Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 14(1), 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2019.099748

With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual appliance’s energy consumption instead of the whole-house energy consumpti... Read More about Non-intrusive load monitoring and its challenges in a NILM system framework.

A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Li, S., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018). A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 10(3), 248-256. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2018.091788

Home energy management (HEM) and smart home have been popular among people; HEM collects and analyses the electric load data to make the power use safe, reliable, economical, efficient and environmentally friendly. Without the correct data, the corre... Read More about A method for electric load data verification and repair in home environment.

CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Chen, X., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2018). CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 26(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.088364

Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UANs) have emerged as a promising technology recently which can be applied in many areas such as military and civil, where the communication between devices is crucial and challenging due to the unique characteris... Read More about CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks.

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.

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.

A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Jin, D., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016, July). A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Nanjing, China

MapReduce is a parallel computing programming model designed to process large-scale data. Therefore, the accuracy and efficiency for computing are needed to be assured and speculative execution is an efficient method for calculation of fault toleranc... Read More about A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce.

An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016, July). An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework. Presented at The 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, Nanjing, China

With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual appliance’s energy consumption instead of the whole-house energy consumpti... Read More about An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework.

An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 62(3), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2016.7613190

Pay-as-you-consume, as a new type of cloud computing paradigm, has become increasingly popular since a large number of cloud services are gradually opening up to consumers. It gives consumers a great convenience, where users no longer need to buy the... Read More about An adaptive approach to better load balancing in a consumer-centric cloud environment.

A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Li, S., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016, July). A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security

Most people do not have a consciousness of energy saving. For this phenomenon, the governments are building smart grids to take measures for the energy crisis. Electric load data records the electric consumption and plays an important role in operati... Read More about A Method for Electric Load Data Verfication and Repair in home Environment.

A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Security and Communication Networks, 9(17), 4002-4012. https://doi.org/10.1002/sec.1582

A heterogeneous cloud system, for example, a Hadoop 2.6.0 platform, provides distributed but cohesive services with rich features on large-scale management, reliability, and error tolerance. As big data processing is concerned, newly built cloud clus... Read More about A speculative approach to spatial-temporal efficiency with multi-objective optimization in a heterogeneous cloud environment.