Selected Referred Journal Publications

1. G. Hembroff and Y. Cai,
   Secure Authentication and Authorization Design for Rural-Based Health Care Institutions
   Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 407-415, August 2008

2. 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, December 2007

3. X. Zhou, Y. Cai and C. E. Chow,
   An Integrated Approach with Feedback Control for Robust Web QoS Design.
   Computer Communications, Elsevier House, Vol. 29, No. 16, pp. 3158 - 3169, October 2006.

Selected Referred Conference Publications

1. Y. Cai
   Integrating Sustainability into Undergraduate Computing Education,
   ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, March 2010 (accepted)

2. Y. Cai
   A Thin-Layer Protocol for Utilizing Multiple Pathes,
   Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 2009

3. Y. Cai and J.D. Tan
   Secure Group Communication in Body Area Networks.
   Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition (ICIA), China, June 2008

4. Y. Cai and H. Qi,
   Parallel Numerical Simulation of Strategic Bankruptcy.
   Proc. of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance, Miami, FL, April 2008

5. Y. Cai,
   A Distributed Autonomous Intrusion Detection Framework.
   Proc. of IEEE Globecom workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS), Washington DC, November 2007

6. Y. Cai and G. Hembroff,
   DDoS Attack, Detection and Defense Simulation.
   Proc. of  American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference, Chicago, IL, July 2006.  

7. X. Zhou, Y. Cai, J. Wei, and C. Xu,
   A Robust Application-level Approach for Responsiveness Differentiation.
   Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), FL, July 2005.

8. X. Zhou, Y. Cai, C. E. Chow, and M. Augusteijn,
   Two-tier Resource Allocation for Proportional Slowdown Differentiation on Cluster-based Servers.
   Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Norway, June 2005.

9. C. E. Chow, Y. Cai, D. Wilkinson, and G. Godavari,
   The Secure Collective Defense System.
   Proc. of  IEEE Globecom, TX, December 2004.

10. X. Zhou, Y. Cai, G. K. Godavari, and C. E. Chow,
    An Adaptive Process Allocation Strategy for Proportional Responsiveness Differentiation on Web Servers.
    Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), CA, July 2004.

11. D. Wilkinson, C. E. Chow, and Y. Cai,
    Enhanced Secure Dynamic DNS Update with Indirect Route.
    Proc. of  IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW), U.S. Millitary Academy, West Point, NY, June 2004

Services

• National Science Foundation panelist
• Editorial board member:
  * International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN)
  * Journal of Engineering, Computing and Architecture
• Journal reviewer:
  * IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  * IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A
  * Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  * Security and Communication Networks
  * Journal of Communications and Networks
  * Internetional Journal of Network Security
  * Journal of Technology Interface
  * Mobile Networks and Applications
  * Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
• Conference program committee:
  * ROBIO09, ICIA08
• Conference reviewer:
  * ICC10, ROBIO09, ICC09, SIGIET08, ICIA08, SIGCSE08, Globecom07, CISSE07, Globecom06, IPDPS05, ISPA05, ICCCN04
• Book chapter reviewer:
  * The Handbook of Computer Networks, Wiley Publishing.
  * The Handbook of Technology Management, Wiley Publishing.
• Grant proposal reviewer for Maryland State
• Member of IEEE and ACM

Grants

• co-PI, "An Energy Efficient, Secure & High Performance Computing Framework", MTU Research Excellence Fund (REF) Infrastructure Enhancement Grant, $7,500, 7/2009 - 7/2010 
• PI, "Integrating Sustainability into Undergraduate Computing Education", NSF CPATH, $144,554, 7/2008 - 7/2010 
• PI, NSF CPATH RET (Research Experience for Teachers) supplement, $25,000, 7/2009
• PI, NSF CPATH REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement, $16,000, 7/2009
• PI, "Security Framework for Network Intrusion Detection & Response", MTU Research Excellence Fund (REF) Research Seed Grant, $44,000, 7/2008 - 7/2009 
• 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
• PI, MTU start-up support, 9/2005 

Student Advising

Graduate students

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

• 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 

Projects

• Collective Cyber Defense System (CCDS).
  Design and develop an integrated Collective Cyber Defense System to improve performance, security and availability of network systems.
   
• Autonomous Agents based Distributed Detection system (A2D2).
  Develop a new distributed IDS based on autonomous agents; Information fusion.
   
• Secure collective defense system (SCOLD).
  Develope a new DDoS defense system by setting up indirect route via a set of proxy servers; intrusion tolerance.
   
• Proxy server based multipath connection (PSMC).
  Develope a new multiple path indirect routing protocol and prototype which is capable for achieving aggregate bandwidth.
   

 
  
Miscellaneous

• Calls For Paper (CFP): 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
• 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
• 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
• Networking links: Network security links by Zhenjiang Li, Network security links by Guofei Gu