Biography (resume)

He is currently a Research Assistant Professor (RAP) at the Department of Computing (COMP) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU). Before that, he joined PolyU as a Post-doctoral Fellow in Aug 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Yuanqing ZHENG. He received B.S. degree in Software Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China in 2010. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the same university in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. 

News

09/2024: One paper accepted by ACM SenSys'24.

08/2024: One paper accepted by ICNP'24.

06/2024: We have successfully secured a General Research Fund from HK UGC.

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Hiring 

We are looking for research assistants, Ph.D. students and Post-doc research staff at all levels in IoT networking and applications. Multiple openings are now available! (see more details)

Research Interests

Autonomous UAV systems, Satellite networks, Open RAN, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), Artificial Internet-of-Things (AIoT). 

Teaching

COMP1411 -- Introduction to Computer Systems (Semester 2)

Selected Publications (Full Lists)

[SenSys'24] Shiming Yu, Xianjin Xia, Ziyue Zhang, Ningning Hou, Yuanqing Zheng, "FDLoRa: Tackling Downlink-Uplink Asymmetry with Full-duplex LoRa Gateways", in proc. of ACM SenSys '24, Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2024.

[MobiCom'24] Shiming Yu, Xianjin Xia, Ningning Hou, Yuanqing Zheng, Tao Gu, "Revolutionizing LoRa Gateway with XGate: Scalable Concurrent Transmission across Massive Logical Channels", in proc. of ACM MobiCom ’24), Washington D.C., USA, Nov. 2024.

[MobiCom'23] Xianjin Xia, Qianwu Chen, Ningning Hou, Yuanqing Zheng, Mo Li, "XCopy: Boosting Weak Links for Reliable LoRa Communication'', in proc. of ACM MobiCom ’23, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2023.

[SenSys'22] Xianjin Xia, Qianwu Chen, Ningning Hou, Yuanqing Zheng, “HyLink: Towards High Throughput LPWANs with LoRa Compatible Communication”, in proc. of ACM SenSys’22, Boston, MA, USA, Nov 2022. 

[INFOCOM'22] Ningning Hou, Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng, “Don’t Miss Weak Packets: Boosting LoRa Reception with Antenna Diversities”, in proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’22, Virtual event, Apr 2022. 

[MobiCom'21] Xianjin Xia, Ningning Hou, Yuanqing Zheng, Tao Gu. “PCube: Scaling LoRa Concurrent Transmissions with Reception Diversities”, in proc. of ACM MobiCom’21, New Olean, USA, Oct 2021. 

[INFOCOM'21] Ningning Hou, Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng, “Jamming of LoRa PHY and Countermeasure”, in proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’21, Vancouver, Canada, Apr 2021. 

[INFOCOM'20] Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng, Tao Gu, “LiteNap: Downclocking LoRa Reception”, in proc. of IEEE INFOCOM’20, Beijing, China, pp. 2321–2330, Jul 2020. 

[SenSys'19] Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng, Tao Gu, “FTrack: Parallel Decoding for LoRa Transmissions”, in proc. of ACM SenSys’19, New York, USA, pp. 192–204, Nov 2019. 

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