Selected Recent Publications [BibTeX]

Year 2013

• Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou
  iShuffle: Improving Hadoop Performance with Shuffle-on-Write
  Proc. of the 10th USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 11 pages, San Jose, June 2013.

• Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou
  V-Cache: Towards Flexible Resource Provisioning for Multi-tier Applications in IaaS Clouds
  Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), 12 pages, Boston, May 2013.

• Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Automated and Agile Server Parameter Tuning by Coordinated Learning and Control
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted, April 2013.

• Dazhao Cheng, Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou
  Self-tuning Batching with DVFS for Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency in Servers
  Proc. of the 21th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 10 pages, San Francisco, August 2013.

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  Autonomic Provisioning with Self-Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control for Percentile-based Delay Guarantee
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 31 pages, in-press, 2013.

• Palden Lama, Yanfei Guo, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Autonomic Performance and Power Control for Co-located Web Applications on Virtualized Servers
  Proc. of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), 10 pages, Montreal, June 2013.

• Palden Lama, Yan Li, Ashwin Aji, Pavan Balaji, James Dinan, Shucai Xiao, Yunquan Zhang, Wuchun Feng, Rajeev Thakur, Xiaobo Zhou
  Power-Aware Dynamic Placement and Migration in Virtualized GPU Environments
  Proc. of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS), 10 pages, Philadelphia, July 2013.

• Jia Rao, Kun Wang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Optimizing Virtual Machine Scheduling in NUMA Multicore Systems
  Proc. of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 12 pages, Feb 2013.
  The paper is one of four Best Paper nominees (out of 249 submissions).

Year 2012

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  NINEPIN: Non-Invasive and Energy Efficient Performance Isolation in Virtualized Servers
  Proc. of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 1-12, Boston, June 2012.

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  AROMA: Automated Resource Allocation and Configuration of MapReduce Environment in the Cloud
  Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), pages 63-72, San Jose, September 2012.

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  Efficient Server Provisioning with Control for End-to-End Delay Guarantee on Multi-tier Clusters
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pages 78-86, January 2012.

• Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Automated and Agile Server Parameter Tuning with Learning and Control
  Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), pages 656-667, Shanghai, May 2012.

• Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou
  Coordinated VM Resizing and Server Tuning: Throughput, Power Efficiency and Scalability
  Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pages 289-297, Wastington DC, August 2012.

• Sireesha Muppala, Xiaobo Zhou, and Guihai Chen
  Multi-tier Service Differentiation: Coordinated Resource Provisioning and Admission Control
  Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributd Systems (ICPADS), Singapore, December 2012.

• Sireesha Muppala, Xiaobo Zhou, Liqiang Zhang, and Guihai Chen
  Regression Based Resource Provisioning for Session Slowdown Guarantees in Multi-tier Internet Servers
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 72, No. 3, Pages 362-375, March 2012.

• Dennis Ippoliti and Xiaobo Zhou
  A-GHSOM: An Adaptive Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Map for Network Anomaly Detection
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 72, No. 12, pages 1576-1590, December 2012.

• Dennis Ippoliti and Xiaobo Zhou
  A Self-Tuning Self-Optimizing Approach for Automated Network Anomaly Detection Systems
  Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), pages 85-89, San Jose, September 2012.

• Taeshik Shon, Costas Lambrinoudakis, Xiaobo Zhou
  Special issue on next generation communication and network security
  Security and Communication Networks, Vol. 5, No. 10, 2012.

Year 2011

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  aMOSS: Automated Multi-Objective Server Provisioning with Stress-Strain Curving
  Proc. of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 10 pages, Taipei, Sep 2011.

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  PERFUME: Power and Performance Guarantee with Fuzzy MIMO Control in Virtualized Servers
  Proc. of the 19th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), 9 pages, San Jose, June 2011.

• Sireesha Muppala and Xiaobo Zhou
  Coordinated Session-based Admission Control with Statistical Learning for Multi-tier Internet Applications
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 20-29, Jan 2011.

• Liqiang Zhang, Yujen Cheng, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Enhanced Statistics-based Rate Aadapation for 802.11 in wireless networks
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 34, No. 5, pages 1695-1706, September 2011.

• Humzah Jaffar, Xiaobo Zhou, and Liqiang Zhang
  DIBS: A Dual Interval Bandwidth Scheduling for Short-term Differentiation
  The International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 26(3): 165-178, April 2011.

Year 2010

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  Autonomic Provisioning with Self-Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control for End-to-end Delay Guarantee
  Proc. of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Miami, pages 151-160, Miami, August 2010.

• Dennis Ippoliti and Xiaobo Zhou
  An Adaptive Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Map for Network Intrusion Detection
  Proc. of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), IEEE Communications Society, Zurich, August 2010.

• Sireesha Muppala, Xiaobo Zhou, and Liqiang Zhang
  Regression Based Multi-tier Resource Provisioning for Session Slowdown Guarantees
  Proc. of the 29th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Albuquerque, December 2010.

Year 2009

• Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou
  Efficient Server Provisioning with End-to-End Delay Guarantee on Multi-tier Clusters
  Proc. of the 17th IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), 9 pages, July 2009.

• Sireesha Muppala and Xiaobo Zhou
  CoSAC: Coordinated Session-based Admission Control for Multi-tier Internet Applications
  Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2009.

• Liqiang Zhang, Yu-Jen Cheng, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Rate Avalanche: Effects on the Performance of Multi-rate 802.11 Wireless Networks
  Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 487-503, March 2009.

• Michael Lemmon, Christian Poellabauer, Liqiang Zhang, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Special Issue on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Wireless Networking Systems
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2009.

• Liqiang Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, Guihai Chen, and Christian Poellabauer
  Special Issue on Resource allocation and management in wireless mesh networks
  International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Emerald, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009.

Year 2008

• Xiaobo Zhou and Dennis Ippoliti
  Resource Allocation Optimization for Quantitative Service Differentiation on Server Clusters
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 1250 - 1262, Sep 2008.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Dennis Ippoliti, and Liqiang Zhang
  Packet Scheduling with Buffer Management for Fair Bandwidth Sharing and Delay Differentiation
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 31, No. 17, pp. 4072 - 4080, Nov 2008.

• Liqiang Zhang, Yujen Cheng, and Xiaobo Zhou
  RADAR: Rate-alert dynamic RTS/CTS exchange for performance enhancement in multi-rate wireless networks
  Proc. of the 5th IEEE/IFIP Int'l Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Dec 2008.

• Humzah Jaffar, Xiaobo Zhou, and Liqiang Zhang
  DIBS: Dual Interval Bandwidth Scheduling for Short-term Differentiation
  Proc. of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization (IPDPS-PMEO), IEEE Computer Society, April 2008.

• Liqiang Zhang, Yujen Cheng, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Rate Avalanche: The Performance Degradation in Multi-rate 802.11 WLANs
  Proc. of the 13th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems (IPDPS-DPDNS08), IEEE Computer Society, April 2008.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Liqiang Zhang
  Special Issue on Resource Management and Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 31, No.7, 2008.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Liqiang Zhang
  Special Issue on Modeling, Testbeds, and Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 31, No. 8, 2008.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Bin Xiao, and Edwin Sha
  Special Issue on Recent Advances in Ubiquitous Computing
  Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Troubador Publishers, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2008.

Year 2007

• Dennis Ippoliti, Xiaobo Zhou, and Liqiang Zhang
  Packet Scheduling with Buffer Management for Fair Bandwidth Sharing and Delay Differentiation
  Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), IEEE Communications Society, Honululu, August 2007.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Dennis Ippoliti, and Terrance Boult
  Hop-count based probabilistic packet dropping: congestion mitigation with loss differentiation
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 18, pp. 3859 - 3869, December 2007.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Efficient algorithms of video replication and placement on a cluster of streaming servers
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 515 - 540, April 2007.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Jianbin Wei, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Quality-of-service differentiation on the Internet: a taxonomy
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 354-383, January 2007.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Sepcial Issue on Distributed Denial-of-Service and Intrusion Detection
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier House, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2007.

Year 2006

• Xiaobo Zhou, Dennis Ippoliti, and Terrance Boult
  HPPD: A Hop-count Probabilistic Packet Dropper
  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Communications Society, Vol. 1, pages 116-121, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

• Liqiang Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Qiang Cheng
  Landscape-3D: A Robust Localizatio Scheme for Sensor Networks in Complex 3D Terrains
  Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), IEEE Computer Society, pages 239-246, Tampa, Nov 2006.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Quantitative Service Differentiation: A Square-Root Proportional Model
  Proc. of the 2006 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, August 2006.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Jianbin Wei, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Resource allocation for session-based two-dimensional service differentiation on e-Commerce servers
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 838 - 850, August 2006.

• Xiaobo Zhou
  Internet Services and Architectures: A Performance Perspective
  The International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 303-304, August 2006.

• Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Xiaobo Zhou, and Qing Li
  A robust packet scheduling algorithm for proportional delay differentiation services
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 29, No. 18, pp. 3679 - 3690, December 2006.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, and Edward Chow
  An integrated approach with feedback control for robust Web QoS design
  Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 29, No. 16, pp. 3158 - 3169, Octomber 2006.

• Xiaobo Zhou et al. (Eds.)
  Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4097, Springer, ISBN 3-540-36850-7, 2006.

• Weisong Shi, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Special Issue on Seurity in Grid and Distributed Systems
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier House, Vol. 66, No. 9, 2006.

Year 2005

• Jianbin Wei, Xiaobo Zhou, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Robust processing rate allocation for proportional slowdown differentiation on Internet servers
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 964 - 977, August 2005.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, and Marijke Augusteijn
  Two-tier Resource Allocation for Slowdown Differentiation on Cluster-based Servers
  Proc. of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 31 - 38, Oslo, Norway, June 2005. [Paper in PDF] [BibTeX]

• Ravindra Sudhinda, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Sithanshu Shashidhara, and Xiaobo Zhou
  NaproxI: A Hash-based Collaborative Proxy System for Content Adaptation
  Proc. of the IEEE 1st International Workshop on Mobility in Peer-to-Peer Systems (MPPS), in conjunction with 25th IEEE ICDCS, IEEE Computer Society, Pages 843 - 849, Columbus, June 2005.

• Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Resource Allocation with Feedback Control for QoS Provisioning on Internet Servers
  Proc. of the 7th International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 223 - 230, Munchen, Germany, July 2005.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, Jianbin Wei, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  A Robust Application-level Approach for Responsiveness Differentiation
  Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 373 - 380, Orlando, July 2005.

Year 2004

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Harmonic proportional bandwidth allocation and scheduling for service differentiation on streaming servers
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vo. 15, No. 9, pp. 835 - 848, September 2004.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Jianbin Wei, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Modeling and Analysis of 2D Service Differentiation on an E-Commerce Server
  Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 740 - 747, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Jianbin Wei, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Processing Rate Allocation for Proportional Slowdown Differentiation on Internet Servers
  Proc. of the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), IEEE Computer Society, Page 88 - 97, Santa Fe, Apr 2004.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Analysis of a Bandwidth Allocation Strategy for Proportional Streaming Services
  Proc. of the 6th International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC), IEEE Computer Society, San Diego, July 2004.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, Ganesh K. Godavari, and C. Edward Chow
  An Adaptive Process Allocation Strategy for Proportional Responsiveness Differentiation on Web Servers
  Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 142 - 149, San Diego, July 2004.

• Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Xiaobo Zhou
  A Robust Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Proportional Delay Differentiation Services
  Proc. of the IEEE GlobeCom 2004, IEEE Communication Society, Vol. 2, Pages 697 - 701, Nov/Dec 2004.

• Jianbin Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Xiaobo Zhou
  Load Balancing on the Internet
  Internet Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons Publisher, Volume 2, pp. 499 - 514, 2004.

Years 2000 - 2003

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Optimal Video Replication and Placement on a Cluster of Video-on-Demand Servers
  Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 547 - 555, Vancouver, Canada, Aug 2002.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Cheng-Zhong Xu
  Request Redirection and Data Layout for Network Traffic Balancing in Cluster-based VoD Servers
  Proc. of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium & Workshops (IPDPS), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 127 - 134, Fort Lauderdale, Apr 2002.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Lars Burchard, and Reinhard Lueling
  A Video Replacement Policy based on Revenue to Cost Ratio in a Multicast TV-Anytime System
  Proc. of the 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium & Workshops (IPDPS), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 1184 - 1191, San Francisco, Apr 2001.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Reinhard Lueling, and Li Xie
  Solving a Media Mapping Problem in a Hierarchical Server Network with Parallel Simulated Annealing
  Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), IEEE Computer Society, Pages 115 - 124, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2000.

• Xiaobo Zhou and Reinhard Lueling
  Dynamic Adaptive Mapping of Videos in a Hierarchical TV-Anytime Server Network
  Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), IEEE Communication Society, Pages 402 - 409, Las Vegas, Oct 2000.

• Xiaobo Zhou, Reinhard Lueing, and Li Xie
  Heuristic Solutions for a Mapping Problem in a TV-Anytime Server Network
  IPDPS2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1800, Pages 210 - 217, Springer Verlag, 2000.