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ABOUT ME

I am currently a professor with the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. I received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2011 and 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2018. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Vehicular networks

• Spectrum management in cognitive radio networks

• Stochastic optimization and cross-layer design

• Edge computing

• Signal processing and machine learning

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2014~2018.

M.S. in School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 2011~2014.

B.S. in School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 2007~2011.

PUBLICATION

Book Chapters

• X. Li, H. Ding, Y. Fang, M. Pan, P. Li, X. Huang, and S. Glisic, “Collaborative spectrum trading and sharing for cognitive radio networks”, Accepted by Handbook of Cognitive Radio, edited by W. Zhang, Springer, 2017.

Journal/Magazine Publications

1. H. Ding and J. An, “Covert communication with incumbent channel activities”, Accepted by IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., 2023. 

2. H. Ding and K. G. Shin, “Context-aware beam tracking for 5g mmWave v2i communications”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 3257-3269, Jun. 2023. 

3. H. Ding and K. G. Shin, “Accurate angular inference for 802.11ad devices using beam-specific measurements”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 822-834, Mar. 2022. 

4. H. Ding, Y. Ma, C. Zhang, X. Li, B. Lin, Y. Fang, and S. Chen, “Probabilistic data prefetching for data transportation in smart cities”, IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1655-1666, Feb. 2022. 

5. H. Ding, H. Dai, I. Guvenc, A. Bhuyan, “Outage analysis for cooperative millimeter wave air-to-ground communications with beam training overhead”, IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 2249-2253, Oct. 2021. 

6. H. Ding, X. Li, Y. Ma, and Y. Fang, “Energy-efficient channel switching in cognitive radio networks: a reinforcement learning approach”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 12359-12362, Oct. 2020. 

7. H. Ding, Y. Guo, X. Li, and Y. Fang, “Beef up the edge: spectrum-aware placement of edge computing services for the Internet of Things”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2783 - 2795, Dec. 2019.

8. H. Ding, X. Li, Y. Cai, B. Lorenzo, and Y. Fang, “Intelligent data transportation in smart cities: a spectrum-aware approach”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 2598—2611, Dec. 2018.

9. H. Ding, and Y. Fang, “Virtual infrastructure at traffic lights: vehicular temporary storage assisted data transportation at signalized intersections”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 12452—12456, Dec. 2018. 

10. H. Ding, C. Zhang, B. Lorenzo, and Y. Fang, “Access point recruitment in a vehicular cognitive capability harvesting network: how much data can be uploaded?”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 6438—6445, Jul. 2018.

11. H. Ding, C. Zhang, X. Li, J. Liu, M. Pan, Y. Fang, and S. Chen, “Session-based cooperation in cognitive radio networks: a network-level approach”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 685—698, Apr. 2018.

12. H. Ding, C. Zhang, and Y. Fang, “smart cities on wheels: a newly emerging vehicular cognitive capability harvesting network for data transportation”, IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 160—169, Apr. 2018.

13. H. Ding, Y. Fang, X. Huang, M. Pan, P. Li, and S. Glisic, “Cognitive capacity harvesting networks: architectural evolution towards future cognitive radio networks”, IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1902—1923, Thirdquarter 2017.

14. H. Ding, Z. Shi, S. Ma, and C. Xing, “On the performance of HARQ-IR over Nakagami-m fading channels in mobile ad hoc networks,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 3913—3929, May 2017.

15. H. Ding, S. Ma, C. Xing, G. Yang and Z. Fei, “Transmission capacity of clustered ad hoc networks with virtual antenna array,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 6926—6939, Sept. 2016.

16. H. Ding, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, Y. Zhou, C.L. Philip Chen, “Analysis of hybrid ARQ in ad hoc networks with correlated interference and feedback errors,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 3942—3955, Aug. 2013.

17. X. Li, Y. Zhang, H. Ding and Y. Fang “Intelligent spectrum sensing and access with partial observation based on hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning”, Accepted by IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 2023. 

18. Y. Cui, H. Ding, C. Xing, J. An, L. Zhao, “Integrated sensing and communication: a network level perspective”, Accepted by IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., 2023. 

19. X. Li, K. Jiao, X. Chen, H. Ding, J. Wang, M. Pan, “Demand-oriented fog-ran slicing with self-adaptation via deep reinforcement learning”, Accepted by IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2023. 

20. Z. Song, Z. Shi, J. Su, Q. Dou, G. Yang, H. Ding, S. Ma, “Performance analysis and optimal design of harq-ir-aided terahertz communications”, Accepted by IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2023. 

21. Z. Song, J. An, H. Ding, H. Dai, “Optimal relay probing for uav millimeter wave communications with beam training overhead”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 7351-7363, Jun. 2023. 

22. P. Yue, J. Du, R. Zhang, H. Ding, S. Wang, J. An, “Collaborative leo satellites for secure and green internet of remote things,” IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 9283—9294, Jun. 2023. 

23. X. Li, S. Cheng, H. Ding, M. Pan, N. Zhao, “When uavs meet cognitive radio: offloading traffic under uncertain spectrum environment via deep reinforcement learning”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 824—838, Feb. 2023. 

24. X. Chen, G. Zhu, H. Ding, L. Zhang, H. Zhang, Y. Fang, “End-to-end service auction: a general double auction mechanism for edge computing services”, IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 2616—2629, Dec. 2022. 

25. J. Liu, Y. Pang, H. Ding, Y. Cai, H. Zhang, Y. Fang, “Optimizing iot energy efficiency on edge (eee): a cross-layer design in a cognitive mesh network,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 2472—2486, Apr. 2021. 

26. L. Zhang, L. Yan, B. Lin, H. Ding, Y. Fang, and X. Fang, “Augmenting transmission environments for better communications: tunable reflector assisted mmWave WLANs,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 7416-7428, Jul, 2020. 

27. S. Lin, H. Ding, L. Fu, Y. Fang, and J. Shi, “Energy minimization of multi-cell cognitive capacity harvesting networks with neighbor resource sharing”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 3199 - 3213, May 2020. 

28. S. Lin, H. Ding, Y. Fang, and J. Shi, “Energy-efficient D2D communications with dynamic time-resource allocation”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 11985—11999, Dec. 2019 

29. X. Li, H. Ding, M. Pan, J. Wang, H. Zhang, and Y. Fang, “Statistical QoS provisioning over uncertain shared spectrums in cognitive IoT networks: a distributionally robust data-driven approach”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 12286—12300, Dec. 2019. 

30. S. Lin, Y. Li, H. Ding, Y. Fang, and J. Shi, “Performance optimization for D2D communications with opportunistic relay and physical-layer network coding”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 11928—11943, Dec. 2019. 

31. X. Li, H. Ding, and Y. Fang, “A data-driven cost-effective session-oriented cognitive radio transmission scheme under spectrum uncertainty”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 12401--12405, Dec. 2019. 

32. X. Li, H. Ding, M. Pan, B. Lorenzo, J. Wang, and Y. Fang, “Service-oriented hybrid-database-assisted spectrum trading: a blueprint for future licensed spectrum sharing,” IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 156—163, Dec. 2019. 

33. L. Yan, H. Ding, L. Zhang, J. Liu, X. Fang, Y. Fang, M. Xiao, X. Huang, “Machine learning based handovers for sub-6 GHz and mmWave integrated vehicular networks”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 4873—4885, Oct. 2019. 

34. Y. Pang, L. Zhang, H. Ding, Y. Fang, and S. Chen, “SPATH: finding the safest walking path in smart cities”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 7071—7079, Jul. 2019. 

35. B. Feng, C. Zhang, H. Ding, and Y. Fang, “PhyCast: exploiting physical layer broadcast for energy efficient packet overhearing in WiFi”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3586—3599, Apr. 2019.

36. Z. Shi, H. Ding, S. Ma, K. Tam, and S. Pan, “Inverse moment matching based analysis of cooperative HARQ-IR over time-correlated Nakagami fading channels”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 3812—3828, May 2017.

37. Y. Pang, H. Ding, J. Liu, Y. Fang, and S. Chen, “A UHF RFID based System for Children Tracking”, IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 5055—5064, Dec. 2018. 

38. J. Liu, H. Ding, Y. Cai, H. Yue, Y. Fang, and S. Chen, “An energy-efficient strategy for secondary users in cooperative cognitive radio networks for green communications”, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3195—3207, Dec. 2016.

39. X. Li, H. Ding, M. Pan, Y. Sun, and Y. Fang, “Users first: service-oriented spectrum auction with a two-tier framework support”, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 2999—3013, Nov. 2016.

40. Z. Shi, H. Ding, S. Ma and K. Tam, “Analysis of HARQ-IR over time-correlated Rayleigh fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 7096—7109, Dec. 2015.

Conference Publications

1. H. Ding, H. Yue, J. Liu, P. Si, and Y. Fang, “Energy-efficient secondary traffic scheduling with MIMO beamforming”, in Proc. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.

2. H. Ding, S. Ma, C. Xing, “Feasible D2D communication distance in D2D-enabled cellular networks,” in Proc. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), Macao, Nov. 2014.

3. H. Ding, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, “Performance analysis of incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ in mobile ad hoc networks,” in Proc. 2014 International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, Australia, Jun. 10-14, 2014.

4. H. Ding, G. Yang, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, F. Gao, “Outage analysis of opportunistic amplify-and-forward cooperative cellular systems with random relays,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec. 9-13, 2013.

5. H. Ding, G. Yang, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, “Performance analysis for heterogeneous cellular systems with range expansion,” in Proc. 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2013-Fall), Las Vegas, USA, Sept. 2-5, 2013.

6. H. Ding, G. Yang, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, “Analysis of hybrid ARQ in interference dominant mobile ad hoc networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 9-13, 2013.

7. H. Ding, J. Chen, S. Ma, C. Xing, Z. Fei, G. Yang, “Outage analysis of opportunistic cooperative ad hoc networks with randomly located nodes,” in Proc. the 7th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom 2012), Kunming, China (Invited paper), Aug. 8-10, 2012.

8. H. Ding, S. Li, C. Xing and Z. Fei, “Outage performance analysis for cooperative networks with randomly distributed nodes,” in Proc. 2011 the International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing(WCSP), Nanjing, China, Nov. 9-11, 2011.

9. B. Feng, C. Zhang, H. Ding, Y. Fang, “PhyCast: Towards Energy Efficient Packet Overhearing in WiFi networks”, in Proc. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 20-24, 2018.

10. Y. Hu, X. Li, J. Liu, H. Ding, Y. Gong, Y. Fang, “Mitigating Traffic Analysis Attack in Smartphones with Edge Network Assistance”, in Proc. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 20-24, 2018.

11. Z. Shi, H. Ding, S. Ma, K. Tam, and S. Pan, “Outage analysis of cooperative HARQ-IR over time-correlated fading channels based on inverse moments”, in Proc. 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington D.C., USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.

12. J. Liu, C. Zhang, H. Ding, H. Yue, and Y. Fang, “Policy-based privacy-preserving scheme for primary users in database-driven cognitive radio networks”, in Proc. 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington D.C., USA, Dec. 4-8, 2016.

13. K. Xu, H. Ding, L. Guo, and Y. Fang, “A secure collaborative machine learning framework based on data locality,” in Proc. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.

14. J. Liu, H. Yue, H. Ding, P. Si, and Y. Fang, “An energy-efficient cooperative strategy for secondary users in cognitive radio networks”, in Proc. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 6-10, 2015, San Diego, USA.

15. X. Yang, H. Ding, Z. Shi, S. Ma and P. Su, “Analysis of outage and throughput for opportunistic cooperative HARQ systems over time correlated fading channels,” in Proc. 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Fall), Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 14-17, 2014.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

• IEEE TCGCC Best Journal Paper Award, 2018

• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL) Exemplary Reviewer, 2016

• Excellent Thesis Award for Master’s Degree, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2016

• Graduate School Fellowship, University of Florida, 2014-2018

• Excellent Thesis Award for Master’s Degree of Beijing Institute of Technology, 2014

• Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, Beijing Municipal Education Commission, 2014

• National Scholarship for Graduate students, Ministry of Education, China, 2013

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

TPC members

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2017 Spring, 2018 Fall

• IEEE/CIC ICCC, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023

• IEEE CWN, 2017

• IEEE WCNC, 2018

• IEEE Sarnoff, 2018

• IEEE ICC, 2018

• IEEE GLOBECOM, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

• IEEE DySPAN, 2024

Reviewer for Journal Manuscript Submissions

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

• IEEE Transactions on Communications 

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 

• IEEE Wireless Communications Letter 

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal 

• IEEE Systems Journal 

• Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 

• Science China F series-Information Sciences 

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

• Physical Communication

Reviewer for Conference Manuscript Submissions

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013, 2015, 2017 

• International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (Chinacom) 2012 

• International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) 2012