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Fei Chen

I joined VMware Inc. after graduation. I received my Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. My advisor is Dr. Alex X. Liu. Previously, I received my B.S. and M.E. in Department of Automation from Tsinghua University.

Contact

Email: my first name + last name (at) cse (dot) msu (dot) edu

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Email: my last name + the first character of my first name (at) vmware (dot) com

My research interests

My research efforts focus on improving the performance, privacy, and security of systems, networks and databases.

Journal Publications

• Privacy and Integrity Preserving Range Queries in Sensor Networks
  Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). In press.
• Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
  JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Fei Chen, and Alex X. Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service management (TNSM). In press.
• First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy Faults
  Fei Chen, Alex X. Liu, JeeHyun Hwang, and Tao Xie.
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). In press.
• Designing Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engines
  Alex X. Liu, Fei Chen, JeeHyun Hwang, and Tao Xie.
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 60 no. 12, pp. 1802-1817, 2011.
• Privacy Preserving Collaborative Enforcement of Firewall Policies in Virtual Private Networks
  Alex X. Liu and Fei Chen.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 22 no. 5, pp. 887-895, 2011.
• Towards High Performance Security Policy Evaluation
  Zheng Qin, Fei Chen, Qiang Wang, Alex X. Liu, and Zhiguang Qin.
  Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 59 no. 3, pp. 1577-1595, 2012.

Conference Publications

• Privacy-Preserving Cross-Domain Network Reachability Quantification [Slides]
  Fei Chen, Bezawada Bruhadeshwar, and Alex X. Liu.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 155-164, Vancouver, Canada, October 2011.
  Acceptance rate: 31/189 = 16.4%.
• A Cross-Domain Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Cooperative Firewall Optimization [Slides]
  Fei Chen, Bezawada Bruhadeshwar, and Alex X. Liu.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 2903-2911, Shanghai, China, April 2011.
  Acceptance rate: 291/1823 = 16.0%.
• First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy Faults [Slides]
  Fei Chen, Alex X. Liu, JeeHyun Hwang, and Tao Xie.
  Proceedings of the USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA), pp. 75-90, San Jose, California, November 2010.
  Best Student Paper Award
• SafeQ: Secure and Efficient Query Processing in Sensor Networks [Slides]
  Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 1-9, San Diego, California, March 2010.
  Acceptance rate: 276/1575 = 17.5%.
• XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine [Slides]
  Alex X. Liu, Fei Chen, JeeHyun Hwang, and Tao Xie.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), pp. 265-276, Annapolis, Maryland, June 2008.
  Acceptance rate: 36/201 = 18%.
  Average review score = 8.7 out of 10. Ranked 2nd among all submissions.
  XEngine project.
• Collaborative Enforcement of Firewall Policies in Virtual Private Networks [Slides]
  Alex X. Liu and Fei Chen.
  Proceedings of the Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pp. 95-104, Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
  Acceptance rate: 40/132 = 30%.
  Average review score = (4 + 4 + 4)/3 = 4 out of 5.
• Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
  JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Fei Chen, and Alex X. Liu
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), pp. 105-114, Napoli, Italy, October 2008.
• Fault Localization for Firewall Policies
  JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Fei Chen, and Alex X. Liu
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), pp. 100-106, New York, September 2009.

Posters

• Privacy and Integrity Preserving Range Queries in Sensor Networks
  Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, November 2009.
• SafeQ: Secure and Efficient Query Processing in Sensor Networks
  Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), New Jersey, October 2009.
  Best Poster Award