All Outputs (11)

Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches (2017)
Book Chapter
Jamnal, G. S., Liu, X., Fan, L., & Ramachandran, M. (2017). Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches. In R. Mihajlovic, M. Ramachandran, R. Behringer, & P. Kocovic (Eds.), Emerging Trends and Applications of the Internet of Things; Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (277-309). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2437-3.ch010

In today's world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about Cognitive Internet of Everything (CIoE): State of the Art and Approaches.

A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamnal, G., & Liu, X. (2017, April). A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, Porto, Portugal

In today’s world, we are living in busy metropolitan cities and want our homes to be ambient intelligent enough towards our cognitive requirements for assisted living in smart space environment and an excellent smart home control system should not re... Read More about A Cognitive-IoE Approach to Ambient-intelligent Smart Home.

A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2018). A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1093-2

In a non-uniformly distributed network, the dataconcentrating centre equipped with sparse nodes rapidly depletes its battery energy due to the hotspot problem. To solve this problem, a Virtual Uneven Grid-based Routing protocol (VUGR) is proposed in... Read More about A virtual uneven grid-based routing protocol for mobile sink-based WSNs in a smart home system.

An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, June). An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

With the development of microelectronic devices and the radio, the application of WSN is more popular and can be applied in the various areas, which has attracted scholars. However, the requirements of performance for WSNs are becoming great in terms... Read More about An Energy-Efficiency Routing Scheme Based on Clusters with a Mobile Sink for WSNs.

Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, June). Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

This work proposed an activity recognition model which focus on the power con-suming activity in home environment, to help residents modify their behavior. We set the IoT system with lower number of sensors. The key data for identifying activity come... Read More about Power Consuming Activity Recognition in Home Environment.

Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Singh Jamnal, G., Liu, X., & Fan, L. (2017, July). Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space. Presented at The 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

In this paper, we proposed a new type of decision making system to achieve the intelligent goal for automated smart environments. The artificial intelligence techniques, used as building blocks to understand inhabitant activity patterns. The collecte... Read More about Home automation: HMM based fuzzy rule engine for Ambient intelligent smart space.

ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ma, F., Liu, X., Yang, Y., Yao, W., Cai, J., & Wang, F. (2017, July). ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds. Presented at 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

One of the key features of cloud computing is on demand resource provision. Unfortunately, different cloud service providers often have different standards, which makes the job of choosing the suitable resource to be a very difficult one for the comm... Read More about ESBSC: Energy-Aware Service Brokering Strategy in Clouds.

An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., & Liu, Q. (2017, July). An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Presented at 22017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hadoop is a famous distributed computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data. "Straggling tasks" have a serious impact on Hadoop performance due to imbalance of slow tasks distribution. Speculative execution (SE) presents a way to d... Read More about An Optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in a Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Zhang, K., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2017). Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 25(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2017.10007397

In a traditional wireless sensor network with static sinks, sensor nodes close to the sink run out of their batteries quicker than other nodes due to the increased data traffic towards the sink. These nodes with huge data traffic are easy to become... Read More about Grid Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for WSNs with Single Mobile Sink.

An Adaptively Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Real-Time Resource Awareness in a Multi-Job Heterogeneous Environment (2017)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Liu, Q., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2017). An Adaptively Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Real-Time Resource Awareness in a Multi-Job Heterogeneous Environment. KSII transactions on internet and information systems, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2017.02.004

MapReduce (MRV1), a popular programming model, proposed by Google, has been well used to process large datasets in Hadoop, an open source cloud platform. Its new version MapReduce 2.0 (MRV2) developed along with the emerging of Yarn has achieved obvi... Read More about An Adaptively Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Real-Time Resource Awareness in a Multi-Job Heterogeneous Environment.

BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications (2017)
Journal Article
Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017). BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods h... Read More about BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications.