Yang Zhang

     My areas of interest include distributed systems, mobile computing, wireless network and etc.

     Some Selected Publications:

Journal Paper

• new!!  Y. Zhang, J. Zhao and G. Cao, "Service Scheduling of Vehicle-Roadside Data Access," ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), to appear.
   

• J. Zhao, Y. Zhang and G. Cao, "Data Pouring and Buffering on The Road: A New Data Dissemination Paradigm for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 56, No. 6, November 2007.
   

• J. Cao, Y. Zhang, G. Cao and L. Xie, "Data Consistency Maintenance for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Environments," IEEE Computer, 40(4), pp. 60-66, April 2007.
   

• J. Cao, Y. Zhang, L. Xie and G. Cao, "Consistency of Cooperative Caching in Mobile Peer-to-peer Systems", International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor & Francis Group, pp151-168, June 2006.
   

• Y. Zhang, J. Cao, X. Chen, S. Lu and L. Xie, "Threshold-based Admission Control for a Multimedia Grid: Analysis and Performance Evaluation,"  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. USA, Jan, 2006.

   Conference Paper

• new!!   Y. Zhang, J. Zhao, G. Cao, and C. Das, "'On Interest Locality in Content-Based Routing for Large-scale MANETs", International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS), 2009. (62/245, 25% acceptance rate)
   

• new!!  Y. Zhang, J. Zhao and G. Cao, "Roadcast: A Popularity Aware Content Sharing Scheme in VANETs", International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS), Montreal, Canada, 2009.
  (74/455, 16% acceptance rate)
   

• new!!  Y. Zhang and J. Zhao, "Social Network Analysis on Data Diffusion in Delay Tolerant Networks", poster with extended abstract. ACM MobiHoc, 2009 (Best Poster Award).
   

• J. Zhao, T. Arnold, Y. Zhang and G. Cao, "Extending Drive-Thru Data Access by Vehicle-to-Vehicle Relay", ACM VANET'08, San Francisco, September 2008.
   

• Y. Zhang, J. Zhao and G. Cao, "On Scheduling Vehicle-Roadside Data Access," ACM VANET'07, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
   

• J. Zhao, Y. Zhang and G. Cao, "Improving Drive-Thru Access to Roadside Infrastructure by Lightweight Relay", IEEE INFOCOM/MOVE-07, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
   

• K. Wu, H. Dai, Y. Zhang, S. Lu, "NDP2PSim: A NS2-Based Platform for Peer-to-Peer Network Simulations," International Workshop on Service Grid Computing and Applications (SGCA 2005), Nanjing, China, Nov. 2005.
   

• J. Cao, Y. Zhang, L. Xie, G. Cao, "Consistency Maintenance for Cooperative Caching of Mobile Peer to Peer System over MANET," International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS) Workshop, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2005.
   

• Y. Zhang, J. Zhou, J. Cao, S. Lu, L. Xie, "A Novel Admission Control Strategy with Layered Threshold for Grid-Based Multimedia Services Systems," International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), 2004. 
   

• Y. Zhang, J. Cao, S. Lu, B. Ye, L. Xie, "A QoS-Enabled Services System Framework for Grid Computing," The 3^rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC'04), Oct. 2004.  
   

• B. Ye, J. Zhou, Y. Zhang, D. Chen, "An Efficient Protocol for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing with Mutual Anonymity," The 3^rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC'04), Oct. 2004,     

   Other Papers Published in Chinese Journals and Conferences

• Yang Zhang, Ying Wang, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "A Simplified Threshold-based Admission Control Strategy for Multimedia Service Systems," (in Chinese), The 19^th Chinese Annual Conference on Distributed  and Parallel Computing  Systems (DPCS'04), Oct. 2004
   

• Yang Zhang, Yingchun Cao, Hao Huang, Li Xie, "A Study of Security Threats and Countermeasures in Mobile Agent Systems," (in Chinese),  Journal of Computer Science, Mar. 2005
   

• Ying Wang, Tiecheng Gu, Yang Zhang, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "A Data Replication Policy for Heterogeneous VoD Server Clusters," (in Chinese), Journal of Mini-Micro Systems   
   

• Yang Zhang, Jingyang Zhou, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie  "Research on Key Issues and Technologies of End-To-End Quality of Service For High-End Applications,"  (in Chinese). Journal of Computer Science, Mar. 2004  
   

• Jingyang Zhou, Yang Zhang, Wei Shan, Daoxu Chen, "Research on Admission Control in Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems," (in Chinese) Journal of Computer Science, Dec. 2003 

   Thesis

• "Data Caching in Mobile Computing Environments," Master Thesis, Jun 2005, Nanjing University, China
   

• "Hill Code: Analysis, Design and Implementation," (in Chinese) Bachelor Thesis, Jun. 2002, Nanjing University, China