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{{SemNote
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|time='''Friday 10:30-12:00'''
|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
{{Latest_seminar
|abstract=LoRa has emerged as one of the promising long-range and low-power wireless communication technologies for Internet of Things (IoT). With the massive deployment of LoRa networks, the ability to perform Firmware Update Over-The-Air (FUOTA) is becoming a necessity for unattended LoRa devices. LoRa Alliance has recently dedicated the specification for FUOTA, but the existing solution has several drawbacks, such as low energy efficiency, poor transmission reliability, and biased multicast grouping. In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient, reliable, and beamforming-assisted FUOTA system for LoRa networks named FLoRa, which is featured with several techniques, including delta scripting, channel coding, and beamforming. In particular, we first propose a novel joint differencing and compression algorithm to generate the delta script for processing gain, which unlocks the potential of incremental FUOTA in LoRa networks. Afterward, we design a concatenated channel coding scheme to enable reliable transmission against dynamic link quality. The proposed scheme uses a rateless code as outer code and an error detection code as inner code to achieve coding gain. Finally, we design a beamforming strategy to avoid biased multicast and compromised throughput for power gain. Experimental results on a 20-node testbed demonstrate that FLoRa improves network transmission reliability by up to 1.51 × and energy efficiency by up to 2.65 × compared with the existing solution in LoRaWAN.
|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=IPSN 2023
|confname =SenSys'25
|link=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583120.3586963
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715014.3722075
|title=FLoRa: Energy-Efficient, Reliable, and Beamforming-Assisted Over-The-Air Firmware Update in LoRa Networks
|title= MoLoRa: Intelligent Mobile Antenna System for Enhanced LoRa Reception in Urban Environments
|speaker=Kai Chen
|speaker=Kai Chen
|date=2024-05-10}}
|date=2026-1-30
}}
{{Latest_seminar
{{Latest_seminar
|abstract=As a promising infrastructure, edge storage systems have drawn many attempts to efficiently distribute and share data among edge servers. However, it remains open to meeting the increasing demand for similarity retrieval across servers. The intrinsic reason is that the existing solutions can only return an exact data match for a query while more general edge applications require the data similar to a query input from any server. To fill this gap, this paper pioneers a new paradigm to support high-dimensional similarity search at network edges. Specifically, we propose Prophet, the first known architecture for similarity data indexing. We first divide the feature space of data into plenty of subareas, then project both subareas and edge servers into a virtual plane where the distances between any two points can reflect not only data similarity but also network latency. When any edge server submits a request for data insert, delete, or query, it computes the data feature and the virtual coordinates; then iteratively forwards the request through greedy routing based on the forwarding tables and the virtual coordinates. By Prophet, similar high-dimensional features would be stored by a common server or several nearby servers. Compared with distributed hash tables in P2P networks, Prophet requires logarithmic servers to access for a data request and reduces the network latency from the logarithmic to the constant level of the server number. Experimental results indicate that Prophet achieves comparable retrieval accuracy and shortens the query latency by 55%~70% compared with centralized schemes.
|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=INFOCOM 2023
|confname =WWW'25
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10228941/
|link = https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3696410.3714571
|title=Prophet: An Efficient Feature Indexing Mechanism for Similarity Data Sharing at Network Edge
|title= Bridging the Gap: Aligning Language Model Generation with Structured Information Extraction via Controllable State Transition
|speaker=Rong Cong
|speaker=Daobin
|date=2024-05-10}}
|date=2026-1-30
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|abstract=User-associated contents play an increasingly important role in modern network applications. With growing deployments of edge servers, the capacity of content storage in edge clusters significantly increases, which provides great potential to satisfy content requests with much shorter latency. However, the large number of contents also causes the difficulty of searching contents on edge servers in different locations because indexing contents costs huge DRAM on each edge server. In this work, we explore the opportunity of efficiently indexing user-associated contents and propose a scal-able content-sharing mechanism for edge servers, called EdgeCut, that significantly reduces content access latency by allowing many edge servers to share their cached contents. We design a compact and dynamic data structure called Ludo Locator that returns the IP address of the edge server that stores the requested user-associated content. We have implemented a prototype of EdgeCut in a real network environment running in a public geo-distributed cloud. The experiment results show that EdgeCut reduces content access latency by up to 50% and reduces cloud traffic by up to 50% compared to existing solutions. The memory cost is less than 50MB for 10 million mobile users. The simulations using real network latency data show EdgeCut's advantages over existing solutions on a large scale.
|confname=SEC 2023
|link=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10419278/
|title=EdgeCut: Fast and Low-overhead Access of User-associated Contents from Edge Servers
|speaker=Rong Cong
|date=2024-05-10}}
{{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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