Xiaoyan Li

Research

Teaching

Publications

I have graduated and moved to Lafayette College, my new homepage is here. While at Rutgers, I worked with my advisor, Professor Richard P. Martin,  at Panic Lab. I have also worked with Professor Thu D. Nguyen on the performance and availability study of cluster-based services (Vivo Project). 

Research

My research interests span the areas of wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, distributed systems, and Internet services. I am particularly interested in using modeling, learning and mining techniques to explore system design issues. Details about the projects I have worked on can be found in my CV.

Teaching

Instructor

• CS352: Internet Technology - Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Summer 2006.  Lectured on topics including the ISO/OSI network model, basic security, queuing theory and P2P systems. Coordinated with teaching assistants on the course design of syllabus, projects and exams.

Teaching Assistant

• CS519: Operating Systems (Graduate Level) - Spring 2002. Responsibilities included project-design discussion with students and grading of projects. Projects covered design and implementation of Kernel system call, scheduling policy, file systems and distributed Internet service.

• CS416: Operating Systems Design (Undergraduate Level) - Fall 2000, Spring, Fall 2001. Responsibilities included lecturing on specific topics, designing and grading programming projects on inter process communication, multithreaded programming, virtual memory management and socket programming.

• CS112: Data Structures - Summer 2001. Responsibilities included lecturing on specific topics, designing and grading programming projects on basic data structures, sorting/searching algorithms and complexity analysis.

Publications

Conferences

• Xiaoyan Li, Richard P. Martin, “A Simple Ray-Sector Signal Strength Model for Indoor 802.11 Networks”, in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Nov. 2005.  [code for generating signal strength data using Ray-Sector model]

• Xiaoyan Li, Thu D.Nguyen, Richard P.Martin, “Using Adaptive Range Control to Maximize 1-Hop Broadcast Coverage in Dense Wireless Networks”, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Oct. 2004.

• Eiman Elnahrawy, Xiaoyan Li, Richard Martin, “The Limits of Localization Using Signal Strength: A Comparative Study”, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Oct. 2004.       - Best Paper Award

• Xiaoyan Li, Thu D. Nguyen, Richard P. Martin, “An Analytic Model Predicting the Optimal Range for Maximizing 1-HopBroadcast Coverage in Dense Wireless Networks”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Jul. 2004.

• Kiran Nagaraja, Xiaoyan Li, Bin Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, and Thu D. Nguyen, “Using Fault Injection and Modeling to Evaluate the Performability of Cluster-Based Services”, in Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Mar. 2003.

Workshops

• Andrew Tjang, Michael Pagliorola, Hiral Patel, Xiaoyan Li, Richard P. Martin, “Active Tapes: Bus-Based Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of The 1st IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-I) - short paper, Nov. 2004.

• Eiman Elnahrawy, Xiaoyan Li, Richard P. Martin, “Using Area-based Presentations and Metrics for Localization Systems in Wireless LANs”, in Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN), Nov. 2004.

• Xiaoyan Li, Richard P. Martin, Kiran Nagaraja, Thu D. Nguyen and Bin Zhang, “Mendosus: A SAN-based Fault-Injection Test-Bed for Construction of Highly Available Network Services”, In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks (SAN-1), Feb. 2002.

Others

• Eiman Elnahrawy, Xiaoyan Li, and Richard P. Martin, "The Limits of Localization Using RSS", Research poster in Proceedings of The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'04), Baltimore, Maryland, November, 2004. Poster snapshot.

• Xiaoyan Li, Thu D.Nguyen, Richard P.Martin, “Using Adaptive Range Control to Optimize 1-Hop Broadcast Coverage in Dense Wireless Networks”, Research poster in Proceedings of The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'03), Los Angeles, California, November, 2003. Poster snapshot.