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Recent News
- I appeared in the news.
- Our paper "To Filter or to Authorize: Network-Layer DoS Defense
Against Multimillion-node Botnets" by Xin Liu, Xiaowei Yang, and
Yanbin Lu is accepted by SIGCOMM 2008.
- "Auction, but Don't Block" by Xiaowei Yang is accepted by SIGCOMM NetEcon
workshop 2008.
- "Poking Facebook: Characterization of OSN
Applications" is accepted by SIGCOMM WOSN workshop 2008.
Research
My research area is in networks and distributed systems, with an
emphasis on protocol and architecture design, performance analysis,
modeling, and measurement. My current goals are: 1. to make tomorrow's
Internet more robust to failures, more resilient to attacks, and more
flexible in providing new services; 2. to understand how to build new
types of networks. My recent and ongoing work includes:
I am fortunate to work with these bright and motivated students:
My thesis advisor was David
Clark. People often ask me what he's like as an advisor. You may
find out a little bit about this from the acknowledgments section of
my dissertation.
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