Short Biography

Xi Chen is currently a third-year Ph.D. student and a research assistant at Prof. Xue Liu's Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPS Lab), School of Computer Science, McGill University. He received both of his M.Eng. and B.S. degrees from Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
His research interests include Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications and vehicular networks, optimization of electric vehicles, energy and cost management of cloud computing, green and energy-aware computing.

Testbeds and demos

1. VSmart is a DSRC-enabled smart vehicle testbed established at CPS Lab, McGill University, and is partially supported by General Motors Company. (Testbed website is VSmart@McGill. YouTube videos are here.)

Publications

Journal

• Xi Chen, Lei Rao, Yuan Yao, Xue Liu and Fan Bai, "The Answer is Rolling on Wheels: Modeling and Performance Evaluation of In-cabin Wi-Fi Communications," in Elsevier Journal of Vehicular Communications, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 13-26, Jan. 2015.
• Zhenzhi Qian, Xiaohua Tian, Xi Chen, Wentao Huang, and Xinbing Wang, "Multicast Capacity in MANET with Infrastructure Support,"in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol.25, no.7, pp.1808 - 1818, July 2014.

Conference

• Linghe Kong, Xi Chen, Xue Liu and Lei Rao, "FINE: Frequency-divided Instantaneous Neighbors Estimation System in Vehicular Networks," in Proc. of the 13rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2015) (accepted for publication, to appear), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2015.
• Qiao Xiang, Xi Chen, Linghe Kong, Lei Rao and Xue Liu, "Data Preference Matters: A New Perspective of Safety Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", in Proc. of the 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015) (accepted for publication, to appear), Hong Kong, China, 2015.
• Xi Chen, Lei Rao, Xue Liu, Hongxing Li and Xinbing Wang, "Right Time in Right Place: Taming Workload Balancing Oscillations in Internet Data Center Cost Management," in Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2014), Dallas, TX, 2014.
• Zhonghao Sun, Fanxin Kong, Xue Liu, Xingshe Zhou and Xi Chen, "Intelligent Joint Spatio-temporal Management of Electric Vehicle Charging and Data Center Power Consumption", in Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2014), Dallas, TX, 2014.
• Xi Chen, Wentao Huang, Xinbing Wang, and Xiaojun Lin, "Multicast Capacity in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Network with Infrastructure Support," in Proc. of the 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012), Orlando, FL, 2012, pp. 271-279.

Projects involved

1. DSRC: Performance enhancement of vehicular communications (Dedicated Short Range Communication and mobile Wi-Fi) (2012 - present, McGill and General Motors);
2. Electric Vehicles: Optimization of energy-efficient EVs (2014 - present, CPS lab, McGill);
3. Cloud Energy: Energy/cost management for cloud computing systems in smart grid (2012 - present, CPS lab, McGill);
4. Skysensor: Real-time virtual link scheduling in AFDX network (2012 - 2013, McGill and Sponsors);
5. Limited feedback design of LTE/LTE-A system (2009-2012, SJTU and Sharp Co.);
6. Capacity scaling in mobile Ad Hoc network (2011-2012, SJTU).

Courses taken

Miscellaneous

• Prof. Luc Devroye's library (open to all McGill students)
• Life in Montreal
• The Akamai blog
• Liam's blog
• James Hamilton's blog
• PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective
• Xinyu Zhang's blog