Publications

Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``A proactive tree recovery mechanism for resilient overlay multicast," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``A segmentation-based fine-grained peer sharing technique for delivering large media files in content distribution networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.8, no.4, pp.821-829, August 2006.
Zongming Fei, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, ``An active buffer management technique for providing interactive functions in broadcast video-on-demand systems," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.7, no.5, pp.942-950, October 2005.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``Cooperative failure detection in overlay multicast," Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2005, LNCS 3462, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2005.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``Intra-session fairness in multicast communications," Telecommunication Systems, vol.29, no.4, pp.235-255, August 2005.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``Restoring delivery tree from node failures in overlay multicast," IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol.E88-B, no.5, pp.2046-2053, May 2005.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``Techniques of reconstructing overlay multicast trees for multimedia streaming," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.
Christopher J. Dunkle, Zhen Zhang, Sherlia Y. Shi, Zongming Fei, ``Audio streams merging over ALMI,'' Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis (ICTSMA2005), Dallas, TX, November, 2005.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A Proactive Approach to Reconstructing Overlay Multicast Trees", Proceedings of INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, March 2004.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A Segmentation-Based Approach to Delivering Multimedia Files in Content Distribution Networks", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 2004.
Zongming Fei, ``A New Consistency Algorithm for Dynamic Documents in Content Distribution Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol.63, no.10, pp.916-926, October 2003.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, ``A Framework for Allocating Clients to Rate-Constrained Multicast Servers", Computer Communications, vol.26, no.12, pp.1255-1262, July 2003.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A Fine-Grained Peer Sharing Technique for Delivering Large Media Files Over the Internet", Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2003), Hawthorne, NY, September 2003.
Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A Model for Replica Placement in Content Distribution Networks for Multimedia Applications", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.
C. Jaynes, W. B. Seales, K. Calvert, Z. Fei, J. Griffioen ``The Metaverse - A Networked Collection of Inexpensive, Self-Configuring Immersive Environments", Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Immersive Projection Technology and the 9th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (IPT/EGVE 2003), Zurich, Switzerland, May 2003.
Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, ``Multicast server selection: problems, complexity and solutions", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, no. 7, pp.1399-1413, September 2002.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``On max-min intra-session fairness in replicated multicast services", Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'02), Boston, MA, October 2002, pp.115-122.
Zongming Fei, ``A novel approach to managing consistency in content distribution networks", Proceedings of the 6th International Web Caching and Content Distribtution Workshop (WCW'01), Boston, MA, June 2001, pp.71-86.
Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, ``Allocating clients to constrained multicast servers: an optimal solution", Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'01), Scottsdale, AZ, October 2001.
Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, ``Efficient server replication and client re-direction for multicast services", Proceedings of SPIE ITCOM'2001 Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, Denver, CO, August, 2001.
Sanjoy Paul, Zongming Fei, ``Distributed caching with centralized control", Computer Communications, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 256-268, Feb. 2001. (Also Proceedings of the 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000.)
Ellen W. Zegura, Mostafa H. Ammar, Zongming Fei, Samrat Bhattacharjee, ``Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated web service", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 8, no. 4, pp.455-466, August 2000.
Zongming Fei, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura, ``Optimal allocation of clients to replicated multicast servers", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'99), pp.69-76, Toronto, Canada, October 1999.
Zongming Fei, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, ``Providing interactive functions through active client-buffer management in partitioned video multicast VoD systems", Proceedings of First International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'99), pp.152-169, Pisa, Italy, Nov. 1999.
Zongming Fei, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, Mostafa H. Ammar, ``Providing interactive functions for staggered multicast near video-on-demand systems", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'99), pp.949-953, Florence, Italy, June 1999.
Zongming Fei, Samrat Bhattacharjee, Ellen W. Zegura, Mostafa H. Ammar, ``A novel server selection technique for improving the response time of a replicated service", Proceedings of INFOCOM'98, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.
Kevin Almeroth, Mostafa Ammar, Zongming Fei, ``Scalable delivery of web pages using cyclic best-effort (UDP) multicast", Proceedings of INFOCOM'98, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.
Mostafa H. Ammar, Kevin Almeroth, Russel J. Clark, Zongming Fei, ``Multicast delivery of Web pages OR how to make Web servers pushy", Proceedings of the Workshop on Internet Server Performance, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1998. (Also in Electronic Commerce Technology Trends: Challenges and Opportunities, Weidong Kou and Yelena Yesha (eds.), IBM Press, 2000. pp13-27.)
Sam McLellan, Al Roesler, Zongming Fei, Savita Chandran, Clay Spinuzzi, ``Experience using web-based shotgun measures for large-system characterization and improvement", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 4, April 1998, pp268-277.
Samrat Bhattacharjee, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura, Viren Shah, Zongming Fei, ``Application-layer anycasting", Proceedings of INFOCOM'97, Kobe, Japan, March 1997.
Jian Lu, Zongming Fei, `` The verification of HOS software specification by a hierarchical software understanding approach", Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 32, no.2, Feb, 1996, pp135-142.
Jiafu Xu, Daoxu Chen, Jian Lu, Zhijian Wang, Zongming Fei, Yousong Zhang, Qing Ding, Yingchun Zhu, `` On the design and implementation of NDSAIL:a software automation system with automated learning mechanisms, in J. van Leeuwen (ed.) Algorithms, Software, Architecture, Information Processing'92: Proc. of the IFIP 12th World Computer Congress, IFIP Transactions A-12, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 1992, pp186-192.
Zongming Fei, Jiafu Xu, ``The directed inference and its role in NDSAIL system", in Shi Zhongzhi (ed.) Automated Reasoning: Proc. of the IFIP TC 12/WG12.3 International Workshop on Automated Reasoning, IFIP Transactions A-19, Beijing, China, July 1992, pp177-185.