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Hou, I-Hong Professor
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My research interests include cloud/edge computing, wireless networks, and reinforcement learning.
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Publications
selected publications
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academicarticle
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Hou, I., Liu, Y., & Sprintson, A.
(2013).
A Non-Monetary Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution in Wireless Broadcast Networks with Network Coding. abs/1212.0286, 170-177.
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Zhao, T., Ray, K., & Hou, I.
A Non-Monetary Mechanism for Optimal Rate Control Through Efficient Cost Allocation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
26(3), 1418-1431.
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Xu, J., Hou, I., & Gautam, N.
Age of Information for Single Buffer Systems With Vacation Server. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
9(3), 1198-1214.
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Hou, I., & Chen, C. S.
An Energy-Aware Protocol for Self-Organizing Heterogeneous LTE Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
31(5), 937-946.
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Zhao, T., Hou, I., Leon, V. J., Ray, K., & Wang, J.
An efficient revenue distribution method in a cyber-enabled manufacturing system. Manufacturing Letters.
17, 19-22.
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Guo, D., Nakhleh, K., Hou, I., Kompella, S., & Kam, C.
AoI, Timely-Throughput, and Beyond: A Theory of Second-Order Wireless Network Optimization. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
32(6), 4707-4721.
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Hou, I.
Broadcasting Delay-Constrained Traffic Over Unreliable Wireless Links With Network Coding. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
23(3), 728-740.
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Zuo, S., Deng, H., & Hou, I.
Energy Efficient Algorithms for Real-Time Traffic Over Fading Wireless Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
16(3), 1881-1892.
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Kountouris, M., Popovski, P., Hou, I., Buzzi, S., Mueller, A., Sesia, S., & Heath, R.
Guest Editorial Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications in Wireless Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
37(4), 701-704.
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Hsieh, P., & Hou, I.
Heavy-Traffic Analysis of QoE Optimality for On-Demand Video Streams Over Fading Channels. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
26(4), 1768-1781.
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Hsu, Y., Hou, I., & Sprintson, A.
Joint Index Coding and Incentive Design for Selfish Clients. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.
69(4), 2176-2190.
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Zuo, S., Hou, I., Liu, T., Swami, A., & Basu, P.
Joint Rate Control and Scheduling for Real-Time Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
16(7), 4562-4570.
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Shisher, K. C., Ji, B. o., Hou, I., & Sun, Y.
Learning and Communications Co-Design for Remote Inference Systems: Feature Length Selection and Transmission Scheduling. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.
4, 524-538.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
On the Capacity Requirement for Arbitrary End-to-End Deadline and Reliability Guarantees in Multi-hop Networks. Performance Evaluation Review.
45(1), 15-16.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
On the Capacity-Performance Trade-Off of Online Policy in Delayed Mobile Offloading. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
16(1), 526-537.
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Deng, H., Zhao, T., & Hou, I.
Online Routing and Scheduling With Capacity Redundancy for Timely Delivery Guarantees in Multihop Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
27(3), 1258-1271.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
Optimal Capacity Provisioning for Online Job Allocation With Hard Allocation Ratio Requirement. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
26(2), 724-736.
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Fan, S., Zhong, Y., Hou, I., & Kam, C. K.
Optimizing Age of Information in Random Access Networks: A Second-Order Approach for Active/Passive Users. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.
PP(99), 1-1.
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Hou, I., & Gupta, P.
Proportionally Fair Distributed Resource Allocation in Multiband Wireless Systems. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
22(6), 1819-1830.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Queueing systems with hard delay constraints: a framework for real-time communication over unreliable wireless channels. Queueing Systems.
71(1-2), 151-177.
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Jain, A., & Hou, I.
R-PF: Enhancing Service Regularity for Legacy Scheduling Policy. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
15(1), 258-266.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION OVER UNRELIABLE WIRELESS LINKS: A THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS. IEEE Wireless Communications.
19(1), 48-59.
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Zhao, T., Hou, I., Wang, S., & Chan, K.
REd/LED: An Asymptotically Optimal and Scalable Online Algorithm for Service Caching at the Edge. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
36(8), 1857-1870.
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Hou, I.
Scheduling Heterogeneous Real-Time Traffic Over Fading Wireless Channels. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
22(5), 1631-1644.
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Guo, D., & Hou, I.
Scheduling Real-Time Information-Update Flows for the Optimal Confidence in Estimation. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
39(5), 1339-1351.
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Hou, I., & Hsieh, P.
The capacity of QoE for wireless networks with unreliable transmissions. Queueing Systems.
87(1-2), 131-159.
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Shisher, K. C., Sun, Y., & Hou, I.
Timely Communications for Remote Inference. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
32(5), 3824-3839.
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Hou, I., Liu, Y., & Sprintson, A.
(2013).
A Non-Monetary Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution in Wireless Broadcast Networks with Network Coding. abs/1212.0286, 170-177.
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book
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Packets with Deadlines. Ed. 6.
Springer Nature.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Packets with Deadlines. Ed. 6.
Springer Nature.
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chapter
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Hou, J. C., Yau, D., Ma, C., Yang, Y., Zhang, H., Hou, I., Rao, N., & Shankar, M.
Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks. Misra, S. C., Woungang, I., & Misra, S. (Eds.),
Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks.
(pp. 47-79).
Springer Nature.
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Barijough, K. M., Huang, L., Hou, I., Sapatnekar, S. S., Hu, J., & Gerstlauer, A.
Exploiting Approximations in Real-Time Scheduling. Approximate Computing Techniques.
(pp. 287-322).
Springer Nature.
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Hou, J. C., Yau, D., Ma, C., Yang, Y., Zhang, H., Hou, I., Rao, N., & Shankar, M.
Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks. Misra, S. C., Woungang, I., & Misra, S. (Eds.),
Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks.
(pp. 47-79).
Springer Nature.
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conference paper
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Zhao, T., Ray, K., & Hou, I.
(2017).
A Non-Monetary Mechanism for Optimal Rate Control Through Efficient Delay Allocation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
1418-1431.
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Hsieh, P., & Hou, I.
A Decentralized Medium Access Protocol for Real-Time Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Unreliable Transmissions. Distributed Computing Systems.
972-982.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
A New Competitive Ratio for Network Applications with Hard Performance Guarantees. 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS (SPCOM).
1-5.
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Zhao, T., Ray, K., & Hou, I.
A Non-Monetary Mechanism for Optimal Rate Control Through Efficient Delay Allocation. 1-8.
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Chin, J., Hou, I., Hou, J. C., Ma, C., Rao, N. S., Saxena, M., ... Yau, D.
A Sensor-cyber Network Testbed for Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking. 541-542.
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Hou, I., Borkar, V., & Kumar, P. R.
A Theory of QoS for Wireless. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
486-494.
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Guo, D., Nakhleh, K., Hou, I., Kompella, S., & Kam, C.
A Theory of Second-Order Wireless Network Optimization and Its Application on AoI. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
999-1008.
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Hou, I., Tsai, Y., Abdelzaher, T. F., & Gupta, I.
AdapCode: Adaptive Network Coding for Code Updates in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
2189-2197.
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Hou, I., Tsai, Y., Abdelzaher, T. F., & Gupta, I.
AdapCode: Adaptive Network Coding for Code Updates in Wireless Sensor Networks. 2189-2197.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Admission control and scheduling for QoS guarantees for variable-bit-rate applications on wireless channels. 175-184.
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Hou, I., Zhao, T., Wang, S., & Chan, K.
Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm for Online Reconfiguration of Edge-Clouds. 291-300.
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HasanzadeZonuzy, A., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
Broadcasting Real-Time Flows in Integrated Backhaul and Access 5G Networks. 124-131.
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HasanzadeZonuzy, A., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
Broadcasting Real-Time Flows in Integrated Backhaul and Access 5G Networks. 1-8.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Broadcasting delay-constrained traffic over unreliable wireless links with network coding. 1-10.
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Sasikumar, A., Zhao, T., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
Cache-Version Selection and Content Placement for Adaptive Video Streaming in Wireless Edge Networks. 306-313.
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Sasikumar, A., Zhao, T., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
Cache-Version Selection and Content Placement for Adaptive Video Streaming in Wireless Edge Networks. 1-8.
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Zamir, N., & Hou, I.
Deep Index Policy for Multi-Resource Restless Matching Bandit and Its Application in Multi-Channel Scheduling. 71-80.
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Hou, I.
Distributed No-Regret Learning for Multi-Stage Systems with End-to-End Bandit Feedback. 41-50.
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Hou, I., & Gupta, P.
Distributed Resource Allocation for Proportional Fairness in Multi-Band Wireless Systems. 1975-1979.
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Fan, S., Hou, I., & Sy, V.
Dynamic Regret of Randomized Online Service Caching in Edge Computing. 1-10.
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Singh, R., Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Fluctuation Analysis of Debt Based Policies for Wireless Networks with Hard Delay Constraints. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
2400-2408.
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Hsieh, P., Liu, X. i., & Hou, I.
Fresher content or smoother playback?. 41-50.
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Huang, L., Hou, I., Sapatnekar, S. S., & Hu, J.
Graceful Degradation of Low-Criticality Tasks in Multiprocessor Dual-Criticality Systems. 159-169.
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Hsieh, P., & Hou, I.
Heavy-Traffic Analysis of QoE Optimality for On-Demand Video Streams Over Fading Channels. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Huang, L., Hou, I., Sapatnekar, S. S., & Hu, J.
Improving QoS for Global Dual-Criticality Scheduling on Multiprocessors. 2019 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (RTCSA 2019).
1-11.
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Hou, I., Zhu, J., & Vannithamby, R.
Incentive-Oriented Downlink Scheduling for Wireless Networks with Real-Time and Non-Real-Time Flows. 252-257.
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Fan, S., Zhong, Y., Hou, I., & Kam, C.
Minimizing Moments of AoI for Both Active and Passive Users through Second-Order Analysis. 951-956.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
On the Capacity Requirement for Arbitrary End-to-End Deadline and Reliability Guarantees in Multi-hop Networks. 15-16.
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Kang, X., Hou, I., & Ying, L.
On the Capacity Requirement of Largest-Deficit-First for Scheduling Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Networks. 217-226.
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Guo, D., & Hou, I.
On the Credibility of Information Flows in Real-time Wireless Networks. 242-249.
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Hou, I.
On the Modeling and Optimization of Short-Term Performance for Real-Time Wireless Networks. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
Online Job Allocation with Hard Allocation Ratio Requirement. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Deng, H., & Hou, I.
Online Scheduling for Delayed Mobile Offloading. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1867-1875.
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Zuo, S., & Hou, I.
Online Scheduling for Energy Efficiency in Real-Time Wireless Networks. 327-334.
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Fan, S., Hou, I., Mai, V. S., & Benmohamed, L.
Online Service Caching and Routing at the Edge with Unknown Arrivals. 2013 National Conference on Communications, NCC 2013.
383-388.
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Guo, D., Hsieh, P., & Hou, I.
Optimal Wireless Scheduling for Remote Sensing through Brownian Approximation. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-10.
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Hou, I., Anh, T., Chakraborty, S., & Kumar, P. R.
Optimality of Periodwise Static Priority Policies in Real-time Communications. Proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Decision & Control / IEEE Control Systems Society. IEEE Conference on Decision & Control.
5047-5051.
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Yau, S., Hsieh, P., Bhattacharyya, R., Bhargav, K., Shakkottai, S., Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
PULS: Processor-Supported Ultra-Low Latency Scheduling. 261-270.
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Yau, S., Hsieh, P., Bhattacharyya, R., Bhargav, K., Shakkottai, S., Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
PULS: Processor-Supported Ultra-Low Latency Scheduling. 324-325.
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Hou, I.
Packet Scheduling for Real-Time Surveillance in Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks With Lossy Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
1071-1079.
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Singh, R., Him, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Pathwise Performance of Debt Based Policies for Wireless Networks with Hard Delay Constraints. Proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Decision & Control / IEEE Control Systems Society. IEEE Conference on Decision & Control.
7838-7843.
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Hou, I., Naghsh, N. Z., Paul, S., Hu, Y. C., & Eryilmaz, A.
Predictive Scheduling for Virtual Reality. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1349-1358.
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Hou, I.
Providing End-to-End Delay Guarantees for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks. 414-419.
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Hou, I., & Hsieh, P.
QoE-Optimal Scheduling for On-Demand Video Streams over Unreliable Wireless Networks. 207-216.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Scheduling Heterogeneous Real-Time Traffic over Fading Wireless Channels. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Scheduling Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Heterogeneous Reward Requirements. Proceedings - Real-Time Systems Symposium.
282-291.
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Hou, I., & Singh, R.
Scheduling of access points for multiple live video streams. 267-270.
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Hou, I., & Chen, C. S.
Self-Organized Resource Allocation in LTE Systems with Weighted Proportional Fairness. 2013 National Conference on Communications, NCC 2013.
5348-5353.
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Yang, Y., Hou, I., Hou, J. C., Shankar, M., & Rao, N. S.
Sensor Placement for Detecting Propagative Sources in Populated Environments. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1206-1214.
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Hsu, Y., Hou, I., & Sprintson, A.
The Index Coding Problem: A Game-Theoretical Perspective. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings.
977-981.
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Hsieh, P., Liu, X. i., Jiao, J., Hou, I., Zhang, Y., & Kumar, P. R.
Throughput-Optimal Scheduling for Multi-Hop Networked Transportation Systems With Switch-Over Delay. 1-10.
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Hou, I., Hsu, Y., & Sprintson, A.
Truthful and Non-Monetary Mechanism for Direct Data Exchange. 406-412.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Utility Maximization for Delay Constrained QoS in Wireless. IEEE Infocom. Proceedings.
1-9.
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Hou, I., & Kumar, P. R.
Utility-optimal scheduling in time-varying wireless networks with delay constraints. 31-40.
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Yau, S., Ge, L., Hsieh, P., Hou, I., Cui, S., Kumar, P. R., Ekbal, A., & Kundargi, N.
WiMAC: Rapid Implementation Platform for User Definable MAC Protocols Through Separation. Computer Communication Review.
109-110.
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Zhao, T., Ray, K., & Hou, I.
(2017).
A Non-Monetary Mechanism for Optimal Rate Control Through Efficient Delay Allocation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
1418-1431.
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institutional repository document
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thesis
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Nakhleh, K., Ganji, S., Hsieh, P., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
NeurWIN: Neural Whittle Index Network For Restless Bandits Via Deep RL
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Nakhleh, K., Ganji, S., Hsieh, P., Hou, I., & Shakkottai, S.
NeurWIN: Neural Whittle Index Network For Restless Bandits Via Deep RL
Research
principal investigator on
- Distributed Network Algorithms for End-to-End Complex QoS Guarantees in Mission-Critical Multi-hop Mobile Networks awarded by United States Department of the Navy - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2020
- Towards End-to-End QoE Guarantees for Timely Video Delivery in Adversarial Multi-hop Battlefield Networks awarded by United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2018 - 2020
- Modeling and Control of Information-Driven Smart Transportation Systems awarded by Qatar National Research Fund - (Doha, Qatar) 2016 - 2019
- Towards Provably Timely and Reliable Battlefield Networks awarded by United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2015 - 2019
- Equipment for Research in Networks and Systems awarded by United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2016 - 2017
co-principal investigator on
- ICN-WEN: Collaborative Research: SPLICE: Secure Predictive Low-Latency Information Centric Edge for Next Generation Wireless Networks awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2017 - 2020
- EAGER: Cybermanufacturing: Pervasive Cyber-enabled Manufacturing awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2015 - 2018
Teaching
teaching activities
- CSCE678 Distributed Sys & Cloud Comp Instructor
- ECEN248 Intro To Dgtl Sym Dsgn Instructor
- ECEN424 Fund Of Networking Instructor
- ECEN449 Microprocsr Sys Dsgn Instructor
- ECEN491 Research Instructor
- ECEN681 Seminar-dept Instructor
- ECEN684 Professional Internship Instructor
- ECEN684 Professional Internship: In-ab Instructor
- ECEN685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ECEN689 Sptp: Online Decision&learning Instructor
- ECEN689 Sptp:online Decision&learning Instructor
- ECEN691 Research Instructor
- ECEN732 Online Dec Making & Learning Instructor
- ECEN749 Microprocessor Systems Design Instructor
- ECEN757 Distributed Sys & Cloud Comp Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Deng, Han (2017-07). A New Competitive Ratio for Network Applications with Hard Performance Guarantee.
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Hsieh, Ping-Chun (2018-06). Network Algorithms for Control and Communication for IoT Applications.
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Jain, Abhishek (2014-08). Reliable Downlink Scheduling for Wireless Networks with Real-Time and Non-Real Time Clients.
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Lin, Victor Hamilton (2018-12). PULS on WARP Platform - Detailed Investigation of Real-Time Scheduling Performance.
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Liu, Yao (2013-11). A Packet Scheduling Mechanism for Wireless Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution.
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Sharma, Gaurav (2016-07). Optimal Demand Response Schemes for Renewable Integration using Thermal Inertial Loads.
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Wu, Di (2018-11). Structured Sparsity Learning for Coevolution-Based Protein Contact Prediction.
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Yang, Yue (2018-11). A New Design of Q-CHAIN on WIMAC: A Throughput-Optimal Random Access MAC Protocol with Piggyback Transmissions.
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Yenamachintala, Sai Sourabh (2018-11). FPGA Spiking Neural Processors With Supervised and Unsupervised Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 2011
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 2008
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University - (Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan) 2004
awards and honors
Contact
first name
- I-Hong
has last name
- Hou
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Electrical Engineering
3128 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3128
USA
Other
- ihou@tamu.edu