Publication

Book Chapter/Article

X. Gong, “Incentive mechanisms for mobile crowdsensing,” Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, to appear.

X. Gong, L. Yang, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “Efficiency and Pareto optimality,” Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, 2018.

X. Gong, L. Yang, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “Social group utility maximization,” Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computing Engineering, 2014.

Journal Paper

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M. Chen, X. Gong, Y. Cao, “Delay-optimal distributed edge computation offloading with correlated computation and communication workloads”, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), to appear, 2023.

Q. Fang, Z. Zhai, S. Yu, Q. Wu, X. Gong, X. Chen, “Olive branch learning: A topology-aware federated learning framework for space-air-ground integrated network”, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 4534-4551, July 2023.

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, F. Lin, X. Chen, “Data poisoning attacks and defenses in dynamic crowdsourcing with online data quality learning”, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 2569-2581, May 2023.

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, X. Chen, “Privacy-preserving incentive mechanisms for truthful data quality in data crowdsourcing”, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 2518-2532, July 2022.

S. Yu, X. Gong, Q. Shi, X. Wang, X. Chen, “EC-SAGINs: Edge computing-enhanced space-air-ground integrated networks for Internet of vehicles”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 5742-5754, Apr. 2022.

Z. Shi, G. Yang, X. Gong, S. He, J. Chen, “Quality-aware incentive mechanisms under social influences in data crowdsourcing”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 176-189, Feb. 2022.

S. Yu, X. Chen, Z. Zhou, X. Gong, D. Wu, “When deep reinforcement learning meets federated learning: Intelligent multi-timescale resource management for multi-access edge computing in 5G ultra dense network”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 2238-2251, Feb. 2021. (Best Paper Runner-Up Award)

C. Gong, F. Lin, X. Gong, Y. Lu, “Intelligent cooperative edge computing in the Internet of Things”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 9372-9382, Oct, 2020.

M. Zhang, J. Chen, S. He, L. Yang, X. Gong, J. Zhang, “Privacy-preserving database assisted spectrum access for industrial Internet of Things: A distributed learning approach”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 7094-7103, Aug. 2020.

X. Gong, N. B. Shroff, “Truthful data quality elicitation for quality-aware data crowdsourcing”, IEEE Trans. Control of Network Systems (TCNS), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 326-337, Mar. 2020.

X. Gong, N. B. Shroff, “Truthful mobile crowdsensing for strategic users with private data quality”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1959-1972, Oct. 2019.

M. Zhang, L. Yang, X. Gong, S. He, and J. Zhang, “Wireless service pricing competition under network effect, congestion effect, and bounded rationality,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 7497-7507, Aug. 2018.

X. Gong, X. Chen, K. Xing, D.-H. Shin, M. Zhang, and J. Zhang, “From social group utility maximization to personalized location privacy in mobile networks,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1703-1716, June 2017.

X. Gong, L. Duan, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “When social network effect meets congestion effect in wireless networks: Data usage equilibrium and optimal pricing,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC) (special issue on ’'game theory for networks’’), vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 449-462, Feb. 2017.

X. Chen, X. Gong, L. Yang, and J. Zhang, “Amazon in the white space: Social recommendation aided distributed spectrum access,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 536-549, Feb. 2017.

X. Chen, X. Gong, L. Yang, and J. Zhang, “Exploiting social tie structure for cooperative wireless networking: A social group utility maximization framework,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 3593-3606, Dec. 2016.

X. Gong, J. Zhang, D. Cochran, and K. Xing, “Optimal placement for barrier coverage in bistatic radar sensor networks,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 259-271, Feb. 2016.

X. Chen, B. Proulx, X. Gong, and J. Zhang, “Exploiting social ties for cooperative D2D communications: A mobile social networking case,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (ToN), vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 1471-1484, Oct. 2015.

X. Gong, X. Chen, J. Zhang, and H. V. Poor “Exploiting social trust assisted reciprocity (STAR) towards utility-optimal socially-aware crowdsensing,” IEEE Trans. Signal and Information Processing over Networks (TSIPN), vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 195-208, Sept. 2015.

S. He, X. Gong, J. Zhang, J. Chen and Y. Sun, “Curve-based deployment for barrier coverage in wireless sensor networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications (TWC), vol.13, no. 2, Feb. 2014.

L. Tang, X. Gong, J. Zhang, and J. Wu, “Target detection in bistatic radar networks: node placement and repeated security game,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications (TWC), vol.12, no. 3, Mar. 2013.

X. Gong, C. Thejaswi, J. Zhang, and H.V. Poor, “Opportunistic cooperative networking: to relay or not to relay?” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC) (special issue on ’'cooperative networking — challenges and applications’’), vol. 30, no. 2, Feb. 2012.

X. Gong, S.A. Vorobyov, and C. Tellambura, “Optimal bandwidth and power allocation for sum ergodic capacity under fading channels in cognitive radio networks,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (TSP), vol. 59, no. 4, Apr. 2011.

X. Gong, S.A. Vorobyov, and C. Tellambura, “Joint bandwidth and power allocation with admission control in wireless multi-user networks with and without relaying,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (TSP), vol. 59, no. 4, Apr. 2011.

Conference Paper

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D. Li*, X. Gong, “Anarchic federated learning with delayed gradient averaging”, ACM MobiHoc’23, Washington DC, USA, Oct. 23-26, 2023.

D. Li*, X. Gong, “Anarchic convex federated learning”, IEEE INFOCOM’23 Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning and Fog Networks (FOGML), online, May 20, 2023.

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, S. Mao, “Truthful incentive mechanism for federated learning with crowdsourced data labeling”, IEEE INFOCOM’23, New York area, USA, May 17-20, 2023.

Y. Zhu*, X. Gong, “Distributed policy gradient with heterogeneous computation for federated reinforcement learning”, CISS’23, Baltimore, MD, USA, Mar. 22-24, 2023.

D. Li*, Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, “Quality-aware distributed computation and communication scheduling for fast convergent wireless federated learning”, WiOpt’21, online, Oct. 18-21, 2021.

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, “Quality-aware distributed computation for cost-effective non-convex and asynchronous wireless federated learning”, WiOpt’21, online, Oct. 18-21, 2021.

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, “Quality-aware distributed computation and user selection for cost-effective federated learning”, IEEE INFOCOM’21 Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning and Fog Networks (FOGML), online, May 10, 2021.

X. Gong, “Delay-optimal distributed edge computing in wireless edge networks”, IEEE INFOCOM’20, July 6-9, online, 2020. [slides] [presentation video]

Y. Zhao*, X. Gong, “Truthful quality-aware data crowdsensing for machine learning”, IEEE SECON’19, Boston, MA, USA, June 10-13, 2019.

X. Zhang*, X. Gong, “Online data quality learning for quality-aware crowdsensing”, IEEE SECON’19, Boston, MA, USA, June 10-13, 2019.

X. Gong, “Incentivizing quality-based data crowdsourcing,” IJCAI-ECAI Workshop on Game-Theoretic Mechanisms for Data and Information, Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 2018.

X. Gong, N. B. Shroff, “Incentivizing truthful data quality in quality-aware mobile data crowdsourcing,” ACM MobiHoc’18, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 25-28, 2018. [slides] [presentation video]

X. Gong, N. B. Shroff, “Truthful mobile crowdsensing for strategic users with private qualities,” WiOpt’17, Paris, France, May 15-19, 2017. [slides]

M. Zhang, L. Yang, X. Gong, and J. Zhang, “Privacy-preserving crowdsensing: privacy valuation, network effect, and profit maximization,” IEEE GLOBECOM’16, Washington, DC, USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.

M. Zhang, L. Yang, X. Gong, and J. Zhang, “Impact of network effect and congestion effect on price competition among wireless service providers,” IEEE CISS’16, Princeton, NJ, USA, Mar. 16-18, 2016.

M. Zhang, L. Yang, D. Shin, X. Gong, and J. Zhang, “Privacy-preserving database assisted spectrum access: A socially-aware distributed learning approach,” IEEE GLOBECOM’15, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.

X. Gong, L. Duan, and X. Chen, “When network effect meets congestion effect: Leveraging social services for wireless services,” ACM MobiHoc’15, Hangzhou, China, June 22- June 25, 2015. [slides]

X. Gong, X. Chen, K. Xing, D. Shin, M. Zhang, and J. Zhang, “Personalized location privacy in mobile networks: A social group utility approach,” IEEE INFOCOM’15, Hong Kong, China, Apr.26- May 1, 2015. [slides]

X. Gong, X. Chen, J. Zhang, and H. V. Poor “From social trust assisted reciprocity (STAR) to utility-optimal mobile crowdsensing,” IEEE GlobalSIP’14, Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec. 3-5, 2014. [poster]

X. Chen, X. Gong, L. Yang, and J. Zhang, “A social group utility maximization framework with applications in database assisted spectrum access,” IEEE INFOCOM’14, Toronto, Canada, Apr.27- May 2, 2014. [slides] (Runner-Up Best Paper Award)

X. Gong, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “Social group utility maximization in mobile networks: From altruistic to malicious behavior,” IEEE CISS’14, Princeton, NJ, USA, Mar. 19-21, 2014.

X. Gong, X. Chen, and J. Zhang, “Social group utility maximization game with applications in mobile social networks,” Allerton’13, Monticello, IL, USA, Oct. 2-4, 2013.

X. Gong, J. Zhang, D. Cochran, and K. Xing “Barrier coverage in bistatic radar sensor networks: Cassini oval sensing and optimal placement,” ACM MobiHoc’13, Bangalore, India, July 29- Aug. 1, 2013. [slides]

X. Chen, B. Proulx, X. Gong, and J. Zhang, “Social trust and social reciprocity based cooperative D2D communications,” ACM MobiHoc’13, Bangalore, India, July 29- Aug. 1, 2013.

X. Gong, J. Zhang, and D. Cochran, “When target motion matters: Doppler coverage in radar sensor networks,” IEEE INFOCOM’13, Turin, Italy, Apr. 14-19, 2013. [slides]

S. He, X. Gong, J. Zhang, J. Chen and Y. Sun, “Barrier coverage in wireless sensor networks: From line-based to curve-based deployment,” IEEE INFOCOM’13 (Mini-Conference), Turin, Italy, Apr. 14-19, 2013.

L. Tang, X. Gong, J. Wu, and J. Zhang, “Target detection in bistatic radar networks: Node placement and dynamic frequency selection,” IEEE CISS’12, Princeton, NJ, USA, Mar. 21-23, 2012.

X. Gong, C. Thejaswi, J. Zhang, and H.V. Poor, “Distributed opportunistic scheduling for cooperative networking,” IEEE GLOBECOM’11, Houston, TX, USA, Dec. 5-9, 2011.

L. Tang, X. Gong, J. Wu, and J. Zhang, “Secure wireless communications via cooperative relaying and jamming,” IEEE GLOBECOM’11 workshop on physical-layer security, Houston, TX, USA, Dec. 5-9, 2011.

X. Gong, S.A. Vorobyov, and C. Tellambura, “Joint bandwidth and power allocation in cognitive radio networks under fading channel,” IEEE ICASSP’11, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011.

X. Gong, S.A. Vorobyov, and C. Tellambura, “Admission control-based joint bandwidth and power allocation in multi-user DF relay networks,” IEEE Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2010.

X. Gong, S.A. Vorobyov, and C. Tellambura, “Joint bandwidth and power allocation in multi-user decode-and-forward relay networks,” IEEE ICASSP’10, Dallas, Texas, USA, Mar. 14-19, 2010.

X. Gong, W. Yuan, W. Liu, W. Cheng, and S. Wang, “A cooperative relay scheme for secondary communication in cognitive radio networks,” IEEE GLOBECOM’08, New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2008.