Di Wu

Brief Bio

Di Wu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CIS department, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly known as Polytechnic University). He is working closely with Prof. Keith Ross, Prof. Joel Wein at CIS department, and Prof. Yong Liu at ECE department of Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

He received his degree of B.S from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000 and M.S from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 respectively, both majoring in Computer Science. In Aug 2007, he completed his Ph.D study at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) under the supervision of Prof. Kam-Wing Ng.

For details, please see his curriculum vitae.

Research
Interests

His research interests are broadly in the areas of Networking, Distributed Systems and Multimedia communication.

Through his research, he aims to better understand the behavior of existing systems, and use this knowledge to build more scalable and efficient networking systems. In particular, he is interested in open problems in multimedia streaming, Internet content distribution, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, network security and reputation systems, etc.

Recent
Publications

For full pubication list, refer to [My Publication Page].

Queuing Network Models for Multi-Channel P2P Live Streaming Systems [PDF]
Di Wu, Yong Liu and Keith W. Ross
In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM '09),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. (Best Paper Award of Infocom 2009, 1 out of 1,435 submitted papers)

View-Upload Decoupling: A Redesign of Multi-Channel P2P Video Systems [PDF]
Di Wu, Chao Liang, Yong Liu and Keith W. Ross
In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM '09), Mini-conference
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. (Acceptance Ratio: 26%)

Resilient and Efficient Load Balancing in Distributed Hash Tables [PDF]
Di Wu, Ye Tian and Kam-Wing Ng
In Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier JNCA),
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 45-60, 2009.

A Measurement Study of Attacks on BitTorrent Leechers [PDF]
Prithula Dhungel, Di Wu, Brad Schonhorst, and Keith W. Ross
In Proc. of 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '08)
Tampa Bay, FL, Feb 2008.

Stochastic Analysis of the Interplay between Object Maintenance and Churn [PDF]
Di Wu, Ye Tian, Kam-Wing Ng and Anwitaman Datta
In Elsevier Computer Communications, Special Issue on Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing (Elsevier Comcom)
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 220-239, 2008.

Analytical Study on Improving DHT Lookup Performance under Churn [PDF]
Di Wu, Ye Tian and Kam-Wing Ng
In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'06)
Cambridge, UK, Sep. 2006. (Acceptance Ratio: 19%)

Modeling, Analysis and Improvement for BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Networks [PDF]
Ye Tian, Di Wu and Kam-Wing Ng
In Proc. of IEEE Annual Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM'06)
Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2006. (Acceptance Ratio: 18%)

Teaching