CERIAS Fellow
Title
Director of CERIAS and Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science
Office Phone
765 494-6182
Education
B.S. in Computer Science from Zhongshan University (China) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Research Areas
Protection, Management, and Quality of Service of Next Generation Distributed Systems, Multimedia Computing and Networking, Mobile Computing and Networking, Distributed OS and Middleware, QoS Provisioning Issues
Key Areas
Assurable Software and Architecture
Enclave and Nework Security
Notable Experience
Leading a research group called Lab FRIENDS (Lab For Research In Emerging Network and Distributed Services); Served on a number of international conference program committees, inclusing ACM Multimedia, MMCN, and MobiHoc; IEEE ICDCS and INFOCOM.
Notable Awards
C.L. and Jane W-S. Liu Award (UIUC, 2000)
Notable Affiliations
ACM, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, e-Enterprise Center at Discovery Park
Publications
SODA: a Service-On-Demand Architecture for Application Service Hosting Utility Platforms (with X. Jiang), Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12) (Seattle, 2003). Collapsar: A VM-Based Architecture for Network Attack Detention Center (with X. Jiang), Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security ʻ04) (California, 2004). M. Hefeeda, PROMISE: Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Using CollectCast (with A. Habib, B. Bhargava, B. Botev), Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2003 (SIGMM) (California, 2003)
Biography
Professor Xu's research focuses on protection, management, and
quality of service of next generation distributed systems
(such as overlay and peer-to-peer networks, autonomic utility
computing platforms, and mobile and pervasive applications).
He has conducted research in multimedia computing and networking,
mobile computing and networking, and distributed OS and
middleware. He is the Year 2000 recipient of the C.L. and
Jane W-S. Liu Award in the Department of Computer Science at
UIUC. Detailed research information is available at:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dxu/friends.html
