Xin Yu

xinyu@cs.nyu.edu

• Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University, May 2005
• M.S., Computer Science, New York University, Sept. 2002
• M.E., Computer Engineering, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 1998
• B.E., Electrical Engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University (now Shandong University), China, July 1995

Research

My research interests are routing and media access control protocols in mobile ad hoc networks and wireless mesh networks. My thesis work addresses the challenges mobility presents to on-demand routing protocols and to TCP in mobile ad hoc networks.

Publications

1. Xin Yu. Distributed cache updating for the Dynamic Source Routing protocol. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 5(6), June 2006.

2. Xin Yu and Zvi Kedem. A distributed adaptive cache update algorithm for the Dynamic Source Routing protocol. In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'05), Miami, March 2005. (Acceptance ratio: 244/1419) An earlier version of this paper appeared as NYU CS TR2003-842, July 2003.

3. Xin Yu. Improving TCP performance over mobile ad hoc networks by exploiting cross-layer information awareness. In Proceedings of 10th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'04), Philadelphia, September 2004. (Acceptance ratio: 26/326) 

4. Xin Yu and Zvi Kedem. Reducing the effect of mobility on TCP by making route caches quickly adapt to topology changes. In Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'04), Paris, France, June 2004. (Acceptance ratio: 864/3000)

5. Xin Yu and Ajay Mohindra. Security and policy management issues in automation controller design. IBM Research Report RC22410, April 2002.