The Auditory Contract: Designing Trustworthy Sound in IoT
Report
McGregor, I. (2025)
The Auditory Contract: Designing Trustworthy Sound in IoT
This technical report introduces the concept of the auditory contract, the unspoken agreement between users and smart devices to interpret sound as meaningful and trustworthy....
Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently
Report
McGregor, I. (2025)
Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently
Traditional diagnostic tools like the stethoscope have long helped clinicians detect signs of illness through direct contact and active listening. In an era of ubiquitous sens...
FedBT: Effective and Robust Federated Unlearning via Bad Teacher Distillation for Secure Internet of Things
Journal Article
Wang, F., Huo, J., Wang, W., Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Tan, Z., & Wang, C. (in press)
FedBT: Effective and Robust Federated Unlearning via Bad Teacher Distillation for Secure Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Energy Provisioning Technologies, Charging Scheduling Schemes, and Challenges
Journal Article
Abdel Aziz, S., Wang, X., Hawbani, A., Qureshi, . B., Alsamhi, S. H., Alabsi, A., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Ismail, . A. (online)
Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Energy Provisioning Technologies, Charging Scheduling Schemes, and Challenges. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2025.3549414
Recently, a plethora of promising green energy provisioning technologies has been discussed in the orientation of prolonging the lifetime of energy-limited devices (e.g., sens...
Towards Circular Buildings in Hong Kong: A New Integrated Technology–Material–Design (TMD) Circularity Assessment Framework
Journal Article
Lau, E. K. S., Chan, D. W. M., Oluleye, B. I., & Olawumi, T. O. (2025)
Towards Circular Buildings in Hong Kong: A New Integrated Technology–Material–Design (TMD) Circularity Assessment Framework. Buildings, 15(5), Article 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15050814
As Hong Kong faces increasing pressure on resources and environmental sustainability, there is a growing need to shift towards circular building practices. The ever-increasing...
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Cooperative Perception and Computation in VEC
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, L., Tan, Z., Hawbani, A., He, Q., & Liu, Z. (online)
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Cooperative Perception and Computation in VEC. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2025.3546915
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are an important paradigm of intelligent transportation systems. Cooperative perception (CP) and vehicular edge computing (VEC) enhanc...
Dynamic Caching Dependency-Aware Task Offloading in Mobile EdgeComputing
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Zhao, L., Zhao, Z., Hawbani, A., Liu, Z., Tan, Z., & Yu, K. (2025)
Dynamic Caching Dependency-Aware Task Offloading in Mobile EdgeComputing. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 74(5), 1510-1523. https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2025.3533091
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a distributed computing paradigm that provides computing capabilities at the periphery of mobile cellular networks. This architecture empowers M...
CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Mao, C., Wan, S., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Min, G., & Zomaya, A. Y. (2025)
CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 24(3), 2331-2345. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2024.3492148
As a promising vehicular communication technology, Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) is expected to ensure the safety and convenience of Intelligent Transportation System...
A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, S., Tan, Z., Hawbani, A., Timotheou, S., & Yu, K. (2025)
A Multi-UAV Cooperative Task Scheduling in Dynamic Environments: Throughput Maximization. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 74(2), 442 - 454. https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.2024.3483636
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been considered a promising technology for advancing terrestrial mobile computing in the dynamic environment. In this research field, through...
User Preferences-Based Proactive Content Caching with Characteristics Differentiation in HetNets
Journal Article
Lin, N., Wang, Y., Zhang, E., Wan, S., Al-Dubai, A., & Zhao, L. (2025)
User Preferences-Based Proactive Content Caching with Characteristics Differentiation in HetNets. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 10(2), 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3441606
With the proliferation of mobile applications, the explosion of mobile data traffic imposes a significant burden on backhaul links with limited capacity in heterogeneous cellu...