Publication

Selected Publications (Click for Full List)

Note: Underlined authors are students advised by Dr. Song, * are undergraduate students. 

2024: 

• Khairul Mottakin, Kiran Davuluri, Mark Allison, Zheng Song, ``SWiLoc: Fusing Smartphone Sensors and WiFi CSI for Accurate Indoor Localization'', MDPI Sensors  (IF: 3.4), Special Issue on Advanced Wireless Positioning and Sensing Technologies

• Zhengquan Li, Long Cheng, and Zheng Song, ``Client-Specific Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime for QoS-Critical Tasks", ICSOC'24 (Short paper, Core Ranking A, acceptance rate for both full and short paper: 22%)

• Jiaxi Li, Kiran Davulur,  Khairul Mottakin, Zheng Song, Fei Dou,  Jin Lu ``Proximal Federated Learning for Body Mass Index Monitoring using Commodity WiFi", MobiCom'24 Picasso Workshop 

• Khairul Mottakin, Jinhua Guo, and Zheng Song, ``Cover More with Less: Eliminating Blind Spots for Surveillance Camera via Passive WiFi Sensing", IEEE ICPADS'24 (Core Ranking B)

• Venkata Alekhya Kusam, Summit Shrestha, Khalid Kattan, Bruce Maxim, and Zheng Song,  ``A PBL-Based Mini Course Module for Teaching Computer Science Students to Utilize Generative AI for Enhanced Learning",  ASEE/IEEE FIE'24 ( the first two authors contributed equally to this paper, Core Ranking C).

• Nico Bokhari*, Zhengquan Li, and Zheng Song, ``MQTT-EES: Optimizing Energy Efficiency by Aggregating Sensing Tasks on IoT Devices", IEEE VTC'24 Fall (Core Ranking B)

• Khairul Mottakin, Demetrius Johnson*, Jonathan Schall*, Ryan Sauer*, Olivia Pellegrini*, Jie Shen, and Zheng Song ``Drone-Car Collaboration for Advanced Mobility: A Survey", IEEE VTC'24 Fall (Core Ranking B)

• Song Liao, Long Cheng, Xiapu Luo, Zheng Song, Haipeng Cai, Daphne Yao, and Hongxin Hu, ``A First Look at Security and Privacy Risks in the RapidAPI Ecosystem", ACM CCS'24 (Core Ranking A*)

• Siddhi Baravkar, Chi Zhang, Foyzul Hassan, Long Cheng, and Zheng Song, ``Decoding and Answering Developers’ Questions about Web Services Managed by Marketplaces", IEEE SSE'24 (formerly known as SCC, Acceptance Rate: 22%, Core Ranking B)

• Siddhi Baravkar, Olivia Pellegrini*, Pratiksha Gaikwad, Eli Tilevich, and Zheng Song, ``How Can I Be of Service?''---A Comprehensive Analysis of Web Service Integration Practices, IEEE ICWS'24 (Acceptance Rate: 19%, Core Ranking A)

• Zhengquan Li, Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song, Eli Tilevich, "Edge Cache on WiFi Access Points: Millisecond-Level App Latency Almost for Free", IEEE ICDCS'24 (Acceptance Rate: 21%, Core Ranking A) Distinguished Paper Award

• Venkata Alekhya Kusam, Larnell Moore*, Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song , Jin Lu , Qiang Zhu, "Generative-AI Assisted Feedback Provisioning for Project-based Learning in CS Courses", ASEE'24 (the first three authors contributed equally to this paper).  

• Mohammed Aldeen, Sisheng Liang, Zhenkai Zhang, Linke Guo, Zheng Song, Long Cheng, "EMMasker: EM Obfuscation Against Website Fingerprinting", MADWeb'24 (Best Paper Runner-up Award)

• Mark Allison, Michael Farmer, Zheng Song, "Towards Distributed Learning to Support Situational Awareness for Robotic Team Augmented Humanitarian Disaster Response", IEEE CCWC'24 (Best Paper Award)

• Zheng Song, Zhengquan Li, Eli Tilevich, "A Meta-Pattern for Building QoS-Optimal Mobile Services out of Equivalent Microservices", Service Oriented Computing and Applications (IF: 1.8)

2023:

• Summit Shrestha, Zhengquan Li, Khairul Mottakin, Zheng Song, Qiang Zhu, "From Tight Coupling to Flexibility: A Digital Twin Middleware Layer for the ShakeAlert System", IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing Workshop (DT)'23

• Zhengquan Li, Zheng Song, ``Poster: Service Polymorphism: Serving Mobile Users Dissimilarly to Improve Performance for Service-Oriented Applications", NSDI'23 (Core Ranking A*)

• Andrew Ealovega*, Zheng Song, "SensingBay: an Affordable Roadside Sensing System for Student Vehicle Competitions", IEEE VTC'23(Core Ranking B)

• Ziba Parsons, Fei Dou, Houyi Du, Zheng Song, Jin Lu, "Mobilizing Personalized Federated Learning via Random Walk Stochastic ADMM", NeurIPS'23 (Core Ranking A*)

• K Davuluri, K Mottakin, Z Song, J Lu, M Allison, "BMEye: Public Health-Oriented Body Mass Index Monitoring using Commodity WiFi", IEEE WF-IoT'23

• Demetrius Johnson, Jonathan Schall, Ryan Sauer, Olivia Pellegrini, Khairul Mottakin, Jie Shen, Zheng Song, "Drone-Car Collaboration: An Emerging Domain for Intelligent Transportation Systems", IEEE ITSC 2023 (accepted but withdrawn due to no one has the visa to present the paper). 

• Khairul Mottakin, Kiran Davuluri, Zheng Song, "SWiDir: Enhancing Smartphone-based Walking Direction Estimation with Passive WiFi Sensing", IEEE MASS 2023 (Short paper, Core Ranking B) 

• Alaa Jaber, Kimberly Lechasseur, Khairul Mottakin, Zheng Song, "WIP: A Study Report in a Web Technologies Course: What Makes Feedback Effective for Project-based Learning?", ASEE 2023

• Sarvesh Bhatnagar, Zhengquan Li, Zheng Song and Eli Tilevich, "OS3: The Art and the Practice of Searching for Open-Source Serverless Functions," IEEE PERCOM Workshop (Starless) 2023 

2022:

• Zheng Song, Owen Rowader*, Zhengquan Li, Maryam Tello*, and Eli Tilevich, "Quality of Information Matters: Recommending Web Services for Performance and Utility", IEEE CLOUDCOM 2022 [Paper] 

• Zheng Song, Nidhi Shah, Jinhua Guo, and Qiang Zhu, "Applying Project-based Learning to Improve Computer Network Course: An Experience Report", IEEE EDUCON'22 [Paper]

2021:

• Yazhi Liu, Qianqian Wu, Jianwei Niu, Xiong Li, Zheng Song, "Imitation Learning Based Heavy-Hitter Scheduling Scheme in Software-Defined Industrial Networks", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2021

2020 and before: 

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "Win with What You Have: QoS-Consistent Edge Services with Unreliable and Dynamic Resources," Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020), July 2020, Acceptance rate: 18%. [Paper]

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "Equivalence-Enhanced Microservice Workflow Orchestration to Efficiently Increase Reliability" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2019), July 2019. [Paper, Slides]

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "A Programming Model for Reliable and Efficient Edge-Based Execution Under Resource Variability," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (IEEE EDGE 2019), July 2019.  [Paper, Slides] Best Paper Award

• Zheng Song and Eli Tilevich, "PMDC: Programmable Mobile Device Clouds for Convenient and Efficient Service Provisioning," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2018), July 2018.  [Paper]

• Zheng Song, Sanchit Chadha, Antuan Byalik, and Eli Tilevich, "Programming and Runtime Support for Sharing Resources Across Heterogeneous Mobile Devices," Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft 2018), May 2018.  [Paper]

• Song, Zheng Jason, Jing Pu, Junjie Cheng, and Eli Tilevich. "Performance and programming effort trade-offs of Android persistence frameworks." Journal of Systems and Software 146 (2018): 99-111. [Paper]