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Featured Publications (Full List Here)

---Transport Electrification---

  1. Ziyi Hu, Yue Cao*, Kai Jiang, Minho Jo, Lixia Xiao and Xingyu Zhao. “A Reinforcement Learning Method for UAV Delivery Scheduling under Dynamic Pricing”. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 12, pp. 4105-4119, November, 2025.

  2. Xinyu Li, Yue Cao*, Ziyi Hu, Xu Zhang, Hai Lin and Zhi Liu. “An Integrated Framework on Autonomous Valet Parking and Battery Swapping Service Considering Malicious False Data Injection Attack”. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol.11, no.1, pp. 3806-3822, February, 2025.

  3. Yue Cao, Jixing Cui, Shuohan Liu, Xinyu Li*, Quan Zhou, Chuan Hu, Yuan Zhuang and Zhi Liu. “A Holistic Review on E-Mobility Service Optimization: Challenges, Recent Progress and Future Directions”. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 3712-3741, June, 2024.

  4. Xinyu Li, Yue Cao*, Shaohua Wan, Shuohan Liu, Hai Lin and Yongdong Zhu. “A Coordinated Battery Swapping Service Management Scheme Based on Battery Heterogeneity”. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 4474-4491, September, 2023.

  5. Ziyi Hu, Yue Cao*, Xinyu Li, Haojun Ai, Lexi Xu and Zhi Liu. “Towards Dynamic Pricing based Autonomous Valet Parking Management under Demand Uncertainty”. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 6196-6211, May, 2024.

  6. Xu Zhang, Xu Xia, Shuohan Liu, Yue Cao*, June Li and Weisi Guo. “An Integrated Framework on Autonomous-EV Charging and Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) Management System”. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 2836-2852, June, 2022.

  7. Yue Cao, Xu Zhang, Bingpeng Zhou*, Xuting Duan, Daxin, Tian and Xuewu Dai. “MEC Intelligence driven Electro-Mobility Management for Battery Switch Service”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 4016-4029, July, 2021.

  8. Yue Cao, Tao Jiang, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Hongjian Sun, Huan Zhou* and Ran Wang. “Toward Pre-Empted EV Charging Recommendation Through V2V-Based Reservation System”. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 2168-2216, May, 2021.

  9. Yue Cao, Tong Wang*, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Geyong Min, Naveed Ahmad and Abdul Hanan Abdullah. “An EV Charging Management System Concerning Drivers’ Trip Duration And Mobility Uncertainty”. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 596-607, April, 2018.

  10. Yue Cao* and Ning Wang. “Toward Efficient Electric Vehicle Charging Using VANET-Based Information Dissemination”. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 2886-2901, April, 2017.

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---Networking and Computation---

  1. Zhenning Wang, Yue Cao*, Huan Zhou, Jiawen Kang, Xiaokang Zhou and Houbing Song. “DRAM: Digital Twin-Driven Double-Layer Reverse Auction Method for Multi-Platform Vehicular Crowdsensing”. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 13725-13742, December, 2025.

  2. Zhijie Fan, Mansi Zhang, Yue Cao*, Zilong Liu, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Yasir Javed and Faisal Bashir Hussain. “A Novel UAV-assisted VANET Routing Protocol for Post-Disaster Emergency Communications”. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 13, pp. 4863-4882, December, 2025.

  3. Zhenning Wang, Yue Cao*, Huan Zhou, Libing Wu, Wei Wang and Geyong Min. “Fairness-aware Two-stage Hybrid Sensing Method in Vehicular Crowdsensing”. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 11971-11988, December, 2024.

  4. Boyang Yu, Zixuan Li, Yue Cao*, Celimuge Wu, Jin Qi, Libing Wu. “YOLO-MPAM: Efficient Real-Time Neural Networks Based on Multi-Channel Feature Fusion”. Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 252, 124282, October, 2024. 

  5. Zhenning Wang, Yue Cao*, Kai Jiang, Huan Zhou, Jiawen Kang, Yuan Zhuang, Daxin Tian and Victor C. M. Leung. “When Crowdsensing Meets Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Survey and New Perspectives”. IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials. (Accepted in 2024, Online)

  6. Kai Jiang, Yue Cao*, Huan Zhou, Jie Wu, Zhao Zhang and Zhi Liu. “Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Multi-Driver Order Dispatching at Large-Scale”.  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 607-621, April, 2024.

  7. Yue Cao, Ning Wang, Celimuge Wu, Xu Zhang and Chakkaphong Suthaputchakun. “Enhancing Video QoE Over High-speed Train Using Segment-based Prefetching and Caching”. IEEE Multimedia, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 55-66, October, 2019. 2019 Best Paper Runner-up Award from IEEE MultiMedia

  8. Mohsin Raza, Nauman Aslam, Hoa Le-Minh, Sajjad Hussain, Yue Cao* and Noor Muhammad Khan. “A Critical Analysis of Research Potential, Challenges and Future Directives in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks”. IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 39-95, First Quarter, 2018.

  9. Yue Cao, Chong Han, Xu Zhang, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Yuan Zhuang*, Nauman Aslam and Mehrdad Dianati. “A Trajectory Driven Opportunistic Routing Protocol for VCPS”. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 2628-2642, December, 2018.

  10. Yue Cao* and Zhili Sun. “Routing in Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks: A Taxonomy, Survey and Challenges”. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 654-677, Second Quarter, 2013.

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---Cybersecurity---

  1. Lin Wan, Yue Cao*, Changbing Bi, Zhiquan Liu, Jianfeng Ma and Yi Ren. “PBRU: Privacy-preserving and Blockchain-assisted Reputation Updating with Malicious Detection for Cloud-supported Vehicular Networks”. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 13026-13040, December, 2025.

  2. Sifan Li, Yue Cao*, Guojun Peng, Meng Li, Wei Sun and Luan Chen. “Efficient Intrusion Detection for In-Vehicle Networks Using Knowledge Distillation from BERT to CNN-BiLSTM”. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 6398-6412, June, 2025.

  3. Yingzhe Hou, Yue Cao*, Hu Xiong, Debiao He, Chi-Hung Chi and Kwok-Yan Lam. “Heterogeneous Parallel Key-Insulated Multi-Receiver Signcryption Scheme for IoV”. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 5123-5137, May, 2025.

  4. Di Wang, Yue Cao*, Kwok-Yan Lam, Chi-Hung Chi and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. “An Accountable GAKA Protocol With Changeable Thresholds and Verifiable Shares in UAVs-assisted IoVs for Emergency Rescue”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 5522-5537, April, 2025.

  5. Xueru Du, Yue Cao*, Di Wang, Chenchen Lv, Celimuge Wu and Kezhi Wang. “A Tri-Phases Message Oriented Trust Model in FANET”. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 5298-5310, November, 2024.

  6. Yujie Song, Yue Cao*, Chak-Lam Cheong, Debiao He, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Juan Wang. “CAT: A Consensus-Adaptive Trust Management based on the Group Decision Making in IoVs”. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol. 19, pp. 7730-7743, August, 2024.

  7. Di Wang, Yue Cao*, Raymond Choo, Zhaohui Yang, Zhili Sun and Haitham Cruickshank. “Secure Battery Swapping: A Reservation Scheme with Conditional Privacy-Preserving Bidirectional Heterogeneous Aggregate Signcryption and Incentive Mechanism”. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 14087-14102, November, 2023. 

  8. Yue Cao, Sifan Li, Chenchen Lv, Di Wang*, Hongjian Sun, Jing Jiang, Fanlin Meng, Lexi Xu and Xinzhou Cheng. “Towards Cyber Security for Low-Carbon Transportation: Overview, Challenges and Future Directions”. Elsevier Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol. 183, 113401, September 2023. 

  9. Di Wang, Yue Cao*, Fei Yan, Yining Liu, Daxin Tian and Yuan Zhuang. “Secure Long-range Autonomous Valet Parking: A Reservation Scheme with Three-factor Authentication and Key Agreement”. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 3832-3847, March, 2023. 

  10. Ao Lei, Haitham Cruickshank, Yue Cao*, Chibueze P. A. Ogah, Philip Asuquo and Zhili Sun. “Blockchain-Based Dynamic Key Management for Heterogeneous Intelligent Transportation Systems”. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 6, 1832-1843, December, 2017.

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