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Yanong (Jennifer) Ren |
Research Interests
I am interested in the design of dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance computing, group communication, and performance modeling, network monitoring, and software testing technologies.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2001. Advisor: William H. Sanders.
- M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1997. Advisor: Joanne B. Dugan.
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1993.
Selected Publications
Ph.D. Dissertation
- AQuA: A Framework for Providing Adaptive Fault Tolerance to Distributed Applications. Y. Ren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
Journal Papers
- AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture that Provides Dependable Distributed Objects, Y. Ren, M. Cukier, P. Rubel, W. H. Sanders, etc, in IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 52. No. 1, January 2003, pp. 31-50.
- SEQUIN: An SNMP-based MPLS Network Monitoring System, M. Thottan, K. Swanson, M. Cantone, T. K. Ho, J. Ren, and S. Paul, in Bell Labs Technical Journal, Vol. 8, No.1, 2003, pp. 95-111.
- An Adaptive Algorithm For Tolerating Value Faults and Crash Failures, Y. Ren, M. Cukier, and W. H. Sanders, in IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 173-192.
- Design of Reliable Systems Using Static and Dynamic Fault Trees, Y. Ren and J. B. Dugan, in IEEE Trans. on Reliability, Vol. 47, No. 3, 1998, pp. 234-244.
Conference Papers
- Dependable Initialization
of Large-Scale Distributed Software, Y. Ren, R. Buskens and O.
Gonzalez, in Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable
Systems and Networks (DSN-2004), (Florence Italy), June, 2004.
- Passive Replication
Schemes in AQuA, Y. (J.) Ren, P. Rubel. M. Seri, M. Cukier, W. H.
Sanders, and T. Courten, (Tsukuba, Japan), pp. 124-130, December 2002.
- A Configurable CORBA
Gateway for Providing Adaptable System Properties, M. Seri, T.
Courtney, M. Cukier, V. Gupta, S. Krishnamurthy, J. Lyons, H. Ramasamy, J.
Ren, and W. H. Sanders, Supplemental Volume of the 2002 International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2002), (Washington,
DC, USA), pp. G-26 to G-30, June, 2002.
- Building Dependable Distributed Applications Using AQuA, Y. Ren, M. Cukier, P. Rubel, W. H. Sanders, D. E. Bakken, and D. A. Karr, in Proc. 4th IEEE Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE'99), pp.189-196, November 1999.
- Proteus: A Flexible Infrastructure to Implement Adaptive Fault Tolerance in AQuA, C. Sabnis, M. Cukier, J. Ren, P. Rubel, W. H. Sanders, etc, in Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 7, vol. 12 in series Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerant Systems, pp. 149-168, CA: IEEE Computer Society, January 1999.
- AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture That Provides Dependable Distributed Objects, M. Cukier, Y. Ren, C. Sabnis, W. H. Sanders, etc, in Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-98), pp.245-253, IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1998.