Publications

  • James Griffioen, Zongming Fei, Automatic Creation of Experiment-specific Measurement Infrastructure, The First Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Next-Generation Networks (NetEval 2009), Boston, MA, April 2009.

  • Jianjun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A New Channel Assignment Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks'', International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009.

  • W. David Laverell, Zongming Fei, James N. Griffioen, ``Isn't It Time You Had An Emulab?'' ACM SIGCSE 2008 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon USA, March 12-15, 2008.

  • Jianjun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``Bipartite Graph Based Dynamic Spectrum Allocation for Wireless Mesh Networks,'' The Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2008), Beijing, China, June 2008.

  • Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``A cooperative failure detection mechanism for overlay multicast", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol.67, no.6, pp.635-647, June 2007.

  • Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, ``A proactive tree recovery mechanism for resilient overlay multicast," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol.15, no.1, pp.173-186, February 2007.

  • Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, ``Assigning Identifications to Nodes in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Novel Approach to Improving Search Efficiency,'' Proceedings of IEEE Global Communicatoins Conference (Globecom'07), Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007.

  • Zhen Zhang, Zongming Fei, ``Route Design for Multiple Ferries in Delay Tolerant Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong, March 11-15, 2007.

  • 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.