Publications​
  1. [ICPP’23] Z.-P. Wang, Y.-J. Song, Z.-J. Xu, Y.-H. Li, G.-C. Li, X.-J. Ruan, and S. Yin, “RBC: A bandwidth controller to reduce write-stalls and tail latency”, In the Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, August 7-10, 2023.
  2. [IEEE ACCESS’22] L. Cao, R.-W Li, X.-J. Ruan, and Y.-H. Liu, "Defending Against Co-Residence Attack in Energy-Efficient Cloud: An Optimization Based Real-Time Secure VM Allocation Strategy", IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 98549-98561, September 14, 2022.
  3. [IEEE NAS'21] X. -J. Ruan, X.-F. Jiang, H.-Q. Chen, “Cached Mapping Table Prefetching for Random Reads in Solid-State Drives”, Proc. the 15th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage , Riverside, California, October 24 - 26, 2021.
  4. [IPDPSW’21] X.-J. Ruan and H.-Q. Chen, “Informed Prefetching in I/O Bounded Distributed Deep Learning”, In the Proceedings the 3rd Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE) co-conducted with 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), pp. 850-857, Portland, Oregon, May 21, 2021.
  5. [LENS’19] A. Nayak, H.-Q. Chen, X.-J. Ruan, and J.-S. Ouyang, “DeepSpot: Understanding Online Opinion Spam by Text Augmentation using Sentiment Encoder-Decoder Networks”, 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2019), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 5, 2019.
  6. [FGCS'19] X.-J. Ruan, H.-Q. Chen, Y. Tian, and S. Yin, "Virtual Machine Allocation and Migration based on Performance-to-Power Ratio in Energy-Efficient Clouds", PDF Version, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, vol. 100, pp. 380-394, November 2019.
  7. [IEEE SiPS Workshop’18] X.-F. Jiang, Y.-H. Liu, X.-J. Ruan, T. Baigalmaa, L. Nguyen, D. Akiyoshi, and C. Peck, “Energy Modeling of Cluster System”, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Cape Town, South Africa, October 21-24, 2018.
  8. [PDP'18] B. Jiao, S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, S. Chen, Z. Tang, and X.-M. Zhu, "DuoFS: A Hybrid File System Balancing Energy-Efficiency, Reliability, and Performance", 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, Bambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018. 
  9. [ICNC’18] Y.-H. Liu, X.-J. Ruan, S.-J. Cai, R.-W. Li, and H.-X. He, “An optimized VM Allocation Strategy to Make a Secure and Energy-Efficient Cloud Against Co-residence Attack”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Communications and Information Security Symposium, Maui, HI, USA, March 5-8, 2018. 
  10. [Poster Abstract IEEE ICDCS’17 ] Bing Jiao, Xiaomin Zhu, X.-J. Ruan, Xiao Qin, and Shu Yin, “DuoFS: An Attempt at Energy-Saving and Retaining Reliability of Storage Systems”, Posters, IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 5-8, 2017.
  11. [ICNC’17] X.-J. Ruan and H.-Q. Chen, “Improving  Shuffle I/O Performance for Big Data Processing using Hybrid Storage”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications: Social Computing and Semantic Data Mining Symposium, Silicon Valley, USA, January 26-29, 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)
  12. [CNC Workshop’17] E. Oliech* and X.-J. Ruan, “Survey On Energy-Efficient Hard Drive Disks”, International Workshop on Computing, Networking and Communications, Silicon Valley, USA, January 29, 2017. (* denotes student)
  13. [IEEE ICPADS’16] S. Yin, Z.-Y. Xiao, K.-L. Li, J.-Z. Huang, X.-J. Ruan, X.-M. Zhu, and X. Qin, “RESS: A Reliable Energy Efficient Storage System”, Proc. the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016, Wuhan, China, Dec. 13-16, 2016
  14. [IEEE Cluster’15] X.-J. Ruan and H.-Q. Chen, "Performance-to-Power Ratio Aware Virtual Machine (VM) Allocation in Energy-Efficient Clouds", Proc. the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Chicago, USA, September 8-11, 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 24%, 38/157) 
  15. [ICPP’15] S. Yin, X.-W. Li, K.-L. Li, J.-Z. Huang, X.-J. Ruan, X.-M. Zhu, W. Cao, X. Qin, and “REED: A Reliable Energy-Efficient RAID”,  Proc. the 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Beijing, China, September 1-4, 2015.
  16. [IEEE HPCC’15] S. Yin, Z.-Y. Ding, X.-J. Ruan, X.-M. Zhu, Z. Tang, K.-L. Li,  and X. Qin, “HcDD: The Hybrid Combination of Disk Drives in Active Storage Systems”, Proc. the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, New York, USA, August 24-26, 2015.
  17. [IEEE TDSC'14] S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Mananares, X. Qin, and K. Li, "MINT: A Reliability Modeling Framework for Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 345-360, July-Aug. 2014.
  18. [SCN’14] Q. Yang, Alvin Lim, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, “Location-Preserved Contention Based Routing in VANETs”, Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 7, April 11, 2014.
  19. [JOC'14] X.-F. Jiang, Maen M. Al Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, M.-K. Qiu, and X. Qin, "Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Cloud Data Storage Systems", Journal of Communications, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 299-311, April 2014.
  20. [IEEE HPCC_EUC’13] Shu Yin, Kenli Li, Xiao Qin, X.-J. Ruan, Haiquan Chen, Jiong Xie, Xiaomin Zhu, "Reliability Analysis of Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems", Proc. in the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications & 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (HPCC_EUC), Changsha, China, Nov. 2013
  21. [JSPS'13] X.-F. Jiang, Maen M. Al Assaf, J. Zhang, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, T. Muzaffar, X. Qin, “Thermal Modeling of Hybrid Storage Clusters”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 72, no. 3, pp 181-196, September 2013.
  22. [ICCS'13] J. Xie, Y. Tian, S. Yin, J. Zhang, X.-J. Ruan, and Xiao Qin, “Adaptive Preshuffling in Hadoop Clusters”, Proc. the International Conference on Computational Science, Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 June, 2013. 
  23. [IEEE IPCCC'12] B. Romoser, R. Fares, P. Janovics, Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, “Global Workload Characterization of A Large Scale Satellite Image Distribution System”, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Nov. 2012.
  24. [IEEE IPCCC'12] X.-F. Jiang, M. I. Alghamdi, J. Zhang, M. Al Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, T. Muzaffar, and X. Qin, “Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Storage Systems”, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Nov. 2012.
  25. [IEEE IPCCC'12] X.-J. Ruan, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-F. Jiang, Z.-L. Zong, Y. Tian, and X. Qin, “Improving Write Performance by Enhancing Internal Parallelism of Solid State Drives”, Proc. the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Austin, TX, Nov. 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 27.8%, 32/115)
  26. [IEEE Cluster'12] Z.-Y. Ding, X.-F. Jiang, S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, Xiao Qin, K.-H. Chang, M. I. Alghamdi, and M. Qiu “Multicore-Enabled Smart Storage for Clusters,” Proc. the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Beijing, China, 24-28 September 2012.
  27. [IEEE TDSC'12] X.-J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Yin, and X. Qin, "ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 361-374, May-June, 2012.
  28. [IEEE IPCCC'11] S. Yin, Y. Tian, J. Xie, X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, M.-K. Qiu, "Reliability Analysis of An Energy-Aware RAID System", Proc. 20th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communication Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2011.
  29. [ACM TOS'11] A. Manzanares, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "PRE-BUD: Prefetching for Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Buffer Disks", ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 7, no. 1, Jun. 2011.
  30. [IEEE MSST'11] Z. L. Zong, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and M. Nijim, "Heat-Based Dynamic Data Caching: A Load Balancing Strategy for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks", In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies, Denver, CO, May, 2011.
  31. [IEEE TC'11] Z. L. Zong, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "EAD and PEBD: Two Energy-Aware Duplication Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel Tasks on Homogeneous Clusters", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 60, Issue 3, pp. 360-374, Mar. 2011.
  32. [IEEE TMC'11] X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, M. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, "A Message Scheduling Scheme for Energy Conservation in Multimedia Wireless Systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 272-283, Mar. 2011.
  33. [IEEE IPCCC'10] X. -J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. Alghamdi, S. Yin, Z. -Y. Ding, J. Xie, Y. Tian, J. Majors, J. Lewis, and X. Qin, "ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security", Proc. 20th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communication Conference, pp. 61-68, Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 2010. (acceptance rate: 28.3%, 36/127)
  34. [IEEE GLOBECOM'10] Q. Yang, A. Lim, X. -J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "Location Privacy Protection in Contention Based Forwarding for VANETS", Proc. IEEE Global Communication Conference, Miami, FL, Dec. 2010.
  35. [IEEE IPCCC'10] J. Lewis, M. Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, Z. –Y. Ding, Y. Tian, and X. Qin, "An Automatic Prefetching and Caching System", Proc. 20th IEEE Int’l Performance Computing and Communication Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 2010.
  36. [ICPP'10] A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, J. Xie, Z. -Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "Energy Efficient Prefetching with Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems", Proc. 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing, San Diego, CA, Sept. 2010.
  37. [IEEE HPCC'10] S. Yin, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, M. Nijim, A. Tamilarasan, Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Energy Efficiency and Security for Disk Systems", Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3, 2010.
  38. [HCW'10] J. Xie, S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, Z.-Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "Improving MapReduce Performance via Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters", Proc. 19th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, Apr. 2010.
  39. [ACM TECS'10] A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Roth, and X. Qin, "Conserving Energy in Real-Time Storage Systems with I/O Burstiness", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-21, Feb. 2010.
  40. [IEEE TC'10] X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "Communication-Aware Load Balancing for Parallel Applications on Clusters", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 1, pp.42-52, Jan. 2010.
  41. [IEEE IPCCC'09] X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "ECOS: An Energy-Efficient Cluster Storage Systems", Proc. the 19th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, pp. 79-86, Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 2009. (acceptance rate: 32.6%, 46/141)
  42. [IEEE IPCCC'09] S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin "Improving Reliability of Energy- Efficient Storage System by Disks Swapping", Proc. the 19th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 14th -16th, 2009.
  43. [ICPP'09] X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, Z. -L. Zong, and X. Qin, “Performance Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Write Buffer Disks”, Proc. 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. 164-171, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 32.3%, 71/220)
  44. [IEEE Cluster'09] S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, "How Reliable are Parallel Systems When Energy-Efficient Schemes are involved?", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 31-Sept.4, 2009.
  45. [IEEE ICCCN'09] M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "HYBUD: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Hybrid Parallel Disk Systems", Proc. the 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2009.
  46. [ACM TOS'09] X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters", ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 5, no. 3, Aug. 2009.
  47. [IEEE NCA'09] A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, M. Nijim, X. Qin, and W. Luo, “Energy-Aware Prefetching for Parallel Disk Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluation”, Proc. the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, July 2009.
  48. [IEEE NAS'09] X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, “Can We Improve Energy Efficiency of Secure Disk Systems without Modifying Security Mechanisms?”, Proc. the 4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage , pp. 413-420, Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 25.3%, 45/178)
  49. [ACM SAC'09] X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, "DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency", Proc. the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 299-304, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar. 2009. (acceptance rate 29.1%, 315/1084)
  50. [IEEE TWC'08] X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, X. -J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and A. A. Manzanares, "Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 3273-3279, Sept. 2008.
  51. [IEEE ICCCN'08] M. Nijim, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan and K. Bellam, "Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems", Proc. the 17th International Conference Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
  52. [IEEE NGASHPC'08] A. Roth, A. Manzenares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and M. Nijim, "Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness", Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop Next Generation Autonomous Storage and High Performance Computing, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
  53. [IEEE ISCC'08] K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2008.
  54. [WSC'07] Z.-L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, and Y.-M Yang, "A Simulation Framework for Energy-efficient Data Grids", Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2007.
  55. [ICPP'07] Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and M. Alghamdi, "Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters", Proc. 36th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 2007.
  56. [IEEE ICCCN'07] X. -J. Ruan, X. Qin, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and K. Bellam, "An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters", Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, pp. 735-740, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)
  57. [IEEE ICCCN'07] K. Bellam, R. K. Vudata, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X.-J Ruan, "Interplay of Security and Reliability using Non-Uniform Checkpoints", Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007.


Book Chapters

  1. Y. Tian, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, J. Xie, and X. Qin, “Towards A Secure Fragment Allocation Of Files In Heterogeneous Distributed Systems”, Scalable Computing and Communications: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Sept. 2012.
  2. S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, "ROD: A Practical Approach to Improving Reliability of Energy-Efficient Parallel Disk Systems", Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. July 2012. DOI: 10.1002/9781118342015.ch15
  3. Z.-L. Zong, X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, "Improving Energy-Efficiency of Computational Grids via Scheduling", Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications. Jan. 2010. ISBN: 1-61520-686-8 http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=35584