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|time='''2023-05-11 9:30'''
|time='''2026-01-30 10:30'''
|addr=4th Research Building A518
|addr=4th Research Building A518
|note=Useful links: [[Resource:Reading_List|Readling list]]; [[Resource:Seminar_schedules|Schedules]]; [[Resource:Previous_Seminars|Previous seminars]].
|note=Useful links: [[Resource:Reading_List|📚 Readling list]]; [[Resource:Seminar_schedules|📆 Schedules]]; [[Resource:Previous_Seminars|🧐 Previous seminars]].
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===Latest===
===Latest===
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|abstract=This paper presents a Long Range (LoRa) physical-layer data aggregation system (LoRaPDA) that aggregates data (e.g., sum, average, min, max) directly in the physical layer. In particular, after coordinating a few nodes to transmit their data simultaneously, the gateway leverages a new multi-packet reception (MPR) approach to compute aggregate data from the phase-asynchronous superimposed signal. Different from the analog approach which requires additional power synchronization and phase synchronization, our MRP-based digital approach is compatible with commercial LoRa nodes and is more reliable. Different from traditional MPR approaches that are designed for the collision decoding scenario, our new MPR approach allows simultaneous transmissions with small packet arrival time offsets, and addresses a new co-located peak problem through the following components: 1) an improved channel and offset estimation algorithm that enables accurate phase tracking in each symbol, 2) a new symbol demodulation algorithm that finds the maximum likelihood sequence of nodes' data, and 3) a soft-decision packet decoding algorithm that utilizes the likelihoods of several sequences to improve decoding performance. Trace-driven simulation results show that the symbol demodulation algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art MPR decoder by 5.3× in terms of physical-layer throughput, and the soft decoder is more robust to unavoidable adverse phase misalignment and estimation error in practice. Moreover, LoRaPDA outperforms the state-of-the-art MPR scheme by at least 2.1× for all SNRs in terms of network throughput, demonstrating quick and reliable data aggregation.
|abstract = LoRa technology promises to enable Internet of Things applications over large geographical areas. However, its performance is often hampered by poor channel quality in urban environments, where blockage and multipath effects are prevalent. Our study uncovers that a slight shift in the position or attitude of the receiving antenna can substantially improve the received signal quality. This phenomenon can be attributed to the rich multipath characteristics of wireless signal propagation in urban environments, wherein even small antenna movement can alter the dominant signal path or reduce the polarization angular difference between transceivers. Leveraging these key observations, we propose and implement MoLoRa, an intelligent mobile antenna system designed to enhance LoRa packet reception. At its core, MoLoRa represents the position and attitude of an antenna as a state and employs a statistical optimization method to search for states that offer optimal signal quality efficiently. Through extensive evaluation, we demonstrate that MoLoRa achieves a maximum Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) gain of 13 dB in a few attempts, enabling formerly problematic blind spots to reconnect and strengthening links for other nodes.
|confname=INFOCOM 2023
|confname =SenSys'25
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9519523
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715014.3722075
|title=Quick and Reliable LoRa Physical-layer Data Aggregation through Multi-Packet Reception
|title= MoLoRa: Intelligent Mobile Antenna System for Enhanced LoRa Reception in Urban Environments
|speaker=Kaiwen}}
|speaker=Kai Chen
|date=2026-1-30
}}
{{Latest_seminar
{{Latest_seminar
|abstract = Real-time depth estimation is critical for the increasingly popular augmented reality and virtual reality applications on mobile devices. Yet existing solutions are insufficient as they require expensive depth sensors or motion of the device, or have a high latency. We propose MobiDepth, a real-time depth estimation system using the widely-available on-device dual cameras. While binocular depth estimation is a mature technique, it is challenging to realize the technique on commodity mobile devices due to the different focal lengths and unsynchronized frame flows of the on-device dual cameras and the heavy stereo-matching algorithm. To address the challenges, MobiDepth integrates three novel techniques: 1) iterative field-of-view cropping, which crops the field-of-views of the dual cameras to achieve the equivalent focal lengths for accurate epipolar rectification; 2) heterogeneous camera synchronization, which synchronizes the frame flows captured by the dual cameras to avoid the displacement of moving objects across the frames in the same pair; 3) mobile GPU-friendly stereo matching, which effectively reduces the latency of stereo matching on a mobile GPU. We implement MobiDepth on multiple commodity mobile devices and conduct comprehensive evaluations. Experimental results show that MobiDepth achieves real-time depth estimation of 22 frames per second with a significantly reduced depth-estimation error compared with the baselines. Using MobiDepth, we further build an example application of 3D pose estimation, which significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art 3D pose-estimation method, reducing the pose-estimation latency and error by up to 57.1% and 29.5%, respectively.
|abstract =Large language models (LLMs) achieve superior performance in generative tasks. However, due to the natural gap between language model generation and structured information extraction in three dimensions: task type, output format, and modeling granularity, they often fall short in structured information extraction, a crucial capability for effective data utilization on the web. In this paper, we define the generation process of the language model as the controllable state transition, aligning the generation and extraction processes to ensure the integrity of the output structure and adapt to the goals of the information extraction task. Furthermore, we propose the Structure2Text decider to help the language model understand the fine-grained extraction information, which converts the structured output into natural language and makes state decisions, thereby focusing on the task-specific information kernels, and alleviating language model hallucinations and incorrect content generation. We conduct extensive experiments and detailed analyses on myriad information extraction tasks, including named entity recognition, relation extraction, and event argument extraction. Our method not only achieves significant performance improvements but also considerably enhances the model's capability to generate precise and relevant content, making the extracted content easy to parse.
|confname=Mobicom 2022
|confname =WWW'25
|link=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3495243.3560517
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3696410.3714571
|title=MobiDepth: real-time depth estimation using on-device dual cameras
|title= Bridging the Gap: Aligning Language Model Generation with Structured Information Extraction via Controllable State Transition
|speaker=Wenjie}}
|speaker=Daobin
{{Latest_seminar
|date=2026-1-30
|abstract = Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm enabling sharing of the coupled data, computation, and networking resources among heterogeneous geo-distributed edge nodes. Recently, there has been a trend to orchestrate and schedule containerized application workloads in CEC, while Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard broadly adopted by the industry and academia. However, Kubernetes is not preferable for CEC because its design is not dedicated to edge computing and neglects the unique features of edge nativeness. More specifically, Kubernetes primarily ensures resource provision of workloads while neglecting the performance requirements of edge-native applications, such as throughput and latency. Furthermore, Kubernetes neglects the inner dependencies of edge-native applications and fails to consider data locality and networking resources, leading to inferior performance. In this work, we design and develop ENTS, the first edge-native task scheduling system, to manage the distributed edge resources and facilitate efficient task scheduling to optimize the performance of edge-native applications. ENTS extends Kubernetes with the unique ability to collaboratively schedule computation and networking resources by comprehensively considering job profile and resource status. We showcase the superior efficacy of ENTS with a case study on data streaming applications. We mathematically formulate a joint task allocation and flow scheduling problem that maximizes the job throughput. We design two novel online scheduling algorithms to optimally decide the task allocation, bandwidth allocation, and flow routing policies. The extensive experiments on a real-world edge video analytics application show that ENTS achieves 43% -220% higher average job throughput compared with the state-of-the-art.
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|confname=SEC 2022
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9996714
|title=ENTS: An Edge-native Task Scheduling System for Collaborative Edge Computing
|speaker=Qinyong}}
 
 
 
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{{Resource:Previous_Seminars}}
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Latest revision as of 10:51, 30 January 2026

Time: 2026-01-30 10:30
Address: 4th Research Building A518
Useful links: 📚 Readling list; 📆 Schedules; 🧐 Previous seminars.

Latest

  1. [SenSys'25] MoLoRa: Intelligent Mobile Antenna System for Enhanced LoRa Reception in Urban Environments, Kai Chen
    Abstract: LoRa technology promises to enable Internet of Things applications over large geographical areas. However, its performance is often hampered by poor channel quality in urban environments, where blockage and multipath effects are prevalent. Our study uncovers that a slight shift in the position or attitude of the receiving antenna can substantially improve the received signal quality. This phenomenon can be attributed to the rich multipath characteristics of wireless signal propagation in urban environments, wherein even small antenna movement can alter the dominant signal path or reduce the polarization angular difference between transceivers. Leveraging these key observations, we propose and implement MoLoRa, an intelligent mobile antenna system designed to enhance LoRa packet reception. At its core, MoLoRa represents the position and attitude of an antenna as a state and employs a statistical optimization method to search for states that offer optimal signal quality efficiently. Through extensive evaluation, we demonstrate that MoLoRa achieves a maximum Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) gain of 13 dB in a few attempts, enabling formerly problematic blind spots to reconnect and strengthening links for other nodes.
  2. [WWW'25] Bridging the Gap: Aligning Language Model Generation with Structured Information Extraction via Controllable State Transition, Daobin
    Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve superior performance in generative tasks. However, due to the natural gap between language model generation and structured information extraction in three dimensions: task type, output format, and modeling granularity, they often fall short in structured information extraction, a crucial capability for effective data utilization on the web. In this paper, we define the generation process of the language model as the controllable state transition, aligning the generation and extraction processes to ensure the integrity of the output structure and adapt to the goals of the information extraction task. Furthermore, we propose the Structure2Text decider to help the language model understand the fine-grained extraction information, which converts the structured output into natural language and makes state decisions, thereby focusing on the task-specific information kernels, and alleviating language model hallucinations and incorrect content generation. We conduct extensive experiments and detailed analyses on myriad information extraction tasks, including named entity recognition, relation extraction, and event argument extraction. Our method not only achieves significant performance improvements but also considerably enhances the model's capability to generate precise and relevant content, making the extracted content easy to parse.

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