Honggang Zhang, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Suffolk University
32 Derne Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02114


Phone: 617.573.8016
Fax: 617.573.8591
email: zhang@mcs.suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, 628


Research Interests:

Large scale distributed systems:

  • Internet
  • peer-to-peer networks
  • overlay
  • wireless delay/disruption tolerant networks (DTN)

Large scale IP networks:

  • modeling
  • simulation and experimental evaluation
  • distributed load balancing
  • inference and measurement
  • router design
  • applications of optimization
  • stochastic modeling
  • statistical analysis
  • control theory
  • game theory in distributed systems

Education:

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ph.D., Computer Science, 2006

Purdue University

M.S., Industrial Engineering, 2000

Selected Publications:

  • On Unstructured File Sharing Networks. 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007), May 6-12, 2007. Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
  • Reliability in BitTorrent Systems. 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007), May 6-12, 2007. Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
  • Congestion Control for Small Buffer High Speed Networks. 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007), May 6-12, 2007. Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
  • Can an Overlay Compensate for a Careless Underlay? 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2006), April 23-29, 2006. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Throughput Differentiation Using Coloring at the Network Edge and Preferential Marking at the Core. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(4):743.754, 2005.
  • TCP Connection Game: A Study on the Selfish Behavior of TCP Users. 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2005), November 6-9, 2005. Boston, MA, USA.
  • On the Interaction Between Overlay Routing and Underlay Routing. 24th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2005), March 13-17, 2005. Miami, Florida, USA.
  • Exploiting the IPID Field to Infer Network Path and End-system Characteristics. 6th Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM’05), March 31-April 01, 2005. Boston, MA, USA.
  • A Self-Tuning Structure for Adaptation in TCP/AQM Networks. IEEE 2003 Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2003), December 1-5, 2003. San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Providing Throughput Differentiation for TCP Flows Using Adaptive Two Color Marking and Multi-Level AQM. 21st IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2002), June 23-27, 2002. New York, USA.

Professional Activities:

Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM

Courses Taught:

Analysis of Algorithms Data Structure and Algorithms Social and Technical Aspects in Computer Systems