Jianan Zhang
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Research

Preprints:

  1. Mingyang Zhang, Jianan Zhang, Rui Wang, Ramesh Govindan, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Amin Vahdat, Gemini: practical reconfigurable datacenter networks with topology and traffic engineering.

  2. Jianan Zhang, Hyang-Won Lee, Eytan Modiano, On the robustness of distributed computing networks.

  3. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, Robust routing in interdependent networks.

Journal papers:

  1. Jianan Zhang, Abhishek Sinha, Jaime Llorca, Antonia Tulino, Eytan Modiano, Optimal control of distributed computing networks with mixed-cast traffic flows, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021.

  2. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, Connectivity in interdependent networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018, Code (MATLAB and Julia)

  3. Jianan Zhang, Edmund Yeh, Eytan Modiano, Robustness of interdependent random geometric networks, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018.

  4. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, David Hay, Enhancing network robustness via shielding, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2209 - 2222, August 2017.

  5. Jianan Zhang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Efficient generalized Engset blocking calculation, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1535 - 1538, September 2014. MATLAB code

  6. Jianan Zhang, Eric W. M. Wong, Moshe Zukerman, Modeling an OBS node under critical load and high utilization conditions, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 544 - 546, April 2012.

  7. Jianan Zhang, Yu Peng, Eric W. M. Wong, Moshe Zukerman, Sensitivity of blocking probability in the generalized Engset model for OBS, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1243 - 1245, November 2011.

Conference papers:

  1. Yuanyuan Du, Jianan Zhang, Jie Xu, Xiang Cheng, Shuguang Cui, Global Map Assisted Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance via Deep Reinforcement Learning around Complex Obstacles, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.

  2. Anny Xijia Zheng, Jianan Zhang, Rui Wang, Leon Poutievski, How Traffic Analytics Shapes Traffic Engineering, Topology Engineering, and Capacity Planning of Jupiter, Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), 2023.

  3. Leon Poutievski, Omid Mashayekhi, Joon Ong, Arjun Singh, Mukarram Tariq, Rui Wang, Jianan Zhang, Virginia Beauregard, Patrick Conner, Steve Gribble, Rishi Kapoor, Stephen Kratzer, Nanfang Li, Hong Liu, Karthik Nagaraj, Jason Ornstein, Samir Sawhney, Ryohei Urata, Lorenzo Vicisano, Kevin Yasumura, Shidong Zhang, Junlan Zhou, and Amin Vahdat, Jupiter Evolving: Transforming Google’s Datacenter Network via Optical Circuit Switches and Software-Defined Networking, SIGCOMM, 2022.

  4. Jianan Zhang, Hyang-Won Lee, Eytan Modiano, On the robustness of distributed computing networks, International Conference on the Design of reliable communication networks (DRCN), Coimbra, Portugal, 2019.

  5. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, Joint frequency regulation and economic dispatch using limited communication, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Aalborg, Denmark, 2018.

  6. Hyang-Won Lee, Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, Data-driven localization and estimation of disturbance in the interconnected power system, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Aalborg, Denmark, 2018.

  7. Khashayar Kamran, Jianan Zhang, Edmund Yeh, and Eytan Modiano, Robustness of Interdependent Geometric Networks Under Inhomogeneous Failures, International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), SpaSWiN workshop, Shanghai, China, 2018.

  8. Jianan Zhang, Abhishek Sinha, Jaime Llorca, Antonia Tulino, Eytan Modiano, Optimal control of distributed computing networks with mixed-cast traffic flows, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, USA, 2018.

  9. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, Robust routing in interdependent networks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, USA, 2017. Best-in-Session-Presentation Award.

  10. Jianan Zhang, Edmund Yeh, Eytan Modiano, Robustness of interdependent random geometric networks, Technical Report, 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, USA, 2016.

  11. Jianan Zhang, Eytan Modiano, David Hay, Enhancing network robustness via shielding, International Conference on the Design of reliable communication networks (DRCN), Kansas City, USA, 2015.

  12. Zhisheng Niu, Jianan Zhang, Xueying Guo, Sheng Zhou, On energy-delay tradeoff in base station sleep mode operation, IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), Singapore, 2012.

  13. Jianan Zhang, Meiqian Wang, Shuo Li, Eric W. M. Wong, Moshe Zukerman, Efficiency of OBS Networks, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), University of Warwick, Coventry, England, July 2012.

PhD thesis:

Jianan Zhang, Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Interdependent Networks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2018, Presentation slides.

Master's thesis:

Jianan Zhang, Enhancing Network Robustness via Shielding, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2014

Technical reports:

  1. Jianan Zhang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Efficient generalized Engset blocking calculation (extended version).

  2. Jianan Zhang, Yu Peng, Eric W. M. Wong, Moshe Zukerman, Sensitivity of blocking probability in the generalized Engset model for OBS (extended version).