Minghua Chen – Publications and Some Presentations

Patents

Ten pending US patents in the area of networking, signal processing, and multimedia transmission.

Books

  • Minghua Chen, 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. A. Abate, M. Chen, A. Zakhor, and S. Sastry, “Design and Analysis of New Flow Control Schemes over Wireless Networks”, submitted for publication.

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

  3. Y. Li, and M. Chen, “Enabling Multi-level Trust in Privacy Preserving Data Mining”, submitted for publication. Available as technical report. [PDF]

  4. X. Zhang, L. Chen, J. Huang, M. Chen, and Y. Zhao, “Distributed and Optimal Reduced Primal-Dual Algorithm for Uplink OFDM Resource Allocation”, submitted for journal publication.

  5. S. Liu, M. Chen, S. Sengupta, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Peer-to-Peer Streaming Capacity under Node Degree Bound”, submitted for publication.

  6. S. Sengupta, S. Liu, M. Chen, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Streaming Capacity for Peer-to-Peer Networks with Topology Constraints”, submitted for publication.

  7. 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.

  8. M. Chen, M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Utility Maximization in Peer-to-Peer Systems”, in submission for journal publication.

Journal Articles

  1. 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]

  2. 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.

  3. 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]

  4. 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]

  5. 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. 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. [ final version to be available ]. Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  2. 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. [ final version to be available ].

  3. 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. [ final version to be available ]. Also available as technical report. [PDF]

  4. 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. [ final version to be available ].

  5. 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]

  6. 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]

  7. 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.)

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

  9. 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. [ final version to be available ]

  10. 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] (Revised technical report version to be available)
    Best Paper Award.

  11. 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]

  12. 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]

  13. 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.)

  14. 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.

  15. 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]

  16. 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]

  17. 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.)

  18. 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]

  19. 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]

  20. 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]

  21. 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]

  22. 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]

  23. 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]

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

  25. 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]

  26. 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]

  27. 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.)

  28. 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.)

  29. 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.)

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

  31. 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]

  32. 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]

Presentations

  • “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”

    • 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”

    • 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 Topoology”

    • 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