• Department of Computer Sciences, and

• Embedded Networks Laboratory

of  University of Southern California and joined NEC Labs America since August 2005.

• Enabling Information Confidentiality in Publish/Subscribe Overlay Networks. . With Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Xiaoqiao Meng, Kenji Yoshihira, and Abhishek Sharma. To appear in Handbook on Security and Networks, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009.

• Improving Eigenvector-based  Reputation Systems Against Collusion. With Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, Kahn Mason, and Benjamin Van Roy. Invited for Special issue of Journal of Internet Mathematics for WAW04, under review.

• Improving Lookup Latency in Distributed Hash Table Systems using Random Sampling. With Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Vol.13, No.5, October 2005. A technical report version is available as USC Computer Science technical report 04-825.

• An Empirical Evaluation of Internet Latency Expansion. With Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 93-97. A technical report version is available as USC Computer Science technical report 04-822.

• Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance. With Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. Computer Networks Journal. Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 555-574, November 2004.

• Fuzzy-Timing Petri Nets Modeling and Simulation of a Networked Virtual Environment - NICE. With Yi. Zhou, Tadao Murata, and T. DeFanti. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol.E83-A, No.11, November 2000.

• Conferences and Workshops

• Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of Internet Video Sharing Site Workload: A Case Study. With Xiaozhu Kang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. IEEE ICWS 2008.

• Fast Statistical Relationship Discovery in Massive Monitoring Data . With Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. IEEE ANM'08 .

• Understanding Internet Video Sharing Site Workload: A View from Data Center Design. With Xiaozhu Kang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. Poster, WWW 2008.

• Optimal Load Balancing in Publish/Subscribe Broker Networks. With Samrat Ganguly, Sudeept Bhatnagar, Rauf Izmailov, and Abhishek Sharma. IEEE ICC 2008.

• Enabling Information Confidentiality in Publish/Subscribe Overlay Services. With Abhishek Sharma, Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. IEEE ICC 2008.

• Automatic Profiling of Network Event Sequences: Algorithm and Applications. With Xiaoqiao Meng, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, and Kenji Yoshihira. IEEE INFOCOM 2008.

• Real-time Application Monitoring and Diagnosis for Service Hosting Platforms of Black Boxes. With Huadong Liu, Rauf Izmailov, Guofei Jiang, and Xiaoqiao Meng. IM 2007.

• Minimizing Metadata Access Latency in Wide Area Networked File Systems. With Jian Liang, Aniruddha Bohra, Samrat Ganguly, and Rauf Izmailov. HiPC 2006.

• Content Based Rate Estimation using Lazy Membership Testing . With Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, and Vivek Vishnumurthy. IEEE INFOCOM 2006.

• MIND: A Distributed Multi-Dimensional Indexing System for Network Diagnosis. With Xin Li, Fang Bian, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, and Gianluca Iannacoone. IEEE INFOCOM 2006.

• Fast Payload-Based Flow Estimation for Traffic Monitoring and Network Security. With Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman. ANCS 2005.

• Advanced Query Techniques for Wide-Area Network Monitoring. With Xin Li, Fang Bian, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, and Gianluca Iannacoone. The first IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases, 2005.

• Fast, Memory-Efficient Traffic Estimation by Coincidence Counting . With Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman. IEEE INFOCOM 2005.

• Making Eigenvector-based Reputation Systems Robust to Collusion . With Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, Kahn Mason, and Benjamin Van Roy. The third Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, October 2004. A more complete version is available as USC Computer Science technical report 04-817.

• The Design of A Distributed Rating Scheme for Peer-to-peer Systems . With Debojyoti Dutta, Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. The first Workshop on Economic Issues in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley, CA (June 5-6, 2003).

• Incrementally Improving Lookup Latency in Distributed Hash Table Systems . With Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS, 2003. A more complete version with proofs is available as USC Computer Science technical report 03-786 .

• Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance. With Ashish Goel and Ramesh Govindan. appeared in IEEE INFOCOM, 2002. A one-page summary was presented as a SIGCOMM2001 poster and appeared on Computer Communication Review.

• A Petri Net Based Deadlock Detection for A Class of Parallel systems. With Yingping. Zheng. Proc. of the 14th World Congress of International Federation of Automation Control, 1999.

Patents

• Discovering Optimal System Configurations Using Decentralized Probability Based Active Sampling. . With Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Kenji Yoshihira, Xiaoqiao Meng. US Patent Pending, NEC Laboratories America.

• Automatic Profiling of Network Event Sequences.. With Xiaoqiao Meng, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Kenji Yoshihira. US Patent Pending, NEC Laboratories America.

• Scalable Publish/Subscribe Broker Network using Active Load Balancing.. With Samrat Ganguly, Sudeept Bhatnagar, and Rauf Izmailov. United States Patent File Number 20070143442.

• Wide Area Networked File System.. With Aniruddha Bohra, Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov, and Jian Liang. United States Patent File Number 20070162462.

• Method and Apparatus for Coincidence Counting for Estimating Flow Statistics. With Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman. United States Patent File Number US20070211635.

• Method and Apparatus for Payload-Based Flow Estimation. With Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman. United States Patent File Number US20070211647.

Talks

• Optimal Load Balancing in Publish/Subscribe Broker Networks using Active Workload Management.. at China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing , China. May 2008.

• Enabling Information Confidentiality in Publish/Subscribe Overlay Services.. at IEEE ICC08, Beijing , China. May 2008.

• Fast Statistical Relationship Discovery in Massive Monitoring Data.. at IEEE ANM08, Phoenix , USA. April 2008.

• Real-time Application Monitoring and Diagnosis for Service Hosting Platforms of Black Boxes.. at IM07, Munich , Germany , May 2007.

• Fast, Memory-Efficient Traffic Estimation by Coincidence Counting . at IEEE INFOCOM2005, Miami , 2005.

• Making Eigenvector-based Reputation Systems Robust to Collusion. at WAW04, Rome , Italy , October 2004.

• Making PageRank Algorithm Robust to Collusion. at Google Inc, April 2004.

• The Design of A Distributed Rating Scheme for Peer-to-peer Systems . at the first Workshop on Economic Issues in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley , CA , 2003.

• Incrementally Improving Lookup Latency in Distributed Hash Table Systems . at ACM SIGMETRICS2003, San Diego , CA , 2003.

• Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance. at IEEE INFOCOM2002, New York , 2002.

• Using the Small-World Model to Improve Freenet Performance. at INFORMS Telecomm, Florida , 2002.

Professional Services

• TPC member, Information and Network Security Symposium of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications.

• Session Chair (P2P Networking), Advances in Networks and Internet Symposium of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications.

Resource Links

• SIGCOMM Homepage

• INFOCOM Homepage

• USC ENL Hompage

• MISC

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