Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
  • B.S.E., Tsinghua University (China) 1996
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  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
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  Awards & Honors

  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2009
• Research
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  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
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Chen, Y, 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 (March 1, 2014): 1-38.  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
    • 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
    • Liu, B, Bi, J, and Yang, X. "FaaS." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2012 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication Sigcomm '12 (2012).  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." 2011 Proceedings Ieee Infocom (April 2011).  Full Text
    • Ang Li, , Xiaowei Yang, , Kandula, S, and Ming Zhang, . "Comparing Public-Cloud Providers." Ieee Internet Computing 15, no. 2 (March 2011): 50-53.  Full Text
    • "NetFence: Preventing internet denial of service from inside out." Computer Communication Review 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 255-266.  Full Text
    • "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." Acm Transactions on the Web 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 1-34.  Full Text
    • Yang, X, Lu, Y, and Zan, L. "Improving XCP to achieve max–min fair bandwidth allocation." Computer Networks 54, no. 3 (February 2010): 442-461.  Full Text
    • Li, A, Yang, X, Kandula, S, and Zhang, M. "CloudCmp." Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Internet Measurement Imc '10 (2010).  Full Text
    • Sirivianos, M, Xiaowei Yang, , and Jarecki, S. "Robust and Efficient Incentives for Cooperative Content Distribution." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 17, no. 6 (December 2009): 1766-1779.  Full Text
    • Li, A, Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "SafeGuard." Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies Conext '09 (2009).  Full Text
    • Xiaowei Yang, , Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "TVA: A DoS-Limiting Network Architecture." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 16, no. 6 (December 2008): 1267-1280.  Full Text
    • Liu, X, Yang, X, and Lu, Y. "To filter or to authorize." Acm Sigcomm Computer Communication Review 38, no. 4 (October 1, 2008): 195-195.  Full Text
    • Gjoka, M, Sirivianos, M, Markopoulou, A, and Yang, X. "Poking facebook." Proceedings of the First Workshop on Online Social Networks Wosp '08 (2008).  Full Text
    • Yang, X. "Auction, but don't block." Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems Netecon '08 (2008).  Full Text
    • "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.
    • Yang, X, Clark, D, and Berger, AW. "NIRA: A New Inter-Domain Routing Architecture." Ieee/Acm Transactions on Networking 15, no. 4 (August 2007): 775-788.  Full Text
    • "Bio-effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis." Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering 33, no. 2 (February 1, 2007): 1-6.
    • "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.
    • Gjoka, M, Ram, V, and Yang, X. "Evaluation of IP Fast Reroute Proposals." 2007 2nd International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware (January 2007).  Full Text
    • Li, A, Francois, P, and Yang, X. "On improving the efficiency and manageability of NotVia." Proceedings of the 2007 Acm Conext Conference on Conext '07 (2007).  Full Text
    • Xiaowei, Y, Liming, W, Guan, ZC, Yaou, Z, and Xiangpeng, W. "Effects of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields on Osteoporosis Model." Ieej Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials 127, no. 9 (2007): 505-508.  Full Text
    • Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "Source selectable path diversity via routing deflections." Acm Sigcomm Computer Communication Review 36, no. 4 (August 11, 2006): 159-159.  Full Text
    • Yang, X, Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "A DoS-limiting network architecture." Acm Sigcomm Computer Communication Review 35, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 241-241.  Full Text
    • Krioukov, D, Fall, K, and Yang, X. "Compact routing on internet-like graphs." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM 1 (2004): 209-219.
    • 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." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture Fdna '03 (2003).  Full Text
    • Yang, X. "NIRA: A New Internet Routing Architecture." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshops (2003): 301-312.
    • "Designing traffic profiles for bursty internet traffic." Conference Record / Ieee Global Telecommunications Conference 3 (December 1, 2002): 2149-2154.
    • Xiaowei Yang, . "A model for window based flow control in packet-switched networks." Ieee Infocom '99. Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the Ieee Computer and Communications Societies. the Future Is Now (Cat. No.99ch36320) (1999).  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • "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." 2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). June 29, 2015 - July 2, 2015.: IEEE, June 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." the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference. November 3, 2014 - November 7, 2014.: ACM Press, 2014.  Full Text
    • Katabi, D, Bazzi, I, and Xiaowei Yang, . "A passive approach for detecting shared bottlenecks(Accepted)." Tenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks.: IEEE,.  Full Text
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • COMPSCI 356: Computer Network Architecture 2019
  • ECE 356: Computer Network Architecture 2019
  • COMPSCI 514: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems 2018
  • ECE 558: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems 2018

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