[TMC] Z. Cai*, X. Zheng, J. Wang, and Z. He..
Private Data Trading Towards Range Counting Queries in Internet of Things.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(8): 4881-4897 (2023).
[BDMA] Y. Huang, Y. Li and Z. Cai*.
Security and Privacy in Metaverse: A Comprehensive Survey.
Journal of Big Data Mining and Analytics (IoTJ). Accepted.
[IoTJ] Z. Cai*, Q. Chen, T. Shi, T. Zhu, K. Chen, and Y. Li.
Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks: A Comprehensive Survey.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ). 10(6): 5543-5570 (2023).
[TNET] Q. Chen, Song Guo, Z. Cai*, Jing Li, Tuo Shi and Hong Gao.
Peak AoI Minimization at Wireless-Powered Network Edge: from the Perspective of Both Charging and Transmitting.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). Accepted.
[CSUR] Z. Cai*, Z. Xiong, H. Xu, P. Wang, W. Li, and Yi Pan.
Generative Adversarial Networks: A Survey Towards Private and Secure Applications.
ACM Computing Surveys. 54(6): 1-38, (2021).
[TCSS] K. Jiang, Y. Wang, H. Wang, Z. Liu, Q. Han, A. Zhou, C. Xiang, and Z. Cai*.
A Reinforcement Learning Based Incentive Mechanism for Task Allocation Under Spatio-temporal Crowdsensing.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). Accepted.
[TKDE] D. Yu, L. Zhang, Q. Luo, X. Cheng, and Z. Cai.
Maximal Clique Search in Weighted Graphs.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Accepted.
[TMC] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li, H. Gao, T. Qiu, and W. Qu
An Efficient Processing Scheme for Concurrent Applications in the IoT Edge.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[TDSC] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai, C. Hu, D. Takabi, and W. Li
Towards Neural Network-based Communication System: Attack and Defense.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Accepted.
[TCBB] Z. He, and Z. Cai*.
Quantifying the Effect of Quarantine Control and Optimizing its Cost in COVID-19 Pandemic.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB). Accepted.
[TITS] Y. Yuan, J. Yu, X. Cheng, Z. Zou, D. Yu, and Z. Cai*.
Decentralized Parallel SGD Based on Weight-Balancing for Intelligent IoV.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). Accepted.
[VLDB.J] Q. Luo, D. Yu, Z. Cai, X. Lin, G. Wang, and X. Cheng.
Towards Maintenance of Hypercores in Large-Scale Dynamic Hypergraphs.
The VLDB Journal.(VLDB.J). 32(3): 647-664 (2023).
[TNET] T. Shi, Z. Cai*, J. Li, H. Gao, J. Chen, and M. Yang.
Services Management and Distributed Multi-Hop Requests Routing in Mobile Edge Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 31(2): 497-510 (2023).
[TSC] Q. Zhang, Y. Wang, P. Duan, X. Tong, A. Sai, and Z. Cai.
Two-stage Bilateral Online Priority Reassignment in Spatio-temporal Crowdsourcing.
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Accepted.
[TMC] W. Wang, Y. Wang, T. Liu, X. Tong, and Z. Cai.
A Triple Real-time Trajectory Privacy Protection mechanism Based on Edge computing and Blockchain in Mobile Crowdsourcing.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[TMC] D. Zhao, Z. Zhou, Z. Cai, Sami Yangui, and Xiao Xue.
GASTL: Accumulative STL with a Novel Robustness Metric for IoT Service Monitoring.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[VLDB.J] D. Miao, P. Zhang, J. Li, Y. Wang, and Z. Cai.
Approximation and inapproximability results on computing optimal repairs.
The VLDB Journal.(VLDB.J). 32(1): 173-197 (2023).
[TII] X. Zheng, L. Tian, and Z. Cai*.
A Fair and Rational Data Sharing Strategy towards Two-Stage Industrial Internet of Things
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 19(1): 1088-1096 (2023).
[TII] S. De, M. Bermudez-Edo, H. Xu, and Z. Cai*.
Deep Generative Models in the Industrial Internet of Things: a Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(9): 5728-5737 (2022).
[TMC] T. Zhu, J. Li，H. Gao, Y. Li, and Z. Cai.
AoI Minimization Data Collection Scheduling for Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 22(3): 1343-1355 (2023).
[TII] Y. Lin, X. Wang, H. Ma, L. Wang, F. Hao, and Z. Cai*.
An Efficient Approach to Sharing Edge Knowledge in 5G-enabled Industrial Internet of Things.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 19(1): 930-939 (2023).
[TITS] H. Xu, Z. Cai*, R. Li and W. Li.
Efficient CityCam-to-Edge Cooperative Learning for Vehicle Counting in ITS.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). Accepted.
[TII] T. Zhu, Z. Cai*, X. Fang, J. Luo, M. Yang.
Correlation Aware Scheduling for Edge-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(11): 7967-7976 (2022).
[TKDD] H. Xu, Z. Cai*, and W. Li.
Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Multi-label Image Recognition.
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). 16(4): 69:1-69:21 (2022).
[TWC] Z. Cai* and Q. Chen.
Latency-and-Coverage Aware Data Aggregation Scheduling for Multihop Battery-Free Wireless Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication (TWC). 20(3): 1770-1784 (2021).
[TKDE] D. Miao, Z. Cai*, and J. Li.
Deletion Propagation Revisited for Multiple Key Preserving Views.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 35(3): 2445-2456 (2023).
[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, H. Gao, and J. Li.
Structure-Free Broadcast Scheduling for Duty-Cycled Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 21(12): 4624-4641 (2022).
[TKDE] X. Wang, H. Gao, Z. Cai, and J. Li.
Who Should Deserve Investment? Attractive Individual and Group Search in Dynamic Information Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 35(2): 2158-2172 (2023).
[TOSN] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, H. Gao and J. Li.
Energy-Collision Aware Minimum Latency Aggregation Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). 17(4): 40:1-40:34 (2021).
[TII] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai*, D. Takabi and W. Li.
Privacy Threat and Defense for Federated Learning with Non-i.i.d. Data in AIoT.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.(TII). 18(2): 1310-1321 (2022).
[TCSS] D. Yu, N. Wang, Q. Luo, F. Li, J. Yu, X. Cheng and Z. Cai*.
Fast Core Maintenance in Dynamic Graphs.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). 9(3): 710-723 (2022).
[TCSS] Q. Luo, D. Yu, X. Cheng and Z. Cai*.
Mixed Structure for Truss Maintenance in Fully Dynamic Graphs.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). Accepted.
[TVT] Z. Xiong, H. Xu, W. Li, and Z. Cai*.
Multi-Source Adversarial Sample Attack on Autonomous Vehicles.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). 70(3): 2822-2835 (2021).
[TII] Z. Xiong, Z. Cai, Q. Han, A. Alrawais, and W. Li.
ADGAN: Protect Your Location Privacy in Camera Data of Auto-Driving Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(TII). 18(2): 1310-1321 (2022)..
[TOSN] T. Shi, Z. Cai, J. Li, and H. Gao.
Joint Deployment Strategy of Battery-Free Sensor Networks with Coverage Guarantee.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). 17(4): 42:1-42:29 (2021)..
[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, and H. Gao.
Structure-Free General Data Aggregation Scheduling for Multihop Battery-Free Wireless Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[TMC] Z. Cai, Z. Duan, and W. Li.
Exploiting Multi-Dimensional Task Diversity in Distributed Auctions for Mobile Crowdsensing.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[TII] J. Wang, Z. Cai, and J. Yu.
Achieving Personalized k-Anonymity-Based Content Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles in CPS
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(TII). 16(6): 4242-4251 (2020).
[TII] Z. Cai*, X. Zheng., and J. Yu.
A Differential-Private Framework for Urban Traffic Flows Estimation via Taxi Companies.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 15(12): 6492-6499 (2019).
[TVT] Y. Lin, Z. Cai*, X. Wang, F. Hao, L. Wang and A. Sai.
Multi-Round Incentive Mechanism for Cold Start-Enabled Mobile Crowdsensing Crowdsensing.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). 70(1): 993-1007 (2021).
[TMC] Q. Chen, Z. Cai*, L. Cheng, and H. Gao.
Low-Latency Data Aggregation Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks with Non-Predetermined Structure.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[TMC] T. Shi, J. Li, H. Gao, and Z. Cai*.
A Novel Framework for the Coverage Problem in Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Accepted.
[IoT] Z. Cai* and T. Shi.
Distributed Query Processing in the Edge Assisted IoT Data Monitoring System.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Accepted.
[TNSE] Z. Cai* and X. Zheng.
A Private and Efficient Mechanism for Data Uploading in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). 7(2): 766-775, 2020.
[JSAC] X. Zheng, and Z. Cai*.
Privacy-Preserved Data Sharing towards Multiple Parties in Industrial IoTs.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). 38(5): 968-979 (2020).
[TII] S.Zhu, Z. Cai*, H. Hu, Y. Li, W. Li.
zkCrowd: A Hybrid Blockchain-based Crowdsourcing Platform.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 16(6): 4196-4205 (2020).
[TNSE] X. Fang, Z. Cai*, W. Tang, G. Luo, J. Luo, R. Bi, and H. Gao.
Job Scheduling to Minimize Total Completion Time on Multiple Edge Servers.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). 7(4): 2245-2255 (2020).
[TVT] Y. Lin, Z. Cai*, X. Wang, and F. Hao.
Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdblocking Rumors in Mobile Social Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 68(9): 9220-9232 (2019).
[TKDE] K. Zhang, H. Gao, X. Han, Z. Cai, and J. Li.
Modeling and Computing Probabilistic Skyline on Incomplete Data.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 32(7): 1405-1418, 2020.
[TNET] Q. Chen, H. Gao, Z. Cai, L. Chen, and J. Li.
Distributed Low-Latency Data Aggregation for Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 26(5): 2347-2360 (2018).
[TCSS] Y. Wang, Z. Cai, Z. Zhan, Y. Gong, and X. Tong.
An Optimization and Auction based Incentive Mechanism to Maximize Social Welfare for Mobile Crowdsourcing.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. (TCSS). 6(4): 702-714 (2019).
[NETMAG] Y. Liang, Z. Cai, J. Yu, Q. Han, and Y. Li*.
Deep Learning Based Inference of Private Information Using Embedded Sensors in Smart Devices.
IEEE Network Magazine. (NETMAG). 32(4): 8-14 (2018).
[COMMAG] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, and Y. Li.
Data Linkage in Smart IoT Systems: A Consideration from Privacy Perspective.
IEEE Communications Magazine. (COMMAG). 56(9): 55-61 (2018).
[TDSC] Z. Cai*, Z. He, X. Guan, and Y. Li.
Collective Data-Sanitization for Preventing Sensitive Information Inference Attacks in Social Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 15(4): 577-590 (2018).
[VLDB. J] Y. Wu, X. Zhang, Y. Bian, Z. Cai, X. Lian, X. Liao, F. Zhao.
Second-order Random Walk-based Proximity Measures in Graph Analysis: Formulations and Algorithms.
The VLDB Journal. (VLDB. J). 27(1): 127-152 (2018).
[TCSS] J. Li, Z. Cai*, J. Wang, M. Han and Y. Li.
Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for Geographical Position Conflicting Mobile Crowdsensing Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. (TCSS). 5(2): 324-334 (2018).
[TVT] Z. He, Z. Cai*, and J. Yu.
Latent-data Privacy Preserving with Customized Data Utility for Social Network Data.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 67(1): 665-673 (2018).
[TKDE] D. Miao, Z. Cai*, and J. Li.
On the Complexity of Bounded View Propagation for Conjunctive Queries.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 30(1): 115-127 (2018).
[TNET] Q. Chen, H. Gao, S. Cheng, X. Fang, Z. Cai, and J. Li.
Centralized and Distributed Delay-Bounded Scheduling Algorithms for Multicast in Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 25(6): 3573-3586 (2017).
[TNET] T. Shi, S. Cheng, Z. Cai, Y. Li, and J. Li.
Exploring Connected Dominating Sets in Energy-Harvest Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). 25(3): 1803-1817 (2017).
[TII] X. Zheng and Z. Cai*.
Real-Time Big Data Delivery in Wireless Networks: A Case Study on Video Delivery.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (TII). 13(4): 2048-2057 (2017).
[TKDE] S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.
Extracting Kernel Dataset from Big Sensory Data in Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (TKDE). 29(4): 813-827 (2017).
[TOSN] J. Li, S. Cheng, Z. Cai*, J. Yu, C. Wang and Y. Li.
Approximate Holistic Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. (TOSN). 13(2): 11:1-11:24 (2017).
[TMC] X. Zheng, Z. Cai*, J. Li, and H. Gao.
A Study on Application-aware Scheduling in Wireless Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 16(7): 1787-1801 (2017).
[TCC] L. Yu, L. Chen, Z. Cai*, H. Shen, Y. Liang, and Y. Pan.
Stochastic Load Balancing for Virtual Resource Management in Datacenters.
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. (TCC). 8(2):459-472, 2020.
[TVT] Z. He, Z. Cai, J. Yu*, X. Wang, Y. Sun, and Y. Li.
Cost-efficient Strategies for Restraining Rumor Spreading in Mobile Social Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 66 (3): 2789 - 2800 (2017).
[TPDS] L. Yu, H. Shen, S. Karan, L. Ye, and Z. Cai.
CoRE: Cooperative End-to-End Traffic Redundancy Elimination for Reducing Cloud Bandwidth Cost.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 28(2): 446-461 (2017).
[TNSM] L. Zhang, Z. Cai*, and X. Wang.
FakeMask: A Novel Privacy Preserving Approach for Smartphones.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. (TNSM). 13(2): 335-348 (2016).
[TMC] S. Ji, M. Yan, R. Beyah, and Z. Cai*.
Semi-Structure Routing and Analytical Frameworks for Cognitive Radio Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 15(4): 996-1008 (2016).
[TNB] D. Xu*, Z. Cai, K. Liu, X. Zeng, Y. Ouyang, C. Dai, A. Hou, and J. Li.
Design and Simulation of Proportional Biological Operational mu-Circuit.
IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. (TNB). 14(2): 248-253 (2015).
[TVT] S. Cheng, Z. Cai* and J. Li.
Curve Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (TVT). 64(11): 5198-5209 (2015).
[TCS] Z. He, Z. Cai*, S. Cheng, and X. Wang.
Approximate Aggregation for Tracking Quantiles and Range Countings in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 607(3), 381-390 (2015).
[TPDS] Z. Cai*, S. Ji, J. He, L. Wei and A. Bourgeois.
Distributed and Asynchronous Data Collection in Cognitive Radio Networks with Fairness Consideration.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 25(8): 2020-2029 (2014).
[TPDS] J. Li, S. Cheng**, H. Gao and Z. Cai.
Approximate Physical World Reconstruction Algorithms in Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. (TPDS). 25(12): 3099-3110 (2014).
[TMC] S. Ji, R. Beyah and Z. Cai*.
Snapshot and Continuous Data Collection in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. (TMC). 13(3): 626-637 (2014).
[TNET] S. Ji and Z. Cai*.
Distributed Data Collection in Large-Scale Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under the Generalized Physical Interference Model.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (TNET). 21(4): 1270-1283. (2013).
[JMB] Z. Cai, M. F. Ducatez, J. Yang, T. Zhang, L. Long, A. C. Boon, R. J. Webby, and X. Wan*.
Identifying Antigenicity-Associated Sites in Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin by using Sparse Learning.
Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB). 422(1):145-155 (2012). (IF: 4.095).
[VACCINE] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.
Antigenic Distance Measurements for Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Selection.
Vaccine. . 30(2):448-453 (2012). (IF: 3.572).
[TPDS] S. Ji, Z. Cai, Y. Li*, and X. Jia.
Continuous Data Collection Capacity of Dual-Radio Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 23(10): 1844-1855 (2012). (IF: 1.146).
[BIOINFORMATICS] J. Barnett, J. Yang, Z. Cai, T. Zhang and X. Wan*.
AntigenMap 3D: an Online Antigenic Cartography Resource.
Bioinformatics (BIOINFORMATICS). 28(9):1292-1293 (2012). (IF: 4.926).
[TCS] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.
Size-constrained Tree Partitioning: Approximating the Multicast k-tree Routing Problem.
Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 412(3) (2011), 240-245 (IF: 1.085).
[INFLUENZA] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.
Concepts and Applications for Influenza Antigenic Cartography.
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses . 5(S1) (2011), 202-229 (IF: 3.812).
[INFLUENZA] Z. Cai, Y. Duan, Y. Jang, Y. Li, G. Lin, M. Ozden, and X. Wan*.
IPMiner: a Progenitor Identifier for Influenza A Virus.
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.. 5(S1) (2011), 395-415 (IF: 3.812).
[PCB] Z. Cai, T. Zhang, and X. Wan*.
A Computational Framework for Influenza Antigenic Cartography.
PLoS Computational Biology. (PCB). 6 (10) (2010), e1000949 (IF: 5.759).
[TCBB] J. Zhou, J. Sander, Z. Cai, L. Wang, and G. Lin*.
Finding the Nearest Neighbors in Biological Databases Using Less Distance Computations.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. (TCBB). 7(4)(2010), 669-680 (IF: 2.246).
[TCS] Z. Cai, Z. Chen, and G. Lin*.
A 3.4713-Approximation Algorithm for the Capacitated Multicast Tree Routing Problem.
Theoretical Computer Science. (TCS). 410(52)(2009), 5415-5424 (IF: 1.085).
[BMC] Z. Cai, H. Sabaa, Y. Wang, R. Goebel, Z. Wang, J. Xu, P. Stothard, and G. Lin*.
Most Parsimonious Haplotype Allele Sharing Determination.
BMC Bioinformatics. (BMC). 10(2009), 115 (IF: 3.428).
[BMC] Z. Cai, R. Goebel, M. Salavatipour, and G. Lin*.
Selecting Dissimilar Genes for Multi-class Classification, an Application in Cancer Subtyping.
BMC Bioinformatics. (BMC). 8(2007), 206 (IF: 3.428).
[BIOINFORMATICS] X. Wu, Z. Cai, X.-F. Wan, T. Hoang, R. Goebel, and G. Lin*.
Nucleotide Composition String Selection in HIV-1 Subtyping Using Whole Genomes.
Bioinformatics. (BIOINFORMATICS). 23(14)(2007), 1744-1752 (IF: 4.926).
[JBCB] Z. Cai, M. Heydari, and G. Lin*.
Iterated Local Least Squares Microarray Missing Value Imputation.
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. (JBCB). 4(4)(2006), 935-958.
[JOCO] Z. Cai, M. Heydari, and G. Lin*
Clustering Binary Oligonucleotide Fingerprint Vectors for DNA Clone Classification Analysis.
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. (JOCO). 9(2)(2005), 199-211.