Hui Zhang
NEC Labs America
4 Independence Way Suite 200
Princeton, New Jersey, 08540
E-mail: huizhang at enl dot usc dot edu

Title

I graduated from

·         Department of Computer Sciences, and

·         Embedded Networks Laboratory

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

 

My co-advisors are 

·         Dr. Ashish Goel

·         Dr. Ramesh Govindan

Curriculum Vitae

·         PDF

Research Interests

·         Next-generation Data Center 

·         Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks

·         Design and Analysis of Algorithms

·         World Wide Web

Publications

·        Journal Articles and Book Chapters

§         Understanding Internet Video Sharing Site Workload: A View from Data Center.  Xiaozhu Kang, Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. Accepted by Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on   "Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband Multimedia Services".

§         Fast Indexing for Large-scale Networked System Modeling. Hui Zhang, Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. Accepted by Journal of Networks, Academy Publisher.  

§         Enabling Information Confidentiality in Publish/Subscribe Overlay Networks. Hui Zhang, 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. Hui Zhang, Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, Kahn Mason, and Benjamin Van Roy. Invited for Special issue of Journal of Internet Mathematics, accepted with minor revision.

§         Improving Lookup Latency in Distributed Hash Table Systems using Random Sampling. Hui Zhang, 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. Hui Zhang, 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. Hui Zhang, 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. Yi Zhou, Tadao Murata, Thomas A. DeFanti, and Hui Zhang. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Vol.E83-A, No.11, November 2000.

·        Peer-reviewed Conferences and Workshops

§         Supporting System-wide Similarity Queries in Networked System Management. Songyun Duan, Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Xiaoqiao Meng. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010.

§         Intelligent Workload Factoring for A Hybrid Cloud Computing Model. Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Kenji Yoshihira, and Akhilesh Saxena. International Workshop on Cloud Services, in conjunction with ICWS2009.

§         Resilient Workload Manager: Taming Bursty Workload of Scaling Internet Applications. Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Kenji Yoshihira, and Akhilesh Saxena. ICAC2009.

§         Boosting the Performance of Computing Systems through Adaptive Configuration Tuning. Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Hui Zhang, and Kenji Yoshihira. ACM SAC 2009.

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

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

§         Understanding Internet Video Sharing Site Workload: A View from Data Center Design. Xiaozhu Kang, Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Xiaoqiao Meng, and Kenji Yoshihira. Short paper, WWW 2008.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§         Advanced Query Techniques for Wide-Area Network Monitoring. Xin Li, Fang Bian, Hui Zhang, 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 . Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, and Hui Zhang. IEEE INFOCOM 2005.

§         Making Eigenvector-based Reputation Systems Robust to Collusion . Hui Zhang, 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 . Debojyoti Dutta, Ashish Goel, Ramesh Govindan, and Hui Zhang. 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 . Hui Zhang, 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. Hui Zhang, 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. Hui Zhang, and Yingping. Zheng. Proc. of the 14th World Congress of International Federation of Automation Control, 1999.

Patents

·         A Two-Zone Load balancer for Application Workload Management. . Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Kenji Yoshihira, Haifeng Chen. US Patent Pending, NEC Laboratories America.

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

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

·         Scalable Publish/Subscribe Broker Network using Active Load Balancing.. Hui Zhang, Samrat Ganguly, Sudeept Bhatnagar, and Rauf Izmailov. USPTO Patent Application Number 20070143442.

·         Wide Area Networked File System.. Hui Zhang, Aniruddha Bohra, Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov, and Jian Liang. USPTO Patent Application Number 20070162462.

·         Method and Apparatus for Coincidence Counting for Estimating Flow Statistics. Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, and Hui Zhang. USPTO Patent Application Number 20070211635.

·         Method and Apparatus for Payload-Based Flow Estimation. Fang Hao, Muralidharan S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, and Hui Zhang. USPTO Patent Application Number 20070211647.

Talks

·         Intelligent Workload Factoring for A Hybrid Cloud Computing Model. at IEEE IWCS 2009, Los Angeles, USA. July 2009.

·         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, the 3rd International Conference on Network and System Security, 2009.

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

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

·         Founding member of the IETF Peer to Peer Streaming Protocol standardization initiative

q       https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ppsp

q       http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhang-ppsp-problem-statement-01

·         External reviewer for

q       Journals  - Springer Cluster Computing Journal, IBM Systems Journal, ACM Transactions on the Web, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Journals on Selected Areas in Communications,  Springer Journal of Distributed Computing,  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

q       Conferences - ICNP 2007, DSN 2007, WORLDS’05, SIGMETRICS 2005,  SenSys 2004, IPSN 2004, HiPC 2004,  INFOCOM 2004 & 2002, ICDCS 2002.

Student Mentoring (internship, thesis)

·         Jian Liang (Polytechnic Institute of NYU): internship, summer 2005.

·         Huadong Liu (University of Tennessee): internship, summer 2006.

·         Abhishek Bhan Sharma (University of Southern California): internship, summer 2006.

·         Xiaozhu Kang (Columbia University):  internship, summer & fall 2007; Ph.D. thesis.

·         Songyun Duan (Duke University): internship, summer 2008.

·         Ming Chen (University of Tennessee): internship, summer 2009.

Miscellaneous 

·         USC ENL Hompage

·         My wedding pictures

·         My daughter's pictures


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