C.L. Wang's Publications (Current Research Focus)

Distributed Java Virtual Machine (JESSICA2 Project) and Single System Image

Yang Luo, King Tin Lam, Cho-Li Wang, "Lightweight Adaptive Sampling-Based Profiling Techniques for Optimizing the Distributed JVM Runtime," submitted to 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2010), April 19-23, ATLANTA, USA.
Yang Luo, King Tin Lam, Cho-Li Wang, "Path-Analytic Distributed Object Prefetching", The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009), Dec. 14-16, 2009, Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan. (pdf)
King Tin Lam, Cho-Li Wang, Web Application Server Clustering: the Distributed JVM Approach, Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies, IGI Global, pp.658-681 (Chapter 28), July 2009.
King Tin Lam, Yang Luo, Cho-Li Wang, A Performance Study of Clustering Web Application Servers with Distributed JVM, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'08), Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 8-10, 2008. (pdf)
Wenzhang Zhu, Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, A New Transparent Java Thread Migration System Using Just-in-Time Recompilation, The 16th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2004), pp. 766-771, MIT Cambridge, MA, USA, November 9-11, 2004. (pdf)(PPT)
Wenzhang Zhu, Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``High Performance Computing on Clusters : The Distributed JVM Approach,'' to appear in High Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004. (pdf)
Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang, Wenzhang Zhu, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``A Novel Adaptive Home Migration Protocol in Home-based DSM,'' The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster2004), pp. 215-224, Sept. 20-23 2004, San Diego, California. (pdf) (PPT)
Wenzhang Zhu, Cho-Li Wang, Weijian Fang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``JIT-Compiler-Assisted Distributed Java Virtual Machine, (invited paper) in the 10th Workshop on Compiler Techniques for High-Performance Computing,'' Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, March 18-19. (paper) (slide)
Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang, Wenzhang Zhu, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``PAT: A Postmortem Object Access Pattern Analysis and Visualization Tool,'' The 2004 International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters at the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004), April 19 - 22, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (PAPER)
Wenzhang Zhu , Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C. M. Lau ``Lightweight Transparent Java Thread Migration for Distributed JVM,’’ The 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003), pp. 465-472, Taiwan, Oct. 6-10, 2003. (PAPER)
Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C.M. Lau, ``On the Design of Global Object Space for Efficient Multi-threading Java Computing on Clusters, Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing in the Parallel Computing, Vol.29, pp. 1563-1587, 2003. (paper) (pdf)
Wenzhang Zhu, Cho-Li Wang and Francis C.M.Lau, ``JESSICA2: A Distributed Java Virtual Machine with Transparent Thread Migration Support,'' IEEE Fourth International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2002) Chicago, USA - September 23-26, 2002, pp. 381-388, 2002 (PAPER)(slide)
Weijian Fang, Cho-Li Wang and Francis C.M. Lau, ``Efficient Global Object Space Support for Distributed JVM on Cluster,'' The 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2002), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 18-21, 2002, pp. 371-378.. (PAPER)(slide)
M.J.M. Ma, C.L. Wang, F.C.M. Lau, and Z. Xu; ``JESSICA: Java-Enabled Single-System-Image Computing Architecture,’’ International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’99), pp. 2781-2787, June 28 – July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (PAPER)
M.J.M. Ma, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau; ``Delta Execution: A Preemptive Java Thread Migration Mechanism,’’ International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’99), pp. 518-524, June 28 – July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (Word)
M.J.M. Ma, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau; ``Delta Execution: A Preemptive Java Thread Migration Mechanism,’’ Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Application, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2000, pp. 83-94. (Postscript)
W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, ``Building a Global Object Space for Supporting Single System Image on a Cluster,'' Annual Review of Scalable Computing, Volume 4, pp. 225-257, World Scientific, 2002.(PAPER)
Zheiwei Xu, C.L. Wang, and Kai Hwang, "Viable Approaches to Realizing Single System Image in Multicomputer Clusters," Technical Report: (PAPER)
M.J.M. Ma, C.L. Wang, F.C.M. Lau, ``JESSICA: Java-Enabled Single-System-Image Computing Architecture,’’ Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 60, No. 10, October 2000, pp. 1194-1222 (PAPER)
Francis Lau, Matchy Ma, Cho-Li Wang and Benny Cheung, ``Cluster Computing with Single Address Apace,'' International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (SSGRR2000), ISBN 88-85280-52-8, L'Aquila Italy, Jul. 31-Aug. 6, 2000. (PAPER)
K. Hwang, H. Jin, E. Chow, C.L. Wang, and Z. Xu; ``Designing SSI Clusters with Hierarchical Checkpointing and Single I/O Space,’’ IEEE Concurrency Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 60-69, Jan-Mar., 1999. (PAPER)

Fan Dong, Li Zhang, Dexter H. Hu, Cho-Li Wang, ``A Case-based Component Selection Framework for Mobile Context-aware Applications,'' The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-09), Chengdu and Jiuzhai Valley, China, 10-12 August 2009. (pdf)

Dexter H. Hu, Fan Dong, Cho-Li Wang, ``A Semantic Context Management Framework on Mobile Device,'' The 6th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-09), HangZhou, Zhejiang, China, May 25 - May 27, 2009. (pdf)

Xiaolei Zhang, Chun-Fai Law, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C.M. Lau, ``Towards Pervasive Instant Messaging and Presence Awareness,'' International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication, Volume 5 Issue 1, 2009. (pdf)

GPS-based Location Extraction and Presence Management for Mobile Instant Messenger, to appear in 2007 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2007), December 17-20, 2007, Taipei Taiwan. (pdf)

Feilong TANG, et. al., "Secure Routing for Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks in Pervasive Environment", International Journal on Intelligent Control and Systems (IJICS), VOL. 12, NO. 4, pp.293-306, DECEMBER 2007. (pdf)

Chun-Fai Law, Xiaolei Zhang, Michael S. M. Chan and Cho-Li Wang, ``Smart Instant Messenger in Pervasive Computing Environments,'' The First International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC2006), May 3-5, 2006, Taichung City, Taiwan. (pdf) (PPT)

C.L. Wang , X.L. Zhang, N. Belaramani, P.L. Siu, Y. Chow, and F.C.M. Lau, "Software Infrastructure for Context-aware Mobile Computing," Enabling Technologies for Wireless e-Business Applications, Springer, pp.109-129, December 15, 2006. (abs)

Francis C.M. Lau , Nalini Belaramani, Vivien W.M. Kwan, Pauline P.L. Siu, W.K. Wing, and C.L. Wang, ``Code-on-demand and code adaptation for mobile computing,'' The Handbook of Mobile Middleware, Auerbach Publications, pp. 441-463, Oct. 20, 2006. (abs)

Wai-Kwong Wing, Francis Chi-Moon Lau, and Cho-Li Wang, "Smart Retrieval and Sharing of Information Resources based on Contexts of User-Information Relationships", The First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds, Tamkang University, Taipei, March 28-30, 2005. (pdf)

Pauline P. L. Siu, C. L. Wang, and F. C. M. Lau, ``Context-aware State Management for Ubiquitous Applications,'' International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), pp. 776-785, Aizu, Japan, 26-28 August 2004. (pdf)(PPT)

Laurel C. Y. Kong, C. L. Wang, and F. C. M. Lau, ``Ontology Mapping in Pervasive Computing Environment,'' International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), pp. 1014-1023, Aizu, Japan, 26-28 August 2004. (pdf)(PPT)

Weisong Chen, C. L. Wang, and F. C. M. Lau, ``A Collaborative and Semantic Data Management Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environment,'' International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), pp. 962-971, Aizu, Japan, 26-28 August 2004. (pdf) (PPT)

Yuk Chow, Wenzhang Zhu, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Chi-Moon Lau, ``The State-On-Demand Execution for Adaptive Component-based Mobile Agent Systems,'' The Tenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2004), pp. 46-53, Newport Beach, California, July 7 - 9, 2004. (paper)(PPT)

Vivien Wai-Man Kwan, Francis C.M. Lau, and Cho-Li Wang, "Functionality Adaptation: A Context-Aware Service Code Adaptation for Pervasive Computing Environments", The 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp. 358-364, Halifax, Canada, October 13-17, 2003. (pdf)

Nalini Moti Belaramani, Yuk Chow, Vivien Wai-Man Kwan, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``A Component-based Software Architecture for Pervasive Computing,'' Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications in Distributed Virtual Environments, chapter 10, pp. 191-212, World Scientific Publishing Co., Release: 07/31/2004. (PAPER) (Abstract)

Nalini Belaramani, Cho-Li Wang and Francis C.M. Lau, ``Dynamic Component Composition for Functionality Adaptation in Pervasive Environments,'' The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS2003), pp. 226-232, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, May 28 to 30, 2003. (PPT)

Sheng Di, Cho-Li Wang, Dexter H. Hu, "Gossip-based Dynamic Load Balancing in an Autonomous Desktop Grid", The 10th International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, (HPC Asia 2009), March 2~5, 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp. 85-92. (pdf)

Lin Chen, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis Lau, 'Process Reassignment with Reduced Migration Cost in Grid Load Rebalancing', 17th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW'08), April 14, 2008, Miami, Florida USA, in conjunction with IPDPS2008. (pdf)

K.Y. Cheng, H.H. Wang, C.H. Wen, Y.L. Lin, K.C. Li, C.L. Wang, Dynamic File Replica Location and Selection Strategy in Data Grids, The First IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (MSEAT-2008 ), Lanzhou University, China, July 15th – July 16th, 2008, pp. 484-489.

T.Q. Wang, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, “An Architecture to Support Scalable Distributed Virtual Environment Systems on Grid”, Journal of Supercomputing, Volume 36, Number 3, June 2006, pp-249-264 . (pdf)

Lin Chen, Tianchi Ma, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C. M. Lau, and Shanping Li, ``G-JavaMPI: A Grid Middleware for Transparent MPI Task Migration,'' Chapter 20, Engineering the Grid: Status and Perspective, Nova Science Publisher. January 2006. (pdf)

Tianchi Ma, Lin Chen, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ‘G-PASS: An Instance-oriented Security Infrastructure for Grid Travelers,’’ Computation and Currency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 18, No. 14, pp. 1871 –1884, December 2006. (pdf)

Feilong Tang, Minglu Li, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Cho-Li Wang, and Zongwei Luo, Petri-Net-Based Coordination Algorithms for Grid Transactions, Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-2004), pp. 499-508, Hong Kong, China, 13 - 15 Dec. 2004 (pdf)

Tianqi Wang, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Lau, A Grid-enabled Service Oriented Framework for Multi-server Distributed Virtual Environments, Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA-2004), pp. 280-289, Hong Kong, China, 13 - 15 Dec. 2004. (pdf)(PPT)

Roy S.C. Ho, K.K. Yin, David C.M. Lee, Daniel H.F. Hung, C.L. Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``InstantGrid: A Framework for On-Demand Grid Point Construction,'' The International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), pp. 911-914, Oct 21-24, 2004, Wuhan, China. (pdf)

Tianchi Ma, Lin Chen, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, ``G-PASS: Security Infrastructure for Grid Travelers, The International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), pp. 301-308, Oct 21-24, 2004, Wuhan, China. (pdf)(PPT)

Zhihui Du, Francis C.M. Lau, Cho-Li Wang, Wai-kin Lam, Chuan He, Xiaoge Wang , Yu Chen and Sanli Li, ``Design of an OGSA Based MetaService Architecture,’’ The International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), pp.167-174, Oct 21-24, 2004, Wuhan, China.

F.C.M. Lau, R.S.C. Ho, and C.L. Wang, ``Grid Computing in Hong Kong: Research and Development", (invited paper) Proc. of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2004), Suzhou, China, May 2004, pp. 205-208. (paper)

Roy S.C. Ho, David C.M. Lee, Daniel H.F. Hung, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C.M. Lau, "On Managing Execution Environments for Utility Computing,'' Proceedings of Network Research Workshop 2004, 18th Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meetings (APAN 2004), Cairns, Australia, July 6, 2004, 175-182. (pdf)

Tianqi Wang, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Lau, ``Grid-enabled Multi-server Network Game Architecture,'' the 3rd International Conference on Application and Development of Computer Games (ADCOG 2004), April 26-27 2004, City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR. (pdf) (slide)

Lin Chen, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C.M. Lau, and Ricky K. K. Ma, ``A Grid Middleware for Distributed Java Computing with MPI Binding and Process Migration Supports,'' International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC-2002), December 26-28, 2002, Hainan, China, , pp. 640-652. (paper)(slide). An extended version of this paper has appeared in Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 4, July 2003, pp. 505-514.

Ricky K. K. Ma, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C. M. Lau, ``M-JavaMPI : A Java-MPI Binding with Process Migration Support,'' The Second IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2002), Berlin, Germany. (PAPER)(slide)

Mobile Networking

K.C.K. Tsang, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, 'Handoff Performance Comparison of Mobile IP, Fast Handoff and mSCTP in Mobile Wireless Networks', The International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN), Sydney, May 7-9, 2008. (Best paper Award) (photo) (pdf).

Mark C.M. Tsang, Cho-Li Wang, Ken C.K. Tsang and Francis C.M. Lau, A Receiver-coordinated Approach for Throughput Aggregation in High Bandwidth Multicast, 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2007), May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. (pdf)

K.C.K. Tsang, R.S.C. Ho, M.C.M. Tsang, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, "An Adaptive Multipath Protocol for Efficient IP Handoff in Mobile Wireless Networks", Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006), Vol. I, Vienna, April 2006, pp. 503-508. (pdf)

Garbage Collection on JVM

Zoe C.H. Yu, Francis C.M. Lau, and Cho-Li Wang, ``Recycling Memory Blocks for Improving Execution of Java Programs,’’ ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 4, No. 4, Jan. 2008. (pdf)

Zoe C.H. Yu, Francis C.M. Lau, and Cho-Li Wang, ``Exploiting Java Objects Behavior for Memory Management and Optimizations,'' The Second ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-6, 2004. (pdf)

Checkpoint and Process Migration

Justin Ho, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Lau, 'Scalable Group-based Checkpoint/Restart for Large-Scale Message-passing Systems', the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2008), April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida USA. (pdf)

Roy Ho, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis Lau, 'Lightweight Process Migration and Memory Prefetching on openMosix', 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2008), April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida USA. (pdf)

Software Distributed Shared Memory

Benny W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, A Segment-Based DSM Supporting Large Shared Object Space, the 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Tuesday, 25 April - Saturday, 29 April 2006, Rhodes Island, Greece. (pdf)
Benny W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, ``LOTS: A Software DSM Supporting Large Object Space,’’ 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster2004), pp. 225-234, Sept. 20-23 2004, San Diego, California. (pdf) (PPT)
Benny W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, and F.C.M. Lau; `` Migrating-Home Protocol for Software Distributed Shared Memory,'' Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 6, November 2002, pp. 929-957. (PAPER)
Benny W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, Kai Hwang; ``A Migrating-Home Protocol for Implementing Scope Consistency Model on a Cluster of Workstations,’’ International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’99), pp. 821-827, June 28 – July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (Postscript)
Benny W.L. Cheung, C.L. Wang, Kai Hwang; ``JUMP-DP: A Software DSM System with Low-Latency Communication Support,” International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA2000), pp. 445-451, June 26 – 29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (Postscript) (slide) .
Li Ji, Li Tianning, Chen Guihai, Xie Li and C.L. Wang, "Strategies Optimization and Integration in DSM", ACM Operating Systems Review, Vol.34, No.3, pp.29-39, July 2000

Parallel/Distributed Web Server (2001-2005)

Y.F. Sit, F.C.M. Lau, C.L. Wang, "On The Cooperation of Web Clients and Proxy Caches", The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS-2005), July 20-22, 2005, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan. (PPT)

Yiu-Fai Sit, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Lau, ``Socket Cloning for Cluster-Based Web Server,'' IEEE Fourth International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2002) Chicago, USA - September 23-26, 2002, pp. 333-340. (PAPER)

Yiu-Fai Sit, Cho-Li Wang, Francis Lau, ``Cyclone: A High-Performance Cluster-Based Web Server with Socket Cloning,'' accepted by Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Application, Special Issue on Cluster Computing in the Internet. (June 6, 2002), Vol. 7, pp. 21-37, 2004. (HTML) (pdf)

Ling Zhuo, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C. M. Lau, `Document Replication and Distribution in Extensible Geographically Distributed Web Server, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 63, pp. 927-944, 2003 (postscript)

Ge Chen, Francis C.M. Lau, and Cho-Li Wang, ``Building a Scalable Web Server with Global Object Space Support on Heterogeneous Clusters,'' 2001 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pp.313-320. (PAPER) (HTML)

G. Chen, C.L. Wang, and F. C.M. Lau, "p-Jigsaw: a Cluster-based Web Server with Cooperative Caching Support," Computation and Currency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 15, No. 7-8, pp.681-705, June-July 2003. (PAPER)(pdf)

Ling Zhuo, Cho-Li Wang, and Francis C. M. Lau, ``Load Balancing in Distributed Web Server Systems with Partial Document Replication,'' The 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2002), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 18-21, 2002. (PAPER) (slide)

Ben. Ng and C.L. Wang, “Document Distribution Algorithm for Load Balancing on an Extensible Web Server Architecture,” First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001), 15-18 May, 2001, Brisbane, Australia (Paper in Postscript)