Qiang Duan, Ph.D.

qiang duan
Professor, Information Technology
Professor, Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
[email protected]
267-633-3317
Rydal Executive Plaza, 311

Dr. Duan is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University Abington College. Before joining Penn State University in 2008, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Arkansas. Dr. Duan’s general research interests include computer networking, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence, with recent research focusing on cloud-native networking, network-edge-cloud convergence, federated and split learning, and ubiquitous intelligence in the 6G network. Dr. Duan has published four monographs, six book chapters, and 120+ refereed journal articles and conference papers. He has served on the editorial boards as an editor/associate editor for multiple research journals and been involved in organizing numerous international conferences as a TPC member and track/session chair. Dr. Duan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mississippi in 2003. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. 

Teaching Interests


Data communications and computer networking, telecommunications, system analysis and design, system integration, programming language, Cloud computing, and Web services

Professional Service

Editorial Board Member
•    International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (area editor)
•    International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms (associate editor)
•    International Journal of Internet and Distributed Systems (associate editor)
•    Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems
•    Journal of Advanced Internet Technologies
Journal Reviewer
•    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
•    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
•    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
•    IEEE Journal of Selected Area of Communication (JSAC)
•    IEEE Communications Magazine
•    IET Communications Journal
•    Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Journal
•    Elsevier Information Sciences Journal
•    Elsevier Computer Communications Journal
•    Springer Wireless Networks Journal
•    Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal
•    KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Recent Conference TPC Member
•    IEEE GLOBECOM Symposium on Wireless Networking 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
•    IEEE GLOBECOM Symposium on QoS, Reliability, and Modeling 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
•    IEEE ICCCN Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation 2013, 2012, 2011
•    IEEE AINA 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
•    IEEE WCNC 2013, 2007
•    IEEE CloudPerf 2011
•    IEEE HPSR 2008

Cloud-native networking, network-edge-cloud convergence, federated learning and split learning, ubiquitous intelligence in 6G networks, and generative AI in the future Internet.

Books

  1. J. Huang and Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Guarantee for Integrated Network and Cloud Services,” Publishing House of Electronics Industry, 2018, ISBN: 978-7-121-33788-8 
  2. Q. Duan and S. Wang, “Network-as-a-Service in Next Generation Internet,” IET Publishing, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-78561-176-6, 424 pages.
  3. Q. Duan and M. Toy, “Virtualized Software-Defined Networks and Services,” Artech House Publisher, December 2016, ISBN: 978-1-63081-130-3.

Book Chapters

  1. J. Wang and Q. Duan, “Big Data-based Traffic Management in Software-Defined Networks”, Chapter 18 in book Big Data and Software Defined Networks (ISBN: 978-1-78561-304-3), pp. 375-388, IET Publishing, January 2018
  2. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Virtualization for Convergence of Networking and Cloud Computing in Next Generation Networks,” Chapter 15 in book Building Next-Generation Converged Networks: Theory and Practice (ISBN: 978-1466507616), pp. 393-415, CRC Press, January 2013.
  3. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Networking for the Next Generation Distributed Computing,” Chapter 15 in book Advancements in Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies: Trends and Issues (ISBN: 978-1613501108), pp. 314-331, IGI Global, August 2011.
  4. Q. Duan, “End-to-End Service Provisioning in Network Virtualization for the Next Generation Internet,” Chapter 12 in book Future Internet Services and Service Architectures (ISBN: 978-87-92329-59-2), pp. 247-269, River Publishers, June 2011.
  5. Q. Duan, “Delay Performance Characteristics of Packet Switched Networks,” Chapter 10 in book Data Engineering: Mining, Information, and Intelligence (ISBN: 978-1-4419-0175-0), pp. 203-222, Springer, October 2009.
  6. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in High-Speed Packet Switches,” Chapter 8 in book Computer Networking and Networks (ISBN: 1-59454-8307), pp. 189-237, Nova Science Publishers Inc., September 2006.

Journal Articles

  1. X. Du, M. Wang, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, Y. Liu, J. Feng, and H. Wang, “HRCM: A Hierarchical Regularizing Mechanism for Sparse and Imbalanced Communication in Whole Human Brain Simulations,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, in press 

  1. M. Zheng, X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, “A Balanced and Reliable Data Replica Placement Scheme Based on Reinforcement Learning in Edge-Cloud Environments,” Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, in press. 

  1. J. Xu, X. Cao, Q. Duan, and S. Li, “A Service Function Chain Deployment Using Deep Q Learning and Tidal Mechanism,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 5401-5416, February 2024. 

  1. Y. Zhang, J. Lin, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, and SC. Huang, “PBRL-TChain: A Performance-Enhanced Permissioned Blockchain for Time-Critical Applications based on Reinforcement Learning,” Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 154, no. 5, pp. 301-313, January 2024. 

  1. Q. Duan, J. Huang, S. Hu, R. Deng, Z. Lu, and S. Yu, “Combining Federated Learning and Edge Computing toward Ubiquitous Intelligence in 6G Network: Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Opportunities,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2892-2950, 4th Quarter 2023. 

  1. X. Du, X. Chen, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, Y. Wang, J. Wu, and P.C.K. Hung, “A Blockchain-Assisted Intelligent Edge Cooperation System for IoT Environments with Multi-Infrastructure Providers,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 24, pp. 21227-21239, December 2023. 

  1. S. Hu, J. Lin, X. Du, W. Huang, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, and J. Wu, “ACSarF: a DRL-based Adaptive Consortium Blockchain Sharding Framework for Supply Chain Finance,” Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1212-1220. December 2023.  

  1. J. Xu, Y. Zhang, and Q. Duan, “Concept Drift Detection and Localization Framework based on Behavior Replacement,” Springer Applied Intelligence, vol. 53, no. 13, pp. 16776-16796, July 2023. 

  1. Y. Xu, Z. Lu, K. Gai, Q. Duan, J. Lin, J. Wu, and KKR Choo, “BESIFL: Blockchain Empowered Secure and Incentive Federated Learning Paradigm in IoT,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 6561-6573, April 2023. 

  1. Y. Wang, X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, and J. Wu, “Improved LSTM-based Time Series Anomaly Detection in Rail Transit Operation Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 9027-9036, December 2022. 

  1. J. Huang, Q. Duan, C.C. Xing, B. Gu, G. Wang, S. Zeadally, and E. Baker, “A Fine-Grained Video Traffic Control Mechanism in Software-Defined Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 3501-3515, September 2022.  

  1. Q. Duan, S. Hu, R. Deng, and Z. Lu, “Combined Federated and Split Learning in Edge Computing for Ubiquitous Intelligence in Internet of Things: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 16, pp. 5982, August 2022. 

  1. A. Hou, C.Q. Wu, Q. Duan, D. Quan, L. Zuo, Y. Li, M.M. Zhu, and D. Fang, “SDN-based Bandwidth Scheduling for Prioritized Data Transfer between Data Centers,” Springer Cluster Computing Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 3019-3034, August 2022. 
     

  2. L. Chen, Z. Lu, A. Xiao, Q. Duan, J. Wu, and PCK Hung, “A Resource Recommendation Model for Heterogeneous Workloads in Fog-based Smart Factory Environment,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1731-1743, July 2022. 
     

  3. X. Du, Y. Liu, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, J. Feng, J. Wu, B. Chen, and Q. Zhen, “A Low-Latency Communication Design for Brain Simulations,” IEEE Network, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 8-15, March 2022. 

  1. J. He, Y. Wang, X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, and J. Wu, “OPTOS: A Strategy of Online Pre-Filtering Task Offloading System in Vehicular ad hoc Networks,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 4112-4124, January 2022. 

  1. J. Xu, L. Liu, R. Zhang, J. Xie, Q. Duan, and L. Shi, “IFTS: A Location Privacy Protection Method based on Initial and Final Trajectory Segments,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 18112-18122, January 2021. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Intelligent and Autonomous Management in Cloud-Native Networks – A Survey on Related Standards from an Architectural Perspective,” Future Internet Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 42-62, February 2021. 

  1. J. Xu, X. Ma, A. Zhou, Q. Duan, and S. Wang, “Path Selection for Seamless Service Migration in Vehicular Edge Computing,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 9040-9049, September 2020. 

  1. Q. Duan, S. Wang, and N. Ansari, “Convergence of Networking and Cloud/Edge Computing: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities,” IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 148-155, June 2020 

  1. Z. Lu, K. Gai, Q. Duan, K. R. Choo, J. Li, J. Wu, and Y. Xu, “Machine Learning Empowered Content Delivery: Status, Challenges and Opportunities,” IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 228-234, June 2020. 

  1. J. Xu, X. Sun, R. Zhang, H. Liang, and Q. Duan, “Fog-Cloud Task Scheduling of Energy Consumption Optimization with Deadline Consideration,” International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 375-392, April 2020. 

  1. J. Huang, Y, Zhou, Q. Duan, X. Cong, “Fast Approach for Semantic Service Composition in Big Data Environment,” International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-10, January 2019. 

  1. H. Zhang, Y. Yi, J. Wang, N. Cao, and Q. Duan, “Network Attack Prediction Method based on Threat Intelligence for IoT,” Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, vol. 78, 30257-30270, January 2019. 

  1. J. Xu, S. Liu, X. Lu, L. Li, H. Liang, Q. Duan, R. Liu, “A Temporal Adaptive Access Mechanism for Data Fusion in an IoT Environment,” Sensor Journal, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 4025, December 2018. 

  1. J. Huang, H. Xiang, X. Cong, and Q. Duan, “Multi-Priority Fork-Join Scheduling in SDN for High-Performance Data Transmissions in Mobile Crowdsourcing,” Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 153-167, September 2018. 

  1. Y. Duan, J. Li, Q. Duan, L. Luo, and L. Huang, “Empirical Rules based Views Abstraction for Distributed Model Driven Development,” International Journal of Computational Sciences and Engineering, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 192-207, June 2018. 

  1. J. Huang, Q. Duan, S. Guo, Y. Yan, and S. Yu, “Converged Network–Cloud Service Composition with End-to-End Performance Guarantee,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 545-557, April 2018. 

  1. Q. Duan, “End-to-End Service Delivery with QoS Guarantee in Software-Defined Networks,” Transactions on Networks and Communications, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 10-35, April 2018. 

  1. J. Huang, S. Li, and Q. Duan, “Constructing Multicast Routing Tree for Inter-Cloud Data Transmission: An Approximation Algorithmic Perspective,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 514-522, March 2018. 

  1. H. Zhang, Y. Yi, J. Wang, N. Cao, and Q. Duan, “Network Security Situation Awareness Framework based on Threat Intelligence,” Journal of Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 381-399, January 2018.  

  1. X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, J. Wu, and C. Wu, “LTSS: Load-Adaptive Traffic Steering and Forwarding for Security Services in Multitenant Cloud Data Centers,” Springer Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1265-1278, November 2017. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Cloud Service Performance Evaluation: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities – a Survey from the System Modeling Perspective,” Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 101-111, May 2017. 

  1. J. Huang, L. Xu, Q. Duan, C. Xing, J. Luo, and S. Yu, “Modeling and Performance Analysis for Multimedia Data Flow Scheduling in Software-Defined Networks,” Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 89-100, April 2017. 

  1. J. Huang, Q. Duan, Y. Zhao, Z. Zheng, and W. Wang, “Multicast Routing for Multimedia Communications in the Internet of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 215-224, February 2017. 

  1. J. Huang, Q. Duan, C. Xing, and H. Wang, “Topology Control for Building Large Scale and Energy Efficient Internet of Things,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 67-73, February 2017. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Yin, Y. Zhao, Q. Duan, W. Wang, and S. Yu “A Game-Theoretic Resource Allocation Approach for Inter-Cell Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 475-486, December 2016.  

  1. Q. Duan, N. Ansari, and M. Toy, “Software-Defined Network Virtualization: an Architectural Framework for Integrating SDN and NFV for Service Provisioning in Future Networks,” IEEE Network, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 10-16, September 2016. 

  1. Q. Duan and A. Vasilakos, “Federated Selection of Network and Cloud Services for High-Performance Software-Defined Cloud Computing,” International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Networking, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 316-327, April 2016. 

  1. J. Xu, S. Reiff-Marganiec, Q. Duan, and Z. Zheng, “Run-Time Resolution of Service Property Conflicts in Web Service Composition,” International Journal of Web and Grid Services, vol. 12, no. 2. pp. 142-161, April 2016. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Sun, Z. Xiong, Q. Duan, Y. Zhao, X. Cao, and W. Wang, “Modeling and Analysis on Access Control for Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks: a Network Calculus Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 1615-1626, March 2016. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Performance Analysis for Composite Network-Compute Service Provisioning in Software-Defined Cloud Environment,” Elsevier Journal of Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 181-190, September 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, L Xu, M. Zeng, H. Yan, Q. Duan, and C. Xing, “Hybrid Scheduling for Quality-of-Service Guarantee of Multimedia Data Flows in Software-Defined Networks,” EAI Transactions on Cloud Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, August 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Yin, H. Yan, M. Zhao, and Q. Duan, “Context-aware Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communications in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things.” Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 484-492, August 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, L. Xu, C-C. Xing, and Q. Duan, “A Novel Bio-Inspired Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm for Designing Wireless Sensor Networks in the Internet of Things,” Journal of Sensors, Article ID 192194, February 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, G. Liu, and Q. Duan, “On Modeling and Optimization for Composite Network—Cloud Service Provisioning,” Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 35-43, Oct. 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, Q. Duan, Q. Chen, Y. Sun, Y. Tanaka, and W. Wang, “Guaranteeing End-to-End Quality of Service with a Generic Routing Approach,” ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 8-22, June 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, D. Du, Q. Duan, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, H. Luo, Z. Mai, and Q. Liu “Modeling and Analysis on Congestion Control for Data Transmission in Sensor Clouds,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 453983, May 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Meng, X. Gong, Y. Liu, and Q. Duan, “A Novel Deployment Scheme for Green Internet of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 196-205, April 2014. 

  1. Q. Duan and Y. Lu, “Service-Oriented Network Discovery and Selection in Virtualization-Based Mobile Internet,” Journal of Computer Information Systems, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 38-46, Spring 2013. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Liu, R. Yu, Q. Duan, and Y. Tanaka, “Modeling and Algorithms for QoS-aware Service Composition in Virtualization-based Cloud Computing,” IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E96-B, no.01, pp. 10-19, January 2013. 

  1. Q. Duan, Y. Yan, and A. Vasilakos, “A Survey on Service-Oriented Network Virtualization toward Convergence of Networking and Cloud Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 373-392, December 2012. 

  1. J. Huang, C. Xu, Q. Duan, Y. Ma, and G.-M. Muntean, “Novel End-to-End Quality of Service Provisioning Algorithms for Multimedia Services in Virtualization-Based Future Internet,” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 569-579, December 2012.  

  1. Q. Duan, “Automatic Network Service Discovery and Selection in Virtualization-Based Future Internet,” International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 30-48, June 2012. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Analysis on Quality-of-Service Provisioning for Communication Services,” Journal of Communications, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 143-154, February 2012. 

  1. Q. Duan, “End-to-End Modeling and Performance Analysis for Network Virtualization in the Next Generation Internet,” International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, vol. 8, no. 1/2, pp. 53-69, January 2012. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Performance Evaluation on Traffic Control in Combined Input and Cross-point Queuing Switches,” International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 18-31, December 2011. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Virtualization for Composition of Cloud Computing and Networking,” International Journal of Next Generation Computing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 123-138, July 2011. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Network Service Description and Discovery for High-Performance Ubiquitous and Pervasive Grids,” ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, Article 3, February 2011. 

  1. Q. Duan and E. Lu, “Network Service Description and Discovery for the Next Generation Internet,” International Journal of Computer Networks, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 46-65, November 2009. 

  1. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Statistical Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 609-629, June 2008. 

  1. V. Saini, Q. Duan, V. Paruchuri, “Threat Modeling Using Attack Trees,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 23, no. 4, April 2008. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation for Quality-of-Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches with Traffic Aggregation,” International Journal of Computers and Applications, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 283-290, August 2007. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in Combined Input and Crosspoint Queued Switches without Output Queuing Match,” Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 830-840, February 2007.  

  1. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Quality-of-Service Provision in Multistage Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 147-168, October 2004. 

  1. Q. Duan, X. Li, and L. Zhang, “Network Calculus-Based Delay Performance Analysis for QoS Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Journal of Interconnection Networks, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 131-146, June 2003. 

Conference Papers

  1. P. Chen, J. Yang, J. Lin, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, and H. Chai, “A Practical Clean-Label Backdoor Attack with Limited Information in Vertical Federated Learning,” Proc. of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023), Dec. 2023 

  1. R. Deng, X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, S-C Huang, and J. Wu, “HSFL: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Offloading for Split and Federated Learning in IoT Services,” Proc. of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2023), July 2023 (Best Student Paper Award) 

  1. Y. Liu, X. Du, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, J. Feng, M. Wang, and J Wu, “Regularizing Spare and Imbalanced Communications for Voxel-based Brain Simulations on Supercomputers,” Proc. of the 51st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2022), August 2022 (Best Paper Award Runner-Up) 

  1. X. Du, X. Chen, Z. Lu, Q. Duan, Y. Wang, and J. Wu, “BIECS: A Blockchain-based Intelligent Edge Cooperation System for Latency-Sensitive Services,” Proc. of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2022), July 2022 

  1. Q. Duan and M. Roshanaei, “Modeling and Performance Analysis on Federated Learning in Edge Computing,” Proc. of the 2021 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2021), Sept. 2021 

  1. Y. Guo, Q. Duan, and S. Wang, “Service Orchestration for Integration Edge Computing and 5G Network: State of the Art and Challenges,” Proc. of the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2020), Oct. 2020  

  1. M. Arun, S. Balamurali, B. S. Rawal, Q. Duan, L.K. Ramasamy, and B. Balamurugan, “Mutual Authentication and Authorized Data Access between Fog and User based on Blockchain Technology,” Proc. of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFORCOM 2020) Workshops, July 2020 

  1. A. Hou, C. Q. Wu, L. Zuo, D. Quan, Y. Li, M. M. Zhu, Q. Duan, and D. Fang, “Co-Scheduling of Advance and Immediate Bandwidth Reservations for Inter-Data Center Transfer,” Proc. of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Super Computing (SC 2019), Nov. 2019 

  1. Q. Duan and S. Wang, “Network Cloudification Enabling Network-Cloud/Fog Service Unification: State of the Art and Challenges,” Proc. of the 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2019), July 2019 

  1. H. Ishtiaque and Q. Duan, “Performance Tests on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities,” Proc. of the 2019 INFORMS Conference on Service Science, June 2019 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Performance Analysis for Service Function Chaining in the SDN/NFV Architecture,” Proc. of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), June 2018 

  1. J. Xu, X. Sun, H. Liang, and Q. Duan, “Fog-Cloud Task Scheduling of Energy Consumption Optimization with Deadline Consideration,” Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Service Science (ICSS 2018), May 2018 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Zhou, Q. Duan, and C. Xing, “Semantic Web Service Composition in Big Data Environment,” Proc. of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2017), Dec. 2017  

  1. J. Huang, S. Li, Q. Duan, R. Yu, and S. Yu, “QoS Correlation-Aware Service Composition for Unified Network-Cloud Service Provisioning,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2016), Dec. 2016. 

  1. Y. Duan, Q. Duan, R. Shi, and H. Gao, “Toward Automated View Abstraction for Distributed Model-Driven Service Development,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC 2016), June 2016. 

  1. G. Wang, Y. Zhao, J. Huang, Q. Duan, and J. Li, “A K-Means-Based Network Partition Algorithm for Controller Placement in Software-Defined Networks,” Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), June 2016. 

  1. Y. Duan, Q. Duan, Z. Hu, and X. Sun, “Refinement from Service Economics Planning to Ubiquitous Services Implementation,” Proc. of the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2016), June 2016 

  1. J. Huang, F. Fang, Y. Sun, H. Yan, C. Xing, Q. Duan, and W. Wang, “A New Economic Model in Cloud Computing: Cloud Service Provider vs. Network Service Provider,” Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2015), Dec. 2015 

  1. B. S. Rawal, R. K. Karne, and Q. Duan, “Split-System as the Eventual Form of Computing on the Cloud,” Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud2015), Nov. 2015. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Performance-Based Network Service Selection in an Software-Defined Inter-Cloud Environment,” Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet2015), Oct. 2015 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Yin, Q. Duan, and H. Yan, “A Game-Theoretic Analysis on Context-Aware Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communications in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud2015), August 2015 

  1. Y. Duan, Q. Duan, C. Ren, and A. Elfaki, “Formalizing Over Design and Under Design of Value Engineering for Context-Aware Cloud Service Development,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2015), August 2015 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Sun, C. Xing, Y. Zhao, and Q. Duan, “Game-Theoretic Power Control Mechanisms for Device-to-Device Communications Underlying Networks,” Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2015), August 2015.  

  1. J. Huang, L. Xu, M. Zeng, C. Xing, Q. Duan, and Y. Yan, “Hybrid Scheduling for Quality-of-Service Guarantee in Software-Defined Networks for Supporting Multimedia Cloud Services,” Proc. of the12th IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC 2015), June 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Yin, Y. Sun, Y. Zhao, C-C. Xing, and Q. Duan, “Game Theoretic Resource Allocation for Multi-Cell D2D Communications with Incomplete Information,” Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), June 2015. 

  1. Q. Duan, M. Zeng, J. Huang, and C-C. Xing, “Performance Analysis for a Service Delivery Platform in Software Defined Networks,” Proc. of the 2015 ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC 2015), April 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, M. Sun, S. Zhu, Y. Sun, C. Xing, and Q. Duan, “A Source-Location Privacy Protection Strategy via Pseudo Normal Distribution-based Phantom Routing in WSNs,” Proc. of the 2015 ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC 2015), April 2015. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. He, Q. Duan, W. Wei, and Q. Yang, “Admission Control with Flow Aggregation for QoS Provisioning in Software-Defined Network,” Proc. of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2014), Dec. 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, X. Li, Y. Yin, Y. Sun, Q. Duan, and C-C. Xing, “FAMOUS: A Novel Fast Multi-Constrained Multicast Routing Algorithm,” Proc. of the 2014 ACM Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS 2014), Oct. 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, G. Liu, Q. Duan, and Y. Yan, “QoS-Aware Service Composition for Converged Network-Cloud Service Provisioning,” Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC 2014), June 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, D. Du, Q. Duan, Y. Sun, Y. Yin, T. Zhou, and Y. Zhang, “Modeling and Analysis on Congestion Control in Internet of Things,” Proc. of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014), June 2014. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Network-as-a-Service in Software Defined Networks for End-to-End QoS Provisioning,” Proc. of the 23rd IEEE Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC 2014), May 2014. 

  1. Q. Duan and Z. Zheng, “Holistic Modeling and Performance Evaluation for Converged Network-Cloud Service Provisioning,” Proc. of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networking and Applications (AINA 2014), May 2014.  

  1. J. Huang, J. Lv, and Q. Duan, “Modeling and Analysis on Network Performance for Cloud Service Delivery with Multiple Paths,” Proc. of the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014), March 2014. 

  1. J. Huang, Z. Xiong, Y. Liu, Q. Duan, and Y. He, “Service Provisioning in Virtualization-Based Cloud Computing: Modeling and Optimization,” Proc. of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2013), Dec. 2013 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Delay Analysis for Converged Network-Cloud Service Provisioning Systems,” Proc. of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking & Communications (ICNC 2013), Jan. 2013. 

  1. J. Huang, Y. Liu, and Q. Duan, “Service Provisioning in Virtualization-Based Cloud Computing: Modeling and Optimization,” Proc. of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2012), Dec. 2012. 

  1. R. Yu, X. Yang, J. Huang, Q. Duan, Y. Ma, and Y. Tanaka, “QoS-Aware Service Selection in Virtualization-Based Cloud Computing,” Proc. of the 14th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2012), Sept. 2012. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Automatic Network Service Discovery and Selection in Virtualization-Based Future Internet,” Proc. of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2011), Dec. 2011. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Performance Analysis on Network Virtualization for Composite Network-Cloud Service Provisioning,” Proc. of the 7th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2011), Aug. 2011. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Analysis for End-to-End Service Performance in Virtualization-Based Next Generation Internet,” Proc. of the 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Dec. 2010. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Modeling and Analysis of End-to-End Quality of Service Provisioning in Virtualization-Based Future Internet,” Proc. of the 19th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2010), Aug. 2010. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Access Network Discovery and Selection in Network Virtualization for the Next Generation Mobile Internet,” Proc. of the 2010 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN 2010), July 2010. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation in Buffered Crossbar Switches for Supporting Network Virtualization,” Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2010), June 2010. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Applying the Service-Oriented Architecture for Network Discovery and Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Mobile Networking Environments,” Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Network-Based Information System (NBiS’09), Aug. 2009. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Network Service Description and Discovery in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Grids,” Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2008), Nov. 2008 

  1. Q. Duan and E. Lu, “Network Service Description and Discovery for the Next Generation Internet,” Proc. of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007), Nov. 2007. 

  1. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Description and Discovery for High-Performance Grid Computing,” Proc. of the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2007), June 2007. 

  1. Q. Duan, M. Talley, and N. Seetha, “QoS-Based Network Service Broker for High-Performance Grid Applications,” Proc. of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007), May 2007.  

  1. Q. Duan, “Service-Oriented Network Abstraction and Discovery for the Diversified Internet,” Proc. of the IEEE 2007 Sarnoff Symposium, April 2007. 

  1. V. K. Saini and Q. Duan, “Attack Tree-Based Security Analysis on MyProxy Online Credential Repository,” Proc. of the 2007 Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology (ALAR’07), March 2007. 

  1. Q. Duan and Y. Zhou, “Dynamic Buffer Allocation for Quality-of-Service Provision in Combined Input and Crosspoint Buffered Switches,” Proc. of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2006), Nov. 2006.  

  1. Q. Duan, “Resource Allocation for Quality-of-Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches with Traffic Aggregation,” Proc. of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2005), Nov. 2005. 

  1. Q. Duan, C. Hu, and H. Wei, “Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems with Interval Methods,” Proc. of the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), March 2005.  

  1. Q. Duan, “QoS Performance Comparison between Combined Input and Crosspoint Queuing Switches and Output Queuing Switches,” Proc. of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (CCN’04), Nov. 2004. 

  1. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Probabilistic Delay Guarantee in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), June 2004. 

  1. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Probabilistic Packet Delay Guarantee in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 23rd Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2004), April 2004.  

  1. Q. Duan, “Quality of Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches by Emulating Output Queuing Switch,” Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2003), Sept. 2003. 

  1. Q. Duan, X. Li and L. Zhang, “Delay Performance Analysis for the Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2003), March 2003. 

  1. Q. Duan and J. N. Daigle, “Resource Allocation for Quality-of-Service Provision in Buffered Crossbar Switches,” Proc. of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2002), Oct. 2002.  

 

Ph.D.  Electrical Engineering
M.S.  Telecommunications and Electronic Systems
B.S.  Electrical and Computer Engineering

CMPSC121/131 Introduction to Programming
CMPSC 122/132 Intermediate Programming
CMPSC 201 Programming for Engineering
CMPSC 221 Object-Oriented Programming
CMPSC 312 Computer Architecture and Organization
CMPSC 335 Fundamentals of Communication Networks
CMPEN 362 Communication Networks
IST 140 Introduction to Application Development
IST 220 Networking and Telecommunications
IST 226 Networking Essentials
IST 301 Information and Organizations
IST 311 Object-Oriented Programming
IST 402 Emerging Networking Technologies
IST 420 Fundamentals of System and Enterprise Integration
IST 421 Advanced System Analysis and Design
IST 451 Network Security