(Estimated impact of publications)  (The most competitive conferences)

Journal Papers:

1.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. Garbage Collection: Java Application Servers' Achilles Heel. To appear in Science of Computer Programming, Special issue on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (SCP’07) (impact: top 15.15%), Elsevier Science.

2.      Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Jun Wang, Feng Xian. "HBA: Distributed Metadata Management for Large Cluster-based Storage Systems”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1-14, April 2008.

Conference/Workshop Papers:

1.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang.  Contention-Aware Scheduler: Unlocking Execution Parallelism in Multithreaded Java Programs. To appear in ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'08)  (impact: top 3.93%), Nashville, TN, October 19-23.

2.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. “Allocation-Phase Aware Thread Scheduling Policies to Improve Garbage Collection Performance”. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM'07) (impact: top 8.10%), Montreal, Canada. Oct 21-22. 

3.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. MicroPhase: Proactively Invoking Garbage Collection for Improved Performance. In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'07) (acceptance rate: around 15%) (impact: top 3.93%), Montreal, Canada. Oct 21-25.

4.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Chenhuan Jia, Hong Jiang. "AS-GC: An Efficient Generational Garbage Collector for Java Application Servers". In Proceedings of 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'07) (accepted) (acceptance rate: 25/160 = 15.6%) (impact: top 3.19%), Berlin, Germany. July 30-Aug 03, 2007.

5.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Service Oriented Garbage Collection: Improving Performance and Robustness of Application Servers". In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (Poster Session) (OOPSLA Companion’06), Portland, Oregon. Oct 22-26, 2006.  ACM Press, Page 661-662, 2006.

6.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Investigating Throughput Degradation Behavior of Java Application Servers: A View from Inside a Virtual Machine". In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming In Java (PPPJ'06) (acceptance rate: 17/47 = 36.1%), Mannheim, Germany, Aug 30-Sep 1, 2006, Page 40-49.  (nominated for best paper).

7.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, and Hong Jiang, "Evaluating Hardware Support for Reference Counting Using Software Configurable Processors". In Proceedings of IEEE 17th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP'06) (acceptance rate: 26/90 = 26.7%), Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Sep 11-13, 2006, Page 297-302. (PPT)

8.      Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang. "Fortune Teller: Improving Garbage Collection Performance in Server Environment using Live Objects Prediction". In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (Doctorial Symposium) (OOPSLA Companion’05) (acceptance rate: 8/36 = 22.2%), San Diego, CA. Oct 17, 2005.  ACM Press, Page 246-247, 2005. (PPT)

Ph.D. Dissertation

 “VM-aware Thread Scheduling Framework: Improving Efficiency of Java Runtime Environment”. Feb 28, 2008. 

Past Journal/Conference Papers:

1.      Guang Tan, Song Wu, Hai Jin, and Feng Xian. “A Scalable Parallel Video Server Based on Autonomous Network-attached Storage”. In Proceedings of the 11th Parallel Computing (Parco'03). Sep 2-5, Dresden, Germany. Elsevier Science, Page 423-430, 2003.   [Abstract PDF]

2.      Feng Xian, Hai Jin, Ke Liu, and Zongfen Han. “A Mobile-Agent based Distributed Dynamic µFirewall Architecture”. In Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02). Dec 17-20, 2002, Taiwan. USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, Page 431-436, 2002.

3.      Hai Jin, Feng Xian, Zongfen Han, Shengli Li, "A Distributed Dynamic Firewall Architecture with Mobile Agents and KeyNote Trust Management System",  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS'02) , Dec 9-12, Singapore, LNCS 2513, Page13-24, Springer-Verlag. [Abstract HTML]

4.      Feng Xian , Ke Liu, Hai Jin and Zongfen Han, "Distributed Cooperative Intrusions Detection by Data Mining", In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Future Software Technology (ISFST '02), 23-25, Oct 2002, Wuhan.

5.      Hai Jin, Ke Liu, Feng Xian, Zongfeng Han, "A Distributed Dynamic Self-immunity Security Architecture", In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP'02), IEEE Computer Society, Oct 23-25, 2002, Beijing, China. USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, Page 148-151.

Patents:

1.      Hai Jin, Feng Xian and Guang Tan. "A Distributed Network Load Balancing Method." Chinese Patent: ZL02139288.9Date: June 15, 2005.

2.      Zongfen Han, Hai Jin, Ke Liu and Feng Xian. "A Distributed Dynamic Network Security System". Chinese Patent: ZL02115957.2, Date: August 4, 2004.