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Faculty Vita Format Report  (2006 - 2009)



 
 

Jiang, Hong

 
 
 

Faculty and Research Interests:

 
 
  jiang
Title:  Full Professor
Research Area:  Computer architecture, interconnection networks, parallel/distributed processing, cluster and grid computing, distributed storage systems, and performance evaluation
Contact Info:  jiang@cse.unl.edu
http://cse.unl.edu/~jiang
 
 
 

Book Publications:

 
 
  Yijun Lu, Hong Jiang, and Ying Lu."Providing Quantitative Scalability Improvement of Consistency Control for Large-Scale, Replication-Based Grid Systems, " Quantitative Quality of Service for Grid Computing: Applications for Heterogeneity, Large-Scale Distribution and Dynamic Environments.Ed.Lizhe Wang et al. New York: IGI Global, ISBN 978-1-60566-370-8,, 2009.  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang."Efficient Update Control of Bloom Filter Replicas in Large-Scale Distributed Systems" Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies.Ed.Kuan-Ching Li, et al. . IGI Global, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60566-661-7., 2009.  

  Sumanth, J.V., David R. Swanson and Hong Jiang."A Novel Force Matrix Transformation with Optimal Load-Balance for 3-Body Potential Based Parallel Molecular Dynamics Using Atom-Decomposition in a Heterogeneous Cluster Environment" Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4873. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.  

  LeenKiat Soh and Hong Jiang."Intelligent Multi-Agent Cooperative Learning System" Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction.Ed.Claude Ghaoui. ISBN 1-59140-562-9: Idea Group Reference, 2006.  

  Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Nader Mohamed, Hong Jiang and David Swanson."An Overview of Parallel and Distributed Java for Heterogeneous Systems: Approaches and Open Issues" Algorithms and Tools for Parallel Computing On Heterogeneous Clusters.Ed.F. Desprez, E. Fleury, A. Kalinov, and astovetsky. ISBN: 1-60021-049-X: Nova Science Publishers, 2006.  

  Hong Jiang, Jie Wu, and Dan Feng., ed. Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (IWNAS'06).by.Hong Jiang, Jie Wu, and Dan Feng. IEEE Computer Society, 2006.  

  Xiao Qin and Hong Jiang."Towards High-Performance Data Grid for Data-Intensive Wide-Area applications" High Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure (ISBN: 0-471-65471-X).Ed.Tianrong Yang, et al. John Wiley and Sons, 2005.  

  X. Zhang, L.-K. Soh, H. Jiang & X. Liu."Using Multiagent Intelligence to Support Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning." Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing.Ed.Lakhmi Jain. Springer-Verlag, 2005.  

  Leen-Kiat Soh, Xuesong Zhang, Xuli Liu, and Hong Jiang."Intelligent Collaborating Agents to Support Teaching and Learning" Technology-Based Education: Bringing Researchers and Practitioners Together.Ed.PytlikZillig, M. Bodvarsson, and R. Bruning. Information Age Publishing, 2005.  

  Qing Yang and Hong Jiang., ed. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage network architecture and parallel I/Os.by.Qing Yang and Hong Jiang. ACM, 2005.  
 
 

Journal Publications:

 
 
  Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Jun Wang, and Feng Xian. "HBA: Distributed Metadata Management for Large Cluster-based Storage Systems." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 19.6 (June 2008): 750-763  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang. "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffer Cache." IEEE Transactions on Computers. 57.1 (2008): 25-40  

  Leen-Kiat Soh, Nobel Khandaker, and Hong Jiang. "I-MINDS: A Multiagent System for Intelligent Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning and Classroom Management." International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 18.2 (2008): 119-151  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Garbage Collection: Java Application Servers' Achilles Heel." Journal of Science of Computer Programming. 72.2 (2008): 89-110  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang. "A Novel Buffer Cache Management Scheme Based on Context and Location Awareness." ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter. 24.1 (2006): 26-35  

  Ligang He, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Hong Jiang, Donna N. Dillenberger and Graham R. Nudd. "Allocating Non-real-time and Soft-real-time Jobs in Multiclusters." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 17.2 (2006): 99-112  

  Xiao Qin and Hong Jiang. "A Novel Fault-tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Precedence Constrained Tasks in Real-Time Heterogeneous Systems." Parallel Computing. 32.5 (2006): 331-446  

  Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, and David R. Swanson. "Exploiting Redundancy to Boost Performance in a RAID-10 Style Cluster-based File System." Journal of Cluster Computing. 9.4 (2006): 433-447  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang. "CEFT: A Cost-Effective Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System." Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 66.1 (2006): 291-306  

  S. Ray, R. Kannan, D. Zhang, and H. Jiang. "The Weighted Integrity Problem is Polynomial for Interval Graphs." Ars Combinatoria. 79.2 (2006): 51-61  

  Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, and David R. Swanson. "Improving the Performance of I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters of Workstations." Journal of Cluster Computing. 9.3 (2006): 297-311  

  N. Mohamed, J. Aljaroodi, H. Jiang and D. Swanson. "High-Performance Message Striping over Reliable Transport Protocols." Journal of Supercomputing . 38.3 (2006): 261-278  
 
 

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

 
 
  Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Dan Feng, and Lei Tian. "SmartStore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm with Semantic-Awareness." Work-in-Progress Report and Poster Session, the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09). (2009).  

  Chao Jin, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian. "P-Code: A New RAID-6 Code with Optimal Properties." the 23rd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’09). (2009).  

  Hui Tian, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Yongfeng Huang, Jin Liu, and Dan Feng. "An Adaptive Steganography Scheme for Voice over IP." The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. (2009).  

  Hui Tian, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Yongfeng Huang, Jin Liu, and Dan Feng. "An M-Sequence Based Steganography Model for Voice over IP." the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’09). (2009).  

  Suzhen Wu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian, and Bo Mao. "WorkOut: I/O Workload Outsourcing for Boosting the RAID Reconstruction Performance." the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09). (2009): 239-252  

  Qiang Zou, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, and Yifeng Zhu. "A Novel Model for Synthesizing Parallel I/O Workloads in Scientific Applications." the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster’2008). (2008).  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Contention-Aware Scheduler: Unlocking Execution Parallelism in Multithreaded Java Programs." ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). 43 (2008): 163-180  <http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1449778...>  

  Bo Mao, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Suzhen Wu, Jianxi Chen, Lingfang Zeng. "GRAID: A Green RAID Storage Architecture with Improved Energy Efficiency and Reliability." the 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). (2008).  

  Qiang Zou, Dan Feng, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiaohu Ge, Zhihua Zhou. "A Novel and Generic Model for Synthesizing Disk I/O Traffic Based on The Alpha-stable Process." the 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS). (2008).  

  Yijun Lu, Xueming Li, and Hong Jiang. "Accurate Performance Modeling and Guidance to the Adoption of an Inconsistency Detection Framework." the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS’08), Best Student Paper Award,. (2008).  

  Yijun Lu, Ying Lu, and Hong Jiang. "Adaptive Consistency Guarantees for Large-Scale Replicated Services." the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS’08). (2008): 89-96  

  L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, and H. Jiang. "Multiagent Coalition Formation for Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning." Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI). (2006): 1844-1851  

  Yijun Lu, Ying Lu, Hong Jiang. "IDEA:: an infrastructure for detection-based adaptive consistency control in replicated services." The 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing (HPDC). (2007): 223-224  

  Lin Lin, Xueming Li, Hong Jiang, and Yifeng Zhu. "AMP: An Affinity-based Metadata Prefetching Scheme in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems." the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2008). (2008).  

  Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, and Lei Tian. "Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management in Ultra Large-scale File Systems." the 28th IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008). (2008).  

  Peng Xia, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian, and Fang Wang. "FARMER: A Novel Approach to File Access Correlation Mining And Evaluating Reference Model for Optimizing Peta-Scale File Systems Performance." the 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008). (2008).  

  Yijun Lu, Ying Lu, and Hong Jiang. "IDEA: An Infrastructure for Detection-based Adaptive Consistency Control in Replicated Services." the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC’07). (2007).  

  Sumanth J.V, David R. Swanson, and Hong Jiang. "A Symmetric Transformation for 3-body Potential Molecular Dynamics using Force-Decomposition in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment." the 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’07). (2007): 105-115  

  Sumanth J.V, David R. Swanson, and Hong Jiang. "Adaptive Load-Balancing for Force-Decomposition Based 3-Body Molecular Dynamics Simulations in A Heterogeneous Distributed Environment with Variable Number of Processors." The 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’07). (2007).  

  Lei Tian, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Qin Xin, and Xing Shu. "Implementation and Evaluation of a Popularity-Based Reconstruction Optimization Algorithm in Availability-Oriented Disk Arrays." the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST’07). (2007): 233-238  

  Zhongying Niu, Ke Zhou, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Frank Wang, Hua Chai, Wei Xiao,and Chunhua Li. "Implementing and Evaluating Security Controls for an Object-Based Storage System." the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST’07). (2007): 87-99  

  Sumanth J.V, David R. Swanson, and Hong Jiang. "A Novel Force Matrix Transformation with Optimal Load-Balance for 3-body Potential based Parallel Molecular Dynamics using Atom-Decomposition in a Heterogeneous Cluster Environment." the 2007 International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC’07). (2007).  

  L. D. Miller, A. Eck, L.-K. Soh, and H. Jiang. "Statistics and Analysis Tools for a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning System." Frontiers in Education. (2007): 1-6  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Allocation-Phase Aware Thread Scheduling Policies to Improve Garbage Collection Performance." ACM International Symposium on Memory Management. (2007): 79-90  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Chenghuan Jia, Hong Jiang. "AS-GC: An Efficient Generational Garbage Collector for Java Applications Servers." European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP). (2007): 126-150  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "MicroPhase: An Approach to Proactively Invoking Garbage Collection for Improved Performance." International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. (2007): 77-96  

  A. Eck, L.-K. Soh, H. Jiang, and T. Chou. "Testing Collaborative Traffic over Wireless Protocols." Frontiers in Education. (2007): 11-16  

  Yu Hua, Dan Feng, and Hong Jiang. "RBF: A New Storage Structure for Space-Efficient Queries for Multidimensional Metadata in OSS." the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07) Work-in-Progress (WiP) Report. (2007).  

  Lei Tian, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Ke Zhou, Lingfang Zeng, Jianxi Chen, Zhikun Wang, and Zhenlei Song. "PRO: A Popularity-based Multi-threaded Reconstruction Optimization for RAID-Structured Storage Systems." Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07). (2007): 277-290  

  Lingfang Zeng, Ke Zhou, Zhan Shi, Dan Feng, Fang Wang, Changsheng Xie, Zhitang Li, Zhanwu Yu, Jianya Gong, Qiang Cao, Zhongying Niu, Lingjun Qin, Qun Liu, Yao Li, Hong Jiang. "HUSt: A Heterogeneous Unified Storage System for GIS Grid." Finalist Award, HPC Storage Challenge, the 2006 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC06). (2006): 1-12  

  Nobel Khandaker, Leen-Kiat Soh, and Hong Jiang. "Student Learning and Team Formation in A Structured CSCL Environment." Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2006). (2006): 117-126  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Service Oriented Garbage Collection: Improving Performance and Robustness of Application Servers." Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming&#65292; Systems&#65292; Languages&#65292; Applications (Poster Session) (OOPSLA 2006). (2006).  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Evaluating Hardware Support for Reference Counting Using Software Configurable Processors." IEEE 17th International Conference on Application-specific Sysems, Architectures, and Processors. (2006): 297-302  

  Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Investigating Throughput Degradation Behavior of Java Application Servers: A View from Inside a Virtual Machine." International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming In Java. (2006): 40-49  

  Leen-Kiat Soh, Nobel Khandaker, and Hong Jiang. "Multiagent Coalition Formation for Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning." Proceedings of the Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-06). (2006): 1844-1851  

  Sumanth J.V., David R. Swanson, and Hong Jiang. "Adaptive Load Balancing for Long-Range MD Simulations in A Distributed Environment." the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-06). (2006): 135-146  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang. "False Rate Analysis of Bloom Filter Replicas in Distributed Systems." the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-06). (2006): 255-262  

  L.-K. Soh, N. Khandaker, X. Liu, & H. Jiang. "A Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning System with Multiagent Intelligence." AAMAS '2006. (2006): 1556-1563  

  Yifeng Zhu and Hong Jiang. "RACE: A Robust Adaptive Caching Strategy for Buffer Cache." Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI-2006), in conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). (2006): 26-34  

  Leen-Kiat Soh and Hong Jiang. "Commercializing a Multiagent-Supported Collaborative System." Proceedings of The Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-06). (2006): 1522-1529  

  Leen-Kiat Soh, Nobel Khandaker, Xuliu Liu, and Hong Jiang. "A Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning System with Multi-agent Intelligence." Proceedings of The Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-06). (2006): 1556-1563  

  Peng Gu, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, and Jun Wang. "Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems." 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2006). (2006): 409-416  

  L.-K. Soh & H. Jiang. "Commercializing a Multiagent-Supported Collaborative System." AAMAS '2006. (2006): 1522-1529  
 
 

Technical Reports:

 
 
  Dongyuan Zhan, Hong Jiang, Sharad C. Seth. Exploiting Set-Level Non-Uniformity of Capacity Demand to Enhance CMP Cooperative Caching. 09/29/2009. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2009-0013pdf  

  Lei Tian, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Qiang Cao, Changsheng Xie, Qin Xin. SPA: On-Line Availability Upgrades for Parity-based RAIDs through Supplementary Parity Augmentations . 02/20/2009. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2009-0006pdf  

  Tianming Yang, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Zhongying Niu. DEBAR: A Scalable High-Performance De-duplication Storage System for Backup and Archiving. 01/05/2009. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2009-0004pdf  

  Zhongying Niu, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Tianming Yang. IDEAS: An Identity-based Security Architecture for Large-scale and High-performance Storage Systems . 11/09/2008. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2008-0013pdf  

  Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Dan Feng, Lei Tian. SmartStore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm with Metadata Semantic-Awareness for Next-Generation File Systems. 11/09/2008. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2008-0012pdf  

  Hui Tian, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Jin Liu, Yongfeng Huang, Dan Feng. An M-Sequence Based Steganography Model for Voice over IP. 09/10/2008. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2008-0007pdf  

  Peng Xia, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian, and Fang Wang. FARMER: A Novel Approach to File Access Correlation Mining And Evaluating Reference Model for Optimizing Peta-Scale File Systems Performance. 01/22/2008. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2008-0001pdf  

  Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, and Lei Tian. Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management in Ultra Large-scale File Systems. 11/20/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0025pdf  

  Lin Lin, Xuemin Li, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu. AMP: An Affinity-based Metadata Prefetching Scheme in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems. 11/19/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0024pdf  

  Lei Tian, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Qin Xin, Sai Huang. An Architectural Approach to Improving the Availability of Parity-Based RAID Systems. 11/19/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0022pdf  

  Adam Eck, L.D. Miller, Leen-Kiat Soh, Hong Jiang, and Tim Chou. ConferenceXP-Powered I-MINDS: A Multiagent System for Intelligently Supporting Online Collaboration. 04/04/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0014pdf  

  Sumanth J.V, David Swanson, Hong Jiang. Novel Force Matrix Transformations with Optimal Load-Balance for 3-body Potential based Parallel Molecular Dynamics in a Heterogeneous Cluster Environment. 01/29/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0010pdf  

  Yijun Lu, Hong Jiang, and Ying Lu. CVRetrieval: Separating Consistency Retrieval from Consistency Maintenance. 01/04/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0003pdf  

  Yijun Lu, Ying Lu, and Hong Jiang. IDEA: An Infrastructure for Detection-based Adaptive Consistency Control in Replicated Services. 01/04/2007. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2007-0001pdf  

  Yijun Lu, Xueming Li, and Hong Jiang. IDF: an Inconsistency Detection Framework ¨C Performance Modeling and Guide to Its Design. 03/06/2006. Download:TR-UNL-CSE-2006-0003pdf  
 
Cached Ver Nov 20th 2009