About Lei

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia. I am a member of the Peer-to-Peer networks and applications research group, Dr. Aaron Harwood is my supervisor. My current study/research is supported by NICTA.

After receiving my B.Eng degree from the Tongji University, China in 2003, I moved from Shanghai to Melbourne for my postgraduate study in 2004.

Research Projects

Robustness and scalability for P2P based systems.

Publication

1. Lei Ni and Aaron Harwood. An implementation of the message passing interface over an adaptive peer-to-peer network. 2 Pages Poster. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC2006), pages 371-372, 2006.

2. Lei Ni, Aaron Harwood, and Peter J. Stuckey. Realizing the e-science desktop peer using a peer-to-peer distributed virtual machine middleware. In MCG '06: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing, (CDROM), New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.

3. Lei Ni, Aaron Harwood. A comparative study on peer-to-peer failure rate estimation. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Network Virtual Environments 2007, in conjunction with The 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2007.

4. Lei Ni, Aaron Harwood. An adaptive checkpointing scheme for peer-to-peer based volunteer computing work flows. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), pages 227-234, 2008.

5. Lei Ni, Aaron Harwood. P2P-Tuple: Towards the Next Generation Volunteer Computing. To appear in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2009.

Copyright Information

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Contact Details

Email: please replace the '*' with a '@' : lni*csse.unimelb.edu.au
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