Selected Publications

1. X.Y. Zheng and Y. Cai, "Energy-aware Load Dispatching in Geographically Located Internet Data Centers," Green Computing: Informatics and Systems, accepted.
       
2. X.Y. Zheng and Y. Cai, "Reducing Electricity and Network Cost for Online Service Providers in Geographically Located Internet Data Centers," Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom2011), August. 2011.
       
3. X.Y. Zheng and Y. Cai, "Markov Model Based Power Management in Server Clusters," Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom2010), Dec. 2010.
      
4. Y. Cai, "Integrating Sustainability into Undergraduate Computing Education," Proc. ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Mar. 2010.
    
5. G. Hembroff and Y. Cai, "Secure Authentication and Authorization Design for Rural-Based Health Care Institutions," Security and Communication Networks, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 407-415, Aug. 2008.
        
6. Y. Cai and H. Qi, "Parallel Numerical Simulation of Strategic Bankruptcy," Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance, Apr. 2008.
    
7. H. M. Huang, Y. Cai, and H. Qi, "An Empirical Study Comparing the CAPM and the Fama-French 3-Factor Model," Journal of Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 32 - 37, Dec. 2007.
        
8. X. Zhou, Y. Cai, and C. E. Chow, "An Integrated Approach with Feedback Control for Robust Web QoS Design," Computer Communications, vol. 29, no. 16, pp. 3158 - 3169, Oct. 2006.
    
9. Y. Cai and G. Hembroff, "DDoS Attack, Detection and Defense Simulation," Proc. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference, Jul. 2006.
    
10. . X. Zhou, Y. Cai, J. Wei, and C. Xu, "A Robust Application-level Approach for Responsiveness Differentiation," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), pp. 373 - 380, Jul. 2005.
      
11. . X. Zhou, Y. Cai, C. E. Chow, and M. Augusteijn, "Two-tier Resource Allocation for Proportional Slowdown Differentiation on Cluster-based Servers," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), pp. 31 - 38, Jun. 2005.

Awards and Honors

• Professor of the month, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, 2007
• Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 2005
• El Palmer Graduate Fellowship, El Palmer Foundation, 2002 - 2005

Projects

• Green Computing
  Study energy efficient, high performance, and secure computing systems for next generation network

• Collective Cyber Defense System (CCDS).
  Design and develop an integrated Collective Cyber Defense System to improve performance, security and availability of network systems.
     

Grants

• co-PI, "An Energy Efficient, Secure & High Performance Computing Framework", MTU Research Excellence Fund (REF) Infrastructure Enhancement Grant, $7,000, 7/2009 - 7/2010 
• PI, NSF CPATH RET (Research Experience for Teachers) supplement, $25,000, 7/2009; $27,000, 7/2010
• PI, NSF CPATH REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement, $16,000, 7/2009; $16,000, 7/2010
• PI, "Integrating Sustainability into Undergraduate Computing Education", NSF CPATH, $144,554, 7/2008 - 7/2010 
• PI, "Security Framework for Network Intrusion Detection & Response", MTU Research Excellence Fund (REF) Research Seed Grant, $44,000, 7/2008 - 7/2009 
• PI, "Development of a project based teaching strategy for undergraduate computer courses", MTU Mini Grant for Instructional Improvement and Innovation, $500 for 2/2008; $500 for 10/2007 
• PI, "A Search Engine based Language Writing Tool", MTU Faculty Scholarship Grant (FSG), $1,500, 1/2008
• PI, "mLab: An Interactive & Learner-Centered Teaching Platform using Mobile Computing Technology", MTU Century II Campaign Endowed Equipment Fund (C2E2), $4,500, 11/2007
  

Services

• National Science Foundation (NSF) panelist
• Grant Proposal Reviewer: Maryland Technology Development
• Editorial board member:
  * International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC)
  * Green Computing: Informatics and Systems (CGIS)
  * International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN)
• Journal reviewer:
  * IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  * IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A
  * Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
  * Security and Communication Networks Journal (SCN)
  * Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN),
  * Internetional Journal of Network Security (IJNS),
  * Journal of Technology Interface (JTI)
  * Mobile Networks and Applications
  * Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)
• Conference program committee:
  * GreenCom 2010, ROBIO09, ICIA08
• Conference reviewer:
  * Infocom 2010, SIGCSE 2010, ROBIO09, ICC09, SIGIET08, ICIA08, SIGCSE08, Globecom07, CISSE07, Globecom06, IPDPS05, ISPA05, ICCCN04
• Conference session chair:
  * GreenCom 2010, SIGCSEn2010
• Book chapter reviewer:
  * The Handbook of Computer Networks, Wiley Publishing.
  * The Handbook of Technology Management, Wiley Publishing.
• Member of IEEE and ACM

Student Advising

Graduate students

• Xinying Zheng (Ph.D. student from ECE department, 2008-present, advisor, co-advising with Dr. Jingdong Tan, research topic is on green computing)

• Yinfei Fu (PhD student from ECE department, 2010, graduate committee member, Thesis: Multi-Target Tracking and Localization in Wireless Sensor Netwrks)
• Jing Zhong (M.S., 2009, ECE, graduate comittee member, Thesis: NS-2 based Cognitive Radio Cognitive Network simulator)
• Chen-Yu Tang (M.S., 2008, ECE, graduate comittee member, Thesis: Computer Simulations of the Avalanche Photodiode Detector)
• Bharat Choudhary (M.S., 2007, ECE, graduate comittee member, Thesis: Localization of Sensor Network using RSSI based particle filter approach)

Undergraduate students

• 7  senior students 2010, topic is on green computing. Student name: Nicholas Reiber, Dione Garrett, Matthew Schultz, Jonathan Vanden Belt, Jesse Young, Brice Downey, Matthew Augustine
• 11 senior students 2009, topic is on green computing. Student name: Chris Anderson, David Carlson, Christoforo Delreal, Eric Dolski, Michael Glatz, Adam Heisler, Jonathan Hill, Gregory Mckillop, Jacob Powell, ML Waters, Adam West. 
• 5 senior students 2008, topic is on wireless broadband network. Student name: Bruce Kuhr, Jason Erickson, Lucas Olli, Adam Peterson, Carl W. Knauss  
• 2 senior students 2007, topic is on Internet worms. Student name: Ryder Step, Charles Thomas
• 2 senior students 2006, topic is on DDoS attacks. Student name: Adam Thomas, Adam Wexler 

 
  
Miscellaneous

• Calls For Paper (CFP): CFP in Green Computing, CFP in Security by IEEE TCSP, CFP in Wireless by Xiang-Yang Li, CFP in Security by Mihir Bellare, CFP in Networking by Wenyu Jiang
• Conference statistics: Networking Conferences Statistics by Kevin C. Almeroth, Networking Conference Dates by Tim Moors
• Networking links: Network security links by Zhenjiang Li, Network security links by Guofei Gu
• Security Reading Groups: GIT, UIUC, Wisc, Dartmouth, CMU, UVA, NYU
• Network & Security Research Groups: Pen State, UCSB, UCLA, Princeton, UC Davis , CMU,  Purdue, Standford, Princeton , Cornell, Columbia , MIT
• Larry Peterson, Thomas Anderson, Constantine Dovrolis, Vern Paxson, David Yao, Ion Stoica, Stefan Savage, Terry Boult, Dawn Song,
• Z. Morley Mao, Haiyun Luo, Dongyan Xu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Xiao Qin
• Funding: http://www.grantsnet.org/, http://www.grants.gov/, http://www.cos.com/, http://www.sbirworld.com/, NSF CISE 2005 
• Funding: NSF, NIH, DoD SBIR/STTR, DoE SBIR, DHS SBIR, Darpa BAA
• CS teaching job sites: CRA Job Announcements, Higher Education Jobs
• Research advices: Advice on Research and Writing by Mark Leone, Advice for researchers and students by Michael Ernst
• Search Engines: IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, CiteSeer, CSBib