Research Interests

• CET-Bed: A Testbed for Cloud-Edge-Things distributed systems
  We have built an experimental platform for cloud-edge distributed systems, which helps global users quickly build distributed applications for cloud-edge-things scenarios and encourages users to contribute to edge-cloud nodes. We achieve agile development and intelligent distribution through the novel programming method and online IDE. Currently, CET-Bed includes more than 100 cloud-edge-things nodes and has served multiple scientific and educational users. It is mainly aimed at smart home scenarios and has expanded to connected vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles. Researchers are welcome to contact us for further communication.
  

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• Programmable smart home
  We have built a programmable experimental environment for smart home scenarios to study the scientific problems of human-machine-object collaboration. At present, this scenario includes multiple physical sensors, programmable home appliances, embedded home devices (such as smart meters, smart plug-in and rows, etc.), edge computing platforms, etc., which can be used to develop a variety of applications. In this environment, non-intrusive state awareness and multi-machine collaborative target recognition can be studied.
  

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• Pegasus: Research systems for UAVs
  This project is a system research aimed at Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs), which includes edge-cloud collaborative UAV systems, UAVs algorithms and payloads, UAVs datasets, and more. Currently, the research work has been published in academic journals and conferences such as IEEE IoT-J/Scientific Data/HPCC/UIC. Multiple UAVs datasets and systems have been made available, such as HIT-UAV (High-altitude Infrared Thermal dataset) and UDWA (UAV Datasets With Altitudes). For more information, please visit the webpage.
  

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• OpenEI: An open framework for Edge Intelligence
  OpenEI is a lightweight software platform to equip the edge with intelligent processing and data sharing capability. In this work, we define Edge Intelligence as a capability that enables intelligence at the edge. The goal of OpenEI is that any hardware, ranging from Raspberry Pi to edge server to the powerful cluster, will become an intelligent edge after deploying OpenEI. Meanwhile, the EI attributes, accuracy, latency, energy, and memory footprint, will have an order of magnitude improvement comparing to the current AI algorithms running on the deep learning package. For more information, please visit the webpage.

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• The validate of Metcalfe's Law
  This projects uses actual data from Facebook and Tencent to verify Metcalfe's law (proposed by 2023 Turing Award winner Bob Metcalfe. This law, together with Moore's Law and Gild's Law, is called the three laws of the Internet), that is, the value of the network is proportional to the square of the user, and its range of action is extended from developed to demetveloping countries. At the same time, it is proposed that a cube law is more effective than Metcalfe's law. The related research was published in JCST in 2015 and 2023 respectively. Metcalfe himself noticed the paper, and many scholars expanded the research to explore the development of bitcoin in the blockchain field. Check out the video for details in 2023.
  

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• Jiashun Suo*, Xingzhou Zhang, Weisong Shi, and Wei Zhou, E3-UAV: An Edge-based Energy-Efficiency Object Detection System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, April 2023.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Facebook and Tencent Data Fit a Cube Law Better than Metcalfe’s Law, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 219-227, 2023.(Cover Article)
• Jiashun Suo*, Tianyi Wang, Xingzhou Zhang# ,Haiyang Chen, Wei Zhou,and Weisong Shi, HIT-UAV: A High-Altitude Infrared Thermal Dataset for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Object Detection, Scientific Data (Nature), Vol. 10, No. 227, 2023.
• Xiaoyang Jiang*, Xingzhou Zhang, Xiaohui Peng, Flet-Edge: A Full Life-cycle Evaluation Tool for deep learning framework on the Edge, The 28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), January 10-12, 2023, Nanjing, China.
• Haiyang Chen*, Weiqiang Wang*, Xingzhou Zhang, Weisong Shi, LightOcean: A Lightweight And Efficient Network For Real-time UAV Tracking, in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Dec 15-18, 2022, Haikou, China.
• Weiqiang Wang*, Haiyang Chen*, Xingzhou Zhang, Weisong Shi, Aprus: An Airborne Altitude-Adaptive Purpose-Related UAV System for Object Detection, in Proceedings of the 2022 High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Dec 18-21, 2022, Chengdu, China.
• Jiashun Suo*, Xingzhou Zhang, Shilei Zhang*, Wei Zhou, Weisong Shi, Feasibility Analysis of Machine Learning Optimization on GPU-based Low-cost Edges in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Oct 18, 2021, Atlanta, USA.
• Kumar Mohit, Xingzhou Zhang, Liangkai Liu, Yifan Wang, and Weisong Shi. Energy-efficient machine learning on the edges In 2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 912-921. IEEE, 2020.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Research on Data Professing Framework for Edge Intelligence, PhD dissertstion.面向边缘智能的数据处理框架研究，北京，2020.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Mu Qiao, Liangkai Liu, Pengfei Xu, and Weisong Shi, Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computation for Personalized Driving Behavior Modeling, in Proceedings of the fourth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), November 7-9, 2019, Arlington, VA, USA.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang, Sidi Lu, Liangkai Liu, Lanyu Xu, Weisong Shi, OpenEI: An Open Framework for Edge Intelligence, in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vision/Blue Sky Track, July 7-10, 2019, Dallas, USA.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Sidi Lu, Weisong Shi, 边缘智能中的协同计算技术研究 (Collaborative Computing Techniques in Edge Intelligence), 《人工智能》（AI View), CCID, No. 12, Oct, 2019, China.
• Fang Liu, Guoming Tang, Youhuizi Li, Zhiping Cai, Xingzhou Zhang, Tongqing Zhou, A Survey on Edge Computing Systems and Tools, in Proceedings of the IEEE (PIEEE), Vol. 107, No. 8, August 2019. pp. 1537-1562.
• Yifan Wang, Liangkai Liu, Xingzhou Zhang, and Weisong Shi, HydraOne: An Indoor Experimental Research and Education Platform for CAVs, in Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge), July 9, 2019, Renton, WA, USA.
• Liangkai Liu, Xingzhou Zhang, Qingyang Zhang, Andrew Weinert, Yifan Wang and Weisong Shi, AutoVAPS: An IoT-Enabled Public Safety Service on Vehicles, in Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering (SCOPE), April 15-18, 2019.
• Weisong Shi, Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang and Qingyang Zhang 边缘计算：现状与展望（Edge Computing: Start-of-the-Art and Future Directions),《计算机研究与发展(Journal of Computer Research and Development)》（60周年特刊） , Vol. 56, No. 1, January 2019.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang, and Weisong Shi, pCAMP: Performance Comparison of Machine Learning Packages on the Edges, in Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge), July 10, 2018, Boston, USA.
• Liangkai Liu, Xingzhou Zhang, Mu Qiao, and Weisong Shi, SafeShareRide: Edge-based Attack Detection in Ridesharing Services, in Proceedings of the third ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Oct. 25-27, 2018. Bellevue, WA.
• Liangkai Liu, Xingzhou Zhang, Mu Qiao, and Weisong Shi, SafeShareRide: Edge-based Attack Detection in Ridesharing Services, in Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge), July 10, 2018, Boston, USA.
• Qingyang Zhang, Yifan Wang, Xingzhou Zhang, Liangkai Liu, Xiaopei Wu, Weisong Shi and Hong Zhong, OpenVDAP: An Open Vehicular Data Analytics Platform for CAVs, in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vision/Blue Sky Track, July 2-5, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
• Xiaohui Peng, Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang, and Lu Chao, Web使能的物端计算系统（Web Enabled Things Computing System),《计算机研究与发展（Journal of Computer Research and Development）》, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 572-584. Feb 2018. (Chinese)
• Xingzhou Zhang, Yifan Wang, Lu Chao, Lang Wu, Chundian Li, Xiaohui Peng, and Zhiwei Xu, IEHouse: A Non-Intrusive Household Appliance State Recognition System, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC). Aug 4-8, 2017, San Francisco, USA.
• Xingzhou Zhang, Jingjie Liu, and Zhiwei Xu, Tencent and Facebook data validate Metcalfe's law, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 246-251, 2015.
• Yifan Wang, Xingzhou Zhang, Lu Chao, Lang Wu and Xiaohui Peng, PowerAnalyzer: An Energy-Aware Power Monitor System Aiming at Energy-Saving, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC). Oct 23-25, 2017, Orlando, Florida, USA.