Selected publications listed by topics

• Wireless Networks
• Network Security and Applications
• P2P and Overlay Networks
• Network Economics and Pricing
• Internet Engineering
• Distributed Multimedia Systems
• Continuous Media Storage Systems
• Performance Evaluation Methodologies

Wireless Networks (go to the top page)

• Y. Wang, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Characterizing the Capacity Gain of Stream Control Scheduling in MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  Accepted for publication in Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. (Technical Report)
  

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``DCAR: Distributed Coding-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks''.
  IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008.
  (AR: 102/638=16% )

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``How Many Packets Can We Encode? An Analysis of Practical Wireless Network Coding''.
  27th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Communication (INFOCOM), 2008.
  (AR: 236/1160=21% )

• Ray K. Lam, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 56(11), Nov, 2007.

• Y. Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Characterizing the Capacity Gain of Stream Control Scheduling in MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks''
  IFIP Networking, 2007.
  (AR: 99/440=22%)

• Steven Y.D. Xu, Y. Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Balancing Throughput and Fairness for TCP Flows in Multihop Ad-Hoc Networks''.
  5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2007.
  

• Srijan Chakraborty, Dong Yu, David K. Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Effectiveness of Movement Prediction to Reduce Energy Consumption in Wireless Communication''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 5(2), Feb, 2006.

• Gao Yan, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Determining the End-to-end Throughput Capacity in Multi-Hop Networks: Methodolgy and Applications''.
  ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Confernece, 2006. (AR: 30/217=14%)

• Gao Yan, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``The fundamental role of hop distance in IEEE802.11 multi-hop Ad-Hoc wireless networks''.
  International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP), Boston, Mass, USA, Nov, 2005. ( AR: 36/212=17%)

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Opportunistic Scheduler to Balance Performance Measures and Energy Consumption in Wireless Networks: Design and Implementation''
  Wireless Internet Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 10-15, 2005.

• David Yau, Srijan Chakraborty, and John C. S. Lui.
  ``On the Effectiveness of Movement Prediction To Reduce Energy Consumption in Wireless Communication'',
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, June 10-14, San Diego, USA, 2003. (AR: 26/222=11%)

• Cedric C.F. Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong,
  "Distributed Caching and Broadcasting in a Wireless Mobile Computing Environment".
  Computer Journal, Vol 42(6), pp. 455-472, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, Cedric C.F. Fong, H.W. Chan,
  "Location Updates and Probabilistic Tracking Algorithms for Mobile Cellular Networks".
  International Workshop on Mobile Computing, June, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui.
  "Performance Evaluation of Location Update Protocol with Dynamic Area Assignment".
  INFORMS International Conference, Israel, July, 1998.

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong, Edmundo deSouza E. Silva.
  "Transient Performance Analysis For Location Update Protocols in Cellular Networks".
  Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '98), Montreal, Canada, July, 1998. (AR: 44/75=58%)

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong, Edmundo.D. Silva,
  "Performance Analysis of Mobile Terminals Tracking Algorithms".
  18th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, 1997.

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong,
  "Quantifying the Complexity and Performance Gain of Distributed Caching in the Wireless Network Environment".
  13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1997. (AR: 45/240=18%)

Network Security and Applications (go to the top page)

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Dynamic Bayesian Approach for Detecting Cheats in Multi-Player Online Games''.
  Accepted for publication in ACM Multimedia Systems. (Technical Report)
  

• T.Y. Wong, M.H. Wong and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Precise Termination Condition of the Probabilistic Packet Marking Algorithm''.
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 5(1), pp.6-21, 2008.

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Secure Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for Hierarchical Proxy Caching: Theory Design and Implementation''.
  (Technical Report)
  International Journal of Network Security, 7(3), 2008.

• T.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong.
  ``Markov Chain Modeling of the Probabilistic Packet Marking Algorithm''.
  International Journal of Network Security, 5(1), pp.32-40, July 2007.

• Chee-Wei Tan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Distributed Throttling Approach for Handling High Bandwidth Aggregates''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(7), pp. 983-995, July, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

  Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau. ``SEAL: A Secure Communication Library for Building Dynamic Group Key Agreement Applications'' Journal of Systems and Software, 80(3), pp. 356-370, March 2007. (Technical Report)

• T.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong.
  ``An Efficient Distributed Algorithm to Identify and Traceback DDoS Traffic''.
  Computer Journal, 49(4), 2006.

• H.B. Sun, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Mechanism in Detecting and Defending Against the Low-rate TCP Attack''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(13), pp. 2312-2330, September 2006.

• Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Collaborative Key Agreement and Authentication Protocols for Dynamic Peer Groups''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(2), April, 2006.

• Y. Hu, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Adaptive Flow Aggregation - A New Solution for Robust Flow Monitoring under Security Attacks''.
  IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006 Vancouver, Canada, April 2006. (Best Student Paper)
  (AR: 53/186=28%)

• Qiming Li, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Practical and Security Issues of Batch Content Distribution Via Network Coding''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, USA, 2006.
  (AR: 33/242=14%)

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu, Jeff Yan.
  ``Detecting Cheaters for Multiplayer Games: Theory, Design and Implementation''.
  2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'06). Las Vegas, USA, January, 2006.

• K.T. Law, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``You Can Run, But You Can't Hide: An Effective Statistical Methodology to Trace Back DDoS Attackers''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(9), October, 2005.

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau
  ``A Multi-key Secure Multimedia Proxy Using Asymmetric Reversible Parametric Sequences: Theory, Design, and Implementation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 7(2), April, 2005.

• Ben C.B. Chan, John C.F. Lau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``OPERA: An Open-source Extensible Router Architecture for Adding New Network Services and Protocols''.
  Journal of Systems and Software, 78(1), pp 24-36, Oct, 2005.

• W Tan, DM Chiu, John C.S. Lui and David Yau.
  ``Handling High Bandwidth Aggregates By Receiver Driven Feedback Control''.
  International Workshop on Software Cybernetics 2005, Edinburg, July 2005.

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau
  ``A Multi-key Secure Multimedia Proxy Using Asymmetric Reversible Parametric Sequences: Theory, Design, and Implementation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 7(2), April, 2005.

• David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui, Feng Liang, Yam Yeung.
  ``Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks with Max-min Fair Server-centric Router Throttles.''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(1), February, 2005.

• John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
  ``On the Robustness of Soft State Protocols''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October, 2004. (AR: 33/213=15%)

• HaiBin Sun, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Defending Against Low-rate TCP Attack: Dynamic Detection and Protection''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October, 2004. (AR: 33/213=15%)

• Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Collaborative Key Agreement Protocols for Dynamic Peer Groups''.
  10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Paris, France, November 12-15, 2002. (AR: 32/217=14%)

• K.T. Law, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``You Can Run, But You Can't Hide: An Effective Methodology to Traceback DDoS Attackers''.
  The Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 12-16 October 2002. (AR: 57/180=31%)

P2P and Overlay Networks (go to the top page)

• Hui Wang, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Implications of Overlay Network Traffic on ISP Peering''.
  Accepted for publication in the Journal of Computer Networks.

• Pei Li, John C.S. Lui, Yinlong Xu.
  ``A Stochastic Model for BitTorrent-like Systems''.
  The 10th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2008).
  

• Y. Huang, Tom T.J. Fu, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Cheng Huang.
  ``Challenges, Design and Analysis of a Large-scale P2P VoD Systems''.
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2008.
  (AR: 36/288=12% )

• B. Fan, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``On the Performance and File Availability Enhancement of BitTorrent-like Protocols''.
  Under revision in the Journal of Computer Networks.

• B. Fan, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``The Delicate Tradeoffs in Designing BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Protocols''.
  Accepted in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (Technical Report)
  

• YiPeng Zhou, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Simple Model for Analysis and Design of P2P Streaming Algorithms''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2007.
  (AR: 32/220=14% )

• Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis of File Swarming Systems''.
  IFIP W.G 7.3 Performance Conference, 2007 (also appear in the special issue of Performance Evaluation Journal, 64(9-12), 2007.).
  (AR: 24/103=23% )

• T.B. Ma, C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(5), October, 2006.

• Ken Y.K. Hui, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Small-World Overlay P2P Networks: Construction and Handling Dynamic Flash Crowd''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(15), October, 2006.

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``The Delicate Tradeoffs in BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocol Design''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, USA, 2006.
  (AR: 33/242=14%)

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis and File Availability Enhancement for BT-like File Sharing Systems''.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (Technical Report)
  (AR: 27/157=17%)

• Jessie Wang Hui, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling the Peering and Routing Tussle between ISPs and P2P Applications.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (AR: 27/157=17%)

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Performance Modeling on the interaction of ISPs''.
  Advanced Internet Charging and QoS (ICQT'06), France, 2006.

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interplay of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006. (AR: 75/536=14%)

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Differential Equation Approach to Model BitTorrent-like P2P Systems''.
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006).

• Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction of Multiple Overlay Routing''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 62(1-4), October, 2005.
  (Best Student Paper)
  

• Joe W.J. Jiang, John C.S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``Interaction of Overlay Networks: Properties and Implications''.
  ACM Sigmetrics Evaluation Review (PER), 33(2), September, 2005.

• Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction of Multiple Overlay Routing''.
  IFIP WG7.3 Performance, Juan-les-pins, France, Oct, 2005.
  (Best Student Paper) (AR: 29/132=21%)

• Starsky H.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui
  ``End System Multicast: An Architectural Infrastructure and Topological Optimization'',
  Journal of Computer Communications, 27(5), March, 2004.

• Ken Y.K. Hui, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Small-World Overlay P2P Networks''.
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Montreal, Canada, June 2004. (AR: 30/154=19%)

• Kevin Y.K. Liu, John C.S. Lui, Zhi-Li Zhang.
  ``Distributed Algorithm for Service Replication in Service Overlay Network''.
  IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, May 2004. (AR: 103/539=19%)

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Game Theoretic Approach to Provide Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks''.
  ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE, June, 2004. (AR: 33/265=12%)

• Kevin Y.K. Liu, John C.S. Lui, Zhi-Li Zhang.
  ``On Service Replication Strategy for Service Overlay Networks''.
  IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Korea, April 2004. (AR: 60/224=26%)

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``An Incentive Mechanism for P2P Networks''.
  The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004. (AR: 84/475=17%)

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Incentive P2P Networks: A Protocol to Encourage Information Sharing and Contribution'',
  Performance Evaluation Review, 31(2), September, 2003.

• Starsky H.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Architectural Infrastructure and Topological Optimization for End System Multicast'',
  The Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 12-16 October 2002. (AR: 57/180=31%)

Network Economics and Pricing (go to the top page)

• Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``Mathematical Modeling of Incentive Policies in P2P Systems''.
  ACM Network Economics (NetEcon), 2008.
  

• RTB Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement''.
  ACM Network Economics (NetEcon), 2008.
  

• Q. Wang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``ISP Uplink Pricing in a Competitive Market''.
  15th Int. Confernece on Telecommunications (ICT), 2008.
  

• Sam C.M. Lee and John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction and Competition among Internet Service Providers''.
  To appear in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). (Technical Report)
  

• RTB. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement''.
  Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNext), 2007.
  (AR: 28/138=20% )

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interaction of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 19(2), pp. 204-218, 2008.

• Ray K. Lam, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 56(11), Nov, 2007.

• Alan T.S. Ip, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu.
  ``A Revenue-Rewarding Scheme For Cooperative Proxy Media Streaming Systems''.
  (Technical Report)
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), 4(1), 2008.

• Ray K. Lam, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006. (AR: 75/536=14%)

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Performance Modeling on the interaction of ISPs''.
  Advanced Internet Charging and QoS (ICQT'06), France, 2006.

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interplay of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006. (AR: 75/536=14%)

• Hui Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Rocky K.C. Chang.
  ``Inter-AS Inbound Traffic Engineering via ASPP''.
  the IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, 4(1), pp. 62-70, June 2007.

Internet Engineering (go to the top page)

• Hui Wang, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Implications of Overlay Network Traffic on ISP Peering''.
  Accepted for publication in the Journal of Computer Networks.

• Yan Hu, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Application Identification Based on Network Behavioral Profiles''.
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2008.
  

• Q. Wang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``ISP Uplink Pricing in a Competitive Market''.
  15th Int. Confernece on Telecommunications (ICT), 2008.
  

• Sam C.M. Lee and John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction and Competition among Internet Service Providers''.
  To appear in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). (Technical Report)
  

• Hu Yan, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Entropy Based Adaptive Flow Aggregation''.
  Accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (Technical Report)
  

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interaction of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 19(2), pp. 204-218, 2008.

• Hui Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Rocky K.C. Chang.
  ``Inter-AS Inbound Traffic Engineering via ASPP''.
  the IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, 4(1), pp. 62-70, June 2007.

• Chee-Wei Tan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Distributed Throttling Approach for Handling High Bandwidth Aggregates''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(7), pp. 983-995, July, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• Tom Zhengjia Fu, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui
  ``Performance Metrics and Configuration Strategies for Group Network Communication ''
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2007.
  (AR: 25% )

• Adrian S.W. Tam, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Y.C. Tay.
  ``A Case of TCP-Friendly Admission Control''.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (AR: 27/157=17%)

• Y. Hu, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Adaptive Flow Aggregation - A New Solution for Robust Flow Monitoring under Security Attacks''.
  IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006 Vancouver, Canada, April 2006. (Best Student Paper)
  (AR: 53/186=28%)

• Chee-Wei Tan, M. Gurusamy and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Achieving Multi-Class Service Differentiation in WDM Optical Burst Switching Networks: A Probabilistic Preemptive Burst Segmentation Scheme''.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communciation (JSAC) OCN Journal, 24(12), pp. 106-119, December, 2006.

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Quality of Service Provisioning for Composable Routing Elements''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(13), pp. 2255-2270, September, 2006.

• Hui Wang, Rocky K.C. Chang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui
  ``Characterizing the Performance and Stability Issues of the AS Path Prepending Method: Taxonomy, Measurement Study and Analysis''
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop, April, 2005.

• Ben C.B. Chan, John C.F. Lau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``OPERA: An Open-source Extensible Router Architecture for Adding New Network Services and Protocols''.
  Journal of Systems and Software, 78(1), pp 24-36, Oct, 2005.

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  `` Composition of Java-based Router Elements and Its Application to Generalized Video Multicast''
  IEEE Network, December, 2004.

• Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  ``A Proportional-Delay DiffServ-Enabled Web Server: Admission Control and Dynamic Adaptation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 15(5), pp. 385-400, May, 2004.

• Chee-Wei Tan, M. Gurusamy, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Achieving Proportional Loss Differentiation Using Probabilistic Preemptive Burst Segmentation in Optical Burst Switching WDM Networks''.
  IEEE Globecom, Dallas, USA, Nov, 2004. (AR: 792/2086=37%)

• John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
  ``On the Robustness of Soft State Protocols''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October, 2004. (AR: 33/213=15%)

• David K. Y. Yau, John C. S. Lui, and Feng Liang
  ``Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-service Attacks with Max-min Fair Server-centric Router Throttles'',
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Miami Beach, FL, USA, May 2002.
  (AR: 27/143=19%)

• Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  "Admission Control and Dynamic Adaptation for a Proportional Delay DiffServ-Enabled Web Server",
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June 15-19, 2002. (AR: 23/170=13%)

• V. Chait, C.V. Hollot, V. Misra, D. Towsley, H. Zhang, John C.S. Lui.
  "Providing Throughput Differentiation for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two Color Marking and Multi-Level AQM",
  INFOCOM, New York, USA, June 23-27, 2002. (AR: 192/938=20%)

• Matthew K.H. Leung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  ``Adaptive Proportional Delay Differentiated Services: Characterization and Performance Evaluation".
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 9(6), pp 801-817, 2001.

• Leana Golubchik, Don Towsley, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, John C.S. Lui,
  "Internet2 Wide-Area Applications",
  Internet2 Network Research Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA. April 18-19, 2001.

• Matthew K.H. Leung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  "Characterization and Performance Evaluation for the Proportional Delay Differentiated Services",
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Osaka, Japan, November 15-17, 2000. (AR: 30/109=27%)

Distributed Multimedia Systems (go to the top page)

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Dynamic Bayesian Approach for Detecting Cheats in Multi-Player Online Games''.
  Accepted for publication in ACM Multimedia Systems. (Technical Report)
  

• YiPeng Zhou, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Simple Model for Analysis and Design of P2P Streaming Algorithms''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2007.
  (AR: 32/220=14% )

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Secure Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for Hierarchical Proxy Caching: Theory Design and Implementation''.
  (Technical Report)
  International Journal of Network Security, 7(3), 2008.

• Alan T.S. Ip, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu.
  ``A Revenue-Rewarding Scheme For Cooperative Proxy Media Streaming Systems''.
  (Technical Report)
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), 4(1), 2008.

• Alan T.S. Ip, J.C. Liu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``COPACC: An Architecture of Cooperative Proxy-Client Caching System for On-Demand Media Streaming''
  IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(1), 70-83, January, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu, Jeff Yan.
  ``Detecting Cheaters for Multiplayer Games: Theory, Design and Implementation''.
  2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'06). Las Vegas, USA, January, 2006.

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Adam W.J. Lee.
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Optimization of Load Distribution''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 62(1-4), October, 2005.
  

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau
  ``A Multi-key Secure Multimedia Proxy Using Asymmetric Reversible Parametric Sequences: Theory, Design, and Implementation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 7(2), April, 2005.

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Adam W.J. Lee.
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Optimization of Load Distribution''.
  IFIP WG7.3 Performance, Juan-les-pins, France, Oct, 2005. (AR: 29/132=21%)

• Alan T.S. Ip, J.C Liu, John C.S. Lui
  ``COPACC: A Cooperative Proxy-Client Caching System for On-Demand Media Streaming''
  Networking, Waterloo, Canada, May 2-6, 2005. (AR: 106/430=24%)

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui
  ``Toward Picture-perfect Streaming on the Internet''
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), 2005.

  B. Abdouni, W. Cheng, Alix L.H. Chow, L. Golubchik, A. Lee, John C.S. Lui
  ``Multi-path streaming: optimization and evaluation''
  12th Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), Jan, 2005. (AR: 24/100=24%)

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  `` Composition of Java-based Router Elements and Its Application to Generalized Video Multicast''
  IEEE Network, December, 2004.

• B. Abdouni, W.C. Cheng, A. Chow, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Picture-perfect Streaming Over the Internet: Is There Hope?''
  IEEE Communications, 42(8), August, 2004.

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Case for a Multi-Key Secure Video Proxy: Theory, Design and Implementation''.
  ACM Multimedia Conference, Juan-les-Pins, France, December 1-6, 2002. (AR: 18%)

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Is it Worth the Trouble?''.
  Performance Evaluation Review, 30(3), December 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Tak Fu Tung, Lik Hang Chow, W.J. Lee, G. Franceschinis, C. Anglano,
  ``Multi-path Continuous Media Streaming: What are the Benefits?''.
  Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol 39, pp. 429-449, September,2002.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan,
  "An Efficient Partitioning Algorithm for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems".
  IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 13(3), pp 193-211, March, 2002.

• John C.S. Lui,
  "Constructing Communication Sub-graphs and Deriving an Optimal Synchronization Interval for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems".
  IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(5), pp 778-792, 2001.

• Leana Golubchik, Don Towsley, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, John C.S. Lui,
  "Internet2 Wide-Area Applications",
  Internet2 Network Research Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA. April 18-19, 2001.

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, Peter T.S. Tam,
  "Deriving An Optimal Synchronization Interval for Supporting View Consistency in a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'99), pp, 99-106, October 21-23, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan,
  "Efficient Partitioning Algorithm for the Distributed Virtual Environment System".
  Sixth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia System (DMS'99), July, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, Peter T.S. Tam,
  "Deriving Communication Sub-graph and Optimal Synchronization Interval for Distributed Virtual Environment System".
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, June, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, K.Y. So, T.S. Tam,
  "Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, September 24-26, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, K.Y. So, T.S. Tam,
  "Dynamic Partitioning for a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Third High Performance Computing Asia Conference, 23 - 25 September, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, H.W. Fung, Y.H. Wong,
  "Linux-RMS: An Open System Scheduler for Supporting Realtime Multimedia Applications".
  Third High Performance Computing Asia Conference, 23-25 September, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, T.F. Chan, W.S. Cheung, W.W. Kwong.
  "Virtual Exploration and Information Retrieval System: Design and Implementation".
  Third International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 1997.

Continuous Media Storage Systems (go to the top page)

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H. Richard Gail,
  "Performance Tradeoffs in Scheduling Techniques for Mixed Workloads".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, November 2003, 21(2), pp. 147-172, 2003.

• Jack Y.B. Lee, John C.S. Lui
  ``Automatic Recovery from Disk Failure in Continuous-Media Servers''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.13(5), pp. 499-515, May 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  ``Bounding of Performance Measures for Threshold-baded Systems: Theory and Application to Dynamic Resource Management in Video-on-Demand Servers''.
  IEEE Transactions of Computers, 51(4), pp 353-372, April, 2002.

• Mary Y.Y. Leung, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik,
  "Use of Analytical Performance Models for System Sizing and Resource Allocation in Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems Employing Data Sharing Techniques".
  IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 14(3), pp 615-637, May/June, 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Open Problems for Threshold-based Systems".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 28(4), March, 2001.

• C.F. Chou, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, I.H. Chung,
  "Design of Scalable Continuous Media Servers with Dynamic Replication".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 17(2-3), page 181-212,2002.

• Peter W.K. Lie, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Threshold-Based Dynamic Replication in Large-Scale Video-on-Demand Systems".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 11, Number 1, May 2000.

• John C.S. Lui, X.Q. Wang,
  "Providing QoS Guarantee for Individual Video Stream via Stochastic Admission",
  International Conference on the Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking", Nagoya, Japan, November 27-30, 2000.

• C.F. Chou, Leana Golubchi, John C.S. Lui,
  "A Performance Study of Dynamic Replication Techniques in Continuous Media Servers".
  MASCOTS International Conference, San Francisco, August 29-September 1,2000. (AR: 57/94=60%)

• John C.S. Lui, X.Q. Wang,
  "Admission Control Algorithm for Providing Quality-of-Service Guarantee for Individual Connection in a Video-on-Demand System".
  IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, 4-6 July, 2000. (AR: 122/224=54%)

• C.F. Chou, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Striping Doesn't Scale: How to Achieve Scalability for Continuous Media Servers with Replication".
  The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2000), April 10-13, 2000.

• Kelvin K.W. Law, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Efficient Support for Interactive Services in Multi-resolution VOD Systems".
  VLDB Journal 8(2), pp.133-153, 1999.

• Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H.Richard Gail, Leana Golubchik and John C.S. Lui,
  "Analytical Models for Mixed Workload Multimedia Storage Servers".
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 36-37(1-4), pp.185-211, 1999.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Edmundo de Souza E. Silva, Richard Gail,
  "Evaluation of Performance Tradeoffs in Scheduling Techniques for Mixed Workload Multimedia Servers".
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, June, 1999.

• Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H.Richard Gail, Leana Golubchik and John C.S. Lui,
  "Analytical Models for Mixed Workload Multimedia Storage Servers".
  International Conference of Performance Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 1999. (AR: 24/120=20%)

• Leana Golubchik, ChengFu Chow, and John Lui,
  "A Performance Study of Dynamic Replication Techniques in Continuous Media Servers".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, June, 1999. (AR: 18/92=19%)

• Peter W.K. Lie, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik.
  "Threshold-Based Dynamic Replication in Large-Scale Video-on-Demand Systems".
  RIDE98, Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, February, 1998. (AR: 18/36=50%)

• Leana. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, M. Papadopouli,
  "Designing Efficient Fault Tolerant VOD Storage Server:Techniques, Analysis and Comparisons".
  Journal of Parallel Computing, 24(1), pp. 123-155, 1998.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Merging Video Streams in Multimedia Storage Server: Complexity and Heuristics".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, Volume 6(1), pp. 29-42, January 1998.

• Mary Leung, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik,
  "Buffer and I/O Resource Pre-allocation for Implementing Batching and Buffering Techniques for Video-on-Demand Systems".
  13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1997. (AR: 45/240=18%)

• John C.S. Lui, Clarence S. W. Lau,
  "The Design of a Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Server".
  Computer Journal, Vol 40(9), pp 529-540, 1997.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui,
  "Scheduling and Data Layout Policies for a Near-line Multimedia Storage Architecture".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, Volume 5(5), pp. 310-323, Sept, 1997.

• John C.S. Lui, Kelvin K.W. Law,
  "Load Balancing and VCR Functionalities Support via Subband Coding Techniques".
  International Conference on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '96). April, 1996.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Adaptive Piggybacking: A Novel Technique for Data Sharing in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, 4(3), pp. 140-155, June 1996.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui,
  "Scheduling and Replacement Policies for a Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Server".
  International Symposium on Multimedia Systems, March 18-20, Yokohama, Japan, 1996.

• L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Reducing I/O demands in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers".
  ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE'95, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. May, 1995. (AR: 27/123=21%)

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui.
  "A Novel Video-On-Demand Storage Architecture for Supporting Constant Frame Rate with Variable Bit Rate Retrieval".
  International Conference on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '95), 1995.

• L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui and R.R. Muntz,
  ``I/O Stream Sharing for Continuous Media Systems''.
  Data Engineering Bulletin, 18(4), pp.17-26, 1995.

• Clarence. Lau, John C.S. Lui, P.C. Wong,
  "A Cost-effective Near-line Storage Server for Multimedia System".
  11th International Conference on Data Engineering. March, 1995. (AR: 56/233=24%)

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Richard R. Muntz,
  "Chained Declustering: Load Balancing and Robustness to Skew and Failures".
  2nd International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering Transaction and Query Processing (RIDE-TQP), pp. 88-95, February 1992.

• R.R. Muntz, John C.S. Lui,
  "Performance Analysis of Disk Arrays Under Failure",
  16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '90), pp. 162-173, 1990. (AR: 60/300=20%)

Performance Evaluation Methodologies (go to the top page)

• C.F. Chou, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-class Multi-Server Threshold-based Systems: a Study of Non-instantaneous Server Activation''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(1), 96-110, January, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  ``Bounding of Performance Measures for Threshold-baded Systems: Theory and Application to Dynamic Resource Management in Video-on-Demand Servers''.
  IEEE Transactions of Computers, 51(4), pp 353-372, April, 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Open Problems for Threshold-based Systems".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 28(4), March, 2001.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "A Fast and Accurate Heuristics for Solution of a Multi-class Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Santa Clara, June 18-21, 2000. (AR: 28/165=17%)

• Leana Golubchi, John C.S. Lui,
  "Open Problems for Threshold-based Systems".
  The Second Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, Santa Clara, USA, June 17-18, 2000.

• John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Stochastic Complement Analysis of Multi-Server Threshold Queues with Hysteresis".
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 35(1-2), pp. 19-48, March, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, W.K. Lam,
  "General Methodology in Analyzing the Performance of Parallel/Distributed Simulation under General Computational Graphs".
  Third International Conference on the numerical Solution of Markov Chain, September 6-10, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz, D. Towsley,
  "Computing Performance Bounds for Fork-Join Queueing Models".
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 9(3), March 1998.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Bounding of Performance Measures for a Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis".
  ACM SIGMETRICS '97 Conference, 1997. (AR: 25/130=19%)

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz, D. Towsley,
  "Bounding the Mean Response Time of a Minimum Expected Delay Routing System: An Algorithmic Approach".
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 44(12), pp. 1371-1382, 1995.

• R.R. Muntz, John C.S. Lui,
  "An Eclectic Survey of Bounding Methods for Markov Chain Models".
  International MASCOTS Conference, 1995.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Computing Bounds on Steady State Availability of Repairable Computer Systems".
  Journal of ACM, 41(4), pp. 676-707, July, 1994.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Algorithmic Approach to Bounding the Mean Response Time of a Minimum Expected Delay Routing System".
  ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92, pp.140-151, June 1992. (AR: 20/108=18%)

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Evaluating Bounds on Steady State Availability of Repairable Systems from Markov Models".
  First International Conference on the Numerical Solution of the Markov Chains, January, 1990.