Advise to Students

• To graduate students: If you want me to be your committee chair, you need to finish either one quarter of independent study (with or without taking credits) or a course project with me (by taking CSS 532: Internet of Things).
  Additionally, you should have taken (or plan to take) CSS 565: Research Methods in Software Development.
• To undergradaute students: If you want me to be your capstone faculty advisor, you must have taken my classes before.

Education

• Ph.D.  2009 - 2014, Computer Science, Iowa State University
• M.S.   2006 - 2008, Computer Science, Washington State University
• B.E.   2002 - 2006, Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Research Interests

• Internet of Things
• Edge Computing
• Wireless and Sensor Networks
• Cyber-Physical Systems

Teaching

• CSS 532: Internet of Things (Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Autumn 2019, Winter 2020, and Autumn 2021)
• CSS 432: Network Design (Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Autumn 2019, and Winter 2020)
• CSS 430: Operating Systems (Autumn 2018)
• CSS 427: Introduction to Embedded Systems (Winter 2016, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Winter 2020, Autumn 2020, and Autumn 2021)
• CSS 422: Hardware and Computer Organization (Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Autumn 2018, Summer 2020, and Autumn 2020)
• CSS 332: Programming Issues With Object-Oriented Languages (Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, and Winter 2018)

Grants

• Leveraging Cloud Computing for Network Research in the Internet of Things, Microsoft Azure Research Award, $20000, 12/2015-11/2016
• Acquisition of the Internet Of Things Devices for Student Usage, Student Technology Fee Fund, University of Washington Bothell, $11,348, 04/2016-06/2016
• Building Sustainable and Interconnected Personal Area Networks, CSS Graduate Research Fund, University of Washington Bothell, $2982, 01/2016-03/2016
• Billing-Driven Economical IoT Ecosystem Design, CSS Graduate Research Fund, University of Washington Bothell, $3600, 09/2016-12/2016

Students

• MS Students
  
  • Anish Prasad (Spring 2021)
  • Andrew J. Hunziker (Winter 2021)
  • Meng Yang (Summer 2020, Career & Tech Ed Teacher at Newport High School)
  • Meenakshi Sethunath (Spring 2020, now with Amazon)
  • Gayathry Radhakrishna Pillai (Spring 2019, now with Nordstrom)
  • Trang Quang (Spring 2019, now with F5)
  • Ge Zheng (Autumn 2019, now with Microsoft)
  • Abirami Sankara Narayanan (Summer 2018, now with Informatica)
  • Thy Vu (Summer 2018, now with Parsons Corporation)
  • Wei Xu (Spring 2018, now with Expedia)
  • Swetha Kumar (Autumn 2017, now with T-Mobile)
  • Avantika Sriram (Spring 2017, now with Microsoft)
  • Deepika Pethaperumal (Spring 2017, now with Microsoft)
  • Galen Deal (Spring 2017, now with Expedia)
  • Naval Kashyap (Spring 2017, now with Amazon)
• Undergraduate Students
  • Armin Haghi (now with Nordstrom)
  • Kyle Burney (now with Nordstrom)
  • Zach Carpenter (now with Microsoft)
  • Brian Mostrom (now with MicroVision Inc.)
  • Gregory Wright (MS student, UW Bothell)
  • Jessica Li (now with Smartsheet Inc)
  • Chayanne Jaye Mediran

Publications

35. Meenakshi Sethunath and Yang Peng
    "A Joint Resource Allocation and Request Dispatch Scheme for Performing Serverless Computing over Edge and Cloud"
    In Proc. The 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2021). [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
34. Hua Qin, Xiang Xiao, Weihong Chen, Ni Li, Min Zeng, Buwen Cao, and Yang Peng
    "Utilizing VANETs as supplementary communication infrastructure for delay-tolerant bulky data transportation"
    Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Vol 112, 2021, 102394. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
33. Hua Qin, Buwen Cao, Weihong Chen, Xiang Xiao, and Yang Peng
    "WiFi-assisted Control Traffic Offloading in Vehicular Environments"
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(4):4542-4547, 2020. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
32. Trang Quang and Yang Peng
    "Device-driven On-demand Deployment of Serverless Computing Functions"
    In Proc. The 4th International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking (in conjunction with IEEE PerCom'20), Austin, TX, March 23-27, 2020. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
31. Hua Qin, Buwen Cao, Jianxin He, Xiang Xiao, Weihong Chen, and Yang Peng
    "Cross-interface Scheduling Towards Energy-efficient Device-to-gateway Communications in IoT"
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7(3):2247-2262, 2020. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
30. Hua Qin, Weihong Chen, Buwen Cao, Jianxin He, and Yang Peng
    "BCS: Bidirectional Cross-Interface Scheduling for Sustainable End-to-End Data Delivery in IoT"
    IEEE Systems Journal, 13(4):4146-4157, 2019. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
29. Thy Vu, Chayanne Jaye Mediran, and Yang Peng
    "Measurement and Observation of Cross-Provider Cross-Region Latency for Cloud-based IoT Systems"
    In Proc. IEEE SERVICES 2019 (concise paper), Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
28. Ge Zheng and Yang Peng
    "GlobalFlow: A Cross-Region Orchestration Service for Serverless Computing Services"
    In Proc. IEEE CLOUD 2019, Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
27. Abirami Sankara Narayanan, Yang Peng, and Brent Lagesse
    "iService: A Cloud-based Scheduling Service for Efficient Usage of IoT Resources"
    In Proc. The Third International Workshop on Pervasive Smart Living Spaces (in conjunction with IEEE PerCom'19), Kyoto, Japan, March 11-15, 2019. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
26. Hua Qin, Weihong Chen, Buwen Cao, Min Zeng, Jessica Li, and Yang Peng
    "DIPS: Dual-interface Dual-pipeline Scheduling for Energy-efficient Multi-hop Communications in IoT"
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(1):718-733, 2019. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
25. Wei Xu and Yang Peng
    "SharaBLE: A Software Framework for Shared Usage of BLE Devices over the Internet"
    In Proc. International Workshop of Trends and Challenges in Social Internet of Things (in conjunction with IEEE PIMRC'18), Bologna, Italy, September 9-12, 2018. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
24. Galen Deal, Yang Peng, and Hua Qin
    "Budget-Transfer: A Low Cost Inter-Service Data Storage and Transfer Scheme"
    In Proc. IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress), San Francisco, CA, July 2-7, 2018. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
23. Hua Qin, Weihong Chen, Buwen Cao, Min Zeng, and Yang Peng
    "A Cross-interface Design for Energy-efficient and Delay-bounded Multi-hop Communications in IoT"
    Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, 70(2018):103-120, 2018. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
22. Deepika Pethaperumal, Yang Peng, and Hua Qin
    "Budget-Hub: A Low Cost IoT Hub Selection and Neighbor Assignment Scheme"
    In Proc. IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Singapore, February 5-8, 2018. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
21. Hua Qin, Yang Peng, and Wensheng Zhang
    "Vehicles on RFID: Error-Cognitive Vehicle Localization in GPS-less Environments"
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 66(11):9943-9957, 2017. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
20. Armin Haghi, Kyle Burney, Frank Skyler Kidd, Laura Valiente, and Yang Peng
    "Fast-paced Development of a Smart Campus IoT Platform"
    In Proc. IEEE Global IoT Summit (GIoTS-2017), Geneva, Switzerland, June 6-9, 2017. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
19. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "A Lifetime-Balancing MAC Protocol under the End-to-End Delay Requirement"
    KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), 19(1):51-64, 2017. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
18. Zi Li, Wensheng Zhang, Daji Qiao, and Yang Peng
    "Lifetime Balanced Data Aggregation for the Internet of Things"
    Elsevier Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, 58:244-264, 2017. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
17. Yang Peng, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "Charging and Routing Activity Scheduling to Prolong Sensor Network Lifetime"
    Invited Book Chapter, Wireless Power Transfer Algorithms, Technologies and Applications in Ad Hoc Communication Networks, pp:607-644, 2016. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
16. Qiumao Ma, Jinsheng Zhang, Yang Peng, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "SE-ORAM: A Storage-Efficient Oblivious RAM for Privacy-Preserving Access to Cloud Storage"
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud), Beijing, China, June 25-27, 2016. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
15. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "Dynamic Sensing Scheduling to Prolong Network Lifetime under Practical Requirements"
    In Proc. IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    

Before 2016

14. Mathew L. Wymore, Yang Peng, Xiaoyun Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "EDAD: Energy-Centric Data Collection with Anycast in Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks"
    In Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'15), New Orleans, LA, March 9-12, 2015. Best Paper Award [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
13. Zi Li, Yang Peng, Daji Qiao, and Wensheng Zhang
    "Joint Charging and Rate Allocation for Utility Maximization in Sustainable Sensor Networks"
    In Proc. IEEE SECON'14, Singapore, June 30-July 3, 2014. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
12. Zi Li, Yang Peng, Daji Qiao, and Wensheng Zhang
    "Joint Aggregation and MAC Design to Prolong Sensor Network Lifetime"
    In Proc. IEEE ICNP'13, Gottingen, Gernmany, October 7-11, 2013. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
11. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Daji Qiao, and Wensheng Zhang
    "I²C: A Holistic Approach to Prolong the Sensor Network Lifetime"
    In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'13, Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
10. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
    "LB-MAC: A Lifetime-Balanced MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks"
    In Proc. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms Systems and Applications (WASA'12), Yellow Mountains, China, August 8-10, 2012. [BibTeX] [PDF]
    
    
9. Zi Li, Yang Peng, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
   "LBA: Lifetime Balanced Data Aggregation in Low Duty Cycle Sensor Networks"
   In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'12, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
8. Zi Li, Yang Peng, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
   "J-RoC: A Joint Routing and Charging Scheme to Prolong Sensor Network Lifetime"
   In Proc. IEEE ICNP'11, Vancouver BC, Canada, October 17-20, 2011. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
7. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Daji Qiao, and Wensheng Zhang
   "Delay-Bounded MAC with Minimal Idle Listening for Sensor Networks"
   In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'11, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   Associated Technical Report, "Dealing with Time Asynchrony in CyMAC Design"
   
   
6. Yang Peng, Zi Li, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
   "Prolonging Sensor Network Lifetime through Wireless Charging"
   In Proc. IEEE RTSS'10, San Diego, CA, November 30-December 3, 2010. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
5. Zi Li, Yang Peng, Wensheng Zhang, and Daji Qiao
   "Study of Joint Routing and Wireless Charging Strategies in Sensor Networks"
   In Proc. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms Systems and Applications (WASA'10), Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
4. Mingsen Xu, Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang, Yang Peng, Behrooz Shirazi, Richard Lahusen, Aaron Kiely, Nina Peterson, Andy Ma, Lohith Anusuya-Rangappa, Michael Miceli, and Devin McBride
   "Design of Smart Sensing Components for Volcano Monitoring"
   Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 5(5): 639-653, 2009. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
3. Yang Peng, Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang, Mingsen Xu, Behrooz Shirazi, and Rick LaHusen
   "Cascades: A Reliable Dissemination Protocol for Data Collection Sensor Network"
   In Proc. IEEE Aerospace 2009, Big Sky, MT, March 7-14, 2009. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
2. Yang Peng, Wen-Zhan Song, Richard LaHusen, and Behrooz Shirazi
   "Design of Smart Sensing Component for Volcano Monitoring"
   In Proc. 2008 IET 4th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2008), Seattle, WA, July 21-22, 2008. [BibTeX] [PDF]
   
   
1. Fenghua Yuan, Wen-Zhan Song, Nina Peterson, Yang Peng, Lei Wang, Behrooz Shirazi, and Rick LaHusen
   "A Lightweight Sensor Network Management System Design"
   In Proc. The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (in conjunction with IEEE PerCom'08), Hong Kong, March 17-21, 2008. [BibTeX] [PDF]