Publications

Congestion Detection and Alleviation

J. Kang, Y. Zhang, B. Nath. "Accurate and Energy-efficient Congestion Level Measurement in Ad Hoc Networks," In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
Jaewon Kang, Yanyong Zhang, Badri Nath, Shenchao Yu, "Adaptive Resource Control Scheme to Alleviate Congestion in Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BASENETS). San Jose, CA. October 2004.
Jaewon Kang, Yanyong Zhang, Badri Nath, "End-to-End Channel Capacity Measurement for Congestion Control in Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications (SANPA, formerly IEEE SNPA) in conjunction with MobiQuitous, Boston, MA, USA, August 2004.

DADA

S. Yu, A. Yang, and Y. Zhang, "DADA: A 2-Dimensional Adaptive Node Schedule to Provide Smooth Sensor Network Services against Random Failures", In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005. (pdf)

MARA

W. Trappe, Y. Zhang, B. Nath, "MIAMI: Methods and Infrastructure for the Assurance of Measurement Information", In Proceedings of the 2nd International VLDB Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, 2005.
Z. Li, W. Trappe, Y. Zhang, B. Nath, "Robust Statistical Methods for Securing Wireless Localization in Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2005.
Zang Li, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe, Badri Nath, "Securing Wireless Localization: Living with Bad Guys," 2004 DIMACS Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Security. Available here.

DARWIN

W. Xu, W. Trappe, Y. Zhang, T. Wood, "The Feasibility of Launching and Detecting Jamming Attacks in Wireless Networks," In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), 2005.
W. Xu, T. Wood, W. Trappe, Y. Zhang, "Channel Surfing and Spatial Retreats Defenses against Wireless Denial of Service," In Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (Wise 2004) in conjunction with Mobicom, pp. 80-89, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004.

PARIS

P. Kamat, Y. Zhang, W. Trappe and C. Ozturk, "Enhancing Source-Location Privacy in Sensor Network Routing," In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, OH, June 2005.
C. Ozturk, Y. Zhang, W. Trappe, "Source-Location Privacy in Energy-Constrained Sensor Network Routing. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN) in conjunction with ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 88-93, Washington, D.C., October 2004.

Failure Analysis for Large Systems

Y. Liang, Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, R. Sahoo, J. Moreira, M. Gupta, "Filtering Failure Logs for a BlueGene/L Prototype," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2005. (pdf)
R. Sahoo, A. Sivasubramaniam, M. Squillante, Y. Zhang, "Failure Data Analysis of a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Server Environment," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pp. 772-781, Florence, Italy, June 2004. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, M. Squillante, A. Sivasubramaniam, R. Sahoo, "Performance Implications of Failures in Large-Scale Cluster Scheduling," In Proceedings of 10th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, New York, NY, June 2004. (pdf)

Gang Scheduling

Y. Zhang, A. Yang, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Moreira. Gang Scheduling Extensions for I/O Intensive Workloads . In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Seattle, June 2003 (ps)
Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam. An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling and Migration . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(3):236-247, March 2003. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam. An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling and Migration . In Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 2221, pages 133-158, June 2001. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam. The Impact of Migration on Parallel Job Scheduling for Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of 6th International Euro-Par Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1900, pages 242-251, Munich, Aug/Sep 2000. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam. Improving Parallel Job Scheduling by combining Gang Scheduling and Backfilling Techniques. In Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2000) pages 133-142, May 2000. (pdf)

Dynamic Co-Scheduling

Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam. "ClusterSchedSim: A Unifying Simulation Framework for Cluster Scheduling," Journal of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications in Cluster and Grid Computing, 80(4-5), pp. 191-206. May 2004. (pdf)
M. Squillante, Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, N. Gautam, H. Franke, J. Moreira. Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Coscheduling in Parallel and Distributed Environments. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2002 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics'2002), pages 43-54, June 2002. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Moreira, H. Franke. Impact of Workload and System Parameters on Next Generation Cluster Scheduling Mechanisms, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 12(9):967-985, September 2001. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, H. Franke, J. Moreira. A Simulation-based Study of Scheduling Mechanisms for a Dynamic Cluster Environment. In Proceedings of 14th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'2000), pages 100-109, May 2000. (pdf)

Multi-Class Scheduling

Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam. Scheduling Best-Effort and Real-Time Pipelined Applications on Time-Shared Clusters . In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'2001), pages 209-218, July 2001. (pdf)

Clustered Database Server

J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, H. Franke, N. Gautam, Y. Zhang, S. Nagar, "Synthesizing Representative I/O Workloads for TPC-H," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Madrid, Spain, February 2004.
Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, C. Liu, H. Franke. Decision-Support Workload Characteristics on a Clustered Database Server from the OS Perspective . In proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May, 2003 (pdf)
Y.Zhang, S. Nagar, J. Zhang, H. Franke, A. Sivasubramaniam. Scalability of decisions-support workloads . In Proceedings of 8th International Euro-Par Conference. (pdf)
Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, C. Liu, H. Franke. Characterizing TPC-H on a Clustered Database Engine from the OS Perspective. HPCA Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW-02), 2002. (pdf)