
"The success of a mobile edge computing network depends critically on how to assign the edge servers to the user cells. The criterion for this assignment is application-specific. In many practical applications, the workload demanded by each cell is unknown and time-varying. So are the effective capacities of the servers. We need an assignment incurring minimum backhaul cost that is robust to these uncertainties. We also want to make the cells assigned to the same server form a geographically compact cluster. This challenge motivates us to introduce a novel stochastic geo-aware partitioning problem. As it is computationally hard, we propose a heuristic algorithm that can produce a range of solutions representing different tradeoffs between cost minimization versus geographical awareness. We evaluate the proposed algorithm using a real-world dataset."





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Congrats to Siyuan and Quynh!


- Professional Development Grant from Graduate Student Assembly at UMass Boston, Dec. 2016
- The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholarship, Houston, TX, Oct. 2016
- 2015 Malbone Scholarship Award (Best Graduate Student Award), Department of Compute Science at UMass Boston
- Research Excellence Award for 1st place at 2015 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
- Student Travel Grant, 7th IFIP wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), Vilamoura, Portugal, May 2014
- Graduate Convocation Book Award at UMass Boston, May 2014
- Research Excellence Award for 3rd Place at 2013 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
- Co-author of Best Paper Award at IEEE MASS 2014
- 2012 Malbone Award Winner (Best Graduate Student), Department of Computer Science, UMass Boston
- Research Excellence Award for 3rd place at 2009 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
- NSF Travel Student Award at WASA 2009
Khanh Nguyen, Research Excellence Award for receiving Honorable Mention at 2012 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
Binh Tran, Research Excellence Award for 3rd place at 2010 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
Shilpa Ghadge, Research Excellence Award for 1st place at 2009 UMass Boston Computer Science Research Symposium
Stephen Ignobivia, McNair Scholarship, 2008
Raj Rasam, Summer Research Award, CS Dept., University of Dayton, 2007
Harish Raghavendra, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, CS Dept., University of Dayton, 2006
Mike Pateras, Learn, Lead, and Serve Award, University of Dayton, 2004