Publications

Selected Journal Papers

Bita Fatemipour, Zhe Zhang, Marc St-Hilaire，”T-COMS: A Time-Slot-Aware and Cost-Effective Data Transfer Method for Geo-Distributed Data Centers,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2025, Early Access.

Zhe Zhang, Yili Jiang, Xin Wei, Mingkai Chen, Haiwei Dong, Shui Yu, “Generative-AI for XR Content Transmission in the Metaverse: Potential Approaches, Challenges, and a Generation-Driven Transmission Framework,” IEEE Network, 2025, Early Access.

Bita Fatemipour, Zhe Zhang, Marc St-Hilaire, “A Survey on Replica Transfer Optimization Schemes in Geographically Distributed Data Centers,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 6301-6317, December, 2024.

Zhe Zhang, Marc St-Hilaire, Xin Wei, Haiwei Dong and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, “How to Cache Important Contents for Multi-modal Service in Dynamic Networks: A DRL-based Caching Scheme,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 7372-7385, April, 2024.

Zhe Zhang, Xin Wei and Zhicai Zhang, “A Prediction-based Traffic Scheduling Framework for Multimedia Services in Dynamic Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 727-731, March 2024.

Fang Fu, Xiangpeng Wei, Zhicai Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Lin Cai, Jia Luo, Zhe Zhang, Chenmeng Wang, “Age of Information Minimization for UAV-assisted Internet of Things Networks: A Safe Actor-Critic with Policy Distillation Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1265-1276, January, 2024.

Mingzi Chen, Xin Wei, Peizhong Xie, Zhe Zhang, “QoE oriented intelligent online learning evaluation technology in B5G scenario,” Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, 7-15, February, 2024.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Xin Wei, Mingkai Chen, Subhajit Chatterjee and Zhicai Zhang, “In-network Caching for ICN-based IoT (ICN-IoT): A Comprehensive Survey,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 16, pp. 14595-14620, August, 2023.

Zhe Zhang, Xin Wei, Chung-Horng Lung, Yu Zhao, “iCache: An Intelligent Caching Scheme for Dynamic Network Environments in ICN-based IoT Networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1787-1799, January, 2023.

Xiang Liu, Xiaoying Tan, Yuchun Guo, Yishuai Chen, Zhe Zhang, “CSTRM: Contrastive Self-Supervised Trajectory Representation Model for trajectory similarity computation”, Elsevier Computer Communications, January, 2022.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Marc St-Hilaire, Ioannis Lambadaris, “Smart Proactive Caching: Empower the Video Delivery for Autonomous Vehicles in ICN-5G Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 7955-7965, July, 2020.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Marc St-Hilaire, Ioannis Lambadaris, “An SDN-based Caching Decision Policy for Video Caching in Information-centric Networking,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1069-1083, April, 2020.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Ioannis Lambadaris, Marc St-Hilaire, “When 5G Meets ICN: An ICN-based caching approach for mobile video in 5G networks,” Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 118, pp. 81-92, March, 2018.

Selected Conference Papers

Chi Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Mingkai Chen, Anqi Tong, Chung-Horng Lung, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “A GAI-Based Haptic Transmission Architecture for Extending Headset Lifespan in Haptic-Enhanced XR,” Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025), Montreal, QC, Canada, June, 2025.

Zhe Zhang, Mingkai Chen, Jiehan Zhou, “A Lightweight Cache-Assisted Data Recovery Mechanism for Latency-Critical Data in IIoT,” 2023 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2023), Hangzhou, China, November, 2023.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Marc St-Hilaire, Ioannis Lambadaris, “Smart Caching: Empower the Video Delivery for 5G-ICN Networks,” Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019), Shanghai, China, May, 2019.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Ioannis Lambadaris, Marc St-Hilaire, “IoT Data Lifetime-based Cooperative Caching Scheme for ICN-IoT Networks,” Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), Kansas City, MO, USA, May, 2018.

Zhe Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Ioannis Lambadaris, Marc St-Hilaire, Sankarshan Nagaraja Rao, “Router Position-based Cooperative Caching for Video-on-Demand in Information-Centric Networking,” Proceedings of the 2017 conference on 41st Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Torino, Italy, July, 2017.