I am a Ph.D. student at School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, under the supervision of Dr. Jiangchuan Liu. My research interests include multimedia networks, social networks, and overlay networks.
Education
- 2008.5 - present, Ph.D. Student, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- 2006.9 - 2008.4, M.Sc., School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- 2002.9 - 2006.7, B.Sc., School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China
Publications
Journal Papers and Book Chapters
- Xu Cheng, Jiangchuan Liu, and Cameron Dale, "Understanding the Characteristics of Internet Short Video Sharing: A YouTube-based Measurement Study", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
- Xu Cheng and Jiangchuan Liu, "Exploring Interest Correlation for Peer-to-Peer Socialized Video Sharing", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, article 5, January 2012.
- Xu Cheng, Kunfeng Lai, Dan Wang, and Jiangchuan Liu, "UGC Video Sharing: Measurement and Analysis", Intelligent Multimedia Communication: Techniques and Applications , Springer Publisher, August 2010.
- Xu Cheng, Ji Xu, Jian Pei, and Jiangchuan Liu, "Hierarchical Distributed Data Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks", Computer Communications, Elsevier, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1404-1413, July 2010.
- Xu Cheng, Feng Wang, and Jiangchuan Liu, "LOHD: Location-Oblivious Hybrid Data Diffusion in Wireless Sensor Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 882-890, July 2009.
- Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale, and Jiangchuan Liu, "Characteristics and Potentials of YouTube: A Measurement Study", Peer-to-Peer Video: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of Today's New Mass Medium, Springer Publisher, September 2008.
Conference and Workshop Papers
- Xu Cheng and Jiangchuan Liu, "Load-Balanced Migration of Social Media to Content Clouds", in proceedings of International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2011.
- Xu Cheng and Jiangchuan Liu, "Tweeting Videos: Coordinate Live Streaming and Storage Sharing", in proceedings of International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2010.
- Xu Cheng, Feng Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, and Ke Xu, "Collaborative Delay-Aware Scheduling in Peer-to-Peer UGC Video Sharing", in proceedings of International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2010.
- Xu Cheng, Ji Xu, Jian Pei, and Jiangchuan Liu, "Hierarchical Distributed Data Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks", in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Macau SAR, China, October 2009.
- Xu Cheng and Jiangchuan Liu, "NetTube: Exploring Social Networks for Peer-to-Peer Short Video Sharing", in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
- Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale, and Jiangchuan Liu, "Statistics and Social Network of YouTube Videos", in proceedings of International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Enschede, the Netherlands, June 2008. (dataset)
- Xu Cheng, Feng Wang, and Jiangchuan Liu, "Hybrid PUSH-PULL for Data Diffusion in Sensor Networks without Location Information", in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, P.R.China, May 2008.

