Bo Li
 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
 
Tel: +852 2358 6976
FAX: +852 2358 1477 
 
E-mail: bli@cse.ust.hk, or bli@ust.hk
Homepage: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~bli/
  

 

Brief Biography  

Bo Li is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds the Cheung Kong Chair Professor (长江讲座教授) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). Prior to that, he was with IBM Networking System Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He was an adjunct researcher at Microsoft Research Asia-MSRA and was a visiting scientist at Microsoft Advanced Technology Center (ATC). He has been a technical advisor for ChinaCache Corp. (NASDAQ CCIH) since 2007. He is an adjunct professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学), Wuhan, China.

His recent research interests include: large-scale content distribution in the Internet, Peer-to-Peer media streaming, the Internet topology, cloud computing, green computing and communications. He made original contributions on the proxy placement for content distribution networks (CDNs), in which his IEEE INFOCOM (1999) paper "On the Optimal Placement of Web Proxies in the Internet" was the first work addressing this problem. He made pioneering contributions in large-scale Peer-to-Peer live video streaming; specifically, the system, Coolstreaming (2004-2005) (Google entries over 2,000,000) was credited as the first large-scale Peer-to-Peer live video streaming system in the world. This work appeared in IEEE INFOCOM (2005) has not only been highly cited,but also spearheaded a momentum in peer-to-peer streaming, with no fewer than a dozen successful companies such as PPLive, PPStream, UUSee and Yahoo adopting the same mesh-based pull streaming technique to deliver live media content to millions of users. He also led a team developing a Peer-assisted online hosting system, FS2You (2007-2008) (Google.cn entries over 4,000,000 in 2009) that has attracted millions of downloads worldwide.

He is a Fellow of IEEE for "contribution to content distributions via the Internet". He received the Young Investigator Award（港澳杰青）from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2004. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Communications Society (2006-2007). He was a co-recipient for three Best Paper Awards from IEEE, and the Best System Track Paperin ACM Multimedia (2009).

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief for International Journal on Vehicular Technology (2006-2008). He has been on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Wireless Communications Series, ACM Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET), ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networking Magazine (ONM), KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He served as a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Active, Programmable, and Mobile Code Networking (April 2000), ACM Performance Evaluation Review Special Issue on Mobile Computing (December 2000), SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks Magazine Special Issue in Wavelength Routed Networks: Architecture, Protocols and Experiments (January/February 2002), IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Protocols for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks (October 2000), IEEE JAC Special Issue on Recent Advances in Service Overlay Networks (January 2004), IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Quality of Service Delivery in Variable Topology Networks (September 2004), ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks (December 2005), ACM/Springer MONET Special Issue on Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks (Jan/Feb. 2008), and IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Future Internet: New Applications and Emerging Services (July 2010). He was a Co-TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM (2004).

Bo Li received his B. Eng. degree (summa cum laude) in the Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing and the PhD. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.


 
Teaching Course   Spring 2011: COMP 361 Computer Communications Networks I

 

 

  
Recent Publications  

  • Journal Publications

    1. G. Y. Keung, B. Li and Q. Zhang, "Intrusion Detection in Mobile Sensor Networks: Probabilistic Formulation, Energy Efficiency and a Distributed Algorithm," accepted and to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2012.

    2. F.-M. Liu, B. Li, B. Li and H. Jin, "Peer-Assisted On-Demand Streaming: Characterizing Demands and Optimizing Supplies," accepted and to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2012.

    3. Y. Bao, Y. Zhu, and B. Li, "On Maximized Delay-Constrained Coverage in Urban Vehicular Networks," accepted and to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Broadband Wireless Communications for High Speed Vehicles, 2012.

    4. F.-M. Liu, B. Li, L.-L. Zhong, B. Li, H. Jin and X.-F. Liao, "Flash Crowd in P2P Live Streaming Systems: Fundamental Characteristics and Design Implications," accepted and to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2012.

    5. J. Dai, B. Li, F.-M. Liu, B. Li and J.-C. Liu, "Collaborative Caching in Wireless Video Streaming Through Resource Auctions," accepted and to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Collaborative Networking Challenges and Applications, 2012.

    6. G. Y. Keung, B. Li and Q. Zhang, "Message Delivery Capacity in Delay-Constrained Mobile Sensor Networks: Bounds and Realization," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 10(5): 1552 - 1559, May 2011.

    7. J. Dai, F.-M. Liu and B. Li, "Disparity between P2P Overlay and ISP Underlay: Issues, Existing Solutions, and Challenges," IEEE Network Magazine, 24(6):36-41, November-December 2010.

    8. F.-M. Liu, Y. Sun, B. Li, B. Li and X.-Y. Zhang, "FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Hosting at a Large Scale," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(10): 1442-1457, October 2010.

    9. H. Yin, X. Liu, T. Zhan, V. Sekar, F. Qiu, C. Lin, H. Zhang and B. Li, "LiveSky: Enhancing CDN with P2P," ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 6(3):45-64, August 2010.

    10. G. Y. Keung, Q. Zhang, B. Li, "The Delay-constrained Information Coverage Problem in Mobile Sensor Networks: Single Hop Case," ACM/Springer Journal of Wireless Networks, 16(7):1961-1973, July 2010.

    11. M.-L. Li, L. Ding, Y. Shao, Z.-S. Zhang and B. Li, "On Reducing Broadcast Transmission Cost and Redundancy in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antennas," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 59(3):1433-1442, March 2010.

    12. C. G. Wang, B. Li, M. Daneshmand, K. Sohraby and R. Jana, "On Object Identification Reliability Using RFID," ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, 16(1):71-80, February 2010.

  • Conference Publications

    1. Y. Feng, B. Li and B. Li, "Bargaining Towards Maximized Resource Utilization in Video Streaming Datacenters," IEEE Infocom, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    2. J. Dai, Z. Hu, B. Li, J.-C. Liu and B. Li, "Collaborative Hierarchical Caching with Dynamic Request Routing for Massive Content Distribution," IEEE Infocom, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    3. Y. Wu, C. Wu, B. Li and F. Lau, "Scaling Social Media Applications into Geo-Distributed Clouds," IEEE Infocom, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    4. X. Feng, J. Zhang, Q. Zhang and B. Li, "Use Your Frequency Wisely: Explore Frequency Domain for Channel Contention and ACK," IEEE Infocom, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    5. Y. Wu, Y. Zhu and B. Li, "Infrastructure-Assisted Routing in Vehicular Networks," IEEE Infocom, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    6. X. Feng, J. Zhang, Q. Zhang and B. Li , "TAHES: Truthful Double Auction for Heterogeneous Spectrums," IEEE Infocom (mini-conference), Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.

    7. J. Dai, B. Li, F.-M. Liu, B. Li and J.-C. Liu, "Collaborative Caching for Video Streaming among Selfish Wireless Service Providers," IEEE Globecom, Houston, Texas, December 5-9, 2011. (The Best Paper Award)

    8. G. Y. Keung, B. Li, Q. Zhang and H. Yang, "The Target Tracking in Mobile Sensor Networks," IEEE Globecom, Houston, Texas, December 5-9, 2011.

    9. Y. Yang, J. Wu, C. Long and B. Li, "Online Market Clearing in Dynamic Spectrum Auction," IEEE Globecom, Houston, Texas, December 5-9, 2011.

    10. H.-T. Li, L.-L. Zhong, J.-C. Liu, B. Li, and K. Xu, "Cost-effective Partial Migration of VoD Services to Content Clouds," The 4th IEEE International conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud), Washington D.C., July 4-9, 2011.

    11. Y. Wu. C. Wu, B. Li, X. Qiu and F. Lau, "CloudMedia: When Cloud On Demand Meets Video On Demand," IEEE ICDCS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011.

    12. F.-M. Liu, S. Shen, B. Li, B. Li, H. Yin and S. Li, "Novasky: Cinematic-Quality VoD in a P2P Storage Cloud," IEEE Infocom, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

    13. Y. Wu, Y. Zhu and B. Li, "Trajectory Improves the Data Delivery in Vehicular Networks," IEEE Infocom, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

    14. J. Dai, B. Li, F.-M. Liu, B. Li and H. Jin, "On the Efficiency of Collaborative Caching in a ISP-aware P2P Networks," IEEE Infocom, Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

    15. Z. Li, Y. Zhu, M.-L. Li and B. Li, "Time Lagged Location-based Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ," IEEE Globecom, Miami, Florida, December 6-10, 2010.

    16. C. Long, H. Wang and B. Li, "Collaborative Spectrum Sensing on Signal Correlation in Cognitive Radio Networks ," IEEE Globecom, Miami, Florida, December 6-10, 2010.

    17. L.-L. Zhong, J. Dai, B. Li, B. Li and H. Jin, "Are a Few Neighboring Peers Good Enough," IEEE Globecom, Miami, Florida, December 6-10, 2010.

    18. Y. Feng, B. Li and B. Li, "Peer-Assisted VoD Prefetching in Double Auction Markets," IEEE ICNP, Kyoto, Japan, October 5-8, 2010.

    19. G. Y. Keung, B. Li and Q. Zhang, "Intrusion Detection in Mobile Sensor Networks," ACM MobiHoc, Chicago, September 20-24, 2010.

    20. G. Y. Keung, Q. Zhang and B. Li, "The Base Station Placement for Delay-constrained Information Coverage in Mobile Wireless Networks," IEEE ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010. (The Best Paper Award)

    21. G. Y. Keung, B. Li and Q. Zhang, "Message Delivery Capacity in Delay-Constrained Mobile Wireless Networks: Bounds and Realization," IEEE ICC, Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010.

    22. Y. Feng, B. Li and B. Li, "Peer-to-Peer Bargaining in Container-Based Datacenters," The 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), San Jose, California, April 27, 2010.

     

     

    		  

     
    Professional Activities    *  Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2005 - present)

     *  Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2007 - present)

     *  Editor, ACM/Springer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET) (1999 - present)