Senior Software Engineer

   Wistron

   Plainsboro, NJ

   Email: qf9898@gmail.com

         He was a postdoctor (advised by Dr. Lingjia Liu) in Virginia Tech.

     His research focuses on mobile edge computing enabled by machine learning, dynamic spectrum access, and drone-assisted networks.

   Education

    - Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), May 2019       

               Advisor:  Dr. Nirwan Ansari

    - M.S. Signal and Information processing, Yunnan University of Nationalities, June, 2013.
 

Research Interests

Mobile edge computing, Machine learning, Wireless networks, Internet of things

Journal Articles (Published or Accepted)

20. Q. Fan, J. Bai, H. Zhang, Y. Yi, and L. Liu. "Delay-aware Resource Allocation in Fog-assisted IoT Networks Through Reinforcement Learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04097, 2020.

19. N. Ansari, Q. Fan, X. Sun, L. Zhang, "SoarNet," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 37-43, 2019.

18. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "On Cost Aware Cloudlet Placement for Mobile Edge Computing," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 926-937, July 2019.

17. Q. Wu, S. Xia, Q. Fan and Z. Li, "Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 p for Continuous Backoff Freezing in IoV", Electronics, 8(12), p.1404, 2019.

16. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Towards Workload Balancing in Fog Computing Empowered IoT," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2018.2852762, 2018, early access.

15. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Application Aware Workload Allocation for Edge Computing-Based IoT," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 2146-2153, June 2018.

14. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Towards Throughput Aware and Energy Aware Traffic Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with Hybrid Power Supplies," IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 890-898, Dec. 2018.

13. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Workload Allocation in Hierarchical Cloudlet Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 820-823, April 2018.

12. Q. Fan, N. Ansari, J. Feng, R. Rojas-Cessa, M. Zhou and T. Zhang, "Reducing the Number of FSO Base Stations with Dual Transceivers for Next-generation Ground-to-Train Communications," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 11143-11153, Nov. 2018.

11. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Towards Traffic Load Balancing in Drone-assisted Communications for IoT," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, accepted, 2018.

10. L. Zhang, Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "3-D Drone-Base-Station Placement With In-Band Full-Duplex Communications," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1902-1905, Sept. 2018.

 9. Q. Fan, M. Taheri, N. Ansari, J. Feng, R. Rojas-Cessa, M. Zhou, and T. Zhang, "Reducing the Impact of Handovers in Ground-to-Train Free Space Optical Communications," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 1292-1301, Feb. 2018.

 8. Q. Fan, N. Ansari and X. Sun, "Energy Driven Avatar Migration in Green Cloudlet Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1601-1604, July 2017.

 7. Q. Fan, J. Fan, J. Li, and X. Wang, "A Multi-hop Energy-efficient Sleeping MAC Protocol Based on TDMA Scheduling for Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks," Journal of Networks, vol 7, no. 9, pp.1355-1361, Sep, 2012.

 6. Q. Wu, H. Liu, C. Zhang, Q. Fan, Z. Li, K. Wang, "Trajectory Protection Schemes Based on Gravity Mobility Model in IoT," Electronics vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 148-166, 2019.

 5. Q. Wu, S. Nie, P. Fan, H. Liu, Q. Fan, and Z. Li, "A Swarming Approach to Optimize the One-Hop Delay in Smart Driving Inter-Platoon Communications," Sensors, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 3307-3323, 2018.

 4. Q. Wu, S. Xia, P. Fan, Q. Fan, and Z. Li, "Velocity Adaptive V2I Fair Access Scheme based on IEEE 802.11 DCF for Platooning Vehicles," Sensors, no.18, pp. 4198-4220, 2018.

 3. Q. Wu, H. Ge, H. Liu, Q. Fan, Z. Li and Z. Wang, "A Task Offloading Scheme in Vehicular Fog and Cloud Computing System," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 1173-1184, 2020.

 2. Q. Wu, H. Liu, R. Wang, P. Fan, Q. Fan and Z. Li, "Delay-Sensitive Task Offloading in the 802.11pBased Vehicular Fog Computing Systems," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, pp.
773-785, Jan. 2020.

 1. Q. Wu, J. Fan, C. Zhang, Q. Fan, "A study on Energy Consumption Balance in Wireless Mesh Sensor Network Based on Controlling Topology Mechanism\, Energy Procedia, vol. 13, pp. 8285-8291, 2011.

 

Conference Papers

6. Q. Fan, J. Bai, H. Chang, L. Li, S. Liu, J. Huang, J. Burgess, A. Berlinsky, A. Pidwerbetsky, J. Ashdown, K. Turck, and L. Liu, "Intelligent DSA-assisted Clustered IoT Networks: Neuromorphic Computing Meets Genetic Algorithm", the 7th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (Nanocom 20020), Sept. 23-25, 2020, Accepted. 

5. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Cost aware cloudlet placement for big data processing at the edge," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2017), Paris, May 2017, pp. 1-6.

4. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Throughput aware and green energy aware user association in heterogeneous networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2017), Paris, May 2017, pp. 1-6.

3. Q. Fan and N. Ansari, "Green energy aware user association in heterogeneous networks," 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2016), Doha, 2016, pp. 1-6.

2. X. Sun, N. Ansari and Q. Fan, "Green Energy Aware Avatar Migration Strategy in Green Cloudlet Networks," 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Vancouver, BC, 2015, pp. 139-146.

1. J. Fan, J. Hao, Q. Fan, H. Wang, "Multi-hop sleep MAC Protocols for Wireless Mesh Sensor Network Based on Effective Listen Time, " The 2011 International Conference on Information and Computer Networks (ICICN 2011), Jan, 2011.

TPC member for

• 2018 Cloud Computing Conference,

• 2019 IEEE Wireless Africa Conference,

• 2019 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium,

• 2021 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium,

• Globecom 2020 CSSMA,

• the Fourteenth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2018),

• the Fifteenth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2019),

• the Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2018),

• the Seventeenth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2018)

Invited Reviewer:

Conducted reviewing work for over 110 times for Journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing,

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,

• IEEE Transactions on Communications,

• IEEE transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies,

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

• ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal,

• IEEE Communications Letter,

• IEEE wireless Communications Letter,

• Journal of Computing and Information Technology,

• IEEE system journal,

• IEEE Access,

• International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

• and many conference paper reviews such as (Globecom 2020).