Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security
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An expansion of the 2021 Bakken Medical Devices Center Internship Program gave two teams of science and engineering students the opportunity to explore the world of medical device cybersecurity and interact with Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity industry members. These students, photographed in June 2021, focused on developing an efficient system to help hospitals authenticate users of medical devices to ensure patient wellbeing.
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Research thrusts broadly include development of innovative theories and techniques, efficient and scalable mechanisms and protocols, and novel network architectures and services. These techniques enhance the availability, reliability, quality-of-service, mobility, manageability, privacy and security for current and future Internet, emerging wireless, sensor, peer-to-peer systems, Grid systems and applications, large-scale storage networks, networked multimedia systems and applications.

Faculty

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Ali Anwar
Assistant Professor (Starting May 2022)
E-mail
aanwar@umn.edu
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Abhishek Chandra
Professor
Office
4-209 Keller Hall
Phone
612-626-1283
E-mail
chandra@umn.edu
David Hung-Chang Du
David Hung-Chang Du
Professor, Qwest Chair Professor
Office
4-225B Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-2560
E-mail
du@umn.edu
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Nicholas Hopper
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office
4-211 Keller Hall
Phone
612-626-1284
E-mail
hoppernj@umn.edu
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Volkan Isler
Professor
Office
4-213 Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-1067
E-mail
isler@umn.edu
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Kangjie Lu
Assistant Professor
Office
5-217 Keller Hall
Phone
612-301-2197
E-mail
kjlu@umn.edu
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Feng Qian
Associate Professor
Office
4-203 Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-7035
E-mail
fengqian@umn.edu
Jaideep Srivastava
Jaideep Srivastava
Professor, Data Science Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office
5-209 Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-4012
E-mail
srivasta@umn.edu
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Anand Tripathi
Professor
Office
5-205 Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-9515
E-mail
tripathi@umn.edu
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Jon Weissman
Professor
Office
4-225F Keller Hall
Phone
612-626-0044
E-mail
weiss039@umn.edu
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Zhi-Li Zhang
Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Qwest Land Grant Chair in Telecommunications
Office
6-187 Keller Hall
Phone
612-625-8568
E-mail
zhang089@umn.edu

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Latest research projects, publications, and talks

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

EMP: Edge-assisted Multi-vehicle Perception [conference paper]

Posted January 31, 2022

27th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2021)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

AggNet: Cost-Aware Aggregation Networks for Geo-distributed Streaming Analytics [conference paper]

Posted December 14, 2021

Dhruv Kumar (Ph.D. student), Sohaib Ahmad, Abhishek Chandra (professor), Ramesh Sitaraman

6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Concurrent Order Dispatch for Instant Delivery with Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning [conference paper]

Posted December 7, 2021

Baoshen Guo, Shuai Wang, Yi Ding (Ph.D. student), Guang Wang, Suining He, Desheng Zhang, Tian He (adjunct professor)

IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) - Outstanding Paper Award

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Detecting Missed Security Operations Through Differential Checking of Object-based Similar Paths [conference paper]

Posted November 15, 2021

Dinghao Liu, Qiushi Wu (Ph.D. student), Shouling Ji, Kangjie Lu (assistant professor), Zhenguang Liu, Jianhai Chen, Qinming He

ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Scaling Up The Performance of Distributed Key-Value Stores With In-Switch Coordination [conference paper]

Posted November 3, 2021

Hebatalla Eldakiky (Ph.D. 2021), David Hung-Chang Du (professor)

29th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

From Cloud to Edge: A First Look at Public Edge Platforms [conference paper]

Posted November 2, 2021

Mengwei Xu, Zhe Fu, Xiao Ma, Li Zhang, Yanan Li, Feng Qian (associate professor), Shangguang Wang, Ke Li, Jingyu Yang, Xuanzhe Liu

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Unveiling IoT Devices Provisioning Process [poster]

Posted November 2, 2021

Rostand A. K. Fezeu (Ph.D. student), Timothy J. Salo (Ph.D. student), Amy Zhang (undergraduate student researcher), Zhi-Li Zhang (professor)

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

FluidSMR: Adaptive Management for Hybrid SMR Drives [journal]

Posted October 16, 2021

Fenggang Wu (Ph.D. 2020), Bingzhe Li, David HC Du (professor)

ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Taproot: Resilient Diversity Routing with Bounded Latency [conference paper]

Posted October 11, 2021

Eman Ramadan (Ph.D. student), Hesham Mekky (Ph.D. 2016), Cheng Jin (Ph.D. 2018), Braulio Dumba (Ph.D. 2018), Zhi-Li Zhang (professor)

ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)

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Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security

Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning using Multi-Path RDMA in Data Center Networks [conference paper]

Posted October 11, 2021

Feng Tian (Ph.D. student), Yang Zhang (Ph.D. 2019), Wei Ye (Ph.D. student), Cheng Jin (Ph.D. 2018), Ziyan Wu (Ph.D. student), Zhi-li Zhang (professor)

ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)

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