Yong Niu
Yong Niu (niuyong@bjtu.edu.cn) received B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, China in 2011, and his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University. During November 2014 to April 2015, he visited University of Florida, FL, USA as a Visiting Scholar. During October 2018 to October 2019, he visited University of Helsinki as a Visiting Scholar.
His research interests are in the areas of networking and communications, including millimeter wave communications, device-to-device communication, medium access control, and High-Speed Railway Communications. He has published 59 academic research papers in his research area. He received the Ph.D. National Scholarship of China in 2015, Outstanding Ph. D Graduates and Outstanding Doctoral thesis of Tsinghua University in 2016, and the Outstanding Doctorate Dissertation Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2017. He was the recipient of the 2018 International Union of Radio Science Young Scientist Award and Second prize of science and technology award of Chinese Institute of Electronics (Natural Science). He was also appreciated as IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewers in 2018. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for some top conferences like ICC, Globecom, and WCNC. He has also served as reviewers for many top journals in his research area like IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Citations Summary
Google Scholar: Total Citation=2100+, H-index=18.
Journal Paper
1. Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li, Li Su, Depeng Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, “Exploiting Device-to-Device Communications in Joint Scheduling of Access and Backhaul for mmWave Small Cells”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2052-2069, May 2015.
2. Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Li Su, Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, “Blockage Robust and Efficient Scheduling for Directional mmWave WPANs”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 728–742, Feb. 2015.
3. Yong Niu, Li Su, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Zhu Han, “Exploiting Device-to-Device Communications to Enhance Spatial Reuse for Popular Content Downloading in Directional mmWave Small Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 5538-5550 , July 2016.
4. Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Li Su, Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, “Boosting Spatial Reuse via Multiple Paths Multi-Hop Scheduling for Directional mmWave WPANs”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 6614-6627, August 2016.
5. Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, et al, “A Cross-Layer Design for Software Defined Millimeter-Wave Mobile Broadband System”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 124–130, February 2016.
6. Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li, Li Su, Depeng Jin, Yun Zhu, Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, “Energy Efficient Scheduling for mmWave Backhauling of Small Cells in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 2674–2687, Mar. 2017.
7. Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Li Su, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, “A Survey of Millimeter Wave Communications (mmWave) for 5G: Opportunities and Challenges”, Wireless Networks, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 2657–2676, Nov. 2015. (ESI Highly Cited Papers)
8. Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Li Su, Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, “A Two Stage Approach for Channel Transmission Rate Aware Scheduling in Directional mmWave WPANs”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 313–329, 2016.
9. Yong Niu, Chuhan Gao, Yong Li, Li Su, and Depeng Jin, “Exploiting Multi-Hop Relaying to Overcome Blockage in Directional mmWave Small Cells”, Journal of communications and networks, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 364–374, June 2016.
10. Wei Feng, Yong Niu, Yong Li, Bo Gao, et al, “On the Throughput Enhancement of IEEE 802.11ad Through STDMA Scheduling of Multiple Co-Channel Networks”, IET Communications, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 425–434, Mar. 2016.
11. Chuhan Gao, Yong Li*, Haohao Fu，Yong Niu, Depeng Jin, Sheng Chen, Zhu Han, “Evaluating the Impact of User Behavior on D2D Communications in Millimeter-wave Small Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 6362 - 6377, Jul. 2017.
12. Miao Hu, Zhangdui Zhong, Yong Niu*, Minming Ni, “Duration-variable Participant Recruitment for Urban Crowdsourcing with Indeterministic Trajectories”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 10271 - 10282, Nov. 2017.
13. Yong Niu, Ziqi Feng, Min Chen, Yong Li*, Zhangdui Zhong, and Bo Ai, “Low Complexity and Robust Codebook-Based Analog Beamforming for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems”, in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 19824-19834, 2017.
14. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu, Zhewei Zhang，Yanqing Xu, and Dapeng Li，“Resource Allocation in D2D-aided High-Speed Railway Wireless Communication Systems: A Matching Theory Approach”，China Communications, vol. 12, no.14, pp. 87 - 99, Dec. 2017.
15. Yong Niu, Yu Liu, Yong Li*, Xinlei Chen, Zhangdui Zhong, Zhu Han, “Device-to-Device Communications Enabled
Energy Efficient Multicast Scheduling in mmWave Small Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 1093 - 1109, Mar. 2018.
16. Yali Chen, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu*, Ke Guan, Zhu Han, “Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Using Coalitional Games”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 4163 – 4176, June 2018.
17. Weiguang Ding, Yong Niu*, Hao Wu, Yong Li, Zhangdui Zhong, “QoS-aware Full-duplex Scheduling for Millimeter Wave Wireless Backhaul Networks”, IEEE Access, vol.6, pp. 25313 – 25322, April 2018.
18. Yu Liu, Xinlei Chen, Yong Niu, Bo Ai, Yong Li*, and Depeng Jin, “Mobility-Aware Transmission Scheduling Scheme for mmWave Cells”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol 17, no. 9, pp. 5991 – 6004, Sep. 2018.
19. Yong Niu*, Liren Yu, Yong Li, Zhangdui Zhong, Bo Ai, and Sheng Chen, “Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Multicast Scheduling with the Multi-Level Codebook in mmWave Small Cells”, Mobile Networks & Applications, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1603-1617, October 2019.
20. Muhammad Waqas, Manzoor Ahmed, Yong Niu, Yong Li*, Depeng Jin, Zhu Han, “Mobility-Aware Fog Computing in Dynamic Environments: Understandings and Implementation”, IEEE ACCESS, vol. 7, pp. 38867 – 38879, Nov. 2018.
21. Yong Niu*, Yu Liu, Yong Li, Zhangdui Zhong, Bo Ai, Pan Hui, “Mobility-aware Caching Scheduling for Fog Computing in mmWave Band”, IEEE ACCESS, vol. 6, pp. 69358 – 69370, November 2018.
22. Yong Niu, Liren Yu, Yong Li*, Zhangdui Zhong, Bo Ai, “Device-to-Device Communications Enabled Multicast Scheduling for mmWave Small Cells using Multi-Level Codebooks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 2724 - 2738, Mar. 2019.
23. Haiyan Jiang, Yong Niu*, Jiayi Zhang, Bo Ai, and Zhangdui Zhong, “Coalition Game based Full-duplex Concurrent Scheduling in Millimeter Wave Wireless Backhaul Network”, China Communications, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 59 - 75, Feb. 2019.
24. Yong Niu*, Weiguang Ding, Hao Wu, Yong Li, Xinlei Chen, Bo Ai, and Zhangdui Zhong, “Relay-Assisted and QoS Aware Scheduling to Overcome Blockage in mmWave Backhaul Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1733 - 1744, Feb. 2019.
25. Yali Chen, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu*, Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, Zhu Han, “Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communications in Multi-Cell Multi-Band Heterogeneous Cellular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 4760 - 4773, May 2019.
26. Yu Liu, Yong Li*, Yong Niu, Depeng Jin, “Joint Optimization of Path Planning and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 2129-2144, June 2019.
27. Lei Wang, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu*, Xia Chen, and Pan Hui, “Energy-Efficient Power Control of Train-Ground mmWave Communication for High Speed Trains”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 7704-7714, Aug. 2019.
28. Muhammad Waqas, Yong Niu, Yong Li*, Manzoor Ahmed, Depeng Jin, Sheng Chen, Zhu Han, “A Comprehensive Survey on Mobility-Aware D2D Communications: Principles, Practice and Challenges”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1863-1886, Aug. 2020.
29. Yibing Wang, Yong Niu*, Hao Wu, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, Dapeng(Oliver)Wu, Tutun Juhana, “Relay Assisted Concurrent Scheduling to Overcome Blockage in Full-duplex Millimeter Wave Small Cells”, IEEE ACCESS, vol. 7, pp. 105755 - 105767, July 2019.
30. Yibing Wang, Yong Niu*, Hao Wu, Zhu Han, Bo Ai, Qi Wang, “Sub-Channel Allocation for Device-to-Device Underlaying Full-Duplex mmWave Small Cells using Coalition Formation Games”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 11915-11927, Dec. 2019.
31. Zhangfeng Ma, Bo Ai*, Ruisi He*, Gongpu Wang, Yong Niu, Zhangdui Zhong, “A Wideband Non-Stationary Air-to-Air Channel Model for UAV Communications”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1214 - 1226, Feb. 2020.
32. Jing Li, Yong Niu*, Hao Wu, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, Shiwen Mao, “Energy-Efficient Full-Duplex Concurrent Scheduling Based on Contention Graph in mmWave Backhaul Networks”, IEEE ACCESS, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 178007-178019, Dec. 2019.
33. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu, Wen Wu，Peng Yang, Feng Lyu, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, “Efficient Hybrid Beamforming with Anti-Blockage Design for High-Speed Railway Communications”，IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 9643-9655, Sep. 2020.
34. Yali Chen, Bo Ai*, Yong Niu*, Zhu Han, Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, Guowei Shi, “Sub-Channel Allocation for Full-Duplex Access and Device-to-Device Links Underlaying Heterogeneous Cellular Networks Using Coalition Formation Games”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 9736-9749, Sep. 2020.
35. Haiyan Jiang, Yong Niu*, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, and Shiwen Mao, “QoS Aware Bandwidth Allocation and Concurrent Scheduling for Terahertz Wireless Backhaul Networks”, IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 125814 – 125825, July 2020.
36. Yibing Wang, Hao Wu, Yong Niu*, Zhu Han, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, “Coalition Game Based Full-duplex Popular Content Distribution in mmWave Vehicular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 13836-13848, Nov. 2020.
37. Zhangfeng Ma, Bo Ai, Ruisi He, Gongpu Wang, Yong Niu, Junhong Wang, Yujian Li, Mi Yang, Zhangdui Zhong, “Impact of UAV Rotation on MIMO Channel Characterization for Air-to-Ground Communication Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 12418-12431, Nov. 2020.
38. Yali Chen, Bo Ai*, Hongliang Zhang, Yong Niu*, Lingyang Song, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Device-to-Device Networks”, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
39. Yong Niu，Yong Li，Zhenyu Xiao，Depeng Jin，and Lieguang Zeng, “A heuristic scheduling scheme for directional mmWave WPANs”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology)，vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 403-407, 2015.
40. Ziqi Feng, Yong Niu*, Li Su, Depeng Jin, “Performance Analysis of the Hybrid Beamforming Based Indoor Millimeter Wave MIMO System”, accepted by Chinese Journal of Electronics.(Corresponding author)
41. Yong Niu, Ziqi Feng, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Li Su, “Timing tracking methods in millimeter-wave wireless communications”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology)，vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 61-66, 2017.
42. Yibing Wang，Yong Niu*，Weiguang Ding，Hao Wu，“A Contention Graph Based Concurrent Scheduling Algorithm in Millimeter Wave WPANs”，Journal on Communications，vol. 39, no. 12, 1-9, Dec. 2018.
Conference Paper&Poster&Demos
43. Yong Niu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin. “Promoting the Spatial Reuse of Millimeter Wave Networks Via Software-Defined Cross-Layer Design”, 20th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking (MobiCom) (Poster), 2014.
44. Yong Niu, Zhenyu Xiao, Depeng Jin, Li Su, and Lieguang Zeng, “Reduced-Routing Complexity Decoder for High-Rate QC-LDPC Codes”, 2011 International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving (ICCP), 2011.
45. Yun Zhu, Yong Niu, Jiade Li, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Yong Li, Depeng Jin, QoS-aware scheduling for small cell millimeter wave mesh backhaul, IEEE ICC, 2016.
46. Yong Niu, Ziqi Feng, Yong Li, Zhangdui Zhong, and Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, “Low Complexity and Near-Optimal Beam Selection for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems”, IWCMC, 2017.
47. Wei Feng, Yong Li, Yong Niu, Li Su, Depeng Jin, “Multicast Spatial Reuse Scheduling over Millimeter-Wave Networks”, IWCMC, 2017.
48. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, et al., “Dynamic mmWave Beam Tracking for High Speed Railway Communications”，IEEE WCNC, 2018.
49. Yu Liu, Yong Niu, Yong Li, Ming Zeng, Zhu Han，“Exploiting Multi-Hop Relay to Achieve Mobility-Aware Transmission Scheduling in mmWave Systems”，ICC, 2018.
50. Yali Chen, Yong Niu, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, Dapeng (Oliver) Wu, and Kai Li, “Using Coalition Games for QoS Aware Scheduling in mmWave WPANs”, VTC, 2018.
51. Yong Niu, Han Shi, Yong Li, Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, “Coalition Formation Games Based Sub-Channel Allocation for Device-to-Device Underlay mmWave Small Cells”, AT-RASC 2018. AT-RASC 2018 Young Scientist Award
52. Xun Li, Zhangdui Zhong, Yong Niu, Hong Zhou, “Backoff HARQ for contention-based transmission in 5G uplink”, IoTaaS 2018.
53. Liangrong Zhao, Zhangdui Zhong, Yong Niu, Hong Zhou, “Performance Evaluation of Dual Connectivity in Non-Standalone 5G IoT Networks”, IoTaaS 2018.
54. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, Wen Wu, Peng Yang, Feng Lyu, Xuemin Shen, “On Hybrid Beamforming of mmWave MU-MIMO System for High-Speed Railways”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019, pp. 1-6.
55. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, Wen Wu, Peng Yang, Feng Lyu, Xuemin Shen, “Edge Caching and Content Delivery with Minimized Delay for both High-Speed Train and Local Users”，IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, December 9 – 13, in Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.
56. Yali Chen, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, Zhangdui Zhong, Zhu Han, “Energy Efficient Resource Allocation and Computation Offloading in Millimeter-Wave based Fog Radio Access Networks”, ICC 2020, pp. 1-7.
57. Meilin Gao, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, “QoE-Aware Coordinated Caching for Adaptive Video Streaming in High-speed Railways”，IEEE VTC2020-Fall.
58. Lei Wang, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, Zhangdui Zhong, Qi Wang, Zhu Han, “A Fast Beam Training Method for 5G New Radio”, ICCC 2020.
59. Yali Chen, Bo Ai, Hongliang Zhang, Yong Niu, Lingyang Song, Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted D2D Networks: Power and Discrete Phase Shift Design”, Globecom2020.
Patents
60. Yong Niu, Zhenyu Xiao, Depeng Jin, et al. “A timing tracking scheme under multipath channels”, Apply Date: 30/05/2013, Apply No: 201310211241.6, granted on April 20, 2016. (in Chinese).