***** Curriculum Vitae ***** **** YANG ZHANG **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Yang Zhang Gender: Male Address: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 338E Information Sciences and Technology Building, University Park, PA, 16802-6106 US Email: yzhang@psu.edu URL: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~yangzhan Tel: 814-865-0191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ph.D Student, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US Advisor: Dr. Guohong Cao * M.Sc. in Computer Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Advisor: Prof. Li Xie Co-Advisor: Prof. Sanglu Lu Accepted Date: June.2005 * B.Sc. in Computer Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Advisor: Prof. Li Xie Co-Advisor: Prof. Jinxi Zhao Accepted Date: July.2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area of Interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Wireless Network, Distributed Systems, Inter-Vehicular Communication ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Academic Experience: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Publicity Chair of ACM Mobihoc Wireless S^3 Workshop, June. 2009 *Research Assistant: Distributed Computing Laboratory, Nanjing University Nov.2001-Present Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Mar.2004-Sep.2004 *Teaching Assistant: Computer Network, Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, Sep.2002-Jan.2003 Internet Technology, Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, Feb.2003-Jul.2003 Discrete Mathematics, Dept. of Computer Science&Engineering, The Penn State University, Aug.2005-Dec.2005 *Conference/Journal Paper Reviewer: SHPSEC-03, EuroPar04, MWN04, ICWL2004, GCC04, I-SPAN04 IJCA (International Journal of Computers and Applications) *Conference Attended: I-SPAN04' (as Conference Local Staff) GCC04' (as Presenter) DPCS04' (as Presenter) *Student Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Experience: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (2005- present): The specific goal of this project is to provide a data dissemination framework for VANETs. I address three intertwined issues: (1) design and evaluate push-based and pull-based data dissemination schemes suitable for VANET, and propose solutions to combine push/pull-based techniques to reduce the data access delay and bandwidth consumption; (3) use infrastructure support (e.g., wireless relay, infostations) to further improve the system performance; (4) study social networking influence on data dissemination and design social-aware content sharing protocol in VANETs. -- 4 conference papers, 2 journal papers * Content Based Routing in Mobile Networks (2007- 2008): For a publish/subscribe service that uses content-based routing (CBR), the scalability and robustness are two challenges. I propose a novel two-tier content-based routing protocol called CLONE (Community and Location aware cONtEnt based routing) for large-scale mobile networks. I map the human community structure of social networks to mobile computer networks. The whole network can be self-organized into communities based on interest locality, reducing the communication overhead and the response delay for pub/sub. -- 2 conference papers, in submission * Large-Scale Scalable Distributed Multimedia Servers, sponsored by National 863 High-Tech Key Project, 2000-2002. It includes techniques of multimedia storage system, multi-server and network supporting streaming media. (Nanjing University) My responsibility is to design and implement the admission control module for the distributed multimedia system to balance the performance of the system and the QoS of clients. * Consistency Maintenance for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Peer to Peer Networks (2004-2005): sponsored by Hong Kong Polytechnic University Gran, Hong Kong. Our goal and my responsibility are to design an effective consistency maintenance strategy for cooperative caching in mobile p2p networks. -- 1 conference paper, 2 journal papers * Research on Key Techniques on Running, Managing and Scheduling of Application Servers (2002-2005): sponsored by National 863 High-Tech Key Project, China. Our goal is to study the techniques on running, managing and scheduling of web-based application servers and to set up a distributed application-servers platform with high scalability and availability. My responsibility is to (1) study the QoS characters of the assumed applications of our platform and the whole framework of our platform with application servers and (2) design and implement the admission control module. -- 3 conference papers, 4 journal papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent Publications: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Journal Paper 1. Yang Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Xiaolin Chen, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "Threshold-Based Admission Control Strategies in Grid Systems: Analysis and Performance Evaluation," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. USA, 2006. 2. 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, 2008. 3. Jiannong Cao, Yang Zhang, Li Xie, Guohong Cao, "Consistency of cooperative caching in mobile Peer-to-peer systems", International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (formerly Parallel Algorithms and Applications), Taylor & Francis Group, to appear. 4. Jiannong Cao, Yang Zhang, Li Xie, Guohong Cao, "Data Consistency Maintenance for Cooperative Caching in Mobile Environments," submitted to IEEE Computer, under review *Conference Paper 1. Y. Zhang, J. Zhao and G. Cao, ¡°Popularity-aware Data Dissemination in VANET¡±, to appear at IEEE ICDCS¡¯09. 2. J. Zhao, T. Arnold, Y. Zhang, G. Cao, ¡°Extending Drive-Thru Data Access by Vehicle-to-Vehicle Relay¡±, in Proc. of ACM VANET¡¯ 08, in conjunction with Mobicom¡¯ 08, September 2008. 3. Y. Zhang, J. Zhao and G. Cao, "On Scheduling Vehicle-Roadside Data Access," in Proc. of ACM VANET¡¯ 07, in conjunction with Mobicom¡¯ 07, Montreal, Canada, September 2007 4. J. Zhao, Y. Zhang and G. Cao, "Improving Drive-Thru Access to Roadside Infrastructure by Lightweight Relay", IEEE Infocom Workshop on Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE-07), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007. 5. Wu Kun, Dai Han, Yang Zhang, Sanglu Lu, "NDP2PSim: A NS2-Based Platform for Peer-to-Peer Network Simulations," in Proc. of International Workshop on Service Grid Computing and Applications (SGCA 2005), in conjunction with ISPA05', Nanjing, China, Nov. 2005. 6. Jiannong Cao, Yang Zhang, Li Xie, Guohong Cao, "Consistency Maintenance for Cooperative Caching of Mobile Peer to Peer System over MANET," in Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'05), in conjunction with ICDCS05', Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 5-10, 2005 7. Yang Zhang, Jingyang Zhou, Jiannong Cao, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "A Novel Admission Control Strategy with Layered Threshold for Grid-Based Multimedia Services Systems," The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 04'), Oct. 2004 8. Yang Zhang, Jiannong Cao, Sanglu Lu, Baoliu Ye, Li Xie, "A QoS-Enabled Services System Framework for Grid Computing," The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 04'), Oct. 2004 9. Baoliu Ye, Jingyang Zhou, Yang Zhang, Daoxu Chen, "An Efficient Protocol for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing with Mutual Anonymity," to appear in The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 04'), Oct. 2004 *Other Papers Published in Chinese Journals and Conferences 1. Yang Zhang, Ying Wang, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "A Simplified Threshold-based Admission Control Strategy for Multimedia Service Systems," (in Chinese), The 19th Chinese Annual Conference on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (DPCS04'), Oct. 2004 2. Yang Zhang, Yingchun Cao, Hao Huang, Li Xie, "A Study of Security Threats and Countermeasures in Mobile Agent Systems," (in Chinese), Computer Science, Mar. 2005 3. Ying Wang, Tiecheng Gu, Yang Zhang, Sanglu Lu, Li Xie, "A Data Replication Policy for Heterogeneous VoD Server Clusters," (in Chinese) to appear in Mini-Micro Systems ? 4. 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) Computer Science, Mar. 2004 5. Jingyang Zhou, Yang Zhang, Wei Shan, Daoxu Chen, "Research on Admission Control in Distributed Video-on-Demand Systems," (in Chinese) Computer Science, Dec. 2003 *Thesis "Data Caching in Mobile Computing Environments," Master Dissertation, Jun 2005, Nanjing University, China "Hill Code: Analysis, Design and Implementation," (in Chinese) Bachelor Dissertation, Jun. 2002, Nanjing University, China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awards & Honors: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- College of Engineering Fellowship, The Penn State University 2005 Hewlett-Packard First Class Scholarship (only Top one student in the whole department awarded this scholarship), HP Company 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship, Nanjing University 2003 Rank 3rd for Soccer Games in Nanjing University, Nanjing University 2003 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Fellowship, Nanjing University 2001 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Fellowship, Nanjing University 2000 Rank 1th for the Doubles Table Tennis Competition, Dept. of Computer Science, Nanjing University 1999 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Fellowship, Nanjing University 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available upon request