Recently my work focuses on application development of the new Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture, overcoming challenges and grasping opportunities of the new communication paradigm, as well as shaping the NDN architecture itself in the process.
I received my B.E. degree in Automation from Tsinghua University in July 2008. After a short rest at home, I came to U.S. to pursue my Ph.D degree in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles.
My advisor is Dr. Lixia Zhang, and I feel lucky to work with a few amazing lab mates in Internet Research Lab.
I am interested in providing better services for billions of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, sensors or even vehicles. Recently, I'm also involved in Named Data Networking (NDN) Project, which is funded by NSF Future Interent Architecture Award to explore data-centric networking. My main responsibilities are developing applications that run over NDN, so as to gain better understanding of application data naming, its relation with routing scalability and trust model.
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WebRTC is an opensource project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript API. We plan to make WebRTC work over NDN architecture.
Deploy secure key distribution mechanisms for our NDN testbed to meet the security need of applications.
In distributed systems, it is frequently desirable for multiple hosts to have approximately the same view of data. This is general enough to warrant a basic shared mechanism, Synchronization or Sync, for distributing information. We develop XMPP textchat with Sync approach to help shape the design of Sync and reveal the issues one must solve for Sync to work.
The package provide audio, video and text services for multi-user conferences over NDN. Traditionally, these services are provided with some central server; we developed a distributed system with no center control point and takes advantage of NDN's built-in multicast ability to make the system more scalable. Security is also integrated into the design.
Apple Inc.'s Back To My Mac (BTMM) service provides a nice mobility aware home networking solution not by proposing a bunch of new protocols, but by putting together a set of existing protocols and software tools. Users get connectivity to the machines at home regardless of whether they are on move or behind a NAT. We present the design of BTMM and propose extensions to make it a potential solution for general home networking problem.
Simulations of Global Home Agent to Home Agent Protocol and its extension in NS-2 and Qualnet.
We survey the mobility protocols proposed by Internet research communities since the early 90s. We categorize them by different standards, analyze the tradeoffs they made and provide insights for researchers.
Special Reader, Fall 2009, Winter 2011, Winter 2012 (Instructor: Prof. Lixia Zhang)
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010 (Instructor: Prof. Glenn Reinman)