CHENG ZHANGAssistant Professor

■Researcher basic information

Organization

  • College of Engineering Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
  • Graduate School of Science and Engineering（Master's Program） Major in Mechanical Systems Engineering
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Domain of Mechanical Systems Engineering

Research Areas

  • Manufacturing technology (mechanical, electrical/electronic, chemical engineering), Control and systems engineering, Control engineering/System engineering
  • Manufacturing technology (mechanical, electrical/electronic, chemical engineering), Communication and network engineering, Communication/Network engineering
  • Informatics, Intelligent robotics
  • Informatics, Information networks

Research Keyword

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Robot
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Internet of Things

Degree

  • 2015年02月　博士（国際情報通信学）（早稲田大学）
  • 2008年03月　工学修士（上海交通大学）

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2010 - Sep. 2013, Waseda University, Global Information and Telecommunication Institute
  • Sep. 2005 - Mar. 2008, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Control Engineering graduate course

Career

  • Sep. 2020, Ibaraki University, College of Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2020, Waseda University, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2018, Waseda University, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018, Waseda University, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • Jan. 2014 - Mar. 2015, HGST Japan, Research Engineer
  • Nov. 2008 - Oct. 2013, Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc, Research Engineer

Member History

  • May 2021 - Present, JSPS特別研究員の審査員, 日本学術振興会(JSPS)
  • Jun. 2018, 専門委员, 電子情報通信学会(IEICE) 情報通信マネジメント研究会(ICM)
  • Apr. 2018, Committee Member, Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management (ICM)
  • Apr. 2018, 専門委员, 電子情報通信学会(IEICE) 情報通信マネジメント研究会(ICM)

■Research activity information

Award

  • Mar. 2018, ICM Achievement Award, Achievement Award, IEICE
    Japan society
  • Mar. 2013, 電子情報通信学会学術奨励賞, IEICE

Paper

  • Budget Allocation for Incentivizing Mobile Users for Crowdsensing Platform
    Cheng Zhang, Lead
    IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, 27 May 2022, [Reviewed]
  • 異種混合ネットワークサービス資源協調フレームワーク
    大石晴夫,矢守恭子,張成,田中良明, Some researches on cognitive networks proposed communication networks that combined multiple communication methods. In addition, some researches show the importance of cooperation for heterogeneous networks. The researches have been proposed to increase utility, reduce costs and improve incentive mechanism with cooperation. However, a framework that integrates them and provides them to users has not been proposed. Therefore, inspired by a concept of service provision called MaaS (Mobility as a Service) in transportation fields, a novel concept of SHaaS (Sharing framework for Heterogeneous network services as a Service) is proposed in this paper. SHaaS aims to optimize social utility by cooperative mechanism using intermediation between service providers and users. The simulation model is proposed to evaluate effectiveness of SHaaS. SHaaS environment can improve users' utility with resource sharing. The evaluation results show high effectiveness of SHaaS concept., 電子情報通信学会
    電子情報通信学会論文誌(B), Jan. 2022, [Reviewed]
  • Time-To-Live Based Caching Mechanism with Nonlinear Pricing for Information-centric Networks
    Cheng Zhang, Lead
    2021 IEEE 6th International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud), 06 Nov. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Autonomous Tracking Using a Swarm of UAVs: A Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
    Yu-Jia Chen; Deng-Kai Chang; and Cheng Zhang, IEEE
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Nov. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Relation between Warning Error and Vehicle Speed in Vehicle-to-Pedestrian Warning System　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Takahiro Suzuki; Kyoko Yamori; Cheng Zhang; Takumi Miyoshi; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    22nd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), 08 Sep. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Evaluation of Resource Sharing Framework for Heterogeneous Network Services
    Haruo Oishi; Kyoko Yamori; Cheng Zhang; Yoshiaki Tanaka, IEEE
    22nd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), 08 Sep. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • 通信ネットワーク故障頻度とユーザ効用の関係を用いた回線リソース配分におけるオークション適用
    大石晴夫,矢守恭子,張成,田中良明, The telecommunication services market has been greatly changed because of the significantly changing of telecommunication network technologies and corresponding users' environment. The application services on the network have become more important. As the application service platform, the telecommunication network with suitable pricing and high utility are required from users. There are many research papers about the bandwidth of telecommunication quality, but there are few research focused reliability of it. In this paper, we aim to provide telecommunication network service with quality of service that satisfies users demand and improves total users' utility. The impact of reliability of telecommunication service on users' utility is studied. The failure rate of service is important, but few studies have focused on this point. However, the relation between the failure rate and willingness to pay (WTP) as well as willingness to accept (WTA) were clarified in the related study. We propose a method to improve the total of users' utility with the auction based trading among the users when the failure occurred, and show the effectiveness of the method by the simulation., 電子情報通信学会
    電子情報通信学会論文誌(B), Mar. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Gait Phase Detection Based on Muscle Deformation with Static Standing-Based Calibration
    Tamon Miyake; Shintaro Yamamoto; Satoshi Hosono; Satoshi Funabashi; Zhengxue Cheng; Cheng Zhang; Emi Tamaki; and Shigeki Sugano
    Sensors, Feb. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Locomotion prediction for lower limb prostheses in complex environments via sEMG and inertial sensors
    F. Peng; Cheng Zhang; B. Xu; J. Li; Z. Wang; and H. Su
    Complexity, Dec. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • SNS Data Based Tweet Similarity Evaluation for QoE Estimation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Takaaki Kirikae; Cheng Zhang; Kyoko Yamori; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    2020 35th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC), 03 Jul. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Task Migration for Mobile Edge Computing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Cheng Zhang and Z.Zheng, Lead
    Future Generation Computer Systems(Elsevier), Jul. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Pseudo Label-driven Federated Learning based Decentralized Indoor Localization via Mobile Crowdsourcing
    W.Li; Cheng Zhang and Y. Tanaka, IEEE Sensors Journal, publication online
    IEEE Sensors Journal, May 2020, [Reviewed]
  • A Sample Efficient Model - based Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Experience Replay for Robot Manipulation
    Cheng Zhang; L.Ma and A.Schmitz
    International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications. publication online, Apr. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • daptive Robust Force Position Control for Flexible Active Prosthetic Knee Using Gait Trajectory
    F.Peng; H.Wen; Cheng Zhang; B.Xu; J.Li; and H.Su
    Applied Science, Apr. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Data Quality Maximization for Mobile Crowdsensing
    Cheng Zhang; and N.Kamiyama, Lead
    IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020), Apr. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Privacy-aware Sensing-quality based Budget Feasible Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Fingerprint Collection
    W.Li; Z.Liu; Cheng Zhang; and Y.Tanaka
    IEEE Access, Feb. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • IoT Assisted Kernel Linear Discriminant Analysis Based Gait Phase Detection Algorithm for Walking With Cognitive Tasks
    F.Peng; W.Peng; Cheng Zhang; and D.Zhong
    IEEE Access, Dec. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Power Control for Cognitive M2M Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks with Fairness Concerns
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; H.Wang; Y.Yao; and X.Tan
    IEEE Access, Dec. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Trial and Error Experience Replay Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Cheng Zhang; and L.Ma, Lead
    The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ISRL 2019),, Dec. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Heel-Contact Gait Phase Detection Based on Specific Poses with Muscle Deformation
    T.Miyake; Cheng Zhang; S.Hosono; S.Yamamoto; S.Funabashi; Zhang Cheng; and E.Tamaki
    The 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO), Dec. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Auction Based Resource Trading Using Relation Between Telecommunication Network Failure Rate and Users’ Utility,
    H.Oishi; K.Yamori; Cheng Zhang; and Y.Tanaka, IEEE
    The 20th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2019), Sep. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Bis: A Novel Blockchain Based Bank-tax Interaction System in Smart City
    Z.Lu; X.Wan; J.Yang; J.Wu; Cheng Zhang; Patrick C. K. Hung; and S-C Huang
    The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (IEEE CBDCom 2019),, Aug. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • A Multi-Task Mode Control Method for Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis
    F.Peng; T.Hu; and Cheng Zhang
    2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS),, Aug. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Incentive Mechanism Design for Crowdsourced Indoor Localization
    Li Wei; Cheng Zhang; Liu Zhi; Tanaka Yoshiaki, Wi-Fi based indoor localization systems require to construct a radio map by site survey.
    ,The process of site survey is time-consuming and crowdsourcing is one feasible option to tackle this issue.Meanwhile, privacy protection has drawn concerns from both industry and academia. In this paper, we propose two incentive mechanisms to stimulate mobile users (MUs) to contribute indoor trajectory data for crowdsourcing-based indoor localization with differential privacy to prevent MUs’ privacy leakage. The
    ,first mechanism considers fixed reward for MUs and incomplete information where each MU’s sensitivity level of the data privacy is unknown to the crowdsourcing platform (CP). The interaction between MUs and CP is formulated into a two-stage Stackelberg game to maximize MUs’ utility and CP’s profit. The second mechanism jointly considers the variable reward for MUs and assumes CP knows each MUs’ sensitivity level of the data privacy. A demand function is used to model the relationship among CP, MUs
    ,and service customer (SCs). The optimization problem of CP’s profit is studied to show the impact of the price fluctuation. Comprehensive simulations
    IEEE Access, Jun. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Optimal Pricing and Service Selection in the Mobile Cloud Architectures
    X.Li; Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    IEEE Access,, Mar. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • A Robust, Distributed, and Privacy-preserving Aggregation Scheme for Smart Grid Communications
    G.Shen; Y.Su; D.Zhang; Cheng Zhang; and M.Zhang
    Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,, Jan. 2019, [Reviewed]
  • A Novel Web Questionnaire Based Method for Video Quality Experiment　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    S.Eirai; K.Yamori; Cheng Zhang; and Y.Tanaka
    The 34th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2019),, Dec. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Optimal Pricing for Service Provision in Heterogeneous Cloud Market
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, Dec. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • A Monte Carlo Based Computation Offloading Algorithm for Feeding Robot IoT System
    Cheng Zhang; Takumi Ohashi; Miki Saijo; Jorge Solis; Yukio Takeda; Ann Louise Lindborg; Ryuta Takeda; Yoshiaki Tanaka, Lead
    Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication(SmartCom 2018), Dec. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Evaluation of sEMG-Based Feature Extraction and Effective Classication Method for Gait Phase Detection
    F.Peng; W.Peng; and Cheng Zhang
    The 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing (ICCSIP 2018), Nov. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Design of IoT System for Robotic Assistive Device with Multi-grip Tools and Vision System　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; T.Ohashi; M.Saijo; J.Solis; Y.Takeda; A.-L.Lindborg; R.Takeda; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2018
  • Charging Content Providers in Non-Neutral Networks　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2018
  • A Two-Sided Pricing and Privacy Preservation Based Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsensing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    W.Li; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2018
  • Improved Global PLNC Based on High SNR MIMO Y Channel　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Y.Chen; Cheng Zhang; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2018
  • Performance Anomaly Reduction by Autonomous Movement of Wireless LAN Access Points　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Y.Hayashi; K.Yamori; Cheng Zhang; and Y.Tanaka
    The 33rd International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2018),, Jul. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Image Recognition Based Wireless LAN Throughput Estimation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    T.Ishida; K.Yamori; Cheng Zhang; and Y.Tanaka
    The 33rd International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2018),, Jul. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Cost- and Energy-Aware Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading
    Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; B.Gu; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka, Lead
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, Jul. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • A Publicly Verifiable Network Coding Scheme with Null-space HMAC
    Y.Chen; Cheng Zhang; W.Li; T.Chen; and M.Zhang
    International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, May 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Topology Mapping for Popularity-aware Video Caching in Content-Centric Network　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; M.Dong; S.Ishihara; Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    ICC 2018, May 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Global PLNC Based on High SNR MIMO Y Channel　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Y.Chen; Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2018
  • IR-UWB Sensor Based Multiple Human Status Analysis and Identification　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    T.S.Chen; Cheng Zhang; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2018
  • A Heuristic Algorithm for Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2018
  • An Incentive Mechanism of Crowdsourcing Fingerprinting for Indoor Localization with Device Heterogeneity Reduction　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    W.Li; C.Zhang; Z.Liu; Y.Tanaka
    2018 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2018
  • Cost- and energy-aware multi-flow mobile data offloading using Markov decision process
    Cheng Zhang; Bo Gu; Zhi Liu; Kyoko Yamori; Yoshiaki Tanaka, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication, Engineers, IEICE
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, 01 Mar. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Wireless LAN access point deployment and pricing with location-based advertising
    Cheng Zhang; Zhi Liu; Bo Gu; Kyoko Yamori; Yoshiaki Tanaka, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2017, 12 Jan. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Water-Filling Power Allocation Algorithm for Joint Utility Optimization in Femtocell Networks
    Bo Gu; Mianxiong Dong; Zhi Liu; Cheng Zhang; Yoshiaki Tanaka, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2017 - Proceedings, 10 Jan. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • A stackelberg game based pricing and user association for spectrum splitting macro-femto HetNets
    Bo Gu; Zhi Liu; Cheng Zhang; Kyoko Yamori; Osamu Mizuno; Yoshiaki Tanaka, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication, Engineers, IEICE
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, 01 Jan. 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Cost- and Energy-Aware Multi-Flow Mobile Data Offloading under Time Dependent Pricing
    Cheng Zhang; Z. Liu; B.Gu; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka, Lead
    The 9th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT 2017), Nov. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Duopoly Price Competition in Secondary Spectrum Markets
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z. Liu; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    The 9th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT 2017), Nov. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Pricing Wireless Service with MVNO Participation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    F.Taniguchi; K.Yamori; Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; and Y.Tanaka
    The 19th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2017), Sep. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Utility-Awared Pricing in Femto-Macro Heterogenous Networks　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Z.Liu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; O.Mizuno; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2017
  • Error Correction for Distance Detection in Indoor Visual Positioning Using SVR and SVM　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    T.Chen; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2017
  • Time-To-Live Based Caching Mechanism with Nonlinear Pricing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang, Richar; T.B.Ma; Z.Liu; B.Gu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2017
  • Topology Mapping for Caching Decision in Topology-known Content-Centric Network　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; S.Ishihara; Cheng Zhang; B.Gu, Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2017
  • Challenges in developing a robotic assistive eating device for frail elderly’s independent life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jorge Solis; Ann-Louise Lindborg; Miki SaijoTakeda Yukiko; Cheng Zhang; Takeda Ryuta, This project aims at making a mock-up of a multi grip tool for a robotic assistive device and a camera system which enable frail elderly to live more in-dependently and to keep track of their food intake. The robot will be developed through user centered design with analyses of real use cases in Japan and Sweden. Thanks to the collaborating researchers with a strong applied research approach as well as the companies with a strong experience in engineering solutions in both the Japanese and Swedish teams, the functionalities of Bestic, an assistive eating device, could be enhanced for commercial use, and distributed to munici-palities and to the general pub.
    26IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Lisbon Portugal, Aug. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Japan-Sweden Academia-Industry International Collaboration: Challenges in Developing a Robotic Assistive eating device for frail elderly's independent life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jorge Solis; Ann-Louise Lindborg; Miki SaijoTakeda Yukiko; Cheng Zhang; Takeda Ryuta, This project aims at making a mock-up of a multi grip tool for a robotic assistive device and a camera system which enable frail elderly to live more independently and to keep track of their food intake. The robot will be developed through user centred design with analyses of real use cases in Japan and Sweden. Thanks to the collaborating researchers with a strong applied research approach as well as the companies with a strong experience in engineering solutions in both the Japanese and Swedish teams, the functionalities of Bestic, an assistive eating device, could be enhanced for commercial use, and distributed to municipalities and to the general public.
    JST-VINNOVA Japan-Sweden Academia-Industry International Collaboration Program on Innovative Solutions, Community Design and Services for Elderly People, Aug. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Design approach of a robotic assistive eating device with a multi-grip and camera for frail elderly's independent life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ann-Louise Lindborg; Jorge Solis; Saijo Miki; Takeda Yukiko; Cheng Zhang; Takeda Ryuta, This project aims at making a mock-up of a multi grip tool for a robotic assistive device and a camera system which enable frail elderly to live more independently and to keep track
    ,of their food intake. The robot will be developed through user centred design with analyses of real use cases in Japan and Sweden. Thanks to the collaborating researchers with a strong applied research approach as well as the companies with a strongexper
    ,ience in engineering solutions in both the Japanese and Swedish teams, the functionalities of Bestic, an assistive eating device, could be enhanced for commercial use, and distributed to municipalities and to the general public.
    JST-VINNOVA Japan-SwedenAcademia-Industry International Collaboration Program on Innovative Solutions, Community Design and Services for Elderly People, May 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Design approach of a robotic assistive eating device with a multi-grip and camera for frail elderly's independent life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ann-Louise Lindborg; Jorge Solis; Saijo Miki; Takeda Yukiko; Cheng Zhang; Takeda Ryuta, This project aims at making a mock-up of a multi grip tool for a robotic assistive device and a camera system which enable frail elderly to live more independently and to keep track
    ,of their food intake. The robot will be developed through user centred design with analyses of real use cases in Japan and Sweden. Thanks to the collaborating researchers with a strong applied research approach as well as the companies with a strong experience in engineering solutions in both the Japanese and Swedish teams, the functionalities of Bestic, an assistive eating device, could be enhanced for commercial use, and distributed to municipalities and to the general public.
    ICRA 2017 Workshop on Advances and challenges on the development, testing and assessment of assistive and rehabilitation robots: Experiences from engineering and human science research, May 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Economic Analysis of Carrier-grade Wireless Local Area Network Deployment　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng.Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality, Apr. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Network Selection for Content Distribution in Cache-enabled Vehicle IoT　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; Cheng .Zhang; B.Gu, Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2017
  • Coordinate-based Location Calculation with Abandon Type Obstacle Avoidance　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    T.S.Chen; Cheng Zhang; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2017
  • Pricing for Internet of Things Service Provider with Cloud Service Provider’s Participation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2017
  • A User-Centric Pricing Scheme in Femto-Macro HetNets　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; O.Mizuno; Y.Tanaka
    2017 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2017
  • MVNOにおける上位クラスサービスの導入と最適料　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    谷口文隆; 矢守恭子; 張成,古博; 田中良明
    2017年電子情報通信学会総合大会, Mar. 2017
  • Fast-Start Video Delivery in Future Internet Architectures with Intra-domain Caching
    Zhi Liu; Mianxiong Dong; Bo Gu; Cheng Zhang; Yusheng Ji; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS, Feb. 2017
  • Markov-Decision-Process-Assisted Consumer Scheduling in a Networked Smart Grid
    Zhi Liu; Cheng Zhang; Mianxiong Dong; Bo Gu; Yusheng Ji; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    IEEE ACCESS, 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Femtocell Deployment from an Economics Perspective　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng.Zhang; Z.Liu; O. Mizuno; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality, Jan. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • MVNOへの上位クラス導入とその効果　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    谷口文隆; 矢守恭子; 張成,古博; 田中良明
    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, Jan. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Markov Decision Process Assisted User Multi-flow Mobile Data Offloading　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng.Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality, Jan. 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Real-Time Pricing for On-Demand Bandwidth Reservation in SDN-Enabled Networks
    Bo Gu; Mianxiong Dong; Cheng Zhang; Zhi Liu; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    2017 14TH IEEE ANNUAL CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING CONFERENCE (CCNC), 2017, [Reviewed]
  • A Stackelberg Game Based Analysis for Interactions among Internet Service Provider, Content Provider, and Advertisers
    Cheng Zhang; Bo Gu; Zhi Liu; Kyoko Yamori; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    2017 14TH IEEE ANNUAL CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING CONFERENCE (CCNC), 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Pricing and Service Differentiation in OpenFlow and SDN　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2016
  • Coordinate-based Location Calculation Using Weighted Arithmetic Mean　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    T.Chen; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2016
  • Joint Pricing and Load Balancing for Distributed Cloud Data Centres　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2016
  • Popularity-aware Caching in Content Centric Network Considering Video Drop Ratio　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang, Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2016
  • Pricing for Monopolistic Internet of Things Service Provider　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2016
  • Multi-Camera Based Object-Retrieving by Integrating Electronic Signals
    T.Chen; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    The 31st International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2016),, Jul. 2016, [Reviewed]
  • OTTサービスにおけるCPとISPの公平な利益分配　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    谷口文隆; 矢守恭子; 張成,古博; 田中良明
    電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, Jul. 2016, [Reviewed]
  • Impact of Item Popularity and Chunk Popularity in CCN Caching Management
    Liu Zhi; Dong mianxiong; Gu Bo; Cheng Zhang; Ji Yusheng; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    The 18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) 2016, May 2016, [Reviewed]
  • Intelligent Bandwidth Consumption Scheduler Considering the Connectivity of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Users' Preferences　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Economic Analysis of Mobile Data Offloading Cooperation Market　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Optimal Pricing Strategy for Service Provisioning in the Monopoly Cloud Context with Heterogeneous Users　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Intra-Domain Video Caching in Content Centric Network with Normalized Popularity　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang, Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    2016 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • 協力モバイルデータオフロード市場分析　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    林珊婷; 張成; 田中良明
    電子情報通信学会東京 支部学生会研究発表会, Mar. 2016
  • Intelligent Bandwidth Consumption Scheduler Considering the Connectivity of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Users' Preferences
    Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Liu Zhi; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Economic Analysis of Mobile Data Offloading Cooperation Market
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Liu Zhi; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Optimal Pricing Strategy for Service Provisioning in the Monopoly Cloud Context with Heterogeneous Users
    Li Xianwei; Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • Intra-Domain Video Caching in Content Centric Network with Normalized Popularity
    Liu Zhi; Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Ji Yusheng; Tanaka Yoshiaki, Recently Content Centric Network (CCN) is proposed as an alternative of the future network architecture since the current TCP/IP based network is suffering from the usage of IP. The routers in CCN have the caching abilities and the caching strategies affect the system performance greatly. Popularity-aware video caching draws much attentions due to its good performance, and the popularity is calculated based on the number of requests at the video content level. In this paper, we normalize the video popularity when we design the caching policy by taking the video size into consideration and the simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better performance comparing with the state-of-the-art caching policy in terms of server hit rate.
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2016
  • A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cost-and Energy-Aware Mobile Data Offloading
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Liu Zhi; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    The 18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2016, [Reviewed]
  • Facilitating Incentive-Compatible Access Probability Selection in Wireless Random Access Networks
    Bo Gu; Cheng Zhang; Kyoko Yamori; Zhenyu Zhou; Song Liu; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, Nov. 2015
  • Pricing in Pay-per-View Video System for Content Provider Profit Maximization　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Z.Liu; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; X.Wang, Y.Ji; Y.Tanaka
    2015 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015
  • Price-Based Access Probability Control for Slotted-Aloha Random Access MAC Protocols　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2015 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015
  • Pricing for Revenue Maximization in a Monopoly Cloud Market with Delay Sensitive Users　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2015 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015
  • Economic Analysis of Oligopoly Mobile Data Offloading Market
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Liu Zhi; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the Society Conference of IEICE, Aug. 2015
  • Price-Based Access Probability Control for Slotted-Aloha Random Access MAC Protocols
    Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Liu Zhi; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the Society Conference of IEICE, Aug. 2015
  • Pricing for Revenue Maximization in a Monopoly Cloud Market with Delay Sensitive Users
    Li Xianwei; Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the Society Conference of IEICE, Aug. 2015
  • Pricing in Pay-per-View Video System for Content Provider Profit Maximization
    Liu Zhi; Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Wang Xiaoyan; Ji Yusheng; Tanaka Yoshiaki, Pay-per-view video is now becoming a successful business model which charges every video subscription. The content provider's profit is subscription fee paid by users minus maintenance cost and transmission fee paid to network service provider. Given content provider's capacity is limited, and video requests vary in time domain, how to price the different video to maximize the profit is important for content provider. In this paper, we targets the pay-per-view video system, where the same video at different quality levels are provided for subscribers. A profit optimization problem is formulated taking the system cost into consideration. Simulation results show its superior performance over the scheme without applying the pricing schemes. We can also observe the optimal capacity the content provider should provide in typical situations.
    Proceedings of the Society Conference of IEICE, Aug. 2015
  • Regulating network traffic by exploiting the price elasticity of demand in wireless random access networks
    Gu; Bo; Zhang; Cheng; Yamori; Kyoko; Yamori; Kyoko; Zhou; Zhenyu; Liu; Song; Tanaka; Yoshiaki; Tanaka; Yoshiaki
    2015 10th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies, APSITT 2015, Aug. 2015
  • Optimal Pricing for Revenue Maximization in Duopoly Cloud Computing (Poster Presentation)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng.Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Communication Quality, Jul. 2015, [Reviewed]
  • A Novel Stackelberg-Bertrand Game Model For Pricing Content Provider
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Yamori Kyoko; Xu Sugang; Tanaka Yoshiaki, Lead
    MOBIMEDIA 2015, May 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Price and Time Guarantee for Cloud Service Delivery　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2015 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2015
  • Economic Analysis of Oligopoly Mobile Data Offloading Market　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; Z.Liu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2015 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2015
  • Price and Time Guarantee for Cloud Service Delivery
    Li Xianwei; Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Feb. 2015
  • Learning Automaton Based Algorithm for Time-Dependent Pricing under Oligopoly Network Service Providers Market
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Yamori Kyoko; Xu Sugang; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Feb. 2015
  • Effect of Time-Dependent Pricing on the Congestion Management Practices of ISPs
    Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Liu Song; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    Proceedings of the IEICE General Conference, Feb. 2015
  • Oligopoly Competition in Time-Dependent Pricing for Improving Revenue of Network Service Providers with Complete and Incomplete Information
    Cheng Zhang; Bo Gu; Kyoko Yamori; Sugang Xu; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, Jan. 2015
  • Time-Dependent Pricing for Mitigating Fluctuation of Data Traffic Demand　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng.Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Liu; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Communication Qualit, Jan. 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Inter-Domain Popularity-aware Video Caching in Future Internet Architectures
    Zhi Liu; Mianxiong Dong; Bo Gu; Cheng Zhang; Yusheng Ji; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Oligopoly Competition in Time-Dependent Pricing for Improving Revenue of Network Service Providers Considering Different QoS Functions
    Cheng Zhang; Bo Gu; Zhi Liu; Kyoko Yamori; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    2015 17TH ASIA-PACIFIC NETWORK OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM APNOMS, 2015
  • Revenue Management in IaaS Cloud Computing with Reserved Pricing Scheme　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    X.Li; B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2014 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2014
  • Pricing Content Provider Considering Advertisers' Participation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2014 IEICE General Conference, Sep. 2014
  • Price Competition between Content Provider and Internet Service Provider　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2014 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2014
  • Incentive Engineering in Wireless Random Access Networks　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2014 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2014
  • Price Competition in a Duopoly IaaS Cloud Market
    X.Li; B.Gu; Zhang Cheng; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    The 16th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2014), Sep. 2014, [Reviewed]
  • Integration of Discounting Service with Admission Control for Flattening out Peak-Time Usage　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    B.Gu; Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; Y.Tanaka
    2014 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2014
  • Duopoly Competition in Time-Dependent Pricing for Improving Revenue of Network Service Providers
    Cheng Zhang; Bo Gu; Kyoko Yamori; Sugang Xu; Yoshiaki Tanaka
    IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, Dec. 2013
  • Price Competition between Content Provider and Internet Service Provider　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; B.Gu; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2013 IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2013
  • Time-Dependent Pricing for Revenue Maximization of Network Service Providers Considering Users Preference
    Zhang Cheng; Gu Bo; Xu Sugang; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    15th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium:Hiroshima Japan 2013, Sep. 2013, [Reviewed]
  • Distributed Connection Admission Control Integrated With Pricing for QoS Provisioning and Revenue Maximization in Wireless Random Access Networks
    Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Tanaka Yoshiaki
    15th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium: Hiroshima Japan, Sep. 2013, [Reviewed]
  • A Greedy Algorithm for Connection Admission Control in Wireless Random Access Networks
    B.Gu; Zhang Cheng; K.Yamori; and Y.Tanaka
    The 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2013), Aug. 2013, [Reviewed]
  • A Time-Dependent Pricing Scheme in Stochastic Environment　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2013 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2013
  • Time-Dependent Pricing for Revenue Maximization　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2012 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2012
  • Forward Contract to Solve Demand and Revenue Uncertainty Problem in Network Congestion Management　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2012 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2012
  • Utility-Based Load Distribution for QoS Provisioning and Utility Maximization in Wirekess Random Access Netwoeks
    Gu Bo; Zhang Cheng; Yamori Kyoko; Xu SugangTanaka Yoshiaki
    2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology,Chengdu,China.2012, 2012, [Reviewed]
  • Congestion-Based Pricing in Differentiated Service Network　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2011 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2011
  • Dutch Auction for Network Congestion Control　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng.Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    IEICE Technical Report on Network Systems, May 2011, [Reviewed]
  • Comparison between Dutch-Auction Congestion Pricing and Gradient Projection Congestion Pricing　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2011 IEICE General Conference, Mar. 2011
  • A Dutch-Auction Pricing Mechanism for Network Congestion Control　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Cheng Zhang; K.Yamori; S.Xu; Y.Tanaka
    2010 IEICE Communications Society Conference, Sep. 2010
  • Near Space Temperature Prediction Model Based on RBF Neural Network　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Zhang Cheng; Qu Weidong
    Control Engineering of China, 2008, [Reviewed]

Books and other publications

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

Courses

  • 実体情報学特論　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2020
    早稲田大学
  • Computer Simualtions　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2019
    芝浦工業大学
  • Embedded Systems　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2019
    芝浦工業大学

Affiliated academic society

  • IPSJ
  • IEICE
  • IEEE

Research Themes

  • Design and Implementation of Caching and Premium Peering Mechanisms for Internet Services Providers　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists
    Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023
  • Robotic Assistive Device with Multi-grip Tools and Vision System for Frail Elderly’s Independent Life　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2019
  • Oligopoly Mobile Data Offloading Market Analysis and Intelligent Network Selection System
    Young Research (B)
    Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018

Social Contribution Activities

  • 牛久高校 模擬授業　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    lecturer
    21 Oct. 2021 - 21 Oct. 2021

Academic Contribution Activities