Yang Richard Yang

Universe; Courtesy NASA Yang (Richard) Yang

Associate Professor of Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering (courtesy appointment)
Yale University
Department of Computer Science
LAboratory of Networked Systems

Office: 308A AK Watson
51 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520
(google map) Phone: (203) 432-6400
FAX: (203) 432-0593
yang.r.yang AT yale.edu
or yry AT cs.yale.edu

Research

For a partial list of my current projects, please go to LANs home page.

My general research interests include computer networks, wireless networks, sensor networks, mobile computing, and network security. I lead the Laboratory of Networked Systems (LANS) at Yale University.

Currently, my primary research interest is on designing robust, efficient and fair Internet networks, where autonomous, heterogeneous traffic controllers optimize their objectives measured by both economical metrics and traditional performance metrics. As such networks are becoming a critical infrastructure of our society shared by many applications and users, robustness, efficiency and fairness of this infrastructure would be of great societal value.

My methodology is to integrate scalable and robust engineering with economical, and game-theoretical techniques. Our research always consists of two perspectives: 1) design scalable and robust algorithms for individual traffic controllers to optimize their resource-usage decisions; 2) analyze and design global guidelines and principles to achieve fair usage and coordination.

My research has addressed issues in the following areas:

backbone: robust, fair, and efficient Internet backbone networks;

Internet access: overlay/P2P;

Wireless access: high capacity and incentive-compatible wireless networks;

transport: end host fairness and rate control.

I have also investigated topics in security and privacy, and in the foundational primitives of mobile ad-hoc networks, e.g., localization, controlled mobility, and mobile agents.

Publications

My complete list of publications
Search by google scholar

Some recent publications and preprints

Shadow Configuration as a Network Management Primitive by Richard Alimi, Ye Wang and Yang Richard Yang. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008. (bib, pdf)

P4P: Provider Portal for Applications by Haiyong Xie, Yang Richard Yang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yanbin Liu, and Avi Silberschatz. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008. (bib, pdf, [slides: ppt, pdf])

Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks by Fan Wu, Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong, L. Erran Li and Yang Richard Yang. To appear in Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2008. (bib, pdf coming soon)

iPack: in-Network Packet Mixing for High Throughput Wireless Mesh Networks by Richard Alimi, Li Erran Li, Ram Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan, and Y. Richard Yang. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008 . (bib, pdf).

Wide-Area IP Network Mobility by Xin Hu, Li Li, Z. Morley Mao, and Yang Richard Yang. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008. (bib, pdf).

Network Routing Tree Topology Inference from End-to-End Measurements by Jian Ni, Haiyong Xie, Sekhar Tatikonda, and Y. Richard Yang. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008 . (bib, pdf).

Proportional Fairness in Multi-rate Wireless LANs by Li (Erran) Li, Martin Pal, and Y. Richard Yang. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008. (bib, pdf).

LANS ( LAboratory of Networked Systems)

Conferences:

cfp, statistics

In 2008, I am involved in these workshops/conferences.

ANM 2008 (submission deadline passed)

NetEcon 2008 (submission deadline passed)

SIGCOMM 2008 (submission deadline passed)

ICNP 2008 (submission open: April 25, 2008)

DSOM 2008 (submission open: April 28, 2008)

INFOCOM 2009 (submission open: August 29, 2008)

In the summer of 2006, I was the co-chair of IWQoS 2006 held at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The workshop was a great success. For papers, presentation slides, and photos, please check the home page.

Funded Projects

"Collaborative Research: NeTS-NBD: Traffic Engineering in an Uncertain World," NSF CNS-0626878, $162,748, 09/01/2006-08/31/2009.

"CAREER: Networks with Multiple Transport Mechanisms," NSF ANI-0238038, $424,889, 08/15/2003 - 7/31/2008.

"NeTS---Design and Evaluation of Multihomed Networks," NSF CNS-0435201, $349,987, 10/01/2004 - 9/30/2008, with James Aspnes and Avi Silberschatz.

"Incentive-Compatible Designs for Distributed Systems,'" NSF ANI-0207399, $424,998, 08/15/2002 - 7/31/2005, with Joan Feigenbaum, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Scott Shenker.

My research is also supported by Microsoft Research and Altera.

Funded Projects
"Collaborative Research: NeTS-NBD: Traffic Engineering in an Uncertain World," NSF CNS-0626878, $162,748, 09/01/2006-08/31/2009. "CAREER: Networks with Multiple Transport Mechanisms," NSF ANI-0238038, $424,889, 08/15/2003 - 7/31/2008. "NeTS---Design and Evaluation of Multihomed Networks," NSF CNS-0435201, $349,987, 10/01/2004 - 9/30/2008, with James Aspnes and Avi Silberschatz. "Incentive-Compatible Designs for Distributed Systems,'" NSF ANI-0207399, $424,998, 08/15/2002 - 7/31/2005, with Joan Feigenbaum, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Scott Shenker. My research is also supported by Microsoft Research and Altera.

Students

This is a web page with links to alumni of my group.

I am fortunate to be able to work closely with a stellar group of students. Current students in my group:

Richard Alimi (PhD student)

Brad Galiette (senior thesis)

Glenn Thorpe (senior thesis)

Hao Wang (PhD student)

Ye Wang (PhD student)

Haiyong Xie (PhD student)

There are many more interesting projects than we can actively pursue; thus, I am currently looking for motivated Ph.D. students. One way for checking if you have a reasonable background and if there is a potential match between my research interests and yours, is that you take a look at my current research papers, say those linked at the beginning of this page. If you feel comfortable understanding, and (potentially) criticizing those papers, please feel free to contact with me.
This link contains much useful information for graduate students.
Here is a link to prospective students, current students and prospective visiting researchers.
I used to maintain a list of papers on computer networks. I suggest to my students that they read the papers, at least the red ones.

Teaching

CS112, Introduction to Programming, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2002

CS433b/533b, Computer Networks, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 2002

CS434b/534b, Mobile Computing and Wireless Networking, Fall 2006, Spring 2004

CS633, Seminar on Computer Networks, Fall 2001

Teaching
CS112, Introduction to Programming, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2002 CS433b/533b, Computer Networks, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 2002 CS434b/534b, Mobile Computing and Wireless Networking, Fall 2006, Spring 2004 CS633, Seminar on Computer Networks, Fall 2001

Other info

Short bio: Dr. Y. Richard Yang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University. His current research interests include computer networks, mobile computing, wireless networking, sensor networks, and network security. He leads the Laboratory of Networked Systems (LANS) at Yale. He has served as a committee member of many conferences, as a panelist of several funding agencies, as an advisor of several industrial and academic organizations, and is the conference co-chair of IWQoS 2006. His recent awards include a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and a Schlumberger Foundation Award. Dr. Yang's research is supported by both government funding agencies such as NSF and industrial companies such as Microsoft. He received his B.E. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University (1993), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin (1998 and 2001).

IEEE bio and photo

Ph.D. advisor: Simon S. Lam; to trace the whole academic chain, you can see the mathematics genealogy project.

Other info
Short bio: Dr. Y. Richard Yang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University. His current research interests include computer networks, mobile computing, wireless networking, sensor networks, and network security. He leads the Laboratory of Networked Systems (LANS) at Yale. He has served as a committee member of many conferences, as a panelist of several funding agencies, as an advisor of several industrial and academic organizations, and is the conference co-chair of IWQoS 2006. His recent awards include a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and a Schlumberger Foundation Award. Dr. Yang's research is supported by both government funding agencies such as NSF and industrial companies such as Microsoft. He received his B.E. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University (1993), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin (1998 and 2001). IEEE bio and photo Ph.D. advisor: Simon S. Lam; to trace the whole academic chain, you can see the mathematics genealogy project.

Last updated: 02/29/2008 17:50:26 -0400