Xiaojun Ruan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Publications

Please refer to my C.V.

Conference Papers

  1. S. Yin, Y. Tian, J. Xie, X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, M.-K. Qiu, "Reliability Analysis of An Energy-Aware RAID System," Proc. 20th IEEE Int'l Performance Comp. and Comm. Conf. (IPCCC), Orlando, FL, Nov. 2011.
  2. Z. L. Zong, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and M. Nijim, "Heat-Based Dynamic Data Caching: A Load Balancing Strategy for Energy-Efficient Parallel Storage Systems with Buffer Disks," In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011), Denver, CO, May, 2011.
  3. X. -J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. Alghamdi, S. Yin, Z. -Y. Ding, J. Xie, Y. Tian, J. Majors, J. Lewis, and X. Qin, "ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security," Proc. 20th IEEE Int'l Performance Comp. and Comm. Conf. (IPCCC), pp. 61-68, Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 2010. (acceptance rate: 28.3%, 36/127)
  4. Q. Yang, A. Lim, X. -J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "Location Privacy Protection in Contention Based Forwarding for VANETS," Proc. IEEE Global Comm. Conf. (GLOBECOM), Miami, FL, Dec. 2010.
  5. J. Lewis, M. Assaf, X.-J. Ruan, Z. –Y. Ding, Y. Tian, and X. Qin, "An Automatic Prefetching and Caching System", Proc. 20th IEEE Int’l Performance Comp. and Comm. Conf. (IPCCC), Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 2010.
  6. A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, J. Xie, Z. -Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "Energy Efficient Prefetching with Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems," Proc. 39th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), San Diego, CA, Sept. 2010.
  7. S. Yin, M. I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, M. Nijim, A. Tamilarasan, Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Energy Efficiency and Security for Disk Systems," Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-10), Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3, 2010.
  8. J. Xie, S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, Z.-Y. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "Improving MapReduce Performance via Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters", Proc. 19th Int'l Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW), Atlanta, Georgia, Apr. 2010.
  9. X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin, "ECOS: An Energy-Efficient Cluster Storage Systems," Proc. 19th IEEE Int'l Performance Computing and Communications Conf. (IPCCC), pp. 79-86, Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 2009. (acceptance rate: 32.6%, 46/141)
  10. S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, J. Xie, Z.-Y. Ding, J. Majors, and X. Qin "Improving Reliability of Energy- Efficient Storage System by Disks Swapping," International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 14th -16th, 2009.
  11. X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, Z. -L. Zong, and X. Qin, “Performance Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Write Buffer Disks,” Proc. 38th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), pp. 164-171, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2009. (acceptance rate: 32.3%, 71/220)
  12. S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, "How Reliable are Parallel Systems When Energy-Efficient Schemes are involved?" Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), New Orleans, LA, Aug. 31-Sept.4, 2009.
  13. M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "HYBUD: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Hybrid Parallel Disk Systems," Proc. the 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2009.
  14. A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, M. Nijim, X. Qin, and W. Luo, “Energy-Aware Prefetching for Parallel Disk Systems: Algorithms, Models, and Evaluation,” Proc. the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, July 2009.
  15. X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, S. Yin, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, “Can We Improve Energy Efficiency of Secure Disk Systems without Modifying Security Mechanisms?” Proc. the 4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), pp. 413-420, Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 2009. (acceptance rate: 25.3%, 45/178)
  16. X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, "DARAW: A New Write Buffer to Improve Parallel I/O Energy-Efficiency," Proc. the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 299-304, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar. 2009. (acceptance rate 29.1%, 315/1084)
  17. M. Nijim, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, X.-J. Ruan and K. Bellam, "Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems," Proc. the 17th International Conference Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
  18. A. Roth, A. Manzenares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and M. Nijim, "Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness," Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop Next Generation Autonomous Storage and High Performance Computing, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
  19. K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control," Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08), July 2008.
  20. Z.-L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, and Y.-M Yang, "A Simulation Framework for Energy-efficient Data Grids," Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2007.
  21. Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and M. Alghamdi, "Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters," Proc. 36th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2007.
  22. X. -J. Ruan, X. Qin, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and K. Bellam, "An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters," Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), pp. 735-740, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. (acceptance rate: 29%)
  23. K. Bellam, R. K. Vudata, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X.-J Ruan, "Interplay of Security and Reliability using Non-Uniform Checkpoints," Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007.

Journal Papers

  1. X.-J. Ruan, Q. Yang, M. I. Alghamdi, S. Yin, and X. Qin, "ES-MPICH2: A Message Passing Interface with Enhanced Security," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol.9, no.3, pp.361-374, May/June 2012.
  2. A. Manzanares, X. Qin, X.-J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "PRE-BUD: Prefetching for Energy-Efficient Parallel I/O Systems with Buffer Disks," ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 7, no. 1, Jun. 2011.
  3. Z. L. Zong, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "EAD and PEBD: Two Energy-Aware Duplication Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel Tasks on Homogeneous Clusters", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 60, Issue 3, pp. 360-374, Mar. 2011.
  4. X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Manzanares, M. Alghamdi, and X. Qin, "A Message Scheduling Scheme for Energy Conservation in Multimedia Wireless Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 272-283, Mar. 2011.
  5. X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanres, X. -J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "Dynamic Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Jobs in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Clusters of Workstations" IEEE Transactions on Computers. vol. 58, no. 5, May 2010.
  6. X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "Communication-Aware Load Balancing for Parallel Applications on Clusters," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 1, pp.42-52, Jan. 2010.
  7. A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, S. Yin, A. Roth, and X. Qin, "Conserving Energy in Real-Time Storage Systems with I/O Burstiness," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-21, Feb. 2010.
  8. X. Qin, H. Jiang, A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, and S. Yin, "Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications on Clusters," ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 5, no. 3, Aug. 2009.
  9. X. Qin, M. Alghamdi, M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, X. -J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and A. A. Manzanares, "Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling," IEEE Transactions on WirelessCommunications, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 3273-3279, Sept. 2008.
  10. K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X. -J. Ruan, and X. Qin, "Integrating Security and Reliability in Real-time Embedded Systems," Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing. Accepted March 2008.

 

Book Chapter

  1. Y. Tian, M.I. Alghamdi, X.-J. Ruan, J. Xie, and X. Qin, “Towards A Secure Fragment Allocation Of Files In Heterogeneous Distributed Systems,” Scalable Computing and Communications: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Sept. 2012.
  2. S. Yin, X.-J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, X. Qin, "Energy Aware Distributed Computing Systems," Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. May 2011.
  3. Z.-L. Zong, X. -J. Ruan, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, X. Qin, "Improving Energy-Efficiency of Computational Grids via Scheduling," Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications. Jan. 2010. ISBN: 1-61520-686-8 http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=35584