Selected Recent Publications

Accepted

  1. Dongsheng Li, Jiannong Cao, Xicheng Lu, Keith C. C. Chan, "Efficient Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Systems", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

  2. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, "GrLS: Group-based Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology.

  3. Naixue Xiong, Laurence T. Yang, Jiannong Cao, and Y. Yang, " PIDNN: An Efficient and Distributed Flow Control Approach for Multicast Networks," accepted by ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.

  4. Johnson C. Lee, Kirk H. Wong, Jiannong Cao, Henry C.B. Chan, and Victor C.M. Leung, " Key Management Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks, Current Proposals and Future Developments", accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.

  5. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, "A Design Framework and Taxonomy for Hybrid Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.

  6. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, Michel Raynal, " Using Asynchrony and Zero Degradation to Speed up Indulgent Consensus Protocols", accepted by Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

  7. Xianbing Wang, Yong Meng Teo, Jiannong Cao, "Message and Time Efficient Consensus Protocols for Synchronous Distributed Systems", accepted by Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

  8. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, " A fast and efficient multicast algorithm for QoS group communications in heterogeneous network Computer Communications", accepted by Computer Communications.

  9. Miaomiao Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jing Li, Sajal K. Das, "Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey", accepted by Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer).

  10. Andy Li, H. Kang, Jiannong Cao, "Coordinated Workload Scheduling in Hierarchical Sensor Networks for Data Fusion Applications", accepted by Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer).

  11. Miaomiao Wang, Jiannong Cao, Miao Liu, Bo Chen, Youlin Xu, Jing Li, "Design and Implementation of Distributed Algorithms for WSN-based Structural Health Monitoring ", accepted by International Journal of Sensor Networks .

  12. Xingwei Wang, Jiannong Cao, Hui Cheng, Min Huang, "QoS Multicast Routing for Multimedia Group Communications Using Intelligent Computational Methods", accepted by Computer Communications.

  13. Guojun Wang, Lifan Zhang, Jiannong Cao, "Hole-Shadowing Routing in Large-scale MANETs", accepted by International Journal of Sensor Networks..

  14. Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, Cheng-zhong Xu, "Fault Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution", accepted by International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking.

  15. Ronnie Cheung, Gang Yao, Jiannong Cao, Alvin Chan, "A Fuzzy Service Adaptation Engine for Context-Aware Mobile Computing Middleware", accepted by Int’l Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications.

  16. 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", accepted by International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing.

2008

  1. Wanrong Yu, Jiannong Cao, Xingming Zhou, Xiaodong Wang, Keith C.C Chan, Alvin T.S. Chan, H.V. Leong, "A High-Throughput MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan. 2008. pp. 135 – 145.

  2. Xuping Tu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Jiannong Cao, "Nearcast: A Locality-Aware P2P Live Streaming Approach for Distance Education", ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. Vol.8, No.2, February 2008, pp.1-23.

  3. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, "A Fault Tolerant Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", accepted by Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Vo.l. 4, No. 1, Feb. 2008. pp. 139 – 160.

  4. Ming Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yuan Zheng, Li Xie, "A Energy-Efficient Protocol for Data Gathering and Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks", Journal of Supercomputing. (2008) 43: pp.107 – 125.

  5. Xiaopeng Fan, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, Michel Raynal, "On Modeling Fault Tolerance of Gossip-Based Reliable Multicast Protocols", 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’08), Sept. 8 – 12 2008. Portland OR, USA

  6. Zhenhua Li, Jiannong Cao, Guihai Chen, Yan Liu, "Fast Source Switching for Gossip-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming", 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’08), Sept. 8 – 12 2008. Portland OR, USA.

  7. Shigeng Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Lijun Chen, Daoxu Chen, "Locating nodes in mobile sensor networks more accurately and faster", 5th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), June 16 – 20, 2008, San Francisco, California, USA.

  8. Nianbo Liu, Jiannong Cao, Ming Liu, Jiazhi Zeng , "Flow-based Reservation Marking in MPLS Networks", Proc. 43 rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’08) . May 19 – 23, 2008, Beijing, China.

  9. Zhenhua Li, Jiannong Cao, Guihai Chen, "Achieving High Playback Continuity of Gossip-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming", 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’08) , April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida USA.

  10. Jue Hong, Sanglu Lu, Daoxu Chen, Jiannong Cao. "Towards Bio-Inspired Self-Organization in Sensor Networks: Applying the Ant Colony Algorithm", Proc. IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2008) , March 25 – 28, 2008, Okinawa, Japan.

2007

  1. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, Michel Raynal, " Design and Performance Evaluation of Efficient Consensus Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 56, No. 8, Aug. 2007. pp. 1055 – 1070.

  2. Jiannong Cao, Guojun Wang, Keith K.C. Chan, "A Fault Tolerant Group Communication Protocol in Large Scale and Highly Dynamic Mobile Next-Generation Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 56, No. 1, Jan. 2007. pp. 80 – 94.

  3. Yuhong Feng, Wentong Cai, Jiannong Cao, "Dynamic Partner Identification in Mobile Agent-Based Distributed Job Workflow Execution", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Volume 67 , Issue 11 (Nov. 2007), pp 1137-1154

  4. Hui Chen, Perry Lam, Henry Chan, Tharam Dillon, Jiannong Cao, Raymond S.T. Lee, "Business-to-Consumer Mobile AGent-based Internet Commerce System (MAGICS)", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C. Vol. 37, No. 5, Sept. 2007.

  5. Jiannong Cao, Yang Zhang, Li Xie, Guohong Cao, "Data Consistency for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Environments", IEEE Computer, April 2007. pp. 60 – 67.

  6. Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, and Weigang Wu, "Efficient Global Checkpointing Algorithms for Mobile Agents", accepted by Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experiences (John Wiley & Sons) . Vol. 19, Issue 15, Oct. 2007.

  7. Wei Xu, Jiannong Cao, Beihong Jin, Jing Li, Liang Zhang, "GCS-MA: A Group Communication System for Mobile Agents", Journal of Networks and Computer Applications (Elsevier Science), 30 (2007), pp.1153 – 1172 .

  8. Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao, Zili Shao, Qingfeng Zhuge, Edwin H.-M. Sha , "Analysis and algorithms design for the partition of large-scale adaptive mobile wireless networks", Computer Communications (Elsevier Science), Vol. 30, Issue 8, 8 June 2007, pp. 1899-1912 .

  9. Yuan Zheng, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Keith K.C. Chan, "Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks for Pervasive Computing Applications", Invited paper by Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence. Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2007. pp.17 – 34.

  10. Yingwen Chen, Ming Xu, Hong Va Leong, Jiannong Cao, Keith C.C Chan, and Alvin T.S Chan, "An Energy-Efficient Framework for Multi-Rate Query in Wireless Sensor Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Volume 2007 (2007)

  11. Peng Wen, Jiannong Cao, Yan Li, " Design of High-performance Networked Real-time Control Systems", accepted by IET Control Theory & Applications (previously called IEE Proceedings Control Theory & Applications). 2007 1 (5). pp. 1329 – 1335.

  12. Jiannong Cao, Fred Bojin Liu, Chengzhong Xu, "P2PGrid: Integrating P2P networks into the Grid Environment", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experiences (John Wiley & Sons). (19) 2007. pp.1023 – 1046.

  13. Jiannong Cao, Michel Raynal, Corentin Travers, Weigang Wu, "The Eventual Leadership in Dynamic Mobile Networking Environments", Proc. 13 th Pacific Rim Int’l Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC’0 7 ) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Dec. 17 – 19. 200 7, Melbourne , Australia .

  14. Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jiannong Cao, Yu Zhou, Miaomiao Wang, Vaskar Raychoudhury, "Universal Adaptor: A Novel Approach to Supporting Multi-protocol Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing", Proc. 3rd IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-07), Dec. 17– 20, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

  15. Yu Huang, Beihng Jin, Jiannong Cao, Yulin Feng, "A Selective Push Algorithm for Cooperative Cache Consistency Maintenance in MANETs", Proc. 3rd IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-07), Dec. 17– 20, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

  16. Liang Zhang, Beihong Jin, Jiannong Cao, "Adding Adaptability to Mailbox-based Mobile IP", Proc. 3rd IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-07), Dec. 17– 20, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.

  17. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Michel Raynal, "A Dual-token-based Fault Tolerant Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for MANETs", Proc. 3rd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2007), Dec. 12 – 14, 2007, Beijing, China.

  18. Miaomiao Wang, Jiannong Cao, Yan Sun, Jing Li, "Toward Ubiquitous Searching", Proc. The 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’07), Dec. 5 – 7, 2007. Hsinchu , Taiwan.

  19. Yuan Zheng and Jiannong Cao, "Highly Scalable and Efficient Publish/Subscribe Protocols Using Geographic Information for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. Symposium on Middleware for Sensor Systems (MiSS’07), 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP’07) , Dec. 3 – 6 2007. Melbourne, Australia

  20. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Huan Wang, Minyi Guo, "Polynomial Regression for Data Gathering in Environmental Monitoring Applications", The 50th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Nov. 26 – 30, 2007. Washington DC. USA.

  21. Miaomiao Wang, Jiannong Cao, Joanna Izabela Siebert, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Jing Li, "Ubiquitous Intelligent Object: Modeling and Applications", Proc. 3 rdInternational Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2007) , Oct. 29 – 31, 2007. Xian, China.

  22. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Michel Raynal, " The Eventual Clusterer Oracle and Its Application to Consensus in MANETs", Proc. 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS’07) , Oct. 10 – 12, 2007. Beijing, China.

  23. Andy Li, H. Kang, Jiannong Cao, " Coordinated Workload Scheduling in Hierarchical Sensor Networks for Data Fusion Applications", 4 th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS’06), Oct. 8 – 11, 2007, Pisa, Italy.

  24. Jinling Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jing Li, Jie Wu, "MHH: A Novel Protocol for Mobility Management in Publish/Subscribe Systems", Proc. 36 th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’07), Sept. 10 – 14, 2007. Xian, China.

  25. Jiannong Cao, Miaomiao Wang, Weigang Wu, Xianbin Wang, Stephen Chan, "DisMoniC: Generic Distributed Monitor Construct for Process Synchronization", Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2005), Aug . 2 9 – 31 , 200 7 . Niagara Falls, ON, Canada.

  26. Miaomiao Wang, Jiannong Cao, Bo Chen, Youlin Xu, Jing Li, "Distributed Processing in Wireless Sensor networks for Structured Health Monitoring", 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07) . July 11-13, 2007. Hong Kong.

  27. Yu Zhou, et al., "Middleware Support for Agent-based Application Mobility in Pervasive Computing Environments", 5 th International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'07) . June 25 – 29, 2007. Toronto, Canada.

  28. Yu Huang, Jiannong Cao, Zhijun Wang, Beihong Jin, Yulin Feng, "Achieving Flexible Cache Consistency for Pervasive Internet Access", 5 th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2007), March 19-23, 2007. New York, USA .

  29. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “GrLS: Group-based Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Proc. 42 nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’07). June 24 – 28, 2007, Glasgow, UK.

  30. Ming Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yuan Zheng, “An Energy-Aware Protocol for Data Gathering Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. 42 nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’07). June 24 – 28, 2007, Glasgow, UK.

  31. Yuan Zheng, Jiannong Cao, Ming Liu, Jinling Wang, “Efficient Event Delivery in Publish/Subscribe Systems for Wireless Mesh Networks”, 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’07), March 11-15, 2007. Hong Kong, China.

  32. Guojun Wang, Huan Wang, Jiannong Cao, Minyi Guo, “Energy-Efficient Dual Prediction-Based Data Gathering for Environmental Monitoring applications”, 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’07), March 11-15, 2007. Hong Kong, China.

  33. Lijun Chen, Daoxu Chen, Li Xie, Jiannong Cao, “Evolution of Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’07), March 11-15, 2007. Hong Kong, China.

2006

  1. Fan Chan, Jiannong Cao, Minyi Guo, "ClusterGOP: A High-Level Programming Environment for Clusters", a chapter in High Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure (John Wiley & Songs, Inc), pp.1 -19. 2006.

  2. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, “"A Heuristic Multicast Algorithm to Support QoS Group Communications in Heterogeneous Network", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Vol. 55, No. 3, May 2006. pp.831 - 838.

  3. Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Stephen C. F. Chan, and Nick Cheung, "A Robust Monitor Construct with Run-Time Fault Detection", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (John Wiley & Sons, Inc). 18:5, April, 2006.

  4. Jiannong Cao, Lin Liao, Guojun Wang, “"Scalable Key Management for Secure Multicast Communications in Mobile Environments”", Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing ( Elsevier Science). 2(2006), pp. 187-203.

  5. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Keith Chan, "A Self-organizable Topology Maintenance Protocol for Mobile Group Communications in Mobile Next-Generation Networks”", accepted by Computer Communications. (Elsevier Science). 29(10), June 2006. pp. 1730-1743.

  6. Jiannong Cao, Jingyang Zhou, Weiwei Zhu, Xuhui Li, "A Mobile Agent-enabled Framework for Structuring and Building Distributed Systems on the Internet", Science in China, Series F: Information Sciences , Vol. 49, No. 6. 2006. pp.885 – 905.

  7. Jiannong Cao, Yang Zhang, Li Xie, and Guohong Cao, "Consistency of Cooperative Caching in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems Over MANET", International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (Taylor & Francis Group). Vol. 21, No. 3, June 2006.

  8. Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Yudong Sun, Sajal K. Das, and Minyi Guo, “A Taxonomy of Application Scheduling Tools for High Performance Cluster Computing”, Journal of Cluster Computing (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Vol. 9 , No. 3 , Oct. 200 6 .

  9. Yang Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, “Threshold-based Admission Control for Multimedia Grid: Analysis and Performance Evaluation”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experiences (John Wiley & Sons) . Vol. 18, No. 14, pp. 1747-1758, Dec. 2006 .

  10. Zili Shao, Jiannong Cao, Keith Chun Chung Chan, Chun Xue, Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Hardware/software Optimization for Array & pointer Bound Checking Against Buffer Overflow Attacks”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing ( Elsevier Science) , Volume 66, Issue 9, pp. 1129-1136, September 2006.

  11. Jiannong Cao, Lifan Zhang, Guojun Wang, Hui Cheng, "SSR:Segment-by-Segment Routing in Large-scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS’06), Oct. 9 – 12, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

  12. Deying Li, Jiannong Cao, Ming Liu, Yuan Zheng, "Construction of Optimal Data Aggregation Trees for Wireless Sensor Networks", 15 th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'05), Oct. 9 – 11, 2006 , Arlington, Virginia USA.

  13. Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, "Checkpoint Placement Algorithms for Mobile Agent Systems", Proc. 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC’06). Oct. 21 – 28, 2006, Changsha, China

  14. Ping Yu, Jiannong Cao, Weidong Wen, Jian Lu, "Mobile Agent Enabled Application Mobility for Pervasive Computing", The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), Sept. 3-6, 2006. Wuhan, China.

  15. Jiannong Cao, Michel Raynal, Xianbing Wang, Weigang Wu, "The Power and Limit of Adding Synchronization Messages for Synchronous Agreement", Proc. 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’06), Aug. 14 – 18, 2006. Columbus, Ohio, USA.

  16. Jinling Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jing Li, Jie Wu, "Achieving Bounded Delay on Message Delivery in Publish/Subscribe Systems", Proc. 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’06), Aug. 14 – 18, 2006. Columbus, Ohio, USA.

  17. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, Sajal K. Das, "Stability-based Multi-objective Clustering in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. 3rd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2006), Aug. 7 – 9, 2006. Waterloo, Canada.

  18. Vanessa W.S. Tang, Yuan Zheng, Jiannong Cao, "An Intelligent Car Park Management System based on Wireless Sensor Networks", Proc. 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications (SPCA-2006), Aug. 3 – 5, 2006. Urumchi, Xinjiang, China.

  19. Ronnie Cheung, Gang Yao, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, "A Fuzzy-based Service Adaptation Middleware for Context-aware Computing", Proc. 2nd IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-06), Aug. 1– 4, 2006, Seoul, Korea. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

  20. Dongsheng Li, Jiannong Cao, Xicheng Lu, Keith C. C. Chan, Jinshu Su, H.V. Leong, Alvin T. S. Chan, “ "Delay-Bounded Range Queries in DHT-based Peer-to-Peer Systems", Proc. 26 th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS'0 6 ) , July 4-7, 2006. Lisboa, Portugal.

  21. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, “"Constructing Delay-bounded Multicast Tree with Optimal Delay Variation”", Proc. 41st Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC'06). June 11 -15, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

  22. Guojun Wang, Lifan Zhang, Jiannong Cao, “"Logical Location-based Routing with Hole-shadowing in Large-scale MANETs”", Proc. 41st Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC'06). June 11 -15, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

  23. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Keith K.C. Chan, “"A Proxy-based Mobile Group Membership Protocol for Large Scale and Highly Dynamic Groups”", Proc. 41st Annual IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC'06) . June 11 -15, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

  24. Yingwen Chen, Hong-Va Leong, Ming Xu, Jiannong Cao, Keith K.C. Chan, Alvin T.S., Chan, “"In-network Data Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks”", Proc. 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06) , May 10 -12, 2006, Nara, Japan

  25. Kirk H.M. Wong, Yuan Zheng, Jiannong Cao , Shengwei Wang, “ "A Dynamic User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”", Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2006), June 5-7, 2006, Taichung, Taiwan.

  26. Wanrong Yu, Jiannong Cao, Xingming Zhou, Keith K.C. Chan, Alvin T.S. Chan, Hong-Va Leong, “ "VWMAC: An efficient MAC Protocol for Resolving Intra-flow Contention in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”", 1st International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC-2006), May 3-5, 2006, Taichung, Taiwan

  27. Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, Corentin Travers, “"The Notification based Approach to Implementing Failure Detectors in Distributed Systems”" (Invited Paper), Proc. 1 st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006) , 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong.

  28. Wanrong Yu, Jiannong Cao, Xingming Zhou, Xiaodong Wang, Keith K. C. Chan, Alvin T.S. Chan, Hong-Va Leong, “"A High-throughput MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”", Proc. IEEE PerCom06 Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN-06), March 17, 2006, Pisa, Italy.

  29. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, Michel Raynal, “ "A Hierarchical Consensus Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”", Proc . 14 th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP 2006), Feb. 15 -17 2006, Montbéliard-Sochaux, France.

  30. Yu Huang, Beihong Jin, Jiannong Cao, “"A Distributed Approach to Topology Mismatching Aware P2P Overlay Construction in Wireless Ad hoc Networks”", Proc . 14 th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP 2006), Feb. 15 -17 2006, Montbéliard-Sochaux, France.

2005

  1. Xianbing Wang, Yong Meng Teo and Jiannong Cao, “A Bivalency Proof of the Lower Bound for Uniform Consensus”, Information Processing Letters (Elsevier Science). Vol. 96, Issue 5, 16 December 2005, pp. 167-174.

  2. Alvin T.S. Chan, C.K. Chan, Jiannong Cao, " WEBGOP: Collaborative Web Services Based on Graph Oriented Programming", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A. Vol. 35, No. 6, Nov. 2005. pp. 811-830.

  3. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Keith Chan, " A Protocol for Partitionable Group Membership Service in Mobile Internet", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons. 5:773 - 792, 2005. pp.773-792.

  4. Fan Chan, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Kang Zhang, "Visual Programming Support for Graph-Oriented Parallel/Distributed Processing", Software: Practice & Experience (John Wiley & Sons). 35:1409-1439, 2005.

  5. Jiannong Cao, Oscar M.K. Kwong, Xianbing Wang, and Wentong Cai, "A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Task Scheduling in Computation Grid", International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (Inderscience Publishers Switzerland). Vol.1, No.1, 2005. pp.13 -21.

  6. Guojung Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Keith Chan, "A Novel Group Communication Protocol Using the RingNet Hierarchy in Mobile Internet", accepted by International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems. Vol. 20, No. 3-4, 2005. pp.253 – 280.

  7. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Keith K.C. Chan, "Group Communication Protocols in Wireless Internet", a chapter in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (Nova Science Publishers). pp.205 -231. 2005.

  8. Jiannong Cao, Yudong Sun, and Alvin T.S. Chan, "GOP: A Graph-Oriented Programming Model for Parallel and Distributed Systems", a chapter in New Horizons of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Springer ). pp.21 – 36. 2005.

  9. Jiannong Cao, Catherine Chan, and Keith Chan, " Workflow Analysis for Web Publishing Using a Stage-Activity Process Model", Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier Science), Vol 76, No. 3, 2005. pp 221-235.

  10. Wook Choi, Sajal Das, Jiannong Cao and Ajoy K. Datta, "Randomized Dynamic Route Maintenance for Adaptive Routing in Multihop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier Science), Vol. 65, No. 2, Feb. 2005. pp.107-123.

  11. Ming Liu, Jiannong Cao, Li Xie, Wei Lou, “"Coverage Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks”", Proc. 1st International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'05), Dec. 13 -15, 2005, Wuhan, China

  12. Jiannong Cao, Fred Bojin Liu, “"P2PGrid: Integrating P2P networks into the Grid Environment”", Proc. 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC'05 ) . Nov. 30 -Dec. 3, 2005, Beijing , China .

  13. Weigang Wu, Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, “"A Scalable Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”", Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'05) , October 17-19, 2005 , San Diego, California USA . .

  14. Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Xingwei Wang, "A Heuristic Multicast Algorithm to Support QoS Group Communications in Heterogeneous Network", Proc. 2nd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine'05), Aug. 22 -24, 2005, Orlando, Florida.

  15. Jiannong Cao, Na Xing, Alvin T. S. Chan, Yulin Feng, and Beihong Jin, "Service Adaptation Using Fuzzy Theory in Context-aware Mobile Computing Middleware", Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'05), Aug. 17 -19, 2005, Hong Kong.

  16. Ming Liu, Jiannong Cao, Haigang Gong, Lijun Chen, Li Xie, “"A Distributed Power-Efficient Data Gathering and Aggregation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks”", Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2005), Nov. 2 -5, 2005. Nanjing, China.

  17. Jiannong Cao, Jin Yang, Wai Ting Chan, Chengzhong Xu , “" Exception Handling in Distributed Workflow Systems Using Mobile Agents ”", Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE-05) , Oct. 18 -20, 2005, Beijing, China.

  18. Jin Yang, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, Chengzhong Xu, “"Parallel Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution”", Proc. 6 th International Conference on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP'05), Oct. 2 -5, 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

  19. Jiannong Cao, Lin Liao, Guojun Wang, and Bin Xiao, "A Novel Dual-Key Management Protocol based on a Hierarchical Multicast Infrastructure in Mobile Internet", Proc. 2005 International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing(ICCNMC 2005), Aug. 2 -4, 2005, Hunan, China.

  20. Jiannong Cao, Srinivasan Mullai, David Leung, Hui Cheng, "An Efficient Multicast Service Switching Protocol in Mobile IP", Proc. IEEE 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom'05), June 13-16, 2005, Hawaii, USA.

  21. Yinghao Li, Jiannong Cao and Minyi Guo "Process Migration for MPI Applications with Coordinated Checkpointing", Proc.11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems(ICPADS-05), July 20 -22, 2005, Fukuoka, Japan.

  22. Shuhui Yang, Jie Wu, and Jiannong Cao, "Connected k-Hop Clustering in Ad Hoc Networks" accepted Proc.34thInternational Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP05), June 14 -17, 2005. Oslo, Norway.

  23. Jiannong Cao, Wei Xu, Alvin T.S. Chan, Jing Li, "A Reliable Multicast Protocol for Mobile Agent Communications", Proc. 7th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2005) (IEEE Computer Society Press), April 4-8, 2005, Chengdu, China.

  24. Guanglei Song, Kang Zhang, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Jiannong Cao, "Toward Access Control for Visual Web Model Management", Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05), Mar. 29 -April 1, 2005, Hong Kong.

  25. Jinling Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Jing Li, "Support Mobile Clients in Publish / Subscribe Systems", Proc. 3rdInternational Workshop on Mobility in Peer-to-Peer Systems (in conjunction with the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS-05), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6-9, 2005.

  26. Yuhong Feng, Wentong Cai, and Jiannong Cao, "Communication Partner Identification in Distributed Job Workflow Execution Over the Grid", Proc. 3rdInternational Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (in conjunction with the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS-05), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6-9, 2005.

  27. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Lifan Zhang, Keith Chan, and Jie Wu, "A Novel QoS Multicast Model in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. 7th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models, (in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS 2005), April 3 -8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA.

  28. Changai Sun, Jiannong Cao, "ReArchJBs: a Tool for Automated Software Architecture Recovery of JavaBeans-based Applications", Proc. 2005 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC2005), Mar. 29 -April 1, 2005, Brisbane, Australia.

2004

  1. Jiannong Cao, Xinyu Feng, Jian Lu, Henry Chan, and Sajal K. Das, "Reliable Message Delivery for Mobile Agents: Push or Pull?", IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A. Vol. 34, No. 5, Sept. 2004. pp. 577-587.

  2. Jiannong Cao, Min Cao, Alvin S.T.Chan, Gengfeng Wu, Sajal K. Das, "A Framework for Architecting and High-level Programming Support of CORBA Applications", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier Science). Vol. 64, No. 6, 2004. pp.725-739.

  3. Dajin Wang and Jiannong Cao, "On Hierarchical Configuration of Distributed Systems on Mesh and Hypercube", International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (World Scientific). Vol. 15, No. 3, June 2004. pp.517-534.

  4. Jiannong Cao, Ying Liu, Li Xie, Bing Mao, and Kang Zhang, "The Design and Implementation of a Runtime Systems For Graph-oriented Parallel and Distributed Programming", Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier Science). 72(2004) pp.389-399.

  5. Fan Chan, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Minyi Guo, "Programming Support for MPMD Parallel Computing in ClusterGOP", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Oxford University Press, U.K.), Vol. E87-D, No. 7, July 2004.

  6. Siu-Nam Chuang, Alvin T.S. Chan, Jiannong Cao, Ronnie Cheung, "Actively Deployable Mobile Services for Adaptive Web Access", IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2004. pp. 26-33.

  7. Alvin T.S. Chan, Siu Nam Chuang, Jiannong Cao, Hong-Va Leong, "An Event-driven Middleware for Mobile Context Awareness", The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press, U.K.). Vol. 47, No. 3, 2004. pp. 278-288.

  8. Xuhui Li, Jiannong Cao, and Yanxiang He, "A Direct Execution Approach to Simulating Mobile Agent Algorithms", The Journal of Supercomputing (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, USA). Vol. 29, No. 2 , 2004

  9. Jiannong Cao, Xianbing Wang, Sajal K. Das, "A Framework of Using Cooperating Mobile Agents to Achieve Load Balancing in Distributed Web Server Groups", Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier Science). Vol. 20/4 2004. pp 591-603.

  10. Bin Xiao, Jiannong Cao, Qingfeng Zhuqe, Zili Shao, and Edwin Sha, " Dynamic Shortest Path Tree Update for Multiple Link State Decrements", Proc.2004 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2004). Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004. Dallas, TX, USA.

  11. Jiannong Cao, Kwok Ming Chan, Geofffrey Yu-Kai Shea, Minyi Guo, " Location-aware Information Retrieval for Mobile Computing", Proc. 2004 International Conference on Embedded And Ubiquitous Computing (EUC04), 25-27 August, 2004. Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan.

  12. Jiannong Cao, Jingyang Zhou, Weiwei Zhu, Daoxu Chen, and Jian Lu, " A Mobile Agent Enabled Approach for Distributed Deadlock Detection", Proc. 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC’04). Oct. 21-24, 2004. Wuhan, China.

  13. Jiannong Cao, Daniel C.K. Tse, and Alvin T.S. Chan, "PDAgent: A platform for Developing and Deploying Mobile Agent-enabled Applications for Wireless Devices", Proc. 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP04), August 15-18, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  14. Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Keith K.C. Chan, "RGB: A Scalable and Reliable Group Membership Protocol in Mobile Internet", Proc. 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP04), August 15-18, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  15. Jiannong Cao, Jingyang Zhou, Daoxu Chen, and Jie Wu, "An Efficient Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm Based on Relative Consensus Voting", Proc. IEEE 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2004), April 26-30, 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

  16. Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Jin Yang, and Sajal K. Das, "A Reliable Mobile Agent Communication Protocol", Proc. 24th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04), March 23-26, 2004, Tokyo, Japan.

  17. Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Sajal K. Das, and Henry Chan, "Design and Performance Evaluation of an Improved Mobile IP Protocol", Proc. 23rd Conference of IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM 2004). March 7-11, 2004, Hong Kong.

  18. Jiannong Cao, Yifeng Chen, Kang Zhang, and Yanxiang He, "Checkpointing in Hybrid Distributed Systems", Proc. 7th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN2004), May 10-12, 2004, Hong Kong.

  19. Xianbing Wang, Jiannong Cao, and Yong Meng Teo, "An Approach to Achieve Message Efficient Early-Stopping Uniform Consensus Protocols", Proc. 7th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN2004), May 10-12, 2004, Hong Kong.

  20. Jiannong Cao, Jingyang Zhou, Daoxu Chen, Alvin T. S. Chan Jian Lu, "Mobile Agent Technology and Its Applications in Internet Computing" book chapter in Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology for Web Applications (World Scientific Pub). 2004. pp. 453 - 475.

  21. Hui Liu, Yi Pan, Jiannong Cao, "An Improved Distributed Algorithm for Connected Dominating Sets in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. 2nd Int’l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA04), Dec. 13 – 15, 2004, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

  22. Jingyang Zhou, Xiaolin Chen, Han Dai, Jiannong Cao, and Daoxu Chen, "M-Guard: A New Distributed Deadlock Detection Algorithm Based on Mobile Agent Technology:,Proc. 2nd Int’l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA04), Dec. 13 – 15, 2004, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3358 (Springer-Verlag).

2003

  1. Jiannong Cao, Yudong Sun, Xianbing Wang, and Sajal K. Das, "Scalable Load Balancing on Distributed Web Servers using Mobile Agents", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier Science). Vol. 63, No. 10, 2003. pp. 996-1005.

  2. Jie Wu, Fei Dai, Xiaola Lin, Jiannong Cao, and Weijia Jia, "An Extended Fault Tolerant Link-State Routing Protocol in The Internet", IEEE Transaction on Computers.Vol. 52, No. 10, Oct. 2003. pp 1298-1311.

  3. Jiannong Cao, Xiaoxing Ma, Alvin. T.S. Chan, and Jian Lu, "Architecting and Implementing Web-based Distributed Applications Using the Graph-Oriented Approach", Software: Practice and Experiences (John Wiley & Sons). Vol. 33, No. 9, July 2003. pp: 799-820.

  4. Fan Chan, Jiannong Cao, and Yudong Sun, "High-level Abstractions for Message-Passing Parallel Programming", Parallel Computing (Elsevier Science). Vol. 29, No. 11-12, 2003. pp. 1589-1621.

  5. Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Yudong Sun, Kang Zhang, "Dynamic Configuration Management in Graph-Oriented Distributed Programming Environment", Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier Science). 48 (2003) pp.43-65.

  6. Jiannong Cao, Z.H. Ren, Alvin T.S. Chan, L. Fang, L. Xie, D. X. Chen, "A Formalism for Graph-Oriented Distributed Programming", book chapter in Visual Programming - From Theory to Practice (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston), K. Zhang (Ed.). April 2003, ISBN 1-4020-7448-4, 77-109.

  7. Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Xingyu Feng, and Sajal K. Das, "Adaptive and Reliable Message Delivery for Mobile Objects", Proc.2003 IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2003). Dec. 1-5, 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  8. Jiannong Cao, Oscar M.K. Kwong, Xianbing Wang, and Wentong Cai, "A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Task Scheduling in Computation Grid", Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003). Dec. 7-9, 2003. Shanghai, China.

  9. Jiannong Cao, Liang Zhang, Xingyu Feng, and Sajal. K. Das, "Path Compression in Forwarding-Based Reliable Mobile Agent Communications", Proc. 32nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003), Oct. 2003. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  10. Zhihong Ren, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Jing Li, "Toward A Formal Approach to Composite Web Service Construction and Automation", Proc. 32nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003), Oct. 2003. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  11. Jane You, David Zhang, Jiannong Cao, and Minyi Guo, "Parallel Biometrics Computing Using Mobile Agents", Proc. 32nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003), Oct. 2003. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  12. John W. Shi, Kawai Kwan, Jiannong Cao, and G. Shea, "A Proactive Approach for Mobile GIS", Proc. IEEE 2003 Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2003-Fall). Oct. 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA.

  13. Fan Chan, Jiannong Cao and Yudong Sun, "Graph Scaling: A Technique for Automating Program Construction and Deployment in ClusterGOP", Proc. 5th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT'03), Sept. 2003. Xiamen, China

  14. Zhihong Ren, Jiannong. Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Jing Li, "Composition and Automation of Grid Services", Proc. 5th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT'03), Sept. 2003. Xiamen, China.

  15. Chang-ai Sun, Jiannong Cao, Maozhong Jin, Chao Liu, and Michael R. Lyu, "Extendable and Interchangeable Architecture Description of Distributed Systems Using UML and XML", Proc. 5th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT'03), Sept. 2003. Xiamen, China.

  16. Alvin T.S. Chan, Jiannong Cao, Chi-Kin Liu, Weidong Cao, "Design and Implementation of VPL: A Virtual Programming Laboratory for Online Distance Learning", Proc. The 2nd International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2003), Aug. 2003. Melbourne, Australia.

  17. Xiaoxing Ma, Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Jian Lu, Kang Zhang, "A Graph-Oriented Approach to the Description and Implementation of Distributed and Dynamic Software Architecture", Proc. 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2003), July 1 – 3 2003. San Francisco, CA, USA.

  18. Jiannong Cao, Xuhui Li, So King, Yanxiang He, "Direct Execution Simulation of Mobile Agent Algorithms", Proc. 2003 Internationbal Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA2003), July 2-4, 2003, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

  19. Alvin T.S. Chan, C.K. Chan, Jiannong Cao, "Programming Distributed Web Services Using WebGOP: A Graph-Oriented Approach", Proc. 8th IEEE Symposium On Computers And Communications (ISCC'2003), June 30 - July 3 2003, Kemer - Antalya, Turkey.

  20. Yan-Qing Zhang, Wei Fan, and Jiannong Cao, "Fuzzy personalized wireless information agents", Proc. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZY-IEEE 2003) May 25-28, 2003, St. Louis, MO, USA

  21. Siu-Nam Chuang, Alvin T.S. Chan, Ronnie Cheung, Jiannong Cao, "Dynamic Service Reconfiguration for Wireless Web Access", Proc. The 12th  International World Wide Web Conference  (WWW2003) (ACM Press), 20-24 May 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

  22. Xianbing Wang and Jiannong Cao, "An Optimal Early Stopping Uniform Consensus Protocol in Synchronous Distributed Systems with Orderly Crash Failures", Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN'03) (held in conjunction with The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS'03) (IEEE Computer Society Press). May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

  23. Liang Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Sajal K. Das, "Mailbox-based Scheme for Improving Mobile IP Performance", Proc. 2003 International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks (MWN'03) (held in conjunction with The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS'03) (IEEE Computer Society Press). May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

  24. Dajin Wang and Jiannong Cao, "On Optimal Hierarchical Configuration of Distributed Systems on Mesh and Hypercube", Proc. 2003 Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS2003) (IEEE Computer Society Press). April 2003, Nice, France.

  25. Xingwei Wang, Hui Cheng, Jiannong Cao, Lianwei Zheng, and Min Huang, "A Simulated-annealing-based QoS Multicasting Algorithm", Proc. 2003 International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT’03). April 2003, Beijing China.

  26. Kang Zhang, Yu Qian, Jiannong Cao, "Graph-Based Data Clustering: Criteria and a Customizable Approach", Proc. 4th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2003), March 2003, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

2002

  1. Jiannong Cao, Xingyu Feng, Jian Lu, and Sajal Das, "Mailbox-based Scheme for Mobile Agent Communications", IEEE Computer (IEEE Computer Society Publication), Vol. 35, No. 9, Sept. 2002. pp. 54-60.

  2. Alvin T.S. Chan, Florine Tse, Jiannong Cao, Hong-Va Leong, "Enabling Distributed CORBA Access to Smart Card Applications", IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Computer Society Publication, Vol. 6 No. 3, May/Jun 2002. pp. 27 -36.

  3. Heng Li, Jiannong Cao, and M. Skibniewski, "A Framework for Developing a Unified B2B e-Trading Construction Marketplace", Automation in Construction (Elsevier Science), 12(2), (2002) pp.201-211.

  4. Jiannong Cao, Xianbing Wang, Siu Lo, Sajal K. Das, "A Consensus Algorithm for Synchronous Distributed Systems Using Mobile Agent", Proc. 2002 Pacific Rim Int'l Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Dec. 2002, Tskuba, Japan.

  5. Jiannong Cao, Xingyu Feng, Jian Lu, Henry Chan, Sajal K. Das, "Reliable Message Delivery for Mobile Agents: Push or Pull?", Proc. 2002 International Conference on Parallel And Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Dec. 2002, Taiwan.

  6. Jiannong Cao, Min Cao, Alvin S. T. Chan, "Architecture Level Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration and Fault Tolerance in Component-Based Distributed Software", Proc. 2002 International Conference on Parallel And Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Dec. 2002, Taiwan.

  7. Jiannong Cao, Xianbing Wang, Jie Wu, "A Mobile Agent Enabled Fully Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm", Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA'02), Oct. 2002, Spain. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

  8. Jiannong Cao, Xianbing Wang, Sajal K. Das, "A Framework of Using Cooperating Mobile Agents to Achieve Load Sharing in Distributed Web Server Groups", Proc. 5th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2002) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Oct. 2002. Beijing, China.

  9. Hnery Chan, Hui Chen, Tharam Dillon, Jiannong Cao, Raymond Lee, "A Mobile Agent-based System for Consumer-oriented e-commerce", Proc. 4th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Oct. 23-25 2002, Hong Kong.

  10. Jiannong Cao, Xiaoxin Ma, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Jian Lu, "WebGOP: A Framework for Architecting and Programming Dynamic Distributed Web Applications", Proc. 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), August 2002. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

  11. Alvin T.S. Chan, Siu Nam Chuang, and Jiannong Cao, "Dynamic Service Composition for Wireless Web Access", Proc. 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), August 2002. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

  12. Jiannong Cao, Alvin T.S. Chan, Weidong Cao, Cassidy Yeung, "Virtual Programming Lab for On-line Distance Learning", Proc. 1st International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL'02), Aug. 2002. Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag).

  13. Jiannong Cao, Xinyu Feng, Jian Lu, and Sajal K. Das, "Design of Adaptive and Reliable Mobile Agent Communication Protocols", Proc. IEEE 22nd Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), July 2002, Vienna, Austria.

  14. Steve W.K. Poon and Jiannong Cao, "Rheeve: A Plug-n-Play Peer-to-Peer Computing Platform", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Resource Sharing in Massively Distributed Systems (RESH'02) (held in conjunction with IEEE 22nd Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS'02) (IEEE Computer Society Press), July 2002, Vienna, Austria.

  15. Jiannong Cao, Patrick Leung, and Alvin Chan, "A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Communication Service in Java", Proc. 4th International Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing (held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS2002) (IEEE Computer Society Press). April 2002, Florida, USA.

  16. Siu-Nam Chuang, Alvin T.S. Chan, and Jiannong Cao, "Active Framework Supporting Wireless Web Access", Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2002) (IEEE Computer Society Press), March 2002, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. pp 630-634.

2001

  1. Kang Zhang, Daqian Zhang, and Jiannong Cao, "A Context-sensitive Graph Grammar Formalism for The Specification of Visual Languages", The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, U.K. Vol 44, No. 3, 2001. pp 186-200.

  2. Alvin T.S. Chan , Jiannong Cao, Gilbert Young, and Henry Chan, "A Web-enabled Framework for Smart Card Applications in Heath Services", Communication of ACM (ACM Press), 44, 9, Sep. 2001. pp. 77-82.

  3. Kang Zhang, Daqian Zhang, and Jiannong Cao, "Design, Construction, and Application of a Generic Visual Language Generation Environment", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE Computer Society Publication), Vol. 27, No. 4, April 2001. pp.289-307.

  4. Jiannong Cao, Nick Cheung, and Alvin T.S. Chan, "JDM: Build Distributed Synchronization into Java", Journal of Interconnection Networks (World Scientific). Vol. 2, No. 3 (2001). pp. 269-282.

  5. Xingyu Feng, Jiannong Cao, Jian Lu, Henry Chan, "An Efficient Mailbox-based Algorithm for Message Delivery in Mobile Agent Systems", Proc. 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA'01), Dec. 2-4, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag) Vol. 2240, pp. 135-151.

  6. Jiannong Cao, Catherine Chan, and Keith Chan, "A Stage-Activity Process Model Facilitating Workflow Management for Web Publishing", Proc. 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference(COMPSAC'01) (IEEE Computer Society Press), October 8-12, 2001 Chicago, USA.

  7. Jiannong Cao, Alvin T. S. Chan, Jie Wu, "Achieving Replication Consistency using Cooperating Mobile Agents", Proc. Int'l Workshop on Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (held in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing - ICPP'01) (IEEE Computer Society Press), Sep 2001.Valencia, Spain.

  8. Kang Zhang and Jiannong Cao, "Toward a Human Web Interface", Proc. 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2001), 5-10 Aug, 2001, New Orleans, USA.

  9. Jiannong Cao, Nick K. C. Cheung, and Alvin Chan, "Run-time Fault Detection in Monitor Based Concurrent Programming", Proc IEEE/IFIP 2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN2001) (IEEE Computer Society Press), July 2001, GÖteborg, Sweden. pp. 357-366.

  10. Jie Wu, Xiaola Lin, Jiannong Cao, Weijia Jia, "An Extended Fault-Tolerant Link-State Routing Protocol in the Internet", Proc. 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'01) (IEEE Computer Society Press), June 2001, KyongJu City, Korea. pp. 331-337.

  11. Jiannong Cao, G.H. Chan, W. Jia, and T. Dillon, "Checkpointing and Rollback of Wide-Area Distributed Applications Using Mobile Agents", Proc. IEEE 2001 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2001) (IEEE Computer Society Press), April 2001, San Francisco, USA.

  12. Alvin T.S.Chan, Dan He, S.N. Chuang, and Jiannong Cao, "Towards a Programmable Mobile IP", Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf on Mobile Data Management (MDM'2001), Jan. 2001, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Springer-Verlag), pp.210-221.