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About Me

I am a professor at the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.  Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, working with Prof. Walid Saad, from Jan. 2018 to July 2021. I obtained my PhD at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2017. My PhD supervisor is Prof. Meixia Tao. I was also working closely with Prof. Ying Cui. Prior to SJTU, I obtained my B.E. degree in electronic engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2011.

My research interests include the age of information (AoI), spectrum sensing, stochastic network optimization, queueing systems, Markov decision processes (MDP) and the applications to communication networks, the Internet of things (IoT), and Machine learning. A brief introduction to the research during my PhD can be found here. 

Book

• • Nikolaos Pappas, Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid, Bo Zhou, Walid Saad, and Harpreet S. Dhillon [Edited book], "Age of Information: Foundations and Applications'',  Cambridge University Press, Feb. 2023.

Journal Papers

• Chao Dong, Yuqian Jing, Yuben Qu, Bo Zhou, Yang Huang, Ziye Jia, Haipeng Dai, Qihui Wu, "Cloud-edge-device fusion architecture oriented to spectrum cognition and decision in low altitude intelligence network", Journal of Communication, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 1-12, Nov. 2023. (In Chinese)

• Feng Shen, Guoru Ding, Jie LI, Bo Zhou, Qihui Wu, "Research progress on electromagnetic spectrum multidimensional situation compressed mapping technology", Journal of Communication, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 25-42, Nov. 2023. (In Chinese)

• Bo Zhou*, and Walid Saad, "Age of Information in Ultra-Dense IoT Systems: Performance and Mean-Field Game Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing", Vol. 23, no. 5, May 2024.

• Guangliang Pan, Qihui Wu, Guoru Ding, Wei Wang, Jie Li, and Bo Zhou. "An Autoformer-CSA Approach for Long-Term Spectrum Prediction", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1647 - 1651, Oct. 2023.

• Guangliang Pan, Qihui Wu, Guoru Ding, Wei Wang, Jie Li, Fuyuan Xu, and Bo Zhou. "Deep Stacked Autoencoder Based Long-Term Spectrum Prediction Using Real-World Data", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 534-548, June 2023.

• Qihui Wu, Wei Wang, Zuguang Li, Bo Zhou, Yang Huang, and Xianbin Wang, "SpectrumChain: A Disruptive Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Framework for 6G", Science China Information Sciences (invited paper), vol. 66, Feb. 2023.

• Tingyan Kuang, Bo Zhou*, Jie Li, Guoru Ding, and Qihui Wu, "Abnormal Communication Signals Recognition Based on Image Enhancement and Improved Memory-Augmented Autoencoder", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022.

• Bo Zhou, Xinyi Ma, Tingyan Kuang, Jie Li, "New Paradigm of Electromagnetic Spectrum Space Situation Cognition: Spectrum Semantic and Spectrum Behavior", Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1198-1207, Nov. 2022. (In Chinese)

• Bo Zhou* and Walid Saad, "Performance Analysis of Age of Information in Ultra-Dense Internet of Things (IoT) Systems with Noisy Channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 3493 - 3507, May 2022.

• Taehyeun Park, Walid Saad, and Bo Zhou*, "Centralized and Distributed Age of Information Minimization with non-linear Aging Functions in the Internet of Things", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 8437 – 8455, May 2021. (Corresponding author)

• Bo Zhou* and Walid Saad, "Minimum Age of Information in the Internet of Things with Non-uniform Status Packet Sizes", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1933 - 1947, Mar. 2020.

• Bo Zhou* and Walid Saad, "Joint Status Sampling and Updating for Minimizing Age of Information in the Internet of Things", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 7468-7482,  Nov. 2019.

• Bo Zhou* and Walid Saad, "Minimizing Age of Information in the Internet of Things", invited, IEEE MMTC Communications - Frontiers, vol. 14, no. 3, May 2019.

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, and Meixia Tao, "Optimal dynamic multicast scheduling for cache-enabled content-centric wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 2956-2970, July 2017.

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, and Meixia Tao, "Stochastic content-centric multicast scheduling for cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,  vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 6284-6297, Sep. 2016.

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui and Meixia Tao, "Stochastic Throughput Optimization for Two-hop Systems with Finite Relay Buffers", IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 20, pp. 5546-5560, Oct. 2015. 

Conference Papers

• Fanhua Li, Yuanyuan Deng, Bo Zhou*, Qihui Wu, Partial Convolutional Based-Radio Map Reconstruction For Urban Environments With Inaccessible Areas, IEEE ICASSP, Seoul, Korea, Apr. 2024.

• Xinyi Ma, Bo Zhou*,Wei Wang, and Qihui Wu. Age of Information in UAV-Assisted Real-Time IoT Systems with Obstacle Avoidance. IEEE ICCT, Wuxi, China, Oct. 2023.

• Bo Zhou and Walid Saad, “Age of Information in Ultra-Dense Computation-Intensive Internet of Things (IoT) Systems”, IEEE WiOpt, Virtual, Oct. 2021.

• Bo Zhou and Walid Saad, "Age of Information in Ultra-Dense IoT Systems with Noisy Channels: With and Without Feedback",  IEEE ICC, Virtual/Montreal, Canada, June. 2021.

• Taehyeun Park, Walid Saad, and Bo Zhou, "On the Minimization of Non-Linear Age of Information in the Internet of Things",  IEEE ICC, Virtual/Montreal, Canada, June. 2021.

• Zhenzhen Gong, Qimei Cui, Christina Chaccour, Bo Zhou, Mingzhe Chen, and Walid Saad, "Lifelong Learning for Minimizing Age of Information in Internet of Things Networks", IEEE ICC, Virtual/Montreal, Canada, June. 2021.

• Bo Jiang, Kuikui Li, Bo Zhou, Meixia Tao, and Zhiyong Chen, "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Computation Offloading in Massive-user Mobile Edge Networks", IEEE WCSP, Nanjing, China, Oct. 2020.

• Bo Zhou and Walid Saad, "On the Age of Information in Internet of Things Systems with Correlated Devices",  IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, Taiwan, China, Dec. 2020. [Previously withdrawn from IEEE CISS, 2020, as it has been canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak]

• Bo Zhou, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, and Petar Popovski, "Risk-Aware Optimization of Age of Information in the Internet of Things", IEEE ICC, Virtual conference, June 2020.

• Yao Zhao, Bo Zhou, Walid Saad, Xiliang Luo, "Age of Information Analysis for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing", IEEE GlobalSIP, Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 2019.

• Christina Chaccour, Ramy Amer, Bo Zhou, and Walid Saad, "On the Reliability of Wireless Virtual Reality at Terahertz (THz) Frequencies", IFIP NTMS, Canary Islands, Spain, June 2019. [Best Paper Award]

• Bo Zhou and Walid Saad, "Minimizing Age of Information in the Internet of Things with Non-uniform Status Packet Sizes", IEEE ICC, Shanghai, China, May 2019.

• Bo Zhou and Walid Saad, "Optimal Sampling and Updating for Minimizing Age of Information in the Internet of Things", IEEE GLOBECOM, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2018. [Best Paper Award]

• Bo Zhou, Sangtian Wang, Erkai Chen, and Meixia Tao, "Cooperative Caching for Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio Networks", IEEE ICC,  Paris, France, May 2017. [slides]

• Zhuoqun Chen, Yangyang Liu, Bo Zhou, and Meixia Tao, "Caching Incentive Design in Wireless D2D Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach", IEEE ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. [slides]

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, and Meixia Tao, "Stochastic content-centric multicast scheduling for cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular networks," ACM CoNEXT, CCDWN Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, Dec. 2015. [slides]

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui, and Meixia Tao, "Optimal dynamic multicast scheduling for cache-enabled content-centric wireless networks," IEEE ISIT, Hong Kong, June 2015. [slides]

• Bo Zhou, Ying Cui and Meixia Tao, "Stochastic Throughput Optimization for Two-hop Systems with Finite Relay Buffers," IEEE GLOBECOM, Austin, USA, Dec. 2014. [slides]

• Bo Zhou, Yuan Liu and Meixia Tao, "Adaptive scheduling for OFDM bidirectional transmission with a buffered relay", IEEE WCNC, Shanghai, China, April 2013. [slides]

Awards

• Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications (Fewer than 2%), 2020.

• Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications (Fewer than 2%), 2019.

• Best Paper Award at IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2019.

• Best Paper Award at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018.

• Outstanding Graduate Award of SJTU, 2017.

• Graduate National Scholarship (Top scholarship for graduate students in China), 2015.

• National Endeavor Fellowship, 2010.

• Excellent Academic Scholarship of SCUT, 2008-2010.

Professional Activities

• Program committee member

  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023. 

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Mar. 2023.

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2023. 

  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Jeju, South Korea, Feb. 2023. 

  • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Denver, CO, USA, Oct. 2022.

  • IEEE IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Poster, Virtual, May 2022.

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, 2022. 

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2022. 

  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 2022. 

  • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Denver, CO, USA, Oct. 2021. [TPC & Session chair]

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Nanjing, China, Mar. 2021.

  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 2021.

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, 2021.

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2021.

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Seoul, South Korea, April 2020.

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2020.

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Spring, Antwerp, Belgium, 2020; VTC-Fall, Victoria, Canada, 2020.

  • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Monterey, California, USA, Nov. 2019.

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Spring, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019

  • ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Demo and Posters, Boston, MA, USA, 2018.

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Spring, Porto, Portugal, 2018; VTC-Fall, Chicago, USA, 2018.

  • International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC), Nice, France, July 2017; Venice, Italy, June 2018.

• Reviewer for journals

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on  Vehicular Technology 

  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  • IEEE Communications Magazine 

  • IEEE Communications Letters 

  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

  • IEEE Networking Letters

  • IEEE Access

  • IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks

  • Wiley Software: Practice and Experience

  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

  • Elsevier Computer Networks

  • Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks

• Reviewer for conferences

  • ISIT, ICC, GLOBECOM, Mobihoc, WiOpt, ISIT, MASS, ICCCN, INFOCOM Workshop on AoI, GlobalSIP, ISCC, WCNC, SPAWC, VTC, WCSP, WiMob, etc.

Last updated on Feb. 2024