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Recent Papers
(* = student supervised by Wing)Cloud Computing and Big Data Systems
Huanle Xu*, Huangting Wu*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Revisiting SRPT for Job Scheduling in Computing Clusters," the 14th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA), August 2019.
Yang Liu*, Huanle Xu*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Online Job Scheduling with Resource Packing on a Cluster of Heterogeneous Servers," IEEE Infocom, Apr 2019.
Huanle Xu*, Yang Liu*, Wing Cheong Lau, Jun Guo, Alex X. Liu, "Efficient Online Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Clusters with Machine Variability," IEEE Infocom, Apr 2019.
Huanle Xu*, Gustavo De Veciana, Wing Cheong Lau, and Kunxiao Zhou. "Online Job Scheduling with Redundancy and Opportunistic Checkpointing: A Speedup-Function-Based Analysis." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 30, no. 4 (2018): 897-909. Harvard
Huanle Xu*, Wing Cheong Lau, Zhibo Yang*, Gustavo de Veciana, Hanxu Hou, "Mitigating Service Variability in MapReduce Clusters via Task Cloning: A Competitive Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.28, Issue 10, Oct 2017.
Huanle Xu*, Gustavo de Veciana, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Addressing job processing variability through redundant execution and opportunistic checkpointing: A competitive analysis." In IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2017.
Huanle Xu*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Optimization for Speculative Execution in Big Data Processing Clusters," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.28, Issue 2, Feb 2017.
Huanle Xu*, Ronghai Yang*, Zhibo Yang*, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Solving Large Graph Problems in MapReduce-Like Frameworks via Optimized Parameter Configuration." In International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, pp. 525-539. Springer, Cham, 2015.
Huanle Xu*, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Task-cloning algorithms in a MapReduce cluster with competitive performance bounds." In 2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 339-348. IEEE, 2015.
Huanle Xu*, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Optimization for speculative execution in a MapReduce-like cluster." In 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 1071-1079. IEEE, 2015.
Huanle Xu*, Ronghai Yang*, Zhibo Yang* and Wing Cheong Lau, "Solving Graph Problems in MapReduce-like Frameworks via Optimized Parameter Configuration," The 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Zhangjiajie, China, Nov. 2015.
Security of SSO (Single-Sign-On) Protocol
Shangcheng Shi*, Xianbo Wang*, Wing Cheong Lau, "MoSSOT: An Automated Blackbox Tester for Single Sign-On Vulnerabilities in Mobile Applications," ACM AsiaCCS, July 2019.
Xianbo Wang*, Wing Cheong Lau, Shangcheng Shi*, Ronghai Yang*, "Make Redirection Evil Again -- URL Parser Issues in OAuth," BlackHat Asia, Mar 2019.
Ronghai Yang*, Wing Cheong Lau, Jiongyi Chen*, Kehuan Zhang, "Vetting Single-Sign-On SDK Implementations via Symbolic Reasoning," in the 27th USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2018. This work received the 2018 Internet Defense Prize (2nd Runner-up) from USENIX and Facebook.
Jiongyi Chen*, Wenrui Diao, Qingchuan Zhao, Chaoshun Zuo, Zhiqiang Lin, XiaoFeng Wang, Wing Cheong Lau, Menghan Sun, Ronghai Yang* and Kehuan Zhang, "IoTFuzzer: Discovering Memory Corruptions in IoT through App-based Fuzzing," in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb 2018.
Ronghai Yang*, Wing Cheong Lau, and Shangcheng Shi. "Breaking and fixing mobile app authentication with OAuth2. 0-based protocols." In International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, pp. 313-335. Springer, Cham, 2017.
Ronghai Yang*, Guanchen Li*, Wing Cheong Lau, Kehuan Zhang, and Pili Hu. "Model-based security Testing: An empirical study on OAuth 2.0 implementations." In Proceedings of the 11th ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 651-662. ACM, 2016.
Ronghai Yang*, Wing Cheong Lau, and Tianyu Liu*. "Signing into one billion mobile app accounts effortlessly with oauth2. 0." blackhat Europe (2016).
Predictive Analytics for Online Social Networks
Siyue Xie, Da Sun Handason, Wing Cheong Lau, “CoCoS: Enhancing Semi-supervised Learning on Graphs with Unl abeled Data via Contrastive Context Sharing” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June. 2022.
Da Sun Handason Tam, Siyue Xie, Wing Cheong Lau, “GraphAdaMix: Enhancing Node Representa tions with Graph Adaptive Mixtures” International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, May. 2022.
Da Sun Handason Tam*, Wing Cheong Lau, Bin Hu, Qiu Fang Ying, Dah Ming Chiu, Hong Liu, "Identifying Illicit Accounts in Large Scal e E-payment Networks - A Graph Representation Learning Approach", IJCAI The 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Security, Macau, Aug 2019.
Bowen Zhang*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Temporal Modeling of Information Diffusion using MASEP: Multi-Actor Self-Exciting Processes," the 8th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb), WWW’18 Companion, April 2018.
Gao, Ruohan*, Huanle Xu*, Pili Hu, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Accelerating graph mining algorithms via uniform random edge sampling." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2016.
Li, Guanchen*, and Wing Cheong Lau. "Predicting Retweet Behavior in Online Social Networks Based on Locally Available Information." International Conference on Social Informatics. Springer, Cham, 2016.
Ruohan Gao*, Pili Hu*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Property Preservation under Community-based Sampling," IEEE Globecom, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2015.
Ruohan Gao*, Huanle Xu*, Pili Hu* and Wing Cheong Lau, "Accelerating Graph Mining Algorithms via Uniform Random Edge Sampling (Poster)," ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN), Stanford, CA, Nov. 2015.
Huanle Xu*, Pili Hu*, Wing Cheong Lau, Qiming Zhang* and Yang Wu*,"DPCP: A Protocol for Optimal Pull Coordination in Decentralized Social Networks," IEEE Infocom, Apr. 2015.
Authenticated QRCodes and its Applications
Zhibo Yang*, Huanle Xu*, Jianyuan Deng, Chen Change Loy, Wing Cheong Lau, "Robust and Fast Decoding of High-Capacity Color QR Codes for Mobile Applications," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Dec 2018
Yang Zhibo*, Zhiyi Cheng*, Chen Change Loy, Wing Cheong Lau, Chak Man Li, and Guanchen Li. "Towards robust color recovery for high-capacity color QR codes." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2866-2870. IEEE, 2016.
Chak Man Li*, Pili Hu*, Wing Cheong Lau, "AuthPaper - Protecting Paper-based Documents/ Credentials using Authenticated 2D Barcodes," in the Procs. of IEEE ICC, June 2015.Optimization for Speculative Exec
Networking Protocols and Systems
Behdad Heidarpouar*, Zbigniew Dziong, Wing Cheong Lau, Shahin Vakilinia, "Pricing the Volumed-based Data Services in Cellular Wireless Markets," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Feb 2018.
Behdad Heidarpouar*, Zbigniew Dziong, Wing Cheong Lau, Shahin Vakilinia, "Selective Free Data Access to Cellular Networks," (Invited Paper), IEEE VTC Fall, Sept 2017.
Behdad Heidarpouar*, Zbigniew Dziong, Wing Cheong Lau, "Volume-based Pricing with Guaranteed Data Rate," IEEE Infocom Workshop on Smart Data Pricing, May 2017.
Wai Kit Sze*, Yulin Deng*, Wing Cheong Lau, Murali Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal and OnChing Yue, "Channel Oblivious Counting Algorithms for Large-scale RFID Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dec 2015.
Publications Archive
Research Papers( * = graduate student )
- Deyi Sun*, Wing Cheong Lau, "Social Relationship Classification based on Interaction Data from Smartphones," to appear in the Procs. of IEEE PerCom (PerHot Workhop), March 2013.
- Ka-Hung Hui*, Onching Yue and Wing Cheong Lau, "FRASA: Feedback Retransmission Approximation for the Stability Region of Finite-User Slotted ALOHA," in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Jan. 2013.
- Yulin Deng*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Design and Evaluation of RFID Counting Algorithms under Time-correlated Channels", in the Procs. of IEEE Consumer and Networking Communications Conference (CCNC), Jan 2013.
- Tan Hing Hui*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "VECADS: Vehicular Context-Aware Downstream Scheduling for Drive-thru Internet," in the Procs. of IEEE VTC Fall, Sept, 2012.
- Ying Wai Wong, Wing Cheong Lau, Kin Ming Chan, Yichen Yang*, Tony C.Y. Tang, Fung Lam* and Alfred K.M. Lo, "An Extensible Distributed Measurement Platform for Analyzing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of Multimedia Applications over Wireless Networks," in the Procs. of IEEE VTC Fall, Sept, 2012.
- Wee Lum Tan*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Performance Analysis of an Adaptive, Energy-efficient MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Apr. 2012.
- Ka Chun Lam*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Hitchbot – Delivering Malicious URLs via Social Hitch hiking," in the Procs. of IEEE Globecom, Dec, 2011.
- Wai Kit Sze*, Thyaga Nandagopal, Wing Cheong Lau, Murali Kodialam, "RFID Tag Counting over Lossy Wireless Channels," in the Procs. of the WiOpt, May, 2011.
- Chi-Ho Lam*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Distributed Traffic Monitoring via Traffic Digest Splitting," in Computer Networks, Apr. 2011.
- Wee Lum Tan*, Wing Cheong Lau, Onching Yue and Tan Hing Hui*, "Analytical Models and Performance Evaluation of Drive-thru Internet Systems," in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Special Issue on Vehicular Communications and Networks, Jan. 2011.
- Ka-Hung Hui*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Partial Interference and Its Performance Impact on Wireless Multiple Access Networks," in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Nov. 2010.
- Wai-Kit Sze*, Wing Cheong Lau, "RFID Counting over Unreliable Radio Channels – the Capture-Recapture Approach," in the Procs. of IEEE ICC, May, 2010.
- Ho-Yan Suen*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Detecting Anomalous Web Browsing via Diffusion Wavelets," in the Procs. of IEEE ICC, May, 2010.
- Kin-Fai Li*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Session Reliability and Capacity Allocation in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks," in the Procs. of IEEE ICC, May, 2010.
- Chun-Pong Luk*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Threshold-based Opportunistic Routing Protocol in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in the Procs. of the 19th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, May, 2010.
- Chi-Ho Lam*, Wing Cheong Lau and Onching Yue, "Enhancing Distributed Traffic Monitoring via Traffic Digest Splitting," in the Procs. of IEEE ICNP (extended abstract), Oct, 2009.
Wee Lum Tan*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Modeling Resource Sharing of Road-side Access Point supporting Drive-thru Internet" ,in the Procs. of ACM VANET, Sept, 2009.
- Wai-Kit Sze*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Fast RFID Counting under Unreliable Radio Channels" ,in the Procs. of IEEE ICC, June, 2009class=""
Murali Kodialam, Wing-Cheong Lau, Thyaga Nandagopal, "Identifying RFID Tag Categories in Linear Time" ,in the Procs. of WiOpt, June, 2009.
- Chun-Pong Luk*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Opportunistic Routing with Directional Antennas in Wireless Mesh Networks" ,in the Procs. of IEEE Infocom (mini-conference), April, 2009.
Wee Lum Tan*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "An Energy-Efficient and Receiver-driven MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Network" ,in the Procs. of Beijing-Hong Kong Doctoral Forum, Dec. 2008class=""
- Wee Lum Tan*, Fung Lam and Wing-Cheong Lau, "An Empirical Study on 3G Network Capacity and Performance" ,IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.7, No.6, pp-737-750, June 2008.
- Sai-Kit Chui*, On-Ching Yue and Wing-Cheong Lau, "Impact of Handoff Control Messages on VoIP System Performance" ,in the Procs. of the 14th European Conference (EW2008), June, 2008.
Chun-Pong Luk*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "An Analysis of Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Mesh Network" in ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May. 2008.
Yuk-Nam Law, Man-Chiu Lai, Wee Lum Tan* and Wing-Cheong Lau, "Empirical Performance of IPv6 vs. IPv4 under a Dual-Stack Environment" in ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May. 2008.
Kin-Fai Li*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Link Restoration in Cognitive Radio Networks" in ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May. 2008.
Yin-Ki Ip*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Performance Modeling of Epidemic Routing with Heterogeneous Node Types" in ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May. 2008.
Ka-Hung Hui*, On-Ching Yue and Wing-Cheong Lau, "FRASA: Feedback Retransmission Approximation for the Stability Region of Finite-User Slotted ALOHA," in ICNP 2007, Beijing, China, Oct. 2007. [Poster]
Ka-Hung Hui*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Stability of Finite-User Slotted ALOHA under Partial Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks," in PIMRC 2007, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2007.
Ka-Hung Hui*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Characterizing and Exploiting Partial Interference in Wireless Mesh Networks," in ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007.
- Ching-Wan Yuen*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "CAPEL: A Packet Discard Policy for Real-time Traffic over Wireless Networks," to appear in IEEE ICC, June, 2007.
Wee Lum Tan*, Fung Lam* and Wing-Cheong Lau, "An Empirical Study on 3G Network Capacity and Performance," to appear in the Procs. of IEEE Infocom 2007, May 2007.
- Murali Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal and Wing-Cheong Lau, "Anonymous Tracking using RFID tags," to appear in the Procs. of IEEE Infocom 2007, May 2007.
Yin-Ki Ip*, Wing-Cheong Lau and On-Ching Yue, "Forwarding and Replication Strategies for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) with Resource Constraints," to appear in IEEE VTC (Spring), April, 2007.
- Paulo Ayres*, Huizhong Sun*, H. Jonathan Chao, and Wing-Cheong Lau, "ALPi: A DDoS defense System for High-speed networks", IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Oct, 2006.
- Y.K. Chan*, H.W. Chan, K.M. Chan, P.S. Chan, T. Chanson, M.H. Cheung, C.F. Chong, K.P. Chow, K.T. Hui, C.K. Hui, C.K. Lam, W.C. Lau, K.H. Pun, Y.F. Tsang, W.W. Tsang, C.W. Tso, D.Y. Yeung and K.Y. Yu, "Intrusion Detection Router: Design, Implementation and Evaluation Using an Experimental Testbed," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC) , Oct, 2006.
Wee Lum Tan*, Wing Cheong Lau and OnChing Yue, "An Energy-Efficient and Receiver-Driven MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE VTC Fall 2007 (accepted), September 2007.
Wee Lum Tan*, On-Ching Yue and Wing-Cheong Lau, "Performance Evaluation of Differentiated Services Mechanisms over Wireless Sensor Networks", in the Proc. of IEEE VTC (Fall), Sept 2006.
- Yoohwan Kim*, Wing-Cheong Lau, Mooi-Choo Chuah and H. Jonathan Chao, "PacketScore: A Statistics-based Packet Filtering Scheme against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 141-155, April-June, 2006.
- Wing Cheong Lau, "DHCPv6 Relay Agent RADIUS Attributes Option," Internet DHC working group Draft, draft-ietf-dhc-v6-relay-radius-02.txt, Feb 2006.
Technical Reports
W. L. Tan, W. C. Lau, O. C. Yue, and T. H. Hui (2010). "Analytical Models and Performance Evaluation of Drive-thru Internet Systems", Technical Report Mobitec-2010-01. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
F. Lam, Y. W. Wong, K. M. Chan, W. C. Lau (2010, Oct). Design and Implementation of Personal Wellness Application. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
Y. W. Wong, K. Li, W. C. Lau (2010, Oct). Design and Implementation of Drunkenness Detection Application. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
Y. W. Wong, F. Lam, K. M. Chan, W. C. Lau (2010, Mar). Architectural Design of an Extensible Distributed Measurement Platform for Analyzing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of Multimedia Applications over Wireless Networks. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
K. M. Chan, Y. W. Wong, W. C. Lau (2010, Feb). Implementation of Mobile Measurement Platform and Light-weight Time-series Data Mining Algorithm. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
K. M. Chan, Y. W. Wong, F. Lam, W. C. Lau (2009, Dec). Architectural Design of Mobile Measurement Platform. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
K. M. Chan, W. C. Lau (2009, Nov). Survey and Evaluation of Data Stream Mining Schemes on Smartphone-based Measurement Platform. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
K. F. Li, W. C. Lau, O. C. Yue (2009, June). Session Reliability and Capacity Allocation in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
C. P. Luk, W. C. Lau, O. C. Yue (2009, Jan). Threshold-based Opportunistic Routing Protocol in Multi-hop Wireless Networks. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
C. P. Luk, D. M. Chiu, W. C. Lau, John C.S. Lui (2008. Oct). Wireless Mesh Network Testbed - Final Report for SHIAE. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
W. K. Sze and W. C. Lau (2008, Oct). A Study on Home Networking Technologies for iHome Applications. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
Anthony Lam, Daisy Lee, W. L. Tan, Eric Wong and Andy Mak (2006, Jul). Final Report on the Modelling and Measurements of 3G Network Capacity in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
W. C. Lau, C. W. Yuen and K. H. Hui (2006, Feb). Theoretical Capacity for 3G (CDMA) Networks: A Survey. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
W. C. Lau, F. Lam and L. W. Lee (2006, Feb). 3G Capacity - Measurement Plan. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
D. M. Qu (2006, Feb). A Survey on Anti-collision Algorithms of Passive and Active RFID System. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
- O. C. Yue and W. C. Lau (2005, Sep). A Proposal for Deriving the 3G "Reference" Network Capacity in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
Eddy Chiu, S. K. Chui and O. C. Yue (2005, Sep). Wireless LAN Measurements. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
W. H. Wong and O. C. Yue (2005, Aug). GPRS Performance Measurement with a J2ME Handset. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.
K. H. Hui and O. C. Yue (2005, Jul). Analysis of a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack. Hong Kong: Mobile Technologies Centre, CUHK.