Modelling galaxy stellar mass evolution from z~0.8 to today (2009)
We apply the empirical method built for z=0 in the previous work of Wang et al. to a higher redshift, to link galaxy stellar mass directly with its hosting dark matter halo mass at z~0.8. The...
Persistent Detection and Recovery of State Inconsistencies (2009)
Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, Lixia Zhang
Soft-state is a well established approach to designing robust network protocols and applications. However it is unclear how to apply soft-state approach to protocols that must maintain a large amount...
Design and Implementation of a SecureWireless Mote-Based Medical Sensor Network (2009)
A medical sensor network can wirelessly monitor vital signs of humans, making it useful for long-term health care without sacrificing patient comfort and mobility. For such a network to be viable,...
Wilcoxon-type generalized Bayesian information criterion (2009)
We develop a generalized Bayesian information criterion for regression model selection. The new criterion relaxes the usually strong distributional assumption associated with Schwarz's bic by...
Internet routing is at an important crossroad. The current global routing table, which is largely based on IPv4 addresses, has been growing at an alarming rate over the last few years, despite the...
Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey
Internet measurements have shown that network failures happen frequently, and that existing routing protocols can take multiple seconds, or even minutes, to converge after a failure. During these...
Internet routing is at an important crossroad. The current global routing table, which is largely based on IPv4 addresses, has been growing at an alarming rate over the last few years, despite the...
This paper presents a scalable mechanism, Fast Routing Table Recovery (FRTR), for detecting and correcting route inconsistencies between neighboring BGP routers. The large size of today’s global...
Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey
Internet measurements have shown that network failures happen frequently, and that existing routing protocols can take multiple seconds, or even minutes, to converge after a failure. During these...
SNAP: An Architecture for Secure Medical Sensor Networks (2008)
Abstract—We identify the security threats facing a sensor network for wireless medical monitoring, and we propose a public-key architecture using elliptic curve cryptography to address these...
Understanding BGP Session Failures in a Large ISP (2008)
Abstract—The current global Internet routing frequently suffers from cascading routing changes and slow routing convergence. Such instability can significantly affect the performance of real-time...
Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey
Internet measurements have shown that network failures happen frequently, and that existing routing protocols can take multiple seconds, or even minutes, to converge after a failure. During these...
Observation and Analysis of BGP Behavior Under Stress (2008)
Study Of Bgp's, Lan Wang, Dan Pei, Lixia Zhang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Daniel Massey, ...
New Ann -> Table Exchange Withdrawal New Ann -> NADA Duplicate Implicit Withdrawal -> DPATH Implicit Withdrawal -> SPATH 10/28/02 6 Daily BGP Update Count Announcements: 87.3% of the...
Handling Confidential Internet Conferences by E-mail (2007)
Knut Bahr, Elfriede Hinsch, Anne Jaegemann, Lan Wang
: The demand for confidential conferences is increasing, for example on Internet and Intranets. This paper deals with aspects of handling confidential multimedia conferences and in particular pursues...
Lan Wang, Dan Pei, Lixia Zhang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, ...
What caused the spike? •Worm? SANS Institute: “the (Nimda) activity jumped dramatically at approximately 13:00 GMT (on Sept. 18, 2001) and then proceeded to taper off in the following hours...
1 Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2007)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route's path information, we develop two consistency...
Modelling Mobile Agent Applications in UML2.0 Activity Diagrams (2007)
Miao Kang Lan, Miao Kang, Lan Wang, Kenji Taguchi
Mobile agent technology has gained more importance recently due to the rapid advance of high-performance mobile devices with high-speed wireless telecommunications technology such as 3G. However...
LI, Ping, RONG, Mengtian, XUE, Yisheng, YU, Dan, WANG, Lan, SHI, Hongkui
This paper investigates two issues of cellular engineering for cellular systems enhanced with two-hop fixed relay nodes (FRNs): spectrum partitioning and relay positioning, under the assumption of...
Assessing the Adequacy of Variance Function in Heteroscedastic Regression Models (2006)
Wang, Lan, Zhou, Xiao-Hua Andrew
Heteroscedastic data arise in many applications. In a heteroscedastic regression model, the variance is often taken as a parametric function of the covariate or the regression mean. This paper...
Assessing the Adequacy of Variance Function in Heteroscedastic Regression Models (2006)
Wang, Lan, Zhou, Xiao-Hua Andrew
Heteroscedastic data arise in many applications. In a heteroscedastic regression model, the variance is often taken as a parametric function of the covariate or the regression mean. This paper...
Stent-based tempamine delivery on neointimal formation in a porcine coronary model (2006)
Wang, Lan, Lee, Kwangdeok, ...
BACKGROUND: Tempamine is one of new class of antioxidant agents, the nitroxides, which have shown a wide range of biological effects like suppressing free radical driven reactions to maintain cell...
ABSTRACT Internet Routing: Separating Customers from Providers (2006)
Beichuan Zhang, Ricardo Oliveira, Vamsi Kambhampati, Dan Pei, Lixia Zhang, Daniel Massey, ...
To address the serious challenges in scalability, stability and security facing the global routing infrastructure today, we propose a new routing architecture SIRA 1, which separates Internet...
Surface Functionalization of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube with Trifluorophenyl (2006)
Zhi-Min Dang, Lan Wang, Li-Pei Zhang
A new approach to dispersion of multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) in common polar solvents was reported. Here, a detailed study of nanotube chemistry by using trifluorophenyl (TFP) to modify the...
Modeling and Analysis of Active Queue Management Schemes under Bursty Traffic. (2006)
Wang, Lan, Min, Geyong, Awan, Irfan U.
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Salu, Koen, Wang, Lan, Liu, Xiaoshun, Lorenz, Gunter, ...
In-stent restenosis remains an unresolved problem which occurs in 5-20% of patients undergoing coronary stenting within the first 3-6 months. Neointimal formation is the main contributor to in-stent...
An Efficient Rate and Power Allocation Algorithm for Multiuser OFDM Systems (2005)
In this paper, we propose an efficient rate and power allocation scheme for multiuser OFDM systems to minimize the total transmit power under the given QoS requirements. We deduce the optimal...
NOVITSKIY, GENNADIY, RAVI, RAJANI, POTTER, JAMES J., RENNIE-TANKERSLEY, LYNDA, WANG, LAN, MEZEY, ESTEBAN
Aims: Increased plasma tumour necrosis α (TNFα) and elevated monocyte nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) are associated with liver injury and inflammation in models of alcoholic liver disease and are...
FRTR: A scalable mechanism to restore routing table consistency (2004)
Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, Keyur Patel, Lixia Zhang
This paper presents a scalable mechanism, Fast Routing Table Recovery (FRTR), for detecting and correcting route inconsistencies between neighboring BGP routers. A periodic update approach, used by...
NOVITSKIY, GENNADIY, RAVI, RAJANI, POTTER, JAMES J., RENNIE-TANKERSLEY, LYNDA, WANG, LAN, MEZEY, ESTEBAN
Aims: Increased plasma tumour necrosis α (TNFα) and elevated monocyte nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) are associated with liver injury and inflammation in models of alcoholic liver disease and are...
VERMEULEN, ROEL, LI, GUILAN, LAN, QING, DOSEMECI, MUSTAFA, RAPPAPORT, STEPHEN M., BOHONG, XU, ...
Objectives: We carried out a detailed exposure assessment of benzene and toluene in two shoe factories in Tianjin, China. Our goal was to identify workers with a broad range of benzene exposures, for...
NOVITSKIY, GENNADIY, RAVI, RAJANI, POTTER, JAMES J., RENNIE-TANKERSLEY, LYNDA, WANG, LAN, MEZEY, ESTEBAN
Aims: Increased plasma tumour necrosis α (TNFα) and elevated monocyte nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) are associated with liver injury and inflammation in models of alcoholic liver disease and are...
Bosmans, Johan M, Wang, Lan, ...
BACKGROUND: Polymer-based, drug-eluting stents, are currently under extensive investigation in the conquest against in-stent restenosis. Concern remains, however, about potential long-term lack of...
BACKGROUND: Polymer coatings have been used to modify the surface of stents and to serve as a matrix for local drug delivery. METHODS: Bare stainless steel stents or poly-bis-trifluorethoxy...
Increased disk size in glaucomatous eyes vs normal eyes in the Reykjavik eye study (2003)
Wang, Lan, Damji, Karim F, Munger, Rejean, Jonasson, Fridbert, Arnarsson, Arsaell, Sasaki, Hiroshi, ...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the use of disk diameter as an indicator in the identification of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. METHODS: We evaluated all available stereofundus photographs for 1,040 right eyes...
Phosphorylcholine (PC)-coated stents have shown excellent blood and tissue biocompatibility in porcine coronary arteries. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of local...
Automatic Transcription of Conversational Telephone Speech (2003)
Thomas Hain, Phil Woodl, Gunnar Evermann, Mark Gales, Andrew Liu, Gareth Moore, ...
This paper discusses the Cambridge University HTK (CU-HTK) system for the automatic transcription of conversational telephone speech. A detailed discussion of the most important techniques in...
Protecting BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers (2003)
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Y Bush, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, ...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet communication. The...
Thomas Hain, Phil Woodland, Gunnar Evermann, Mark Gales, Andrew Liu, Gareth Moore, ...
This paper discusses the Cambridge University HTK (CU-HTK) system for the automatic transcription of conversational telephone speech. A detailed discussion of the most important techniques in...
A Study of Packet Delivery Performance during Routing Convergence (2003)
Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang
Internet measurements have shown that network failures happen frequently, and that existing routing protocols can take multiple seconds, or even minutes, to converge after a failure. During these...
Protecting BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers (2003)
Lan Wang Xiaoliang, Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Randy Bush, Daniel Massey, ...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet communication. The...
Protecting BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers (2003)
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Y Bush, Daniel Massey, Lixia Zhang
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet communication. The...
Understanding BGP Behavior through a Study of DoD Prefixes (2003)
Xiaoliang Zhao Dan, Dan Massey, S. Felix Wu, Mohit Lad, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, ...
BGP is the de-facto inter-domain routing protocol and it is essential to understand how well BGP performs in the Internet. As a step toward this understanding, this paper studies the routing...
Position Statement for Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution and Design (2003)
Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang, Daniel Massey
Because its design was based on a simple fault model, the current BGP is vulnerable to many unexpected faults. In this position statement, we consider the impact of this limited fault model on...
Visual-Based Anomaly Detection for BGP Origin AS Change (OASC) Events (2003)
Soon-tee Teoh, Kwan-liu Ma, S. Felix Wu, Dan Massey, Xiao-liang Zhao, Dan Pei, ...
Abstract. Instead of relying completely on machine intelligence in anomaly event analysis and correlation, in this paper, we take one step back and investigate the possibility of a human-interactive...
Protecting BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers (2003)
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Y Bush, Daniel Massey, Lixia Zhang, ...
Abstract—The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet...
Protecting BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers (2003)
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Y Bush, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, ...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet communication. The...
Detection of invalid routing announcement in the internet (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Network measurement has shown that a specific IP address prefix may be announced by more than one autonomous system (AS), a phenomenon commonly referred to as Multiple Origin AS, or MOAS. MOAS can be...
Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2002)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route’s path information, we develop two consistency assertions...
Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2002)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Abstract — This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route’s path information, we develop two...
Detection of invalid routing announcement in the internet (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Network measurement has shown that a specific IP address prefix may be announced by more than one autonomous system (AS), a phenomenon commonly referred to as Multiple Origin AS, or MOAS. MOAS can be...
Detection of invalid routing announcement in the internet (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Network measurement has shown that a specific IP address prefix may be announced by more than one autonomous system (AS), a phenomenon commonly referred to as Multiple Origin AS, or MOAS. MOAS can be...
Observation and analysis of BGP behavior under stress (2002)
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Randy Bush, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, ...
Abstract--- Despite BGP's critical importance as the de-facto Internet inter-domain routing protocol, there is little understanding of how BGP actually performs under stressful conditions when...
Observation and Analysis of BGP Behavior (2002)
Under Stress Lan, Xiaoliang Zhao, Y Bush, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang, ...
Despite BGP's critical importance as the de-facto Internet inter-domain routing protocol, there is little understanding of how BGP actually performs under stressful conditions when dependable...
Resegmentation Gender detection VTLN,CMN, CVN (2002)
Phil Woodl, Gunnar Evermann, Mark Gales, Thomas Hain, Andrew Liu, Gareth Moore, ...
– 12 MF-PLP cepstral parameters + C0 and 1st/2nd derivatives – Side-based cepstral mean and variance normalisation – Vocal tract length normalisation in training and test • Decision tree...
Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2002)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route’s path information, we develop two consistency assertions...
Observation and analysis of BGP behavior under stress (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Y Bush, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang, Lan Wang, ...
Abstract — Despite BGP’s critical importance as the de-facto Internet inter-domain routing protocol, there is little understanding of how BGP actually performs under stressful conditions when...
Detection of invalid routing announcement in the internet (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Network measurement has shown that a specific IPaddress prefix may be announced by more than one autonomous system (AS), a phenomenon commonly referred to as Multiple Origin AS, or MOAS. MOAS can be...
Observation and analysis of BGP behavior under stress (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Y Bush, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang, Lan Wang, ...
Abstract — Despite BGP’s critical importance as the de-facto Internet inter-domain routing protocol, there is little understanding of how BGP actually performs under stressful conditions when...
Observation and analysis of BGP behavior under stress (2002)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Y Bush, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, Lixia Zhang, Lan Wang, ...
Abstract — Despite BGP’s critical importance as the de-facto Internet inter-domain routing protocol, there is little understanding of how BGP actually performs under stressful conditions when...
Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2002)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route's path information, we develop two consistency...
Improving BGP Convergence Through Consistency Assertions (2002)
Dan Pei, Xiaoliang Zhao, Lan Wang, Daniel Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
Abstract — This paper presents a new mechanism for improving the convergence properties of path vector routing algorithms, such as BGP. Using a route’s path information, we develop two...
Ganapati Patil, Yannis Fermantzis, Lan Wang, G. P. Patil
Prepared with partial support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), MOU Number FP/1020-00-01-2218. The contents have not been subjected...
An analysis of BGP multiple origin as (MOAS) conflicts (2001)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a detailed study of BGP Multiple Origin AS (MOAS) conflicts observed in the Internet. A MOAS conflict occurs when a particular prefix appears to originate from more than one AS....
An analysis of BGP multiple origin as (MOAS) conflicts (2001)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a detailed study of BGP Multiple Origin AS (MOAS) conflicts observed in the Internet. A MOAS conflict occurs when a particular prefix appears to originate from more than one AS....
An analysis of BGP multiple origin as (MOAS) conflicts (2001)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, Dan Massey, Allison Mankin, S. Felix Wu, ...
This paper presents a detailed study of BGP Multiple Origin AS (MOAS) conflicts observed in the Internet. A MOAS conflict occurs when a particular prefix appears to originate from more than one AS....
Validation of multiple origin ases conflicts through bgp community attribute (2001)
Xiaoliang Zhao, Allison Mankin, Daniel Massey, Dan Pei, Lan Wang, S. Felix Wu, ...
draft-zhao-idr-moas-validation-00.txt Status of this memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working...
TECHNICAL REPORTS AND REPRINTS SERIES (2001)
Ganapati Patil, Ryan Vraney, Lan Wang, G. P. Patil
Prepared with partial support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
IRLSim: A general purpose packet level network simulator (2000)
Andreas Terzis, Konstantinos Nikoloudakis, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang
Simulation is the main tool for studying networking protocols before deploying them in a wide scale, or for understanding how they are expected to behave under various conditions. IRLSim is a new...
ISIS: A Multilingual Spoken Dialog System developed with (2000)
Helen Meng, Shuk Fong Chan, Yee Fong Wong, Tien Ying Fung, Wai Ching Tsui, Tin Hang Lo, ...
ISIS, which abbreviates Intelligent Speech for Information Systems, is a trilingual spoken dialog system (SDS) for the financial domain. It handles two dialects of Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua),...
TCP over wireless multihop protocols: Simulation and experiments (1999)
Mario Gerla, Rajive Bagrodia, Lixia Zhang, Ken Tang, Lan Wang
In this study we investigate the interaction between TCP and MAC layer in a wireless multi-hop network. This type of network has traditionally found applications in the military (automated...
Manthos I. Kazantzidis, Lan Wang, Dr Mario Gerla
Multimedia applications for networks with wireless links are required to constantly adapt their operations to the changing QoS. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of a simple adaptive...
A new proposal for RSVP refreshes (1999)
Lan Wang, Andreas Terzis, Lixia Zhang
As a soft-state protocol, RSVP specifies that each RSVP node sends periodic control messages to maintain the state for active RSVP sessions. The protocol overhead due to such periodic messages grows...
Manthos Kazantzidis, Lan Wang, Mario Gerla
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of simple adaptive application layers for multimedia streaming over multi-hop ad-hoc networks. Extensive simulations are presented using our hybrid...
Ke Chen Lan, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Huisheng Chi
In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often different features extracted from raw data which needs recognizing. Methods of combining multiple classifiers with different features...
Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Huisheng Chi
In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often different features extracted from raw data which needs recognizing. Methods of combining multiple classifiers with different features...
The NG-OSS Evolution of Telecom Service Providers: From Network-Focused to Customers-Focused (1970)
Now, the telecom service providers are faced with significant challenges as the traditional separated network and service become converged. Customers move to care more about the quality of service,...
The Simulation and Analysis of e-Business Model (1970)
Yang-feng Ou, Hongdan Zhao, Guanglu Zheng, Lan Wang
Based on the value-oriented ontology approach, we present a simulation analysis with the e3-value software, and study the Witkey business model with structural analysis modeling method. The...
TCP over Wireless Multi-hop Protocols: Simulation and Experiments
Mario Gerla, Rajive Bagrodia, Lixia Zhang, Ken Tang, Lan Wang
In this study we investigate the interaction between TCP and MAC layer in a wireless multi-hop network. This type of network has traditionally found applications in the military (automated...
Long, Yunming, Zhao, Lifeng, Niu, Baixiao, Su, Jing, Wu, Hao, Chen, Yuanling, ...
Sterility is common in hybrids between divergent populations, such as the indica and japonica subspecies of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa). Although multiple loci for plant hybrid sterility...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Chinese literature for the treatment of achalasia
Wang, Lan, Li, You-Ming, Li, Lan, Yu, Chao-Hui
AIM: To evaluate the effect of different approaches in the treatment of achalasia in China.
Recurrent achalasia treated with Heller myotomy: A review of the literature
AIM: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Heller myotomy (HM) for recurrent achalasia, performed after different methods of first-line treatment.