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Yang CaoAssociate Professor
School of Electronic Information and Communications
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
E-mail: ycao@hust.edu.cn
Mail Address:Office C101, South Building 1, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China.





Research Interests
QoE-Aware Video Streaming, 5G Cellular, Future Network, Internet of Things



Education
2010.9-2014.6, PhD, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
2009.9-2010.6, Master, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
2005.9-2009.6, Bachelor, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.



Experience
Visiting Scholar, 2011.9-2013.9, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, USA.



Selected Publications

Books
Tao Jiang, Liang Yu and Yang Cao. Energy management of Internet data centers in smart grid, Springer, 2015 (ISBN-10: 50).


Tao Jiang, Zhiqiang Wang and Yang Cao. Cognitive radio networks: efficient resource allocation in cooperative sensing, cellular communications, high-speed vehicles, and the smart grid, CRC Press, 2015 (ISBN-10: 34).





QoE-Aware Video Streaming
Hao Zhu, Yang Cao, Wei Wang, Boxi Liu and Tao Jiang, “QoE-aware resource allocation for adaptive device-to-device video streaming,” IEEE Network, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 6-12, 2015.


Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Xu Chen, and Junshan Zhang, “Social-Aware Video Multicast Based on Device-to-Device Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1528–1539, Jun. 2016.


Yang Cao, Xu Chen, Tao Jiang, and Junshan Zhang, “SoCast: social ties based cooperative video multicast,” IEEE INFOCOM, Apr. 27 - May. 2, 2014, Toronto, Canada.


Boxi Liu, Yang Cao, Wei Wang and Tao Jiang, “Energy budget aware device-to-device cooperation for mobile videos,” IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015.





5G Cellular
Yulei Zhao, Yong Li, Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, and Ning Ge, “Social-aware resource allocation for device-to-device communications underlaying cellular networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 6621-6634, 2015.


Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Chonggang Wang, “Cooperative device-to-device communications in cellular networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 124-129, 2015.


Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Chonggang Wang and Lei Zhang, “CRAC: Cognitive radio assisted cooperation for downlink transmissions in OFDMA-based cellular networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1614-1622, 2012.


Yang Cao, Daiming Qu and Tao Jiang, “Throughput maximization in cognitive radio system with transmission probability scheduling and traffic pattern prediction,” ACM/springer mobile networks and applications (MONET), vol. 17, no. 5, 604-617, 2012.


Yang Cao, Daiming Qu, Guohui Zhong and Tao Jiang, “Throughput maximization for opportunistic spectrum access via transmission probability scheduling scheme,” ICST Chinacom, 2010. (Best Paper Award).


Qibiao Zhu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, Kai Luo, and Nanrun Zhou. “Radio vortex for future wireless broadband communications with high capacity,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 98-104, 2015.


Shiyong Yang, Tao Jiang, and Yang Cao. “Capacity region of a class of Gaussian cognitive degraded broadcast channel,” China Communications, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 137-144, 2013.


Lei Zhang, Tao Jiang, Yun Zhang and Yang Cao, “Grade of service of opportunistic spectrum access based cognitive cellular networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 126-133, 2013.


Zhuo Chen, Hongyi Zhao, Yang Cao and Tao Jiang, “Load balancing for D2D-based relay communications in heterogeneous network,” International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2015.


Lei Zhang, Tao Jiang, Junyang Shen, Zhiqiang Wang, and Yang Cao, “Proportional fair scheduling based on primary user traffic patterns for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks,” ICCC 2012, Beijing, China, 15-18 Aug. 2012.


Shiyong Yang, Tao Jiang, and Yang Cao, “Capacity region of Gaussian cognitive broadcast channel in low-interference-gain regime,” ICCC 2012, Beijing, China, 15-18 Aug. 2012.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Peng Guo, Yang Cao and Daiming Qu, “Improving achievable traffic load of secondary users under GoS constraints in cognitive wireless networks,” IEEE Globecom, 2011.


Rui Min, Daiming Qu, Yang Cao and Guohui Zhong, “Interference avoidance based on multi-step-ahead prediction for cognitive radio,” IEEE ICCS, 2008.





Future Network
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang and Chonggang Wang, “Optimal radio resource allocation for mobile task offloading in cellular networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 68-73, 2014.


Yang Cao, Shiyong Yang, Tao Jiang and Daiming Qu, “Performance optimization for cyber foraging network via dynamic spectrum allocation,” IEEE INFOCOM Cloud Computing Workshop, 2011.





Internet of Things
Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, and Zhu Han, “A Survey of Emerging M2M Systems: Context, Task, and Objective,” Appear to IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2016.**.


Yang Cao, Tao Jiang, Miao He, and Junshan Zhang, “Device-to-device communications for energy management: a smart grid case,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 190-201, 2016.


Yang Cao, Tao Jiang and Qian Zhang, “Reducing electricity cost of smart appliances via energy buffering framework in smart grid,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1572-1582, 2012.


Yang Cao, Miao He, Zhiqiang Wang, Tao Jiang, Junshan Zhang, “Multiple resource expansion planning in smart grids with high penetration of renewable generation,” IEEE SmartGridCom, 2012.


Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, Liang Yu, and Zhiqiang Wang, “Load shaping strategy based on energy storage and dynamic pricing in smart grid,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 2868-2876, 2014.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, and Qi Qi, “Joint workload and battery scheduling with heterogeneous service delay guarantees for data center energy cost minimization,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1937-1947, 2015.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, “Energy cost minimization for distributed Internet data centers in smart microgrids considering power outages,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 120-130, 2015.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, and Qi Qi. “Carbon-aware energy cost minimization for distributed Internet data centers in smart microgrids,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 255-264, 2014.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao and Qian Zhang, “Risk-constrained operation for Internet data centers in deregulated electricity markets,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1306-1316, 2014.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, and Jingkai Wu, “Risk-constrained operation for Internet data centers under smart grid environment,” IEEE WCSP, Hangzhou, China, 24-26 Oct. 2013.


Liang Yu, Tao Jiang, Yang Cao, Shiyong Yang, Zhiqiang Wang, “Risk management in Internet data center operations under smart grid environment,” IEEE SmartGridCom, 2012.






Awards
2011, Microsoft Research Fellowship
2010, ICST Chinacom Best Paper Award




Courses
Principles of Communications (undergraduate course, Spring 2015)
Information Theory (undergraduate course, Spring 2015)