Shao-Yu Lien

Associate Professor

Institute of Intelligent Systems,  College of Artificial Intelligence,                    

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Address: Rm. 214, Tsu-Yuan Building

                No. 301, Sec. 2, Gaofa 3rd Rd., Guiren Dist., Tainan City 711, Taiwan.

Email: sylien@nycu.edu.tw

Office Tel.:  +886-6-3032121 ext. 57914                    

Experiences

Research

• 6G Mobile Networks

• Machine Learning in Mobile and Wireless Networks

• Unmanned machine/vehicle networks

Awards

• IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2023 Best Student Paper Award

• International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) 2022 Best Paper Award

• Excellent Paper Award, College of Engineering, National Chung Cheng University 國立中正大學工學院優秀論文獎 (issued in 2022)

• Excellent Paper Award, College of Engineering, National Chung Cheng University 國立中正大學工學院優秀論文獎 (issued in 2021)

• Honorable Mention, Innovative Research Findings Competition for Young Scholars, Taiwan Comprehensive University System 臺灣綜合大學系統年輕學者創新研發成果選拔佳作獎 (issued in 2021)

• National Chung Cheng University Young Facility Award 國立中正大學青年學者獎 (issued in 2020)

• IEEE Tainan Section Best Young Professional Member Award (issued in 2019)

• IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award (issued in 2014)

• Scopus Young Researcher Award (issued by Elsevier in 2014)

• URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC) 2013 Young Research Award

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2010 Best Paper Award

Honors

• World's Top 2% Scientists 2022 全球前2%頂尖科學家2022 (both in Lifelong Science Influence Rankings 終生科學影響力排行榜 1960-2022 and in 2022 Science Impacting Rankings 2022年科學影響力排行榜) (announced by Stanford University)

• World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 全球前2%頂尖科學家2021 (both in Lifelong Science Influence Rankings 終生科學影響力排行榜 1960-2021 and in 2021 Science Impacting Rankings 2021年科學影響力排行榜) (Link1) (Link 2) (announced by Stanford University)

• World's Top 2% Scientists 2020 全球前2%頂尖科學家2020 (Link1) (Link2) (both in Lifelong Science Influence Rankings 終生科學影響力排行榜 1960-2020 and in 2020 Science Impacting Rankings 2020年科學影響力排行榜) (announced by Stanford University)

• Three IEEE papers had been listed in ESI Highly Cited Paper

• Article in IEEE Communications Magazine has been listed as IEEE ComSoc Best Reading (in Device-to-Device Communications), issued in 2016 and updated in 2018 

Publications

Book Chapters

1. S.-Y. Lien and D.-J. Deng, "Sidelink Transmissions and Proximity Services in LTE-A and Beyond," Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks, 2020.

2. S.-Y. Lien and H.-L. Tsai, "D2D in Vehicular Networks," 5G REF: The Essential 5G Reference Online, John Wiley & Sons, 2019

3. S.-Y. Lien and H. Hsu, "Chapter 18: Medium Access Control, Resource Management, and Congestion Control for M2M Systems," Key Technologies for 5G Wireless Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2017

4. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, C.-H. Zeng, H. Hsu, Q. Cui, and K.-C. Chen, "Chapter 12: Radio Resource Management of Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks," Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

5. K.-C. Chen and S.-Y. Lien, “Chapter 6: Machine-to-Machine Communications for CONASENSE,” Convergence of Communications, Navigation, Sensing, and Service, River Publisher, Jun. 2014.

6. K.-C. Chen and S.-Y. Lien, “Chapter 10: Cognitive Radio Resource Management in Autonomous Femtocell Networks,” Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Management, Cambridge University Press, Jun. 2013.

Journals

1. S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Huang, C.-C. Tseng, S.-C. Lin, S.-L. I, X. Xu, and D.-J. Deng, "Universal Vertical Application Adaptation for O-RAN: Low-Latency RIC and Autonomous Intelligent xAPP Generation," accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023. (SCI, EI)

2. S.-Y. Lien, S.-H. Yeh, and D.-J. Deng, "Optimum Splitting Computing for DNN Training Through Next Generation Smart Networks: A Multi-Tier Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," accepted by Wireless Networks, 2023. (SCI, EI)

3. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Liang, D. Niyato, and X. Shen, "Collaborative Computing in Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Multu-Time-Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023. (SCI, EI)

4. S.-C. Lin, C.-H. Lin, L.C. Chu, and S.-Y. Lien, “Enabling Resilient Access Equality for 6G LEO Satellite Swarm Networks,” accepted by IEEE Internet of Thing Magazine, 2023. (SCI, EI)

5. C. Yang, S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Liang, and D. Niyato, "Multi-Tier Deep Reinforcement Learning for Non-Terrestrial Networks," accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications, 2023 (SCI, EI)

6. S.-Y. Lien and D.-J. Deng, "Intelligent Session Management for URLLC in 5G Open Radio Access Network: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1844-1853, Feb. 2023. (SCI, EI)

7. S.-Y. Lien and D.-J. Deng, "Autonomous Non-Terrestrial Base Station Deployment for Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 10894-10909, Oct. 2022. (SCI, EI)

8. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Liang, K.-C. Chen and X. Shen, "User Access Control in Open Radio Access Networks: A Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 3721-3736, June 2022. (SCI, EI)

9. S.-Y. Lien and H.-L. Tsai, "3GPP V2X on Unlicensed Spectrum: Performance Analysis and Optimum Channel Access Strategies," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 9230-9243, Sept. 2021. (SCI, EI)

10. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien, and Y.-C. Liang, "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-User Access Control in Non-Terrestrial Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1605-1619, Mar. 2021. (SCI, EI)

11. D.-J. Deng, S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Lin, M. Gan, and H.-C. Chen, "IEEE 802.11ba Wake-Up Radio: Performance Evaluation and Practical Designs," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 141547-141557, July 2020. (SCI, EI)

12. S.-Y. Lien, D.-J. Deng, C.-C. Lin, H.-L. Tsai, T. Chen, C. Guo, and S.-M. Cheng, "3GPP NR Sidelink Transmissions Toward 5G V2X," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 35368-35382, Feb. 2020. (SCI, EI)

13. S.-Y. Lien, Y.-L. Shiau, and D.-J. Deng, "Throughput Analysis of 3GPP Licensed-Assisted Access Using Multiple Carriers," ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1596-1602, Oct. 2019. (SCI, EI)

14. D.-J. Deng, M. Gan, Y.-C. Guo, J. Yu, Y.-P. Lin, S.-Y. Lien, and K.-C. Chen, "IEEE 802.11ba: Low-Power Wake-Up Radio for Green IoT," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 106-112, July 2019. (SCI, EI)

15. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, D.-J. Deng, C.-L. Lai, and H.-L. Tsai, "Low Latency Radio Access in 3GPP Local Area Data Networks for V2X: Stochastic Optimization and Learning," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 4867-4879, Jun. 2019. (SCI, EI)

16. S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Kuo, D.-J. Deng, H.-L. Tsai, A. Vinel and A. Benslimane, "Latency-Optimal mmWave Radio Access for V2X Supporting Next Generation Driving Use Case," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 6782-6795, Dec. 2018. (SCI, EI)

17. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, and H. Hsu, "Latency Control in Edge Information Cache and Dissemination for Unmanned Mobile Machines," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 4612-4621, Oct. 2018. (SCI, EI)

18. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, D.-J. Deng, and Y.J. Wang, "Optimum Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications in 5G New Radio," ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 23, no, 4, pp. 1020-1027, Aug. 2018. (SCI, EI)

19. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, H. Hsu and D.-J. Deng, "Energy-Optimal Edge Content Cache and Dissemination: Designs for Practical Network Deployment," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 88-93, May 2018. (SCI, EI)

20. S.-Y. Lien, D.-J. Deng, H.-L. Tsai, Y.-P. Lin and K.-C. Chen, "Vehicular Radio Access to Unlicensed Spectrum," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 46-54, Dec. 2017. (SCI, EI)

21. D.-J. Deng, S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Lin, S.-C. Hung and W.-B. Chen, "Latency Control in Software Defined Edge-Mobile Vehicular Networking," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 87-93, Aug. 2017. (SCI, EI)

22. S.-Y. Lien, S.-L. Shieh, Y. Huang, B. Su, Y.-L. Hsu and H.-Y. Wei, "5G New Radio: Waveform, Frame Structure, Multiple Access, and Initial Access," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 64-71, Jun. 2017. (SCI, EI) [The 30th top accessed article in Nov. 2019, 43rd in Oct. 2019, 38th in Sep. 2019, 39th in Aug. 2019, 37th in Jul. 2019, 34th in May 2019, the 45th in Apr. 2019, the 43rd in Feb. 2019, the 36th in Jan. 2019, the 34th in Nov. 2018, the 43rd in Oct. 2018, the 23rd in Sep. 2018, the 17th in Aug. 2018, the 39th in Jul. 2018, the 39th in Jun. 2018, the 36th in Apr. 2018, the 50th in Mar. 2018, the 25th in Feb. 2018, the 28th in Jan. 2018, the 28th in Dec. 2017, the 24th in Nov. 2017, the 21st in Oct. 2017] (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

23. S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Chien, H.-L. Tsai, Y.-C. Liang and D. I. Kim, "Configurable 3GPP Licensed-Assisted Access to Unlicensed Spectrum," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 32-39, Dec. 2016. (SCI, EI)

24. S.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, K.-C. Chen, and D. I. Kim, "Resource-Optimal Licensed-Assisted Access in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks with Heterogeneous Carrier Communications," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 9915-9930, Dec. 2016. (SCI, EI)

25. S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Chien, G. Liu, H.-L. Tsai, R. Li and Y.J. Wang, "Enhanced LTE Device-to-Device Proximity Services," IEEE Communications Magazines, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 174-182, Dec. 2016. (SCI, EI)

26. D.-J. Deng, S.-Y. Lien, J. Lee and K.-C. Chen, "On Quality-of-Service Provisioning in IEEE 802.11ax WLANs," IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp. 6086-6104, Aug. 2016. (SCI, EI)

27. S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Chien, F.-M. Tseng, and T.-C. Ho, "3GPP Device-to-Device Communications for Beyond 4G Cellular Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 29-35, Mar. 2016. (SCI, EI) [The 27th top accessed article in Mar. 2016, the 30th in Apr. 2016, the 50th in May 2016] (IEEE ComSoc Best Reading)

28. S.-Y. Lien, J. Lee, and Y.-C. Liang, "Random Access Or Scheduling: Optimum LTE Licensed-Assisted Access to Unlicensed Spectrum," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 590-593, Mar. 2016. (SCI, EI) [The 32nd top accessed article in Jan. 2016, the 44th in Feb. 2016, the 7th in Mar. 2016, the 24th in Apr. 2016, the 9th in May 2016, the 20th in Jun. 2016]

29. S.-C. Hung, H. Hsu, S.-Y. Lien, and K.-C. Chen, "Architecture Harmonization between Cloud Radio Access Networks and Fog Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 3, pp. 3019-3034, Dec. 2015. (SCI, EI) [The 23rd top accessed article in Feb. 2016]

30. S.-Y. Lien, "Resource-Optimal Heterogeneous Machine-to-Machine Communications in Software Defined Networking Cyber-Physical Systems," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 2215-2239, Oct. 2015. (SCI, EI)

31. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, K.-C. Chen, and Y.-C. Liang, "Ultra-Low Latency Ubiquitous Connections in Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 22-31, Jun. 2015. (SCI, EI) [The 27th top accessed article in July 2015]

32. K.-C. Chen and S.-Y. Lien, "Machine-to-Machine Communications: Technologies and Challenges," Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 18, pp. 3-23, July 2014. (SCI, EI)

33. S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, Y.-C. Liang, and Y. Lin, "Cognitive Radio Resource Management for Future Cellular Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 70-79, Feb. 2014. (SCI, EI) [Rank 63 of top 100 documents downloaded in IEEE Xplore (all areas) in Mar. 2014, the 48th top accessed article in Jun. 2015]

34. S.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Interference Mitigation in CR-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks," IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E96-B, no. 6, pp. 1230-1242, June 2013. (SCI, EI)

35. S.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Shih, and K.-C. Chen, "Radio Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in Cyber-Physical Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1752-1761, Sep. 2012. (SCI, EI)

36. S.-Y. Lien, T.-H. Liau, C.-Y. Kao, and K.-C. Chen, "Cooperative Access Class Barring for Machine-to-Machine Communications," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 27-32, Jan. 2012. (SCI, EI) [The 10th top accessed article in Feb. 2012, the 12th in Mar. 2012] (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

37. S.-Y. Lien, Y.-Y. Lin, and K.-C. Chen, "Cognitive and Game-Theoretical Radio Resource Management for Autonomous Femtocells with QoS Guarantees," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 2196-2206, July 2011. (SCI, EI)

38. S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Lien, F.-S. Chu, and K.-C. Chen, "On Exploiting Cognitive Radio to Mitigate Interference in Macro/femto Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 40-47, June 2011. (SCI, EI) [The 8th top accessed article in Jun. 2011, the 5th in Jul. 2011, the 7th in Aug. 2011, the 16th in Sep. 2011, the 17th in Oct. 2011, the 17th in Nov. 2011, the 17th in Dec. 2011, the 21st in Jan. 2012. Rank 93 of top 100 documents downloaded in IEEE Xplore (all areas) in Jun. 2011]

39. S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, and Y. Lin, "Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine Communications," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 66-74, Apr. 2011. (SCI, EI) [The 7th top accessed article in Apr. 2011, the 8th IEEE ComSoc Most popular paper in Apr. 2011. Rank 22 of top 100 documents downloaded in IEEE Xplore (all areas) in Arp. 2011, Rank 93 in May 2011] (IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

40. S.-Y. Lien and K.-C. Chen, "Massive Access Management for QoS Guarantees in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine Communications," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 311-313, Mar. 2011. (SCI, EI) [The 6th top accessed article in Mar. 2011, the 12th in Apr. 2011, the 13th in Jul. 2011, the 20th in Sep. 2011, the 18th in Nov. 2011, the 11th in Mar. 2012]

41. W.-K. Kuo and S.-Y. Lien, "Dynamic Resource Allocation for Supporting Real-Time Multimedia Applications in IEEE 802.15.3 WPANs" IET Communications, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-9, Jan. 2009. (SCI, EI)

Conferences

1. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien, C.-H. Yeh, Y.-C. Liang, and D. Niyato, "Efficient Communication-Computation Tradeoff for Split Computing: A Multi-Tier Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023.

2. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien, Y.-C. Liang, D. Niyato, S. Shen,  “Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Optimization in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2023. (Best Student Paper Award)

3. Y.-C. Huang, S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Cheng, D.-J. Deng, K.-C. Chen, “Universal Vertical Applications Adaptation for Open RAN: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach,” International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2022. (Best Paper Award)

4. C. Yang, S.-Y. Lien and Y.-C. Liang, "Multi-tier Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Non-terrestrial Network Empowered Vehicular Connections," IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) Workshop, 2021

5. S.-Y. Lien, D.-J. Deng and B.-C. Chang, "Session Management for URLLC in 5G Open Radio Access Network: A Machine Learning Approach," International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2021

6. Y. Cao, S.-Y. Lien and Y.-C. Liang, "Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for User Access Control in Open Radio Access Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021.

7. E. Ko, K.-C. Chen and S.-Y. Lien, "Collaborative Partially-Observable Reinforcement Learning Using Wireless Communications," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021.

8. Y.-C. Kuo,  S.-Y. Lien,  D.-J. Deng, and Y.J. Wang, "Latency-Optimal Beam Sweeping for Millimeter-Wave Communications," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshop, 2018.

9. C.-Y. Lin, K.-C. Chen, D. Wickramasuriya, S.-Y. Lien, and R. D. Gitlin, "Anticipatory Mobility Management by Big Data Analytics for Ultra-Low Latency Mobile Networking," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018.

10. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, D.-J. Deng, and Y.J. Wang, "Efficient Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications and Massive Machine-Type Communications in 5G New Radio," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2017.

11. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, H. Hsu, and K.-C. Chen, "Collaborative Radio Access of Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks and Edge Computing Networks,"  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop, 2016.

12. S.-C. Hung, D. Liau, S.-Y. Lien, and K.-C. Chen, "Low Latency Communication for Internet of Things," IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2015.

13. S.-Y. Lien and Y.J. Wang, "To Random Access Or Schedule? Optimum 3GPP Licensed-Assisted Access for Machine-to-Machine Communications," International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QSHINE), 2015.

14. K.-C. Chen, W.-E. Chen, W.-C. Chung, Y.-C. Chung, Q. Cui, C.-H. Hsu, S.-Y. Lien, Z. Niu, Z. Tian, J. Wamg, L. Zhao, "Efficient Network Structure of 5G Mobile Communications," International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2015.

15. S.-Y. Lien, S.-C. Hung, and K.-C. Chen, "Optimal Radio Access for Fully Packet-Switching 5G Networks," IEEE International Conferences on Communications (ICC), 2015.

16. S.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, and Y.-Y. Lin, "Duality on Timing Alignment and Radio Resources Orthogonality toward 5G heterogeneous networks," IEEE International Conferences on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE), 2014.

17. S.-F. Lien and S.-Y. Lien,"Bio-inspired Stochastic Density Cognition in Mobile Personnel Portable Sensor Networks," International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB), 2014.

18. S.-C. Hung, S.-Y. Lien, and K.-C. Chen, "Stochastic Topology Cognition in Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2013.

19. S.-Y. Lien and S.-M. Cheng, "Resource-Optimal Network Resilience for Real-Time Data Exchanges in Cyber-Physical Systems," IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2013.

20. S.-Y. Lien "Self-Organization Framework for Device-to-Device Communications without Network Supports," Union Radio Scientific International (URSI) Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), 2013. (Young Scientist Award)

21. S.-Y. Lien and S.-M. Cheng, "Performance Guaranteed Statistical Traffic Control in Cognitive Cellular Networks," International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2013.

22. S.-Y. Lien and K.-C. Chen, “Stochastic Mutual Induction Computing in Het-CoMP Empowered Cellular Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), 2012. (EI)

23. S.-Y. Lien, H.-H. Lee, S.-Y. Shih, P.-Y. Chen, and K.-C. Chen, “Network Synchronization among Femtocells,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Workshop, 2011.

24. S.-Y. Lien, S.-Y. Shih, and K.-C. Chen, “Spectrum Map Empowered Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in Multi-tier Cellular Networks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2011. (EI)

25. S.-Y. Lien and K.-C. Chen, “Statistical Traffic Control for Cognitive Radio Empowered LTE-Advanced with Network MIMO,” IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop, 2011. (EI)

26. X.Y Wang, A. Wong and S.-Y. Lien, “Spectral Variation Constrained Power Spectral Density Estimation for Wideband Spectrum Sensing,” IEEE International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL), 2010.

27. H.-B. Chang, S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Lien and K.-C. Chen, “Statistical Delay Control of Opportunistic Links in Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2010. (EI)

28. S.-Y. Lien and K.-C. Chen, “Cognitive Radio Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in Autonomous Femtocell Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2010. (EI)  (Best Paper Award)

29. S.-Y. Lien, N.R. Prasad, K.-C. Chen, and C.-W. Su, “Providing Statistical Quality-of-Service Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks with Cooperation,” IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (VITAE), 2009. (EI)

30. C.-C. Tseng, S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, and Ramjee Prasad, “Rate-Distance Adaptability of MAC Protocols,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2008. (EI)

31. C.-C. Tseng, S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, and Ramjee Prasad, “On the Rate-Distance Adaptability of Slotted Aloha,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008. (EI)

32. S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Tseng, and K.-C. Chen, “Carrier Sensing based Multiple Access Protocols for Cognitive Radio Network,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008. (EI)

33. S.-Y. Lien, C.-C. Tseng, and K.-C. Chen, “Novel Rate-Distance Adaptation of Multiple Access Protocols in Cognitive Radio,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2007. (EI)

Patents (U.S.)

1. J.-L. Li, S.-Y. Lien, C.-L. Wu, and Y.-J. Wang, “Method of Sidelink Communications by User Equipment,” US11290222B2, Mar. 2022.
2. Y. Liu, Y. Lin, S.-Y. Lien, “Communication Method in Directional Communications System, Communications System, and Receiver,” US10959239B2, Feb. 2020.
3. C.-L. Li, Y.-J. Wang, and S.-Y. Lien, “Method of Side-link Transmission for Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communication,” US10652919B1, May 2020.
4. S.-Y. Lien and C.-C. Chien, “User Equipment and Base Station,” US10568078B2, Feb. 2020.
5. S.-Y. Lien and C.-C. Chien, “Base Station and User Equipment,” US10420074B2, Sept. 2019.
6. Y.-T. Lin, T.-Y. Tsai, Y.-L. Tseng, S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Cheng, C.-C. Wu and K. Loa, “Resource Allocation Apparatus, Resource Allocation Method, and Non-transitory Computer Readable Medium,” US09320035B2, Apr. 2016.
7. Y.-T. Lin, T.-Y. Tsai, Y.-L. Tseng, S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, C.-C. Wu and K. Loa, “Macrocell Network, Resource Allocation Method, and Non-transitory Computer Readable,” US09191949B2, Nov. 2015.
8. Y.-C. Jen, K.-C. Chen, and S.-Y. Lien, “Method of Handling Interference Mitigation in Heterogeneous Network by Channel Measurement and Related Communication Device,” US08879411B2, Nov. 2014.
9. Y.-T. Lin, T.-Y. Tsai, Y.-L. Tseng, S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen, C.-C. Wu and K. Loa, “Resource Allocation Apparatus, Subscriber Station, Resource Allocation Method, and Non-transitory Computer Readable Medium,” US08649797B2, Feb. 2014.
10. S.-Y. Lien, K.-C. Chen and K. Loa, “Femtocell Base Station, Network Resource Allocation Method, and Non-transitory Tangible Machine-readable Medium Thereof,” US08644283B2, Feb. 2014.

Thesis/Dissertation

1. S.-Y. Lien, Cognitive Radio Resource Management for Statistical QoS Guarantees in Multi-tier Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.

2. S.-Y. Lien, Traffic Prediction, Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation, and Call Admission Control with Multimedia Traffic over IEEE 802.15.3 WPAN, Master’s Thesis, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2006.

Projects

Serve as principle investigator

• Kylink Communications Inc. project: Remote Access to LMR and MCPTT Communications, Oct. 2022 - Apr. 2024.

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Multi-tier Machine Learning and Splitting Computing for 6G Intelligent Networks, Aug. 2022-July 2025.

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: Beam Acquisition and Tracking Algorithms for Low-Earth Orbit Satellite User Terminals, July 2022-Dec. 2022

• Ministry of Education project: Open Sources for Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) in O-RAN (2/2), Feb. 2022-Jan. 2023.

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: The Design of Multi-tier Machine Learning in 5G Networks, Jun. 2021-Dec. 2021.

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: MAC Designs for LEO Satellites, Apr. 2021 - Dec. 2021.

• Ministry of Education project: Open Sources for Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) in O-RAN (1/2), Feb. 2021-Jan. 2022.

• Kylink Communications Inc. project: LMR and MCPTT Communications, Sep. 2020 - Aug. 2021.

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: PHY and MAC Designs for Enhanced New Radio Sidelink Communications, Apr. 2020-Dec. 2020.

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology project: Emulators for LMR and MCPTT communications, Mar. 2020 - Jun. 2020.

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology project: Report of Standards of New Generation Radio Interfaces, Aug. 2019 - Nov. 2019

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Learning Based Ultra-Reliable, Low Latency and High Throughput Radio Access for Advanced V2X Use Cases, Aug., 2019-Jul. 2022

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: PHY and MAC Designs for New Radio Sidelink High Reliability and Low Latency Communications, Jan. 2019-Dec. 2019

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology project: CNS/ATM Architectures for Drones, Apr. 2018-Nov. 2018

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: New Radio Technology PHY and MAC for Sidelink High Reliability and Low Latency Communications, Apr. 2018-Dec. 2018

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Radio Access Technologies in 5G New Radio, Aug. 2017-Jul. 2019

• Industrial Technology Research Institute project: PHY and MAC for Sidelink Reliability Communications in LTE-Advanced Pro and New Radio, Jun. 2017-Dec. 2017

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology project: 3GPP Device-to-Device Relay Transmissions, Apr. 2017-Nov. 2017

• Ministry of Science and Technology project, Optimum Collaboration of Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks and Fog Edge Computing Networks, Aug. 2016-Jul. 2017

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology project: 3GPP Device-to-Device Radio Access, Apr. 2016-Nov. 2016

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Radio Accesses for Heterogeneous Carrier Extension in Cloud Radio Access Networks for 5G Mobile Communications, Aug. 2015-Jul. 2016

• National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology project: Low Latency Radio Access for M2M Communications, Apr. 2015-Dec. 2015

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Massive, Uncoordinated, Radio Resource Centric Layerless Data Transmission Framework for the Fifth Generation (5G) Networks, Aug. 2014-Jul. 2015

• Institute for Information Industry project: D2D Technologies Toward Next Generation Networks, Jan. 2014-Dec. 2014

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Optimum Network Resilience Control in Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems, Aug. 2013-Jul. 2014

Serve as co-principle investigator

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Development of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Prototype Platform for Shaping Radio Environment (1/4), Jun. 2023-May 2024

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (3/4), Jun. 2023-May 2024

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Development of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Prototype Platform for Shaping Radio Environment, Aug. 2022-May 2023

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Optimizing Hierarchical Resource Offloading and AI as a Service Model, Aug. 2022-July 2025

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (2/4), Jun. 2022-May 2023

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (1/4), Jun. 2021-May 2022

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (3/3), Jul. 2020-Jun. 2021

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: V2X Application based on 5G Local Access Network, Aug., 2019-Jul. 2022

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (2/3), Jul. 2019-Jun. 2020

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (1/3), Jul. 2018-Jun. 2019

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (3+1/3), Aug. 2017-Jul. 2018

• Institute for Information Industry project: 5G Low Latency Internet-of-Things, Jan. 2017-Dec. 2017

• Ministry of Science and Technology project, University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (3/3), Aug. 2016-Jul. 2017

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: Cloud Computing Platforms for 5G Mobile Communications, Aug. 2016-Jul. 2017

• Institute for Information Industry project: Next Generation Low Latency Communication Systems, Apr. 2016-Dec. 2016

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (2/3), Aug. 2015-Jul. 2016

• Institute for Information Industry project: Energy-Efficient Mobile Communication Systems, Apr. 2015-Mar. 2016

• Ministry of Science and Technology project : University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (1/3), Nov. 2014-Jul. 2015

• Institute for Information Industry project: Energy-Efficient Mobile Communication Systems, Aug. 2015-Mar. 2015

• Huawei Technology Inc. project, Medium Access Control and Cross-Layer Designs for IEEE 802.11, Apr. 2014-Jul. 2017

• Ministry of Science and Technology project: University Participation in Developing International Broadband Wireless Access Standards (2/2), Jun. 2013-Jul. 2014

Activities

Editor

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Section on Open Radio Access Networks: Architecture, Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases in Vehicular Networks, 2023

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Special Issue on AI-Based Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Future Mobile Wireless System, 2019

• Guest Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Recent Advances in 5G Technologies, New Radio Access and Networking, 2017

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Machine to Machine Communications, 2016

Conference Organization

• Tutorial Co-chair, NOMS 2024

• TPC Chair, WPMC 2023

• Tutorial Co-chair, APNOMS 2023

• Executive Forum Co-chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2020

Workshop Organizer

• IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on V2X Technologies for Next Generation Driving Paradigm (V2XTec)

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on V2X Technologies for Next Generation Driving Paradigm (V2XTec)

• IEEE PIMRC 2017 Workshop on New Radio Technologies

• Qshine 2016 Workshop on 5G Communication Architecture and Technology

• Qshine 2015 Special Session on 5G Communication Architecture and Technology

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Workshop on Heterogeneous Carrier Communication Technologies (HetCarrierCom 2015)

• IEEE VTC-Spring 2015 Workshop on Global and Social Resource Sharing in/through Wireless Networks (ResourceWirelessNet 2015)

Technical Speech

• Invited Talk, “Recent Progress of 6G Organizations, Standardizations, and Vision,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Oct. 2022.

• Training Talk, “3GPP 5G New Radio (NR): Layer 1 and Layer 2,” Alpha Networks Inc., Oct. 2022

• Seminar Talk, “Toward AI/ML Computing in 5G-Advanced and 6G Networks,” National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Oct. 2022

• Seminar Talk, “Multi-Tier Machine Learning in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” National Changhua University of Education, June 2022

• Seminar Talk, “Multi-Tier Machine Learning in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” National Central University, June 2022

• Seminar Talk, “Multi-Tier Machine Learning in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” National Taipei University, Apr. 2022.

• Seminar Talk, “Multi-Tier Machine Learning in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” National Cheng Kung University, Apr. 2022.

• Invited Talk, “Recent Progress of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN),” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Apr. 2022.

• Invited Talk, “Recent Progress of 3GPP Non-terrestrial Network,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Oct. 2021.

• Invited Talk, “Challenges in Development of B5G/6G,” International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Communications, Oct. 2021

• Seminar Talk, “Recent Progress of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN),” National Sun Yat-sen University, Oct. 2021

• Invited Talk, “Recent Progress of 3GPP Non-Public Network (NPN),” MOTC Workshop on Mobile Broadband Private Networks, Technologies, and Applications, Sept. 2021

• Invited Talk, "Recent Progress of 3GPP New Radio over Non-terrestrial Network in RAN1," MOTC Workshop on LEO B5G Satellites, Jul. 2021

• Seminar Talk,  “Recent Progress of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN),” National Changhua University of Education, June 2021.

• Training Talk, “Recent Progress of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN),” Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS), June 2021.

• Invited Talk, “Supporting AI/ML Computing in 3GPP Release 18 and Future Releases,” Workshop of B5G Advanced Technologies and 3GPP Standardization Progress, Apr. 2021.

• Seminar Talk, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-User Access Control in Non-Terrestrial Networks,” National Taipei University, Dec. 2020.

• Invited Talk, “3GPP Sidelink Transmissions: From Release 12 to Release 16,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Nov. 2020.

• Seminar Talk, “Open Intelligent Radio Access Networks,” National Ilan University, Oct. 2020.

• Training Talk, “3GPP NR Sidelink Transmissions Toward 5G V2X,” Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS), Sep. 2020.

• Training Talk, “5G Open RAN, Proprietary Networks and Vertical Applications,” Alpha Networks Inc., July 2020.

• Seminar Talk, “Latency-Optimal Beam Sweeping Designs for Millimeter-Wave Radio Access,” National Chiao Tung University, Oct. 2019.

• Seminar Talk, “Latency-Optimal Beam Sweeping Designs for Millimeter-Wave Radio Access,” National Formosa University, Oct. 2019.

• Invited Talk, “Latency-Optimal mmWave Radio Accesses for 5G V2X Supporting Advanced Driving,” The 2019 IEEE Taiwan Workshop on Information Theory and Communications, Aug. 2019.

• Training Talk, “Air Interface of 3GPP New Radio,” Alpha Networks Inc., May 2019.

• Seminar Talk, “Optimum Autonomous Aerial Base Station Deployment for UAV Networks: Reinforcement Learning Approaches”, National Changhua University of Education, May 2019.

• Seminar Talk, “Latency-Optimal Beam Sweeping Designs for Millimeter-Wave Radio Access,” Academia Sinica, May 2019.

• Invited Talk, “3GPP Advanced Driving Use Cases and Recent Progress of Release 16 V2X,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Oct. 2018.

•  Invited Talk, “Recent Progress of 3GPP Licensed-Assisted Access,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Apr. 2018.

•  Training Talk, “Licensed-Assisted Access Technology,” Far EasTone Inc., Apr. 2018.  

•  Invited Talk, “Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications in 5G New Radio,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Oct. 2017.

• Seminar Talk, “Wireless Cache: Recent Progress and Challenges,” National Chiao Tung University, Apr. 2017.

• Invited Talk, “5G New Radio: Recent Progress and Challenges,” Workshop on Advanced Communication Network Technologies and Applications, Jan. 2017.

• Seminar Talk, “5G New Radio Access,” National Chi Nan University, Jan. 2017.

• Seminar Talk, “Harmonization of Cloud RAN and Fog RAN Toward 5G Network Architecture Designs,” National Ilan University, Nov. 2015.

• Invited Talk, “The Recent Progress of 3GPP Licensed-Assisted Access to Unlicensed Spectrum,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Oct. 2015.

•  Seminar Talk, “Optimum Uplink Transmissions for Licensed-Assisted Access to Unlicensed Spectrum,” National Chiao Tung University, Apr. 2015.

• Invited Talk, “Licensed-Assisted Access in Rel. 13,” Workshop of 3GPP Standardization Progress, Mar. 2015.

Education

• Ph.D, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2011

• M.S., Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Sep. 2004 - Jun. 2006

• B.S., Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Sep. 2000 - Jun. 2004