Publications

Stochastic Networks

• Delay asymptotics and bounds for multi-task parallel jobs

Weina Wang, Mor Harchol-Balter, Haotian Jiang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, and R. Srikant

International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), Toulouse, France, Dec. 2018.

[Performance version]

• Heavy-Traffic Delay Insensitivity in Connection-Level Models of Data Transfer With Proportionally Fair Bandwidth Sharing

Weina Wang, Siva Theja Maguluri, R. Srikant, and Lei Ying

International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), New York City, NY, Nov. 2017.

[Performance version]

• Resource Allocation for Data-Parallel Computing in Networks with Data Locality

Weina Wang and Lei Ying

In Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 933–939, Monticello, IL, 2016.

[Allerton version]

• Decentralized Scheduling with Data Locality for Data-Parallel Computation on Peer-to-Peer Networks

Weina Wang, Matthew Barnard and Lei Ying

In Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 337–344, Monticello, IL, 2015.

[Allerton version][slides]

• Data Locality in MapReduce: A Network Perspective

Weina Wang and Lei Ying

In Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 1110–1117, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2014.

Performance Evaluation, vol. 96, pp. 1–11, Feb. 2016.

[Allerton version][PEVA version][technical report][slides]

• Map Task Scheduling in MapReduce with Data Locality: Throughput and Heavy-Traffic Optimality

Weina Wang, Kai Zhu, Lei Ying, Jian Tan, and Li Zhang

In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 1609–1617, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 33–42, Mar. 2013.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, pp. 190–203, Feb. 2016.

[INFOCOM version][PER version][ToN version][poster]

Data Privacy

• Buying Data from Privacy-Aware Individuals: The Effect of Negative Payments

Weina Wang, Lei Ying, and Junshan Zhang

In Proceedings of Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), pp. 87–101, Montreal, Canada, Dec. 2016.

[WINE version][technical report]

• The Value of Privacy: Strategic Data Subjects, Incentive Mechanisms and Fundamental Limits

Weina Wang, Lei Ying, and Junshan Zhang

Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award

In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, pp. 249–260, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, Jun. 2016.

ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2018.

[Sigmetrics version][TEAC version]

• A Game-Theoretic Approach to Quality Control for Collecting Privacy-Preserving Data

Weina Wang, Lei Ying, and Junshan Zhang

In Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 474–479, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2015.

[Allerton version][technical report]

• A Minimax Distortion View of Differentially Private Query Release

Weina Wang, Lei Ying, and Junshan Zhang

In Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar), pp. 1046–1050, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2015.

[Asilomar version][technical report]

• On the Relation Between Identifiability, Differential Privacy, and Mutual-Information Privacy

Weina Wang, Lei Ying, and Junshan Zhang

In Proceedings of Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 1086–1092, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2014.

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, pp. 5018–5029, Sep. 2016.

Poster presented at IEEE North American School of Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, Jun. 2014.

[Allerton version][TIT version][poster]

Wireless Networks

• On the Performance of Largest-Deficit-First for Scheduling Real-Time Traffic in Wireless Networks

Xiaohan Kang, Weina Wang, Juan José Jaramillo, and Lei Ying

In Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), pp. 99–108, Bangalore, India, Jul. 2013.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 24, pp. 72–84, Feb. 2016.

[MobiHoc version][ToN version][supplementary]