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{{SemNote
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|time='''Thursday 16:20-18:00'''
|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===
{{Latest_seminar
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|abstract=Versatile Internet of Things (IoT) applications call for re-configurable IoT devices that can easily extend new functionality on demand. However, the heterogeneity of functional chips brings difficulties in device customization, leading to inadequate flexibility. In this paper, we propose LEGO, a novel architecture for chip-level re-configurable IoT devices that supports plug-and-play with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) chips. To combat the heterogeneity of functional chips, we first design a novel Unified Chip Description Language (UCDL) with meta-operation and chip specifications to access various types of functional chips uniformly. Then, to achieve chips plug-and-play, we build up a novel platform and shift all chip control logic to the gateway, which makes IoT devices entirely decoupled from specific applications and does not need to make any changes when plugging in new functional chips. Finally, to handle communications overheads, we built up a novel orchestration architecture for gateway instructions, which minimizes instruction transmission frequency in remote chip control. We implement the prototype and conduct extensive evaluations with 100+ types of COTS functional chips. The results show that new functional chips can be automatically accessed by the system within 0.13 seconds after being plugged in, and only bringing 0.53 kb of communication load on average, demonstrating the efficacy of LEGO design.
|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=ASPLOS '23
|confname =SenSys'25
|link=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582016.3582050
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715014.3722075
|title=LEGO: Empowering Chip-Level Functionality Plug-and-Play for Next-Generation IoT Devices
|title= MoLoRa: Intelligent Mobile Antenna System for Enhanced LoRa Reception in Urban Environments
|speaker=Pengfei
|speaker=Kai Chen
|date=2023-11-09}}
|date=2026-1-30
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{{Latest_seminar
{{Latest_seminar
|abstract=In VANETs, it is important to support fast and reliable multi-hop broadcast for safety-related applications. The performance of multi-hop broadcast schemes is greatly affected by relay selection strategies. However, the relationship between the relay selection strategies and the expected broadcast performance has not been fully characterized yet. Furthermore, conventional broadcast schemes usually attempt to minimize the waiting time difference between adjacent relay candidates to reduce the waiting time overhead, which makes the relay selection process vulnerable to internal interference, occurring due to retransmissions from previous forwarders and transmissions from redundant relays. In this paper, we jointly take both of the relay selection and the internal interference mitigation into account and propose a fast, reliable, opportunistic multi-hop broadcast scheme, in which we utilize a novel metric called the expected broadcast speed in relay selection and propose a delayed retransmission mechanism to mitigate the adverse effect of retransmissions from previous forwarders and an expected redundancy probability based mechanism to mitigate the adverse effect of redundant relays. The performance evaluation results show that the proposed scheme yields the best broadcast performance among the four schemes in terms of the broadcast coverage ratio and the end-to-end delivery latency.
|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=TMC '23
|confname =WWW'25
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9566795
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3696410.3714571
|title=A Fast, Reliable, Opportunistic Broadcast Scheme With Mitigation of Internal Interference in VANETs
|title= Bridging the Gap: Aligning Language Model Generation with Structured Information Extraction via Controllable State Transition
|speaker=Luwei
|speaker=Daobin
|date=2023-11-09}}
|date=2026-1-30
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|abstract=With the explosive increment of computation requirements, the multiaccess edge computing (MEC) paradigm appears as an effective mechanism. Besides, as for the Internet of Things (IoT) in disasters or remote areas requiring MEC services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs) are available to provide aerial computing services for these IoT devices. In this article, we develop the hierarchical aerial computing framework composed of HAPs and UAVs, to provide MEC services for various IoT applications. In particular, the problem is formulated to maximize the total IoT data computed by the aerial MEC platforms, restricted by the delay requirement of IoT and multiple resource constraints of UAVs and HAPs, which is an integer programming problem and intractable to solve. Due to the prohibitive complexity of the exhaustive search, we handle the problem by presenting the matching game theory-based algorithm to deal with the offloading decisions from IoT devices to UAVs, as well as a heuristic algorithm for the offloading decisions between UAVs and HAPs. The external effect affected by the interplay of different IoT devices in the matching is tackled by the externality elimination mechanism. Besides, an adjustment algorithm is also proposed to make the best of aerial resources. The complexity of proposed algorithms is analyzed and extensive simulation results verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithms, and the system performances are also analyzed by the numerical results.
|confname=IoTJ '23
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714482?denied=
|title=Hierarchical Aerial Computing for Internet of Things via Cooperation of HAPs and UAVs
|speaker=Kun Wang
|date=2023-11-09}}
{{Latest_seminar
|abstract=Serverless applications are typically composed of function workflows in which multiple short-lived functions are triggered to exchange data in response to events or state changes. Current serverless platforms coordinate and trigger functions by following high-level invocation dependencies but are oblivious to the underlying data exchanges between functions. This design is neither efficient nor easy to use in orchestrating complex workflows – developers often have to manage complex function interactions by themselves, with customized implementation and unsatisfactory performance. In this paper, we argue that function orchestration should follow a data-centric approach. In our design, the platform provides a data bucket abstraction to hold the intermediate data generated by functions. Developers can use a rich set of data trigger primitives to control when and how the output of each function should be passed to the next functions in a workflow. By making data consumption explicit and allowing it to trigger functions and drive the workflow, complex function interactions can be easily and efficiently supported. We present Pheromone – a scalable, low-latency serverless platform following this data-centric design. Compared to well-established commercial and open-source platforms, Pheromone cuts the latencies of function interactions and data exchanges by orders of magnitude, scales to large workflows, and enables easy implementation of complex applications.
|confname=NSDI '23
|link=https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/yu
|title=Following the Data, Not the Function: Rethinking Function Orchestration in Serverless Computing
|speaker=Mengfan
|date=2023-11-09}}
{{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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