Lixia Zhang

ABOUT ME

I jumped into Internet research in fall 1981 when I started my PhD study at MIT, the same month that the TCP/IP specifications were published. During my eight years of graduate school, my adviser Dr. David Clark taught me how to think architecturally. After graduation I joined Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) and spent seven exciting years there (during this time the Internet went from an obscure research to its initial rollout in a global scale), before being recruited to UCLA computer science department. My original plan was to move onto something new once I got a taste of teaching, but that did not happen — it is simply too much fun working with brilliant students and inventing the future together. My mission is to help the Internet grow. See my bio for more details.

WHAT'S NEW

October 2024

NDN Community Meeting 2025 (NDNComm'25) will be hosted by UCLA April 17-18, 2025, followed by NDN Hackathon April 19-20.

June 2024

This time eight years ago, Rik Farrow of ;Login wrote this report NETWORKING: Interview with Lixia Zhang and KC Claffy. It seems still highly relevant today.

April 2024

Our paper "Revealing the Architectural Design Patterns in the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space" has been accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. Here is a copy of preprint.
From the abstract: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have plagued the Internet for decades. Despite the ever-increasing investments into mitigation solution developments, DDoS attacks are growing with ever-increasing frequency and magnitude. To identify the root cause of the above-observed trend, in this paper, we perform a systematic analysis of volumetric DDoS detection and mitigation efforts over the last four decades.... Our analysis illustrates common design patterns across seemingly disparate solutions, and reveals insights into which aspects of DDoS solutions correlate with deployment traction and success... Finally, we discuss the lessons learned, which we hope can shed light on future directions that can potentially allow us to turn the tide on the war against DDoS.

March 2024

NIST hosted the 2024 NDN Community Meeting (NDNComm) during March 6-7. One can find the complete meeting recordings from the above page. Thanks NIST!

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ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT

Named Data Networking

How time flies, especially when one is having fun -- at 2020 NDN Community Meeting we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the NDN project which started on September 1, 2010! NDN is going ever stronger with time. We are busy developing more applications over NDN to force out architectural details to be filled in and, most importantly, verifies and shapes the architectural direction.

Here is a partial collection of old papers, showing cumulations of understanding on networking over the years.

Here is a partial collection of recent papers, showing the progress of the NDN development.

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Internet Architecture Design: How many necessary pieces should be in it, and how do we know we got them right?
Network Protocol Designs: Let's start collecting a set of principles from past successes and lessons.
Here is one of my favorite Feynman quotes.

Find my publications from Google Scholar

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