PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers Published
➤ “Dynamic Client Clustering, Bandwidth Allocation, and Workload Optimization for Semi-synchronous Federated Learning.”
Liangkun Yu, Xiang Sun, Rana Albelaihi, Chaeeun Park, Sihua Shao.
Accepted to be appear in Electronics (2024).
➤ “Counter UAV (CUAV) Swarms: Challenges, Considerations, and Future Directions in UAV Warfare.”
Michelle Sherman, Sihua Shao, Xiang Sun, Jun Zheng.
Accepted to be appear in IEEE Wireless Communications (2024).
➤ “Retroreflective optical ISAC using OFDM: Channel modeling and performance analysis.”
Yuanxin Cui, Chen Chen, Yueping Cai, Zhihong Zeng, Min Liu, Jia Ye, Sihua Shao, Harald Haas.
Accepted to be appear in OPTICA Optics Letters (2024).
➤ “Optimizing fire emergency evacuation routes in underground coal mines: A lightweight network flow approach.”
Simon Lotero, Vasilis Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian, Sihua Shao, Pedram Roghanchi.
ELSEVIER Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 146, 105637 (2024).
➤ “Deep semi-supervised electricity theft detection in AMI for sustainable and secure smart grids.”
Ruobin Qi, Qingqing Li, Zhirui Luo, Jun Zheng, Sihua Shao.
ELSEVIER Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, Vol. 36, 101219 (2023).
➤ “R-VLCP: Channel Modeling and Simulation in Retroreflective Visible Light Communication and Positioning Systems.”
Sihua Shao, Adrian Salustri, Abdallah Khreishahl, Chenren Xu and Shuai Ma.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 10, No. 13 (2023).
➤ “Optimizing AoI in UAV-RIS Assisted IoT Networks: Off Policy vs. On Policy.”
Michelle Sherman, Sihua Shao, Xiang Sun and Jun Zheng.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 10, No. 14 (2023).
➤ “Securing Smart Grid Enabled Home Area Networks with Retro-reflective Visible Light Communication.”
Matthew Salas, Sihua Shao, Adrian Salustri, Zachary Schroeck and Jun Zheng.
MDPI Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2023).
➤ “Configurations and Applications of Multi-Agent Hybrid Drone-Unmanned Ground Vehicles for Underground Environments: A Review.”
Chris Dinelli, John Racette, Mario Escarcega, Simon Lotero, Jeffrey Gordon, James Montoya, Chase Dunaway, Vasileios Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani, Sihua Shao, Pedram Roghanchi and Mostafa Hassanalian.
MDPI Drones, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2023).
➤ “Optimization for Fire Evacuation Applying Maximum Flow Cost Algorithm to Improve the Time-Response in Underground Coal Mines.”
Simon Lotero, Hassan Khaniani, Vasilis Androulakis, Mostafa Hassanalian, Sihua Shao and Pedram Roghanchi.
CRC Press, Underground Ventilation, pages 541-549 (2023).
➤ “Backhaul-Aware Drone Base Station Placement and Resource Management for FSO Based Drone Assisted Mobile Networks.”
Liangkun Yu, Xiang Sun, Sihua Shao, Yougan Chen and Rana Albelaihi.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2022).
➤ “Machine Learning Regression-based RETRO-VLP for Real-time and Stabilized Indoor Positioning.”
Ali Alenezi, Mahmoud Nazzal, Ahmed Sawalmeh, Abdallah Khreishah, Sihua Shao and Muhannad Almutairy.
Springer Cluster Computing, pp. 1-13 (2022).
➤ “Self-optimizing Data Offloading in Mobile Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach.”
Sihua Shao, Mahmoud Nazzal, Abdallah Khreishah and Moussa Ayyash.
IEEE Network, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2022).
➤ “Optimal Discrete Constellation Inputs for Aggregated LiFi-WiFi Networks.”
Shuai Ma, Fan Zhang, Songtao Li, Hang Li, Ruixin Yang, Sihua Shao, Jiaheng Wang and Shiyin Li.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 21, No. 6 (2021).
➤ “Evaluating the Feasibility of Random Waypoint Model for Indoor Wireless Networks.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah and Moussa Ayyash.
WILEY Internet Technology Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, e214 (2020).
➤ “Harnessing Retroreflective Transportation Infrastructure for Intelligent Vehicle Positioning.”
Sihua Shao and Abdallah Khreishah.
ELSEVIER Vehicular Communications, Vol. 24, 100246 (2020).
➤ “Optimizing Handover Parameters by Q-learning for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks.”
Sihua Shao, Guanxiong Liu, Abdallah Khreishah, Moussa Ayyash, Hany Elgala, Thomas D.C. Little and Michael B.Rahaim.
IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2019).
➤ “Enabling Real-time Indoor Tracking of IoT Devices Through Visible Light Retroreflection.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah and Issa Khalil.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2019.2901665 (2019).
➤ “A Hybrid RF-VLC System for Energy Efficient Wireless Access.”
Abdallah Khreishah, Sihua Shao, Ammar Gharaibeh, Moussa Ayyash, Hany Elgala and Nirwan Ansari.
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking,Vol. 2, No. 4 (2018).
➤ “Indoor Localization Using Visible Light via Fusion of Multiple Classifiers.”
Xiansheng Guo, Sihua Shao, Nirwan Ansari, Abdallah Khreishah.
IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 9, No. 6 (2017).
➤“Pixelated VLC- Backscattering for Self-charging Indoor IoT Devices.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Hany Elgala.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 29, No.2 (2017).
➤ “Delay Analysis of Unsaturated Heterogeneous Omnidirectional-Directional Small Cell Wireless Networks: The Case of RF-VLC Coexistence.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 15, No. 12 (2016).
➤ “Joint Link Scheduling and Brightness Control for Greening VLC-based Indoor Access Networks.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah and Issa Khalil.
IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), Vol. 8, No. 3 (2016).
➤“Coexistence of WiFi and LiFi towards 5G: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges.”
Moussa Ayyash, Hany Elgala, Abdallah Khreishah, Volker Jungnickel, Thomas Little, Sihua Shao, Michael Rahaim and Dominic Schulz.
IEEE Communication Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 2 (2016).
➤“Design and Analysis of a Visible-Light- Communication Enhanced WiFi System.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Moussa Ayyash, Michael B. Rahaim, Hany Elgala, Volker Jungnickel, Dominic Schulz, Thomas D.C. Little, Jonas Hilt and Ronald Freund.
IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), Vol.7, No. 10 (2015).
Conference Papers Published
➤ “Sustainable and Portable Vertiports Enabling Autonomous Drone Swarm Inspection in the Oil and Gas Industry.”
Fahad Mannan, Logan Moore, Sihua Shao, Xiang Sun and Mostafa Hassanalian.
2024 AIAA SciTech, 2024.
➤ “Downlink-Uplink Symmetry in Mobile Battery-Free Retro-Reflective VLC: Enabling Sensing-Assisted Communications.”
Sihua Shao, Adrian Salustri, Alexander Heusser, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian and Pedram Roghanchi.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop on ETASN, June 9 - 13, 2024.
➤ “Organic Photovoltaic Cell-Powered Backscatter Communication System: A Compact Design.”
Adrian Salustri, Alexander Williams, Mathew Salas, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian, Pedram Roghanchi and Sihua Shao.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 9 - 13, 2024.
➤ “Enhancing the Performance of Semi-supervised Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Grids with Feature Engineering and Ensemble Learning.”
Ruobin Qi, Wynter Japp, Stephen Pan, Jun Zheng and Sihua Shao.
2024 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), 2024.
➤ “Dandelion-Inspired Micro Flying Sensors for the Martian Lava Tubes Exploration.”
Jared Cannon, Adrian Salustri, Alex Heusser, Mohammad Moin Khan, Sihua Shao and Mostafa Hassanalian.
2024 AIAA SciTech, 2024.
➤ “RF Backscatter Communications System with Organic Photovoltaic Power Harvesting for Underground Coal Mine Search and Rescue.”
Adrian Salustri, Sihua Shao, Vasileios Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian and Pedram Roghanchi.
2024 SME Annual Conference & EXPO, 2024.
➤ “Optimizing Fire Emergency Evacuation Routes in Underground Coal Mines: A Lightweight Network Flow Approach.”
Simon Lotero Lopez, Vasileios Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani, Mostafa Hassanalian, Sihua Shao and Pedram Roghanchi.
2024 SME Annual Conference & EXPO, 2024.
➤ “Hybrid UGV-UAV Robotic System for Search and Rescue Operations in Underground Mine Emergencies.”
John Racette, Mario Escarcega, Niall Devlin, Sean Goodyear, Skyler Bunning, Aaron Aguilar, Hassan Khaniani, Sihua Shao, Mostafa Hassanalian and Pedram Roghanchi.
2024 SME Annual Conference & EXPO, 2024.
➤ “Droppable Wireless Mesh Network for Intelligent Mine Rescue System.”
Patrick Duane, Sihua Shao, Mostafa Hassanalian, Vasilis Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani and Pedram Roghanchi.
2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), June 5 - 7, 2023.
➤ “Research and Design of Precision-Landing Drone in an Underground GPS-Denied Environment.”
John Racette, Chase Dunaway, Mario Escarcega, James Montoya, Chris Dinelli, Vasileios Androulakis, Hassan Khaniani, Sihua Shao, Pedram Roghanchi and Mostafa Hassanalian.
2023 AIAA Aviation Forum, 2023.
➤ “Hybrid UGV and Drone System for Mine Rescue Assistance.”
John Racette, Chris Dinelli, Mario Escarcega, James Montoya, Chase Dunaway, Simon Lotero, Hassan Khaniani, Sihua Shao, Pedram Roghanchi and Mostafa Hassanalian.
2023 AIAA Aviation Forum, 2023.
➤ “Droppable Nodes Based Wireless Network in Intelligent Mine Rescue Systems.”
Patrick Duane, Sihua Shao and Pedram Roghanchi.
2023 SME Annual Conference & EXPO, 2023.
➤ “Battery-free Optical Backscatter Communication Link for Underground Emergency Response System.”
Adrian Salustri, Sihua Shao and Pedram Roghanchi.
2023 SME Annual Conference & EXPO, 2023.
➤ “ABODE-Net: An Attention-based Deep Learning Model for Non-intrusive Building Occupancy Detection Using Smart Meter Data.”
Zhirui Luo, Ruobin Qi, Qingqing Li, Jun Zheng, Sihua Shao.
The 7th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (SmartCom) 2022, November 18 -20, 2022.
✪ Best Student Paper Award
➤ “Low Cost ATP System Design for Free Space Optics based Drone Assisted Wireless Networks.”
Xiang Sun, Tianrun Zhang, Sihua Shao, Bryan Tice, Paul Tice, Sudharman Jayaweer.
2022 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications, December 4 - 8, 2022.
➤ “Retro-VLP: Towards Single Light Source-based Real-time Indoor Positioning.”
Mahmoud Nazzal, Ahmed Sawalmeh, Sihua Shao, Muhammad Anan, Abdallah Khreishah, Ali Alanazi.
Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), September 5 - 8, 2022.
➤ “UAV Assisted Cellular Networks With Renewable Energy Charging Infrastructure: A Reinforcement Learning Approach.”
Michelle Sherman, Sihua Shao, Xiang Sun, Jun Zheng.
Proceedings of 2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), November 29 - December 2, 2021.
➤ “PassiveRETRO:Enabling Completely Passive Visible Light Localization for IoT Applications.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Juan Paez.
Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 29 - May 2, 2019, pp. 1540-1548.
➤ “RETRO: Retroreflector based Visible Light Indoor Localization for Real-time Tracking of IoT Devices.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Issa Khalil.
Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 15-19, 2018, pp. 1025-1033.
✪ Best-in-Session Presentation Award
➤ “Two-dimensional Reduction of Beam Training Overhead in Crowded 802.11ad based Networks.”
Sihua Shao, Hanbin Zhang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Abdallah Khreishah.
Workshop on mmSys: Millimeter-Wave Networked Systems, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2018, April 16, 2018 pp.680-685.
➤ “Design and Implementation of a Hybrid RF-VLC System with Bandwidth Aggregation.”
Zhouchi Li, Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Moussa Ayyash, Iman Abdalla, Hany Elgala, Michael Rahaim, Thomas DC Little.
Proceedings of IEEE International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), June 25-29, 2018, pp. 194-200.
➤ “An Indoor Hybrid WiFi-VLC Internet Access System.”
Sihua Shao, Abdallah Khreishah, Michael B. Rahaim, Hany Elgala, Moussa Ayyash, Thomas D.C. Little and Jie Wu.
Proceedings of 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Oct. 28-30, 2014, pp. 569-574.
➤ “Based on Improved PVI Objective Evaluation System of English Sentences.”
Fanquan Fang, Xiaguang Li, Sumei Li, Dongxiong Shen and Sihua Shao.
Proceedings of 2012 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, May. 29-31, 2012, pp. 1769-1773.
