Recent Work :

1.  W. Liu, L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Joint Laser Charging and DBS Placement for Downlink Communications,” IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering, in review, Aug. 2020.

2. L. Zhang and J. Chakareski, “UAV-Assisted Edge Computing and Streaming for Wireless Virtual Reality,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in review, Mar. 2021.

　

Journal Articles (Published or Accepted)

15.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Optimizing the Operation Cost for UAV-aided Mobile Edge Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  early access, Apr. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3076980

14.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Latency-aware Service Provisioning in UAV Mobile Edge Computing,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal,  vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 10573-10580, Oct. 2020.

13.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Optimizing the Deployment and Throughput of DBSs for Uplink Communications,”  IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, vol. 1, pp. 18-28, Jan. 2020.

12.  N. Ansari, Q. Fan, X. Sun and L. Zhang, “SoarNet,” in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 37-43, Dec. 2019.

11.  N. Ansari and L. Zhang, “Flexible Backhaul-aware DBS-aided HetNet with IBFD Communications (invited paper),” ICT Express, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2019.08.003.

10.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari,  “Approximate Algorithms for 3-D Placement of IBFD Enabled Drone-mounted Base-Stations,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 7715-7722, Jun. 2019.

9.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “A Framework for 5G Networks with In-band Full-duplex Enabled Drone-mounted Base-stations,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 121-127, Oct. 2019.

8.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “On the Number and 3-D Placement of In-Band Full-Duplex Enabled Drone-mounted Base-stations,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 221-224, Feb. 2019.

7.  L. Zhang, Q. Fan and N. Ansari, “3-D Drone-Base-Station Placement with In-Band Full-Duplex Communications,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1902-1905, Sept. 2018.

6.  L. Zhang, T. Han and N. Ansari, “Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Management in Inter-Datacenter Networks Over Elastic Optical Infrastructure,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 305-315, Mar. 2018.

5.  L. Zhang, N. Ansari and A. Khreishah, “Anycast Planning in Space Division Multiplexing Elastic Optical Networks With Multi-Core Fibers,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1983-1986, Oct. 2016.

4.  P. Lu, L. Zhang, X. Liu, J. Yao and Z. Zhu, “Highly efficient data migration and backup for big data applications in elastic optical inter-data-center networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 36-42, Sept. 2015.

3.  L. Zhang and Z. Zhu, “Spectrum-Efficient Anycast in Elastic Optical Inter-Datacenter Networks,” Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 250-259, Aug. 2014.

2.  Z. Zhu, W. Lu, L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Dynamic Service Provisioning in Elastic Optical Networks with Hybrid Single-/Multi-Path Routing,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 15-22, Jan. 2013.

1.  Z. Zhu, X. Chen, F. Ji, L. Zhang, F. Farahmand and J. P. Jue, “Energy Efficient Translucent Optical Transport Networks With Mixed Regenerator Placement,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 30, no. 19, pp. 3147-3156, Oct. 2012.

　

Conference Papers

10.  L. Zhang and N. Ansari, “Backhaul-aware Uplink Communications in Full-Duplex DBS-aided HetNet,” Proc. 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2019.

9.  L. Zhang, Y. Luo, N. Ansari, B. Gao, X. Liu and F. Effenberger, “Enhancing Next Generation Passive Optical Network Stage2 (NG-PON2) with Channel Bonding,” International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, pp. 1-6, Aug. 2017.

8. L. Zhang, Y. Luo, N. Ansari, B. Gao, X. Liu and F. Effenberger, “Channel bonding for Next Generation Passive Optical Network Stage 2 (NG-PON2),” International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), pp. 103-107, Jul. 2017.

7.  Y. Luo, L. Zhang, N. Ansari, B. Gao, X. Liu and F. Effenberger, “Wavelength channel bonding for 100 Gb/s next generation Passive Optical Networks,” Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC), pp. 1-6, Apr. 2017.

6.  L. Zhang, Y. Luo, B. Gao, X. Liu, F. Effenberger and N. Ansari, “Channel bonding design for 100 Gb/s PON based on FEC codeword alignment,” Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), pp. 1-3, Mar. 2017.

5.  L. Zhang, T. Han and N. Ansari, “Revenue Driven Virtual Machine Management in Green Datacenter Networks Towards Big Data,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2016 (NSF Travel Grant).

4. L. Zhang, T. Han and N. Ansari, “Renewable Energy-Aware Inter-Datacenter Virtual Machine Migration over Elastic Optical Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), pp. 440-443, Dec. 2015.

3.  X. Liu, L. Zhang, M. Zhang and Z. Zhu, “Joint defragmentation of spectrum and computing resources in inter-datacenter networks over elastic optical infrastructure,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 3289-3294, Jun. 2014.

2.  L. Zhang and Z. Zhu, “Dynamic Anycast in Inter-Datacenter Networks over Elastic Optical Infrastructure,” International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 1-5, Feb. 2014 (Best Paper Award).

1.  L. Zhang, W. Lu, X. Zhou and Z. Zhu, “Dynamic RMSA in spectrum sliced elastic optical networks for high-throughput service provisioning,” International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 380-384, Jan. 2013.

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