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

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 traditional performance metrics and non-traditional metrics such as economical metrics and survivability. As such networks become a critical infrastructure of our information-based society, robustness, efficiency and fairness of this infrastructure would be of great societal value.

The central question driving much of my research is the following: What are the guiding principles and practical techniques in achieving a robust and yet efficient Internet?

Our research methodology is to integrate rigorous analysis with careful system design, practical implementation, and whenever possible large-scale field tests with real users. The objective of rigorous analysis is to reveal and derive the most fundamental guiding principles. The objective of system implementation and large-scale field tests is to ground the principles to the real world. Some of our systems have been tested in extremely large-scale field tests (e.g. P4P has been test-deployed with millions of real users at five of the largest Internet service providers in the world). Some of our tools have been used by other groups across the world (e.g. TORTE and Network Localization)

The specific topics I studied span a wide range. By investigating a variety of networked systems but with a central question, we seek to determine unifying themes that rise above the specifics of particular systems. Some specific topics we studied include

Publications
Some recent publications and preprints

  • Packet Doppler: Network Monitoring using Packet Shift Detection by T. Qiu, J. Ni, H. Wang, N. Hao, J. Xu and Y.R. Yang. In Proceedings of ACM CoNext 2008. (bib, pdf)

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

  • 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: sigcomm presentation, ppt-long])

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

  • Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Requirements by Sebastian Kiesel, Laird Popkin, Stefano Previdi, Richard Woundy, and Y. Richard Yang. July 2008. (txt).

  • Towards an ISP-Compliant, Peer-Friendly Design for Peer-to-Peer Networks by Haiyong Xie, Y. Richard Yang, and Avi Silberschatz. In Proceedings of Networking 2008 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 0302) . ( pdf).

  • 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
    • I am involved in these workshops/conferences.
    • 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
  • "NECO: P4P: Provider Portal for (P2P) Network Applications," NSF CNS-0831834, $350,000, 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2011.

  • "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:

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

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: 10/29/2008 17:50:26 -0400