Publications

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    • Thesis

    1. Xiaojun Lin, ``Simplification of Network Dynamics in Large Systems," Purdue University Doctoral Dissertation, August 2005 [pdf] .

    Book Chapter

    1. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``On the Fundamental Relationship Between the Achievable Capacity and Delay in Mobile Wireless Networks," in Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking, B. K. Szymanski and B. Yener (editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 [pdf] .

    Journal Papers - Published or Accepted

    1. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Towards Achieving the Maximum Capacity in Large Mobile Wireless Networks," in Journal of Communications and Networks, Special Issue on Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, vol. 6, no. 4, December 2004 [pdf] .

    2. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Simplification of Network Dynamics in Large Systems," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 4, pp813-826, August 2005 [pdf] .

    3. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``The Impact of Imperfect Scheduling on Cross-Layer Congestion Control in Wireless Networks,'' in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 2, pp302-315, April 2006 [pdf] .

    4. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Utility Maximization for Communication Networks with Multi-path Routing," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 51, no. 5, pp766-781, May 2006. [pdf] .

    5. Xiaojun Lin, Gaurav Sharma, Ravi R. Mazumdar and Ness B. Shroff, ``Degenerate Delay-Capacity Trade-offs in Ad Hoc Networks with Brownian Mobility," in the Joint Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking on Networking and Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 6, pp2777-2784, June 2006 [pdf] .

    6. Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff and R. Srikant ``A Tutorial on Cross-Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on ``Non-Linear Optimization of Communication Systems,'' vol. 24, no. 8, August 2006 [pdf] .

    7. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``An Optimization Based Approach for Quality-of-Service Routing in High-Bandwidth Networks," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 6, pp 1348 - 1361, December 2006 [pdf] .

    8. Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff and R. Srikant, ``On the Connection-Level Stability of Congestion-Controlled Communication Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 5, pp 2317-2338, May 2008 [pdf] .

    9. Xiaojun Lin and Shahzada Rasool, ``Constant-Time Distributed Scheduling Policies for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 2, pp 231-242, February 2009 [pdf] .

    10. C. Joo, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Understanding the Capacity Region of the Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 4, pp 1132-1145, August 2009 [pdf] .

    11. Abhinav Gupta, Xiaojun Lin and R. Srikant, ``Low-Complexity Distributed Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 6, pp 1846-1859, December 2009 [pdf] .

    12. Xiaojun Lin and Shahzada Rasool, ``Distributed and Provably-Efficient Algorithms for Joint Channel-Assignment, Scheduling and Routing in Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 6, pp1874-1887, December 2009 [pdf] .

    13. C. Joo, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Greedy Maximal Matching: Performance Limits for Arbitrary Network Graphs Under the Node-exclusive Interference Model,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 12, pp 2734-2744, December 2009 [pdf] .

    14. Longbi Lin, Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Low-Complexity and Distributed Energy Minimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 18, no. 2, pp 501-514, April 2010 [pdf] .

    15. J. Kim, X. Lin, N. Shroff and P. Sinha, ``Minimizing Delay and Maximizing Lifetime for Wireless Sensor Networks with Anycast,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 18, no. 2, pp 515-528, April 2010 [pdf] .

    16. V. J. Venkataramanan and X. Lin, ``On Wireless Scheduling Algorithms for Minimizing the Queue-Overflow Probability,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 788-801, June 2010 [pdf] .

    17. C. Zhao and X. Lin, ``On the Queue-Overflow Probabilities of Distributed Scheduling Algorithms,'' Computer Networks, vol. 55, no. 1, January 2011 [pdf] .

    18. J. Kim, X. Lin and N. Shroff, ``Optimal Anycast Technique for Delay-Sensitive Energy-Constrained Asynchronous Sensor Networks,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 19, no. 2, pp 484-497, April 2011 [pdf] .

    19. X. Li, C.-C. Wang and X. Lin, ``On the Capacity of Immediately Decodable Coding Schemes for Wireless Stored-video Broadcast with Hard Deadline Constraints,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Trading Rate for Delay at the Transport and Application Layer, vol. 29, no. 5, pp 1094-1105, May 2011 [pdf] .

    20. T. Lan, X. Lin, M. Chiang, R. Lee, ``Stability and Benefits of Suboptimal Utility Maximization,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1194-1207, August 2011 [pdf] .

    21. X. Wang, X. Lin, Q. Wang and W. Luan, ``Mobility Increases the Connectivity of Wireless Networks,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 2, pp440-454, April 2013 [pdf] .

    22. P.-K. Huang, X. Lin and C.-C. Wang, ``A Low-Complexity Congestion Control and Scheduling Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Networks with Order-Optimal Per-Flow Delay,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 2, pp495-508, April 2013 [pdf] .

    23. J. Koo, D. Shin, X. Lin and S. Bagchi, ``A Delay-Bounded Event-Monitoring and Adversary-Identification Protocol in Resource-Constraint Sensor Networks,'' Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 11, no.6, pp1820-1835, August 2013 [pdf] .

    24. V. J. Venkataramanan and X. Lin, ``On the Queue-Overflow Probability of Wireless Systems: A New Approach Combining Large Deviations with Lyapunov Functions,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 10, pp 6367-6392, October 2013 [pdf] .

    25. B. Ji, G. R. Gupta, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Low-Complexity Scheduling Policies for Achieving Throughput and Delay Optimality in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 22, no. 6, pp1922-1924, December 2014 [pdf] .

    26. J. Zhao, C. Wu, and X. Lin, ``Locality-Aware Streaming in Hybrid P2P-Cloud CDN Systems,'' Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 8 no. 2, pp 320-335, March 2015 [pdf] .

    27. P.-K. Huang and X. Lin, ``Achieving Optimal Throughput Utility and Low Delay with CSMA-like Algorithms: A Virtual Multi-Channel Approach,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 2, pp 505-518, April 2015 [pdf] .

    28. B. Ji, G. R. Gupta, M. Sharma, X. Lin, N. B. Shroff, ``Achieving Optimal Throughput and Near-Optimal Asymptotic Delay Performance in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Low Complexity: A Practical Greedy Scheduling Policy,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 3, pp 880-893, June 2015 [pdf] .

    29. C. Zhao, X. Lin and C. Wu, ``The Streaming Capacity of Sparsely-Connected P2P Systems with Distributed Control,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 1, pp 56-71, February 2016 [pdf] .

    30. S. Zhao and X. Lin, ``Design of Scheduling Algorithms for End-to-End Backlog Minimization in Wireless Multi-hop Networks under K-hop Interference Models,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 2, pp 1265-1278, April 2016. [pdf] .

    31. H. Wang, J. Huang, X. Lin and H. Mohsenian-Rad, ``Proactive Demand Response for Data Centers: A Win-Win Solution,'' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1584-1596, May 2016 [pdf] .

    32. C. Joo, X. Lin, J. Ryu and N. B. Shroff, ``Distributed Greedy Approximation to Maximum Weighted Independent Set for Scheduling with Fading Channels,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, no. 3, pp. 1476-1488, June 2016 [pdf] .

    33. H. Wu, X. Lin, X. Liu and Y. Zhang, ``Application-Level Scheduling with Deadline Constraints,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1504-1517, June 2016 [pdf] .

    34. H. Wu, X. Lin, X. Liu, K. Tan and Y. Zhang, ``CoSchd: Coordinated Scheduling with Channel- and Load-Awareness for Alleviating Cellular Congestion,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 2579-2592, Oct. 2016 [pdf] .

    35. C. Zhao, J. Zhao, X. Lin and C. Wu, ``Capacity of P2P On-Demand Streaming with Simple, Robust and Decentralized Control,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 2607-2620, Oct. 2016 [pdf] .

    36. X. Li, C.-C. Wang and X. Lin, ``Inter-Session Network Coding Schemes for Two Unicast Sessions with Sequential Hard Deadline Constraints,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 624-638, Feb. 2017 [pdf] .

    37. Shizhen Zhao, Xiaojun Lin and Minghua Chen, ``Robust Online Algorithms for Peak-Minimizing EV Charging under Multi-Stage Uncertainty,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 5739-5754, Nov. 2017 [pdf] .

    38. Jinbei Zhang, Xiaojun Lin and Xinbing Wang, ``Coded Caching under Arbitrary Popularity Distributions,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 349-366, November 2017 [pdf] .

    39. O. Dalkilic, A. Eryilmaz and X. Lin, ``Pricing for the Optimal Coordination of Opportunistic Agents,'' IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 833-845, September 2018 [pdf] .

    40. H. Yi, M. H. Hajiesmaili, Y. Zhang, M. Chen, and X. Lin, ``Impact of the Uncertainty of Distributed Renewable Generation on Deregulated Electricity Supply Chain," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6183-6193, November 2018 [pdf] .

    41. M. Shi, X. Lin and L. Jiao, ``On the Value of Look-Ahead in Competitive Online Convex Optimization,'' Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, vol. 3 no. 2, June 2019 [link] .

    42. Y. Zhang, L. Jiao, J. Yan and X. Lin, ``Dynamic Service Placement for Virtual Reality Group Gaming on Mobile Edge Cloudlets,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1881-1897, August 2019.

    43. D. Zhao, H. Wang, J. Huang and X Lin, ``Storage or No Storage: Duopoly Competition Between Renewable Energy Suppliers in a Local Energy Market,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 31-47, January 2020.

    44. D. Zhao, H. Wang, J. Huang and X Lin, ``Virtual Energy Storage Sharing and Capacity Allocation,'' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1112-1123, March 2020.

    45. S. Zhao, Y. Zou, X. Lin, D. Aliprantis, H. Villegas, M. Chen and A. Castillo, ``Leveraging Generators with Complementary Capabilities for Robust Multi-stage Power Grid Operations,'' IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 3, Sept. 2020 [IEEE] 

    46. W.-K. Hsu, J. Xu, X. Lin and M. R. Bell, ``Integrated Online Learning and Adaptive Control in Queueing Systems with Uncertain Payoffs,'' Operations Research, to appear [pdf]  [e-companion] .

      47. Journal Papers - Under Review/Revision

    47. Y. Zou, X. Lin, D. Aliprantis, and M. Chen, ``Virtual Generator-Storage Pairing for Robust Multi-Stage Power Grid Operations,'' submitted to IEEE Transactions of Control of Network Systems, 2020.

    48. M. Shi, X. Lin, and S. Fahmy, ``Competitive Online Convex Optimization with Switching Costs and Ramp Constraints,'' submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.

    Conference Papers

    1. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Pricing-Based Control of Large Networks," in Evolutionary Trends of the Internet, Proceedings of Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, IWDC 2001, Taormina, Italy, September 2001 [pdf] .

    2. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Simplification of Network Dynamics in Large Systems," in Tenth International Workshop on Quality of Service(IWQoS 2002), Miami Beach, Florida, May 2002 [pdf] .

    3. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``The Multi-path Utility Maximization Problem," in 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2003 [pdf] .

    4. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``An Optimization Based Approach for Quality of Service Routing in High-Bandwidth Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, March 2004 [pdf] .

    5. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``The Fundamental Capacity-Delay Tradeoff in Large Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," in Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Bodrum, Turkey, June 27-30, 2004 [pdf] .

    6. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``On the Stability Region of Congestion Control," in 42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2004 [pdf] .

    7. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Joint Rate Control and Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Networks," in 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004 [pdf] .

    8. Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``The Impact of Imperfect Scheduling on Cross-Layer Rate Control in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005 [pdf] .

    9. Rongmei Zhang, Chunqiang Tang, Y. Charlie Hu, Sonia Fahmy and Xiaojun Lin, ``Impact of the Inaccuracy of Distance Prediction Algorithms on Internet Applications: an Analytical and Comparative Study,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [pdf] .

    10. Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Xiaojun Lin and Sonia Fahmy, ``A Hierarchical Approach to Internet Distance Prediction,'' in IEEE ICDCS, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006. [pdf] .

    11. Xiaojun Lin, ``On Characterizing the Delay Performance of Wireless Scheduling Algorithms," in 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2006 [pdf] .

    12. Xiaojun Lin and Shahzada Rasool, ``Constant-Time Distributed Scheduling Policies for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,'' in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 2006 [pdf] .

    13. Joohwan Kim, Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Locally-Optimized Scheduling and Power Control Algorithms for Multi-hop Networks under SINR Interference Models," in WiOpt, Limassol, Cyprus, April 2007 [pdf] .

    14. Abhinav Gupta, Xiaojun Lin and R. Srikant, ``Low-Complexity Distributed Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks," in IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [pdf] .

    15. Longbi Lin, Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``Low-Complexity and Distributed Energy Minimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [pdf] .

    16. Xiaojun Lin and Shahzada Rasool, ``A Distributed Joint Channel-Assignment, Scheduling and Routing Algorithm for Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," in IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [pdf] .

    17. V. J. Venkataramanan and X. Lin, ``Structural Properties of LDP for Queue-Length Based Wireless Scheduling Algorithms,'' in 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2007 [pdf] .

    18. C. Joo, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Performance Limits of Greedy Maximal Matching in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,'' in IEEE CDC, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2007 [pdf] .

    19. C. Joo, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Understanding the Capacity Region of the Greedy Maximal Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008 [pdf] .

    20. T. Lan, X. Lin, M. Chiang and R. Lee, ``How Bad Is Suboptimal Rate Allocation?'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008 [pdf] .

    21. J. Kim, X. Lin, N. Shroff and P. Sinha, ``On Maximizing the Lifetime of Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks with Anycast,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008 [pdf] .

    22. J. Kim, X. Lin, and N. B. Shroff, ``Optimal Anycast Technique for Delay-Sensitive Energy-Constrained Asynchronous Sensor Networks,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 [pdf] .

    23. C.-C. Wang and X. Lin, ``Fast Resource Allocation for Network-Coded Traffic: A Coded-Feedback Approach,'' in IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 [pdf] .

    24. Q.Wang, X.Wang and X. Lin, ``Mobility Increases the Connectivity of K-hop Clustered Wireless Networks,'' in ACM MobiCom, Beijing, China, September 2009. [pdf] .

    25. X. Lin and V. J. Venkataramanan, ``On the Large-Deviations Optimality of Scheduling Policies Minimizing the Drift of a Lyapunov Function,'' in 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2009. [pdf] .

    26. C. Zhao and X. Lin, ``On the Queue-Overflow Probabilities of Distributed Scheduling Algorithms,'' in IEEE CDC, Shanghai, China, December 2009 [pdf] .

    27. V. J. Venkataramanan, X. Lin, L. Ying and S. Shakkottai, ``On Scheduling for Minimizing End-to-end Buffer Usage Over Multihop Wireless Networks,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, March 2010 [pdf] .

    28. X. Li, C.-C. Wang, X. Lin, ``Throughput and Delay Analysis on Uncoded and Coded Wireless Broadcast with Hard Deadline Constraints,'' in IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2010 [pdf] .

    29. Manu Sharma and Xiaojun Lin, ``OFDM Downlink Scheduling for Delay-Optimality: Many-Channel Many-Source Asymptotics with General Arrival Processes,'' in 2011 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, UC San Diego, CA, February 2011 [pdf] .

    30. V. J. Venkataramanan and Xiaojun Lin, ``Low-Complexity Scheduling Algorithm for Sum-Queue Minimization in Wireless Convergecast,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011 [pdf] .

    31. Po-Kai Huang, Xiaojun Lin and Chih-Chun Wang, ``A Low-Complexity Congestion Control and Scheduling Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Networks with Order-Optimal Per-Flow Delay,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011 [pdf] .

    32. Can Zhao, Xiaojun Lin and Chuan Wu ``The Streaming Capacity of Sparsely-Connected P2P Systems with Distributed Control,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April 2011 [pdf] .

    33. S. Zhao and X. Lin, ``On the Design of Scheduling Algorithms for End-to-End Backlog Minimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Orlando, FL, March 2012. [pdf] .

    34. X. Chen, W. Huang, X. Wang and X. Liu, ``Multicast Capacity in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Network with Infrastructure Support,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Orlando, FL, March 2012. [pdf] .

    35. J. Koo, D. Shin, X. Lin and S. Bagchi, ``PRIVATUS: Wallet-Friendly Privacy Protection for Smart Meters,'' in 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Pisa, Italy, September 2012. [pdf] .

    36. P.-K. Huang and X. Lin, ``Improving the Delay Performance of CSMA Algorithms: A Virtual Multi-Channel Approach,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, April 2013. [pdf] .

    37. C. Zhao, J. Zhao, X. Lin and C. Wu, ``Capacity of P2P On-Demand Streaming with Simple, Robust and Decentralized Control,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, April 2013. [pdf] .

    38. B. Ji, G. Gupta, X. Lin, N. B. Shroff, ``Performance of Low-Complexity Greedy Scheduling Policies in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Optimal Throughput and Near-Optimal Delay,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, April 2013. [pdf] .

    39. X. Li, X. Tang, C.-C. Wang and X. Lin, ``Gibbs-Sampling-Based Optimization for the Deployment of Small Cells in 3G Heterogeneous Networks,'' in 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May, 2013. [pdf] .

    40. L. Lu, J. Tu, C.-K. Chau, M. Chen and X. Lin, ``Online Energy Generation Scheduling for Microgrids with Intermittent Energy Sources and Co-Generation,'' in ACM SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2013. [pdf] .

    41. H. Wang, J. Huang, X. Lin and H. Mohsenian-Rad, ``Exploring Smart Grid and Data Center Interactions for Electrical Power Load Balancing,''in Greenmetrics workshop, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2013. [pdf] .

    42. C. Joo, X. Lin, J. Ryu and N. B. Shroff, ``Distributed Greedy Approximation to Maximum Weighted Independent Set for Scheduling with Fading Channels,'' in ACM MobiHoc, Bangalore, India, August 2013. [pdf] .

    43. S. Zhao, X. Lin, and M. Chen, ``Peak-Minimizing Online EV Charging,'' in 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 2013.
      44. [pdf] .

    44. O. Dalkilic, A. Eryilmaz, and X. Lin, ``Stable Real-time Pricing and Scheduling for Serving Opportunistic Users with Deferrable Loads,'' in 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 2013.
      45. [pdf] .

    45. P.-K. Huang, X. Lin, N. B. Shroff, and D. J. Love, ``Fast Multi-Channel Gibbs- Sampling for Low-Overhead Distributed Resource Allocation in OFDMA Cellular Networks,'' in 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, 2013 [pdf] .

    46. H. Wu, X. Lin, X. Liu, K. Tan and Y. Zhang, ``Decomposition of Large-Scale MDPs for Wireless Scheduling with Load- and Channel-Awareness,'' in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California at San Diego, CA, February 2014.
      47. [pdf] .

    47. H. Wu, X. Lin, X. Liu and Y. Zhang, ``Application-Level Scheduling with Deadline Constraints,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.
      48. [pdf] .

    48. S. Zhao and X. Lin, ``Rate-Control and Multi-Channel Scheduling for Wireless Live Streaming with Stringent Deadlines,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014. [pdf] .

    49. O. Dalkilic, A. Eryilmaz and X. Lin, ``Randomized Pricing for the Optimal Coordination of Opportunistic Agents,'' in 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 2014. [pdf] .

    50. Jinbei Zhang, Xiaojun Lin and Xinbing Wang, ``Coded Caching under Arbitrary Popularity Distributions,'' in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, University of California at San Diego, CA, February 2015. [pdf] (slightly revised version) .

    51. S. Zhao, X. Lin and M. Chen, ``Peak-Minimizing Online EV Charging: Price-of-Uncertainty and Algorithm Robustification,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, China, April 2015. [pdf] .

    52. J. Zhang, X. Lin, C.-C. Wang, and X. Wang, ``Coded Caching for Files with Distinct File Sizes,'' in IEEE ISIT, Hong Kong, China, June 2015 [pdf] .

    53. W.-K. Hsu, M. Bell and X. Lin, ``Carrier Allocation in Mobile Bacteria Networks,'' in 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2015 [pdf] .

    54. S. Zhao, X. Lin, D. Aliprantis, H. Villegas and M. Chen, ``Online Multi-stage Decisions for Robust Power-Grid Operations under High Renewable Uncertainty,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, April 2016 [pdf] .

    55. D. Zhao, H. Wang, J. Huang and X. Lin, ``Pricing-based Energy Storage Sharing and Virtual Capacity Allocation,'' in IEEE ICC, Paris, France, May 2017 [pdf] .

    56. J. Koo, X. Lin and S. Bagchi, ``RL-BLH: Learning-Based Battery Control for Cost Savings and Privacy Preservation for Smart Meters,'' in 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Denver, Colorado, June 2017 [pdf] .

    57. W.-K. Hsu, X. Lin and M. Bell, ``Deep-Target Delivery of Nanosensors with Bacteria-Inspired Coordination,'' in IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, December 2017 [pdf] .

    58. W.-K. Hsu, J. Xu, X. Lin, M. R. Bell, ``Integrating Online Learning and Adaptive Control in Queueing Systems with Uncertain Payoffs,'' in 2018 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, UC San Diego, CA, February 2018 [pdf] .

    59. Y. Zou, X. Lin, D. Aliprantis, and M. Chen, ``Multi-stage Power Grid Operations with Energy Storage,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, HI, April 2018 [pdf] .

    60. M. Shi, X. Lin, S. Fahmy, D.-H. Shin, ``Competitive Online Convex Optimization with Switching Costs and Ramp Constraints," in IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, HI, April 2018 [pdf] .

    61. Peizhong Ju and Xiaojun Lin, ``Adversarial Attacks to Distributed Voltage Control in Power Distribution Networks with DERs,'' in ACM e-Energy, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2018 [pdf] .

    62. L. Jiao, L. Pu, L. Wang, X. Lin, and J. Li, ``Multiple Granularity Online Control of Cloudlet Networks for Edge Computing,'' in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), Hong Kong, China, June 2018 (9 pages).

    63. D. Zhao, H. Wang, J. Huang and X. Lin, ``Controllable vs. Random: Renewable Generation Competition in a Local Energy Market,'' in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019.

    64. A. Jajoo, Y. C. Hu and X. Lin, ``Your coflow has many flows: sampling them for fun and speed,'' in USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Renton, WA, June 2019 (15 pages).

    65. M. Shi, X. Lin and L. Jiao, ``On the Value of Look-Ahead in Competitive Online Convex Optimization,'' in ACM SIGMETRICS, Phoenix, AZ, June 2019 [link] .

    66. L. Jiao, R. Zhou, X. Lin and X. Chen, ``Online Scheduling of Traffic Diversion and Cloud Scrubbing with Uncertainty in Current Inputs,'' in ACM MobiHoc, Catania, Italy, July 2019 (10 pages).

    67. Q. Lin, W. Xu, M. Chen and X. Lin, ``A Probabilistic Approach for Demand-Aware Ride-Sharing Optimization,'' in ACM MobiHoc, Catania, Italy, July 2019 (10 pages).

    68. X. Liu, L. Fu, B. Jiang, X. Lin and X. Wang, ``Poster: Information Source Detection with Limited Time Knowledge,'' in ACM MobiHoc, Catania, Italy, July 2019 (2 pages).

    69. J. Zhang, X. Lin and C.-C. Wang, ``Closing the Gap for Coded Caching with Distinct File Sizes,'' in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, July 2019.

    70. Y. Zou, K. T. Kim, X. Lin, M. Chiang, Z. Ding, R. Wichman and J. Hamalainen, ``Low overhead Multi-antenna-enabled Random Access for Machine-type Communications with Low Mobility,'' in IEEE GLOBECOM, Waikoloa, HI, December 2019 (6 pages).

    71. Yihan Zou, Kwang Taik Kim, Xiaojun Lin, Mung Chiang, Zhi Ding, Risto Wichman and Jyri Hamalainen, ``Low-Overhead Joint Beam-Selection and Random-Access Schemes for Massive Internet-of-Things with Non-Uniform Channel and Load,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, July 2020 [pdf] .

    72. B. Miao, S. Wang, L. Fu, and X. Lin, ``De-anonymizability of social network: through the lens of symmetry,'' in ACM MobiHoc, October 2020.

    73. Dongwei Zhao, Hao Wang, Jianwei Huang, and Xiaojun Lin, ``Contract-based Time-of-use Pricing for Energy Storage Investment,'' in IEEE SmartGridComm, November 2020.

    74. P. Ju, X. Lin and J. Liu, ``Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree,'' in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2020 [arxiv] .

    75. M. Shi, X. Lin and L. Jiao, ``Combining Regularization with Look-Ahead for Competitive Online Convex Optimization,'' in IEEE INFOCOM, May 2021 [pdf] .

    76. Guanzhe Hong, Zhiyuan Mao, Xiaojun Lin and Stanley Chan, ``Student-Teacher Learning from Clean Inputs to Noisy Inputs,'' in CVPR, June 2021 [pdf].

    77. Liren Yu, Jiaming Xu and Xiaojun Lin, ``The Power of D-hops in Matching Power-Law Graphs,'' in ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2021 [arxiv] .

    78. Yihan Zou, Kwang Taik Kim, Xiaojun Lin, and Mung Chiang, ``Minimizing Age-of-Information in Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Systems: A New Partial-Index Approach,'' in ACM MobiHoc, July 2021. (ACM MobiHoc 2021 Best Paper Award) [pdf] .

    79. Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``On the Generalization Power of Overfitted Two-Layer Neural Tangent Kernel Models,'' in ICML, July 2021 [arxiv] .

    80. Akshay Jajoo, Y. Charlie Hu, Xiaojun Lin and Nan Deng, ``A Case for Task Sampling based Learning for Cluster Job Scheduling,'' in NSDI, to appear.

    81. Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin and Jianwei Huang, ``Distribution Level Markets under High Renewable Energy Penetration,'' in ACM e-Energy, June 2022 (ACM e-Energy 2022 Best Paper Award) [pdf] .

    82. Siyuan Xu, Liren Yu, Xiaojun Lin, Jin Dong and Yaosuo Xue, ``Online distributed price-based control of DR resources with competitive guarantees,'' in ACM e-Energy, June 2022 [pdf] .

    83. Ming Shi, Xiaojun Lin and Lei Jiao, ``Power-of-2-Arms for Bandit Learning With Switching Costs,'' in ACM MobiHoc, Seoul, Korea, October 2022 [pdf] .

    84. Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin and Ness B. Shroff, ``On the Generalization Power of the Overfitted Three-Layer Neural Tangent Kernel Model,'' in NeurIPS 2022, December 2022 [arxiv] .

    85. Fei Wang, Lei Jiao, Konglin Zhu, Xiaojun Lin, and Lei Li, ``Toward Sustainable AI: Federated Learning Demand Response in Cloud-Edge Systems via Auctions,'' in IEEE INFOCOM 2023, May 2023 [pdf] .

    86. Liren Yu, Jiaming Xu and Xiaojun Lin, ``SeedGNN: graph neural network for supervised seeded graph matching,'' in ICML 2023, July 2023 [pdf] .

    87. Jiayi Meng, Jingqi Huang, Y Charlie Hu, Yaron Koral, Xiaojun Lin, Muhammad Shahbaz and Abhigyan Sharma, ``Modeling and Generating Control-Plane Traffic for Cellular Networks,'' in IMC 2023, October 2023 [pdf] .

    88. Sixiang Zhou and Xiaojun Lin, ``An Easier-to-Verify Sufficient Condition for Whittle Indexability and Application to AoI Minimization,'' in IEEE INFOCOM 2024, to appear [pdf] .

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