DuongLab - Publications

Working journal papers (under revision/review)

Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Su Wang, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedich, H Vincent Poor, "Decentralized Federated Learning with Gradient Tracking over Time-Varying Directed Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, revised.
Arash Bharvandi and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Scenario-Free Uncertainty-Aware DLMP-Based Bilevel Coordination of EV Charging and Reactive Power Support in Distribution Networks", IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, revised.
Jiaming Cheng and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Scalable Joint Resource Allocation for SLO-Constrained LLM Inference in Heterogeneous GPU Clouds", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, revised.
Jiaming Cheng and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Distributionally Robust Joint Chance-Constrained Optimization for Sustainable AI Data Centers with Carbon and Water Footprint Management", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, revised.
Jiaming Cheng and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Green-LLM: Environmentally Aware Workload Allocation for Distributed Inference", submitted
Duong Do and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Quantum-assisted Benders' Decomposition for Optimal Service Placement in Edge Computing", submitted.
Duong Do, Srikanth Thudumu, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, and Duong Tung Nguyen, "NQ-SVM: Scalable Quantum Kernel Learning via Nyström-Based Support Vector Machines", submitted.
Duong Do and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Quantum-Assisted Computation for Nash Equilibrium in Bimatrix Games", submitted

Journal Publications

J25) Jiaming Cheng, Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen, and Duong Tung Nguyen, “A Bilevel Defender-Attacker Model for Enhancing Operational Resilience in Edge Computing", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025

J24) Duong Do, Matthew Aldridge, and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Projected Variational Quantum Extragradient for Zero-Sum Games", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2026.

J23) Jiaming Cheng and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Predictability-Aware Two-Stage Robust Optimization under Endogenous Uncertainty", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2026.

J22) Arash Bharvandi and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Integrated Generation–Transmission Expansion Planning with Uncertain Dynamic Line Ratings, Renewable Energy, and Electric Vehicles", IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2026

J21) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, Duong Tung Nguyen, Ni Trieu, Angelia Nedich, "Bi-CrowdCache: A Decentralized Game-Theoretic Model for Edge Content Sharing over Time-varying Communication Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025.

J20) Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen, Tarannum Nisha, Ni Trieu, and Duong Tung Nguyen, “A Mixed-Integer Bi-level Model for Joint Optimal Edge Resource Pricing and Provisioning”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2025

J19) Jiaming Cheng, Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen, and Duong Tung Nguyen, “Robust Dynamic Edge Service Placement Under Spatio-Temporal Correlated Demand Uncertainty", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025

J18) Jiaming Cheng, Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, "Delay-Aware Robust Edge Network Hardening Under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty", IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2025.

J17) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedich, "Distributed Nash equilibrium seeking over time-varying directed communication networks", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2025.

J16) Jiahui Gao, Yagaagowtham Palanikuma, Dimitris Mouris, Duong Tung Nguyen, Ni Trieu, "SecurED: Secure Multiparty Edit Distance for Genomic Sequences", Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2025.

J15) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedich, "Accelerated $AB$/Push-Pull Methods for Distributed Optimization over Time-Varying Directed Networks", IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1395-1407, Sept. 2024.

J14) Jiaming Cheng, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Vijay Bhargava, “Resilient edge service placement under demand and node failure uncertainties", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 558-573, Feb. 2024.

J13) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Mattia Bianchi, Florian Dörfler, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedić, "Nash equilibrium seeking over digraphs with row-stochastic matrices and network-independent step-sizes", IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 3543-3548, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3337206.

J12) Angelia Nedich, Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, and Duong Tung Nguyen "AB/Push-Pull Method for Distributed Optimization in Time-Varying Directed Networks", Optimization Methods and Software Journal, pp. 1-28, Oct. 2023.

J11) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Angelia Nedich, "Geometric convergence of distributed heavy-ball Nash equilibrium algorithm over time-varying digraphs with unconstrained actions", IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1963-1968, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3283343.

J10) Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, Ni Trieu, and Duong Tung Nguyen, "A fairness-aware attacker-defender model for optimal edge network operation and protection", IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 120-124, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/LNET.2023.3245072.

J9) Tarannum Nisha, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Vijay Bhargava, “A bilevel programming framework for joint edge computing resource management and pricing", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 18, pp. 17280-17291, 15 Sept.15, 2022.

J8) Duong Tung Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen, Ni Trieu, and Vijay Bhargava, “Two-stage robust edge service placement and sizing under demand uncertainty”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1560-1574, 15 Jan.15, 2022.

J7) Duong Tung Nguyen, Long Le, and Vijay Bhargava, "A market-based framework for multi-resource allocation in fog computing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 1151–1164, June 2019.

J6) Duong Tung Nguyen, Long Le, and Vijay Bhargava, "Price-based resource allocation for edge computing: a market equilibrium approach," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2018.

J5) Duong Tung Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen, and Long Le, "Dynamic pricing design for demand response integration in power distribution networks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 3457–3472, Sept. 2016.

J4) Duong Tung Nguyen and Long Le, "Risk-constrained profit maximization of microgrid aggregators with demand response," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 135–146, Jan. 2015.

J3) Hieu Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Long Le, "Energy management for households with solar assisted thermal load considering renewable energy and price uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 301–314, Jan. 2015.

J2) Duong Tung Nguyen and Long Le, "Optimal bidding strategy for microgrids considering renewable energy and building thermal dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1608–1620, Jul. 2014.

J1) Duong Tung Nguyen and Long Le, "Joint optimization of electric vehicle and home energy scheduling considering user comfort preference," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 188–199, Jan. 2014.

Recent Conference Publications

- Jiaming Cheng and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Robust KV Cache Management for LLM Serving under Output Token Length Uncertainty", 14th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering IC2E 2026, Santa Clara, California, USA, 2026.

- Arash Baharvandi, Duong Tung Nguyen, "A Bilevel Framework for Data Center-Grid Coordination with DLMPs in Unbalanced Three-Phase Distribution Systems", IEEE SmartGridComm 2026

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Mattia Bianchi, Florian Dörfler, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedić, "Constrained multi-cluster game: Distributed Nash equilibrium seeking over directed graphs", IEEE CDC, Milan, Italy, 2024.

- Jiaming Cheng, Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Edge Node Placement Under Endogenous Demand Uncertainty", the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024. (acceptance rate: 256/1307)

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Mattia Bianchi, Florian Dörfler, Duong Tung Nguyen, Angelia Nedić, "Nash equilibrium seeking over digraphs with row-stochastic matrices and network-independent step-sizes", IEEE ACC, Toronto, Canada, 2024. (Best Student Paper Award Finalist)

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, Ni Trieu, and Duong Tung Nguyen, "Optimal Workload Allocation for Distributed Edge Clouds With Renewable Energy and Battery Storage", the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, February 19-22, 2024. (acceptance rate: 24.1%)

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Angelia Nedich, "Distributed Stochastic Optimization with Gradient Tracking over Time-Varying Directed Networks", the 57th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, CA, USA, 2023.

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Angelia Nedich, "Geometric convergence of distributed heavy-ball Nash equilibrium algorithm over time-varying digraphs with unconstrained actions", the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, 2023.

- Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Angelia Nedich, "CrowdCache: A Decentralized Game-Theoretic Framework for Mobile Edge Content Sharing", IEEE International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Singapore, 2023. (Best Paper Award Finalist).

- Jiaming Cheng, Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen, Lele Wang, Duong Tung Nguyen, Vijay K Bhargava, "A Bandit Approach to Online Pricing for Heterogeneous Edge Resource Allocation", 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Spain, 2023.

- Duong Tung Nguyen and Ni Trieu, “MPCCache: Privacy-Preserving Multi-Party Cooperative Cache Sharing at the Edge”, Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC22), Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grenada, 2022 (Acceptance rate: 21.3%).

Conference Talks (2021 - present)

T5) Do The Duong and Duong Tung Nguyen, “Hybrid Classical-quantum Benders Decomposition For Optimal Edge Network Design", the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 15-18, 2023.

T4) Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen and Duong Tung Nguyen, ''A Fairness-Aware Attacker-Defender Model for Optimal Edge Network Operation and Protection", the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 15-18, 2023.

T3) Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen and Duong Tung Nguyen, ''Market-based mechanisms for fair and efficient resource allocation in edge computing", the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 24-27, 2021.

T2) Thuy Anh Duong Nguyen, Duong T. Nguyen, Ni Trieu, Hieu T. Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, and Vijay K. Bhargava, ''Two-stage robust edge service placement and sizing under uncertainties", the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 24-27, 2021.

T1) Tarannum Nisha, Duong Tung Nguyen, and Vijay Bhargava, ''A bilevel programming framework for joint edge computing resource management and pricing", the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, October 24-27, 2021.

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