Benyuan Liu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Phone: (978) 934-2425 Fax: (978) 934-3551
Email: bliu@cs.uml.edu
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Research Interests
- Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Mobile Cloud Computing and Service
- Online Social Networks and Social Computing (Project: OSN Flu Trends)
- Network Measurement and Modeling
Selected Publications (2000+ citations)
- Twitter improves Seasonal Influenza Prediction
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu, Benyuan Liu
Fifth Annual International Conference on Health Informatics, 2012.[pdf] - HAWK: An Unmanned Mini Helicopter-based Aerial Wireless Kit for Localization
Zhongli Liu, Yinjie Chen, Benyuan Liu, Chengyu Cao, Xinwen Fu
IEEE Infocom, 2012. - Secret Communication in Large Wireless Networks without Eavesdropper Location Information
Cagatay Capar, Dennis Goeckel, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley
IEEE Infocom, 2012. - Exploiting Data Fusion to Improve the
Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), in press. - Performance Analysis of Real-Time Detection in Fusion-based Sensor Networks
Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Benyuan Liu
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2011. - Barrier Coverage with Line-Based Deployed Mobile Sensors
Anwar Saipulla, Cedric Westphal, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang
Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, in press. - Wikipedia as Mature Knowledge Networks: Domain Extraction
Zheng Fang, Jie Wang, Benyuan Liu, Weibo Gong
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), 2011. - An Intersection Collision Warning System using Wi-Fi Smartphones in VANET
Jie Yang, Jie Wang, Benyuan Liu
IEEE Globecom, 2011. - Predicting Flu Trends using Twitter data
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu, Benyuan Liu
International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Networking Systems (CPNS) 2011, in conjunction with IEEE Infocom, 2011. [pdf] - Classification of Commercial and Personal Profiles on MySpace
William Gauvin, Cindy Chen, Xinwen Fu, Benyuan Liu
IEEE International Workshop on security and social Networking (SESOC), in conjunction with Percom, 2011. [pdf] - Identifying Mobiles Hiding behind Wireless Routers
Yingjie Chen, Zhongli Liu, Benyuan Liu, Xinwen Fu, Wei Zhao
IEEE Infocom, 2011. [pdf] - Cooperative Jamming to Improve the Connectivity of the 1-D Secrecy Graph,
Cagatay Capar, Dennis Goeckel, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley,
45th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2011. - Vision: Towards Real Time Epidemic Vigilance through Online Social Networks
Lingji Chen, Harshavardhan Achrekar, Benyuan Liu, Ross Lazarus
The First ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond (MCS), in conjuction with ACM MobiSys, 2010. [pdf] - Measurement and Gender-Specific Analysis of
User Publishing Characteristics on MySpace
William Gauvin, Bruno Ribeiro, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Jie Wang, IEEE Network special issue on Online Social Networks, 2010. [pdf] - On MySpace Account Spans and Double Pareto-Like Distribution of Friends
Bruno Ribeiro, William Gauvin, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley
Second International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom), 2010. [pdf] - Barrier Coverage with Sensors of Limited
Mobility
Anwar Saipulla, Benyuan Liu, Guoliang Xing, Xinwen Fu, Jie Wang
Eleventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), 2010. [pdf] - Finding and Mending Barrier Gaps in Wireless Sensor Networks
Anwar Saipulla, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang
IEEE Globecom, 2010. [pdf] - Barrier Coverage of Line-Based Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks
Anwar Saipulla, Cedric Westphal, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang
IEEE Infocom, 2009. (acceptance ratio: 282/1435=19.7%)[pdf] - Data Fusion Improves the Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
Guoliang Xing, Rui Tan, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia, Chih-wei Yi
ACM MobiCom, 2009. (acceptance ratio: 30/282=10.6%) [pdf] - Impact of Data Fusion on Real-Time Detection in Sensor Networks
Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang
The 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Washington, DC, December, 2009. (acceptance ratio: 21%) [pdf] - Asymptotic Connectivity Properties of Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Dennis L. Goeckel, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Liaoruo Wang, Cedric Westphal
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Issue on Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for Wireless Networks, 2009. [pdf] - Underwater Barriers with Sensor Networks Using Auction Algorithms
Stanley Barr, Benyuan Liu, Jie Wang
The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2009. [pdf] - Utopia: Providing Trusted Social Network Relationships within an Un-Trusted Environment
William Gauvin, Benyuan Liu, Xinwen Fu, Jie Wang
to appear in Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS'09), 2009.[pdf] - Full Connectivity and Percolation in Large Cooperative Wireless Networks
Cagatay Capar, Dennis Goeckel, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Liaoruo Wang, Cedric Westphal
The Third Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ITA'09), 2009. - Strong Barrier Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
Benyuan Liu, Olivier Dousse, Jie Wang, Anwar Saipulla
ACM Mobihoc, 2008. (acceptance ratio: 44/300=14.7%) [pdf] - Connectivity in Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Liaoruo Wang, Benyuan Liu, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, Cedric Westphal
ACM Mobihoc, 2008.(acceptance ratio: 44/300=14.7%) [pdf] - Data Gathering Capacity of Large Scale Multihop Wireless Networks
Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Ananthram Swami
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2008. [pdf] (regular paper, acceptance ratio: 12.4%) - Capacity of a Wireless Ad Hoc Network with Infrastructure
Benyuan Liu, Patrick Thiran, Don Towsley
ACM Mobihoc, 2007. (acceptance ratio: 27/146=18.5%) [pdf] - Throughput Optimization and Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless LANs
Qunfeng Dong, Suman Banerjee, Benyuan Liu
IEEE Infocom, 2006. (acceptance ratio: 252/1040=18%) [pdf] - On the Efficiency of Fluid Simulation of Networks
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Yang Guo, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley
Computer Networks Journal, Volume 50, Issue 12, 2006. [pdf] - Mobility Improves Coverage of Sensor Network
Benyuan Liu, Peter Brass, Olivier Dousse, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley
ACM MobiHoc, 2005. (acceptance ratio: 40/281 = 14.2%, 122 citations) [pdf] - On TCP and self-similar Traffic
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Anja Feldmann, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley, Walter Willinger
Performance Evaluation, Vol 61, 2005. [pdf] - Properties of Random Direction Model
Philippe Nain, Don Towsley, Benyuan Liu, Zhen Liu
IEEE Infocom, 2005. (acceptance ratio: 244/1419=17.2%, 81 citations) [pdf] - A study on the Coverage of Large-scale Sensor Networks
Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2004. (acceptance ratio: 52/207=25.1%, 133 citations) [pdf] - Single-Hop Probing Asymptotics in Available Bandwidth Estimation: Sample-Path Analysis
X. Liu, K. Ravindran, Benyuan Liu, and D. Loguinov
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2004. (acceptance ratio: 39/157=24.8%) [pdf] - Modeling Frame-level Errors in GSM Wireless Channels
Ping Ji, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose
Performance Evaluation, Vol 55, 2004. [pdf] - On the Coverage and Detectability of Wireless Sensor Networks
Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley
Proc. of WiOpt'03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks, extended abstract - On the Capacity of Hybrid Wireless Networks
Benyuan Liu, Zhen Liu, Don Towsley
IEEE Infocom, 2003. (acceptance ratio: 224/1078=20.8%, 247 citations) [pdf] - On the Autocorrelation Structure of TCP Traffic
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley
Computer Networks Journal Special Issue on "Advances in Modeling and Engineering of Long-Range Dependent Traffic", 2002.(91 citations) [pdf] - TCP-Cognizant Adaptive Forward Error Correction in Wireless Networks
Benyuan Liu, Dennis L. Goeckel, Don Towsley
IEEE Globecom (Global Internet Symposium), 2002. (acceptance ratio: 28/142=19.7%) [pdf] - Modeling Frame-level Errors in GSM Wireless Channels
Ping Ji, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose
IEEE Globecom, 2002 (Internet Performance Symposium)[pdf] - A Study of Networks Simulation Efficiency: Fluid Simulation vs. Packet-level Simulation
Benyuan Liu, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Yang Guo, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley
IEEE Infocom 2001. (acceptance ratio: 192/830 submissions=23.1%, 121 citations) [pdf] - Fluid Simulation of Large Scale Networks: Issues and Tradeoffs
Benyuan Liu, Yang Guo, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, and Weibo Gong
PDPTA'99 [pdf]