Research Interests:

I'm interested in content delivery over the Internet, software-defined networking (SDN) and cyber security.

Publications:

Video Streaming and Computer Networks

• • 1. M. Reynaldo, Y. Qin, A. Russel, and B. Wang,"More the Merrier: Neighbor Discovery on Duty-cycled Mobile Devices in Group Settings", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022. (Impact Factor 8.34)

    2. Y.Qin. "Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Over Cellular Networks: Rate Adaptation and Data Savings Strategies", PhD Thesis, 2021. (More are available at https://developer.att.com/video-optimizer/docs/best-practices/adaptive-bitrate-video-streaming)

    3. Y. Qin, C. Shende, C. Park, S. Sen, and B. Wang. “DataPlanner: Data-budget Driven Approach to Resource-efficient ABR Streaming” Proceedings of ACM MMSys, 2021.  (AC rate 25%)

    4. C. Yue. S. Sen, B. Wang, Y. Qin, and F. Qian, "Energy Considerations for ABR Video Streaming to Smartphones: Measurements, Models and Insights" ,Proceedings of ACM MMSys, June 2020. (AC rate 25%)

    5. Y. Qin, R. Jin, S. Hao, K. R. Pattipati, F. Qian, S. Sen, B. Wang, and C. Yue. “A Control Theoretic Approach to ABR Video Streaming: A Fresh Look at PID-based Rate Adaptation,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020. (Impact Factor 6.075)

    6. Y. Qin, S. Sen, and B. Wang. “ABR Streaming with Separate Audio and Video Tracks: Measurements and Best Practices,” Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, December 2019. (AC rate 21%)( More details are available at AT&T Developer Website  https://developer.att.com/video-optimizer/docs/best-practices/separate-audio-video)

    7. Y. Qin, R. Jin, S. Hao, K. R. Pattipati, F. Qian, S. Sen, B. Wang, and C. Yue. “Quality-aware Strategies for Optimizing ABR Video Streaming QoE and Reducing Data Usage,” Proceedings of ACM MMSys, June 2019

    8. Y. Qin, R. Jin, S. Hao, K. R. Pattipati, F. Qian, S. Sen, B. Wang, and C. Yue. “ABR Streaming of VBR-encoded Videos: Characterization, Challenges, and Solutions,” Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, December 2018. (AC rate 20%)  (Best Paper Award)

    9. C. Yue, R. Jin, K. Suh, Y. Qin, B. Wang, and W. Wei. “LinkForecast: Cellular Link Bandwidth Prediction in LTE Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1582-1594, July 2018.  (Impact Factor 6.075)

    10. Y. Qin, R. Jin, S. Hao, K. R. Pattipati, F. Qian, S. Sen, B. Wang, and C. Yue. “A Control Theoretic Approach to ABR Video Streaming: A Fresh Look at PID-based Rate Adaptation,” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, May 2017. (AC rate 20%)

    11. S. Chen, R. Morillo,  Y. Qin, A. Russell, R. Jin, B. Wang, and S. Vasudevan. “Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery on Duty-cycled Mobile Devices: Models and Schedules,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 19 (8) 5204-5217, 2020.  (Impact Factor 8.34)

    12. S. Chen, A. Russell, R. Jin, Y. Qin, B. Wang, and S. Vasudevan. “Asynchronous Neighbor Discovery on Duty-cycled Mobile Devices: Integer and Non-Integer Schedules,” Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc, June 2015. (AC rate 19%)

    13. G. Wang, and Y. Qin. "MAC protocols for wireless mesh networks with multi-beam antennas: a survey." In Future of Information and Communication Conference, pp. 117-142. Springer, Cham, 2019.

    14. G. Wang, Y. Qin, and C. Chang. "Communication with partial noisy feedback." In 2017 IEEE symposium on computers and communications (ISCC), pp. 602-607. IEEE, 2017.

    15. 3+ papers are under review.

Software-Defined Networking, Cyber Security, Quantum Internet and Cyber-Physical System

• • 1. L. Wang, P. Zhang, Z. Tang, and Y. Qin, "Programmable Crypto-Control for IoT Networks: An Application in Networked Microgrids", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.  (Impact Factor 9.93)

    2. Z. Jiang, Z. Tang, Y. Qin, C. Kang, and P. Zhang, “Quantum Internet for Resillient Electric Grids,” International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2021.

    3. Z. Jiang, Z. Tang, Y. Qin, and P. Zhang, “Programmable adaptive security scanning for networked microgrids”. Engineering, 2021. (Impact Factor 12.8)

    4. Y. Qin. “Resilient Networked Microgrids through Software Defined Networking,” Networked Microgrids, Cambridge University Press, 2021. (Book Chapter)

    5. Z. Tang, Y. Qin, Z. Jiang, W.O. Krawec, and P. Zhang, "Quantum-Secure Networked Microgrid", IEEE PES General Meeting 2020. (Best Paper Award) 

    6. Z. Tang, Y. Qin, Z. Jiang, W. Krawec, and P. Zhang, “Quantum-secure microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, July, 2020. (Impact Factor 7.326)

    7. L. Wang, Y. Qin, Z. Tang, and P. Zhang, “Software-defined microgrid control: The Genesis of Decoupled Cyber-Physical Microgrids,” IEEE Open Journal of Power and Energy,   2020.

    8. J. Wang, Y. Qin, Z.Tang, and P. Zhang, “Software-defined cyber-energy secure underwater wireless power transfer,”  IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, Nov. 2020.

    9. Z. Tang, Y. Qin, Z. Jiang, W.O. Krawec, and P. Zhang, "Quantum-Secure Microgrid". arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02301, 2020.

    10. W. Wan, M. A. Bragin, B. Yan, Y. Qin, J. Philhower, P. Zhang, and P. B. Luh, “Distributed and Asynchronous Active Fault Management for Networked Microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Power System, 2020. (Impact Factor 7.326)

    11. Y. Li, Y. Qin, P. Zhang, and A. Herzberg. “SDN-Enabled Cyber-Physical Security in Networked Microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1613-1622, 2019.  (Impact Factor 7.91)

    12. L. Ren, Y. Qin, Y. Li, P. Zhang, B. Wang, P. B. Luh, S. Han, T. Orekan, and T. Gong. “Enabling Resilient Distributed Power Sharing in Networked Microgrids through Software Defined Networking,” Applied Energy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 237-244, January 2018. (Impact Factor 9.74)

    13. L. Ren, Y. Qin, B. Wang, P. Zhang, P. B. Luh, and R. Jin. “Enabling Resilient Microgrid through Programmable Network,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 6, November 2017. (Impact Factor 8.96)

    14. Y. Qin, L. Ren, B. Wang, P. Zhang and P. Luh, “SDN-enabled highly resilient and efficient microgrids,” GENI Engineering Conference 23, UIUC, June 15-18, 2015.

    15. Y. Qin, L. Ren, B. Wang, P. Zhang and P. Luh, “Enabling highly resilient and efficient microgrids through ultra-fast programmable networks,” US Ignite GENI Engineering Conference 22/, DC, March 23-26, 2015.

US Patents:

         10+ US patent grant

• • 1. "Methods, Systems, And Devices For Streaming Video Content According To Available Encoding Quality Information", US Patent. 11616823, 2023

    2. "Method And System For Data-Budget Constrained Network Resource-Efficient Video Streaming",  US Patent App. 20,230/066,956, 2023

    3. "Methods, Systems, And Devices For Streaming Video Content Under Data Budget Constraints Using Available Adaptive Bit-Rate (Abr) Track Information",US Patent App. 20,230/067,019, 2023

    4. "Adaptive Streaming with Demuxed Audio and Video Tracks", US Patent Grant 11432035, 2022.

    5.  "Chunk-based filtering to optimize video streaming quality and data usage", US Patent Grant 11277649, 2021.

    6.  "Perceptual visual quality video chunk selection," US Patent  Grant  10917667, 2021.

    7. "Differential adaptive bitrate streaming based on scene complexity," US Patent  Grant 10827181, 2020.

    8. "Apparatus, storage medium and method for adaptive bitrate streaming adaptation of variable bitrate encodings",  US Patent Grant 10728180, 2020.

    9. “Methods, Systems, and Devices for Video Streaming Adaptation using Control Theoretic Approach,” US Patent Grant 10362080, 2019.

    10. “Enabling Resilient Microgrid Through Ultra-Fast Programmable Network,” US Patent Grant 10257100, 2019.

    11.  2+ US Patents are under USPTO's review and to be published soon.

CN patents: 

4 CN Patent Grants Links

Awards:

• • • Best Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2021 (link). 

    • Best Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power System, 2021 (link).

    • Best Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2020 (link).

    • Best Paper Award, IEEE PES General Meeting  2020.

    • Research Excellent Award, CSE, University of Connecticut, 2020.

    • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2019.

    • Eversource Energy Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2019.

    • Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2016-2019.

    • Cigna Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2018.

    • Best Paper Award, ACM CoNEXT 2018. 

    • Third Prize in Juniper Networks and Comcast SDN Solutions Competition, 2014.

    • National Graduate Scholarship, China, 2013.

    • Third Prize in National Graduate Mathematical Modeling Contest, China, 2012.

    • National Scholarship, China, 2008.

Review Services:

I actively serve as a reviewer for journals and conferences of IEEE, ACM and Elsevier etc., including

•  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Impact Factor 6.075)

•  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Impact Factor 9.93)

•  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (Impact Factor 4.41)

•  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Impact Factor 13.08)

•  IEEE Transactions on Power System (Impact Factor 7.326)

•  IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (Impact Factor 7.91)

•  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (Impact Factor 8.96)

•  Elsevier Applied Energy  (Impact Factor 9.74)

•  IEEE Access (Impact Factor 3.367)

•  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)

•  IEEE Power Engineering Letters

•  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems

•  IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

•  ACM AsiaCCS

• International Conference on Intelligent Computing 

• IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP, 2021, 2022

• International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology

• ACM MMAsia