Zongming Fei Professor Department of Computer Science University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0495 fei AT cs.uky.edu

What's New?

• MERIF 2023 Workshop , Boston MA, May 22-23, 2023.
• IEEE ICNP 2022 will be held in Lexington, KY, Oct. 30 -- Nov. 2, 2022.
• Undergraduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program

Teaching

• CS 571: Computer Networks (Spring 2025)
  
  
• CS 270: Systems Programming (Fall 2020)
• CS 687: Foundations of Modern Networking (Spring 2020)
• CS 572: Network Security (Fall 2019)
• CS 687/CS 585/EE 599: Smart Grid Communications and Energy-Efficient Computing (Fall 2015)
• CS 687: Software Defined Networking (Fall 2014)
• Here are some courses taught before.

Research

Recent Research Projects

• FABRIC .   FABRIC is an everywhere programmable nationwide instrument comprised of novel extensible network elements equipped with large amounts of compute and storage, interconnected by high speed, dedicated optical links. It will connect a number of specialized testbeds (5G/IoT PAWR, NSF Clouds) and high-performance computing facilities to create a rich fabric for a wide variety of experimental activities.
• VIPLanes.   This project developed a Software Defined Networking(SDN) campus network architecture, called VIPLanes, that provides the ability for pre-authorized, trusted users to create flows that bypass middleboxes, thereby enabling those users to achieve substantially better performance while maintaining security and policy compliance for other network traffc.
• ENTeR .   Enabling NeTwork Research and the Evolution of a Next Generation Midscale Research Infrastructure.
• Adopt-A-GENI.   This project will make it easy to incorporate SDN network resources into GENI by developing automated services that make it easy for experimenters to route and send their traffic across SDN switches in their slice. Experimenters using standard routing paths should be able to do this without any knowledge of OpenFlow rules.
• GENI Desktop .   This project will develop a unified framework and interface for accessing, controlling, and interacting with GENI experiments throughout experiment lifecylces. It will enhance the current GEMINI Desktop to be more tightly integrated with Flack, the GENI Portal, and OMNI tools.
• Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources (FEEDER)
• GEMINI: A GENI Measurement and Instrumentation Infrastructure
• A ShadowBox-based ProtoGENI Instrumentation and Measurement Infrastructure (ShadowNet)
• Center for Resilient Information Systems (CRIS)
• Instrumentation Tools for a GENI Prototype (INSTOOLS)
• Scalable Content Delivery over the Internet

Selected Publications

• Zongming Fei, Ping Yi, Jianjun Yang, "The tradeoff between single aggregate and multiple aggregates in designing GENI experiments," Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (Tridentcom'14), Guangzhou, China, LNICST 137, pp.23-32, May 2014.
• James Griffioen, Zongming Fei, Hussamuddin Nasir, Xiongqi Wu, Jeremy Reed, Charles Carpenter, "Measuring experiments in GENI," Computer Networks, vol.63, pp.17-32, 2014.
• Jonathon Duerig, Robert Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Matt Strum, Gary Wong, Charles Carpenter, Zongming Fei, James Griffioen, Hussamuddin Nasir, Jeremy Reed, Xiongqi Wu, "Getting started with GENI: A user tutorial," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), vol.42, no.1, pp.72-77, January 2012.
• Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, "A novel approach to improving search efficiency in unstructured peer-to-peer networks," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol.69, no.11, pp.877-884, November 2009.
• Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, "A proactive tree recovery mechanism for resilient overlay multicast," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol.15, no.1, pp.173-186, February 2007.
• Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, "A segmentation-based fine-grained peer sharing technique for delivering large media files in content distribution networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.8, no.4, pp.821-829, August 2006.
• Zongming Fei, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, "An active buffer management technique for providing interactive functions in broadcast video-on-demand systems," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.7, no.5, pp.942-950, October 2005.
• Mengkun Yang, Zongming Fei, "A Proactive Approach to Reconstructing Overlay Multicast Trees," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, pp.2743-2753, March 2004.
• Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Multicast server selection: problems, complexity and solutions," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) , vol. 20, no. 7, pp.1399-1413, September 2002.
• Ellen W. Zegura, Mostafa H. Ammar, Zongming Fei, Samrat Bhattacharjee, "Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated web service," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 8, no. 4, pp.455-466, August 2000.
• Sam McLellan, Al Roesler, Zongming Fei, Savita Chandran, Clay Spinuzzi, "Experience using web-based shotgun measures for large-system characterization and improvement," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 4, pp.268-277, April 1998.

Software Developed

• GENI Desktop (Collaborated with Dr. James Griffioen, Hussamuddin Nasir, and other members of the GENI Desktop team)

  GENI Desktop provides a unified framework and interface for interacting with GENI experiments. It support users throughout the various phases of an experiment's workflow, including experiment design, setup and deployment, monitoring and control, runtime interaction, and data collecting, archiving and analysis. It has been widely used by the GENI community for managing their experiments.

  • A GENI Desktop tutorial can be found here .
  • Another tutorial on GENI Desktop was developed by colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills.

• An Overlay Multicast Approach for Multimedia Streaming (Collaborated with my students: Mengkun Yang, Sathish Ramani, and Sandeep Kumar Seethaapathy)

  This software tool aims at using overlay multicast to deliver multimedia contents to a group of users over the Internet. One key problem in overlay multicast is that a non-leaf node may leave the overlay multicast tree voluntarily and can cause the disruption of service to downstream nodes. This software implemented a proactive approach to tree recovery for dealing with the problem.

Professional Activities

Journal Editor

• I am serving on the editorial board of the peer-reivewed jounral International Journal of Sensor Networks .

Program Committees of Technical Conferences

• The 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications ( INFOCOM 2015 )
• The 24th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks ( ICCCN 2015 )
• The 9th International IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering ( SOSE 2015 )
• Previous conferences including INFOCOM , ICDCS , GLOBECOM , INTERNET , ICCCN , NOSSDAV , WCW , etc.

Conferences

• Huge Data Workshop, Chicago, IL, April 13-14, 2020
  The report for the workshop is published here from the NITRD site.
• GENI Regional Workshop and Summer Camp 2018 at the University of Kentucky from May 14 to May 18, 2018.

Recent Invited Talks and Panels

• "GENI user tools and the control plane," NSF-sponsored Workshop on the Development of a Next-Generation Cyberinfrastructure, Washington DC, October 1-2, 2014.
• Panelist, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Experiment-based Research, The 3rd GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE 2014) , Atlanta, GA, March 19-20, 2014.
• Panelist, GENI in Education, The 21st GENI Engineering Conference , Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 20-23, 2014.
• "GENI-based Network Experiments: Possibilities and Practice," NSF Workshop on GENI in Education , Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York, NY, October 26, 2013.
• "Assignments for Networking and Operating Systems Classes Using GENI," NSF Workshop on Designing Tools and Curricula for Undergraduate Courses in Distributed Systems , Boston, MA, July 8, 2012.

Member of Professional Societies

• Senior Member of IEEE
• Member of ACM SIGCOMM

Students

Current Students

• Pinyi Shi (Ph.D.)
• Bassma Aldahlan (Ph.D.)
• Jinpeng Liu (Ph.D.)
• Chandrima Dadi (Ph.D.)
• Sangeetha Raman (M.S.)
• Jayanti Andhale (M.S.)
• Sumaira Shamim (M.S.)

Ph.D. Students Graduated

• Mengkun Yang (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Eastern Kentukcy University)
• Jianjun Yang (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of North Georgia)
• Ping Yi (Senior Software Engineer, SAP, Palo Alto, CA)
• Sergio Rivera Polanco (Google, Mountain View, CA)
• Faisal Alharbi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

M.S. Students Graduated

• I have graduated 27 M.S. students . Five of them are co-advised by Prof. Meikang Qiu , Prof. Henning Schulzrinne , Dr. Sherlia Shi , and Prof. Chi Wang.

Web Links

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Contact Information

Last Modified: 16:23:17 PM Friday, Dec. 12, 2014 by Zongming Fei (fei AT cs.uky.edu)