Research Experience

My research focuses on the fundamental problems of distributed computing (i.e., design coordination and agreement distributed algorithms: consensus, broadcast, failure detector, etc.). Besides this, I also work in Big data, data mining/analysis and reliability analysis.

Brief introduction:

• Design distributed algorithms focuses on the fundamental problems of distributed computing. I design and prove coordination and agreement algorithms in anonymous and homonymous distributed systems.  A distributed system is eponymous if each process has a unique identifier; otherwise, it is homonymous (i.e., some processes share an identical identifier) or anonymous (i.e, all processes have no identifier or share an identical identifier). The difficulty of design distributed algorithms in homonymous (anonymous) distributed system lies in how to break the symmetry caused by the lack of unique identifier.

• Telemetry data analysis aims to predict the possible failure model/time and the remaining life of small satellite helping to make maintenance decisions to avoid severe fault or halting. I first use wavelet method to clean the raw data, and then build Auto-Regressive–Moving-Average model (ARMA), Modified Probabilistic/Wavelet Neural Network model separately to forecast the trend of each monitor parameter, and finally, I develop a multi streams fusion decision-making model to output the integrated valuable information to the user.

• Reliability data analysis targets to evaluate the condition of transformer and predict the potential failure model and its occurrence time. Firstly, I calculate the Probability Density Function (PDF) of each parameter by analyzing the statistic data, and then a reliability model is built based on these parameters together with the coefficients among these. Finally, a maintenance decision-making model is proposed combining both reliability and economy factors. 

    Publications

     In Distributed Computing:

• • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez. "Reliable Broadcast in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Channels", International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Nov 2015 (In press).

  • Ernesto Jiménez, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Jian Tang. "Fault-tolerant Broadcast in Anonymous Systems", The Journal of Supercomputing, Sep 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-015-1512-y.

    • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez. "Brief Announcement: Fault-tolerant Broadcast Service in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Communication Channels", In the Proceedings of 2015 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing Proceedings, PODC 2015, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, Jul 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2767386.2767443.

    • Ernesto Jiménez, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Carlos Herrera, Jian Tang. "Eventual Election of Multiple Leaders for Solving Consensus in Anonymous Systems", The Journal of Supercomputing, Jun 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-015-1460-6.

    • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez. "Implementing Uniform Reliable Broadcast in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Channels", In the Proceedings of 2015 IEEE 29th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2015, PP. 500-508. Hyderabad, India, May 2015.  DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.23.

    • Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez, Jian Tang, Rommel Torres. "Set Agreement and the Loneliness Failure Detector in Crash-Recovery Systems", International Journal of Computer System Science and Engineering, Volume 30 (3), PP. 243-251, May 2015.  ISSN 0267 6192.

  • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez. "Implementing Reliable Broadcast in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Channels", In the Proceedings of 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, PDP 2015, Work in Progress Volume, pp. 1-2. Turku, Finland, Mar 2015.

    • Christian Fernández-Campusano, Roberto Cortiñas, Mikel Larrea, Jian Tang. "Designing and Evaluating Fault-tolerant Leader Election Algorithms", In the Proceedings of 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, PDP 2015, Work in Progress Volume, pp. 3-4. Turku, Finland, Mar 2015.

    • Sergio Arévalo Viñuales, Ernesto Jiménez, Jian Tang. "Set Agreement and the Loneliness Failure Detector in Crash-Recovery Systems", In the proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2013, pp. 13-27. Marrakech, Morocco, May 2013. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40148-0_2. 

         In Reliability and Data Analysis:

• • • Jian Tang, Jiahui Luan, Chen Lv, Yalong Liu. "A Novel Design of Prediction Interval for Telemetry Data", In the proceedings of Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2011, pp.1-5. Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, January 2011. DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2011.5754505.

    • Jian Tang, Jiahui Luan, Chen Lv. "Prediction Interval Technique for Small Satellite Power System Telemetry Data", Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nature Science Edition), 2009(S1): 210-212 (in Chinese). DOI: 10.13245/j.hust.2009.s1.021.

    • Jiahui Luan, Jian Tang, Chen Lv. "Prediction interval on spacecraft telemetry data based on modified block bootstrap method", In the Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2010, pp. 38-44. Santa, China, Oct 2010. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16527-6_6.

     Technical Reports:

• • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo, and Ernesto Jiménez, “Fault-tolerant Broadcast in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Channels”, Technical Report EHU-KAT-IK-06-14, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, December 2014. http://www.sc.ehu.es/acwlaalm/research/EHU-KAT-IK-06-14.pdf. 

  • Jian Tang, Mikel Larrea, Sergio Arévalo, and Ernesto Jiménez, “Implementing Reliable Broadcast in Anonymous Distributed Systems with Fair Lossy Channels”, Technical Report EHU-KAT-IK-03-14, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, September 2014. http://www.sc.ehu.es/acwlaalm/research/EHU-KAT-IK-03-14.pdf. 

  • Sergio Arévalo, Ernesto Jiménez and Jian Tang, “Fault-tolerant broadcast in anonymous systems”, Technical Report of Deparmento de Sistemas Informáticos, 21 pages, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 2014. 

     Patents

• • Jiahui Luan, Jian Tang, Yalong Liu, Chen Lv, Tianmin Shan. "Failure prediction and diagnose method for dynamic system", Patent Number: CN201110144382.1, Issued May 31, 2011.

  • Laifa Tao, Chen Lv, Jianhui Luan, Jian Peng, Yiwei Liu, Wanjuan Yan, Zhuo Chen, Jian Tang. "Life prediction method based on Dynamic Bi-step MPNN for small sample objects", Patent Number: CN201010220951.1, Issued June 29, 2010.

     Honors and Awards

• • Outstanding PhD thesis of Polytechnic University of Madrid (Cum Laude), Jan 2016. 

  • ACM SIGACT PODC 2015 Student Travel Grants, Jul 2015.

  • TCPP IPDPS 2015 Student Travel Grants, Apr 2015.

  • Outstanding Master Thesis of Beihang University, Jan 2011.

  • Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province, Jun 2008.

  • Second Class Scholarship of University of Jinan, 2008.

  • First Class Scholarship of University of Jinan, 2007.

  • National Scholarship of China, Apr 2006.

  • Outstanding Volunteer of University of Jinan, 2006.

  • First Class Scholarship of University of Jinan, 2006.

  • Second Class Scholarship of University of Jinan, 2005.