Dr. Bin Xiao's Homepage

Bin Xiao

Associate Professor
Office: PQ824, Mong Man Wai Building
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 2766-7270
Fax: (852) 2774-0842
Email: csbxiao (at) comp.polyu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csbxiao

[Research Interests] [Teaching] [Students] [Activities] [Recent Publications]

Dr. Bin Xiao is an associate professor in the Department of Computing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After his graduation from the HuangGang Middle School, he was recommended for admission to Fudan University without the entrance examination due to his excellent performance in the mathematics and physics Olympic contest. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Electronics Engineering from Fudan University, China, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas, USA. After his Ph.D. graduation, he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Ph.D. Opportunity: A Ph.D. position (fellowship HK$13,800 per month) is available for the study in the areas of network security, mobile cloud computing or RFID systems. Please send me your CV and publications if you have interest.

Research Interests

My research is mainly on cloud computing, data management, network security, and wireless networks. In cloud computing, we focus on mobile resource allocation and secured system implementation. In wireless networks, we focus on wireless sensor networks and RFID systems, e.g., the localization algorithm design and efficient communication protocol design.

RFID research papers, Cloud research papers.

Teaching

ENG 224A: Information Technology [Fall 2012]
COMP 207: Discrete Structures and Data Model [Fall 2012]
ENG 224A: Information Technology [Fall 2011]
COMP 210: Discrete Structures [Fall 2011]
COMP 305: Data Structures and Algorithms [Fall 2010]
COMP 207: Discrete Structures and Data Model [Fall 2010]
COMP 210: Discrete Structures [Fall 2010]
COMP 202: Discrete Structures [Spring 2010]
COMP 305: Data Structures and Algorithms [Spring 2010]
COMP 207: Discrete Structures and Data Model [Fall 2009]

Please access your subject through Blackboard.

A 2012 summer course.

Students

Current Ph.D. Students

Jiwei Li (Ph.D., 2012 - present), research topic -- "Cloud Computing".
Xuan Liu (Ph.D., 2011 - present), research topic -- "RFID systems".
Kai Bu (Ph.D., 2009 - present), research topic -- "Wireless localization/RFID protocol and security".

Former Students

Qingjun Xiao (Ph.D., now a Postdoc in Georgia State Univ., USA), research topic -- "Mobile Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks".
Jiaqing Luo (Ph.D., now a faculty staff in UESTC, China), research topic -- "P2P network security".
Guobin Liu (Ph.D., now at Tencent), research topic -- "Wireless security".
Yong Tang (Previous exchange student), research topic -- "Worms".
Yu Hua (Previous RA, now an Associate Prof. in Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology ), research topic -- "Data Storage".
Lin Chen (Previous RA, now at IBM China Research Lab), research topic -- "Reliable localization in wireless sensor networks".
Wei Chen (Previous RA, now an Associate Prof. in NJUPT), research topic -- "DDoS Attacks".
Fei Wang, Hu Guan, Bo Yu, Hekang Chen, Zhaochun Yu (Previous RAs).

Activities

Associate Editor: International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS, Taylor & Francis)

Program Chair: The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security WSNS-2012, held in conjunction with MASS'12.
Workshop Co-Chair: ICA3PP-2012
Organizing Chair: ICDCN2012
Treasurer: ACM CCS2011
Poster Co-Chair: IEEE/IFIP DSN 2011
Workshop Co-Chair: IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010
Workshop Chair: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2009)
Program Chair: The 5th International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN2009), held in conjunction with IPDPS 2009.
Organization Committee: TrustCom2008, ATC-07, UIC-07, SecUbiq-06, ATC-06, DASC'06, EUC'2006, SNDS'06, SecUbiq-05, PRDC 2005, SNDS'05.

PC member: The Second Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) Workshop
PC member: ICPP 2013
PC member: ICC 2013
PC member: INFOCOM 2013
PC member: GLOBECOM 2013
PC member: ICPADS 2013
PC member: EUC 2012-2013, TrustCom 2009-2013, ICDCS 2012, INFOCOM 2012, ICPADS 2012, GLOBECOM 2011, INFOCOM 2011, ICPADS 2010, GLOBECOM 2010, EUC 2010, I-SPAN 2009, NSS 2009, Infoscale 2009, ICPADS'08, EUC 2008, Infoscale 2008, IWCMC 2008, NAS 2008, SSN 2008, WiMob'2008, SUTC2008, GLOBECOM 2007, EUC'2007, ICPADS 2007, IWCMC 2007, Ubisafe Computing 2007, SSN2007, CCNC 2007, IWSEC2006, IWCMC 2006, UIC-06, HPSEC-06, SSN2006 , DASC'06, AINA2006, EUC'2005, WSNS'05, HPCC-05, UISW2005, MSN'05, ISPA'05 MDC'05, USW2005, ISPA'04, CIT2004.

Recent Publications

Journal:
1. J. Luo, B. Xiao, and S. Zhou, "A Bottom-up Model for Heterogeneous BitTorrent Systems", accepted in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC - Elsevier), 2013
2. Q. Xiao, B. Xiao, K. Bu and J. Cao, "Iterative Localization of Wireless Sensor Networks: An Accurate and Robust Approach", accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2013.
3. B. Yu, C.-Z. Xu, and B. Xiao, "Detecting Sybil attacks in VANETs", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC - Elsevier), Volume 73, Issue 6, June 2013, Pages 746-756.
4. K. Bu, X. Liu, J. Luo, B. Xiao and G. Wei, "Unreconciled Collisions Uncover Cloning Attacks in Anonymous RFID Systems", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 8, No. 3, March 2013, pages: 429-439.
5. J. Luo, B. Xiao, K. Bu and S. Zhou, "Understanding and Improving Piece-related Algorithms in the BitTorrent Protocol", accepted in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013.
6. J. Wang, J. Wang, K. Lu, B. Xiao, and N. Gu, "Modeling and Optimal Design of Linear Network Coding for Secure Unicast With Multiple Streams", accepted in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013.
7. Q. Xiao, K. Bu, B. Xiao, and L. Sun, "Efficient Protocol Design for Dynamic Tag Population Monitoring in Large-Scale RFID Systems", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2012.
8. Q. Xiao, K. Bu, Z. Wang, and B. Xiao, "Robust Localization against Outliers in Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN), Volume 9, Issue 2, March 2013, Article No. 24.
9. K. Bu, B. Xiao, Q. Xiao and S. Chen, "Efficient Misplaced-Tag Pinpointing in Large RFID Systems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 23, No. 11, Nov. 2012, pages: 2094-2106.
10. Y. Hua, B. Xiao, B. Veeravalli and D. Feng, "Locality-Sensitive Bloom Filter for Approximate Membership Query", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 61, No. 6, June 2012, pages: 817-830.
11. Jiaqing Luo, Bin Xiao, Qingjun Xiao, Jiannong Cao and Minyi Guo, "Modeling and Defending Against Adaptive BitTorrent Worms in Peer-to-Peer Networks", accepted in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS), 2011.
12. Yong Tang, Bin Xiao and Xicheng Lu, "Signature Tree Generation for Polymorphic Worms", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Volume 58, Issue 4, April 2011, pp. 565 - 579.
13. G. Wei, Y. Ling, B. Guo, B. Xiao and A. Vasilakos, "Prediction-based data aggregation in wireless sensor networks: Combining grey model and Kalman Filter", Computer Communications (Elsevier), Volume 34, Issue 6, 3 May 2011, Pages 793-802.
14. Qingjun Xiao, Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao and Jianping Wang, "Multihop Range-Free Localization in Anisotropic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Pattern Driven Scheme", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume 9, Issue 11, Nov. 2010, Pages 1592-1607.
15. G. Wei, Y. Lin, A. Vasilakos, B. Xiao and Y. Zheng, "PIVOT: An adaptive information discovery framework for computational grids", Information Science (Elsevier), Volume 180, 2010, Pages 4543-4556.
16. Zhaochun Yu, Bin Xiao and Shuigeng Zhou, "Achieving Optimal Data Storage Position in Wireless Sensor Networks", Computer Communications (Elsevier), Volume 33, Issue 1, 15 January 2010, Pages 92-102.
17. Bin Xiao, Lin Chen, Qingjun Xiao and Minglu Li, "Reliable Anchor-Based Sensor Localization in Irregular Areas", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Volume 9, Issue 1, Jan. 2010 pp. 60 - 72.
18. Bin Xiao and Yu Hua, "Using Parallel Bloom Filters for Multi-attribute Representation on Network Services", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 21, Issue 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 20 - 32.
19. Yu Hua, Bin Xiao and Jianping Wang, "BR-tree: A Scalable Prototype for Supporting Multiple Queries of Multi-dimensional Data", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Volume 58, Issue 12, Dec. 2009, pp. 1585 - 1598.
20. Yong Tang, Bin Xiao and Xicheng Lu, "Using a Bioinformatics Approach to Generate Accurate Exploit-based Signatures for Polymorphic Worms ", Computers & Security (Elsevier), Vol 28, 2009, pp. 827-842.
21. Jiannong Cao, Lin Liao, Guojun Wang, Hao Ma, Bin Xiao, "A novel dual-key management protocol based on a hierarchical multicast infrastructure in mobile internet". International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) Volume 4, Number 3/4: Pages 183-190 (2009).
22. Yong Tang, Jiaqing Luo, Bin Xiao and Guiyi Wei, "Concept, Characteristics and Defending Mechanism of Worms" (invited paper), IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E92-D, No.5, pp. 799-809, May 2009.
23. Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao, Qin Lu, "Dynamic SPT Update for Multiple Link State Decrements in Network Routing", Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), Volume 46, Number 3, Pages 237-256, Dec. 2008.
24. Bin Xiao, Hekang Chen, Shuigeng Zhou, "Distributed Localization Using a Moving Beacon in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 587-600, May 2008.
25. Bin Xiao, Wei Chen, and Yangxiang He, "An Autonomous Defense against SYN Flooding Attacks: Detect and Throttle Attacks at the Victim Side", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC - Elsevier), Volume 68, Issue 4, April 2008, Pages 456-470.
26. Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao, Zili Shao, Edwin H.-M. Sha, "An Efficient Algorithm for Dynamic Shortest Path Tree Update in Network Routing", Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN - KICS), Volume 9, Number 4, December 2007, Pages 499-510.
27. Bin Xiao, Bo Yu, and Chuanshan Gao, "CHEMAS: Identify suspect nodes in selective forwarding attacks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC - Elsevier), Volume 67, Issue 11, November 2007, Pages 1218-1230.
28. Maria S. Pereza and Bin Xiao, "Special section: Security on grids and distributed systems", Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Volume 23, Issue 6, July 2007, Pages 774-775.
29. Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao, Zili Shao, Qingfeng Zhuge and Edwin H.-M. Sha, "Analysis and Algorithms Design for the Partition of Large-Scale Adaptive Mobile Wireless Networks", Computer Communications (Elsevier), Volume 30, Issue 8, 8 June 2007, Pages 1899-1912.

Conference:
1. J. Li, K. Bu, X. Liu and B. Xiao, "ENDA: Embracing Network Inconsistency for Dynamic Application Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing", in Proc. of the Second Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) Workshop, in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2013, Hong Kong, Aug. 2013.
2. X. Liu, K. Li, Y. Shen, G. Min, B. Xiao and W. Qu, "A Fast Approach to Unknown Tag Identification in Large Scale RFID Systems", in Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013), Nassau, Bahamas, July 2013.
3. F. Wang, B. Xiao, K. Bu and J. Su, "Detect and Identify Blocker Tags in Tree-based RFID Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
4. Y. Hua, B. Xiao and X. Liu, "NEST: Locality-aware Approximate Query Service for Cloud Computing", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin Italy, April 2013. (PPT)
5. Q. Xiao, B. Xiao and S. Chen, "Differential Estimation in Dynamic RFID Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2013 (mini-conference), Turin Italy, April 2013.
6. X. Liu, S. Zhang, K. Bu and B. Xiao, "Complete and Fast Unknown Tag Identification in Large RFID Systems", in Proc. of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2012), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Oct. 2012, pp. 47-55. (PPT)
7. K. Bu, X. Liu and B. Xiao, "Fast Cloned-Tag Identification Protocols for Large-Scale RFID Systems", in Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2012) (poster paper), Coimbra Portugal, June 4-5 2012, pp. 1-4.
8. Q. Xiao, K. Bu and B. Xiao, "Efficient Monitoring of Dynamic Tag Populations in RFID Systems", in Proc. of the 9th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-2011), Melbourne, Australia, Oct 24-26, 2011, pp. 106-113. (Best Paper Award)
9. K. Bu, B. Xiao, Q. Xiao and S. Chen, "'Efficient Pinpointing of Misplaced Tags in Large RFID Systems", in Proc. of the 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Salt Lake City, Utah USA, June 27-30, 2011, pp. 260-268. (PPT)
10. G. Liu, J. Luo, Q. Xiao and B. Xiao, "EDJam: Effective Dynamic Jamming Against IEEE 802.15.4-Compliant Wireless Personal Area Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Kyoto Japan, June 2011.
11. S. Chen, M. Zhang and B. Xiao, "Efficient Information Collection Protocols for Sensor-augmented RFID Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai China, April 2011, pp. 3101-3109.
12. J. Wang, J. Wang, K. Lu, Y. Qian, B. Xiao and N. Gu, "Optimal Design of Linear Network Coding for Information Theoretically Secure Unicast", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai China, April 2011, pp. 757-765.
13. X. Liu, S. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Cao and B. Xiao, "Anchor Supervised Distance Estimation in Anisotropic Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2011), Cancun Mexico, March 2011.
14. H. Guan, B. Xiao, J. Zhou, M. Guo and T. Yang, "Fast Dimension Reduction for Document Classification Based on Imprecise Spectrum Analysis", in Proc. of the ACM Nineteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010) (short paper), Toronto Canada, Oct. 2010, pp. 1753-1756.
15. J. Luo, B. Xiao, Z. Yang and S. Zhou, "A Clone of Social Networks to Decentralized Bootstrapping P2P Networks", in Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2010) (poster paper), pp. 1-2, Beijing China, June 2010.
16. J. Wang, J. Wang, K. Lu, Bin Xiao, N. Gu, "Optimal Linear Network Coding Design for Secure Unicast with Multiple Streams", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010, pp. 1-9.
17. Qingjun Xiao, Bin Xiao, Jiaqing Luo and Guobin Liu, "Reliable Navigation of Mobile Sensors in Wireless Sensor Networks without Localization Service", in Proc. of the 17th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2009), pp. 1-9, Charleston, South Carolina, July 13-15, 2009.
18. Jiaqing Luo, Bin Xiao, Guobin Liu, Qingjun Xiao, Shijie Zhou, "Modeling and analysis of self-stopping BTWorms using dynamic hit list in P2P networks," in Proc. IPDPS 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SSN2009), pp.1-8, Rome - Italy, May 2009.
19. Zhigang Li, Nong Xiao, Jizhong Zhao, and Bin Xiao, "Bouncing Tracks in Sensor Networks", in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'08), pp. 591-598, Melbourne Australia, Dec. 2008.
20. Baowei Wang, Xingming Sun, Xinbing Wang, and Bin Xiao, "Time-based Privacy Protection for Multi-attribute Data in WSNs", in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'08), pp. 615-622, Melbourne Australia, Dec. 2008.
21. Yu Hua, Bin Xiao, Dan Feng and Bo Yu, "Bounded LSH for Similarity Search in Peer-to-Peer File Systems ", in Proc. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008), pp. 644-651, Portland, Sept. 2008.
22. Bin Xiao, "Internet Worm Threat and Defending Mechanism" (invited talk), in Proc. the 3rd Joint Workshop on Information Security (JWIS 2008), pp. 27, Seoul Korea, July 10-11 2008.
23. Yong Tang, Xicheng Lu, and Bin Xiao, "Generating Simplified Regular Expression Signatures for Polymorphic Worms", in Proc. 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-07) (LNCS), pp. 478-488, Hong Kong, July 2007.
24. Bin Xiao, Hekang Chen, and Shuigeng Zhou, "A Walking Beacon-Assisted Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), pp. 3070-3075, Glasgow UK, June 2007.
25. Yu Hua, and Bin Xiao, "A Multi-attribute Data Structure with Parallel Bloom Filters for Network Services", in international conference on high performance computing (HiPC 2006), pp. 277-288, Bangalore India, December 18-21, 2006.
26. Bin Xiao, Bo Yu, and Chuanshan Gao, "Detection and Localization of Sybil Nodes in VANETs", in 2nd ACM/SIGMOBILE Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (DIWANS 2006), in conjunction with MobiCom 2006, pp. 1-8, Los Angeles - USA, September 25, 2006.
27. Bo Yu, and Bin Xiao, "Detecting Selective Forwarding Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2006 (SSN2006), Page(s):1 – 8, Greece, 25-29 April 2006.

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