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Francis CM Lau

- Verified email at cs.hku.hk - Cited by 11627

Francis CM Lau

- Verified email at polyu.edu.hk - Cited by 8326

Scaling social media applications into geo-distributed clouds

…, C Wu, B Li, L Zhang, Z Li, FCM Lau - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federation of geo-distributed cloud services is a trend in cloud computing that, by spanning
multiple data centers at different geographical locations, can provide a cloud platform with …

A context-aware decision engine for content adaptation

WY Lum, FCM Lau - IEEE Pervasive computing, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building a good content adaptation service for mobile devices poses many challenges. To
meet these challenges, this quality-of-service-aware decision engine automatically negotiates …

A network perspective of the stock market

KT Chi, J Liu, FCM Lau - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2010 - Elsevier
Complex networks are constructed to study correlations between the closing prices for all US
stocks that were traded over two periods of time (from July 2005 to August 2007; and from …

Online job dispatching and scheduling in edge-clouds

H Tan, Z Han, XY Li, FCM Lau - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In edge-cloud computing, a set of edge servers are deployed near the mobile devices such
that these devices can offload jobs to the servers with low latency. One fundamental and …

A survey on protograph LDPC codes and their applications

Y Fang, G Bi, YL Guan, FCM Lau - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have attracted much attention over the past two
decades since they can asymptotically approach the Shannon capacity in a variety of data …

A survey on DCSK-based communication systems and their application to UWB scenarios

Y Fang, G Han, P Chen, FCM Lau… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past two decades, chaotic modulations have drawn a great deal of attention in low-power
and low-complexity wireless communication applications due to their excellent anti-…

Design guidelines of low-density parity-check codes for magnetic recording systems

Y Fang, G Han, G Cai, FCM Lau… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As one of the most classical data-storage systems, magnetic recording (MR) systems have
attracted a significant amount of research attention in the past several decades due to the …

[BOOK][B] Load balancing in parallel computers: theory and practice

C Xu, FCM Lau - 2007 - books.google.com
Francis CM LauFrancis CM LauFrancis CM Lau have put together a
comprehensive book on the theory and practice of load balancing in parallel computers. …

Minimizing average interference through topology control

T Lou, H Tan, Y Wang, FCM Lau - International Symposium on Algorithms …, 2011 - Springer
Reducing interference is one of the main challenges in wireless communication. To minimize
interference through topology control in wireless sensor networks is a well-known open …

An efficient and secure medical image protection scheme based on chaotic maps

C Fu, W Meng, Y Zhan, Z Zhu, FCM Lau, CK Tse… - Computers in biology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recently, the increasing demand for telemedicine services has raised interest in the use of
medical image protection technology. Conventional block ciphers are poorly suited to image …