Tian Lan

Shijing Li and Tian Lan, "HotDedup: Managing Hot Data Storage at Network Edge through Optimal Distributed Deduplication", to appear in Proceedings of INFOCOM, April 2020.
Hongfa Xue, Yurong Chen, Guru Venkataramani, and Tian Lan, "AMASS: Automated Software Mass Customization via Feature Identification and Tailoring", EAI Transactions on Security and Safety, December 2019.
Yurong Chen, Tian Lan and Guru Venkataramani, "Exploring Effective Fuzzing Strategies to Analyze Communication Protocols", In proceedings of CCS FEAST Workshop, November 2019.
Yimeng Wang, Tian Lan, and Vaneet Aggarwal, "DeepChunk: Deep Q-Learning for Chunk-based Caching in Data Processing Networks", To appear at IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, October 2019.
Yurong Chen, Tian Lan and Guru Venkataramani, "CustomPro: Network Protocol Customization through Cross-host Feature Analysis", In proceedings of SecureComm (SecureComm Best Paper Award), October 2019.
Hongfa Xue, Yurong Chen, Guru Venkataramani and Tian Lan, "Hecate: Automated Customization of Program and Communication Features to Reduce Attack Surfaces", In proceedings of SecureComm, October 2019.
YimengWang, Nakjung Choi, and Tian Lan, "A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Online Service Tree Placement in Edge Computing", In proceedings of IEEE ICNP, Workshop on Harnessing the Data Revolution in Networking, October 2019.
Yongbo Li, Yimeng Wang, and Tian Lan, "TailAccountant: Tail Energy Accounting for Mobile Ad Prefetching and Energy Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 2117-2128, Sep 2019.
Yimeng Wang, Yongbo Li, Tian Lan, and Vaneet Aggarwal, "DeepChunk: Deep Q-Learning for Chunk-based Caching in Data Processing Networks", In proceedings of 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), September 2019.
Abubakr Al-Abbasi, Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian Lan, Yu Xiang, Moo-Ryong Ra, Yih-Farn Chen, "FastTrack: Minimizing Stalls for CDN-based Over-the-top Video Streaming Systems", To appear at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2019.
Shijing Li, Tian Lan, Bharath Balasubramanian, Moo-Ryong Ra, Hee-won Lee, and Rajesh Panta, "EF-dedup: Enabling Collaborative Data Deduplication at the Network Edge", In proceedings of IEEE ICDCS, July 2019.
Hongfa Xue, Shaowen Sun, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "Machine-Learning-based Analysis of Program Binaries: A Comprehensive Study", IEEE Access, May 2019.
Abubakr Al-Abbasi, Vaneet Aggarwal, Jiangxian Wu, and Tian Lan, "TTLoC: Taming Tail Latency for Erasure-coded Cloud Storage Systems", In proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, May 2019.
Tian Lan "Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks - Fairness", book chapter, Springer, April 2019.
Yongbo Li and Tian Lan, "Multichoice Games for Optimizing Task Assignment in Edge Computing", In proceedings of IEEE Globecom, December 2018.
Jianhua Fan, Xiangli Wei, Tongxiang Wang, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "Deadline-Aware Task Scheduling in a Tiered IoT Infrastructure", To appear at China Communications, December 2018.
Hongfa Xue, Yurong Chen, Guru Venkataramani, Tian Lan, Guang Jin, and Jason Li, "MORPH: Enhancing System Security through Interactive Customization of Application and Communication Protocol Features", In proceedings of CCS (Poster), October 2018.
Yurong Chen, Shaowen Sun, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "TOSS: Tailoring Online Server Systems through Binary Feature Customization", In proceedings of CCS FEAST Workshop, October 2018.
Hongfa Xue, Guru Venkataramani, and Tian Lan, "Clone-Slicer: Detecting Domain Specific Binary Code Clones through Program Slicing", In proceedings of CCS FEAST Workshop, October 2018.
Yang Zhang, Arnob Ghosh, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Tian Lan, "Tiered Cloud Storage via Two-Stage, Latency-aware Bidding", To appear at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, October 2018.
Maotong Xu, Sultan Alamro, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "Chronos: A Unifying Optimization Framework for Speculative Execution of Deadline-critical MapReduce Jobs", In proceedings of IEEE ICDCS, July 2018.
Shijing Li, Tian Lan, Moo-Ryong Ra, and Rajesh Panta, "S3: Joint Scheduling and Source Selection for Background Trac in Erasure-Coded Storage", Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 2018.
Hongfa Xue, Guru Venkataramani, Tian Lan, "Clone-Hunter: Accelerated Bound Checks Elimination via Binary Code Clone Detection", In proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages (MAPL), June 2018.
Sultan Alamro, Maotong Xu, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "Shed: Optimal Dynamic Cloning to Meet Application Deadlines in Cloud", In proceedings of IEEE ICC, May 2018.
Vaneet Aggarwal, Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Sprout: A Functional Caching Approach to Minimize Service Latency in Erasure-coded Storage", IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 3683-3694, December 2017.
Maotong Xu, Sultan Alamro, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "CRED: Cloud Right-sizing to Meet Execution Deadlines and Data Locality", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 3389-3400, December 2017.
Jianhua Fan, Xiangli Wei, Tongxiang Wang, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "Deadline-Aware Task Scheduling in a Tiered IoT Infrastructure", In proceedings of IEEE GlobeCom, December 2017.
Yurong Chen, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "DAMGate: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-feature Gating in Program Binaries", In proceedings of CCS FEAST Workshop, October 2017.
Yimeng Wang, Yongbo Li, and Tian Lan, "Capitalizing on the Promise of Ad Prefetching in Real-World Mobile Systems", In proceedings of IEEE Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2017.
Maotong Xu, Sultan Alamro, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "LASER: A Deep Learning Approach for Speculative Execution and Replication of Deadline-Critical Jobs in Cloud", In proceedings of ICCCN (Invited paper), July 2017.
Maotong Xu, Sultan Alamro, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "Optimizing Speculative Execution of Deadline-Sensitive Jobs in Cloud", In Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics (Poster), June 2017.
Fan Yao, Yongbo Li, Hongfa Xue, Yurong Chen, Tian Lan and Guru Venkataramani, "StatSym: Vulnerable Path Discovery through Statistics-guided Symbolic Execution", In Proceedings of DSN, June 2017.
Yongbo Li, Yurong Chen, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "MobiQoR: Pushing the Envelope of Mobile Edge Computing via Quality-of-Result Optimization", In Proceedings of ICDCS, June 2017.
Shijing Li, Tian Lan, Moo-Ryong Ra, and Rajesh Panta, "S3: Joint Scheduling and Source Selection for Background Traffic in Erasure-Coded Storage", In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS, June 2017.
Tian Lan, "DARC: Deadline-aware, Autonomous Resource Control in IoT", In Proceedings of Internet of Intelligent and Autonomic Things (Poster), May 2017.
Hongfa Xue, Yurong Chen, Fan Yao, Yongbo Li, Tian Lan and Guru Venkataramani, "SIMBER: Eliminating Redundant Memory Bound Checks via Statistical Inference", In Proceedings of IFIP SEC, May 2017.
Vaneet Aggarwal, JiangxianWu, and Tian Lan, "Taming Tail Latency for Erasure-coded, Distributed Storage Systems", In Proceedings of INFOCOM, May 2017.
Yu Xiang, Juzi Zhao, Tian Lan, Howie Huang, and Suresh Subramania, "Elastic Reliability Optimization Through Peer-to-Peer Checkpointing in Cloud Computing", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol 28, no. 2, February 2017.
Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Optimizing Differentiated Latency in Multi-Tenant, Erasure-Coded Storage", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 204-216, January 2017.
Yu Xiang, Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian Lan, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Differentiated latency in data center networks with erasure coded files through traffic engineering", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 1, no. 99, January 2017.
Yongbo Li, Fan Yao, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "SARRE: Semantics-Aware Rule Recommendation and Enforcement for Event Paths on Android", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 2748-2762, December 2016.
Sultan Alamro, Maotong Xu, Tian Lan, and Suresh Subramaniam, "CRED: Cloud Right-sizing to Meet Execution Deadlines and Data Locality", In Proceedings of IEEE CLOUD, July 2016.
Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Joint Latency and Cost Optimization for Erasure-coded Data Center Storage", IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 2443-2457, June 2016.
Vaneet Aggarwal, Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Sprout: A Functional Caching Approach to Minimize Service Latency in Erasure-coded Storage", In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS (Poster), May 2016.
Zhe Huang, Bharath Balasubramanian, Michael Wang, Tian Lan, Mung Chiang, and Danny H.K. Tsang, "RUSH: A RobUst ScHeduler to Manage Uncertain Completion-Times in Shared Clouds", In Proceedings of ICDCS, May 2016.
Shijing Li, Tian Lan, Moo-Ryong Ra, and Rajesh Panta, "Background Traffic Optimization for Meeting Deadlines in Data Center Storage", In Proceedings of CISS (Invited paper), March 2016.
Yongbo Li, Fan Yao, Tian Lan, and Guru Venkataramani, "Semantics-Aware Rule Recommendation and Enforcement for Event Paths on Android", In Proceedings of SecureComm (Poster), October 2015.
Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Multi-Tenant Latency Optimization in Erasure-Coded Storage with Differentiated Services", In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS (Poster), June 2015.
Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Taming Network Latency in Erasure-Coded Datacenter Storage", In Proceedings of CCGrid, May 2015.
Zhe Huang, Bharath Balasubramanian, Michael Wang, Tian Lan, Mung Chiang, and Danny H.K. Tsang, "Need for Speed: CORA Scheduler for Optimizing Completion-Times in the Cloud", In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2015.
Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Vaneet Aggarwal, and Yih-Farn Robin Chen, "Joint Latency and Cost Optimization for Erasure-coded Data Center Storage", In Proceedings of IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2014 (ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 3-14), Sepetember 2014.
Yu Xiang and Tian Lan. "Datacenter Smart Pricingâ€, Book chapter in "Smart Data Pricing", Wiley, September 2014.
Mian Dong, Tian Lan, and Lin Zhong. "Rethink Energy Accounting with Cooperative Game Theory", In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, September 2014.
Yu Xiang, Hang Liu, Tian Lan, Howie Huang, Suresh Subramaniam, "Optimizing Job Reliability via Contention-Free, Distributed Checkpoint Scheduling". In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC), August 2014.
Bharath Balasubramanian, Tian Lan, and Mung Chiang, "SAP: Similarity-Aware Partitioning for Efficient Cloud Storage", In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2014.
Carlee Joe-Wong, Soumya Sen, Tian Lan, and Mung Chiang. "Multi-Resource Allocation: Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoffs in A Unifying Framework", IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1785-1798, December 2013.
Yu Xiang, Bharath Balasubramanian, Michael Wang, Tian Lan, Soumya Sen and Mang Chiang, "Self-adaptive, Deadline-aware Resource Control in Cloud Computing", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), September 2013.
Mian Dong, Tian Lan, and Lin Zhong. "How does energy accounting matter for energy management?", In Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics (Poster), June 2013.
Mian Dong, Tian Lan, and Lin Zhong. "System Energy Consumption is a Multi-player Game", Extended Abstract at International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (ICCAD), November 2012.
Stuart Wagner, Eric van den Berg, Jim Giacopelli, Andrei Ghetie, Jim Burns, Miriam Tauil, Soumya Sen, Michael Wang, Mung Chiang, Tian Lan, Robert Laddaga, Paul Robertson, and Prakash Manghwani. "Autonomous, Collaborative Control for Resilient Cyber Defense (ACCORD)", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), August 2012.
Nakharin Limrungsi, Juzi Zhao, Yu Xiang, Tian Lan, Howie Huang, and Suresh Subramania. "Provide Reliability as An Elastic Service in Cloud", In proceedings of ICC 2012, June 2012.
Wei Wang, Peng Zhang, Tian Lan, and Vaneet Aggarwal. "Datacenter Net Profit Optimization with Individual Job Deadlines", In proceedings of CISS 2012 (Invited paper), March 2012.
Carlee Joe-Wong, Soumya Sen, Tian Lan, and Mung Chiang. "Multi-Resource Allocation: Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoffs in A Unifying Framework", In proceedings of INFOCOM 2012 (INFOCOM 2012 Best Paper Award), March 2012.
Wenjie Jiang, Minghua Chen, Tian Lan, Sangtae Ha, and Mung Chiang. "Dynamic VM Placement and Routing in A Data Center Network", In proceedings of INFOCOM 2012, mini-conference, March 2012.
Tian Lan and Mung Chiang. "An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness for Resource Allocation", Preprint available online, December 2011.
Tian Lan and Mung Chiang. "Measuring Fairness: Theory and Applications", In proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (Allerton), September 2011.
Tian Lan, Xiaojun Lin, and Mung Chiang. "Stability and Benefits of Suboptimal Utility Maximization", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1194-1207, August 2011.
Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang. "Key Management in Sensor Networks", Book Chapter in "Theoretical Aspects of Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks", Springer Verlag, January 2011.
Latha Kent, Kenneth kerpez, Kaustubh Sinkar, and Tian Lan. "Resource Allocation and Performance Study for A LTE Network Integrated with Femtocells", In proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2010.
Tian Lan, David Kao, Mung Chiang, and Ashutosh Sabharwal. "An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness for Resource Allocation", In proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2010.
Alexandre Proutiere, Yung Yi, Tian Lan, and Mung Chiang. "Resource Allocation Over Network Dynamics: Stochastic Approximation Without Timescale Separation", In proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, mini-conference, March 2010.
Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang. "Reliable and Secure Distributed Storage Without Cryptography", Preprint available online, January 2010.
Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang. "Multi-path Key EstablishmentAgainst REM Attacks inWireless Ad Hoc Networks", In proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM (GLOBECOM 2009 Best Paper Award), December 2009.
Kenneth kerpez, Tian Lan, Kaustubh Sinkar, and Latha Kent. "System and Method for Resource Allocation of A LTE Network Integrated with Femtocells", Patent US20110183678, December 2009.
Mung Chiang, Prashanth Hande, Tian Lan, and Chee Wei Tan. "Power Control in Cellular Networks", Monograph, Foundations and Trends in Networking, vol. 2, no. 4, Now Publishers Inc, 2008.
Tian Lan, Xiaojun Lin, Mung Chiang, and Ruby Lee. "How Bad Is Suboptimal Rate Allocation?" In proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2008.
Wei Yu and Tian Lan. "Transmitter Optimization for the Multi-Antenna Downlinkwith Per-Antenna Power Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 6, part 1, pp. 2646-2660, (IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 Best Paper Award), June 2007.
Tian Lan, Prashanth Hande and Mung Chiang. "Joint Beamforming and Power Control for Optimal SIR Distribution in Cellular Uplinks", In proceedings of IEEE ISIT, June 2006.
Wei Yu and Tian Lan. "Downlink Beamforming with Per-Antenna Power Constraints", In proceedings of IEEE SPAWC Workshop, June 2005.
Tian Lan and Wei Yu. "Input Optimization for Multi-Antenna Broadcast Channels with Per-Antenna Power Constraints", In proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2004.
Wei Yu and Tian Lan. "Minimax Duality of Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channels", In proceedings of IEEE ISIT, June 2004.

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