Selected Journal and Magazine Publication

RetroV2X: A New V2X Paradigm with Visible Light Backscatter Networking
Chenren Xu, Kenuo Xu, Lilei Feng, Bo Liang
Fundamental Research, 2023.
FM’23
VLID: Visible Light Backscatter System for Battery-free Internet-of-Things
Chenren Xu, Purui Wang, Tuochao Chen, Yue Wu, Kenuo Xu, Xieyang Xu, Yang Shen, Junrui Yang, Guojun Chen, Guobin Shen
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023.
ToN’23
The Case for FPGA-based Edge Computing
Chenren Xu, Shuang Jiang, Guojie Luo, Guangyu Sun, Ning An, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.
TMC’22
RetroFlex: Enabling Intuitive Human–robot Collaboration with Flexible Retroreflective Tags
Wei Li, Tuochao Chen, Zhe Ou, Xin Wen, Zichen Xu, Chenren Xu
CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 2022.
TPCI’22
Systematic Analysis of Fine-Grained Mobility Prediction With On-Device Contextual Data
Huoran Li, Fuqi Lin, Xuan Lu, Chenren Xu, Gang Huang, Jun Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei, Xuanzhe Liu
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.
TMC’22
A First Look at Disconnection-centric TCP Performance on High-speed Railways
Chenren Xu, Jing Wang, Zhiyao Ma, Yihua Cheng, Yunzhe Ni, Wangyang Li, Feng Qian, Yuanjie Li
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2020.
JSAC’20
迈向极限无线互联之路 (Towards Extreme Wireless Networking)
许辰人 (Chenren Xu)
中国计算机学会通讯 (Communications of the CCF), 2019. Invited Article.
CCCF’19
Open-source Software and Hardware Platforms for Building Backscatter Systems
Chenren Xu, Pengyu Zhang
ACM GetMobile, 2019. Cover Article.
GetMobile’19
Practical Backscatter Communication Systems for Battery-Free Internet of Things
Chenren Xu, Lei Yang, Pengyu Zhang
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018. Featured Article.
SPM’18
Device-free WiFi Human Sensing: From Pattern-based to Model-based Approaches
Dan Wu, Daqing Zhang, Chenren Xu, Hao Wang, Xiang Li
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017
ComMag’17
What Am I Looking At? Low-Power Radio-Optical Beacons for In-View Recognition Using Smart Glasses
Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Tam Vu, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard, Yanyong Zhang, Narayan Mandayam, Wenjia Yuan, Kristin Dana
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2016. Featured Article.
TMC’16a
The Case for Efficient and Robust RF-based Device-free Localization
Chenren Xu, Bernhard Firner, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2016
TMC’16b

Selected Conference Publication

A General and Efficient Approach to Verifying Traffic Load Properties under Arbitrary 𝑘 Failures
Ruihan Li, Yifei Yuan, Fangdan Ye, Mengqi Liu, Ruizhen Yang, Yang Yu, Tianchen Guo, Qing Ma, Xianlong Zeng, Chenren Xu, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication, Sydney, Austrilia, August 2024
SIGCOMM’24
SMUFF: Towards Line Rate Wi-Fi Direct Transport with Orchestrated On-device Buffer Management
Chengke Wang, Hao Wang, Yuhan Zhou, Yunzhe Ni, Feng Qian, Chenren Xu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 2024
NSDI’24a
AUGUR: Practical Mobile Multipath Transport Service for Low Tail Latency in Real-Time Streaming
Yuhan Zhou, Tingfeng Wang, Liying Wang, Nian Wen, Rui Han, Jing Wang, Chenglei Wu, Jiafeng Chen, Longwei Jiang, Shibo Wang, Honghao Liu, Chenren Xu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 2024
NSDI’24b
Reasoning about Network Traffic Load Property at Production Scale
Ruihan Li, Fangdan Ye, Ruizhen Yang, Bingchuan Tian, Tianchen Guo, Hao Wu, Xiaobo Zhu, Zhongyu Guan, Qing Ma, Xianlong Zeng, Chenren Xu, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 2024
NSDI’24c
Pudica: Toward Near-Zero Queuing Delay in Congestion Control for Cloud Gaming
Shibo Wang, Shusen Yang, Xiao Kong, Chenglei Wu, Longwei Jiang, Chenren Xu, Cong Zhao, Xuesong Yang, Jianjun Xiao, Xin Liu, Changxi Zheng, Jing Wang, Honghao Liu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, April 2024
NSDI’24d
BLEselect: Gestural IoT Device Selection via Bluetooth Angle of Arrival Estimation from Smart Glasses
Tengxiang Zhang, Zitong Lan, Chenren Xu, Yanrong Li, Yiqiang Chen
ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cancún, Mexico, October 2023
UbiComp’23
Experience: A Three-Year Retrospective of Large-scale Multipath Transport Deployment for Mobile Applications
Chengke Wang, Hao Wang, Feng Qian, Kai Zheng, Chenglu Wang, Fangzhu Mao, Xingmin Guo, Chenren Xu
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
MobiCom’23a
RF-SIFTER: Sifting Signals at Layer-0.5 to Mitigate Wideband Cross-Technology Interference for IoT
Xiong Wang, Jun Huang, Bizhao Shi, Zhe Ou, Guojie Luo, Linghe Kong, Daqing Zhang, Chenren Xu
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
MobiCom’23b
X-Plane: A High-Throughput Large-Capacity 5G UPF
Yunzhuo Liu, Hao Nie, Hui Cai, Bo Jiang, Pengyu Zhang, Yirui Liu, Yidong Yao, Xionglie Wei, Biao Lv , Chenren Xu, Shunmin Zhu, Xinbing Wang
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Madrid, Spain, October 2023
MobiCom’23c
CellFusion: Multipath Vehicle-to-Cloud Video Streaming with Network Coding in the Wild
Yunzhe Ni, Zhilong Zheng, Xianshang Lin, Fengyu Gao, Xuan Zeng, Yirui Liu, Tao Xu, Hua Wang, Zhidong Zhang, Senlang Du, Guang Yang, Yuanchao Su, Dennis Cai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Chenren Xu, Ennan Zhai, Yunfei Ma
ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication, New York City, USA, September 2023
SIGCOMM’23
DF-Sense: Multi-user Acoustic Sensing for Heartbeat Monitoring with Dualforming
Lei Wang, Tao Gu, Wei Li, Haipeng Dai, Yong Zhang, Dongxiao Yu, Chenren Xu, Daqing Zhang
ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Helsinki, Finland, June 2023
MobiSys’23
POLYCORN: Data-driven Cross-layer Multipath Networking for High-speed Railway through Composable Schedulerlets
Yunzhe Ni, Feng Qian, Taide Liu, Yihua Cheng, Zhiyao Ma, Jing Wang, Zhongfeng Wang, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu, Chenren Xu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, USA, April 2023
NSDI’23a
RF-CHORD: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistics Network
Bo Liang, Purui Wang, Renjie Zhao, Heyu Guo, Pengyu Zhang, Junchen Guo, Shunming Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Chenren Xu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, USA, April 2023
NSDI’23b
When Visible Light (Backscatter) Communication Meets Neuromorphic Cameras in V2X
Kenuo Xu, Kexing Zhou, Chengxuan Zhu, Shanghang Zhang, Boxin Shi, Xiaoqiang Li, Tiejun Huang, Chenren Xu
ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Newport Beach, CA, USA, February 2023
HotMobile’23
Low-Latency Visible Light Backscatter Networking with RetroMUMIMO
Kenuo Xu, Chen Gong, Bo Liang, Yue Wu, Boya Di, Lingyang Song, Chenren Xu
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boston, MA USA, November 2022
SenSys’22
SalientVR: Saliency-driven Mobile 360-degree Video Streaming with Gaze Information
Shibo Wang, Shusen Yang, Hailiang Li, Xiaodan Zhang, Chen Zhou, Chenren Xu, Feng Qian, Nanbin Wang, Zongben Xu
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, October 2022
MobiCom’22
LoEar: Push the Range Limit of Acoustic Sensing for Vital Sign Monitoring
Lei Wang, Wei Li, Ke Sun, Fusang Zhang, Tao Gu, Chenren Xu, Daqing Zhang
ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Atlanta, USA and Cambridge, UK, September 2022
UbiComp’22
The First 5G-LTE Comparative Study in Extreme Mobility
Yueyang Pan, Ruihan Li, Chenren Xu
ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, June 2022
SIGMETRICS’22
FIRE: Enabling Reciprocity for FDD MIMO Systems
Zikun Liu, Gagandeep Singh, Chenren Xu, Deepak Vasisht
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, New Orleans, USA, February 2022
MobiCom’21
Watching Your Phone's Back: Gesture Recognition by Sensing Acoustical Structure-borne Propagation
Lei Wang, Xiang Zhang, Yuanshuang Jiang, Yong Zhang, Chenren Xu, Ruiyang Gao, Daqing Zhang
ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Virtual, September 2021
UbiComp’21
SLoRa: Towards Secure LoRa Communications with Fine-grained Physical Layer Features
Xiong Wang, Linghe Kong, Zucheng Wu, Long Cheng, Chenren Xu, Guihai Chen
ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Yokohama (Virtual), Japan, November 2020
SenSys’20
Renovating Road Signs for Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Networking: A Visible Light Backscatter Communication and Networking Approach
Purui Wang, Lilei Feng, Guojun Chen, Chenren Xu, Yue Wu, Kenuo Xu, Guobin Shen, Kuntai Du, Gang Huang, Xuanzhe Liu
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, London (Virtual), UK, September 2020
MobiCom’20
Turboboosting Visible Light Backscatter Communication
Yue Wu, Purui Wang, Kenuo Xu, Lilei Feng, Chenren Xu
ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication, New York City (Virtual), USA, August 2020
SIGCOMM’20a
NFC+: Breaking NFC Networking Limits through Resonance Engineering
Renjie Zhao, Purui Wang, Xianshang Lin, Yunfei Ma, Pengyu Zhang, Hongqiang Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Chenren Xu, Ming Zhang
ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication, New York City (Virtual), USA, August 2020
SIGCOMM’20b
SCYLLA: QoE-aware Continuous Mobile Vision with FPGA-based Dynamic Deep Neural Network Reconfiguration
Shuang Jiang, Zhiyao Ma, Xiao Zeng, Chenren Xu, Mi Zhang, Chen Zhang, Yunxin Liu
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Toronto (Virtual), Canada, July 2020
INFOCOM’20
An Active-Passive Measurement Study of TCP Performance over LTE on High-speed Rails [Dataset]
Jing Wang, Yufan Zheng, Yunzhe Ni, Chenren Xu, Feng Qian, Wangyang Li, Wantong Jiang, Yihua Cheng, Zhuo Cheng, Yuanjie Li, Xiufeng Xie, Yi Sun, Zhongfeng Wang
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019
MobiCom’19a
Occlumency: Privacy-preserving Remote Deep-learning Inference Using SGX
Taegyeong Lee, Zhiqi Lin, Saumay Pushp, Caihua Li, Yunxin Liu, Youngki Lee, Fengyuan Xu, Chenren Xu, Junehwa Song, Lintao Zhang
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019
MobiCom’19b
SoftStage: Content Staging for Vehicular Content Delivery in the eXpressive Internet Architecture
Jing Wang, Chenren Xu, Xiuming Wang, Wangyang Li, Zhenyi Li, Shuang Jiang, Peter Steenkiste
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing System, Dallas, Texas, USA, July 2019
ICDCS’19
Accelerating Mobile Applications at the Network Edge with Software-Programmable FPGAs
Shuang Jiang, Dong He, Chenxi Yang, Chenren Xu, Guojie Luo, Yang Chen, Yunlu Liu, Jiangwei Jiang
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2018
INFOCOM’18
Monitoring a Person’s Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate on a Shared Bed Using Geophones
Zhenhua Jia, Amelie Bonde, Sugang Li, Chenren Xu, Jingxian Wang, Yanyong Zhang, Richard Howard, Pei Zhang
ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, November 2017
SenSys’17
PassiveVLC: Enabling Practical Visible Light Backscatter Communication for Battery-free IoT Applications
Xieyang Xu, Yang Shen, Junrui Yang, Chenren Xu, Guobin Shen, Guojun Chen, Yunzhe Ni
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 2017
MobiCom’17
WiDir: Walking Direction Estimation Using Wireless Signals
Dan Wu, Daqing Zhang, Chenren Xu, Yasha Wang, Hao Wang
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2016
UbiComp’16
Handling a trillion (unfixable) flaws on a billion devices: Rethinking network security for the Internet-of-Things
Tianlong Yu, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Chenren Xu
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 2015
HotNets’15
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