Li Xiao at Michigan State University

Research Interests

Distributed and networking systems, overlay systems and applications, wireless sensor and mesh networks, system resource management, and design and implementations of experimental algorithms.

Journal Publications

P. Huang, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Improving End-to-End Routing Performance of Greedy Forwarding in Sensor Networks,” Accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
K. Pongaliur, L. Xiao, and A. Liu, “Dynamic Camouflage Event Based Malicious Node Detection Architecture,” Accepted to appear in Journal of Supercomputing.
X. Liu and L. Xiao, “ILBO: Balance Inbound Traffic Dynamically in Multi-homed Stub Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.21, No.11, 2010, pp.1561-1572.
Y. Ding and L. Xiao, “SADV: Static-Node Assisted Adaptive Data Dissemination in Vehicular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.59, No.5, June 2010, pp.2445-2455.
Y. Ding, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Using Mobile Beacons to Locate Sensors in Obstructed Environments,” Accepted to appear in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol.70, Issue 6, June 2010, pp.644-656.
G. Zeng, B. Wang, Y. Ding, L. Xiao, and M. Mutka “Efficient Multicast Algorithms for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.21, No.1, 2010, pp.86-99.
Y. Ding, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “An Adaptive Partitioning Scheme for Sleep Scheduling and Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.20, No.9, 2009, pp.1352-1365.
A. Patil, A.-H. Esfahanian, Y. Liu, and L. Xiao, “Resource Allocation Using Multiple Edge-Sharing Multicast Trees,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.57, No.5, September 2008, pp.3178-3186.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, “Sensor Localization in Concave Environments,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol.4, Iss.1, January 2008, pp.3:1-3:31.
A. Patil, Y. Liu, L. Xiao, A.-H. Esfahanian, and L. Ni, “SOLONet: Sub-optimal location-aided overlay network for MANETs,” Wireless Networks, Vol.14, No.4, August 2008, pp.415-433.
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, and L. Ni, “Building a Scalable Bipartite P2P Overlay Network,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.18, No.9, 2007, pp.1296-1306.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, “Sensor Localization under Limited Measurement Capabilities,” IEEE Network, Vol.21 No.3, May/June 2007, pp.16-23.
X. Liu and L. Xiao, “A Survey of Multihoming Technology in Stub Networks: Current Research and Open Issues,” IEEE Network, Vol.21 No.3, May/June 2007, pp.32-40.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, “An Effective P2P Search Scheme to Exploit File Sharing Heterogeneity,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.18, No.2, 2007, pp.145-157.
L. Xiao, Y. Liu, W. Gu, D. Xuan, and X. Liu, “Mutual Anonymous Overlay Multicast,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 66, No. 9, 2006, pp.1205-1216.
X. Liu, Y. Liu, and L. Xiao, “Improving Query Response Delivery Quality in Peer-to-Peer Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.17, No.11, 2006, pp.1335-1347.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, Z. Kuang, B. Feng, J. Kang, “Auto-CFD-NOW: A pre-compiler for effectively parallelizing CFD applications on networks of workstations,” Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2006, pp.189-217.
C. Wang, L. Xiao, Y. Liu, and P. Zheng “DiCAS: an Efficient Distributed Caching Mechanism for P2P Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.17, No.10, 2006, pp.1097-1109.
J. Oleszkiewicz, L. Xiao, and Y. Liu, “Effectively utilizing global cluster memory for large data-intensive parallel programs,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.17. No.1, 2006, pp.66-77.
L. Xiao, Z. Zhuang, and Y. Liu, “Dynamic layer management in super-peer architectures,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.16. No.11, 2005, pp.1078-1091.
L. Xiao, Y. Liu, and L. M. Ni, “Improving Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems by Adaptive Connection Establishment,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.54, No.9, 2005, pp.1091-1103.
L. Guo, S. Jiang, L. Xiao, and X. Zhang, “Fast and Low Cost Search Schemes by Exploiting Localities in P2P Networks,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2005, pp.729-742.
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, X. Liu, L. M. Ni, and X. Zhang, “Location Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol.16, No.2, 2005, pp.163-174.
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, L. M. Ni, Yunhuai Liu, “Building Efficient Overlays,” Journal of Grid Computing, Vol.2, No. 2, 2004, pp.183-192.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, A. Andrzejak, and S. Chen, "Building a Large and Efficient Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Internet Caching System", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 6, 2004, pp. 754-769.
L. Xiao, S. Chen, and X. Zhang, "Adaptive Memory Allocations in Clusters to Handle Unexpectedly Large Data-intensive Jobs", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 7, 2004, pp.577-592.
L. Xiao, A. Patil, Y. Liu, L. M. Ni, and A.-H. Esfahanian, "Prioritized Overlay Multicast in Ad-hoc Environments", IEEE Computer, February 2004, pp. 67-74.
L. Xiao, X. Chen, X. Zhang, and Y. Liu, “On Scalable and Locality Aware Web Document Sharing", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 63, No. 10, October 2003, pp.945-962.
L. Xiao, Z. Xu and X. Zhang, “Low-cost and Reliable Mutual Anonymity Protocols in Peer-to-Peer Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14, No. 9, 2003, pp.829-840.
L. Xiao, S. Chen and X. Zhang, “Dynamic cluster resource allocations for jobs with known and unknown memory demands", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002, pp.223-240.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, and S. A. Kubricht, “Improving Memory Performance of Sorting Algorithms”, ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics, Vol. 5, 2000.

Conference Publications

Y. Ding, Y. Yang, and L. Xiao, “Multi-Path Routing and Rate Allocation for Multi-Source Video On-Demand Streaming in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2011), Shanghai, China, April 2011, pp.2051-2059.
K. Pongaliur and L. Xiao, “Maintaining Source Privacy under Eavesdropping and Node Compromise Attacks,” Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2011), Shanghai, China, April 2011, pp.1656-1664.
J. Zhao, N. Xi, B. Gao, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao, “Development of a Controllable and Continuous Jumping Robot,” Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011.
Y. Ding and L. Xiao, “Routing and Spectrum Allocation for Video On-Demand Streaming in Cognitive Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010), San Francisco, California, November 2010, pp.242-251.
J. Zhao, N. Xi, B. Gao, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao, “Design and Testing of a Controllable Miniature Jumping Robot,” Proceedings of 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010, pp.3346-3351.
P. Huang, C. Wang, L. Xiao, and H. Chen, “RC-MAC: A Receiver-Centric Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2010), Beijing, China, June 2010, pp.1-9.
B.Wang, G. Zeng, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao, “Routing for Minimum Length Schedule in Multichannel TDMA basedWireless Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on aWorld ofWireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2010), Montreal, Canada, June 2010, pp.1-6.
Y. Ding, K. Pongaliur, and L. Xiao, “HybridMulti-Channel Multi-RadioWirelessMesh Networks,” Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2009), Charleston, South Carolina, July 2009.
K. Pongaliur, L. Xiao, and A. Liu, “CENDA-Camouflage Event Based Malicious Node Detection Architecture,” Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP-09), Macau, China, October 2009, pp.848-855. (Best Paper Award)
G. Zeng, B.Wang, M. Mutka, L. Xiao, and E. Torng, “EfficientMulticast for Link-Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2009), Phoenix, Arizona, December 2009, pp.177-184.
F. Cintron, K. Pongaliur, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao “Energy Balancing Hopping Sensor Network Model to Maximize Coverage,” Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009), San Francisco, California, August 2009.
J. Zhao, R. Yang, N. Xi, B. Gao, X. Fan, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao, “Development of a Miniature Self-Stabilization Jumping Robot,” Proceedings of 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), St. Louis, Missouri, October 2009, pp.2217-2222.
K. Pongaliur, Z. Abraham, A. Liu, L. Xiao, and L. Kempel, “Securing Sensor Nodes Against Side Channel Attacks,” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2008), Nanjing, China, December 2008.
Y. Ding, Y. Huang, G. Zeng, and L. Xiao, “Channel Assignment with Partially Overlapping Channels inWireless Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the fourth International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), Hawaii, November 2008.
X. Liu and L. Xiao, “Inbound Traffic Load Balancing in BGP Multi-homed Stub Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 2008, pp.369-376.
G. Zeng, B. Wang, Y. Ding, L. Xiao, and M. Mutka, “Multicast Algorithms for Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2007), Beijing, China, October 2007, pp.1-10.
Y. Liu, X. Liu, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Defending P2Ps from Overlay Flooding-based DDoS,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07), Xi’an, China, September 2007.
C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Improving Routing Quality of Greedy Forwarding in Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (IWQoS 2007), Chicago, Illinois, June 2007, pp.65-73.
Y. Ding, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “A Connectivity Based Partition Approach for Node Scheduling in Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp.354-367.
C. Wang, G. Zeng, and L. Xiao, “Optimizing End to End Routing Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp.36-49.
C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Improving Event-to-Sink Throughput in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp.50-63.
G. Zeng, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, “Grid Multicast: An Energy-efficient Multicast Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (INSS 2007), Braunschweig, Germany, June 2007, pp.267-274.
C. Wang, Y. Ding, and L. Xiao, “Virtual Ruler: Mobile Beacon Based Distance Measurements for Indoor Sensor Localization,” Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.
B. Connelly, C. Bowron, L. Xiao, P. Tan, and C. Wang “Adaptively Routing P2P Queries Using Association Analysis,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, Ohio, August 2006, pp.281-288.
X. Liu and L. Xiao, “hiREP: Building a Hierarchical Reputation Management System for Peer-to-Peer Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, Ohio, August 2006, pp.289-296.
X. Liu, L. Xiao, A. Kreling, and Y. Liu, “Optimizing Overlay Topology by Reducing Cut Vertices,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV 2006), Newport, Rhode Island, May 2006, pp.99-104.
C. Wang, L. Xiao, “Locating Sensors in Concave Areas,” Proceedings of INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
L. Xiao, X. Liu, W. Gu, D. Xuan, Y. Liu, “A Design of Overlay Anonymous Multicast Protocol,” Proceedings of IEEE 2006 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.
A. Patil, A.-H. Esfahanian, L. Xiao and Y. Liu, “Resource Allocation using Multiple Edge-Sharing Multicast Trees,” Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2005), Washington D.C., November 2005.
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, A.-H. Esfahanian, and L. M. Ni, “Approaching Optimal Peer-to-Peer Overlays,” Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2005), Atlanta, Georgia, September 2005, pp.407-414.
C. Wang, L. Xiao, and P. Zheng, “Prioritized Search in Hierarchical Peer to Peer Networks,” Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2005), Oslo, Norway, June 2005, pp.269-276.
C. Wang, L. Xiao, and J. Rong, “Sensor Localization in an Obstructed Environment,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2005), Marina del Rey, California, June 2005, pp.49-62.
S. Kang, M. Mutka, and L. Xiao, “Anonymous Content Sharing in Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2005), Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA, March 2005, pp.290-295.
J. Han, Y. Liu, L. Xiao, R. Xiao, L. M. Ni, “A Mutual Anonymous Peer-to-peer Protocol Design,” Proceedings of IEEE 2005 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, Colorado, USA, April 2005.
A. Patil, Y. Liu, L. Xiao, A.-H. Esfahanian, and L. M. Ni, “SOLONet: Sub-Optimal Location-Aided Overlay Network for MANETs,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2004), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 2004, pp.324-333.
X. Liu, Y. Liu, and L. Xiao, “Reliable Response Delivery in Peer-to-Peer System,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, Netherlands, October 2004, pp.427-434.
L. Guo, S. Jiang, L. Xiao, and X. Zhang, “Exploiting Content Localities for Efficient Search in P2P Systems,” Proceedings of 18th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2004), Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2004, pp.349-364.
J. Oleszkiewicz, L. Xiao, and Y. Liu, “Parallel Network RAM: Effectively Utilizing Global Cluster Memory for Large Data-Intensive Parallel Programs,” Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2004 ), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004, pp.353-360.
Z. Zhuang, Y. Liu, and L. Xiao, “Dynamic Layer Management in Super-peer Architectures,” Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2004 ), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004, pp.29-36.
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, and L. M. Ni, “Building a Scalable Bipartite P2P Overlay Network,” Proceedings of 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 2004.
Y. Liu, Z. Zhuang, L. Xiao, and L. M. Ni, "A Distributed Approach to Solving Overlay Mismatching Problem", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.
C. Wang, L. Xiao, Y. Liu, and P. Zheng, "Distributed Caching and Adaptive Search in Multilayer P2P Networks", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.
Y. Liu, X. Liu, L. Xiao, L. M. Ni, and X. Zhang, "Location-Aware Topology Matching in P2P Systems", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, China, March 2004.
A. Patil, Y. Liu, L. M. Ni, L. Xiao, and A.-H. Esfahanian, ``POMA: Prioritized Overlay Multicast in Ad-hoc Environments", Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on High Performance Computing, (HiPC 2003), December 17-20, 2003.
Y. Liu, Z. Zhuang, L. Xiao, and L. M. Ni, "AOTO: Adaptive Overlay Topology Optimization in Unstructured P2P Systems", Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, USA, December 1-5, 2003.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, Z. Kuang, B. Feng, and J. Kang, ``Auto-CFD: efficiently parallelizing CFD applications on clusters", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster2003), Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, December 1-4, 2003.
Z. Zhuang, Y. Liu, L. Xiao, and L. M. Ni, ``Hybrid Periodical Flooding Search in Unstructured P2P Systems", Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing, (ICPP-03), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2003.
L. Xiao, Z. Xu, and X. Zhang, ``Mutual anonymity protocols for hybrid peer-to-peer systems", Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'2003), Providence, Rhode Island, May 19-22, 2003.
S. Chen, L. Xiao, and X. Zhang, ``Adaptive and virtual reconfiguration for dynamic job scheduling in clusters", Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'2002), Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2002.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, and Z. Xu, ``On reliable and scalable peer-to-peer Web document sharing", Proceedings of 2002 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, (IPDPS'02), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 15-19, 2002.
L. Xiao and X. Zhang, ``Exploiting neglected data locality in browsers", Proceedings of the 10th International World Wide Web Conference, (WWW-10), Hong Kong, May 1-5, 2001, (an extended abstract).
S. Chen, L. Xiao, and X. Zhang, ``Dynamic load sharing with unknown memory demands in clusters", Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'2001), Phoenix, Arizona, April 16-19, 2001.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, and S. A. Kubricht, ``Incorporating job migrations and network RAM to Share Cluster Memory Resources", Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, (HPDC-9), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1-5, 2000.
L. Xiao, X. Zhang, and Y. Qu, ``Effective load sharing on heterogeneous networks of workstations", Proceedings of the 2000 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, (IPDPS'2000), Cancun, Mexico, May 1-5, 2000.
X. Zhang, Y. Qu, and L. Xiao, ``Improving distributed workload performance by sharing both CPU and memory resources", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'2000), Taipei, Taiwan, April 10-13, 2000.

Other Selected Publications

L. Xiao, J. Kang, “Automatic Program Parallelization”, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Washington D.C., USA, October 1997. pp. 176-179.
L. Xiao and J. Kang, “Automatic Searching for Array's Shared Variable for Parallelizing CFD Applications”, Journal of Software, 1997, 8(11), pp. 871-875.
L. Xiao and J. Kang, “Frame-Synchronization and Frame-Communication Strategy for Parallelizing CFD Applications”, Journal of Aeronautics, 1997, 18(5), pp. 523-527.

Patent

Increasing Peer Privacy, by Zhichen Xu and Li Xiao, United States Patent No. 7,865,715, January 4, 2011.
Increasing Peer Privacy, by Zhichen Xu and Li Xiao, United States Patent No. 7,398,388, July 8, 2008.
Invoking Mutual Anonymity by Electing to Become Head of a Returning Path, by Zhichen Xu and Li Xiao, United States Patent No. 7,167,979, January 23, 2007.
Automatic Parallelization SPMD Programs Based on Shared Data, CN 1180192A, approved by the Patent Bureau, P. R. China, April, 1998. (with J. Kang, et. al.).