Xia’s Publications

Edited Books

1. Lu Y. and Xia C.H. (Eds). Special Issues on Cloud Computing as a Service, Service Science. INFORMS Journal 2013.
2. Liu and Xia C.H. (Eds). Performance Modeling and Engineering. New York: Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-79360-3.

Book Chapters

1. *Tang A., Liu Z., Xia C.H., and Zhang L. (2006). Distributed Resource Allocation for Stream Data Processing Systems. In High Performance Computing and Communications: Second Inter- national Conference (HPCC 2006).  Edited by M. Gerndt, D. Kranzlmuller.  Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 91-100.
2. Liu Z., *Momcilovic P., Xia C.H., and Zhang L. (2004). AMBIENCE: Automatic Model Building using InferENCE. In Nidhal Rezg (Eds.),
   Special Issue: Reactive Systems Modelling: A Selection of Papers Presented at the French-speaking Workshop MSR’03, Taylor & Francis, London.
3. Xia C.H. and Shanthikumar J.G.. (2003). Asymptotic Optimal Control of Multi-class G/G/1 Queues with Feedback. Chapter 6, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains. (editors Shanthikumar, J. G., D. D. Yao and W. H. M. Zijm). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. pp. 127-142.
4. Zhang L., Liu Z., Riabov A., Schulman S., Xia C.H., and *Zhang F. (2003). A Comprehensive Toolset for Workload Characterization, Performance Modeling and On-line Control. In Computer Performance Evaluation:  Modeling Techniques and Tools. Vol.  13.  (editors: P. Kemper; W.H. Sanders). Berlin; New York: Springer. pp. 63-77.
5. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., Zhang L., *Malouch N.M., and Dantzig P. (2002). Analysis of Caching Mechanisms from Sporting Event Web Sites. In Advances in Computing Science–ASIAN 2002 : Internet Computing  and Modeling,  Grid Computing,  Peer-to-peer Computing, and Cluster Computing.  Vol.  2550. (editor: A.Jean-Marie). Berlin; New York: Springer. 76-86.

Journal Articles

1. *Zeng Y., Tan J., and Xia C.H. (2021). “Fork and Join Queueing Networks with Heavy Tails: Scaling Dimension and Throughput Limit”. Accepted to appear in Journal of the ACM.
2. *Zeng Y., Chaintreau A., Towsley D., and Xia C.H. (2018) “Throughput Scalability Analysis of Fork-Join Queueing Networks”. Operations Research, 66(6):1728-1743. The preprint of this paper was recognized with an 2016 George E. Nicholson Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award.
3. *Zeng Y. and Xia C.H. (2017) “Optimal Bulking Threshold of Batch Service Queues”, Journal of Applied Probabilities, , 54, no. 2,  pp. 409-423.
4. Liu J., Shroff N.B., Xia C.H., and Sherali H.D. (2016). “Joint Congestion Control and Routing Optimization: An Efficient Second-Order Distributed Approach”, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1404-1420, 2016. <![Impact Factor: 2.969].>
5. *Tan Y., and Xia C.H. (2015). “An Adaptive Learning Approach for Efficient Resource Provisioning in Cloud Services”. ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 42, no. 4, 2015.
6. Liu J., Xia C.H., Shroff N.B., Zhang X. (2013). “On Distributed Computation Rate Optimization for Deploying Cloud Computing Programming Frameworks,” ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 63-72, Mar. 2013.
7. *George D., Xia C.H., and Squillante M.S. (2012). “Exact-order asymptotic analysis for closed queueing networks”. Journal of Applied Probability, 49(2): 1-18, 2012.
8. *Tan Y., Lu Y. and Xia C.H. (2012). “Provisioning for Large Scale Loss Network Systems with Applications in Cloud Computing”. ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 40(3), pp. 83-85.
9. *George D. and Xia C.H. (2011). “Fleet Sizing for a Vehicle Rental Service via Closed Queueing Net- work Analysis”, European Journal of Operations Research, 211(1): 198-207.
10. *Gera A. and Xia C.H. (2011). “Learning Curves and Stochastic Models for Pricing and Provisioning Cloud Computing Services”, Service Science, 3(1): 99-109.
11. *Feng H., Xia C.H., Liu Z. and Zhang L.(2011). “Linear-Speed Interior-Path Algorithms for Distributed Control of Information Networks”, Performance Evaluation, 67: 1107-1122.
12. Xia C.H. and *Chow A.L. (2010). “Asymptotically Optimal Load Distribution for Multi-path Streaming under FEC”, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (PEIS), 24(4): 509-523.
13. 15. *H. Zhao, C.H. Xia, Z. Liu, and D. Towsley. (2010). A Unified Modeling Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation of General Fork and Join Processing Networks. Performance Evaluation Review, 38(1): 299-310.
14. Liu Z., *Tang A., Xia C.H., and Zhang L. (2009). “A Decentralized Control Mechanism for Stream Processing Networks”, Annals of Operations Research, 170(1): 161-182.
15. Xia C.H. and Dube P. (2007). “Dynamic Pricing in e-Services under Demand Uncertainty”, Production and Operations Management, 16(6): 701-712.
16. Dube P., Liu Z., Wynter L., and Xia C.H. (2007). “Competitive Equilibrium in e-Commerce: Pricing and Outsourcing”, Computers & Operations Research, 34(12): 3541-3559.
17. *Feng H., Liu Z., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2007). “Load Shedding and Distributed Resource Control of Stream Processing Networks”, Performance Evaluation, 64(9-12): 1102-1120.
18. C.H. Xia, D. Towsley, Z. Liu and M. Lelarge. (2007). “Scalability of Fork/Join Queueing Networks with Blocking”. ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review. 35(1): 133-144.
19. Liu Z., Wynter L., Xia C.H. and *Zhang F. (2006). “Parameter Inference of Queueing Models for IT Systems using End-to-End Measurements”, Performance Evaluation, 63(1): 36-60.
20. *Lin W., Liu , Xia C.H., and Zhang L. (2005). “Optimal Capacity Allocation for Web Systems with End-to-end Delay Guarantees”, Performance Evaluation, 62(1-4): 400-416.
21. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Zhang L. and *Malouch N.M. (2005). “Web Traffic Modeling at a Finer Time Scales and Performance Implication”, Performance Evaluation, Special Issue on Long Range Dependence and Heavy Tail Distributions, 61(2-3): 181-201.
22. *Chang J., Ayhan H., Dai J. and Xia C.H. (2004). “Dynamic scheduling of a Multiclass Fluid Model with Transient Overload”, Queueing Systems, 48(3-4): 263-307.
23. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., and Zhang L. (2004). “Lower Bounds for LRD/GI/1 Queues with Subexponential Service Times”, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (PEIS), 18(1): 87-101.
24. Peko¨z , Righter R. and Xia C.H. (2003). “Characterizing Losses During Busy Periods in Finite Buffer Systems”, Journal of Applied Probability, 40(1): 242-249.
25. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante, M.S., Zhang, L. and *Malouch, N. (2003). Analysis of Performance Impact of Drill-down Techniques for Web Traffic Models. Teletraffic Science and Engineering. Vol.5, pp. 409-418.
26. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., and Zhang L. 2003. Profile-based Traffic Characterization of Commercial Web Sites. Teletraffic Science and Engineering. Vol.5, pp. 231-240.
27. Zhang L., Liu Z., Riabov A., Schulman S., Xia C.H., and *Zhang F. 2003. “Tools for Measuring, Benchmarking, and Online Control-A Comprehensive Toolset for Workload Characterization, Performance Modeling, and Online Control”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2794, pp. 63-77.
28. Xia C.H., Michailidis G. and Bambos N., and Glynn P.W. (2002). “Optimal Control of Parallel Queues with Batch Service”, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (PEIS) 16(3): 289-307.
29. Squillante S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2002). “Optimal scheduling in queuing network models of high-volume commercial web sites”, Performance Evaluation 47(4): 223-242.
30. Xia C.H., Michailidis G. and Bambos N. (2001). “Dynamic On-line Task Scheduling on Parallel Processors”, Performance Evaluation, 46(2-3): 219-233.
31. Xia C.H., Shanthikumar J.G. and Glynn P.W. (2000). “On the Asymptotic Optimality of the SPT Rule for the Static Flow Shop Average Completion Time Problem”, Operations Research, 48(4): 615-622.

Short Entries (Peer Reviewed)

1. *Zeng Y., Tan J. and Xia C.H. (2018). “Fork and Join Queueing Networks with Heavy Tails: Scaling Dimension and Throughput Limit”. Performance Evaluation Review, 46(1), pp. 122-124.
2. *George D. and Xia C.H. (2010). “Asymptotic Analysis of Closed Queueing Networks and Its Implications to Achievable Service Levels”, Performance Evaluation Review, 38(2):3-5.
3. *W. Lin, Z. Liu, C. H. Xia, and L. Zhang. (2004). Cost minimization of multi-tiered e-business infrastructure with end-to-end delay guarantees. Perform. Evaluation Review, 32(2): 25-27.
4. *Lin W., Liu , Stavropoulos H. and Xia C.H. (2003). “Hard Deadline Queueing System with Application to Unified Messaging Service”, Performance Evaluation Review 2003. 31(2):31-33.
5. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Zhang L., Malouch N. (2002). “Traffic Modeling and Performance Analysis of Commercial Web Sites”, Performance Evaluation Review. 30(3):32-34.
6. Squillante S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2001). “Optimal Scheduling in Queueing Network Models of High-Volume Commercial Web Sites”, Performance Evaluation Review. 29(3):47-48.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. *K. Jin, C. Liu, and C.H. Xia. (2021). Two-sided Wasserstein Procrustes Analysis. In 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence( (IJCAI-21), August 2021. [Peer Reviewed] (Acceptance ratio: 13.9% out of 4204 submissions).
2. *P. R. Natarajan, A. Carrel and C.H. Xia (2021). An equilibrium approach toward the optimal fleet management of a Last Mile Transit Service. In TRB (Transportation Research Board) 2021 Annual Meeting, Jan 2021. [Peer Reviewed]
3. *S. M. Mavrouli, A. Carrel, P.R. Natarajan, A. Broaddus, R. Twumasi-Boakye, and C.H.Xia (2021). Behavioral Factors Affecting Adoption of Microtransit by Commuters. In TRB (Transportation Research Board) 2021 Annual Meeting, Jan 2021. [Peer Reviewed]
4. *K. Jin, and C.H. Xia. (2021). Data-Driven Design of Microtransit Services via Optimal Transport and Simulated Annealing. (Poster). In Proceedings of The 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile’21). [Peer Reviewed]
5. *K. Jin, C. Liu, and C.H. Xia (2020). OTDA: a Unsupervised Optimal Transport framework with Discriminant Analysis for Keystroke Inference. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS’20). [Peer Reviewed]
6. *Y. Tian, J. Liu and C. H. Xia (2020). MATE: A Memory-Augmented Time-Expansion Approach for Optimal Trip-Vehicle Matching and Routing in Ride-Sharing. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, 2020 (e-Energy 2020)>/em>, pp. 133–143. [Peer Reviewed]
7. *Zeng Y., Tan J. and Xia C.H.. (2018). Fork and Join Queueing Networks with Heavy Tails: Scaling Dimension and Throughput Limit, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2018 , Irvine, CA.
8. *Zeng Y., Chaintreau A., Towsley D. and Xia C.H. (2016). A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Throughput Scalability of Fork and Join Networks with Blocking, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, June 2016. [Acceptance Rate: 13%]
9. *Tan Y. and Xia C.H.(2016). Cyber Maintenance Policy Optimization via Adaptive Learning, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, April 2016. [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
10. Liu J., Xia C.H., Shroff N.B., and Sherali H.D. (2014). A Second-Order Approach for Distributed Load Shedding in Power Systems Post-Disaster Recovery, Proc. ACM Sigmetrics, Austin, TX, Jun. 2014
11. Liu Z., Xia C.H., Shroff N.B., and Sherali H.D. (2013). Distributed Cross-Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks: A Second-Order Approach, in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, Apr. 14-19, 2013 (Best Paper Runner-up Award).
12. *Tan Y., Lu Y. and Xia C.H. (2012). Provisioning for critically-loaded loss networks. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, London, United Kingdom, June 2012.
13. *Huai Y., Lee R., Zhang S., Xia C.H., and Zhang X. (2011). DOT: A Matrix Model for Analyzing, Optimizing and Deploying Big Data Analytics in Distributed Systems. In: Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’11). [Acceptance Rate: 16%]
14. *Zhao H., Xia C.H., Liu Z., and Towsley D. (2010). A Unified Modeling Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation of General Fork and Join Processing Networks. In: Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2010, New York, NY. [Acceptance Rate: 16%]
15. *Zhao H., Xia C.H., Liu Z., and Towsley D. (2010). Distributed Resource Allocation for Synchronous Fork and Join Processing Networks.  In: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference 2010, San Diego, CA.
16. *Chow A.H., Yang H., Xia C.H., Kim M., Liu Z., Lei H. (2009). Encoded Multipath Streaming for Real-time Live Streaming Applications. In: Proceedings of The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’09), Princeton, NJ. [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
17. *L. Ying, Liu Z., Towsley D. and Xia C.H. (2008). Distributed Operator Placement and Data Caching for In-Network Stream Query Processing. In: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ. [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
18. Xia C.H., Towsley D., and *Zhang C. (2007). Distributed Resource Management and Admission Control of Stream Processing Systems with Max Utility. In: Proceedings of The 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Toronto, Canada. [Acceptance Rate: 13%]
19. *Liu J., Liu Z., Towsley D. and Xia C.H. (2007). Maximize the Data Utility of a Data Archiving & Querying System through Joint Coding and Scheduling. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN07), Cambridge, MA.
20. *Rong B., Douglis F., Liu Z., and Xia C.H. (2007). Failure Recovery in Cooperative Data Stream Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES07),
21. Xia C.H., Towsley D., Liu Z. and *Lelarge M.   (2007). Scalability of Fork/Join Queueing Networks with Blocking. In: Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, San Diego, CA. [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
22. Xia C.H., *Broberg J., Liu Z. and Zhang L. (2006).  Distributed Resource Allocation in Stream Processing Systems. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006). [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
23. *Broberg J., Liu Z., Xia C.H. and Zhang L., “A Multicommodity Flow Model for Distributed Stream Processing”, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006, pp. 377-378.
24. *Kayshyap A., Lastras L., Xia C.H. and Liu Z. (2005). Distributed Source Coding in Dense Sensor Networks. In: Proceedings of Data Compression Conference (DCC’05).
25. *Kashyap A., Xia C.H., Liu Z. and Dube P. (2005). Scaling Laws of Sampling and Capacity of Sensors on Closed Surfaces. In: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN05).
26. *Xi B., Liu Z., Raghavachari M., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2004). A Smart Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Application Server Configuration. In: Proceedings of the 13th Inter- national Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2004). [Acceptance Rate: 14%]
27. *Lelarge M., Liu Z. and Xia C.H. (2004). Asymptotic Tail Distribution of End-to-End Delay in Networks of Queues with Self-Similar Cross Traffic. In: Proceedings of INFOCOM 2004. [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
28. Wynter L., Xia C.H. and Zhang F. (2004). “Parameter Inference of Queueing Models for IT Systems using End-to-End Measurements”, Proceedings of SIGMETRICS/Performance 2004, pp. 408-409.
29. Z. Liu Z, P. Momcilovic*, C.H. Xia, and L. Zhang (2003). AMBIENCE: Automatic Model Building using InferENCE. In: Congress MSR’03. French-speaking workshop MSR’03 (Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs), 2003, Metz, France.
30. Xia C.H. and Liu Z. (2003). Queueing Systems with Long-Range Dependent Input Process and Subexponential Service Times. In: Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2003, San Diego, CA. [Acceptance Rate: 11%]
31. Liu Z., Wynter L., and Xia C.H. (2003). Usage-based versus Flat Pricing for e-business Services with Differentiated QoS. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC 2003).
32. Liu Z., Wynter L. and Xia C.H.,
    Pricing and QoS of information services in a competitive market. In Proceedings of 4th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2003), San Diego, California, USA, June 9-12, 2003. (EC 2003). pp. 188-189. [Peer Reviewed]
33. *Dube P., Liu Z., Wynter L.and Xia C.H. (2003). Outsourcing and Price-QoS Equilibrium for Ecommerce and Internet Firms: IT On-Demand. In: Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2003).
34. *Chang J., Ayhan H., Dai J., Squillante M.S. and Xia C.H. (2003). Optimal Dynamic Scheduling in a Multiclass Fluid Model of Internet Servers with Transient Over- load. In: Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2003).
35. Zhang L., Liu Z. and Xia C.H. (2002). Clock Synchronization Algorithms for Network Measurements. In: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2002. [Acceptance Rate: 20%]
36. Zhang L., Xia C., Squillante M.S. and Mills N. (2002). Workload Service Requirements Analysis: A Queueing Network Optimization Approach.  In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International. Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS2002).
37. Yu S.Z., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2002).  A Hidden Semi-Markov Model for Web Workload Self-similarity. In: Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2002).
38. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., Zhang L., Dantzig P.M. and *Malouch N.M. (2002). Analysis of Measurement Data from Sporting Event Web Sites. In: Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2002.
39. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z. and Zhang L. (2002). Traffic Profiling, Clustering and Classification for Commercial Web Sites. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Management (ICTSM10).
40. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yao D.D. and Zhang L.(2001). Threshold-Based Priority Policies forParallel-Server Systems with Affinity Scheduling. In: Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC2001). : 2292-2299. [Peer Reviewed]
41. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. (2001). Optimal Scheduling in Queueing Network Models of High-Volume Web Sites. In: Select Proceedings of the SPIE-2000 Conference on Internet Quality and Performance and Control of Network Systems. Vol. 4211: 113-121.