The IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), a flagship conference in the field of communications, was held in Rome, Italy from May 28 to June 1, 2023. A research paper titled "Joint Optimization of Energy and Delay in Task Offloading Process of Electric Connected Vehicles" by Professor Liu Jiajia's team from the School of Cybersecurity stood out among numerous submissions and was awarded the Best Paper Award at the conference. The paper was authored by Qiu Jian, a graduate student from the School of Cybersecurity, his supervisor Professor Mao Bomin, and team leader Professor Liu Jiajia. This marks the first time that our university has received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC.
Professors Mao Bomin (second from the right) and Qiu Jian (third from the right) represented the team to receive the award at the IEEE ICC conference in Rome, Italy.
The paper focuses on the task offloading issue of electric connected vehicles. In recent years, with the widespread adoption of electric connected vehicles and the rapid development of 5G technology, the computing tasks generated by various in-vehicle applications have significantly increased. However, the battery energy and computing resources of current electric vehicles are quite limited. To meet the low-latency and high-throughput requirements of electric connected vehicle services, the study proposes to use Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to process the tasks generated by vehicles. By combining the vehicle movement model, the research establishes a joint optimization mathematical model for task processing delay and energy consumption, and then formulates a task offloading strategy based on the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the network service processing delay and energy consumption of electric vehicles, providing new ideas for the practical application of task offloading in electric connected vehicles.
Since its first edition in 1965, IEEE ICC has become one of the largest and most influential landmark academic conferences in the global communications field. It covers all aspects of communications and attracts numerous top scholars from both academia and industry worldwide every year. This year's conference received 2,778 academic papers from around the world, of which 1,098 were accepted. After anonymous review and recommendation by the technical program committees and voting by the conference's Best Paper Award selection committee, 16 papers were finally selected as the best papers. The paper by Professor Liu Jiajia's team was the only winning paper in the Internet of Things/Sensor Networks track of this conference.
Professor Liu Jiajia and Professor Mao Bomin's team is dedicated to research on intelligent connectivity and information security. The team, supported by the National Engineering Laboratory for Integrated Big Data Application Technology of Air, Space, Sea, and Land, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's 5G Application Security Innovation Demonstration Center (Shaanxi), and the National First-Class Major in Information Security, focuses on key issues in intelligent connectivity and information security. They have achieved multiple breakthroughs in areas such as intelligent connected vehicles, integrated air-space-sea-land networks, and Internet of Things security. The team has received six provincial and ministerial-level awards, published over 320 papers, been granted more than 40 patents, published five books, and participated in the formulation of one international standard, five national standards, and one industry standard. They have also received several awards, including the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Early Career Achievement Award, and Best Paper Awards at international flagship/renowned conferences such as IEEE Globecom, ICC, WOCC, and WCNC.
