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
- 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. L., 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.
X., 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
- 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,” 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,” 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,” 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,”
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,” 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. 7,398,388, 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.).