Y. Charlie Hu: Selected Publications


Smartphone Energy Profiling and Energy Debugging

Energy and Performance of Smartphone Radio Bundling in Outdoor Environments. Ana Nika, Yibo Zhu, Ning Ding, Abhilash Jindal, Y. Charlie Hu, Xia Zhou, Ben Y. Zhao and Haitao Zheng. In Proc. of 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, May 2015. (acceptance rate: 14.1%)

On Death, Taxes, and Sleep Disorder Bugs in Smartphones. Abhilash Jindal, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Sam Midkiff. In Proc. USENIX HotPower'13: 5th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, November 3, 2013.

How Much Energy Can We Save from Prefetching Ads? Energy Drain Analysis of Top 100 Apps. Xiaomeng Chen, Abhilash Jindal, Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. USENIX HotPower'13: 5th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Syste , November 3, 2013.

Characterizing and Modeling the Impact of Wireless Signal Strength on Smartphone Battery Drain. Ning Ding, Daniel Wagner, Xiaomeng Chen, Y. Charlie Hu, Andrew Rice. To appear in Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Pittsburgh, PA, June 17-21, 2013. (AR: 27/196 14%)

Hypnos: Understanding and Treating Sleep Conflicts in Smartphones. Abhilash Jindal, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Samuel Midkiff. In Proc. of Eurosys: European Conference on Computer Systems, 14pp., April 14-17, 2013. (acceptance rate 18%)

What is keeping my phone awake? Characterizing and Detecting No-Sleep Energy Bugs in Smartphone Apps. Abhinav Pathak, Abhilash Jindal, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel Midkiff. In Proc. of ACM MobiSys, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, June 25-29, 2012. (acceptance rate 18%)

Where is the energy spent inside my app? Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ming Zhang. In Proc. of EuroSys: European Conference on Computer Systems, 14pp., Bern, Switzerland, April 10-13, 2012. (acceptance rate 15%) Best Student Paper Award

Bootstrapping Energy Debugging on Smartphones: A First Look at Energy Bugs in Mobile Devices. Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ming Zhang. In Proc. of the 2011 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets X), Cambridge, MA, November 14-15, 2011. (acceptance rate 20%)

Fine-Grained Power Modeling for Smartphones Using System Call Tracing. Abhinav Pathak, Y. charlie Hu, Ming Zhang, Paramvir Bahl, and Yi-Ming Wang. In Proc. of EuroSys: European Conference on Computer Systems, 15pp., April 10-13, 2011. (acceptance rate 15%)

Data Center Networking

Duet: Cloud scale load-balancing using hardware and software. Rohan Gandhi, Hongqiang Liu, Y. Charlie Hu, Guohan Lu, Jitu Padhye, Lihua Yuan, Ming Zhang. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 18-22, 2014, Chicago, IL. (acceptance rate: 19%)

On the impact of packet spraying in data center networks. Advait Abhay Dixit, Pawan Prakash, Y. Charlie Hu, Ramana Rao Kompella. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 14-19, 2013. (AR: 17%)

The Only Constant is Change: Incorporating Time Varying Network Reservations in Data Centers. Di Xie, Ning Ding, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ramana Kompella. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 13-17, 2012. (acceptance rate: 13.6%)

The TCP Outcast Problem: Exposing Throughput Unfairness in Data Center Networks. Pawan Prakash, Advait Dixit, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ramana Rao Kompella. In Proc. of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, April 25-27, 2012. (acceptance rate: 18% 30/169)

Latency Inflation with MPLS Based Traffic Engineering. Abhinav Pathak, Ming Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Ratul Mahajan, Dave Maltz. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2011), Berlin, Germany, November 2-4, 2011.

Optimizing Cost and Performance in Online Service Providers. Zheng Zhang, Ming Zhang, Albert Greenberg, Y. Charlie Hu, Ratul Mahajan, and Blaine Christian. In Proc. of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, April 28-30, 2010. (acceptance rate 16.5%)

Measuring and Evaluating TCP Splitting for Cloud Services. Abhinav Pathak, Y. Angela Wang, Cheng Huang, Albert Greenberg, Y. Charlie Hu, Randy Kern, Jin li, and Keith Ross. In Proc. of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), April 2010. (acceptance rate 23/79)

Internet Routing Analysis

BGP Molecules: Understanding and Predicting Prefix Failures. Ravish Khosla, Sonia Fahmy, Y. Charlie Hu. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, 5 pp., April 2011.

Prediction Models for Long-Term Internet Prefix Availability. Ravish Khosla, Sonia Fahmy, Y. Charlie Hu, and Jennifer Neville. In Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal (COMNET), Vol. 55(3), pp. 873-889, February 2011.

iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own. Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Randy Bush. In ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 18 (6), pp. 1815--1828, December 2010.

Predicting Prefix Availability in the Internet. Ravish Khosla, Sonia Fahmy, Y. Charlie Hu, and Jennifer Neville. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, March 2010.

HC-BGP: A Light-weight and Flexible Scheme for Securing Prefix Ownership. Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE/IFIP DSN-DCCS, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29 - July 2, 2009.

iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own. Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Randy Bush. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, Seattle, WA, August 17-22, 2008. (12.5%)

Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking. Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao. In Proc. of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 10-13, 2007. (acceptance rate: 20%)

Internet Measurement Study

How to Improve Your Google Ranking: Myths and Reality. A.-J. Su, Y. C. Hu, A. Kuzmanovic, and C.-k. Koh. In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, August 2010. (acceptance rate 16.6%)

A Measurement Study of Internet Delay Asymmetry. Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu and Z. Morley Mao. In Proc. of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2008), Cleveland, OH, Apr 29-30, 2008.

On the Impact of Route Monitor Selection. Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu, and Bruce Maggs. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2007.

Understanding Network Delay Changes Caused by Routing Events. Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), San Diego, CA, June 12-16, 2007. (29/170 17%)

On the Impact of Research Network Based Testbeds on Wide-area Experiments. Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu, and Z. Morley Mao. In Proc. of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 25-27, 2006.


Spam Campaign Analysis and Spam-Aware Mail Server Design

A Case for Unsupervised-Learning-based Spam Filtering (Extended Abstract). Feng Qian, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie. In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS, Columbia University, New York, June 14-18, 2010.

Botnet Spam Campaigns can be Long Lasting: Evidence, Implications, and Analysis. Abhinav Pathak, Feng Qian, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Supranamaya Ranjan. In Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS, Seattle, WA, June 15-19, 2009. (acceptance rate: 15%)

The Case for Spam-Aware High Performance Mail Server Architecture. Abinav Pathak, Ali Jafri, and Y. Charlie Hu. To appear in Proc. of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-26, 2009. (acceptance rate: 16%)

Peeking into Spammer Behavior from a Unique Vantage Point. Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu and Z. Morley Mao. In Proc. 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 2008), San Francisco, CA, April 15, 2008.

Building Spam-Aware High Performance Mail Servers. Abhinav Pathak, Ali Jafri, and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, ACM SOSP 2007, Stevenson, WA, October 14-17, 2007.

Mitigating the Impact of Spams by Internet Content Pollution. Sabyasachi Roy, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, ACM SIGCOMM, August 28-30, 2007.

A Case for a Spam-Aware Mail Server Architecture. Abhinav Pathak, Sabyasachi Roy, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 4th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) (short paper), Mountain View, CA, August 2-3, 2007.


Program Counter Based Techniques in Operating Systems

The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms. Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, and Y. Charlie Hu. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 56 (7), pp. 889-908, July 2007.

Program Counter-Based Prediction Techniques for Dynamic Power Management. Chris Gniady, Ali R. Butt, Y. Charlie Hu, and Yung-Hsiang Lu. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 641-658, Vol. 55 (6), June 2006.

The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS '05), Banff, Canada, June 6-10, 2005. (31/237 13%)

Program Counter Based Pattern Classification in Buffer Caching. Chris Gniady, Ali R. Butt, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, CA, December 6-8, 2004. (27/193 14%)

Program Counter Based Techniques for Dynamic Power Management. Chris Gniady, Y. Charlie Hu, and Yung-Hsiang Lu. In Proc. of the 10th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-10) , Madrid, Spain. February 14-18, 2004. (27/153 18%)


Wireless Mesh Networking

TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Theodoros Salonidis, Henrik Lundgren, Pascal LeGuyadec, Y. Charlie Hu, and Irfan Sheriff. In Proc. of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2008), Madrid, Spain, December 9-12, 2008. (acceptance rate 17.5%)

"Exotic" Routing Protocol Design for Wireless Mesh Networks

Synergistic Link Correlation-Aware and Network Coding-Based Data Dissemination in WSNs. S. M. I. Alam, Salmin Sultana, Y. Charlie Hu, and SOni Fahmy. To appear in Proc. of IEEE 21st Intl. Symp. on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), August 14-16, 2013. (acceptance rate 27%)

Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Chih-Chun Wang. In ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), pp. 1375--1388, Vol 20 (5), October 2012.

FEC-Based AP Downlink Transmission Schemes For Multiple Flows: Combining The Reliability and Throughput Enhancement of Intra- and Inter-flow Coding. Chih-Chun Wang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ness B. Shroff. In Proc. of the 29th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP PERFORMANCE), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 18-20, 2011.

Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Chih-Chun Wang, and Y. Charlie Hu. In ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 19 (5), pp. 1368--1381, October 2011.

CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Chih-Chun Wang, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 15-19, 2010. (acceptance rate 17.5%)

Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Chih-Chun Wang. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009. (20%)

An Empirical Study of Performance Benefits of Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Chih-Chun Wang. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 20, 2009.

How to evaluate exotic wireless routing protocols? Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Konstantina Papagiannaki. In Proc. of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets VII), October 2008.

Context Based Routing: Technique, Applications and Experience. Saumitra M. Das, Yunnan Wu, Ranveer Chandra and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2008), San Francisco, CA, April 16-18, 2008. (17%)

Distributed Beamforming

  • Energy-efficient data dissemination using beamforming in wireless sensor networks. Jing Feng, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Byunghoo Jung, Dimitrios Peroulis, Y. Charlie Hu. In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 9 Issue 3, 30 pages, May 2013.

    Energy-Efficient Transmission for Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks. Jing Feng, Che-Wei Chang, Serkan Sayilir, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Byunghoo Jung, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, June 21 - 25, 2010. (23%)

    Radiating Sensor Selection for Distributed Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks. Che-Wei Chang, Akshay Kothari, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitrios Peroulis, Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of MILCOM 2008, San Diego, CA, November 2008.

    Interference Characterization and Link Metric Design in Wireless Meshes

    Measurement-based Characterization of a Wireless Mesh Network. Saumitra M. Das, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas and Y. Charlie Hu. Book Chapter, in Handbook of Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networking, McGraw-Hill International, New York, 2008.

    Understanding Wireless Routing Link Metric Dynamics. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, Konstantina Papagianakki and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 07), San Diego, CA, October 24-26, 2007.

    On TCP Throughput and Window Size in a Multihop Wireless Network Testbed.
    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Jagadeesh Dyaberi, Prashant Garimella, Sonia Fahmy, and Y. Charlie Hu.
     In ACM Mobicom International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 07), Montreal, QC, Canada, September 10, 2007.

    The Case for Conditional Link Metrics and Routing. Saumitra M. Das, Yunnan Wu, Ranveer Chandra and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 07), Cambrige, MA, April 11-13, 2007.

    Characterizing Multi-Way Interference In Wireless Mesh Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Dimitrios Peroulis. In Proc. of ACM MobiCom International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 06), Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2006.

    High Throughput and Reliable Multicast in Wireless Meshes

    Hierarchical geographic multicast routing for wireless sensor networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ivan Stojmenovic. In Wireless Networks, Vol. 16(2), pp. 449-466, February 2010. (18 pages)

    Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Chih-Chun Wang. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009. (20%)

    Exploring the Design Space of Reliable Multicast Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas and Y. Charlie Hu. In Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal (AdHoc), Volume 7, Issue 5, pp. 932-954, July 2009.

    An Interference-Aware Fair Scheduling for Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks, Vol. 68 (3), pp. 372-386, March 2008.

    High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks. (offprint) Sabyasachi Roy, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal (AdHoc), Vol. 6 (6), pp. 878-899, August 2008.

    Towards High-Throughput and Fair Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks (abstract). Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra M. Das, Sabyasachi Roy, and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, IEEE INFOCOM 2007 Student Posters, Anchorage, Alaska, May 9th, 2007.

    The Case for FEC-based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 07), Edinburgh, UK, June 25-28, 2007.

  • High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks. Sabyasachi Roy, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006. (AR: 13.8%)

    Peer-to-Peer Caching and Directional Antennas in Wireless Meshes

    Mitigating the Gateway Bottleneck via Transparent Cooperative Caching in Wireless Mesh Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, and Y. Charlie Hu. in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Ad Hoc Networks), Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks, Vol 5 (6), pp. 680-703, August 2007.

    Mitigating the Gateway Bottleneck via Transparent Cooperative Caching in Wireless Mesh Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, ACM Internal Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 06), Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2006. [Accepted into SRC]

    DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Dimitrios Peroulis. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC 06) special issue on Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Volume 24, Number 11, 2006.

    Symmetrical Fairness in Infrastructure Access in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks. Saumitra. M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, and Y. Charlie. Hu. In Proc. of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 05), Columbus, Ohio, June 6-9, 2005. (AR: 13.8%)


    Internet Distance Prediction

    A Hierarchical Approach to Internet Distance Prediction. Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Xiaojun Lin, Sonia Fahmy. In Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006. (14%)

    Impact of the Inaccuracy of Distance Prediction Algorithms on Internet Applications -- an Analytical and Comparative Study. Rongmei Zhang, Chunqiang Tang, Y. Charlie Hu, Sonia Fahmy, and Xiaojun Lin. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 23-29, 2006. (18%)


    Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

    Distributed Hashing for Scalable Multicast in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha and Y. Charlie Hu. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 19(3), pp. 347-362, March 2008.

    Hierarchical Geographic Multicast Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks. Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra Das, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ivan Stojmenovic. In Proc. of International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM), Valencia, Spain, October 14-20, 2007. (34%) (Best Paper Award)

    On the Scalability of Location Services for Geographic Wireless Ad Hoc Routing. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha and Y. Charlie Hu. In Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal (COMNET), Vol 51 (13), pp. 3693-3714, September 2007,

    The Performance Impact of Traffic Patterns on Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Himabindu Pucha, Saumitra M. Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal (COMNET), Vol 51 (12), pp. 3595-3616, August 2007.

    Imposed Route Reuse in Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols using Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Routing. Himabindu Pucha, Saumitra M. Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17 (12), pp. 1452-1467, December 2006.

    Ekta+: Opportunistic Multiplexing in a Wireless DHT. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster paper, in ACM MobiCom International Workshop on Decentralized Resource Sharing in Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiShare 2006), Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2006.

    Distributed Hashing for Scalable Multicast in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha and Y. Charlie Hu. Poster, the 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, May 2-4, 2005.

    Performance Comparison of Scalable Location Services for Geographic Ad Hoc Routing. Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, FL, March 13-17, 2005. (244/1419 17%)

    Peer-to-Peer Overlay Abstractions in MANETs. Y. Charlie Hu, Saumitra M. Das, and Himabindu Pucha. In Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless and Peer-to-Peer Networks, edited by Jie Wu, CRC Press, 2005.

    Ekta: An Efficient DHT Substrate for Distributed Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Himabindu Pucha, Saumitra M. Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), English Lake District, UK, December 2-3, 2004. (21/83)

    The Performance Impact of Traffic Patterns on Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Himabindu Pucha, Saumitra M. Das, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Venice, Italy, October 4-6, 2004. (33 regular/121)

    How to Implement DHT in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks? Himabindu Pucha, Saumitra M. Das and Y. Charlie Hu. Student poster, the 10th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Network (MobiCom), Philadelphia, PA, September 26-October 1, 2004.

    Exploiting the Synergy between Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Y. Charlie Hu, Saumitra M. Das, and Himabindu Pucha. In Proc. of HotOS-IX: Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, May 18-21, 2003. (19 long/144 13%)


    Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networking

    On the Placement of Infrastructure Overlay Nodes. Sabyasachi Roy, Himabindu Pucha, Zheng Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Lili Qiu. In ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 17 (4), pp. 1298-1311, August 2009.

    Assisted Peer-to-Peer Search with Partial Indexing. Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 18 (8), pp. 1146-1158, August 2007.

    Overlay Node Placement: Analysis, Algorithms and Impact on Applications. Sabyasachi Roy, Himabindu Pucha, Zheng Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Lili Qiu. In Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Toronto, Canada, June 25-29, 2007.

    Take One Get One Free: Leveraging P2P Networks for Content Promotion. Himabindu Pucha, Sabyasachi Roy and Y. Charlie Hu. In the 9th IEEE INFOCOM Global Internet Symposium (GI 2006), Barcelona, Spain, April 28-29 2006.

    MutantX: Mutating Tree-Based Overlay Multicast Protocols to Optimize Throughput. Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu, Ming Zhang, and Randy Wang. Poster, the 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, May 2-4, 2005.

    HYPER: A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Content-based Publish/Subscribe. Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, Ohio, June 6-9, 2005. (14% 75/543)

    Assisted Peer-to-Peer Search with Partial Indexing. Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, FL, March 13-17, 2005. (244/1419 17%)

    Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-demand Streaming. Rongmei Zhang, Ali R. Butt, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of 2005 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2-6, 2005. (106/430 24.7%)

    On the Equivalence of Forward and Reverse Query Caching in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. Ali R. Butt, Nipoon Malhotra, Sunil Patro, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW), Beijing, China, October 18-20, 2004. (15/50) copyright Springer-Verlag

    Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming. Rongmei Zhang, Ali R. Butt, and Y. Charlie Hu. Student Poster, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October 5-8, 2004.

    Anycast in Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03), page 34-46. 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany, September 16-19, 2003. (17 full/51)

    Exploiting the Synergy between Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Y. Charlie Hu, Saumitra M. Das, and Himabindu Pucha. In Proc. of HotOS-IX: Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, May 18-21, 2003. (19 long/144)

    Borg: a Hybrid Protocol for Scalable Multicast in Peer-to-Peer Networks. Rongmei Zhang and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Monterey, California, June 1-3, 2003. (18/60)

    Optimizing Routing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks Using Routing Table Redundancy. Rongmei Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Peter Druschel. In Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2003), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 28-30, 2003.

    Transparent Query Caching in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks. Sunil Patro and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of the 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 22-26, 2003. (119//407 29%)

    Topology-aware routing in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks. Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Y. Charlie Hu, and Antony Rowstron. In FuDiCo 2002: International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing. University of Bologna Residential Center Bertinoro (Forli), Italy, June 2002.

    Exploiting network proximity in peer-to-peer overlay networks. Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Y. Charlie Hu, and Antony Rowstron. Technical report MSR-TR-2002-82, 2002.

    Design and Scalability of NLS, a Scalable Naming and Location Service. Y. Charlie Hu, Dan A. Rodney, Peter Druschel. Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002. (192/938 20%)


    Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing

    CycleMeter: Detecting Fraudulent Peers in Internet Cycle Sharing. Zheng Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. In Proc. of IEEE/ACM SC2006, Tampa, FL, November 11-17, 2006. (acceptance rate: 22.5%)

    Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System. Ali R. Butt, Troy A. Johnson, Yili Zheng, Y. Charlie Hu. In Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing, Volume 4 (3), pp. 323-341, September 2006. (acceptance rate: 25%)

    A Fair, Secure and Trustworthy Peer-to-Peer Based Cycle-Sharing System. Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel P. Midkiff. In Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing, Volume 4 (3), pp. 265-286, September 2006. (acceptance rate: 25%)

    Monitoring Remotely Executing Shared Memory Programs in Software DSMs. Long Fei, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel P. Midkiff. In Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rhodes Island, Greece. April 25-29, 2006.

    A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors. Ali Raza Butt, Rongmei Zhang, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol 66(1), pp. 145-161, January 2006.

    Lightweight Monitoring of the Progress of Remotely Executing Computations. Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Y. Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. Poster, IEEE/ACM SC2005, Seattle, WA, November 12-18, 2005.

    Lightweight Monitoring of the Progress of Remotely Executing Computations. Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Y. Charlie Hu and Samuel P. Midkiff. In Proc. of the 18th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), Hawthorne, New York, October 20-22, 2005.

    Trust but Verify: Monitoring Remotely Executing Programs for Progress and Correctness. Shuo Yang, Ali R. Butt, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel P. Midkiff. In Proc. of ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), Chicago, IL, June 15-17, 2005.

    Kosha: A Peer-to-Peer Enhancement for the Network File System. Ali R. Butt, Troy Johnson, Yili Zheng, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE/ACM SC2004, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-12, 2004. (59/192)

    Java, Peer-to-Peer, and Accountability: Building Blocks for Distributed Cycle Sharing. Ali Raza Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, and Samuel Midkiff. In Proc. of the 3rd USENIX Virtual Machines Research and Technology Syposium (VM '04), San Jose, CA, May 6-7, 2004.

    A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors. Ali Raza Butt, Rongmei Zhang, and Y. Charlie Hu. In Proc. of IEEE/ACM SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November 15-21, 2003. (60/207) Nominated for the Best Student Paper of SC 2003 Award.

    An Open Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Cycle-Sharing. Ali Raza Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, Sam Midkiff and Jan Vitek. Work-in-Progress of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'03), Bolton Landing (Lake George), NY, October 19-22, 2003.


    Runtime Support For High Performance Computing

    Runtime Support for Distributed Sharing in Safe Languages. Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan Cox, Dan Wallach, and Willy Zwaenepoel. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol 21(1), pp. 1-35, February 2003.

    Improving Fine-Grained Irregular Shared-Memory Benchmarks by Data Reordering. Y. Charlie Hu, Alan Cox, and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of IEEE/ACM SC'2000, Dallas, Texas, November 2000.

    Runtime Support for Distributed Sharing in Typed Languages. Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan Cox, Dan Wallach, and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of LCR2000: the Fifth Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers. Rochester, NY, May 2000.

    The Effect of Contention on the Scalability of Page-Based Software Shared Memory Systems. Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie. Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan Cox, and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of LCR2000: the Fifth Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers. Rochester, NY, May 2000.

    A Performance Comparison of Homeless and Home-based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols in Software Shared Memory. Alan Cox, Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of the 5th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-5), Orlando, Florida, January 1999.

    OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan Cox and Willy Zwaenepoel. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), vol. 60 (12), pp. 1512-1530, December 2000.

    OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan Cox and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium , San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999.

    OpenMP on Networks of Workstations. Honghui Lu, Y. Charlie Hu and Willy Zwaenepoel. Proc. of IEEE/ACM SC'98, Orlando, Florida, November 1998.



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