Wireless Networks

• Jian Ni, Bo (Rambo) Tan, R. Srikant, "Q-CSMA: Queue-Length Based CSMA/CA Algorithms for Achieving Maximum Throughput and Low Delay in Wireless Networks," Under Submission. [arXiv]
   
• Mathieu Leconte, Jian Ni, R. Srikant, "Improved Bounds on the Throughput Efficiency of Greedy Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2009. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, R. Srikant, "Distributed CSMA/CA Algorithms for Achieving Maximum Throughput in Wireless Networks," Invited Talk in the 2009 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, California, February 2009.

Network Inference and Monitoring

• Tongqing Qiu, Jian Ni, Hao Wang, Nan Hua, Yang Richard Yang, Jun Xu, "Packet Doppler: Network Monitoring Using Packet Shift Detection," Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Madrid, Spain, December 2008. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, Haiyong Xie, Sekhar Tatikonda, Yang Richard Yang, "Efficient and Dynamic Routing Topology Inference from End-to-End Measurements," to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [PDF] (An earlier version appears in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008. [PDF])
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "Network Tomography Based on Additive Metrics," Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton University, March 2008. [arXiv]
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "Explicit Link Parameter Estimators Based on End-to-End Measurements," Proceedings of the 45th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2007. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, Edmund Yeh, "A Large-Scale Distributed Traffic Matrix Estimation Algorithm," Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, California, November 2006. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "A Markov Random Field Approach to Multicast-Based Network Inference Problems,"  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle, Washington, July 2006. [PDF]

Network Performance Analysis, Control, and Optimization

• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "Analyzing Product-Form Stochastic Networks via Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1588-1597, August 2007. [PDF] (An earlier version appears in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007. [PDF])
   
• Jian Ni, Danny H. K. Tsang, Sekhar Tatikonda, Brahim Bensaou, "Optimal and Structured Call Admission Control Policies for Resource-Sharing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 158-170, January 2007. [PDF] (An earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, Florida, March 2005. [PDF])
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "Calculating Blocking Probabilities for Loss Networks Based on Probabilistic Graphical Models," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, September 2005. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, Sekhar Tatikonda, "Revenue Optimization via Call Admission Control and Pricing for Mobile Cellular Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, Korea, May 2005. [PDF]

Content Delivery Networks, Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

• Jian Ni, Jie Lin, Steven Harrington, Naveen Sharma, "Designing File Replication Schemes for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, May 2008. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, Danny H. K. Tsang, "Large-Scale Cooperative Caching and Application-Level Multicast in Multimedia Content Delivery Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 98-105, May 2005. [PDF]
   
• Jian Ni, "Live Streaming via Application-Level Multicast in Content Delivery Networks," Perspective Article in IEEE ComSoc MMTC E-Letter, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 7-9, December 2004.
   
• Jian Ni, Danny H. K. Tsang, S. H. Yeung, Xiaojun Hei, "Hierarchical Content Routing in Large-Scale Multimedia Content Delivery Network,"  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003. [PDF]

Thesis

• Jian Ni, Performance Analysis and Inference of Communication Networks, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, June 2008. (Advisor: Professor Sekhar Tatikonda) [PDF]