Minghua Chen – Publications and Some Presentations

Patents

More than ten granted or pending US patents in the area of networking, signal processing, and multimedia communications.

Books and Chapters

  • Minghua Chen and Mung Chiang, “Distributed Optimization in Networking: Recent Advances in Combinatorial and Robust Formulations”, book chapter in Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications 2010, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, 2011.

  • Minghua Chen and Avideh Zakhor, “A General Framework for Flow Control in Wireless Networks”, VDM Verlag, 2008. (ISBN 978-3-8364-9209-6)

  • Haisang Wu, Maoke Chen, Minghua Chen, Xinwei Hu, Cheng Yan, “IPv6 Principle and Practicing”, Beijing, China: People’s Posts and Telecommunication Press, 2000. (ISBN 7-115-08557)

Preprints

(Please feel free to drop me an e-mail for a copy of the manuscript you are interested in.)

  1. M. Chen, A. Zakhor, and R. Fujita, “Improving Long-term Throughput in Wireless Networks via Multiple Connections”, submitted for publication.

  2. X. Zhang, L. Chen, J. Huang, M. Chen, and Y. Zhao, “Distributed and Optimal Reduced Primal-Dual Algorithm for Uplink OFDM Resource Allocation”, in revision.

  3. Y. Wu, M. Chen, Y. C. Hu, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Delay Region and Delay Optimization for P2P File Transfer”, submitted for publication.

  4. M. Chen, S. Liew, Z. Shao, and C. Kai, “Markov Approximation for Combinatorial Network Optimization”, submitted for journal publication.

  5. H. Zhang, M. Chen, A. Parekh, and K. Ramchandran, “An Adaptive Multi-Channel P2P Video-on-Demand System Using Plug-and-Play Helpers”, submitted for publication

  6. Y. Li, H. Yao, M. Chen, S. Jaggi, and A. Rosen, “RIPPLE Authentication for Network Coding”, in submission for journal publication.

Journal Articles

  1. H. Yao, S. Jaggi, and M. Chen, “Passive network tomography for erroneous networks: A network coding approach”, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Information Theory. [PDF]

  2. Y. Li, M. Chen, Q. Li, and W. Zhang, “Enabling Multi-level Trust in Privacy Preserving Data Mining”, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering. [ final version to be available ] Early technical report version is here. Final long archived version is here.

  3. M. Chen, M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Utility Maximization in Peer-to-Peer Systems”, accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking. [ final version to be available ]

  4. Z. Shao, M. Chen, A. S. Avestimehr, and S. Li, “Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Networks with Deterministic Channel Models”, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Information Theory. [PDF]

  5. A. Abate, M. Chen, Y. Wang, A. Zakhor, and S. Sastry, “Design and Analysis of New Flow Control Schemes over Wireless Networks”, accepted for publication in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. [PDF]

  6. M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Optimizing Multi-rate Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing Applications”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, special issue on Iterative Multimedia, Oct. 2011. [PDF]

  7. S. Sengupta, S. Liu, M. Chen, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Peer-to-Peer Streaming Capacity”, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, August 2011. [PDF]

  8. C. Chau, M. Chen, and S. Liew, “Capacity of Large Scale CSMA Wireless Networks”, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, June 2011. [PDF]

  9. M. Chen and D. Tse, “An Upper Bound on the Convergence Rate of Uplink Power Control in CDMA Systems”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 10, No. 4, Apr. 2006. [PDF]

  10. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “Multiple TFRC Connections Based Rate Control for Wireless Networks”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 8, issue 5, Oct. 2006, pp. 1045-1062. [PDF]
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award, 2009.

  11. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “Rate Control for Streaming Video over Wireless”, (invited), special issue on Advances in Wireless Video, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, Issue 4, August 2005. (Note: extensive review + ICIP 04 contents) [PDF]

  12. M. Chen, Y. He and R. L. Lagendijk, “A Fragile Watermark Error Detection Scheme For Wireless Video Communications”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 2005. [PDF]

  13. M. Chen and Y. He, “A Watermark Based Transmission Error Detection Scheme for Hybrid Decoder” (in Chinese), Journal of Tsinghua University Science and Technology 2001. [PDF]

Conference Papers

  1. T. Lu and M. Chen, “Simple and Effective Dynamic Provisioning for Power-Proportional Data Centers”, (invited), in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, US, March 21 - 23, 2012. [ final version to be available ] Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  2. Z. Shao, H. Zhang, M. Chen, and K. Ramchandran, “Reverse-Engineering BitTorrent: A Markov Approximation Perspective”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM (mini-conference), Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar. 25 - 30, 2012. [PDF]

  3. W. Jiang, T. Lan, S. Ha, M. Chen, and M. Chiang, “Joint VM Placement and Routing for Data Center Traffic Engineering”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM (mini-conference), Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar. 25 - 30, 2012. [PDF]

  4. F. Wang, J. Liu, and M. Chen, “CALMS: Migration towards Cloud-Assisted Live Media Streaming”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Orlando, Florida, USA, Mar. 25 - 30, 2012. [PDF]

  5. X. Chen, M. Chen, B. Li, Y. Zhao, Y. Wu, and J. Li, “Celerity: A Low Delay Multiparty Conferencing Solution”, in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2011. [PDF] Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  6. S. Agnihotri, S. Jaggi, and M. Chen, “Amplify-and-Forward in Wireless Relay Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2011, Paraty, Brazil, Oct. 16-20, 2011. [PDF]

  7. Z. Shao, M. Chen, and S. Li, “Distributed Optimization for Combinatorial Coding Subgraph Selection Problems”, in Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod 2011), Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011. [PDF]

  8. M. Johnson, M. Chen, and K. Ramchandran, “On the Role of Network Coding in Uncoordinated Multihop Content Distribution over Ad Hoc Networks”, in Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod 2011), Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2011. [PDF]

  9. H. Zhang, Z. Shao, M. Chen, and K. Ramchandran, “Optimal Neighbor Selection in BitTorrent-like Peer-to-Peer Networks”, in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, San Jose, CA, US, June 7-11, 2011. (poster paper) [PDF]

  10. W. Chen, Y. Wang, M. Chen, and S. Liew, “On the Performance of TCP over Throughput-Optimal CSMA”, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2011), San Jose, CA, US, June 6-7, 2011. [PDF]

  11. X. Chen, M. Chen, B. Li, Y. Zhao, Y. Wu, and J. Li, “Celerity: Towards Low Delay Multiparty Conferencing over Arbitrary Network Topologies”, in Proceedings of the 21th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV 2011), Vancouver, Canada, June 2-3, 2011. [PDF]

  12. H. Yao, S. Jaggi, M. Chen, and T. Ho, “Network reed-solomon codes: Efficient byzantine adversary localization”, (invited), in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, US, November 7-10, 2010. [PDF]

  13. S. Zhang, Z. Shao, and M. Chen, “Optimal Distributed P2P Streaming under Node Degree Bounds”, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2010), Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 5 - 8, 2010. [PDF]. Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  14. S. Liu, M. Chen, S. Sengupta, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Peer-to-Peer Streaming Capacity under Node Degree Bound”, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010. [PDF]

  15. J. W. Jiang, S. Zhang, M. Chen, and M. Chiang, “Minimizing Streaming Delay in Homogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks”, Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010), Austin, TX, USA, June 13-18, 2010. [PDF]

  16. M. Chen, S. Liew, Z. Shao, and C. Kai, “Markov Approximation for Combinatorial Network Optimization”, Proceedings of Infocom 2010, San Diego, CA, US, March, 2010. [PDF]. Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  17. Y. Li, H. Yao, M. Chen, S. Jaggi, and A. Rosen, “RIPPLE Authentication for Network Coding”, Proceedings of Infocom 2010, San Diego, CA, US, March, 2010. [PDF].

  18. H. Yao, S. Jaggi, and M. Chen, “Network Coding Tomography for Network Failures”, Proceedings of Infocom (mini-conference) 2010, San Diego, CA, US, March, 2010. [PDF]. Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  19. Z. Shao, M. Chen, A. S. Avestimehr, and S. Li, “Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Networks with Deterministic Channel”, Proceedings of Infocom (mini-conference) 2010, San Diego, CA, US, March, 2010. [PDF].

  20. X. Zhang, L. Chen, J. Huang, M. Chen, and Y. Zhao, “Distributed and Optimal Reduced Primal-Dual Algorithm for Uplink OFDM Resource Allocation”, (invited), Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2009), Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009. [PDF]

  21. H. Zhang, J. Wang, M. Chen, and K. Ramchandran, “Scaling Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems Using Helpers,” Proceedings of ICIP 2009, Cairo, Egypt, November 7-11, 2009. [PDF]

  22. M. Chen, M. Chiang, P. A. Chou, J. Li, S. Liu, and S. Sengupta, “Peer-to-Peer Streaming Capacity: Survey and Recent Results”, (invited), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2009), Urbana, Illinois, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2009. [PDF] (author names are in alphabetical order.)

  23. C. Chau, M. Chen, and S. Liew, “Capacity of Large Scale CSMA Wireless Networks”, Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM, Beijing, China, September 20-25, 2009. [PDF]

  24. X. Xiao, Y. Tao, and M. Chen, “Optimal Random Perturbation at Multiple Privacy Levels”, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France, Aug. 24-28, 2009. [PDF]

  25. M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Multi-rate Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing: A Distributed Approach using Scalable Coding”, (plenary paper), Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2009), New York, NY, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2009. [PDF] Also available as technical report. [PDF]
    Best Paper Award.

  26. T. Li, Minghua Chen, D. Chiu, and M. Chen, “Queuing Models for Peer-to-peer Systems”, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2009), Boston, MA, USA, April 21, 2009. [PDF]

  27. S. Sengupta, M. Chen, P. A. Chou, and J. Li, “On Optimality of Routing for Multi-source Multicast Communication Scenarios with Node Uplink Constraints”, Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 6-11, 2008. [PDF]

  28. M. Chen, M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Utility Maximization in Peer-to-peer Systems”, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, June 2-6, 2008. [PDF] (full version is here.)

  29. P. A. Chou, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, and J. Li, “Packing multicast trees”, Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Computer and Communication Systems, May 2008.

  30. M. Chen, S. Sengupta, M. Ponec, P. A. Chou, and J. Li, “Peer-to-peer Utility Maximization”, (invited), Proceedings of CISS 2008, Princeton, NJ, USA, March 2008. [PDF]

  31. M. Chen and J. Huang, “Optimal Resource Allocation for OFDM Uplink Communication: A Primal-Dual Approach”, (invited), Proceedings of CISS 2008, Princeton, NJ, USA, March 2008. [PDF]

  32. Y. Li and M. Chen, “Privacy Preserving Joins”, Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 08), Cancún, México, April 7-12, 2008. (poster paper) [PDF] (tech. report is here.)

  33. M. Chen, Z. Liu, L. He, P. Chou, and Z. Zhang, “Energy-Based Position Estimation Of Microphones And Speakers For Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays”, Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 07), New Paltz, NY, October 21-24, 2007. [PDF]

  34. C. Huang, J. Li, and M. Chen, “On Optimizing XOR-Based Codes for Fault-Tolerant Storage Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2007, Lake Tahoe, CA, September 2007. [PDF]

  35. C. Huang, M. Chen, and J. Li, “Pyramid Codes: Flexible Schemes to Trade Space for Access Efficiency in Reliable Data Storage Systems”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007), Cambridge, MA, July 2007. [PDF]

  36. M. Chen, C. Huang, and J. Li, “On the Maximally Recoverable Property for Multi-Protection Group Codes”, Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2007) , Nice, France, June 2007. [PDF]

  37. A. Abate, M. Chen and S. Sastry, “Analysis of an Implementable Application Layer Scheme for Flow Control over Wireless Networks”, Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 2006. [PDF]

  38. M. Chen and G. Ayalvadi, “A compact routing protocol for ad-hoc networks”, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Modeling of Wireless Networks, 2006. [PDF]

  39. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “Flow Control over Wireless Network and Application Layer Implementation”, Proceedings of Infocom 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2006. [PDF]

  40. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “AIO-TFRC: A light-weighted rate control scheme for streaming over wireless”, (invited), Proceedings of the IEEE WirelessCom 2005, Maui, Hawaii, June, 2005. (A runner-up for the Best Paper Award, 3 out of 250+ accepted papers) [PDF]

  41. W. Zhang, S. S. Cheung, and M. Chen, “Hiding Privacy Information In Video Surveillance System”, Proceedings of ICIP 2005, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2009. [PDF]

  42. A. Abate, M. Chen, S. Sastry, “New Congestion Control Schemes over Wireless Networks: Delay Sensitivity Analysis and Simulations”, Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, 2005. [PDF] (tech. report is here.)

  43. M. Chen, A. Abate, S. Sastry, “New Congestion Control Schemes over Wireless Networks: Stability Analysis”, Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, 2005. [PDF] (tech. report is here.)

  44. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “Transmission Protocols for Streaming Video over Wireless”, (invited), Proceedings of ICIP 2004, Singapore, October, 2004, pp. 1743-1746. [PDF] (Note: this is a short version of the Infocom 04 paper with video streaming related simulations, to present the content to video community.)

  45. M. Chen and A. Zakhor, “Rate Control for Streaming Video over Wireless”, Proceedings of Infocom 2004, Hongkong, China, March, 2004, pp. 1181-1190. [PDF]

  46. M. Chen and Y. He, “A synchronous fragile watermarking scheme for erroneous Q-DCT coefficients detection”, Proceedings of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2001, Beijing, 2001, pp. 812-818. [PDF]

  47. M. Chen, Y. He and R. L. Lagendijk, “Error detection by fragile watermarking”, Proceedings of Picture Coding Symposium 2001, Seoul, April, 2001, pp. 287-290. [PDF]

Thesis

  • “A General Framework for Flow Control in Wireless Networks”, PhD Dissertation, U.C. Berkeley, 2006. [PDF]
    Eli Jury Award, EECS Department, U.C. Berkeley, 2007.

  • “Fragile Digital Watermark Based Error Detection Technique” (in Chinese), Master thesis, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 2001. [PDF]

Tutorials and Opinion Articles

  • M. Chen and S. Sengupta, “Beyond File Sharing: Recent Technologies and Trends in Peer-to-peer Systems”, tutorial at ACM SIGMETRICS 2010, New York, USA, June 2010 [PDF]

  • H. Zhang, K. Ramchandran, and M. Chen, “Scaling P2P Content Delivery Systems Reliably by Exploiting Unreliable System Resources”, (invited position paper), IEEE MMTC E-Letter, December, 2009

Presentations

  • “Towards Low-Delay Multi-party Conferencing”

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PolyTech Institute of New York University, USA, Nov. 2011

    • Department of Information Engineering and Institution of Network Coding (INC) Joint Seminar, CUHK, Hong Kong, Aug. 2011

    • Networking/Communications/DSP Seminar, EECS, UC Berkeley, USA, June 2011

    • School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, June, 2011

  • “Synthesizing Distributed Algorithms for Combinatorial Network Optimization”

    • Beijing-HongKong PhD forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Aug. 2011

    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada, June 2011

    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PolyTech Institute of New York University, USA, June 2010

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA, June 2010

    • Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, May 2010

    • Department of Information Engineering and Institution of Theoretical Computer Science and Communication (ITCSC) Joint Seminar, CUHK, Hong Kong, Apr. 2010

  • “Capacity of Large Scale CSMA Wireless Networks”

    • Qualcomm Flarion, New Jersey, USA, June 2010

    • Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, May 2010

    • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2009

  • “Queuing Models for Peer-to-peer Systems”

    • CERNET Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2009

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2009

    • Tech talk, Cisco, USA, June 2009

    • MURI Seminar, EECS, UC Berkeley, USA, June 2009

    • Microsoft Research Redmond, USA, May 2009

  • “Peer-to-peer Streaming Capacity: Modeling, Challenges, and Approaches”

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, USA, May 2010

    • Networking/Communications/DSP Seminar, EECS, UC Berkeley, USA, June 2009

    • Beijing-HongKong PhD forum, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2008

    • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Dec. 2008

  • “Utility Maximization in Peer-to-peer Systems”

    • Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2010

    • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2009

    • Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Sept. 2009

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA, June 2009

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, USA, May 2009

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2008

    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2008

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2008

    • Institution of Theoretical Computer Science and Communication (ITCSC) Seminar, CUHK, Hong Kong, Feb. 2008

    • Networking/Communications/DSP Seminar, EECS, UC Berkeley, USA, Feb. 2008

    • Tsinghua-CUHK workshop, Institute of Theoretical Computer Sciences (ITCS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2007

    • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Nov. 2007

    • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Aug. 2007

  • “To Code or Not To code: Routing vs. Coding Over Peer-to-peer Topology”

    • CUHK Winter School, Institute of Theoretical Computer Sciences and Communications (ITCSC), CUHK, Hong Kong, Jan. 2008

  • “Flow Control in Wireless Networks”

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2008

    • CERNET Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2008

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Nov. 2007