simulation of Function Block Based Networked Control Systems, Proc. of the 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), Beijing, China, 2006, vol.3, pp. 287-291.
Wenhong Zhao and Feng Xia. A Neural Network Approach to QoS Management in Networked Control Systems over Ethernet, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol.344, pp. 444 - 449, 2006.
Xiaodong Wang, Huaping Dai, Feng Xia, Youxian Sun. A System Level Low Power Static Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm of Mixed Tasks and Its Application to FTU, Proc. of 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), Dalian, China, June 2006, vol.2, pp. 7582-7586.
Feng Xia, Xiaohua Dai, Xiaodong Wang, and Youxian Sun. Feedback Scheduling of Real-Time Control Tasks in Power-Aware Embedded Systems, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), Xi'an, China, IEEE CS Press, pp. 513-518, Dec 2005.
Liping Liu, Feng Xia, Zhi Wang, Jiming Chen, Youxian Sun. Deployment Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks, Int. Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3794, pp. 239-248, 2005.
Xiaohua Dai, Feng Xia, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. A Survey of Intelligent Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Int. Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3794, pp. 123-132, 2005.
Feng Xia and Youxian Sun. Event-Triggered Feedback Scheduling of Embedded Control Systems, Proc. 1st China Pervasive Computing Conf. (PCC), Kunming, China, Oct. 2005, pp.660-666.
Feng Xia and Youxian Sun. Neural Network Based Feedback Scheduling of Multitasking Control Systems, 9th Int. Conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3682, pp. 193-199, 2005.
Feng Xia, Liping Liu, and Youxian Sun. Flexible Quality-of-Control Management in Embedded Systems Using Fuzzy Feedback Scheduling, 10th Int. Conf. on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3642, pp. 624-633, 2005.
Feng Xia, Xingfa Shen, Liping Liu, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. Fuzzy Logic Based Feedback Scheduler for Embedded Control Systems, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.3645, pp. 453-462, 2005.
Feng Xia, Shanbin Li, and Youxian Sun. Neural Network Based Feedback Scheduler for Networked Control Systems with Flexible Workload, Int. Conf. on Natural Computation (ICNC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.3611, pp. 237-246, 2005.
Feng Xia, Xiaohua Dai, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. Feedback Based Network Scheduling of Networked Control Systems, Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Control and Automation (ICCA), Budapest, Hungary, June 2005, pp. 1231-1236.
Feng Xia, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. Integrated Computation, Communication and Control: Towards Next Revolution in Information Technology, 7th Int. Conf. on Information Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.3356, pp. 117-125, 2004.
Feng Xia, Zhi Wang, and Youxian Sun. Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Networked Control Systems with Resource Constraints, Proc. 30th Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Busan, Korea, Nov. 2004, vol.3, pp. 2946-2951.
Miscellaneous
Feng Xia. Quality-of-Service Management for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, Postdoctoral Research Report, Zhejiang University, Feb 2009.
Feng Xia. Feedback scheduling of real-time control systems with resource constraints, PhD Thesis, Zhejiang University, Dec 2006.
 
Professional Activities
Editorial Board Member:
- Sensors
- Journal of Computers
- Journal of Software
- Information Technology Journal
- Journal of Applied Sciences
- Int. J. on Advances in Networks and Services
- Journal of Convergence Information Technology
- Int. J. of Network and Mobile Technologies
- Int. J. of Information Technology (2007-2008)
- Int. J. of Computer Science (2007-2008)
Guest Editor, Sensors Journal Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2009
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, ICNS09
Invited Session Chair (Organizer), ICICIC06 Invited Session on Integrated Control and Computing
Session Chair, ACSAC06
Organizing Committee Member, WCICA04
Program Committee Member, ICNS10, ICWN10, ESA10, PDPTA10, NCM10, IDC10, MINES10, NISS10, INC10, ICCIT09, ICIS09, NCM09, PDPTA08, ICWN08, ESA08, ICCIT08, and NCM08
International Review Committee Member, KES08
Member: IASTED Technical Committee on Networks, 2007-2010
Invited Reviewer, A number of journals and conferences
 
Teaching
Computer Networks (Spring 2010)
Distributed Database Systems (Fall 2009)
Advanced Computer Networks (Fall 2009)
Introduction to Information Systems (Summer 2009)
Network Programming (Summer 2009)
Database Systems Design (Summer 2009)
 
 
Honors & Awards
Marquis Who's Who in the World, 27th Edition, 2010
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, Road No. 8, Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China

Tel: +86-411-87571582

 
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