Publications

Main Publications

Colby students are in bold.

  1. Kristina Striegnitz, Valerie Barr, Andrea Tartaro, Bruce Maxwell, Ying Li, Stephanie R. Taylor, and Nick Webb. Initial Development & Assessment of a Video Library for Teaching Foundational Computing Concepts in Non-Computer Science Classes. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ. June 2026. [doi: 10.1145/3819076]
  2. Y. Li, N. Selva and R. Zhu. Energy-Aware Multi-Agent K-hop Proximal Policy Optimization for Mission-Oriented Drone Networks. 2025 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025), August 2025 [doi: 10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11133940]
  3. C. Li and Y. Li. Scaling up Energy-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Mission-Oriented Drone Networks with Individual Reward. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 2024 [doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2024.3511253]
  4. Y. Li, C. Li, J. Chen, and C. Roinou. Energy-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Execution in Mission-Oriented Drone Networks. The 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2022), July 2022 [doi: 10.1109/ICCCN54977.2022.9868945]
  5. Y. Li and C. Liang. Energy-aware Trajectory Planning Model for Mission-oriented Drone Networks. The 15th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2021), April 2021 [doi:10.1109/SysCon48628.2021.9447109]
  6. Y. Li, S. Hassairi, T. Satloff, E. Burns, C.P. Majgaard, and C. Liang. Energy Efficient Strategy for Uninterrupted Mission Execution via Automatic Drone Replacement. The 14th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2020), August 2020 [doi: 10.1109/SysCon47679.2020.9275880]
  7. C. Liang, C. Liu, Y. Li, and Z. Liang. Erasure Coding Based Efficient Communication for Internet of Things. The 14th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2020), August 2020 [dio: 10.1109/SysCon47679.2020.9275842]
  8. Y. Li and R. Bartos. Connectedness-Aware Copy-Adaptive Routing Protocol in Intermittently Connected Networks. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Volume 25, Issue 3, [doi: 10.1007/s10776-019-00433-y]
  9. Y. Li, R. Bartos, and C. Liang. Are Containers Coupled with NetEm a Reliable Tool for Performance Study of Network Protocols? The 50th Annual IEEE Region 3 Southeast Conference (IEEE SoutheastCon 2019), April 2019 [doi: 10.1109/SoutheastCon42311.2019.9020466]
  10. C. Liang, C. Liu, and Y. Li. Discovering Messengers with Erasure Coding for Communication in Wireless Ad hoc Networks. The 16th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2019), January 2019. [doi:10.1109/CCNC.2019.8651824]
  11. Y. Li and R. Bartos. Interaction Based Routing Algorithm for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks. The 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017), January 2017. [doi:10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983157]
  12. Y. Li and R. Bartos. Efficient regional information dissemination protocol for intermittently connected mobile wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of The 47th Annual IEEE Region 3 South East Conference (IEEE SoutheastCon 2016), March 2016. [doi: 10.1109/SECON.2016.7506745]
  13. Y. Li and R. Bartos. CACAR: Connectedness-aware copy-adaptive routing scheme for intermittently connected wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2016), January 2016. [doi: 10.1145/2833312.2833459]
  14. Y. Li, R. Bartos and M. Charpentier. Performance analysis of local algorithms in large-scale disconnected networks. In Proceedings of The 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2015), January 2015. [doi: 10.1109/CCNC.2015.7158014]
  15. Y. Li, B. Noseworthy, J. Laird, T. Winters and T. Carlin. A study of precision of hardware time stamping packet traces. In Proceedings of The International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication (ISPCS 2014), September 2014. [doi: 10.1109/ISPCS.2014.6948700]
  16. Y. Li and R. Bartos, and J. Swan. Dacksis: An efficient transport protocol with acknowledgment-assisted storage management for intermittently connected wireless sensor networks. Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 13, August 2014 [doi: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.03.003]
  17. Y. Li and R. Bartos. A survey of protocols for intermittently connected delay-tolerant wireless sensor networks. Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Volume 41, May 2014, ISSN 1084-8045. [doi: 10.1016/j.jnca.2013.10.003]
  18. Y. Li and R. Bartos. Energy efficient reactive store-and-forward protocol for intermittently connected networks. In Proceedings of The IEEE Conference on Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), December 2013. [doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831131]
  19. Y. Li, R. Bartos, and J. Swan. Transport protocol with acknowledgement-assisted storage management for intermittently connected wireless sensor networks. Distributed Computing and Networking, volume 7730 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. [doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35668-1_5]
  20. M. Charpentier, R. Bartos, and Y. Li. Local algorithms for robust mission realization in large-scale disconnected networks. In Proceedings of The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2012),August 2012.[doi: 10.1109/NCA.2012.48]
  21. M. Charpentier, R. Bartos, and Y. Li. Interaction patterns for resilient intermittently-connected static sensor networks. In Proceedings of The IEEE Conference on Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2010), October 2010. [doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680441]

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