Recent Vitae

Choh-Ming Li Professor of CSE Department
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T.
Hong Kong

URL: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~cslui

Research Interest

Inventions and Patents

• Log-structured arrays using LSA sub-directory design techniques for the parallel I/O server.
  U.S. patent No 5,671,390.

Research Activity

Selected Journals

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  "Cooperation Preference Aware Shapley Value: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications."
  Accepted in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

• Shiyuan Zheng, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  "Pricing Social Visibility Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Algorithms."
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

• Z.B. Wang , D.F. Liu , Y.N. Sun , X.Y. Pang , P. Sun , F. Lin , John C. S. Lui , K. Ren.
  "A Survey on IoT-enabled Home Automation Systems: Attacks and Defenses."
  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 24(4): 2292-2328, 2022.

• J.L. Pang, Y.J. Ling, Ruiting Zhou, John C. S. Lui.
  ``An Incentive Auction for Heterogeneous Client Selection in Federated Learning.''
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

• L. Yao, Y.K. Li, F. Guo, S. Wu, Y.L. Xu, and John C.S. Lui. ``Towards High Performance and Efficient Memory Deduplication via Mixed Pages.''
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Computers.

• Kechao Cai, Yutong Liu, Janice Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Learning with Guarantee via Constrained Multi-armed Bandit: Theory and Network Applications.''
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

• W.B. Chu, P.J. Yu, Z.W. Yu, John C.S. Lui, L. Yi.
  ``Online Optimal Service Selection, Resource Allocation and Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing: A Utility-based Approach''.
  Accepted IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

• Xiaoying Zhang, Hong Xie, Pei Yi, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Enhancing Sybil Detection via Social-Activity Networks: A Random Walk Approach''.
  Accepted IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).

• YK Li, R. Wang, S. Lin, W.J. Wu, H. Xie, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ''Common Neighbors Matter: Fast Random Walk Sampling with Common Neighbor Awareness''.
  Accepted IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

• Z. Xu, Z.C. Xu, Q.F. Xia, L. Wang, Z. Zhou, John C.S. Lui, W. Liang, W. Z. Xu, G.W. Wu.
  ``Stable Service Caching in MECs of Hierarchical Service Markets with Uncertain Request Rates''.
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

• X.X. Xu, Hong Xie, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Generalized Contextual Bandits With Latent Features: Algorithms and Applications''.
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).

• Tingwei Liu, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Online Zero-Cost Learning: Optimizing Large Scale Network Rare Threats Simulation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 22(1):356-374, 2023.

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Quantifying Worker Reliability for Crowdsensing Applications: Robust Feedback Rating & Convergence''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 22(1): 459-471, 2023.

• X.X. Dai, Z. Xiao, H.B. Jiang, M. Alazab, John C. S. Lui, S. Dustdar, J.C. Liu.
  "Task Co-Offloading for D2D-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing".
  IEEE Transactions of Industrial Informatics 19(1): 480-490, 2023.

• X.X. Dai, Z. Xiao, H.B. Jiang, M. Alazab, John C. S. Lui, G.Y. Min, S. Dustdar, J.C. Liu.
  "Task Offloading for Cloud-Assisted Fog Computing With Dynamic Service Caching in Enterprise Management Systems".
  IEEE Transactions of Industrial Informatics 19(1): 662-672, 2023.

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Price Cloud Resources with Provable Convergence Guarantees''.
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 33(12): 7448-7460, 2022.

• Xiaoying Zhang, Xie Hong, JOhn C.S. Lui.
  ``Improving Bandit Learning via Heterogeneous Information Networks: Algorithms and Applications''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 16(6):111:1-111:25, 2022.

• F.Y. Sun, P.H. Wang, J.Z. Zhao, N.X, J.X. Zeng, J.Tao, K.K. Song, X.H. Guan, John C.S. Lui.
  ''Mobile Data Traffic Prediction by Exploiting Time-Evolving User Mobility Patterns''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 21(12): 4456-4470, 2022.

• R. Wang, Y.K. Li, H. Xie, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui, S.B. He.
  ``Towards Fast and Scalable Random Walks over Disk-Resident Graphs via Efficient I/O Management.''
  ACM Transactions on Storage, 18(4), November, 2022.

• M.L. Liu, J. Allcock, K.C. Cai, S.Y. Zhang, John C.S. Lui.
  "Quantum networks with multiple service providers: Transport layer protocols and research opportunities."
  IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on quantum communications and networking, 36(5), pp. 56-62, September/October, 2022.

• X.Y.Shen, H.B. Jiang, D.B. Liu, K.H. Yang, F.Y. Deng, John C. S. Lui, J.C. Liu, S. Dustdar, Jun Luo.
  ``PupilRec: Leveraging Pupil Morphology for Recommending on Smartphones.''
  IEEE Internet Things Journal, 9(17), pp:15538-15553, 2022.

• Li Ye, Hong Xie, Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Rewarding Social Recommendation in OSNs: Empirical Evidences, Modeling and Optimization''.
  IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 34(9), pp. 4410-4424, September, 2022.

• Z.Y. Wang, J.C. Ye, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Towards Large-Scale Hybrid Edge Server Provision: An Online Mean Field Learning Approach''.
  IEEE JSAC Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks, 40(8), 2347-2360, 2022.

• Z. Xiao, Y.X. Chen, H.B. Jiang, Z.Z. Hu, John C. S. Lui, G.Y. Min, S. Dustdar:
  ``Resource management in UAV-assisted MEC: state-of-the-art and open challenges.''
  Wireless Networks 28(7): 3305-3322, 2022.
  

• Shiyuan Zheng, Xie Hong, JOhn C.S. Lui.
  ``Optimizing Social Visibility in OSNs with Anonymity Guarantees: Efficient Algorithms and Applications''.
  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 9(4): 2237-2251, 2022.

• Z.Y. Wang, J.C. Ye, D. Lin, John C.S. Lui.
  ''Approximate and Deployable Shortest Remaining Processing Time Scheduler''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 30(3): 1368-1381, 2022.

• Y.Y. Qi, P.H. Wang, Y.M. Zhang, Q.Z. Zhai, C.X. Wang, John C.S. Lui, X.H. Guan.
  ``A Memory-Efficient Sketch Method for Estimating High Similarities in Streaming Sets''.
  Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

• X.Y. Pang, Z.B. Wang, D.F. Liu, John C. S. Lui, Q. Wang, J. Ren.
  ``Towards Personalized Privacy-preserving Truth Discovery over Crowdsourced Data Streams''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 30(1), pp. 327-340, 2022.

• X.B. Ma, J. Qu, J.F. Li, John C. S. Lui, Z.H. Li, W.M. Liu, X.H. Guan.
  ``Inferring Hidden IoT Devices and User Interactions via Spatial-temporal Traffic Fingerprinting.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 30(1), pp. 394-408, 2022.

• Jincheng Wang, Zhuohua Li, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Topology-Theoretic Approach To Address Attribute Linkage Attacks In Differential Privacy''.
  Journal of Computers & Security, Vol. 113, February 2022.

• Ruiting Zhou, Xueying Zhang, Shixin Qin, John C. S. Lui, Zhi Zhou, Hao Huang, Zongpeng Li.
  ''Online Task Offloading for 5G Small Cell Networks''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 21(6), pp:2103-2115, 2022.

• Da Yan, Guimu Guo, Jalal Khalil, M. Tamer Ozsu, Wei-Shinn Ku, John C. S. Lui.
  ``G-thinker: a general distributed framework for finding qualified subgraphs in a big graph with load balancing''.
  The VLDB Journal, 31(2): 287-320, 2022.

• Rui Wang, Yongkun Li, Shuai Lin, Hong Xie, Yinlong Xu, John C. S. Lui.
  ``On Modeling Influence Maximization in Social Activity Networks under General Settings''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 15(6), pp. 108:1-28, 2021.

• Y.Y. Qi, P.H. Wang, Y.M. Zhang, Q.Z. Zhai. C.X. Wang, G.J. Tian. John C.S. Lui, X.H. Guan.
  ``Streaming Algorithms for Estimating High Set Similarities in LogLog Space''.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 33(10), pp. 3438-3452, October 1, 2021.

• Z.C. Xu, Z.H. Zhang, John C.S. Lui, W.F. Liang, Q.F. Xia, P. Zhou, W.Z Xu, and G.W. Wu.
  ``Affinity-aware VNF placement in mobile edge clouds via leveraging GPUs''.
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(2), pp. 2234-2248, December 1, 2021.

• Xi Huang, S.M. Bian, X. Gao, W.J. Wu, Z.Y. Shao, John C.S. Lui, Y. Yang.
  ``Online VNF Chaining and Predictive Scheduling: Optimality and Trade-offs''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 29(4), pp.1867-1880, 2021.

• Xiaofeng Ding, Lin Chen, Pan Zhou, Zichuan Xu, Shiping Wen, John C. S. Lui, Hai Jin.
  ``Dynamic online convex optimization with long-term constraints via virtual queue''.
  Information Science, 577, pp. 140-161, 2021.

• Weibo Chu, Zhiwen Yu, John C.S. Lui, Yi Lin.
  ``Jointly Optimizing Throughput and Content Delivery Cost over Lossy Cache Networks''.
  IEEE Transactions on Communications, 69(6): 3846-3863, 2021.

• Hong Xie, M.Z. Zhong, Y.K. Li, and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Understanding Persuasion Cascades in Online Product Rating Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Inference''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 15(3), 36:1-36:29, 2021.

• Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang, Zhouguo Chen, Jianwei Ding, John C. S. Lui, Don Towsley, Xiaohong Guan.
  ``Tracking triadic cardinality distributions for burst detection in high-speed graph streams''.
  Journal of Knowledge and Information Sciences, 63(4): 939-969, 2021.

• Xutong Liu, Y.Z. Janice Chen, John C.S. Lui, Konstantin Avrachenkov.
  ``Learning to Count: a Deep Learning Framework for Graphlet Count Estimation''.
  Network Science Journal, Vol 9. Speical Issue S1: Complex Networks, S23-S60, October 2021.

• Hong Xie, Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems''.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 20(4): 37:1-37:26, 2020.
  

• Ye Li, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui, Kenneth L. Calvert.
  ``Quantifying Deployability & Evolvability of Future Internet Architectures via Economic Models''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 28(5), pp. 1995-2008, 2020.
  

• T. Chen, Z.H. Li, Y.X. Zhu, J.C. Chen, X.P. Luo, John C.S. Lui, X.D. Lin, X.S. Zhang.
  ``Understanding Ethereum via Graph Analysis''.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ToIT), 18:1-18:32, 2020.
  

• Tingwei Liu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``FAVE: A Fast and Efficient Network Flow AVailability Estimation Method with Bounded Relative Error''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 28(2): 505-518, 2020.

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Mining Deficiencies of Online Reputation Systems: Methodologies, Experiments and Implications''.
  IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. 13(5): 887-900, 2020.

• Zhaoyan Song, Ruiting Zhou, Shihan Zhao, Shixin Qin, John C. S. Lui, Zongpeng Li.
  ``Emergency demand response in edge computing''.
  EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communication Networking, 2020(1), 175, 2020.

• Xiaoying Zhang, Hong Xie, Junzhou Zhao, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Understanding Assimilation-contrast Effects in Online Rating Systems: Modelling, Debiasing, and Applications''.
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38(1): 2:1-2:25, 2020.

• Yang Hu, Mingshen Sun, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Exploiting non-uniform program execution time to evade record/replay forensic analysis''.
  Journal of Computers & Security, Vol. 88, 2020.

• Yang Hu, John C.S. Lui, W.J. Hu, Xiaobo Ma, Jianfeng Li, Xiao Liang.
  ``Taming Energy Cost of Disk Encryption Software on Data-Intensive Mobile Devices''.
  Future Generation Computer Systems, 107: 681-691, 2020.
  

• L. Lan, P.H. Wang, J.Z. Zhao, J. Tao, John C. S. Lui, X.H. Guan.
  ``Improving Network Embedding with Partially Available Vertex and Edge Content''.
  Journal of Information Sciences, 512: 935-951, 2020.

• Byeongjin Choe, Yishi Lin, Sungsu Lim, John C.S. Lui, Kyomin Jung.
  ``Efficient Spread-size Approximation of Opinion Spreading in General Social Networks''.
  Physical Review E, 2019.

• Li Ye, Weijie Wu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Profitability of Bundling Sale Strategy for Online Service Markets with Network Effects''.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 19(3): 31:1-31:32, 2019.

• Hong Xie, Weijie Wu, Richard T. B. Ma, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Pay as Your Service Needs: An Application-Driven Pricing Approach for the Internet Economics''.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 19(4): 52:1-52:28, 2019.

• Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Optimizing Node Discovery on Networks: Problem Definitions, Fast Algorithms, and Observations''.
  Journal of Information Sciences, 477:161-185, 2019.

• P.H. Wang, J.Z. Zhao, B. Ribeiro, John C. S. Lui, D. Towsley, X.H. Guan.
  ``Practical Characterization of Large Networks Using Neighborhood Information''.
  Journal of Knowledge Information Systems, 58(3): 701-728, 2019.

• P.H. Wang, J.Z. Zhao, John C. S. Lui, D. Towsley, X.H. Guan.
  ``Fast Crawling Methods of Exploring Content Distributed over Large Graphs''.
  Journal of Knowledge Information Systems, 59(1): 67-92, 2019.

• Tingwei Liu, John C.S. Lui, Dong Lin, David Hui.
  ``On the Feasibility of Inter-domain Routing via a Small Broker Set''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 30(2):415-427, 2019.

• Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, X.H. Guan.
  ``Sampling Online Social Networks by Random Walk with Indirect Jumps''.
  Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 33(1): 24-57, 2019.
  

• P.H. Wang, Y. Qi, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, J.Z. Zhao, J. Tao.
  ``Inferring Higher-Order Structure Statistics of Large Networks From Sampled Edges''.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 31(1), 2019.
  

• Jian Li, Srinivas Shakkotta, John C.S. Lui, Vijay Subramanian.
  ``Accurate Learning or Fast Mixing? Dynamic Adaptability of Caching Algorithms''.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 36(6): 1314-1330, 2018.
  

• P. Zhao, H.B. Jiang, John C.S. Lui, C. Wang, F.Z. Zeng. F. Xiao, Z.T. Li.
  ``P^3-LOC: A Privacy-Preserving Paradigm-Driven Framework for Indoor Localization''.
  IEEE/ACM Trans. of Networking, 26(6), 2018.
  

• Tingwei Liu, John C.S. Lui, X.Q. Ma, H.B. Jiang.
  ``Enabling Relay-Assisted D2D Communication for Cellular Networks: Algorithm and Protocols''.
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(4): 3136-3150, 2018.
  

• Xiaowei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Mining Graphlet Counts in Online Social Networks''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, TKDD 12(4), 41:1-41:30, 2018.
  

• Kechao Cai, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Information Spreading Forensics via Sequential Dependent Snapshots''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking: 26(1), 478-491, 2018.
  

• Yishi Lin, Wei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Boosting Information Spread: An Algorithmic Approach''.
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5(2): 344-357, June, 2018.
  

• P.H. Wang, J. Tao, X.L. Zhang, Z.G. Li, J.F. Cheng, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, J.Z. Zhao, X.H. Guan.
  ``MOSS-5: A Fast Counting Graphlets in Large Graphs''.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 30(1), 2018.
  

• Xie Hong, Richard T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Enhancing Reputation via Price Discount in E-Commerce Systems: A Data Driven Approach''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 12(3), 2018.
  

• W.B. Chu, M. Dehghan, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, Z.L. Zhang.
  ``Joint Cache Resource Allocation and Request Routing for In-network Caching Services''.
  Journal of Computer Networks, 131, pp.1-14, 2018.
  

• Xie Hong and John C.S. Lui
  ``Incentive Mechanism and Rating System Design for Crowdsourcing Systems: Analysis, Tradeoffs and Inference''.
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 11(1), 2018.
  

• David S.W. Hui, Y.C. Chen, G. Zhang, W.J. Wu, Guanrong Chen, John C. S. Lui and Yingtao Li.
  ``A Unified Framework for Complex Networks with Degree Trichotomy Based on Markov Chains''.
  Scientific Reports (under Nature), Vol 7, Article #: 3723, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03613-z, June 2017.
  

• J. Anselmi, D. Ardagna, John C.S. Lui, A. Wierman, Y.J. Xu, Z.C. Yang.
  ``The Economics of the Cloud''.
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), 2(4), August, 2017.
  

• Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley; Xiaohong Guan.
  ``I/O-Efficient Calculation of H-Group Closeness Centrality over Disk-Resident Graphs''.
  Journal of Information Sciences Journal, 400: 105-128, 2017.
  

• Yongkun Li, Biaobiao Shen, Yubiao Pan, Yinlong Xu, Zhipeng Li, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Workload-Aware Elastic Striping With Hot Data Identification for SSD RAID Arrays.''.
  IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 36(5), 815-828, 2017.
  

• Xiaomeng Yi, Fangming Liu, Di Niu, Hai Jin, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Cocoa: Dynamic Container-Based Group Buying Strategies for Cloud Computing''.
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ToMPECS), 2(2): 8:1-8:31, 2017.
  

• Fangming Liu, Jian Guo, Xiaomeng Huang, John C. S. Lui,
  ``eBA: Efficient Bandwidth Guarantee Under Traffic Variability in Datacenters''.
  IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 25(1): 506-519, 2017.
  

• Mingshen Sun, Xiaolei Li, John C. S. Lui, Richard T. B. Ma, Zhenkai Liang,
  ``Monet: A User-Oriented Behavior-Based Malware Variants Detection System for Android''.
  IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security 12(5): 1103-1112, 2017.
  

• Kechao Cai, Hong Xie, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Generalization of Information Spreading Forensics via Sequential Dependent Snapshots.''.
  Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 44(2), 2016.
  

• Chen Wang, Wei Wei, Hongzhi Lin, Hongbo Jiang, John C. S. Lui.
  ``BLOW-UP: Toward Distributed and Scalable Space Filling Curve Construction in 3D Volumetric WSNs''.
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) 12(4), 30:1-30:20, 2016.
  

• Qin Liu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``SAND: A Fault-Tolerant Streaming Architecture for Network Traffic Analytics''.
  Journal of System Software, 122: 553-563, 2016.
  

• Xiaowei Chen, Yongkun Li, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A General Framework for Estimating Graphlet Statistics via Random Walk''.
  PVLDB 10(3): 253-264, 2016.
  

• Q. Liu, J. Cheng, Z. Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``VENUS: A Streamlined Graph Computation System on a Single PC''.
  IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng (TKDE), 28(8), 2016.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley
  ``Design and Analysis of Incentive and Reputation Mechanisms for Online Crowdsourcing System''.
  ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), 1(3), 2016.
  

• Yongkun Li, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Analysis of Reliability Dynamics of SSD RAID''.
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(4), 1131-1144, 2016.
  

• Chen Wang, Hongbo Jiang, Tianlong Yu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``SLICE: Enabling Greedy Routing in High Genus 3D WSNs with General Topologies''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(4), 2016.
  

• Silei Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Product Selection Problem: Improve Market Share by Learning Consumer Behavior''.
  One of nine fast-tracked papers from ACM KDD'14.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 10(4), 2016.
  

• Jian Guo, Fangming Liu, John C.S. Lui,Hai Jin.
  ``Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters via a Cooperative Game Approach''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(2), 2016.
  

• D. Yan, J. Cheng, M.T. Ozsu, F. Yang, Y. Lu, John C.S. Lui, Q. Zhang, W. Ng.
  ``A General-Purpose Query-Centric Framework for Querying Big Graphs''.
  PVLDB, 9(7), September, 2016.
  

• Z.G. Li, Y.X. Fang, Q. Liu, R. Cheng, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale''.
  PVLDB 9(1): 24-35 (2015), 2016.
  

• Quan-Lin Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Block-Structured Supermarket Models''.
  Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 26(2), 147-182, 2016.
  

• Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Analyzing Competitive Influence Maximization Problems with Partial Information: An Approximation Algorithmic Framework''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluaiton, 2015.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling eBay-Like Reputation Systems: Analysis, Characterization and Insurance Mechanism Design''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 2015.
  

• Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``AppATP: An Energy Conserving Adaptive Mobile-Cloud Transmission Protocol''.
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(11): 3051-3063, 2015.
  

• Xie Hong, John CS Lui.
  ``Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Product Rating with Partial Information''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 9(4), 2015.
  

• X.B. Ma, J. Zhang, Z. Li, J. Li, J. Tao, X. Guan, John CS Lui, Don Towsley.
  ``Accurate DNS Query characteristics estimation via active probing''.
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 47, pp. 72-84, 2015.
  

• P.H. Wang, J.Z Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley and X. Guan.
  ``Unbiased Characterization of Node Pairs Over Large Graphs''.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 9(3), 2015.
  

• R.T.B Ma, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra.
  ``On the Evolution of the Internet Economic Ecosystem''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 23(1), 85-98, 2015.
  

• Yongkun Li, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Friends or Foes: Distributed and Randomized Algorithms to Determine Dishonest Recommenders in Online Social Networks''.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 9(10), 2014.
  

• Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, and Xiaohong Guan.
  ``Whom to Follow: Efficient Followee Selection for Cascading Outbreak Detection on Online Social Networks''.
  Journal of Computer Networks (Special Issue on Online Social Networks), 75:544-559, 2014.
  

• Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui, K. Jung, S. Lim.
  ``Modeling Multi-state Diffusion Process in Complex Networks: Theory and Applications''.
  Journal of Complex Networks, 2(4), December, 2014.
  

• P.H. Wang, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, X.H. Guan, B. Ribeiro, J.Z. Zhao.
  ``Efficiently Estimating Motif Statistics of Large Networks''.
  Technical report in arXiv.org
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 9(2), September, 2014.
  

• Hong Xie, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling crowdsourcing systems: design and analysis of incentive mechanism and rating system'',
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 42(2): 52-54, (2014).
  

• J. Anselmi, D. Ardagna, John C.S. Lui, A. Wierman, Y. Xu, Z. Yang.
  ``The economics of the cloud: Price competition and congestion'',
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 41(4): 47-49 (2014).
  

• Yongkun Li, Patrick P.C. LEe, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Garbage Collection Algorithms in Solid State Drive Systems''.
  Journal of Queueing Systems, 77(2), 115-148, 2014.
  

• Zichao Yang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Security Adoption and Influence of Cyber-insurance Markets in Heterogeneous Networks Performance Evaluation''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 74: 1-17, 2014.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Mathematical Modeling of Group Product Recommendation with Partial Information: How Many Ratings Do We Need?''.
  Journal of Performnace Evaluation, Vol. 77, 72-95, 2014.
  

• Q.L.Li, G. Dai, Y. Wang , John C.S. Lui.
  ``The Mean-Field Computation in a Supermarket Model with Server Multiple Vacations''.
  Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 24(4): 473-522, 2014.
  

• Silei Xu, Runhui Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, Yunfeng Zhu, Liping Xiang, Yinlong Xu, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Single Disk Failure Recovery for X-code-based Parallel Storage Systems''.
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 63(4), 2014.
  

• Wijie Wu, John C.S. Lui, Richard T.B. Ma.
  ``Distributed Caching via Rewarding: An Incentive Scheme Design in P2P-VoD Systems''.
  IEEE TPDS, 25(3): 612-621, 2014.
  

• Sungsu Lim, Kyomin Jung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Phase Transition of Multi-state Diffusion Model in Networks'',
  SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 41(3): 31-33, 2013.
  

• Hongying Liu, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Credit Evolution of Credit-Based Incentive Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  Journal of Computer Networks, 57(17): 3327-3343, 2013.
  

• Yudong Yang, Richard T.B. Ma, and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Price Differentiation and Control in the Kelly Mechanism''.
  Performance Evaluation Journal, 70(10): 792-805, 2013.

• Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Epidemic Attacks in Network-Coding Enabled Wireless Mesh Networks: Detection, Identification and Evaluation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 12(11), pp. 2219-2232. 2013.
  

• Wijie Wu, John C.S. Lui, Richard T.B. Ma.
  ``On Incentivizing Upload Capacity in P2P-VoD Systems: Design, Analysis and Evaluation''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 57(7), 1674-1688, 2013.
  

• R. T. B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
  ``Price Differentiation in the Kelly mechanism''.
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 40(2): 30-33 (2012).
  

• Yongkun Li, Bridge Zhao, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On Modeling Product Advertisement in Large Scale Online Social Networks''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(5), pp. 1412-1425, 2012.
  

• P. Zhang, C. Lin, Y.X. Jiang, P.P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui.
  ``ANOC: Anonymous Network-Coding-Based Communication with Efficient Cooperation''.
  IEEE JSAC, 30(9), pp. 1738-1745, 2012.
  

• Yang Tang, Patrick P. C. Lee, John C. S. Lui, and Radia Perlman.
  ``Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with Access Control and Assured Deletion''.
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 9(6): 903-916 (2012).
  

• W.J. Wu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Exploring the Optimal Replication Strategy in P2P-VoD Systems: Characterization and Evaluation''.
  IEEE TPDS, 23(8): 1492-1503, 2012.
  

• Bridge Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu
  ``A Mathematical Framework for Analyzing Adaptive Incentive Protocols in P2P Networks''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(2), pp. 367-380, April, 2012.
  

• Qiming Li, John C.S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``On the Security and Efficiency of Content Distribution Via Network Coding''
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 9(2), pp. 211-221, 2012.
  

• Quan-LIn Li, John C.S. Lui and Yang Wang.
  ``A Matrix-Analytic Solution for Randomized Load Balancing Models with PH Service Times''
  Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems: Milestones and Future Challenges, LNCS, 6821, 2011.
  

• L.P. Xiang, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui, Q. Chang, Y.B. Pan and R.H. Li.
  ``A Hybrid Approach of Failed Disk Recovery Using RAID-6 Codes: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation''
  ACM Transactions on Storage, 7(3), October, 2011.
  

• RTB. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, M. Vishal, D. Rubenstein.
  ``On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 19(3), June, 2011.
  

• Y.P. Zhou, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Simple Model for Chunk-Scheduling Strategies in P2P Streaming''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 19(1), pp. 42-54, 2011.
  

• Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis of A Randomized Detection Algorithm for Pollution Attack in P2P Live Streaming Systems''.
  Performance Evaluaiton Journal, November, 2010.
  

• Yuedong Xu, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``On Oligopoly Spectrum Allocation Game in Cognitive Radio Networks with Capacity Constraints'',
  Journal of Computer Networks, 54(6), pp. 925-943, 2010.

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``On the Performance Bounds of Practical Wireless Network Coding'',
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 9(8), pp. 1134-1146, 2010.

• Xingagn Shi, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Online Framework for Catching Top Spreaders and Scanners'',
  Journal of Computer Networks, 54(9), pp. 1375-1388, 2010.

• RTB. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, M. Vishal, D. Rubenstein.
  ``Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement'',
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(3), pp. 775-787, 2010.

• M.H. Lin, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``An ISP-friendly File Distribution Protocol: Analysis, Design and Implementation'',
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(9), 2010.

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``DCAR: Distributed Coding-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 9(4), April 2010.

• Yuedong Xu, X.X. Wu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Cross-Layer QoS Scheduling for Layered Multicast Streaming in OFDMA Wireless Networks''.
  Journal of Wireless Personal Comunication, 51(3), Nov, 2009.

• Yuedong Xu, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Analysis and Scheduling of Practical Network Coding in OFDMA Relay Networks''.
  Journal of Computer Networks, 53(12), pp. 2120-2139, 2009.

• Yuedong Xu, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Improving Energy Efficiency Via Probabilistic Rate Combination in 802.11 Multi-rate Wireless Networks''.
  Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, 7(7), pp. 1370-1385, 2009.

• Hu Yan, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Profiling and Identification of P2P Traffic''.
  Journal of Computer Networks, 53(6), pp. 849-863, 2009.

• Y. Wang, John C.S. Lui, and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of Power Control on the Capacity of Wireless Networks''
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(1), January, 2009.

• S.F. Yeung and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Hack-Proof Synchronization Protocol for Multi-Player Online Games''.
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 41(2), 2009.

• Hui Wang, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Implications of Overlay Network Traffic on ISP Peering''.
  Journal of Computer Networks, 52(15), pp. 2817-3028, October, 2008.

• B. Fan, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``The Design Tradeoffs of BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Protocols''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(2), pp. 365-376, 2009. (Technical Report)
  

• Hu Yan, D.M. Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Entropy Based Adaptive Flow Aggregation''.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(3), 2009. (Technical Report)
  

• Y. Wang, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Characterizing the Capacity Gain of Stream Control Scheduling in MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 9(6), pp. 819-829, 2009. (Technical Report)
  

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Dynamic Bayesian Approach for Detecting Cheats in Multi-Player Online Games''.
  ACM Multimedia Systems, 14(4), 2008. (Technical Report)
  

• Sam C.M. Lee and John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction and Competition among Internet Service Providers''.
  IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 26(7), 2008. (Technical Report)
  

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau
  ``Secure Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) for Hierarchical Proxy Caching: Theory Design and Implementation''.
  (Technical Report)
  International Journal of Network Security, 7(3), 2008.

• Alan T.S. Ip, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu.
  ``A Revenue-Rewarding Scheme For Cooperative Proxy Media Streaming Systems''.
  (Technical Report)
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), 4(1), 2008.

• T.Y. Wong, M.H. Wong and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Precise Termination Condition of the Probabilistic Packet Marking Algorithm''.
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 5(1), pp.6-21, 2008.

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interaction of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 19(2), pp. 204-218, 2008.

• Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis of File Swarming Systems''.
  Performance Evaluation Journal, 64(9-12), 2007.

• Ray K. Lam, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 56(11), Nov, 2007.

• Hui Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Rocky K.C. Chang.
  ``Inter-AS Inbound Traffic Engineering via ASPP''.
  the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 4(1), pp. 62-70, June 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• T.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong.
  ``Markov Chain Modeling of the Probabilistic Packet Marking Algorithm''.
  International Journal of Network Security, 5(1), pp.32-40, July 2007.

• Chee-Wei Tan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Distributed Throttling Approach for Handling High Bandwidth Aggregates''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(7), pp. 983-995, July, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``SEAL: A Secure Communication Library for Building Dynamic Group Key Agreement Applications''
  Journal of Systems and Software, 80(3), pp. 356-370, March 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• C.F. Chou, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-class Multi-Server Threshold-based Systems: a Study of Non-instantaneous Server Activation''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(1), 96-110, January, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• Alan T.S. Ip, J.C. Liu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``COPACC: An Architecture of Cooperative Proxy-Client Caching System for On-Demand Media Streaming''
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(1), 70-83, January, 2007. (Technical Report)
  

• Chee-Wei Tan, M. Gurusamy and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Achieving Multi-Class Service Differentiation in WDM Optical Burst Switching Networks: A Probabilistic Preemptive Burst Segmentation Scheme''.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communciation (JSAC) OCN Journal, 24(12), pp. 106-119, December, 2006.

• T.B. Ma, C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(5), October, 2006.

• T.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong.
  ``An Efficient Distributed Algorithm to Identify and Traceback DDoS Traffic''.
  Computer Journal, 49(4), 2006.

• Ken Y.K. Hui, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Small-World Overlay P2P Networks: Construction and Handling Dynamic Flash Crowd''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(15), October, 2006.

• H.B. Sun, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Mechanism in Detecting and Defending Against the Low-rate TCP Attack''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(13), pp. 2312-2330, September 2006.

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Quality of Service Provisioning for Composable Routing Elements''.
  Computer Networks Journal, 50(13), pp. 2255-2270, September, 2006.

• Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Collaborative Key Agreement and Authentication Protocols for Dynamic Peer Groups''.
  (Technical Report)
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(2), April, 2006.

• Srijan Chakraborty, Dong Yu, David K. Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Effectiveness of Movement Prediction to Reduce Energy Consumption in Wireless Communication''.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 5(2), Feb, 2006.

• Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction of Multiple Overlay Routing''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 62(1-4), October, 2005.
  (Best Paper Award)
  

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Adam W.J. Lee.
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Optimization of Load Distribution''.
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 62(1-4), October, 2005.
  

• Ben C.B. Chan, John C.F. Lau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``OPERA: An Open-source Extensible Router Architecture for Adding New Network Services and Protocols''.
  Journal of Systems and Software, 78(1), pp 24-36, Oct, 2005.

• K.T. Law, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``You Can Run, But You Can't Hide: An Effective Statistical Methodology to Trace Back DDoS Attackers''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(9), October, 2005.

• Joe W.J. Jiang, John C.S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``Interaction of Overlay Networks: Properties and Implications''.
  ACM Sigmetrics Evaluation Review (PER), 33(2), September, 2005.

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau
  ``A Multi-key Secure Multimedia Proxy Using Asymmetric Reversible Parametric Sequences: Theory, Design, and Implementation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 7(2), April, 2005.

• David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui, Feng Liang, Yam Yeung.
  ``Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks with Max-min Fair Server-centric Router Throttles.''
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(1), February, 2005.

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  `` Composition of Java-based Router Elements and Its Application to Generalized Video Multicast''
  IEEE Network, December, 2004.

• B. Abdouni, W.C. Cheng, A. Chow, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Picture-perfect Streaming Over the Internet: Is There Hope?''
  IEEE Communications, 42(8), August, 2004.

• Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  ``A Proportional-Delay DiffServ-Enabled Web Server: Admission Control and Dynamic Adaptation''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 15(5), pp. 385-400, May, 2004.

• Starsky H.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui
  ``End System Multicast: An Architectural Infrastructure and Topological Optimization'',
  Journal of Computer Communications, 27(5), March, 2004.

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Incentive P2P Networks: A Protocol to Encourage Information Sharing and Contribution'',
  Performance Evaluation Review, 31(2), September, 2003.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H. Richard Gail,
  "Performance Tradeoffs in Scheduling Techniques for Mixed Workloads".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, November 2003, 21(2), pp. 147-172, 2003.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Is it Worth the Trouble?''.
  Performance Evaluation Review, 30(3), December 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Tak Fu Tung, Lik Hang Chow, W.J. Lee, G. Franceschinis, C. Anglano,
  ``Multi-path Continuous Media Streaming: What are the Benefits?''.
  Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol 39, pp. 429-449, September, 2002.

• Jack Y.B. Lee, John C.S. Lui
  ``Automatic Recovery from Disk Failure in Continuous-Media Servers''.
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.13(5), pp. 499-515, May 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  ``Bounding of Performance Measures for Threshold-baded Systems: Theory and Application to Dynamic Resource Management in Video-on-Demand Servers''.
  IEEE Transactions of Computers, 51(4), pp 353-372, April, 2002.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan,
  "An Efficient Partitioning Algorithm for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems".
  IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 13(3), pp 193-211, March, 2002.

• Mary Y.Y. Leung, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik,
  "Use of Analytical Performance Models for System Sizing and Resource Allocation in Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems Employing Data Sharing Techniques".
  IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 14(3), pp 615-637, May/June, 2002.

• Matthew K.H. Leung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  ``Adaptive Proportional Delay Differentiated Services: Characterization and Performance Evaluation".
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 9(6), pp 801-817, 2001.

• John C.S. Lui,
  "Constructing Communication Sub-graphs and Deriving an Optimal Synchronization Interval for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems".
  IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(5), pp 778-792, 2001.

• C.F. Chou, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, I.H. Chung,
  "Design of Scalable Continuous Media Servers with Dynamic Replication".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 17(2-3), page 181-212, 2002.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Open Problems for Threshold-based Systems".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 28(4), March, 2001.

• Peter W.K. Lie, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Threshold-Based Dynamic Replication in Large-Scale Video-on-Demand Systems".
  Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 11, Number 1, May 2000.

• Cedric C.F. Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong,
  "Distributed Caching and Broadcasting in a Wireless Mobile Computing Environment".
  Computer Journal, Vol 42(6), pp. 455-472, 1999.

• Kelvin K.W. Law, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Efficient Support for Interactive Services in Multi-resolution VOD Systems".
  VLDB Journal 8(2), pp.133-153, 1999.

• Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H.Richard Gail, Leana Golubchik and John C.S. Lui,
  "Analytical Models for Mixed Workload Multimedia Storage Servers".
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 36-37(1-4), pp.185-211, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Stochastic Complement Analysis of Multi-Server Threshold Queues with Hysteresis".
  Journal of Performance Evaluation, 35(1-2), pp. 19-48, March, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz, D. Towsley,
  "Computing Performance Bounds for Fork-Join Queueing Models".
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 9(3), March 1998.

• Leana. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, M. Papadopouli,
  "Designing Efficient Fault Tolerant VOD Storage Server:Techniques, Analysis and Comparisons".
  Journal of Parallel Computing, 24(1), pp. 123-155, 1998.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui, L. Golubchik,
  "Merging Video Streams in Multimedia Storage Server: Complexity and Heuristics".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, Volume 6(1), pp. 29-42, January 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, Clarence S. W. Lau,
  "The Design of a Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Server".
  Computer Journal, Vol 40(9), pp 529-540, 1997.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui,
  "Scheduling and Data Layout Policies for a Near-line Multimedia Storage Architecture".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, Volume 5(5), pp. 310-323, Sept, 1997.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Adaptive Piggybacking: A Novel Technique for Data Sharing in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers".
  ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, 4(3), pp. 140-155, June 1996.

• L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui and R.R. Muntz,
  ``I/O Stream Sharing for Continuous Media Systems''.
  Data Engineering Bulletin, 18(4), pp.17-26, 1995.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz, D. Towsley,
  "Bounding the Mean Response Time of a Minimum Expected Delay Routing System: An Algorithmic Approach".
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 44(12), pp. 1371-1382, 1995.

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Computing Bounds on Steady State Availability of Repairable Computer Systems".
  Journal of ACM, 41(4), pp. 676-707, July, 1994.

Selected Refereed Conferences

• Y.Z. Janice Chen, L. Yang, X.C. Wang, X.T. Liu, M. Hajiesmaili, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley.
  "On-Demand Communication for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Bandits".
  AISTATS 2023.

• X.C. Wang, L. Yang, Y.Z. Janice Chen, X.T. Liu , M. Hajiesmaili, D. Towsley, John C.S. Lui
  "Achieve Near-Optimal Individual Regret \& Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits".
  11th Int. Conf. on Learning and Representation (ICLR), 2023.
  

• L.M. Wang, H. Xie, Y. Li, J. Tan and John C.S. Lui
  "Human-in-the-loop Log Analysis".
  The Web Conference, 2023.
  

• W.Z Zhu, Y.K. Li, E. Xu, F. Li, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui
  "DiffForward: On Balancing Forwarding Traffic for Modern Cloud Block Services via Differentiated Forwarding".
  ACM Sigmetrics, 2023.
  

• X.T. Liu, J.H. Zuo, H. Xie, C.J. Wong, John C.S. Lui.
  "Variance-Adaptive Algorithm for Probabilistic Maximum Coverage Bandits with General Feedback".
  Accepted in IEEE INFOCOM, 2023.

• Zhiyong Wang, Xutong Liu, Shuai Li, John C.S. Lui.
  "Efficient Explorative Key-term Selection Strategies for Conversational Contextual Bandits".
  Accepted in the AAAI, 2023.

• Y.P. Xing, Y.K. Li, Z.Q. Wang, Y.L. Xu and John C.S. Lui.
  "LightTraffic: On Optimizing CPU-GPU Data Traffic for Efficient Large-scale Random Walks".
  Accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023.

• X.T. Liu, H.H. Zuo, S.W. Wang, Carlee Joe-Wong, John C.S. Lui, W. Chen.
  "Batch-Size Independent Regret Bounds for Combinatorial Semi-Bandits with Probabilistically Triggered Arms or Independent Arms".
  The 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.

• Caijuan Chen, Yi-Han Chiang, Hai Lin, John C. S. Lui, Yusheng Ji.
  "Energy Harvesting Aware Client Selection for Over-the-Air Federated Learning".
  IEEE GLOBECOM, 5069-5074, 2022.

• S.Y. Zheng, X.D. Liu, H. Xie and John C.S. Lui.
  "Reposting Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Online Incentive Protocols".
  The 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2022.

• Shuai Lin, Rui Wang, Yongkun Li, Yinlong Xu, John C. S. Lui, Fei Chen, Pengcheng Wang, Lei Han.
  "Towards Fast Large-scale Graph Analysis via Two-dimensional Balanced Partitioning".
  Int. Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 37:1-37:11, 2022.
• B. Yang, D. Sheen, J.X. Zhang, F. Dong, J.Z. Luo and John C.S. Lui.
  "Towards the Full Extensibility of Multipath TCP with eMPTCP".
  The 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2022.

• Zhuohua Li, J.C. Wang, M.S. Sun and John C.S. Lui.
  "Detecting Cross-Language Memory Management Issues in Rust".
  The 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2022.

• J.C. Wang, Z.H. Li, M.S. Sun and John C.S. Lui.
  "Zigbee's Network Rejoin Procedure for IoT Systems: Vulnerabilities and Implications".
  The 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2022).

• Z.Y. Wang, J.C. Ye, D. Lin, John C.S. Lui.
  "Achieving Efficiency via Fairness in Online Resource Allocation".
  ACM Int. Sym. on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), 2022.

• C.C. Liu, S.X. Bi, L. Luo, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Partial-Quasi-Newton Methods: Efficeint Algorithms for Minimax Optimization Problems with Unbalanced Dimensionality''.
  ACM Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2022.

• X.C. Wang, H. Xie, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multiple-Play Stochastic Bandits with Shareable Finite-Capacity Arms''.
  Int. Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), 23181-23212, 2022.

• Xutong Liu, Haoru Zhao, Tong Yu, Shuai Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Federated Online Clustering of Bandits''.
  Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2022.

• Tien Thanh Le, Yusheng Ji, John C. S. Lui.
  "TinyQMIX: Distributed Access Control for mMTC via Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning".
  The 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall: 1-6, 2022.

• X.C. Wang, H. Xie, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits with Finite Shareable Resources Arms: Learning Algorithms & Application''.
  Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2022.

• J.C. Ye, K.C. Cai, D. Lin, J.R. Li, J.F. He, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Control-Theoretic and Online Learning Approach to Self-Tuning Queue Management''
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2022.

• J. Zuo, X.T. Liu, C.J. Wong, John C.S. Lui, W. Chen.
  ``Online Competitive Influence Maximization''
  The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 11472-11502, 2022.

• Yang Lin, Y.Z. Janice Chen, M. Hajiesmaili, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley.
  ``Distributed Bandits with Heterogeneous Agents''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2022.

• Xiong Wang, Jiancheng Ye, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Decentralized Task Offloading in Edge Computing: A Multi-User Multi-Armed Bandit Approach''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2022.

• Lin Yang, Yu-Zhen Janice Chen, Stephen Pasteris, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, John C.S. Lui and Don Towsley.
  ``Cooperative Stochastic Bandits with Asynchronous Agents and Constrained Feedback''.
  Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).

• Shiyuan Zheng, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Pricing Social Visibility Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Algorithms''.
  The 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2021.

• Zhuohua Li, Jincheng Wang, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``MirChecker: Detecting Bugs in Rust Programs via Static Analysis''.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2021.

• Xutong Liu, X.W. Chen, W. Chen and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-layered Network Exploration via Random Walks: From Offline Optimization to Online Learning''.
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021. (Accepted for long presentation.)

• Z.Y. Wang, , J.C. Ye and John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Online Mean Field Approach for Hybrid Edge Server Provision''.
  The 32nd ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), 2021.

• Z.Y. Wang, J.C. Ye, D. Lin, Y.P. Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Designing Approximate and Deployable SRPT Scheduler: A Unified Framework''.
  Int. Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2021.

• X. Wang, J.C. Ye, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Joint D2D Collaboration and Task Offloading for Edge Computing: A Mean Field Graph Approach''.
  Int. Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2021.

• Ruiting Zhou, Jinlong Pang, Zhibo Wang, John Chi Shing Lui and Zongpeng Li.
  ``A Truthful Procurement Auction for Incentivizing Heterogeneous Clients in Federated Learning''.
  The 41st IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021.
  

• Ye Li, Hong Xie, Yishi Lin and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Unifying Offline Causal Inference and Online Bandit Learning for Data Driven Decision''.
  Accepted in the 30th Web Conference (WWW), 2021.
  

• Jincheng Wang, Zhuohua Li, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Topology-Theoretic Approach To Address Attribute Linkage Attacks In Differential Privacy''.
  BigSecurity: Int. Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (IEEE INFOCOM'2021).
  

• Pei Yi, Hong Xie*, Yongkun Li and John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Bootstrapping Approach to Optimize Random Walk Based Statistical Estimation over Graphs''.
  Accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021.
  

• Shiyuan Zheng, Hong Xie and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Social Visibility Optimization in OSNs with Anonymity Guarantees: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications''.
  Accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021.
  

• Xiaoying Zhang, Hong Xie and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Heterogeneous Information Assisted Bandit Learning: Theory and Application''.
  Accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2021.
  

• Lin Yang, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi, John CS Lui, Wing Shing Wong.
  ``Adversarial Bandits with Corruptions: Regret Lower Bound and No-regret Algorithm''.
  34-th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
  

• Siwei Wang, Longbo Huang, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Restless-UCB, an Efficient and Low-complexity Algorithm for Online Restless Bandits''.
  34-th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
  

• Xueying Zhang, Ruiting Zhou, John C.S. Lui and Zongpeng Li.
  ``Dynamic Pricing and Placement for Distributed Machine Learning Jobs''.
  The 6th Int. Conf. on Big Data Computing and Communication (BigCom), 2020. (Best Paper Award)

• Xueying Zhang, Ruiting Zhou, Zhi Zhou, John C.S. Lui, Zongpeng Li.
  ``An Online Learning-Based Task Offloading Framework for 5G Small Cell Networks''.
  Accepted in the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2020
  

• R. Wang, Y.K. Li, H. Xie, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``GraphWalker: An I/O-Efficient and Resource-Friendly Graph Analytic System for Fast and Scalable Random Walks''.
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2020.
  

• Z.Y. Song, R.T. Zhou, S.H. Zhao, S.X. Qin, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Edge Emergency Demand Response Control via Scheduling in Cloudlet Cluster''.
  IEEE ICCN Workshop at INFOCOM, 2020.
  

• Z.C. Xu, Y.G. Qin, P. Zhou, John C. S. Lui, W.F. Liang, Q.F. Xia, W.Z. Xu and G.W. Wu
  ``To Cache or Not to Cache: Stable Service Caching in Mobile Edge-Clouds of a Service Market''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2020.
  

• J.Z. Zhao, P.H. Wang, J. Tao and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Continuously Tracking Core Items in Data Streams with Probabilistic Decays''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020.
  

• Xiaoying Zhang, Hong Xie, Hang Li and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Conversational Contextual Bandits: Algorithm and Application''.
  The Web Conference (WWW), 2020.

• Da Yan, G. Guo, M.M.R. Chowdhury , M. T. Ozsu , W.S. Ku , John C. S. Lui.
  ``G-thinker: A Distributed Framework for Mining Subgraphs in a Big Graph''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020.

• Xiaobo Ma, J. Qu, Jianfeng Li, John C. S. Lui, Zhenhua Li, Xiaohong Guan.
  ``Pinpointing Hidden IoT Devices via Spatial-temporal Traffic Fingerprinting''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2020.

• Dian Shen, Junzhou Luo, Fang Dong, Xiaolin Guo, Kai Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Distributed and Optimal RDMA Resource Scheduling in Shared Data Center Networks''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2020.

• Tingwei Liu, Xie Hong, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Optimizing Mixture Importance Sampling Via Online Learning: Algorithms and Applications''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2020.
  (Top 3 papers in IEEE INFOCOM, 2020.)

• Fan Guo, YK Li, Min Lv, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``DCUDA: Dynamic GPU Scheduling with Live Migration Support''.
  ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC), 114-125, 2019.

• Fan Guo, YK Li, Min Lv, Y.L. Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``HP-Mapper: A High Performance Storage Driver for Docker Containers''.
  ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC), 325-336, 2019.

• Zhuohua Li, Jincheng Wang, Mingshen Sun, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Securing the Device Drivers of Your Embedded Systems: Framework and Prototype''.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 1-10, 2019.

• D. Yan G.M. Gu, M. R. Chowdhury, M.T. Ozsu John C.S. Lui, W.D. Tan
  ``T-thinker: a task-centric distributed framework for compute-intensive divide-and-conquer algorithms''.
  Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 411-412, 2019.

• P.H. Wang, Y.Y. Qi, Y.M. Zhang, Q.Z. Zhai, C.X. Wang, John C. S. Lui, X.H. Guan
  ``A Memory-Efficient Sketch Method for Estimating High Similarities in Streaming Sets''.
  ACM KDD, 25-33, 2019.

• Y.K. Li, Z.Y. Wu, S. Lin, H. Xie, M. Lv, Y.L. , John C.S. Lui.
  ``Walking with Perception: Efficient Random Walk Sampling via Common Neighbor Awareness''.
  35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.

• Xie Hong, Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Understanding Persuasion Cascades in Online Product Rating Systems''.
  Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

• Xie Hong, Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Optimizing Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems: Characterization and Online Learning''.
  Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

• J.Z. Zhao, S. Shang, X.L. Zhang, P.H. Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Submodular Optimization Over Streams with Inhomogeneous Decays''.
  Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

• J.Z. Chao, X.L. Zhang, S. Shang, P.H. Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Tracking Influential Nodes in Time-Decaying Dynamic Interaction Networks.''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.

• Tingwei Liu, John C. S. Lui.
  ``FAVE: A fast and efficient network Flow AVailability Estimation method with bounded relative error''.
  IEEE INFOCOM 1783-1791, 2019.

• Xutong Liu, Yu-Zhen Janice Chen, John C.S. Lui, Konstantin Avrachenkov.
  ``Graphlet Count Estimation via Convolutional Neural Networks.''.
  Int. Conference on Complex Networks. Cambridge Univeristy, 2018.

• Xiaowei Chen, W. Huang, Wei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Community Exploration: From Offline Optimization to Online Learning.''.
  32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2018.

• Xiaoying Zhang, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Sybil Detection in Social-Activity Networks: Modeling, Algorithms and Evaluations''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2018.

• Li Ye, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Quantifying Deployability & Evolvability of Future Internet Architectures via Economic Models''
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2018.

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Markov Decision Process Approach to Analyze Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems''.
  Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA), 2018.

• John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Online Learning Approach to Network Application Optimization with Guarantee'' (invited talk).
  Frontiers of Networks, Workshop in ACM Mobihoc, 2018.

• Xiaoying Zhang, Xie Hong, Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling Assimilation-Contrast Effects in Online Product Rating System: Debiasing and Recommendation''.
  27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI),
  Sister conference best-paper track, 2018.

• Kun Chen, Kechao Cai, Longbo Huang and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Beyond the Click-Through Rate: Web Link Selection with Multi-level Feedback''.
  The 27th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18), 2018.

• Jinbei Zhang, Weijie Wu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Theory of Function Placement and Chaining for Network Function Virtualization''.
  The Nineteenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2018. ( Best paper runner-up.)

• Kechao Cai, X.T. Liu, Janice Y.Z. Chen and John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Online Learning Approach to Network Application Optimization with Guarantee''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2018.

• S.H. Tseng, B. Bai and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Hybrid Circuit/Packet Network Scheduling with Multiple Composite Paths''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2018.

• Kechao Cai, Kun Chen, L.B. Huang, and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-level Feedback Web Links Selection Problem: Learning and Optimization''.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2017.

• Ye Li, Hong Xie, Weijie Wu, and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Mining Customer Valuations to Optimize Product Bundling Strategy''.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2017.

• Xiaoying Zhang, Junzhou Zhao and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling the Assimilation-Contrast effects in Online Product Rating Systems: Debiasing and Recommendations''.
  The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems(RecSys), 2017. (Best Paper Award)

• Xiaowei Chen John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Unified Framework to Estimate Global and Local Graphlet Counts for Streaming Graphs''.
  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017).

• F. Guo, Y.K. Li, Y.L. Xu, S. Jiang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``SmartMD: A High Performance Deduplication Engine with Mixed Pages''.
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '17), 2017.

• J. Guo, F.M. Liu, T. Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Pricing Intra-Datacenter Networks with Over-Committed Bandwidth Guarantee''.
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '17), 2017.

• Q. Zhang, Y.Xiao, F.M. Liu, John C.S.Lui, J. Guo and T. Wang,
  ``Joint Optimization of Chain Placement and Request Scheduling for Network Function Virtualization''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. of Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June, 2017.

• D. Lin, D. Hui, W.J. Wu, Tingwei Liu, Y.T. Yang, Y. Wang, John C.S. Lui, G. Zhang and Y.T. Li
  ``On the Feasibility of Inter-domain Routing via a Small Broker Set''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. of Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June, 2017.
  

• P.P. Zhao, Yongkun Li, Hong Xie, Z.Y. Wu, Y.L. Xu, John C. S. Lui
  ``Measuring and Maximizing Influence via Random Walk in Social Activity Networks.''
  22nd. In.t Conf. of Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2017.
  

• Yishi Lin, Wei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Boosting Information Spread: An Algorithmic Approach''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. of Data Engineering (ICDE), April, 2017.
  

• Xiaowei Chen, Yongkun Li, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A General Framework for Estimating Graphlet Statistics via Random Walk''.
  The VLDB Conference, 2017.
  

• Xiaowei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Mining Graphlet Counts in Online Social Networks''.
  Accepted for publication in the IEEE Int. Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), December, 2016.
  

• Mingshen Sun, Tao Wei, John C.S. Lui.
  ``TaintART: A Practical Multi-level Information-Flow Tracking System for Android RunTime''.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October, 2016.
  

• Yi Yang, Da Yan, Huanhuan Wu, James Cheng, Shuigeng Zhou, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Diversified Temporal Subgraph Pattern Mining''.
  ACM KDD Conference, 1965-1974, 2016.
  

• Qin Liu, Zhenguo Li, John C.S. Lui, Jiefeng Cheng.
  ``PowerWalk: Scalable Personalized PageRank via Random Walks with Vertex-Centric Decomposition''.
  The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), October, 2016.
  

• Gaoying Ju, Yongkun Li, Yinlong Xu, Jiqiang Chen and John C. S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Modeling of Hybrid Cache Systems''.
  The IEEE Modeling, Analysis adn Simulation of Computer adn Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), September, 2016.
  

• Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui, Yajin Zhou.
  ``Blender: Self-randomizing Address Space Layout for Android''.
  Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID'16), September, 2016.
  

• H. Yang, John C.S. Lui, W. Hu, X. Ma, J. Li, X. Liang.
  ``Taming Energy Cost of Disk Encryption Software on Data-Intensive Mobile Devices''.
  The 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC), August, 2016.
  

• Kechao Cai, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Generalization of Information Spreading Forensics via Sequential Dependent Snapshots''.
  Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA), June, 2016.
  

• Xie Hong, RTB Ma, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Trading Discount for Reputation? On the Design and Analysis of E-Commerce Discount Mechanisms ''.
  ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance, June , 2016.
  

• D. Yan, J. Cheng, M.T. Ozsu, F. Yang, Y. Lu, John C.S. Lui, Q. Zhang, W. Ng.
  ``A General-Purpose Query-Centric Framework for Querying Big Graphs''.
  42nd Int. Conference on VLDB, September, 2016.
  

• Yi Yang, Da Yan, Huanhuan Wu, James Cheng, Shuigeng Zhou, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Diversified Temporal Subgraph Pattern Mining''.
  ACM KDD, August, 2016.
  

• P.H. Wang, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, J.Z. Zhao.
  ``Minfer: A Method of Inferring Motif Statistics From Sample Edges''.
  IEEE ICDE, May, 2016.
  

• Z.G. Li, Y.X. Fang, Q. Liu, R. Cheng, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Walking in the Cloud: Parallel SimRank at Scale''.
  42nd Int. Conference on VLDB, September, 2016.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Data Driven Approach to Uncover Deficiencies in Online Reputation Systems''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), November, 2015.

• Z.J. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, P.H. Wang, X.H. Guan.
  ``Tracking Triadic Cardinality Distributions for Burst Detection in Social Activity Streams''.
  ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'15), November, 2015.
  

• Yishi Lin, Xiaowei Chen, John C.S. Lui.
  ``I/O Efficient Algorithms for Exact Distance Queries on Disk-Resident Dynamic Graphs''.
  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015).
  (AR: around 18%.)

• Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Analyzing Competitive Influence Maximization Problems with Partial Information: An Approximation Algorithmic Framework''.
  IFIP W.G. 7.3 Performance Conference, 2015.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling eBay-Like Reputation Systems: Analysis, Characterization and Insurance Mechanism Design''.
  IFIP W.G. 7.3 Performance Conference, 2015.
  

• Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Mechanism Approach to Reduce New Seller Ramp-Up Time in eBay-Like Reputation Systems''.
  IEEE ICDCS, July, 2015.
  

• Mingshen Sun, Mengmeng Li and John C.S. Lui.
  ``DroidEagle: Seamless Detection of Visually Similar Android Apps''.
  ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2015.
  (AR: around ~19%.)

• M. Zheng, H. Xue. Y.L. Zhang, T. Wei, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Enpublic Apps: Security Threats Using iOS Enterprise and Developer Certificates''.
  ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS, 2015.
  

• J. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, P. Wang, X. Guan.
  ``A Tale of Three Graphs: Sampling Design on Hybrid Social-Affiliation Networks''.
  IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015.
  

• J. Cheng, Q. Liu, Z. Li, W. Fan, John C.S. Lui, C. He.
  ``VENUS: Vertex Centric Streamlined Graph Computation on a Single PC''.
  IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015.
  

• Yongkun Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, John C. S. Lui, Yinlong Xu.
  ``Impact of Data Locality on Garbage Collection in SSDs: A General Analytical Study''.
  Proceedings of the 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), 2015.
  

• Mingshen Sun, Min Zheng, John C.S. Lui and Xuxian Jiang.
  ``Design and Implementation of an Android Host-based Intrusion Prevention System''.
  The 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2014.
  

• Yuedong Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Multi-dimensional Network Security Game: How do attacker and defender battle on parallel targets?''.
  Int. Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization (NETGCOOP), 2014.
  

• Silei Xu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Product Selection Problem: Improve Market Share by Learning Consumer Behavior''.
  20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2014.
  

• T. Lin, B. Abrahao, W. Chen, R. Kleinberg, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Combinatorial Partial Monitoring Game with Linear Feedback and Its Applications''.
  (Supplementary Material)
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2014.
  

• Silei Xu, Yishi Lin, Xie Hong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Provable Algorithmic Approach to Product Selection Problems for Market Entry and Sustainability''.
  26th Int. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2014.
  

• Qin Liu, John C.S. Lui, Cheng He, Lujia Pan, Wei Fan, Yunlong Shi.
  ``SAND: A Fault-Tolerant Streaming Architecture for Network Traffic Analytics''.
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN), 2014.
  

• Min Zheng, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``DroidTrace: A Ptrace Based Android Dynamic Analysis System with Forward Execution Capability''.
  IEEE Int. Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2014.
  

• Min Zheng, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``DroidRay: A Security Evaluation System for Customized Android Firmwares''.
  9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2014. (Technical Report)
  

• J. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, X.H. Guan.
  ``Measuring and Maximizing Group Closeness Centrality over Disk-Resident Graphs''.
  The 6th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX), S. Korea, 2014.
  (Technical Report)
  (Best Paper Award)

• W. Wu, RTB Ma, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Exploring Bundling Sale Strategy in Online Service Markets with Network Effects'',
  IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, 2014.
  

• J. Guo, F. Liu, X. Huang, John C.S. Lui, M. Hu, G. Qiao.
  ``On Efficient Bandwidth Allocation for Traffic Variability in Datacenters'',
  IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, 2014.
  

• Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui, Kyomin Jung, Sungsu Lim.
  ``Modeling Multi-state Diffusion Process in Complex Networks: Theory and Applications'',
  2nd Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 2013.
  

• J. Guo, F. Liu, H. Tang, Y. Lian, H. Jin, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Falloc: Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters Via a Bargaining Game Approach'',
  The IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2013.
  

• Y.K. Li, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis on RAID Reliability for Solid-State Drives'',
  The IEEE 32nd Int. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2013.
  

• Z. Chou, F. Liu, Y. Xu, R. Zou, H. Xu, John C.S. Lui, H. Jin.
  ``Carbon-aware Load Balancing for Geo-distributed Cloud Services'',
  The IEEE 21st Int. Symposium On Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer & Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'13), 2013.
  

• Yudong Yang, Richard T.B. Ma, and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Price Differentiation and Control in the Kelly Mechanism''.
  The 31st International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), 2013.
  

• Z. Jia, P. Zhang, J. Huang, C. Lin and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling Hierarchical Cache in Content Centric Networks''.
  IEEE 22nd. Int. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2013.
  

• Sungsu Lim, Kyomin Jung, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Phase Transition of Multi-state Diffusion Model in Netowrks''.
  ACM Workshop on MAthematical Performance Modeling and Analysis, 2013.
  

• Min Zheng, Mingshen Sun, John C.S. Lui.
  ``DroidAnalytics: A Signature Based Analytic System to Collect, Extract, Analyze and Associate Android Malware''.
  The 13rd IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (Trustcom), 2013
  

• W. Chu, X. Guan, John C.S. Lui, Z. Cai and X. Shi.
  ``Secure Cache Provision: Provable DDOS Prevention for Randomly Partitioned Services with Replication''.
  The 2nd International Workshop on Network Forensics, Securityand Privacy (NFSP), 2013.
  

• J. Guo, F. Liu, D. Zeng, John C.S. Lui and H. Jin.
  ``A Cooperative Game Based Allocation for Sharing Data Center Networks''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
  

• R.T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui and V. Misra.
  ``On the Evolution of the Internet Economic Ecosystem''.
  The 22nd Intenational World Wide Web Conference (WWW'13), 2013.
  

• J. Anselmi, D. Ardagna, John C.S. Lui, A. Wierman, Y. Xu, Z. Yang.
  ``The economics of the cloud: Price competition and congestion'',
  Joint Workshop on Pricing & Incentives in Networks and Systems with Network Economics (W-PIN+NetEcon), 2013.
  

• Y.K. Li, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui.
  Stochastic Modeling of Large-Scale Solid-state Storage Systems: Analysis, Design Tradeoffs and Optimization
  ACM SIGMETRICS, 2013.
  

• Pinghui Wang, J. Zhao, John C.S. Lui and Don Towsley.
  ``Sampling Node Pairs Over Graphs''.
  IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'13), 2013.
  

• S. Zhao, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, X.H. Guan, X.B. Ma, J. Tao.
  ``Cloud-based Push-Styled Mobile Botnets: A Case Study of Exploiting the Cloud to Device Messaging Service''.
  The 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2012.
  (Technical Report)
  

• Richard T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra.
  ``A Preference Model for Deciding the Market Share of Network Service Providers''.
  Workshop on Telecom Economics, Engineering and Policy at the 24th ITC Conf., 2012.
  

• Richard T.B. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra.
  ``Price Differentiation in the Kelly Mechanism''.
  The First Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks, London, UK, 2012.
  

• Min Zheng, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui.
  ``ADAM: An Automatic and Extensible Platform to Stress Test Android Anti-Virus Systems''.
  The 9th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2012.
  

• Weijie Wu, John C.S. Lui, T.B. Ma.
  ``A Game Theoretic Analysis on Incentive Mechanisms for Wireless Ad Hoc VoD Systems''
  10th Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Paderborn, Germany, 2012.

• Zichao Yang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Security Adoption in Heterogeneous Networks: The Influence of Cyber-insurance Market''
  IFIP Networking, 2012.

• Xiuqiang He, Patrick P. C. Lee, Lujia Pan, Cheng He, and and John C. S. Lui.
  ``A Panoramic View of 3G Data/Control-Plane Traffic: Mobile Device Perspective''
  IFIP Networking, 2012.

• Weijie Wu, Richard T.B.Ma, John C. S. Lui.
  ``On Incentivizing Caching for P2P-VoD Systems''.
  IEEE 7th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon), 2012.
  

• Yongkun Li, John C. S. Lui.
  ``On Detecting Malicious Behaviors in Interactive Networks: Algorithms and Analysis''.
  IEEE COMSNETS, 2012.
  

• Yuchong Hu, Chiu-Man Yu, Yan Kit Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, and John C. S. Lui.
  ``NCFS: On the Practicality and Extensibility of a Network-Coding-Based Distributed File System''
  Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Network Coding (NETCOD), 2011.
  

• Chun-Ho Ng, Mingcao Ma, Tsz-Yeung Wong, Patrick P. C. Lee and John C. S. Lui.
  ``Live Deduplication Storage of Virtual Machine Images in an Open-Source Cloud''.
  Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2011.
  

• A. Rahumed, H.C.H. Chen, Y. Tang, P.P.C. Lee, John C. S. Lui
  ``A Secure Cloud Backup System with Assured Deletion and Version Control''.
  IEEE ICPP Workshop, 2011.
  

• Zichao Yang, John C. S. Lui.
  ``Investigating the Effect of Node Heterogeneity and Network Externality on Security Adoption''.
  13th Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis, 2011.
  

• Mengwei Lu, Patrick P.C. Lee and John C. S. Lui.
  ``Identify Attack and Anonymity Protection for P2P-VoD Systems''.
  IEEE/ACM IWQoS, 2011.
  

• Yongkun Li and John C. S. Lui.
  ``Friends or Foes: Detecting Dishonest Recommenders in Online Social Networks''.
  IEEE 20th Int. Conference on Computer Communciation Networks (ICCCN) 2011.
  

• Yongkun Li and John C. S. Lui.
  ``Identifying Pollution Attackers in Network-Coding Enabled Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  IEEE 20th Int. Conference on Computer Communciation Networks (ICCCN), 2011.
  

• Patrick P.C. Lee, Hongying Liu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Analyzing Credit Evolution for Credit-based Incentive Schemes in Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  8th Int. Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad-Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2011.
  

• Weijie Wu, John C.S. Lui, Richard T.B. Ma.
  ``Incentivizing Upload Capacity in P2P-VoD Systems: A Game Theoretic Analysis''.
  2nd International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), 2011.
  

• J. Zhao, X. Guan, John C.S. Lui, D. Towsley, Y. Zhou.
  ``Empirical Analysis of the Evolution of Follower Network: A Case Study of Douban''.
  IEEE 3rd Int. Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks, 2011
  

• Weijie Wu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Exploring the Optimal Replication Strategy in P2P-VoD Systems: Characterization and Evaluation''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2011.
  (AR: 15.9% out of 1823 submissions)

• Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis of A Randomized Detection Algorithm for Pollution Attack in P2P Live Streaming Systems''.
  IFIP Performance Conference, 2010.
  

• T. Yang, Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, R. Perlman.
  ``FADE: Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with File Assured Deletion''.
  SecureComm, 2010.
  (AR: 25% out of 112 submissions)

• Liping Xiang, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui, Qian Chang
  
  Optimal recovery of single disk failure in RDP code storage systems

  ACM SIGMETRICS '10 Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 2010
  (AR: 16% out of 184 submissions)

• Bridge Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Incentivizing Cooperation via Contracts in Large-Scale Networks''.
  IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference, 2010.
  

• Bridge Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``Exploring the Optimal Chunk Selection Policy for Data-Driven P2P Streaming Systems''.
  The 9th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2009.
  (Technical Report)
  (AR: 19% out of 126 submissions).

• Bridge Q. Zhao, Y.K. Li, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``Mathematical Modeling of Advertisement and Influence Spread in Social Networks''.
  ACM Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon), 2009.
  

• Bridge Q. Zhao, Y.K. Li, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``On Modeling Product Advertisement in Large Social Networks''.
  ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORRMANCE, poster, 2009.
  

• Bridge Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui and Dah-Ming Chiu.
  ``Analysis of Adaptive Incentive Protocols for P2P Networks''.
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.
  (AR: 19% out of 1435 submissions).

• Q.H. Li and John C.S. Lui.
  ``On Modeling Clustering Indexes of BT-like Systems''.
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2009.
  (AR: ~30% ).

• Jilong Wang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Credit Based Networking''. (invited paper)
  Int. Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNET), 2009.
  

• Tom Z.J. Fu, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``PBS: Periodic Behavioral Spectrum of P2P Applications''.
  Passive and Active Measurements, 2009.
  (AR: 28%)

• RTB. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``The Shapley Value: its Use and Implications on Internet Economics''.
  Allerton Conference, 2008.
  (AR: around 30%.)

• M.H. Lin, John C.S. Lui and D.M. Chiu.
  ``Design and Analysis of ISP-Friendly File Distribution Protocol''.
  Allerton Conference, 2008.
  (AR: around ~30%.)

• RTB Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers''.
  ACM CoNEXT, 2008.
  (AR: 16% out of 166 submissions)

• Y. Huang, Tom Z.J. Fu, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Cheng Huang.
  ``Challenges, Design and Analysis of a Large-scale P2P VoD Systems''.
  ACM SIGCOMM, 2008.
  (AR: 36/288=12% )

• Q. Zhao, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``Mathematical Modeling of Incentive Policies in P2P Systems''.
  ACM Network Economics (NetEcon), 2008.
  

• RTB Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``Interconnecting Eyeballs to Content: A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Peering and Settlement''.
  ACM Network Economics (NetEcon), 2008.
  

• Yan Hu, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Application Identification Based on Network Behavioral Profiles''.
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2008.
  

• Q. Wang, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``ISP Uplink Pricing in a Competitive Market''.
  15th Int. Confernece on Telecommunications (ICT), 2008.
  

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``DCAR: Distributed Coding-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks''.
  IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008.
  (AR: 102/638=16% )

• Pei Li, John C.S. Lui, Yinlong Xu.
  ``A Stochastic Model for BitTorrent-like Systems''.
  The 10th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2008).
  

• Jerry Le, John C.S. Lui, D.M. Chiu.
  ``How Many Packets Can We Encode? An Analysis of Practical Wireless Network Coding''.
  27th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Communication (INFOCOM), 2008.
  (AR: 236/1160=21% )

• RTB. Ma, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui, V. Misra, D. Rubenstein.
  ``Internet Economics: The use of Shapley value for ISP settlement''.
  Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNext), 2007.
  (AR: 28/138=20% )

• YiPeng Zhou, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``A Simple Model for Analysis and Design of P2P Streaming Algorithms''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2007.
  (AR: 32/220=14% )

• Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, D.M. Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis of File Swarming Systems''.
  IFIP W.G 7.3 Performance Conference, 2007.
  (AR: 24/103=23% )

• Tom Zhengjia Fu, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui
  ``Performance Metrics and Configuration Strategies for Group Network Communication ''
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2007.
  (AR: 25% )

• Y. Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Characterizing the Capacity Gain of Stream Control Scheduling in MIMO Wireless Mesh Networks''
  IFIP Networking, 2007.
  (AR: 99/440=22% )

• Steven Y.D. Xu, Y. Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Balancing Throughput and Fairness for TCP Flows in Multihop Ad-Hoc Networks''.
  5th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2007.
  

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``The Delicate Tradeoffs in BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocol Design''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, USA, 2006.
  (AR: 33/242=14% )

• Qiming Li, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Practical and Security Issues of Batch Content Distribution Via Network Coding''.
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Santa Barbara, USA, 2006.
  (AR: 33/242=14% )

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Analysis and File Availability Enhancement for BT-like File Sharing Systems''.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (Technical Report)
  (AR: 27/157=17% )

• Jessie Wang Hui, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Modeling the Peering and Routing Tussle between ISPs and P2P Applications.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (AR: 27/157=17% )

• Adrian S.W. Tam, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui, Y.C. Tay.
  ``A Case of TCP-Friendly Admission Control''.
  Fourteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Yale Univ., New Haven, 2006.
  (AR: 27/157=17% )

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Performance Modeling on the interaction of ISPs''.
  Advanced Internet Charging and QoS (ICQT'06), France, 2006.

• Gao Yan, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Determining the End-to-end Throughput Capacity in Multi-Hop Networks: Methodolgy and Applications''.
  ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Confernece, 2006. (AR: 30/217=14% )

• Ray K. Lam, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Access Pricing and Network Scaling Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006. (AR: 75/536=14% )

• Sam C.M. Lee, Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Interplay of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization''.
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006. (AR: 75/536=14% )

• Fan Bin, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Stochastic Differential Equation Approach to Model BitTorrent-like P2P Systems''.
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006).

• Y. Hu, Dah-Ming Chiu and John C.S. Lui.
  ``Adaptive Flow Aggregation - A New Solution for Robust Flow Monitoring under Security Attacks''.
  IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006 Vancouver, Canada, April 2006.
  (Best Paper Award) (AR: 53/186=28% )

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, J.C. Liu, Jeff Yan.
  ``Detecting Cheaters for Multiplayer Games: Theory, Design and Implementation''.
  2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'06). Las Vegas, USA, January, 2006.

• Gao Yan, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``The fundamental role of hop distance in IEEE802.11 multi-hop Ad-Hoc wireless networks''.
  International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP), Boston, Mass, USA, Nov, 2005. (AR: 36/212=17% )

• Joe W.J. Jiang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui.
  ``On the Interaction of Multiple Overlay Routing''.
  IFIP WG7.3 Performance, Juan-les-pins, France, Oct, 2005.
  (Best Paper Award) (AR: 29/132=21% )

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Adam W.J. Lee.
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Optimization of Load Distribution''.
  IFIP WG7.3 Performance, Juan-les-pins, France, Oct, 2005. (AR: 29/132=21% )

• W Tan, DM Chiu, John C.S. Lui and David Yau.
  ``Handling High Bandwidth Aggregates By Receiver Driven Feedback Control''.
  International Workshop on Software Cybernetics 2005, Edinburg, July 2005.

• Yu Dong, David K.Y. Yau, John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Opportunistic Scheduler to Balance Performance Measures and Energy Consumption in Wireless Networks: Design and Implementation''
  Wireless Internet Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 10-15, 2005.

• Alan T.S. Ip, J.C Liu, John C.S. Lui
  ``COPACC: A Cooperative Proxy-Client Caching System for On-Demand Media Streaming''
  Networking, Waterloo, Canada, May 2-6, 2005. (AR: 106/430=24% )

• Hui Wang, Rocky K.C. Chang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C.S. Lui
  ``Characterizing the Performance and Stability Issues of the AS Path Prepending Method: Taxonomy, Measurement Study and Analysis''
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop, April, 2005.

• Alix L.H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui
  ``Toward Picture-perfect Streaming on the Internet''
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), 2005.

• B. Abdouni, W. Cheng, Alix L.H. Chow, L. Golubchik, A. Lee, John C.S. Lui
  ``Multi-path streaming: optimization and evaluation''
  12th Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), Jan, 2005. (AR: 24/100=24% )

• Chee-Wei Tan, M. Gurusamy, John C.S. Lui.
  ``Achieving Proportional Loss Differentiation Using Probabilistic Preemptive Burst Segmentation in Optical Burst Switching WDM Networks''.
  IEEE Globecom, Dallas, USA, Nov, 2004. (AR: 792/2086=37% )

• John C.S. Lui, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
  ``On the Robustness of Soft State Protocols''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October, 2004. (AR: 33/213=15% )

• HaiBin Sun, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Defending Against Low-rate TCP Attack: Dynamic Detection and Protection''.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, October, 2004. (AR: 33/213=15% )

• Ken Y.K. Hui, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Small-World Overlay P2P Networks''.
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Montreal, Canada, June 2004. (AR: 30/154=19% )

• Kevin Y.K. Liu, John C.S. Lui, Zhi-Li Zhang.
  ``Distributed Algorithm for Service Replication in Service Overlay Network''.
  IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, May 2004. (AR: 103/539=19% )

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Game Theoretic Approach to Provide Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks''.
  ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE, June, 2004. (AR: 33/265=12% )

• Kevin Y.K. Liu, John C.S. Lui, Zhi-Li Zhang.
  ``On Service Replication Strategy for Service Overlay Networks''.
  IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Korea, April 2004. (AR: 60/224=26% )

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``An Incentive Mechanism for P2P Networks''.
  The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004. (AR: 84/475=17% )

• T.B. Ma, Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Incentive P2P Networks: A Protocol to Encourage Information Sharing and Contribution'',
  The Fifth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June 16, 2003.

• David Yau, Srijan Chakraborty, and John C. S. Lui.
  ``On the Effectiveness of Movement Prediction To Reduce Energy Consumption in Wireless Communication'',
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, June 10-14, San Diego, USA, 2003. (AR: 26/222=11% )

• Patrick P.C. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``Distributed Collaborative Key Agreement Protocols for Dynamic Peer Groups''.
  10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Paris, France, November 12-15, 2002. (AR: 32/217=14% )

• K.T. Law, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``You Can Run, But You Can't Hide: An Effective Methodology to Traceback DDoS Attackers''.
  The Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 12-16 October 2002. (AR: 57/180=31% )

• Starsky H.Y. Wong, John C.S. Lui.
  ``An Architectural Infrastructure and Topological Optimization for End System Multicast'',
  The Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 12-16 October 2002. (AR: 57/180=31% )

• S.F. Yeung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau.
  ``A Case for a Multi-Key Secure Video Proxy: Theory, Design and Implementation''.
  ACM Multimedia Conference, Juan-les-Pins, France, December 1-6, 2002. (AR: 18% )

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Tak Fu Tung, Lik Hang Chow, W.J. Lee, G. Franceschinis, C. Anglano,
  ``Multi-path Continuous Media Streaming: What are the Benefits?''.
  IFIP WG7.3 Performance, Rome, Italy. September, 2002. (AR: 30/129=23% )

• Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui
  ``Multi-path Streaming: Is It Worth the Trouble'',
  The Fourth Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June 16, 2002.

• David K. Y. Yau, John C. S. Lui, and Feng Liang
  ``Defending Against Distributed Denial-of-service Attacks with Max-min Fair Server-centric Router Throttles'',
  IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Miami Beach, FL, USA, May 2002.
  (AR: 27/143=19% )

• Sam C.M. Lee, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  "Admission Control and Dynamic Adaptation for a Proportional Delay DiffServ-Enabled Web Server",
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June 15-19, 2002. (AR: 23/170=13% )

• V. Chait, C.V. Hollot, V. Misra, D. Towsley, H. Zhang, John C.S. Lui.
  "Providing Throughput Differentiation for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two Color Marking and Multi-Level AQM",
  INFOCOM, New York, USA, June 23-27, 2002. (AR: 192/938=20% )

• Leana Golubchik, Don Towsley, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, John C.S. Lui,
  "Internet2 Wide-Area Applications",
  Internet2 Network Research Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA. April 18-19, 2001.

• John C.S. Lui, X.Q. Wang,
  "Providing QoS Guarantee for Individual Video Stream via Stochastic Admission",
  International Conference on the Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking", Nagoya, Japan, November 27-30, 2000.

• Matthew K.H. Leung, John C.S. Lui, David K.Y. Yau,
  "Characterization and Performance Evaluation for the Proportional Delay Differentiated Services",
  International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Osaka, Japan, November 15-17, 2000. (AR: 30/109=27% )

• C.F. Chou, Leana Golubchi, John C.S. Lui,
  "A Performance Study of Dynamic Replication Techniques in Continuous Media Servers".
  MASCOTS International Conference, San Francisco, August 29-September 1, 2000. (AR: 57/94=60% )

• Leana Golubchi, John C.S. Lui,
  "Open Problems for Threshold-based Systems".
  The Second Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, Santa Clara, USA, June 17-18, 2000.

• John C.S. Lui, X.Q. Wang,
  "Admission Control Algorithm for Providing Quality-of-Service Guarantee for Individual Connection in a Video-on-Demand System".
  IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, 4-6 July, 2000. (AR: 122/224=54% )

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "A Fast and Accurate Iterative Solution of a Multi-class Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Santa Clara, June 18-21, 2000. (AR: 28/165=17% )

• John C.S. Lui, Peter T.S. Tam, H.W. Chan,
  "Routing and Channel Reservation Strategies for a Low Earth Orbit Satellite System".
  Eurocomm 2000, Munich, Germany, May 17-20, 2000.

• C.F. Chou, L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Striping Doesn't Scale: How to Achieve Scalability for Continuous Media Servers with Replication".
  The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2000), April 10-13, 2000.

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, Peter T.S. Tam,
  "Deriving An Optimal Synchronization Interval for Supporting View Consistency in a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'99), pp, 99-106, October 21-23, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, W.K. Lam,
  "General Methodology in Analyzing the Performance of Parallel/Distributed Simulation under General Computational Graphs".
  Third International Conference on the numerical Solution of Markov Chain, September 6-10, 1999.

• Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H.Richard Gail, Leana Golubchik and John C.S. Lui,
  "Analytical Models for Mixed Workload Multimedia Storage Servers".
  International Conference of Performance Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 1999. (AR: 24/120=20% )

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, Peter T.S. Tam,
  "Communication Sub-graph Construction and Object Synchronization for Distributed VirtualEnvironment Systems".
  Sixth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia System (DMS'99), July, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan,
  "Efficient Partitioning Algorithm for the Distributed Virtual Environment System".
  Sixth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia System (DMS'99), July, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, Cedric C.F. Fong, H.W. Chan,
  "Location Updates and Probabilistic Tracking Algorithms for Mobile Cellular Networks".
  International Workshop on Mobile Computing, June, 1999.

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, Peter T.S. Tam,
  "Deriving Communication Sub-graph and Optimal Synchronization Interval for Distributed Virtual Environment System".
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, June, 1999.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Edmundo de Souza E. Silva, Richard Gail,
  "Evaluation of Performance Tradeoffs in Scheduling Techniques for Mixed Workload Multimedia Servers".
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, June, 1999.

• Leana Golubchik, ChengFu Chow, and John Lui,
  "A Performance Study of Dynamic Replication Techniques in Continuous Media Servers".
  ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, June, 1999. (AR: 18/92=19% )

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, K.Y. So, T.S. Tam,
  "Balancing Workload and Communication Cost for a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, September 24-26, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, K.Y. So, T.S. Tam,
  "Dynamic Partitioning for a Distributed Virtual Environment".
  Third High Performance Computing Asia Conference, 23 - 25 September, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui, H.W. Fung, Y.H. Wong,
  "Linux-RMS: An Open System Scheduler for Supporting Realtime Multimedia Applications".
  Third High Performance Computing Asia Conference, 23-25 September, 1998.

• John C.S. Lui.
  "Performance Evaluation of Location Update Protocol with Dynamic Area Assignment".
  INFORMS International Conference, Israel, July, 1998.

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong, Edmundo deSouza E. Silva.
  "Transient Performance Analysis For Location Update Protocols in Cellular Networks".
  Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '98), Montreal, Canada, July, 1998. (AR: 44/75=58% )

• John C.S. Lui, Oldfield K.Y. So, T.S. Tam.
  "NFS/M: An Open Platform Mobile File System".
  The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'98), May, 1998. (AR: 68/305=22% )

• Peter W.K. Lie, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik.
  "Threshold-Based Dynamic Replication in Large-Scale Video-on-Demand Systems".
  RIDE98, Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, February, 1998. (AR: 18/36=50% )

• John C.S. Lui, M.F. Chan, T.F. Chan, W.S. Cheung, W.W. Kwong.
  "Virtual Exploration and Information Retrieval System: Design and Implementation".
  Third International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 1997.

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui,
  "Bounding of Performance Measures for a Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis".
  ACM SIGMETRICS '97 Conference, 1997. (AR: 25/130=19% )

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong, Edmundo.D. Silva,
  "Performance Analysis of Mobile Terminals Tracking Algorithms".
  18th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, 1997.

• Cedric Fong, John C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong,
  "Quantifying the Complexity and Performance Gain of Distributed Caching in the Wireless Network Environment".
  13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1997. (AR: 45/240=18% )

• Mary Leung, John C.S. Lui, Leana Golubchik,
  "Buffer and I/O Resource Pre-allocation for Implementing Batching and Buffering Techniques for Video-on-Demand Systems".
  13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1997. (AR: 45/240=18% )

• John C.S. Lui, Kelvin K.W. Law,
  "Load Balancing and VCR Functionalities Support via Subband Coding Techniques".
  International Conference on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '96). April, 1996.

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui,
  "Scheduling and Replacement Policies for a Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Server".
  International Symposium on Multimedia Systems, March 18-20, Yokohama, Japan, 1996.

• L. Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Reducing I/O demands in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers".
  ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE'95, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. May, 1995. (AR: 27/123=21% )

• S.W. Lau, John C.S. Lui.
  "A Novel Video-On-Demand Storage Architecture for Supporting Constant Frame Rate with Variable Bit Rate Retrieval".
  International Conference on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '95), 1995.

• R.R. Muntz, John C.S. Lui,
  "An Eclectic Survey of Bounding Methods for Markov Chain Models".
  International MASCOTS Conference, 1995.

• Clarence. Lau, John C.S. Lui, P.C. Wong,
  "A Cost-effective Near-line Storage Server for Multimedia System".
  11th International Conference on Data Engineering. March, 1995. (AR: 56/233=24% )

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Algorithmic Approach to Bounding the Mean Response Time of a Minimum Expected Delay Routing System".
  ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92, pp.140-151, June 1992. (AR: 20/108=18% )

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, Richard R. Muntz,
  "Chained Declustering: Load Balancing and Robustness to Skew and Failures".
  2nd International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering Transaction and Query Processing (RIDE-TQP), pp. 88-95, February 1992.

• R.R. Muntz, John C.S. Lui,
  "Performance Analysis of Disk Arrays Under Failure",
  16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '90), pp. 162-173, 1990. (AR: 60/300=20% )

• John C.S. Lui, R.R. Muntz,
  "Evaluating Bounds on Steady State Availability of Repairable Systems from Markov Models".
  First International Conference on the Numerical Solution of the Markov Chains, January, 1990.

Tutorials and Seminars Presented

• "Continuous Media Storage Servers."
  1998 ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1998.
  With Leana Golubchik (Univ. of Maryland) and R.R. Muntz (UCLA).

• "Continuous Media Storage Servers."
  1999 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 1999.
  With Leana Golubchik (Univ. of Maryland).

Edited Books

• Michael J. Franklin, John C.S. Lui, K.L. Tan.
  "Mobile Data Management."
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 3-540-41454-1.

Released Software

• RMSS: An On-demand Multimedia Streaming System
  (The server and client software are released under the General Public License)
  To access this GPL software, please refer to the following link: RMSS

• RMSS+: A Dynamic Multicast Multimedia Streaming System
  (The server and client software are released under the General Public License)
  To access this GPL software, please refer to the following link: RMSS+

• Secure Multimedia Library (SML): A library based on Asymmetric Parametric Sequence Method for Implementing Secure Multimedia Streaming Proxy. To access this GPL software, please refer to the following link: SML

• Secure Group Communication Library (SEAL): A C language API which provides necessary software components for developers to write secure dynamic group-oriented applications without any centralized key server. To access this GPL software, please refer to the following link: Secure Group Communication Library (SEAL)

• (A Linux-based package for implementing a software programmable router architecture with the aim to facilitate networking experiments for the research community. Using this architecture, one can dynamically load new extension and services into the programmable router. Some interesting extensions include QoS support and traceback of DDoS attacks.)
  OPERA: an open-source extensible router architecture
  

Technology Transfer

• "JAWAP-IC".
  Software Licensee Fee for CUHK. $80,000 plus royalty.

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

• Fellow of ACM
• Fellow of IEEE
• Croucher Senior Research Fellow
• Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences
• Member of Tau Beta Pi.
• Elected Member of IFIP WG 7.3.
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Exemplary Teaching Award, 1999/2000.
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Exemplary Teaching Award, 2000/2001.
• Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award, 2000/2001.
• CUHK Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence Award, 2011/2012.