Aaron Ding, PhD

Director, & H2020 SPATIAL (€5M)
Associate Professor (Ius Promovendi), TU Delft
Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on IoT
Editorial Board, IEEE Journal OJ-ITS
Editorial Board, Springer Nature Computing
Founder, ACM EdgeSys

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Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl



Publication Highlight

 "Originality, Significance, Rigour - pick 3." -- Jon Crowcroft

  1. "Approximate Edge AI for Autonomous Driving Services" IEEE COMST 2023
  2. "Roadmap for Edge AI" ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2022
  3. "Bias in Automated Speaker Recognition" ACM FAccT 2022
  4. "Bridging the Gap Between Internet Standardization and Networking Research" ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2014
  5. "Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Offloading for Smartphones" IEEE SECON 2013

Best paper awards & recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, EdgeSys, IoT, SenSys and IEEE CVPR, INFOCOM

Co-Authors

Jon Crowcroft, Henning Schulzrinne, Sasu Tarkoma, Jörg Ott, Marijn Janssen, Bart van Arem, Pan Hui, Schahram Dustdar, Serge Hoogendoorn, Eyal de Lara, Richard Mortier, Aravind Srinivasan, Ahmed Helmy, Vassilis Kostakos, Jukka Manner, Fahim Kawsar, Atte Oksanen, Jan Rellermeyer, Weixiong Rao, Jari Nurmi, Martijn Warnier, Dirk Kutscher, Petteri Nurmi, Mark de Reuver, Yang Chen, Yong Li, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Bo Han, Huber Flores, Chenren Xu, Blesson Varghese, Yu Xiao, Geerten van de Kaa, Xiang Su, Madhusanka Liyanage, Kun Zhang, Diego Perino, Babak Alipour, Eemil Lagerspetz, Jouni Korhonen, Anders Lindgren, Akhil Mathur, Nicklas Beijar, Nitinder Mohan, Roberto Morabito, Michael Haus, Ilpo Järvinen, Vittorio Cozzolino, Hannu Flinck, Markku Kojo, Teemu Savolainen, Markus Isomäki, Aki Nyrhinen, Alexey Kirichenko, Leonardo Tonetto

Full Publication List

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 ACM Proceedings

  1. EdgeSys '24: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Atakan Aral, Volker Hilt (eds.)
    ISBN: 979-8-4007-0539-7, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 22 April 2024.
  2. EdgeSys '23: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Ella Peltonen, Volker Hilt (eds.)
    ISBN: 979-8-4007-0082-8, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 8 May 2023.
  3. EdgeSys '22: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Volker Hilt (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-9253-2, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 5 April 2022.
  4. EdgeSys '21: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Richard Mortier (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-8291-5, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 26 April 2021.
  5. EdgeSys '20: Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Richard Mortier (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-7132-2, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 27 April 2020.
  6. EdgeSys '19: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Richard Mortier (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-6275-7, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 25 March 2019.
  7. EdgeSys '18: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking
    Aaron Ding, Richard Mortier (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-5837-8, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, June 10, 2018.
  8. MobiSys PhD '14: Proceedings of the 2014 MobiSys PhD Forum
    Aaron Ding, Aarathi Prasad, Andrius Aucinas, Ardalan Amiri Sani (eds.)
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-2940-8, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United States, 16 June, 2014.

 Journal Articles and Books

  1. "Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges"
    T Meuser, L Loven, M Bhuyan, S Patil, S Dustdar, A Aral, S Bayhan, C Becker, E de Lara, Aaron Ding, J Edinger, J Gross, N Mohan, A Pimentel, E Riviere, H Schulzrinne, P Simoens, G Solmaz, M Welzl.
    IEEE Internet Computing (Impact Factor: 3.7), 2024.
  2. "Understanding Work Rhythms in Software Development and Their Effects on Technical Performance"
    Jiayun Zhang, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Aaron Ding
    IET Wiley Software (Impact Factor: 1.6), 2024.
  3. "Adaptive Approximate Computing in Edge AI and IoT Applications"
    Hans Damsgaard, A. Grenier, Dewant Katare, Z. Taufique, Salar Shakibhamedan, T. Troccoli, G. Chatzitsompanis, A. Kanduri, A. Ometov, Aaron Ding, Nima Taherinejad, Georgios Karakonstantis, Roger Woods, Jari Nurmi
    Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (Impact Factor: 4.5), Volume 150, 2024.
  4. "Approximate Edge AI for Energy Efficient Autonomous Driving Services"
    Dewant Katare, Diego Perino, Jari Nurmi, Martijn Warnier, Marijn Janssen, Aaron Ding
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (Impact Factor: 35.6), Volume 25, Issue 4, 2023.
  5. "Bias Propagation in On-device Machine Learning Workflows"
    Wiebke Toussaint, Akhil Mathur, Fahim Kawsar, Aaron Ding
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (Impact Factor: 4.4), Volume 32, Issue 6, 2023.
  6. "Engaging the Crowd in Sensing for Smart Mobility"
    Mirjam van Den Boogert, Aaron Ding
    IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (Impact Factor: 4.6), Volume 4, 2023.
  7. "DeepPick: A Deep Learning Approach to Unveil Outstanding Users Ranking with Public Attainable Features"
    Wanda Li, Zhiwei Xu, Yi Sun, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Aaron Ding, Xin Wang, Pan Hui
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Impact Factor: 9.235), Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023.
  8. "Nimbus: Towards Latency-Energy Efficient Task Offloading for AR Services"
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Leonardo Tonetto, Nitinder Mohan, Aaron Ding, Joerg Ott.
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (Impact Factor: 6.5), Volume 11, Issue 2, 2023.
  9. "Social-aware Federated Learning: Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Data Training"
    A. Ottun, P. C. Mane, Z. Yin, S. Paul, M. Liyanage, Jason Pridmore, Aaron Ding, R. Sharma, P. Nurmi, Huber Flores.
    IEEE Internet Computing (Impact Factor: 5.277), Volume 27, Issue 2, 2023.
  10. "Roadmap for Edge AI: A Dagstuhl Perspective"
    Aaron Ding, Ella Peltonen, Tobias Meuser, et al.
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Impact Factor: 2.712), Volume 52, Issue 1, 2022.
  11. "The Many Faces of Edge Intelligence"
    Ella Peltonen, Ahmad Ijaz, Atakan Aral, Michele Capobianco, Aaron Ding, et al.
    IEEE Access (Impact Factor: 3.9), Volume 10, 2022.
  12. "Structural Hole Theory in Social Network Analysis: A Review"
    Zihang Lin, Yuwei Zhang, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Atte Oksanen, Aaron Ding
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (Impact Factor: 6.1), Volume 9, Issue 3, 2022.
  13. "Will Algorithms Blind People? The Effect of Explainable AI on AI-supported Decision-Making in Government"
    Marijn Janssen, Martijn Hartog, Ricardo Matheus, Aaron Ding, George Kuk
    Social Science Computer Review (Impact Factor: 4.7), Volume 40, Issue 2, 2022.
  14. "AMSense: How Mobile Sensing Platforms Capture Pedestrian/Cyclist Spatiotemporal Properties in Cities"
    Alphonse Vial, Winnie Daamen, Aaron Ding, Bart van Arem, Serge Hoogendoorn
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (Impact Factor: 5.293), Volume 14, Issue 1, 2022.
  15. "Contact Duration: Intricacies of Human Mobility"
    Leonardo Tonetto, Malintha Adikari, Nitinder Mohan, Aaron Ding, Joerg Ott.
    Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media (Impact Factor: 3.79), Volume 28, 2022.
  16. "Revisiting the Arguments for Edge Computing Research"
    Blesson Varghese, Eyal de Lara, Aaron Ding, et al.
    IEEE Internet Computing (Impact Factor: 5.277), Volume 25, Issue 5, 2021.
  17. "Transfer Learning-Based Outdoor Position Recovery with Cellular Data"
    Yige Zhang, Aaron Ding, Joerg Ott, Mingxuan Yuan, Jia Zeng, Kun Zhang, Weixiong Rao
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Impact Factor: 7,9), Volume 20, Issue 5, 2021.
  18. "Context-dependent Trade-offs around Platform-to-platform Openness: The Case of the Internet of Things"
    Lars Mosterd, Vladimir Sobota, Geerten van de Kaa, Aaron Ding, Mark de Reuver
    Elsevier Technovation (Impact Factor: 12.5), Volume 108, 2021.
  19. "The Mobility Laws of Location-Based Games"
    Leonardo Tonetto, Eemil Lagerspetz, Aaron Ding, Joerg Ott, Sasu Tarkoma, Petteri Nurmi
    EPJ Data Science (Impact Factor: 6.43), Volume 10, Issue 10, 2021.
  20. "Driving forces for Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) IoT integration in 5G"
    Madhusanka Liyanage, Pawani Porambage, Aaron Ding, Anshuman Kalla
    Elsevier ICT Express (Impact Factor: 4.317), Volume 7, Issue 2, 2021.
  21. "Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States"
    Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen, Qingyuuan Gong, Aaron Ding, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui
    IEEE Software (Impact Factor: 4.043), Volume 38, Issue 2, 2021.
  22. "IoT-KEEPER: Detecting Malicious IoT Network Activity using Online Traffic Analysis at the Edge"
    Ibbad Hafeez, Markku Antikainen, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (Impact Factor: 6.723), Volume 17, Issue 1, 2020.
  23. "Enhancing the Internet of Things with Knowledge-Driven Software-Defined Networking Technology: Future Perspectives"
    Yuhong Li, Xiang Su, Aaron Ding, Anders Lindgren, et al.
    Sensors (Impact Factor: 4.019), Volume 20, Issue 12, 2020.
  24. "MEC and Cloud Security"
    Aaron Ding
    ISBN 9781119471509, 2019.
  25. "Consolidate IoT Edge Computing with Lightweight Virtualization"
    Roberto Morabito, Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Nicklas Beijar, Jörg Ott
    IEEE Network (Impact Factor: 11.729), Volume 32, Issue 1, 2018.
  26. "Security and Privacy in Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication: A Review"   (corresponding author)
    Michael Haus, Muhammad Waqas, Aaron Ding, Yong Li, Sasu Tarkoma, Joerg Ott
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (Impact Factor: 35.6), Volume 19, Issue 2, 2017.
  27. "Collaborative Traffic Offloading for Mobile Systems"
    Aaron Ding
    ISBN 9789515117618, 2015.
  28. "Bridging the Gap Between Internet Standardization and Networking Research"    ACM SIGCOMM Best of CCR Award
    Aaron Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Markku Kojo, Jörg Ott, Sasu Tarkoma, Jon Crowcroft
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Impact Factor: 3.111), Volume 44, No. 1, 2014.
  29. "Energy Awareness in Mobile Traffic Offloading"
    Aaron Ding, Jon Crowcroft
    ISBN 9781107042339, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  30. "Software Defined Networking for Security Enhancement in Wireless Mobile Networks"    Tribute to Leonard Kleinrock
    Aaron Ding, Jon Crowcroft, Sasu Tarkoma, Hannu Flinck
    Computer Networks (Impact Factor: 5.6), Volume 66, 2014.
  31. "Toward Network Controlled IP Traffic Offloading"
    Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Aaron Ding, Markku Kojo
    IEEE Communications Magazine (Impact Factor: 14.894), Volume 51, Issue 3, 2013.

 Peer-reviewed Conference and Workshop Proceedings

  1. "Test-time Specialization of Dynamic Neural Networks" (Full Paper)     Best Paper Award
    Sam Leroux, Dewant Katare, Aaron Ding, Pieter Simoens
    IEEE CVPR MAT 2024, Seattle, USA.
  2. "Dissecting the Applicability of HTTP/3 in Content Delivery Networks" (Full Paper)
    Mengying Zhou, Yang Chen, Shihan Lin, Xin Wang, Bingyang Liu, Aaron Ding
    IEEE ICDCS 2024, New Jersey, USA.
  3. "SPATIAL Architecture: Gauging and Monitoring the AI Inference Capabilities of Modern Applications" (Full Paper)
    Abdul-Rasheed Ottun, SPATIAL Consortium, Aaron Ding, Huber Flores
    IEEE ICDCS 2024, New Jersey, USA.
  4. "As Biased as You Measure: Methodological Pitfalls of Bias Evaluations in Speaker Verification Research" (Full Paper)
    Wiebke Toussaint, Tanvina Patel, Aaron Ding, Odette Scharenborg
    INTERSPEECH 2024, Kos Island, Greece.
  5. "Charting the Path to SBOM Adoption: A Business Stakeholder-Centric Approach" (Full Paper)
    Berend Kloeg, Aaron Ding, Sjoerd Pellegrom, Yury Zhauniarovich
    ACM ASIACCS 2024, Singapore.
  6. "XAI for Accountable MI Detection in IoT Emergency Communication Systems" (Full Paper)     Best Paper Runner-up
    Helene Knof, Prachi Bagave, Michell Boerger, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Aaron Ding
    ACM IoT 2023, Nagoya, Japan.
  7. "Lessons in Prevention and Cure: A User Study of Recovery from Flubot Smartphone Malware" (Full Paper)
    Artur Geers, Aaron Ding, Carlos Hernandez Ganan, Simon Parkin
    ACM EuroUSEC 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  8. "Energy-efficient Edge Approximation for Connected Vehicular Services" (Full Paper)
    Dewant Katare, Aaron Ding
    IEEE CISS 2023, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, USA.
  9. "Bias in Automated Speaker Recognition" (Full Paper)             Best PhD Paper Award
    Wiebke Toussaint, Aaron Ding
    ACM FAccT 2022, Seoul, South Korea.
  10. "Bias Detection and Generalization in AI Algorithms on Edge for Autonomous Driving" (Full Paper)
    Dewant Katare, Nicolas Kourtellis, Souneil Park, Diego Perino, Marijn Janssen, Aaron Ding
    ACM/IEEE SEC 2022, Seattle, USA.
  11. "Accountable AI for Healthcare IoT Systems" (Full Paper)
    Prachi Bagave, Marcus Westberg, Roel Dobbe, Marijn Janssen, Aaron Ding
    IEEE TPS 2022, USA.
  12. "Design Guidelines for Inclusive Speaker Verification Evaluation Datasets" (Full Paper)
    Wiebke Toussaint, Lauriane Gorce, Aaron Ding
    INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, South Korea.
  13. "Trustworthy Edge Intelligence: Insights from Voice-activated Services" (Full Paper)
    Wiebke Toussaint, Aaron Ding
    IEEE SCC 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
  14. "Where Is My Tag? Unveiling Alternative Uses of the Apple FindMy Service" (Full Paper)
    Leonardo Tonetto, Andrea Carrara, Aaron Ding, Joerg Ott
    IEEE WoWMoM 2022, Belfast, UK.
  15. "Trustworthy and Sustainable Edge AI: A Research Agenda" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Marijn Janssen, Jon Crowcroft
    IEEE TPS 2021, USA.
  16. "Characterising the Role of Pre-Processing Parameters in Audio-based Embedded Machine Learning" (Full Paper)
    Wiebke Toussaint, Akhil Mathur, Aaron Ding, Fahim Kawsar
    ACM SenSys 2021, Coimbra, Portugal.
  17. "Machine Learning Systems in the IoT: Trustworthiness Trade-offs for Edge Intelligence" (Full Paper)
    Wiebke Toussaint, Aaron Ding
    IEEE CogMI 2020, Atlanta, USA.
  18. "MirageManager: Enabling Stateful Migration for Unikernels" (Full Paper)         Best Paper Award
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Oliver Flum, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM SenSys CCIoT 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
  19. "ECCO: Edge-Cloud Chaining and Orchestration Framework for Road Context Assessment" (Full Paper)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Richard Mortier, Jörg Ott
    ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020, Sydney, Australia.
  20. "DevLoc: Seamless Device Association using Light Bulb Networks for Indoor IoT Environments" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Jörg Ott, Aaron Ding
    ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020, Sydney, Australia.
  21. "UIDS: Unikernel-based Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things" (Full Paper)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Nikolai Schwellnus, Jörg Ott, Aaron Ding
    NDSS DISS 2020, San Diego, CA, USA.
  22. "Multimodal Co-Presence Detection with Varying Spatio-Temporal Granularity" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2020, Austin, Texas, USA.
  23. "Edge Chaining Framework for Black Ice Road Fingerprinting" (Full Paper)         Best Paper Award
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM EdgeSys 2019, Dresden, Germany.
  24. "Where Are You Going Next? A Practical Multi-dimensional Look at Mobility Prediction" (Full Paper)
    Babak Alipour, Leonardo Tonetto, Roozbeh Ketabi, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott, Ahmed Helmy
    ACM MSWiM 2019, Miami, Florida, USA.
  25. "Feasibility Study of Autonomous Drone-based IoT Device Management in Indoor Environments" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Jan Krol, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM SIGCOMM MAGESys 2019, Beijing, China.
  26. "Ethical Hacking for IoT: A First Look into Bug Bounty Programs and Responsible Disclosure" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Gianluca Limon De Jesus, Marijn Janssen
    ACM ICTRS 2019, Rhodes, Greece.
  27. "LocalVLC: Augment Smart IoT Services with Practical Visible Light Communication" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    IEEE WoWMoM 2019, Washington DC, USA.
  28. "The Road Towards Private Proximity Services" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    IEEE WoWMoM 2019, Washington DC, USA.
  29. "Enhancing Indoor IoT Communication with Visible Light and Ultrasound" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Qing Wang, Juhani Toivonen, Leonardo Tonetto, Sasu Tarkoma, Jörg Ott
    IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China.
  30. "IoT Resource-aware Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing" (Poster)
    Niket Agrawal, Jan Rellermeyer, Aaron Ding
    ACM CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  31. "Flutes vs. Cellos: Analyzing Mobility-Traffic Correlations in Large WLAN Traces" (Full Paper)   Best Presentation Award
    Babak Alipour, Leonardo Tonetto, Aaron Ding, Roozbeh Ketabi, Jörg Ott, Ahmed Helmy
    IEEE INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  32. "Opportunities for Applications Using 5G Networks: Requirements, Challenges, and Outlook" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Marijn Janssen
    ACM ICTRS 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
  33. "Real-time IoT Device Activity Detection in Edge Networks" (Full Paper)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Markku Antikainen, Sasu Tarkoma
    Springer Nature NSS 2018, Hong Kong, China.
  34. "The Virtual Factory: Hologram-Enabled Control and Monitoring of Industrial IoT Devices" (Full Paper)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Oleksii Moroz, Aaron Ding
    IEEE AIVR 2018, Taichung.
  35. "Touchless Wireless Authentication via LocalVLC" (Demo)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Chenren Xu, Jörg Ott
    ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany.
  36. "Empowering Cyber-Physical Systems with FADEX" (Demo)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Richard Mortier, Dirk Kutscher, Jörg Ott
    ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany.
  37. "FADES: Fine-Grained Edge Offloading with Unikernels" (Full Paper)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM SIGCOMM HotConNet 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  38. "Managing IoT at the Edge: The Case for BLE Beacons" (Full Paper)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM MobiCom SmartObjects 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
  39. "IOTURVA: Securing Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication in IoT Networks" (Full Paper)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM MobiCom CHANTS 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
  40. "Large-scale Offloading in the Internet of Things" (Full Paper)
    Huber Flores, Xiang Su, Vassilis Kostakos, Aaron Ding, Petteri Nurmi, Sasu Tarkoma, Pan Hui, Yong Li
    IEEE PerCom PerIoT 2017, Kona, HI, USA.
  41. "Enabling Fine-Grained Edge Offloading for IoT" (Poster)
    Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott, Dirk Kutscher
    ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  42. "IoTURVA: Securing Device-to-Device Communications for IoT" (Poster)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Markku Antikainen, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM MobiCom 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
  43. "iConfig: What I See is What I Configure" (Demo)
    Michael Haus, Aaron Ding, Pan Hui, Jörg Ott
    ACM MobiCom CHANTS 2017, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
  44. "Securebox: Toward Safer and Smarter IoT Networks" (Full Paper)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Lauri Suomalainen, Alexey Kirichenko, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM CoNEXT CAN 2016, Irvine, CA, USA.
  45. "P2Hub Private Personal Data Hub for Mobile Devices" (Poster)
    Michael Haus, Vittorio Cozzolino, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott
    ACM MobiHoc 2016, Paderborn, Germany.
  46. "Securebox - A Platform to Safeguard Network Edge" (Demo)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Lauri Suomalainen, Sasu Tarkoma
    IEEE/ACM SEC 2016, Washington, DC, USA.
  47. "Vision: Augmenting WiFi Offloading with An Open-source Collaborative Platform" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Yanhe Liu, Sasu Tarkoma, Hannu Flinck, Henning Schulzrinne, Jon Crowcroft
    ACM MobiCom MCS 2015, Paris, France.
  48. "Reflections on Middlebox Detection Mechanisms in IPv6 Transition" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Yanhe Liu, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma, Henning Schulzrinne
    IAB SEMI 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
  49. "An Open-source Software Defined Platform for Collaborative and Energy-aware WiFi Offloading" (Demo)
    Aaron Ding, Yanhe Liu, Sasu Tarkoma, Hannu Flinck, Jon Crowcroft
    ACM MobiCom 2015, Paris, France.
  50. "Cloud-based Security as a Service for Smart IoT Environments" (Demo)
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Lauri Suomalainen, Seppo Hätönen, Valtteri Niemi, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM MobiCom S3 2015, Paris, France.
  51. "Software Defined 5G Mobile Backhaul" (Full Paper)
    J. Costa-Requena, R. Kantola, J. Llorente, V. Ferrer, J. Manner, Aaron Ding, Yanhe Liu, Sasu Tarkoma
    IEEE 5GU 2014, Lapland, Finland.
  52. "SoftOffload: A Programmable Approach Toward Collaborative Mobile Traffic Offloading" (Poster)
    Aaron Ding, Jon Crowcroft, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM MobiSys 2014, Bretton Woods, NH, USA.
  53. "Enabling Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones" (Full Paper, acceptance rate 18.2%)
    Aaron Ding, Bo Han, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui, A. Srinivasan, M. Kojo, S. Tarkoma
    IEEE SECON 2013, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  54. "Effect of Competing TCP Traffic on Interactive Real-time Communication" (Full Paper, acceptance rate: 32.4%)
    Ilpo Järvinen, Binoy Chemmagate, Aaron Ding, Laila Daniel, Markus Isomäki, Jouni Korhonen, Markku Kojo
    PAM 2013, Hong Kong, China.
  55. "Bridge Networking Research and Internet Standardization" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma, Jon Crowcroft
    IAB ITAT 2013, Cambridge, UK.
  56. "Supporting Low Latency near the Network Edge and with Challenging Link Technologies" (Full Paper)
    Markku Kojo, Ilpo Järvinen, Hannes Tschofening, Aaron Ding
    ISOC RIL 2013, London, UK.
  57. "Collaborative Communication and Sensing for Mobile Systems" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding
    ACM SenSys Doctoral Colloquium 2013, Rome, Italy.
  58. "CoSense: A Collaborative Sensing Platform for Mobile Devices" (Poster)
    Samuli Hemminki, Kai Zhao, Aaron Ding, Martti Rannanjarvi, Sasu Tarkoma, Petteri Nurmi
    ACM SenSys 2013, Rome, Italy.
  59. "Speeding up IPv6 transition: Discovering NAT64 and learning prefix for IPv6 address synthesis" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Teemu Savolainen, Jouni Korhonen, Markku Kojo
    IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
  60. "Harsh RED: Improving RED for Limited Aggregate Traffic" (Full Paper)
    Ilpo Järvinen, Aaron Ding, Aki Nyrhinen, Markku Kojo
    IEEE AINA 2012, Fukuoka, Japan.
  61. "Enabling Energy-aware Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones Through Vertical Collaboration" (Full Paper)
    Aaron Ding, Pan Hui, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma
    ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2012, Nice, France.
  62. "Impact of TCP on Interactive Real-Time Communication" (Full Paper)
    Ilpo Järvinen, B. Chemmagate, L. Daniel, Aaron Ding, Markku Kojo, Markus Isomäki
    IAB/IRTF CCIRTC 2012, Vancouver, Canada.
  63. "NAO: A Framework to Enable Efficient Mobile Offloading" (Poster)
    Aaron Ding, Teemu Savolainnen, Jouni Korhonen, Sasu Tarkoma, Pan Hui, Markku Kojo
    ACM Middleware 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.

 Standardization Work at IETF

  1. "Service Discovery in the Homenet Environment with Multiple Connections"
    IETF Internet Draft, 2013.
  2. "Service Discovery in a Multiple Connection Environment: Problem Statement"
    IETF Internet Draft, 2013.
  3. "Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol"
    IETF Internet Draft, 2012.
  4. "Service Discovery in Homenet with Multiple Domain: Problem Statement"
    In Proceedings of IETF-88, Internet Area, Canada, 2013.
    » Presentation at IETF, Vancouver.
  5. "MIF Service Discovery Problem Statement"
    In Proceedings of IETF-86, Internet Area, USA, 2013.
    » Presentation at IETF, Orlando.
  6. "MIF Service Discovery Problem Statement"
    In Proceedings of IETF-85, Internet Area, USA, 2012.
    » Presentation at IETF, Atlanta.
  7. "Impact of IW10 on Interactive Real-Time Communication"
    In Proceedings of IETF-84, Transport Area, Canada, 2012.
    » Presentation at IETF, Vancouver.
  8. "Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol"
    In Proceedings of IETF-83, Internet Area, France, 2012.
    » Presentation at IETF, Paris.
  9. "Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol"
    In Proceedings of IETF-82, Internet Area, 2011.
    » Presentation at IETF, Taipei.
  10. "Effect of IW and Initial RTO Changes"
    In Proceedings of IETF-79, Transport Area, Tsinghua University, China, 2010.
    » Presentation at IETF, Beijing.
  11. "A Simulation Study on Increasing TCP's IW - Preliminary Results"
    In Proceedings of IETF-78, Internet Congestion Control Research Group, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2010.
    » Presentation at IETF, Netherlands.

 Technical Publications

  1. "Roadmap for Edge AI: A Dagstuhl Perspective"
    Aaron Ding, Ella Peltonen, Tobias Meuser, Atakan Aral, Christian Becker, Schahram Dustdar, Thomas Hiessl, Dieter Kranzlmuller, Madhusanka Liyanage, Setareh Magshudi, Nitinder Mohan, Joerg Ott, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Stefan Schulte, Henning Schulzrinne, Gurkan Solmaz, Sasu Tarkoma, Blesson Varghese, Lars Wolf
    CoRR abs/2112.00616 (2021).
  2. "Identifying Key Enablers in Edge Intelligence" Dagstuhl Seminar 21342
    Aaron Ding, Ella Peltonen, Sasu Tarkoma, Lars Wolf
    Dagstuhl Reports 11(7): 76-88 (2021).
  3. "Revisiting the Arguments for Edge Computing Research"
    B. Varghese, Eyal de Lara, Aaron Ding, C. Hong, F. Bonomi, S. Dustdar, P. Harvey, P. Hewkin, W. Shi, M. Thiele, P. Willis
    CoRR abs/2106.12224 (2021).
  4. "Machine Learning Systems for Intelligent Services in the IoT: A Survey"
    Wiebke Toussaint, Aaron Ding
    CoRR abs/2006.04950 (2020).
  5. "Enabling Seamless Device Association with DevLoc using Light Bulb Networks for Indoor IoT Environments"
    Michael Haus, Jörg Ott, Aaron Ding
    CoRR abs/2005.07731 (2020).
  6. "6G White Paper on Edge AI"
    Ella Peltonen, Mehdi Bennis, Michele Capobianco, Merouane Debbah, Aaron Ding et al.
    CoRR abs/2004.14850 (2020).
  7. "Transfer Learning-Based Outdoor Position Recovery with Telco Data"
    Yige Zhang, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott, Mingxuan Yuan, Jia Zeng, Kun Zhang, Weixiong Rao
    CoRR abs/1912.04521 (2019).
  8. "Ethical Hacking for IoT Security: A First Look into Bug Bounty Programs and Responsible Disclosure"
    Aaron Ding, Gianluca Limon De Jesus, Marijn Janssen
    CoRR abs/1909.11166 (2019).
  9. "Practical Prediction of Human Movements Across Device Types and Spatiotemporal Granularities"
    Babak Alipour, Leonardo Tonetto, Roozbeh Ketabi, Aaron Ding, Jörg Ott, Ahmed Helmy
    CoRR abs/1903.00951 (2019).
  10. "IoT-KEEPER: Securing IoT Communications in Edge Networks"
    Ibbad Hafeez, Markku Antikainen, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    CoRR abs/1810.08415 (2018).
  11. "5G Applications: Requirements, Challenges, and Outlook"
    Aaron Ding, Marijn Janssen
    CoRR abs/1810.06057 (2018).
  12. "Five Driving Forces of Multi-Access Edge Computing"
    Madhusanka Liyanage, Pawani Porambage, Aaron Ding
    CoRR abs/1810.00827 (2018).
  13. "Analyzing Mobility-Traffic Correlations in Large WLAN Traces: Flutes vs. Cellos"
    Babak Alipour, Leonardo Tonetto, Aaron Ding, Roozbeh Ketabi, Jörg Ott, Ahmed Helmy
    CoRR abs/1801.02705 (2018).
  14. "Securing Edge Networks with Securebox"
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    CoRR abs/1712.07740 (2017).
  15. "Toward Secure Edge Networks: Taming Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication in IoT"
    Ibbad Hafeez, Aaron Ding, Markku Antikainen, Sasu Tarkoma
    CoRR abs/1712.05958 (2017).
  16. "Open Source Platforms, Applications and Tools for Software-Defined Networking and 5G Research"
    Lauri Suomalainen, Emad Nikkhouy, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    University of Helsinki, Technical Report, Series of Publications C-2014-2, Helsinki. Finland, 2014.
  17. "Software-Defined Networking in Mobile Access Networks"
    Yanhe Liu, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma
    University of Helsinki, Technical Report, Series of Publications C-2013-1, Helsinki. Finland, 2013.
  18. "Experimentation with Wireless Broadband Traffic Behaviour in WiBrA Project"
    Ilpo Järvinen, Binoy Chemmagate, Aaron Ding, Laila Daniel, Markku Kojo
    University of Helsinki, Technical Report, Series of Publications C-2012-19, Helsinki, Finland, 2012.

Keynotes, Panels and Invited Talks