Refereed Journal Papers


 

J1. Modeling and Improving Security of a Local Disk System for Write-Intensive Workloads.
M. Nijim, X. Qin, and T. Xie, ACM Transactions on Storage. Submitted Nov. 2005; accepted July 2006.


 

J2. Conserving Energy in Real-Time Wireless Networks via Message Scheduling.
X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, T. Xie, M. Nijim, and Z.-L. Zong, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Submitted Jan. 2006; revised Aug. 2006.


 

J3. Performance Analysis of an Admission Controller for CPU- and I/O-Intensive Applications in Self-Managing Computer Systems.
M. Nijim, T. Xie, and X. Qin, ACM Operating Systems Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp.37-45, October, 2005.


J4. StReD : A Quality of Security Framework for Storage Resources in Data Grids.

     M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and X. Qin, Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l Journal of Grid Computing. Submitted April 2006; revised Sept. 2006;

     accepted Dec. 2006. 

 

J5. Conserving Energy in Real-Time Wireless Networks via Message Scheduling.

      X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, T. Xie, M. Nijim, and Z.-L. Zong, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Submitted Jan. 2006; revised Aug. 2006.

 

J6. Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications on Mobile Clusters. 

       Z.Zong, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications. Submitted May 2006; revised Jan. 2007.

 

 


Submitted Journals

 

Ø      Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling.
X. Qin, M.Nijim, Z. Zong, Submitted Feb. 2007.

 

Ø      Quality of Security Adaptation in Parallel Disk Systems.
X. Qin and M.Nijim, ACM Transaction On Storage, Submitted Oct. 2006

Ø      Energy Management for Real-Time Embedded Storage Systems

       A.Roth, T.Xie, M.Nijim, X.Qin, ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing Systems, Submitted Feb. 2006    

Ø      A Caching Strategy to Improve Security of Cluster Storage Systems.

      X. Qin and M.Nijim

 


Refereed Conference Papers

 

C1. Adaptive Quality of Security Control in Networked Parallel Disk Systems. (Accepted)
M. Nijim, X. Qin, and T. Xie, Proc. 15th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 2006.


 

C2. Solving Energy-Latency Dilemma: Task Allocation for Parallel Applications in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems.

       T. Xie, X. Qin, and M. Nijim, Proc. 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 2006.


 

C3. An Adaptive Strategy for Secure Distributed Disk Systems.
  M. Nijim, T. Xie, Z.-L. Zong, and X. Qin, NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Work-in-Progress Session, May 2006.


 

C4. Awards: An Adaptive Write Scheme for Secure Local Disk Systems.
M. Nijim, X. Qin, T. Xie, Proc. 25th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), April 2006.


 

C5. Sharp: A New Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm to Improve Security of Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Clusters.
T. Xie, X. Qin, and M. Nijim, Proc. 25th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), April 2006.


 

C6. Integrating a Performance Model in Self-Managing Computer Systems under Mixed Workload Conditions.
M. Nijim, T. Xie, and X. Qin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Aug. 2005.


C7. Adaptive Quality of Security Control in Networked Parallel Disk Systems.

      M. Nijim, X. Qin, and T. Xie, Proc. 15th Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 2006.

C8. HAGEES: A High Availability Guaranteed Energy-Efficient Scheduling Strategy for High-Performance Clusters.

       Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, M. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, Proc. the 7th Symposium of the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 2006.

C9. Scheduling of Periodic Packets in Energy-Aware Wireless Networks. 

       X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and K. Bellam, Proc. the 26th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communications Conf. (IPCCC'07), New Orleans,   Louisiana, April 2007

Submitted Conference Papers

Ø     Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems

     M. Nijim, X. Qin, Submitted Feb. 2007

Ø      Energy Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on heterogeneous Clusters.

      Z. Zong, X. Qin, M.Nijim

Ø      A Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithm for Parallel Applications on

      X.-J. Ruan, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X. Qin. To be submitted, Feb. 2007

Ø      Improving Security of Real-time Systems with Nonuniform Distribution of Checkpoints.

 K. Bellam, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan, and M. Alghamdi, To be submitted, March 2007

Work in progress

Ø      Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Tasks with Precedence Constraints on Clusters.

       X.-J. Ruan, M. Nijim, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, and K. Bellam. To be submitted March 2007.