Office:  LC 258
        Phone : (718) 260-3959, FAX:    (718) 260-3906
        Email:  yongliu@poly.edu 

Ph.D, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  05/2002
M.S., Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 07/1997  

• Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY (07/2008-present)
• Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY (03/2005-06/2008)
• Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Networks Research Group, directed by Professor Jim Kurose and Don Towsley, Computer Science Department, UMass, Amherst (02/2002-03/2005)
• Research Assistant in Complex Systems Modeling and Control Lab, directed by Professor Weibo Gong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass, Amherst (06/1998-01/2002)
  
• Curricular Vitae: pdf version

• EL736 - Communications Networks II: Design and Algorithms,  
• EL537 - Internet Architecture and Protocols,  
  
• EE136 - Communication Networks,  
  
• EL536 - Principles of Communication Networks,  
• EL933 - Network Measurement and Traffic Engineering,
  

• Design, Analysis and Simulation of Communication Networks
  
  
• Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems

• P2P IPTV Systems: measurement, analysis and design, collaborating with Professor Shiv Panwar, Keith Ross and Yao Wang, with generous support from the following industrial sponsors:  
• Huawei, IP Network Research Center, Nanjing, China,
  
• Thomson Research Center, Princeton, NJ, USA, 
• Verizon Laboratories, Waltham, MA, USA.
  
  
• Network X-ities: -- Foundations and Applications, (or "robust" network design in short), funded by NSF under contract CNS-0519998, 9/2005 - 8/2009, co-PI, collaborating with Professor Jim Kurose and Don Towsley from UMass, and Professor Mung Chiang and Jennifer Rexford from Princeton.
  
  
• Overlay Networks:  application level relays, optimal overlay design.
  
  
• Network Measurement: information theoretic approaches.

• "Queuing Network Models for Multi-Channel P2P Live Streaming Systems",
  Di Wu, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2009, available as Technical Report, the sole winner of the Best Paper Award of INFOCOM 2009 (selected from 282 accepted papers out of 1,435 submissions). 
    
• "Investigating the Scheduling Sensitivity of P2P Video Streaming: an experimental study",
  Chao Liang, Yang Guo and Yong Liu,
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 11, Number 3, April 2009.
  
  
• "dHCPS: Decentralized Hierarchically Clustered P2P Video Streaming",
  Yang Guo, Chao Liang and Yong Liu,
  appeared in the Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), July, 2008.
  
  
• "Is Random Scheduling Sufficient in P2P Video Streaming?",
  Chao Liang, Yang Guo and Yong Liu,
  appeared in the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), June, 2008.
  
  
• "Adaptive Queue-based  Chunk Scheduling for P2P Live Streaming"
  Yang Guo , Chao Liang, and Yong Liu,
  appeared in the Proceedings of IFIP Networking, May, 2008, available as Technical Report.
  
  
• "Inferring Network-Wide Quality in P2P Live Streaming Systems",
  Xiaojun Hei, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in IEEE JSAC special issue on advances in P2P streaming, Volume 25, Number 9. December 2007, available as Technical Report, awarded the Best Paper in Multimedia Communications of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in 2008 (selected from papers published in IEEE ComSoc sponsored journals and conferences in 2006 & 2007).
  
  
• "A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System",
  Xiaojun Hei, Chao Liang, Jian Liang, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 9, Number 8, December, 2007, available as Technical Report.
  
  
• "On the Minimum Delay Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming: how realtime can it be?",
  Yong Liu,
  in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, September, 2007, [pdf], full versioin availabe as [Technical Report]
  
  
• "Stochastic Fluid Theory for P2P Streaming Systems",
  Rakesh Kumar, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2007, available as Technical Report.
  


• "A Distributed Algorithm for Joint Sensing and Routing in Wireless Networks with Non-Steerable Directional Antennas",
  Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose, Yong Liu, Don Towsley and Michael Zink
  in the Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2006 [pdf].
  
  
• "Insight into PPLive: A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System",
  Xiaojun Hei, Chao Liang, Jian Liang, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  WWW 2006 workshop of IPTV services over World Wide Web [pdf].
  
  
• "On the TCP-Friendliness of VoIP Traffic",
  Tian Bu, Yong Liu, and Don Towsley,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2006 [pdf].
  
  
• "An Information-Theoretic Approach to Network Monitoring and Measurement",
  Yong Liu, Don Towsley, Tao Ye and Jean Bolot,
  in the Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2005 [ pdf].

Professional Service

• Tutorials Chair, ACM Sigmetrics 2010;
  
  
• Publication/Web Chair for 2007 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR);
  
  
• TPC Member for
  
• ACM Multimedia 2009
• NOSSDAV 2009
  
• IPTPS 2009
  
• IEEE Infocom 2009
  
• ACM Sigcomm CoNEXT 2008, 
• ACM Sigmetrics 2008,
  
• IEEE ICDCS 2008,
  
• ACM Sigcomm 2007 P2P-TV Workshop,
  
• ACM Sigmetrics 2007 Student  Workshop,
  
• IFIP Performance 2007, 
• Tridentcom 2007, 2009,
  
• ICCCN 2006, 2007, 2008;
  
  
• Referee for submissions to the following professional conferences and journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; Computer Networks Journal; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;  Automatica; Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems; ACM/Sigcomm, ACM/Sigmetrics, IEEE/Infocom, IEEE/Globecom; IEEE/ICC, IEEE/CDC.