Zhi-Li Zhang

Zhi-Li Zhang - University of Minnesota (USA)

Zhi-Li Zhang received his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has a BSc in the same discipline from Nanjing University in China. He is the Quest Chair Professor in Telecommunications at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has been Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and in the Fujitsu Labs of America, Sunnyvale, among others. He has also worked at the Honeywell Technology Center in Minneapolis and with the Computer Networking Research Group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current research focus is on Internet inter-and intra-domain routing, wireless ad hoc routing, routing algorithms and architectures for heterogeneous networks, distributed sensor networks, resilient large-scale distributed system design, self- organizing and peer-to-peer systems, security attack detection and prevention, secured networked system design. In October, 2010, he received the Best Poster Paper Award from the IEEE ICNP ’10, and in April he received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE INFOCOM ’10.

Research stay at UC3M: TELEMATIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Project: Interplay and Interactions of Socio-Technical Networks: A Case Study using Large-Scale Content Delivery over the Internet. A significant portion of today’s digital multimedia content is serviced by large content providers such as YouTube, Yahoo, Google, and the like. These large content providers often employ several huge data centers as well as a large number of geographically dispersed cache/proxy servers to meet and serve growing user demands. In this project, we propose to explore and study the interplay and interactions of socio-technical networks through network traffic. Understanding the interplay of socio-technical networks will not only help improve the operations and management of today’s Internet and emerging services such as cloud and mobile computing, but will also provide guidance to the design of future network architectures.

Stay Period: FEB 12 - JUL 12

Conferences

Lecturer: Zhi-Li Zhang
Title: Vivisecting the YouTube video delivery cloud: Overall architecture and key mechanisms
Date: April 11, 2012 at 16:15h
Place: Aula 3.1.S08