- Cloud Computing and Data Center Networks
- Xiang Cheng, Sen Su, Lixin Gao, and Jiangtao Yin,
"Co-ClusterD: A Distributed Framework for Data Co-Clustering with Sequential Updates", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao, "Supporting Drug Prescription via Predictive and Personalized Query System", in Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2015).
- Jiangtao Yin, Yong Liao, Mario Baldi, Lixin Gao, and Antonio Nucci,
"GOM-Hadoop: A Distributed Framework for Efficient Analytics on Ordered Datasets",
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 83, September 2015, Pages 58-69.
- Jiahui Jin, Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao and Junzhou Luo,
"Querying Web-Scale Information Networks Through Bounding
Matching Scores", in Proceeding of the International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW), 2015.
- Jiahui Jin, Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao and Junzhou Luo,
"A Distributed Approach for Top-k Star Queries on Massive Information Networks", in
Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2014, Best Paper Candidate.
- Jiangtao Yin, and Lixin Gao,
"Scalable Distributed Belief Propagation with Prioritized Block Updates",
in Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014.
- Jiangtao Yin, Lixin Gao, and Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang,
"Scalable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Block-wise Updates",
in Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2014.
- Samamon Khemmarat, and Lixin Gao,
"Fast Top-K Path-based Relevance Query on Massive Graphs",
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014.
- Jiangtao Yin, Yong Liao, Mario Baldi, Lixin Gao, and Antonio Nucci,
"A Scalable Distributed Framework for Efficient Analytics on Ordered Datasets", in Proceeding of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2013.
- Sen Su, Xiang Cheng, Lixin Gao, and Jiangtao Yin,
"Co-ClusterD: A Distributed Framework for Data Co-Clustering with Sequential Updates", in Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2013.
- Liu Liu, Jiangtao Yin, and Lixin Gao,
"Efficient Social Network Data Query Processing on
MapReduce", in Proceeding of the 5th ACM HotPlanet workshop in conjunction with SIGCOMM, 2013.
- Jiangtao Yin, Yong Liao, Mario Baldi, Lixin Gao, and Antonio Nucci,
"Efficient Analytics on Ordered Datasets using
MapReduce", in Proceeding of ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2013.
- Jiangtao Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, and Lixin Gao,
"Accelerating Expectation-Maximization Algorithms with Frequent Updates",
in Proceeding of IEEE Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2012.
- Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, and Cuirong Wang,
"Accelerate Large-Scale Iterative Computation
through Asynchronous Accumulative
Updates",
in Proceeding of the 3rd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud
2012) in conjunction with HPDC 2012, 2012.
- Yong Liao, Jiangtao Yin, Dong Yin, and Lixin Gao,
"DPillar: Dual-port server interconnection network for large
scale data centers",
Computer Networks, Volume 56, Issue 8, May 2012, Pages 2132-2147.
- Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, and Cuirong Wang,
"iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for
Iterative Computation (Extended version of DataCloud
paper)",
Journal of Grid Computing, 10(1), March, 2012.
- Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, and Cuirong Wang,
"PrIter: A Distributed Framework for Prioritized Iterative
Computations",
in Proceeding of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM SOCC 2011),
Honored as Paper of Distinction.
- Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, and Cuirong Wang,
"iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for
Iterative Computation",
in Proceeding of DataCloud 2011: The First International Workshop on Data
Intensive Computing in the Clouds, 2011.
- Yong Liao, Dong Yin, and Lixin Gao,
``DPillar: Scalable Dual-Port Server
Interconnection for Data Center
Networks'',
in Proceedings of ICCCN'10: the 19th International Conference on
Computer Communications and Networks.
- Xiang Cheng, Sen Su, Lixin Gao, and Jiangtao Yin,
"Co-ClusterD: A Distributed Framework for Data Co-Clustering with Sequential Updates", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Guoyi Zhao, Li Guo, Lixin Gao, and Li-Jun Ma,
"Inferring Regulatory Networks through Orthologous Gene Mapping", in Proceeding of International Symposium on Network Analysis and Mining for Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (Net-HI-BI-BI), 2013.
- Guoyi Zhao, Li Guo, Lixin Gao, and Li-Jun Ma,
"Inferring Regulatory Networks through Orthologous Gene Mapping", in Proceeding of International Symposium on Network Analysis and Mining for Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (Net-HI-BI-BI), 2013.
- Online Social Networks and Road Networks
- Tian Zhou, Lixin Gao and Daiheng Ni,
"Road Traffic Prediction by Incorporating Online Information",
in Proceedings of the workshop on Connecting Online & Offline Life (COOL) in conjunction with WWW, 2014.
- Renjie Zhou, Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao, and Huiqiang Wang,
"Boosting Video Popularity Through Recommendation
Systems", in
Proceedings of
ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Databases and Social Networks (DBSocial), 2011.
- Dilip Kumar Krishnappa, Samamon Khemmarat, Lixin Gao, and Michael Zink,
"On the Feasibility of Prefetching and Caching for Online TV Services: A
Measurement Study on
Hulu", in Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurements
Conference (PAM), 2011.
- Samamon Khemmarat, Renjie Zhou, Lixin Gao, and Michael Zink,
"Watching User Generated Videos with
Prefetching",
in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys), 2011.
- Renjie Zhou, Samamon Khemmarat, and Lixin Gao,
"The Impact of YouTube Recommendation System on Video
Views",
in Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2010.
- Tian Zhou, Lixin Gao and Daiheng Ni,
"Road Traffic Prediction by Incorporating Online Information",
in Proceedings of the workshop on Connecting Online & Offline Life (COOL) in conjunction with WWW, 2014.
- Network Virtualization
- Xiaozhe Shao, Lixin Gao, and Hao Zhang,
"CoGS: Enabling Distributed Network Functions with Global States", in Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2017.
- Dong Yin, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Yong Liao, Lixin Gao, and Russell Tessier, ``Customizing Virtual Networks with Partial FPGA
Reconfiguration'',
in Proceedings of VISA 2010: The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized
Infastructure Systems and Architectures, September 3, New Delhi, India.
- Yong Liao, Dong Yin, and Lixin Gao,
``EUROPA: Efficient User Mode Packet Forwarding
for Network
Virtualization'',
in Proceedings of USENIX INM/WREN'10.
- Deepak Unnikrishnan, Ramakrishna Vadlamani, Yong Liao,
Abhishek Dwaraki, Jeremie Crenne, Lixin Gao, Russell Tessier,
``Scalable Network Virtualization Using
FPGAs'',
accepted by FPGA 2010: Eighteenth ACM/SIGDA International
Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays.
- Yong Liao, Dong Yin, and Lixin Gao, ``PdP:
Parallelizing Data Plane in Virtual Network Substrate'', in
Proceedings of VISA 2009: The First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on
Virtualized Infastructure Systems and Architectures, August 17,
Barcelona, Spain.
- Yong Liao, Dong Yin, and Lixin Gao, ``A
Fully-Programmable and High-Speed Virtual Network Platform'',
in poster session of NSDI'09 - 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked
Systems Design and Implementation, April 22-24, 2009, Boston,
Massachusetts.
- Nick Fraemster, Lixin Gao, Jennifer Rexford,
``How to Lease the Internet in Your Spare
Time'',
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), Editorial
Section, January 2007.
- Xiaozhe Shao, Lixin Gao, and Hao Zhang,
"CoGS: Enabling Distributed Network Functions with Global States", in Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2017.
- Wireless Networking
- Vinod Namboodiri and Lixin Gao, ``Towards
Energy Efficient VoIP over Wireless
LANs'',
in Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc
Networking and Computing (ACM MOBIHOC 2008), Hong Kong, May 2008.
- Yong Liao, Zhensheng Zhang, Bo Ryu, and Lixin Gao,
``Cooperative Robust Forwarding Scheme in DTNs
using Erasure Coding'', in
Proceeding of MILCOM 2007, October 29-31, Orlando, Florida.
- Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao, Ramakrishna Janaswamy,
``Power Efficient Topology Control for Static Wireless
Networks with Switched Beam Directional
Antennas'', Ad
Hoc Networks, Vol. 6, 2008.
- Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao, ``Energy-Aware Tag
Anti-Collision Protocols for RFID Systems'', in Proceedings
of IEEE PerCom, White Plains, NY, March 2007.
- Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao, ``Prediction
Based Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networks'',
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, accepted for
publication.
- Yong Liao, Kun Tan, Zhensheng Zhang, and Lixin Gao,
``Modeling Redundancy-based Routing in Delay Tolerant
Networks'',
Proceedings of CCNC 2007 (2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference) Delay Tolerant Network Special Sessions, Las Vegas, NV,
January 2007.
- Yong Liao, Kun Tan, Zhensheng Zhang and Lixin Gao,
``Estimation based Erasure-coding Routing in
Delay Tolerant Networks'', in
Proceedings of IWCMC 2006 (International Wireless Communications
and Mobile Computing Conference) Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks
Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 3-6 July, 2006.
- Yong Liao and Lixin Gao, ``Practical
Schemes for Smooth MAC Layer Handoff in IEEE 802.11 Wireless
Networks'', in
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and
Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2006), Niagara Fall, NY, 26-29 June, 2006.
(Technical report)
- Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao and Ramakrishna Janaswamy,
``Power-Efficient Topology Control for Wireless
Networks with Switched Beam Directional
Antennas'',
in Proceedings of Mobile AdHoc and Sensor Systems(MASS'05),
Washington D.C, November 2005.
- Vinod Namboodiri, Manish Agarwal, and Lixin Gao,
``A Study on the Feasibility of Mobile Gateways
for Vehicular Ad-hoc
Networks''
(ps), in
Proc. of ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2004),
Philadelphia, 2004.
- Manish Agarwal, Joon Ho Cho, Lixin Gao, and Jie Wu, ``Energy Efficient Broadcast in Wireless Ad hoc Networks with Hitch-hiking'', INFOCOM 2004.
- Vinod Namboodiri and Lixin Gao, ``Towards
Energy Efficient VoIP over Wireless
LANs'',
in Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc
Networking and Computing (ACM MOBIHOC 2008), Hong Kong, May 2008.
- Internet Routing
- Zibin Chen, and Lixin Gao
"CURSOR: Configuration Update Synthesis Using Order Rules",
(slides),
IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, New York City, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228930.
- Xiaozhe Shao, Zibin Chen, Daniel Holcomb, and Lixin Gao
"Accelerating BGP Configuration Verification Through Reducing Cycles in SMT Constraints",
in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 2493-2504, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2022.3176267.
- Xiaozhe Shao, Lixin Gao,
"Verifying Policy-based Routing at Internet Scale",
(technical report) in Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2020, to appear.
- Xiaozhe Shao, Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Kenji Fujikawa, and Hiroaki Harai,
"Locators to Accomodate Billions of Objects in the Internet", poster session, in Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2016.
- Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Xiaozhe Shao, Hiroaki Harai and Kenji
Fujikawa, "Compact Location Encodings for Scalable Internet
Routing", in Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015.
- Yang Song, Arun Venkataramani and Lixin Gao. "Identifying and Addressing Protocol Manipulation Attacks in ``Secure'' BGP", in proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2013).
- Yang Song, Arun Venkataramani and Lixin Gao. "On the CDN Pricing Game", in proceeding of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP 2013).
- Yang Song, Lixin Gao, and Fujikawa Kenji,
``Resilient Routing under Hierarchical Automatic
Addressing'', in
Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2011.
- Kin-Wah Kwong, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin, and Zhi-Li Zhang,
"On the Feasibility and Efficacy of Protection Routing in
IP Networks",
in Proceedings of INFOCOM 2010, Best Paper Award.
- Yang Song, Katherine Guo, and Lixin Gao,
"Redundancy-Aware Routing with Limited
Resources",
in Proceedings of ICCCN'10: the 19th International Conference on
Computer Communications and Networks.
- Yong Liao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin, and Zhi-Li Zhang,
``Safe Inter-domain Routing under Diverse Commercial
Agreements'',
accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).
- Feng Wang and Lixin Gao, ``Path Diversity
Aware Interdomain Routing'', in
Proceedings of INFOCOM 2009.
- Feng Wang, Jian Qiu, Lixin Gao, and Jia Wang, ``On
Understanding Transient Interdomain Routing Failures'', IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, vol 17/3, pages 740-751, 2009.
- Yong Liao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin, and Zhi-Li Zhang,
``Reliable Interdomain Routing Through Multiple
Complementary Routing
Processes'',in
proceeding of ReArch'08 - Re-Architecting the Internet, Madrid,
Spain, December 2008.(Technical
Report)
- Feng Wang, Lixin Gao, Oliver Spatscheck, and Jia Wang,
`` STRID: Scalable Trigger-based Route
Incidence
Diagnosis'',
in Proceedings of ICCCN 2008, the 17th International Conference of
Computer Communications and Networks, August 3 - 7, 2008 St.
Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Feng Wang and Lixin Gao, ``A Backup Route
Aware Routing Protocol - Fast Recovery from Transient Routing
Failures'',
in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, Apr
2008.
(fullversion)
- Jianhong Xia, Lixin Gao and Teng Fei, ``A
Measurement Study of Persistent Forwarding Loops on the
Internet'',
to appear in Computer Networks in 2007.
- Feng Wang, Nick Feamster, Lixin Gao,
``Measuring the Contributions of Routing Dynamics
to Prolonged End-to-End Internet Path Failures'', in
Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
- Qian Wu, Yong Liao, Tilman Wolf, and Lixin Gao,
``Benchmarking BGP
routers,''
in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Workload
Characterization (IISWC), Boston, MA, Sept. 2007.
- Jian Qiu and Lixin Gao, ``Robust Egress
Interdomain Traffic Engineering'', in Proceedings
of ICNP, November, 2006.
- Jian Qiu and Lixin Gao, ``AS Path Inference
by Exploiting Known AS Paths'', in Proceedings
of GLOBECOM, November, 2006 (full version).
- Feng Wang, Z. Morley Mao, Jia Wang, Lixin Gao, and Randy Bush,
``A Measurement Study on the Impact of Routing
Events on End-to-End Internet Path Performance'',
in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, September, 2006.
- Jian Qiu, Feng Wang and Lixin Gao, ``BGP
Rerouting Solutions for Transient Routing Failures and Loops'',
in Proceedings of MILCOM, October, 2006.
- Feng Wang, Nick Feamster, and Lixin Gao,
``Quantifying the effects of routing dynamics
on end-to-end Internet Path Failures'', Technical
report (TR-05-CSE-03) in Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Feng Wang, Lixin Gao,Jia Wang and Jian Qiu,
``On Understanding of Transient Interdomain
Routing Failures'', in
Proceedings of IEEE ICNP, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November
2005. (Technical report)
- Jianhong Xia and Lixin Gao, ``On the
Evaluation of AS Relationship Inferences'', in
Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dallas,
TX, November 2004. (Technical report)
(slides)
- Feng Wang and Lixin Gao, ``Inferring and
Characterizing Internet Routing Policies'', ACM
SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2003.
(slides)
- Lixin Gao and Feng Wang, ``The Extent of AS Path Inflation by Routing Policies'', GlobalInternet 2002.
- Zibin Chen, and Lixin Gao
"CURSOR: Configuration Update Synthesis Using Order Rules",
(slides),
IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, New York City, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228930.
- Peer2Peer Network
- Teng Fei, Shu Tao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin and Zhi-li Zhang,
``Light-Weight Overlay Path Selection in a
Peer-to-Peer Environment'', in
Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April,
2006.
- Teng Fei, Shu Tao, Lixin Gao and Roch Guerin.
``How to Select a Good Alternate Path in Large
Peer-to-Peer Systems?'', in
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2006.
- Shu Tao, Kuai Xu, Antonio Estepa, Teng Fei, Lixin Gao, Roch
Guerin, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, and Zhi-Li Zhang.
``Improving VoIP Quality Through Path
Switching'', in
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, March, 2005.
- Shu Tao, Kuai Xu, Ying Xu, Teng Fei, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin,
Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, and Zhi-Li Zhang.
``Exploring the Performance Benefits of
End-to-End Path Switching''. In
Proceedings of IEEE ICNP, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
- Shu Tao, Kuai Xu, Ying Xu, Teng Fei, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, and Zhi-Li Zhang. ``Exploring the Performance Benefits of End-to-End Path Switching''. In Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics/Performance (Extended Abstract), New York, June 2004.
- Teng Fei, Shu Tao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guerin and Zhi-li Zhang,
``Light-Weight Overlay Path Selection in a
Peer-to-Peer Environment'', in
Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April,
2006.
- Network Security
- Jianhong Xia, Lixin Gao and Teng Fei, ``A
Measurement Study of Persistent Forwarding Loops on the
Internet'',
Computer Networks, vol 51/17 (2007) pp 4780-4796.
bibtex
- Jian Qiu, Lixin Gao, Supranamaya Ranjan, Antonio Nucci,
``Detecting Bogus BGP Route Information: Going Beyond
Prefix Hijacking'', in Proceedings
of IEEE SECURECOMM 2007.
- Jianhong Xia, Sarma Vangala, Jiang Wu, Lixin Gao and Kevin
Kwiat, ``Effective Worm Detection for Various
Scan Techniques'',
Journal of Computer Security, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 359-387, 2006.
(BibTex)
- Jianhong Xia, Lixin Gao and Teng Fei,
``Flooding Attacks by Exploiting Persistent
Forwarding Loops'', in
Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC05), Berkeley,
CA, October 2005.
- Jiang Wu, Sarma Vangala, Lixin Gao, and Kevin Kwiat,
``An Effective Architecture and Algorithm for
Detecting Worms with Various Scan Techniques'',
NDSS'04.
- Zesheng Chen, Lixin Gao, and Kevin Kwiat, ``Modeling the Spread of Active Worms'', INFOCOM 2003.
- Jianhong Xia, Lixin Gao and Teng Fei, ``A
Measurement Study of Persistent Forwarding Loops on the
Internet'',
Computer Networks, vol 51/17 (2007) pp 4780-4796.
bibtex