Ying Cai, Ph.D.

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Iowa State University

201 Atanasoff Hall

Ames, IA 50011

Phone: (515) 294-6075

E-mail: yingcai@cs.iastate.edu

 

Biography

Ying Cai received his bachelor and master degree from Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy, China.  He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Ph.D. in computer science in 2002.  While studying in this university, Dr. Cai was the chief architect at nStor/StorLogic leading the effort to develop network storage technology. He developed the first remote RAID management system back in 1996 and the product was licensed by several major companies including SGI, Adaptec, and NEC.  Currently, Dr. Cai is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University.  His research interests include wireless networks, mobile computing, and multimedia systems.

Selected Publications (complete list)

  1. Ying Cai, Ashwin Natarajan, Johnny Wong. On Scheduling of Peer-to-Peer Video Services. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications, Vol. 25, No. 1, January  2007.

  2. Ying Cai, Jianming Zhou. An Overlay Subscription Network for Live Internet TV Broadcast. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1711-1720, December, 2006.

  3. Ying Cai, Zhan Chen, Wallapak Tavanapong. Caching Collaboration and Cache Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Video Systems. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic, Accepted, 2006.

  4. Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua, Guohong Cao, Toby Xu. Real-Time Processing of Range-Monitoring Queries in Heterogeneous Mobile Databases. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 5. No. 7. pp. 931-942, 2006.

  5. Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua. Sharing Multicast Videos Using Patching Streams. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 21. No. 2. pp. 125-146, 2003.

Teaching in Fall'07

[COMS 587] Principles of Network and Distributed Programming

[COMS 461] Database Systems Concepts

Services

PC member of

  • IPCCC'07, IC3N'07, WCNC'07, ICDCN'07, AINA'07, IASTED CSNA'07

  • IPCCC'06, WASA'06, WAIM'06, IEEE-GrC'06

  • WAIM'05

  • WAIM'04