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My research interests include distributed middleware overlay systems, distributed data stream systems, especially techniques and architectures for improving performance, scalability, and availability of such systems.

Scalable Optimization of Multiple Stream Queries in Large-Scale Distributed Data Stream Processing Systems
- with Prof. Ling Liu, Prof. Brian Cooper and Prof. Karsten Schwan
Modern networks have moved beyond basic data transport to become platforms for processing huge amounts of continuously produced data. In order to deal with the scale of the streaming data produced in distributed enterprise, financial, scientific and monitoring applications, we must push as much computation as possible into the network, so that data can be processed efficiently in flight. This approach results in a hugely complex planning problem: how to best utilize networked computing resources to execute large numbers of data processing tasks with maximum throughput?

InfoBeacons - Guiding Users to Information Sources
- with Prof. Brian Cooper
The Internet provides a wealth of useful information in a vast number of dynamic information sources, but it is difficult to determine which sources are useful for a given query. Most existing techniques either require explicit source cooperation (for example, by exporting data summaries), or build a relatively static source characterization (for example, by assigning a topic to the source). We present a system, called InfoBeacons that takes a different approach: data and sources are left “as is,” and a peer-to-peer network of beacons uses past query results to “guide” queries to sources, who do the actual query processing. This approach has several advantages, including requiring minimal changes to sources, tolerance of dynamism and heterogeneity, and the ability to scale to large numbers of sources.

CubeCache - Efficient Query Processing and Distributed Caching of OLAP queries in a peer-to-peer network
- with Prof. Ling Liu, Prof.Brian Cooper
Abstract: Peer-to-peer systems are an area of much recent activity due to their cost-effectiveness, scalability and ability to distribute the overhead of sharing and storing data and performing computations. These characteristics make such systems ideal for OLAP query processing. In this project, we describe the framework for a system that utilizes a peer-to-peer network to efficiently process OLAP queries. Specifically, we consider the problem of searching for data in such a network and present techniques to locate data and perform query processing with load balancing.