Faculty Profiles - LI Songfan | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Songfan LI
李松璠

PhD in Computer Science
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2022

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

lisongfan@ust.hk
Room 3657
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0002-4054-6513

ResearcherID

LDE-9788-2024

Scopus ID

57190258806

Research Interest Publications

Research Interest

Wireless communications
Sensor network
Internet of Things (IoT)
Mobile wireless networks

Publications

All Years 20 2025 2 2024 5 2023 2 2022 4 2021 3 2020 1 2019 3

2025 2

Embedding Chips Over the Air: Rethink IoT Architecture for Ubiquitous Sensing

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 24, (10), p. 10186-10199
Meng, Qianhe; Wang, Han; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi
Article

LoRaMirror: Illuminating Blind Spots in Urban LPWAN with Reflective Smart Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Li, Songfan; Zhang, Yanbo; Liando, Jansen Christian; Lu, Li; Li, Mo
Article

2024 5

A Lightweight and Chip-Level Reconfigurable Architecture for Next-Generation IoT End Devices

IEEE Transactions on Computers, v. 73, (3), p. 747-763
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi; Wang, Xin
Article

Frequency Scaling Meets Intermittency: Optimizing Task Rate for RFID-Scale Computing Devices

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 23, (2), p. 1689-1700
Li, Songfan; Li, Shengyu; Chen, Minghua; Song, Chao; Lu, Li
Article

Watch Out Your Thumb Drive: Covert Data Theft From Portable Data Storage via Backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, v. 21, (4), p. 2434-2447
Li, Shengyu; Li, Songfan; Liu, Qingqing; Song, Yihang; Zhang, Chong; Lu, Li
Article

Face Recognition in Harsh Conditions: An Acoustic Based Approach

MOBISYS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 1-14
Zhang, Yanbo; Tong, Panrong; Li, Songfan; Xie, Yaxiong; Li, Mo
Conference paper

Processor-Sharing Internet of Things Architecture for Large-scale Deployment

SenSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 211-224
Meng, Qianhe; Wang, Han; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi
Conference paper

2023 2

Go Beyond RFID: Rethinking the Design of RFID Sensor Tags for Versatile Applications

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1042-1057article number 69
Li, Songfan; Meng, Qianhe; Bai, Yanxu; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Shengyu; Lu, Li
Conference paper

LEGO: Empowering Chip-Level Functionality Plug-and-Play for Next-Generation IoT Devices

ASPLOS 2023 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems / edited by Aamodt Tor M.; Jerger Natalie Enright; Swift Michael. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 404-418
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Chen, Minghua; Bai, Yan Xu; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi
Conference paper

2022 4

BioTouch: Reliable Re-Authentication via Finger Bio-Capacitance and Touching Behavior^†

Sensors (Switzerland), v. 22, (9), article number 3583
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Lu, Li; Hou, Mengshu
Article

Chipnet: Enabling Large-scale Backscatter Network with Processor-free Devices

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, v. 18, (4), article number 3544492
Song, Yihang; Song, Chao; Lu, Li; Yang, Shen; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Meng, Qianhe; Shao, Xiandong; Wang, Haili
Article

Rethinking Power Efficiency for Next-Generation Processor-Free Sensing Devices

Sensors (Switzerland), v. 22, (8), article number 3074
Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Li, Shengyu; Lu, Li
Article

Passive DSSS: Empowering the Downlink Communication for Backscatter Systems

Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022, USENIX Association, 2022, p. 913-928
Li, Songfan; Zheng, Hui; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Yang, Shen; Chen, Minghua; Lu, Li; Li, Mo
Conference paper

2021 3

A Spectrum-Efficient Cross-Layer RF Distance Bounding Scheme

Security and Communication Networks, v. 2021, article number 6668498
Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Lu, Li
Article

无源系统轻量级动态程序运行环境

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers, v. 44, (7), p. 1326-1340
Li, Song Fan; Lu, Li; Li, Jie
Article

TouchSense: Accurate and Transparent User Re-authentication via Finger Touching

Edge Computing and IoT / edited by Jiang Hongbo; Wu Hongyi; Zeng Fanzi. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021, p. 105-125
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Lu, Li; Hou, Mengshu
Conference paper

2020 1

Internet-of-microchips: Direct radio-to-bus communication with spi backscatter

Paper presented at 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2020, London, United Kingdom, p. 322-335
Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Zheng, Hui; Liu, Lu; Lu, Li; Li, Mo
Conference paper

2019 1

Sentinel: Breaking the Bottleneck of Energy Utilization Efficiency in RF-Powered Devices

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, v. 6, (1), p. 705-717, article number 8409282
Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Ye, Yalan; Zhu, Hongzi
Article

2017 1

R³: Reliable over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, v. 17, (1), article number 9
Wu, Die; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Li, Mo; Zhang, Fengli
Article

2016 1

R²: Over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016, article number 7488004
Wu, Die; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li
Conference paper

Article 2

Embedding Chips Over the Air: Rethink IoT Architecture for Ubiquitous Sensing

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 24, (10), p. 10186-10199
Meng, Qianhe; Wang, Han; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi

LoRaMirror: Illuminating Blind Spots in Urban LPWAN with Reflective Smart Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Li, Songfan; Zhang, Yanbo; Liando, Jansen Christian; Lu, Li; Li, Mo

Article 3

A Lightweight and Chip-Level Reconfigurable Architecture for Next-Generation IoT End Devices

IEEE Transactions on Computers, v. 73, (3), p. 747-763
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi; Wang, Xin

Frequency Scaling Meets Intermittency: Optimizing Task Rate for RFID-Scale Computing Devices

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 23, (2), p. 1689-1700
Li, Songfan; Li, Shengyu; Chen, Minghua; Song, Chao; Lu, Li

Watch Out Your Thumb Drive: Covert Data Theft From Portable Data Storage via Backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, v. 21, (4), p. 2434-2447
Li, Shengyu; Li, Songfan; Liu, Qingqing; Song, Yihang; Zhang, Chong; Lu, Li

Conference paper 2

Face Recognition in Harsh Conditions: An Acoustic Based Approach

MOBISYS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 1-14
Zhang, Yanbo; Tong, Panrong; Li, Songfan; Xie, Yaxiong; Li, Mo

Processor-Sharing Internet of Things Architecture for Large-scale Deployment

SenSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024, p. 211-224
Meng, Qianhe; Wang, Han; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi

Conference paper 2

Go Beyond RFID: Rethinking the Design of RFID Sensor Tags for Versatile Applications

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2023, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 1042-1057article number 69
Li, Songfan; Meng, Qianhe; Bai, Yanxu; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Li, Shengyu; Lu, Li

LEGO: Empowering Chip-Level Functionality Plug-and-Play for Next-Generation IoT Devices

ASPLOS 2023 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems / edited by Aamodt Tor M.; Jerger Natalie Enright; Swift Michael. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 404-418
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Chen, Minghua; Bai, Yan Xu; Lu, Li; Zhu, Hongzi

Article 3

BioTouch: Reliable Re-Authentication via Finger Bio-Capacitance and Touching Behavior^†

Sensors (Switzerland), v. 22, (9), article number 3583
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Meng, Qianhe; Lu, Li; Hou, Mengshu

Chipnet: Enabling Large-scale Backscatter Network with Processor-free Devices

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, v. 18, (4), article number 3544492
Song, Yihang; Song, Chao; Lu, Li; Yang, Shen; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Meng, Qianhe; Shao, Xiandong; Wang, Haili

Rethinking Power Efficiency for Next-Generation Processor-Free Sensing Devices

Sensors (Switzerland), v. 22, (8), article number 3074
Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Li, Shengyu; Lu, Li

Conference paper 1

Passive DSSS: Empowering the Downlink Communication for Backscatter Systems

Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022, USENIX Association, 2022, p. 913-928
Li, Songfan; Zheng, Hui; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Yang, Shen; Chen, Minghua; Lu, Li; Li, Mo

Article 2

A Spectrum-Efficient Cross-Layer RF Distance Bounding Scheme

Security and Communication Networks, v. 2021, article number 6668498
Song, Yihang; Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Lu, Li

无源系统轻量级动态程序运行环境

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers, v. 44, (7), p. 1326-1340
Li, Song Fan; Lu, Li; Li, Jie

Conference paper 1

TouchSense: Accurate and Transparent User Re-authentication via Finger Touching

Edge Computing and IoT / edited by Jiang Hongbo; Wu Hongyi; Zeng Fanzi. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021, p. 105-125
Zhang, Chong; Li, Songfan; Song, Yihang; Lu, Li; Hou, Mengshu

Conference paper 1

Internet-of-microchips: Direct radio-to-bus communication with spi backscatter

Paper presented at 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2020, London, United Kingdom, p. 322-335
Li, Songfan; Zhang, Chong; Song, Yihang; Zheng, Hui; Liu, Lu; Lu, Li; Li, Mo

Article 1

Sentinel: Breaking the Bottleneck of Energy Utilization Efficiency in RF-Powered Devices

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, v. 6, (1), p. 705-717, article number 8409282
Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Ye, Yalan; Zhu, Hongzi

Article 1

R³: Reliable over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, v. 17, (1), article number 9
Wu, Die; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Li, Mo; Zhang, Fengli

Conference paper 1

R²: Over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016, article number 7488004
Wu, Die; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li

2019 1

Sentinel: Breaking the Bottleneck of Energy Utilization Efficiency in RF-Powered Devices

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, v. 6, (1), p. 705-717, article number 8409282
Li, Songfan; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Ye, Yalan; Zhu, Hongzi
Article

2017 1

R³: Reliable over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, v. 17, (1), article number 9
Wu, Die; Lu, Li; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Li, Mo; Zhang, Fengli
Article

2016 1

R²: Over-the-air reprogramming on computational RFIDs

2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016, article number 7488004
Wu, Die; Hussain, Muhammad Jawad; Li, Songfan; Lu, Li
Conference paper

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