Xiaowei Yang | Scholars@Duke

Xiaowei Yang
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2014

Contact Information

Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Lsrc-D336, Durham, NC 27708
xiaowei.yang@duke.edu (919) 660-6536
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~xwy/

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
- B.S.E., Tsinghua University (China) 1996
Duke Appointment History
- Assist Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2009 - 2014
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2011
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2009
Research
Selected Grants
- FIA-NP: Collaborative Research: The Next-Phase MobilityFirst Project awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2018
- NeTS: Small: Exploiting Social Networks to Build Trustworthy Distributed Systems awarded by National Science Foundation 2010 - 2015
- FIA:Collaborative Research:MobilityFirst: A Robust and Trustworthy Mobility-Centric Architecture for the Future Internet awarded by National Science Foundation 2010 - 2014
- CAREER: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Network Architecture Design awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2014
- CT-ER: A DoS-Resistant Internet Architecture awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2009
- NETS-FIND: An Internet Architecture for User-Controlled Routes awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Chen, Y, Cao, Q, and Yang, X. "PacketCloud: A Cloudlet-Based Open Platform for In-Network Services." Ieee Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 27, no. 4 (April 1, 2016): 1146-1159. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, Gan, JW, and Yang, X. "Leveraging social feedback to verify online identity claims." Acm Transactions on the Web 8, no. 2 (January 1, 2014). Full Text
  - Chen, Y, Liu, B, Chen, Y, Li, A, Yang, X, and Bi, J. "PacketCloud." Proceedings of the Eighth Acm International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture Mobiarch '13 (2013). Full Text
  - "FaaS: Filtering IP spoofing traffic as a service." Computer Communication Review 42, no. 4 (December 1, 2012): 113-114. Full Text
  - Wu, X, and Yang, X. "DARD: Distributed adaptive routing for datacenter networks." Proceedings International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (October 5, 2012): 32-41. Full Text
  - Liu, B, Bi, J, and Yang, X. "FaaS: Filtering IP spoofing traffic as a service." Sigcomm'12 Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (September 26, 2012): 113-114. Full Text
  - Wu, X, Turner, D, Chen, C-C, Maltz, DA, Yang, X, Yuan, L, and Zhang, M. "NetPilot." Acm Sigcomm Computer Communication Review 42, no. 4 (September 24, 2012): 419-419. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, Gan, JW, and Yang, X. "Assessing the veracity of identity assertions via OSNs." 2012 4th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2012 (2012). Full Text
  - Wu, X, Turner, D, Chen, C-C, Maltz, DA, Yang, X, Yuan, L, and Zhang, M. "NetPilot: Automating datacenter network failure mitigation." SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (2012): 419-430. Full Text
  - Li, A, Zong, X, Kandula, S, Yang, X, and Zhang, M. "CloudProphet: Towards application performance prediction in cloud." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2011 Conference, Sigcomm'11 (September 29, 2011): 426-427. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, and Yang, X. "SocialFilter: Introducing social trust to collaborative spam mitigation." Proceedings Ieee Infocom (August 2, 2011): 2300-2308. Full Text
  - Li, A, Yang, X, Kandula, S, and Zhang, M. "Comparing public-cloud providers." Ieee Internet Computing 15, no. 2 (March 1, 2011): 50-53. Full Text
  - Li, A, Yang, X, Kandula, S, and Zhang, M. "CloudCmp: Comparing public cloud providers." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm Internet Measurement Conference, Imc (December 1, 2010): 1-14. Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Xia, Y. "NetFence: Preventing internet denial of service from inside out." Computer Communication Review 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 255-266. Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Xia, Y. "NetFence: Preventing internet denial of service from inside out." Sigcomm'10 Proceedings of the Sigcomm 2010 Conference (November 15, 2010): 255-266. Full Text
  - Almishari, M, and Yang, X. "Ads-portal domains: Identification and measurements." Acm Transactions on the Web 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2010). Full Text
  - Yang, X, Lu, Y, and Zan, L. "Improving XCP to achieve max-min fair bandwidth allocation." Computer Networks 54, no. 3 (February 26, 2010): 442-461. Full Text
  - Li, A, Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "SafeGuard: Safe forwarding during route changes." Conext'09 Proceedings of the 2009 Acm Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (December 1, 2009): 301-312. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Yang, X, and Jarecki, S. "Robust and efficient incentives for cooperative content distribution." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 17, no. 6 (December 1, 2009): 1766-1779. Full Text
  - Gjoka, M, Sirivianos, M, Markopoulou, A, and Yang, X. "Poking facebook: Characterization of OSN applications." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2008 Conference on Computer Communications 1st Workshop on Online Social Networks, Wosp'08 (December 1, 2008): 31-36. Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Lu, Y. "To filter or to authorize: Network-layer DoS defense against multimillion-node botnets." Computer Communication Review 38, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 195-206. Full Text
  - Yang, X. "Auction, but don't block." Sigcomm 2008 Conference and the Co Located Workshops Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems, Netecon'08 (December 1, 2008): 19-24. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "TVA: A DoS-limiting network architecture." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 16, no. 6 (August 12, 2008): 1267-1280. Full Text
  - Lei, Z, and Xiaowei, Y. "Improving XCP to achieve max-min fair bandwidth allocation." Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4479 LNCS (December 24, 2007): 992-1004.
  - Li, A, Francois, P, and Yang, X. "On improving the efficiency and manageability of NotVia." Proceedings of 2007 Acm Conext Conference 3rd International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, Conext (December 1, 2007). Full Text
  - Yang, X, Clark, D, and Berger, AW. "NIRA: A new inter-domain routing architecture." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 15, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 775-788. Full Text
  - Gjoka, M, Ram, V, and Yang, X. "Evaluation of IP fast reroute proposals." Proceedings of the 2007 2nd International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware and Workshops, Comsware 2007 (October 1, 2007). Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wang, L, Guan, ZC, Zhang, Y, and Wang, X. "Effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis model." Ieej Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials 127, no. 9 (September 25, 2007). Full Text
  - Guan, Z, Yang, X, Wang, L, Zhang, Y, and Liu, Y. "Bio-effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis." Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering 33, no. 2 (February 1, 2007): 1-6.
  - Yang, X, Wang, L, Guan, Z, Zhang, Y, and Wang, X. "Preventive effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis model induced by ovariectomy." Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering 33, no. 2 (February 1, 2007): 97-100.
  - Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "Source selectable path diversity via routing deflections." Computer Communication Review 36, no. 4 (October 1, 2006): 159-170. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "A DoS-limiting network architecture." Computer Communication Review 35, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 241-252. Full Text
  - Krioukov, D, Fall, K, and Yang, X. "Compact routing on internet-like graphs." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM 1 (2004): 209-219.
  - Yang, X. "NIRA: A new Internet routing architecture." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, Fdna '03 (December 1, 2003): 301-312. Full Text
  - Bauer, S, and Yang, X. "Workshop report: Future Directions in Network Architecture (FDNA-03)." Computer Communication Review 33, no. 5 (October 1, 2003): 89-98. Full Text
  - Yang, X. "NIRA: A New Internet Routing Architecture." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshops (2003): 301-312.
  - Yang, X. "Designing traffic profiles for bursty internet traffic." Conference Record / Ieee Global Telecommunications Conference 3 (December 1, 2002): 2149-2154.
  - Yang, X. "A model for window based flow control in packet-switched networks." Proceedings Ieee Infocom 2 (December 1, 1999): 423-430. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Zheng, S, and Yang, X. "DynaShield: A cost-effective DDoS defense architecture." August 7, 2018. Full Text
  - Yang, J, Yang, X, Zhou, Z, Wu, X, Benson, T, and Hu, C. "FOCUS: Function Offloading from a Controller to Utilize Switch power." May 4, 2017. Full Text
  - Cao, Q, Sirivianos, M, Yang, X, and Munagala, K. "Combating Friend Spam Using Social Rejections." January 1, 2015. Full Text
  - Bronzino, F, Han, C, Chen, Y, Nagaraja, K, Yang, X, Seskar, I, and Raychaudhuri, D. "In-Network Compute Extensions for Rate-Adaptive Content Delivery in Mobile Networks." 2014 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP). October 21, 2014 - October 24, 2014.: IEEE, October 2014. Full Text
  - Cao, Q, Yang, X, Yu, J, and Palow, C. "Uncovering large groups of active malicious accounts in online social networks." January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Katabi, D, Bazzi, I, and Yang, X. "A passive approach for detecting shared bottlenecks." January 1, 2001. Full Text
Teaching & Mentoring
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Awards & Honors

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Conference Papers

Recent Courses