Publications

• Refereed Papers
• Other Papers
• Talks
• Posters

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Refereed Papers

Characterizing Geospatial Dynamics of Application Usage in a 3G Cellular Data Network [pdf]
Zubair Shafiq, Lusheng Ji, Alex Liu, Jeffrey Pang, Jia Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012, Orlando, FL. To appear.

Predicting Handoffs in 3G Networks [pdf]
Umar Javed, Dongsu Han, Ramon Caceres, Jeffrey Pang, Alexander Varshavsky, Srinivasan Seshan.
ACM SOSP Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds (MobiHeld), 2011, Cascais, Portugal.

Identifying Diverse Usage Behaviors of Smartphone Apps [pdf]
Qiang Xu, Jeffrey Erman, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Jeffrey Pang, Shobha Venkataraman.
ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2011, Berlin, Germany.

Characterizing Fairness for 3G Wireless Networks [pdf]
Vaneet Aggarwal, Rittwik Jana, Kadangode Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Pang, N K Shankaranarayanan.
IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2011, Chapel Hill, NC.

AccuLoc: Practical Localization of Performance Measurements in 3G Networks [pdf]
Qiang Xu, Alexandre Gerber, Z. Morley Mao, Jeffrey Pang.
ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2011, Washington, D.C.

Internet-scale Visualization and Detection of Performance Events [pdf]
Jeffrey Pang, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Shobha Venkataraman.
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2011, Portland, OR.

Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration [pdf] [bib]
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Michael Kaminsky, Srinivasan Seshan.
TMC '10: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Dec, 2010, vol 9, num 12, pp 1713-1731.

Speed Testing without Speed Tests: Estimating Achievable Download Speed from Passive Measurements [pdf] [bib]
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck, Shobha Venkataraman.
IMC '10: ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Damon McCoy, Srinivasan Seshan.
MobiSys '09: 7th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2009, Krakow, Poland.

Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Ashwin Bharambe, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas Moscibroda, Jeffrey Pang, Srinivasan Seshan, Xinyu Zhuang.
SIGCOMM '08: ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2008, Seattle, WA.

Improving Wireless Privacy with an Identifier-Free Link Layer Protocol [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Jeffrey Pang, Tadayoshi Kohno, Srinivasan Seshan, and David Wetherall.
MobiSys '08: 6th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2008, Breckenridge, CO. Best Paper Award.

Tryst: The Case for Confidential Service Discovery [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Srinivasan Seshan, and David Wetherall.
HotNets VI: The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2007, Atlanta, GA.

802.11 User Fingerprinting [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Srinivasan Seshan, and David Wetherall.
MobiCom '07: 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Can Ferris Bueller Still Have His Day Off? Protecting Privacy in an Era of Wireless Devices [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Ben Greenstein, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Jeffrey Pang, Mike Y. Chen, Tadayoshi Kohno, Srinivasan Seshan, and David Wetherall.
HotOS XI: 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2007, San Diego, CA.

Defragmenting DHT-based Distributed File Systems [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, Srinivasan Seshan, and Haifeng Yu.
ICDCS '07: 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2007, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Extended tech report: CMU CS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-07-115, 2007. [pdf] [ps.gz]

Scaling Peer-to-Peer Games in Low-Bandwidth Environments [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Frank Uyeda, and Jacob R. Lorch.
IPTPS '07: 6th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2007, Bellevue, WA.

Colyseus: A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Multiplayer Games [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Ashwin Bharambe, Jeffrey Pang and Srinivasan Seshan.
NSDI '06: 3rd Symposium on Network Design and Implementation, 2006, San Jose, CA.
Related tech report: CMU CS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-05-112, 2005. [pdf] [ps.gz]

Availability, Usage, and Deployment Characteristics of the Domain Name System [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, James Hendricks, Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Roberto De Prisco and Srinivasan Seshan.
IMC '04: ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, 2004, Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

On the Responsiveness of DNS-based Network Control [pdf] [ps.gz] [bibtex]
Jeffrey Pang, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Srinivasan Seshan.
IMC '04: ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, 2004, Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control [pdf] [ps.gz] [errata] [bibtex]
Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan and Anees Shaikh.
SIGCOMM '04: ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2004, Portland, OR.
Extended tech report: CMU CS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-04-158, 2004. [pdf] [ps.gz]

Other Papers

Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Threats in Wireless Protocols and Services [pdf]
Jeffrey Pang.
PhD Thesis, CMU CS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-09-145, 2009.

Player Dynamics in Massively Multiplayer Online Games [pdf] [ps.gz]
Xinyu Zhuang, Ashwin Bharambe, Jeffrey Pang, Srinivasan Seshan.
CMU CS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-07-158, 2007.

Camera Models and Optical Systems Used in Computer Graphics: Part I, Object-Based Techniques [pdf]
Brian A. Barsky, Daniel R. Horn, Stanley A. Klein, Jeffrey A. Pang, Meng Yu.
ICCSA: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2003, Montreal, QC, Canada. Invited paper.

Camera Models and Optical Systems Used in Computer Graphics: Part II, Image-Based Techniques [pdf]
Brian A. Barsky, Daniel R. Horn, Stanley A. Klein, Jeffrey A. Pang, Meng Yu.
ICCSA: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2003, Montreal, QC, Canada. Invited paper.

Talks

Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration. MobiSys 2009. [pptx] [pdf]

Improving the Privacy of Wireless Protocols. [pptx] [pdf]

• Qualcomm Research Center, San Diego, CA. Feb 4, 2009.
• Google, Seattle, WA, USA. Feb 6, 2009.
• RSA Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA. Feb 9, 2009.
• Telefonica Research, Barcelona, ES. Feb 26, 2009.
• University of Colorado at Boulder ITP, Boulder, CO, USA. Mar 5, 2009.
• Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Mar 12, 2009.
• AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. Mar 19, 2009.
• Microsoft Research ISRC-PADS, Mountain View, CA, USA. Apr 9, 2009.

WiFi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration. OSDI 2008 Work-in-Progress. [pptx] [pdf] [abstract]

Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games. SIGCOMM 2008. [pptx] [pdf] videos: [avi]

Improving Wireless Privacy with an Identifier-Free Link Layer Protocol. MobiSys 2008. [pptx] [pdf]

Tryst: The Case for Confidential Service Discovery. HotNets 2007. [ppt] [pdf]

802.11 User Fingerprinting. MobiCom 2007. [ppt] [pdf]

Defragmenting DHT-based Distributed File Systems. ICDCS 2007. [ppt] [pdf] videos: [xvid]

Scaling Peer-to-Peer Games in Low-Bandwidth Environments. IPTPS 2007. [ppt] [pdf] videos: [xvid] [wmv]

Availability, Usage, and Deployment Characteristics of the Domain Name System. IMC 2004. [ppt] [pdf]

Posters

Mechanisms to Mitigate Wireless Privacy Threats [ppt] [pdf] [abstract]
Jeffrey Pang. MobiSys PhD Forum 2008.

Scaling Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Games with Doppelgangers [ppt] [pdf] [abstract]
Jeffrey Pang, Frank Uyeda, John Douceur, and Jacob R. Lorch. OSDI 2006.

Colyseus: A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Multiplayer Games
Ashwin Bharambe, Jeffrey Pang, and Srinivasan Seshan. WORLDS 2006.

Last modified: Feb 14, 2012