Akihiro Nakao Associate Professor Applied Computer Science Course, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Japanese Page (日本語のページ）   Office: III Annex, 2F, Hongo Campus Phone/FAX: +81-3-5841-2664 (TieLine: 22664) Email: nakao (at) iii (dot) u-tokyo (dot) ac (dot) jp

Profile

Aki Nakao is an associate professor at Applied Computer Science Course*, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graudate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. He received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Princeton University (Advisor: Larry Peterson, Network System Group). He is a member of PlanetLab Consortium. He also jointly organizes PlanetLab Japan Consortium.

Aki has been leading NakaoLab at the University of Tokyo since 2005.

(more profile in japanese another one in japanese)

*Applied Computer Science Course is initiated in 2006, Aki belonged to Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Course in 2005.

News

• Symposium & Workshop on Overlay Networks and New Generation Network Research

Research Interests

• Network Virtualization
• Overlay Networks
• Wide-Area Network Distributed Systems
• Computer Networks
• Ubiquitous Networking

Projects

• CoreLab (CoreLab PLC)
• Virtual Router
• Network Virtualization Lab
• PlanetLab JAPAN
• PLUTO
• Routing Overlay Networks
• SORA
• Burrows/Overfort
• iMesh
• SpotLite
• Kumo

• A note on time synchoronization on PlanetLab nodes (and more) *This is old stuff, but I still get inquiries on this, so it would be useful to put a link here.

Lectures

• Computer Networks (2012 Summer)
• Computer Systems@Ochanomizu Univ (2011 Winter)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2011 Winter)
• Computer Networks (2011 Summer)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2010 Winter)
• Special Studies in Applied Computer Science (2010 Winter)
• Computer Networks (2010 Summer)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2009 Winter)
• Special Studies in Applied Computer Science (2009 Winter)
• Computer Networks (2009 Summer)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2008 Winter)
• Special Studies in Applied Computer Science (2008 Winter)
• Computer Networks (2008 Summer)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2007 Winter)
• Special Studies in Applied Computer Science (2007 Winter)
• Applied Computer Science (2007 Summer; Joint)
• Computer Networks (2007 Summer)
• Computer Science@Komaba (2006 Winter)
• Special Studies in Applied Computer Science (2006 Winter)
• Computer Networks (2006 Summer)
• Information Analysis (2006 Summer; Joint)
• Planetary Scale Ubiquitous Networking (2005 Winter)
• Information Processing (2005 Summer)
• Information and Design (2005 Summer/Winter; joint)

Selected Publications (Peer-Reviewed Only)

2011

• HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao, "SeederTrading: Trading Swarm Capacity for Improving Content Distribution", to appear in HotP2P, Eighth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2011
• Masaki Fukushima, Toru Hasegawa, Teruyuki Hasegawa, Akihiro Nakao, "Minimum Disclosure Routing for Network Virtualization" , to appear in Global Internet, INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, 2011
• Soon Hin Khor, Akihiro Nakao, "DaaS: Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Mitigation-as-a-Service", to appear in 11th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the
  Internet (SAINT), 2011
• Ryoji Furuhashi, Akihiro Nakao, "OpenTag: Tag-based network slicing for wide-area coordinated in-network packet processing", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
• Eiji Miyagaki, Akihiro Nakao, "Cache sharing method using IEEE 802.11 Wireless Access Points for mobile environment", to appear inIEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
• Kiyohide Nakauchi, Kentaro Ishizu, Homare Murakami, Akihiro Nakao, Hiroshi Harada, "AMPHIBIA: A Cognitive Virtualization Platform for End-to-End Slicing" ,to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
• Soon Hin Khor and Akihiro Nakao, "MI: Cross-Layer Malleable Identity", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
• Ryoichi Kawahara, Tatsuya Mori, Noriaki Kamiyama, Shigeaki Harada, Haruhisa Hasegawa, Akihiro Nakao, "Traffic engineering using overlay network", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011
• Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao, "OFIAS: A TestBed for Exploring In-Path Processing Network", to appear in TridentCom 2011
• HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao, JongWon Kim, "Multi-swarm Collaboration for Improved Content Availability in BitTorrent-like Systems" , IEEE CCNC 2011
• HyunYong Lee, Akihiro Nakao, JongWon Kim, "Understanding of Network Operator-friendly P2P Traffic Control Techniques in Intra Domain", ICOIN 2011

2010

• Vytautas Valancius , Yogesh Mundada , Nick Feamster , Jennifer Rexford, Akihiro Nakao, "Wide-Area Route Control for Distributed Services", USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2010
• Yuichiro Hei, Akihiro Nakao, Toru Hasegawa, Tomohiko Ogishi, Shu Yamamoto, "vDC: Virtual Data Center Powered with AS Alliance for Enabling Cost-Effective Business Continuity and Coverage", INM/WREN '10, 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '10), April 28–30, 2010.
• Yuichiro HEI, Akihiro NAKAO, Tomohiko OGISHI, Toru HASEGAWA, Shu YAMAMOTO , "AS Alliance for Resilient Communication over the Internet", IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications 2010
• HyunYong Lee, Aki Nakao, JongWon Kim, "Traffic control through bilateral cooperation between network operators and peers in P2P networks", 2010 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS),
• Yucheng Zhu, Maoke Chen, Akihiro Nakao, "CONIC: Content-Oriented Network with Indexed Caching", Global Internet, INFOCOM IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops , 2010
• Ping Du, Aki Nakao, "Mantlet Trilogy: DDoS Defense Deployable with Innovative Anti-Spoofing, Attack Detection and Mitigation", 2010 Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
• Sugang Xu, Hiroaki Harai, Hideki Otsuki Aki Nakao, "Incorporating optical private network in network virtualization for emerging network services", 2010 9th International Conference on Optical Internet (COIN)
• Ping Du, Akihiro Nakao, "DDoS Defense Deployment with Network Egress and Ingress Filtering", 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• John Russell Lane, Akihiro Nakao, "On Best-Effort Packet Reordering for Mitigating the Effects of Out-of-Order Delivery on Unmodified TCP", IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications 2010
• Akihiro Nakao, "Network Virtualization as Foundation for Enabling New Network Architectures and Applications", IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications 2010
• Hiroaki Nakazawa, Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Ohzahata, Akihiro Nakao, Konosuke Kawashima, "A method for controlling search in a pure P2P file sharing network", 8th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies 2010
• Pratama Putra, Aki Nakao,"Measuring P2P Network Topology through Geo-Location-Aware Distributed Crawlers", 8th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies 2010

2009

• Soon Hin Khor and Aki Nakao, “sPoW: On-Demand Cloud-based eDDoS Mitigation Mechanism”, HotDep (Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability) 2009
• Richard Potter and Aki Nakao. “Mobitopolo: A Portable Infrastructure Service to Facilitate Flexible Deployment and Migration of Distributed Applications with Virtual Topologies”, in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2009 VISA
• Ryoichi Kawahara, Satoshi Kamei, Noriaki Kamiyama, Haruhisa Hasegawa Hideaki Yoshino, Eng Keong Lua, Aki Nakao, “A method of constructing QoS overlay network and its evaluation”, to appear in the proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2009 Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium (GC’09 NGNI)
  
• T. Zinner, K. Tutschku, A. Nakao, P. Tran-Gia: Performance Evaluation of Packet Re-ordering on Concurrent Multipath Transmissions for Transport Virtualization. In Proceedings of the 20th ITC Specialist Seminar on Network Virtualization, Hoi An, Vietnam, May 2009
• Maoke Chen, Akihiro Nakao, Olivier Bonaventure and Taoyu Li, “UOA: User-Oriented Addressing for Slice Computing,” In Proceedings of the 20th ITC Specialist Seminar on Network Virtualization, Hoi An, Vietnam, May 2009
• Aun Haider, Richard Potter, and Akihiro Nakao,”Challenges in Resource Allocation in Network Virtualization”, In Proceedings of the 20th ITC Specialist Seminar on Network Virtualization, Hoi An, Vietnam, May 2009
• Masahiro Yoshida , Satoshi Ohzahata , Akihiro Nakao , and Konosuke Kawashima, "Controlling File Distribution In Winny Network Through Index Poisoning", IEEE ICOIN 2009
• K. Tutschku, T. Zinner, A. Nakao and P. Tran-Gia, Network Virtualization: Implementation Steps Towards the Future Internet, Proceedings of the Workshop on Overlay and Network Virtualization at KIVS 2009, Kassel, Germany, Mar. 2009.
• K. Tutschku, T. Zinner, A. Nakao and P. Tran-Gia, Re-sequencing Buffer Occupancy of a Concurrent Multipath Transmission Mechanism for Transport System Virtualization, Proceedings of Kommunikation in verteilten Systemen 2009 (KIVS 2009), Kassel, Germany, Mar. 2009.
• Kurt Tutschku, Akihiro Nakao,"Towards the Engineering of Dependable P2P-based Network Control - The Case of Timely Routing Control Messages", IEICE Transactions, Vol.E92-B,No.01,pp.-, (January 2009)
• Yufeng Wang, A. Nakao,"On Cooperative and Efficient Overlay Network Evolution based on Group Selection Pattern", IEICE Transaction Special Issues on Internet Technology and its Architecture for Ambient Information Systems 2009.

2008

• Akihiro Nakao, Kengo Sasaki, Shu Yamamoto, "A Remedy for Network Operators against Increasing P2P Traffic: Enabling Packet Cache for P2P Applications", IEICE Transactions on Communications 2008 E91-B(12):3810-3820; doi:10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.12.3810 (2008)
• Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao "Research issues and overview of incentive-compatible topology evolution in autonomous overlay networks", The 3rd ChinaGrid Annucal Conference 2008 (2008)
• Yufeng Wang, Akihiro Nakao,"On socially-inspired cooperative and efficient overlay network evolution based on group selection pattern", IEEE Bionetics 2008.
• Yufeng Wang, Akihiro NAkao, "On novel economic-inspired centrality measures in weighted networks", IEEE APSCC 2008 (2008)
• Yufeng Wang, A. Nakao,"On evolution of cooperative overlay network based on group selection mechanism", The 9th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (2008)
• Akihiro Nakao, Ryota Ozaki, Yuji Nishida, "Building a Flexible Overlay Network Testbed with a Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor", ComSys 2008 (November 2008)
• Yuichiro Hei, Aki Nakao, Toru Hasegawa, Tomohiro Ogishi, Shu Yamamoto, "AS Alliance: Cooperatively Improving Resilience of Intra-Alliance Communication", ACM ROADS 2008 (December 2008)
• Akihiro Nakao, Ryota Ozaki, Yuji Nishida, "CoreLab: An Emerging Network Testbed Employing Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor", ACM ROADS 2008 (December 2008)
• Soon Hin Khor and Aki Nakao, "AI-RON-E: Prophecy of One-hop Source Routers", IEEE Globecom 2008 Next Generation Networks, Protocols, and Services Symposium (GC'08 NGNPS) (December 2008)
• John Russell Lane and Akihiro Nakao, "Best-Effort Network Layer Packet Reordering in Support of Multipath Overlay Packet Dispersion", IEEE Globecom 2008 Next Generation Networks, Protocols, and Services Symposium (GC'08 NGNPS) (December 2008)
• John Russell Lane and Akihiro Nakao, "Path Brokering for End-Host Path Selection: Toward a Path-Centric Billing Model for a Multipath Internet", ACM ReArch 2008 (December 2008)
• Kenji Leibnitz, Masayuki Murata and Akihiro Nakao, "Biologically-Inspired Path Selection Scheme for Multipath Overlay Networks", The 1st International Symposium of Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL) 2008 (2008)
• John Russell Lane and Akihiro Nakao, "End-Host Path Monitoring and Selection Supporting Packet Dispersion on Multipath Overlay Networks", The 3rd International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI08) Seoul KyoYuk MunHwa Hoekwan Hotel, Seoul, Korea, June 18-20, 2008 (2008)
• Soon Hin Khor and Aki Nakao, "Overfort: Combating DDoS with peer-to-peer DDoS puzzle", IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008 (IPDPS 2008)

~2007

• Soon Hin Khor and Nicolas Christin and Tina Wong and Akihiro Nakao, "Power to the people: securing the internet one edge at a time", ACM SIGCOMM 2007 LSAD Workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense. (August 2007)
• John Lane and Akihiro Nakao, "SORA: A Shared Overlay Routing Architecture", ACM ROADS Workshop 2007 (2007)
• Akihiro NAkao, Larry Peterson, Andy Bavier, "Scalable Routing Overlay Networks", ACM SIGOPS 2006 (January 2006)
• Akihiro Nakao, Larry Peterson, Andy Bavier, "A Routing Underlay for Overlay Networks", ACM SIGCOMM 2003, Kahrlsruhe, Germany, (August 2003)
• Nadia Shalaby, Larry Peterson, Andy Bavier, Yitzchak Gottlieb, Scott Karlin, Akihiro Nakao, Xiaohu Qie, Tammo Spalink, Mike Wawrzoniak, "Extensible Routers for Active Networks", DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition (May 2002)
• Akihiro Nakao, Larry Peterson and Andy Bavier "Constructing End-to-End Paths for Playing Media Objects." IEEE Computer Networks 38(3)373--389,2002.
• Akihiro Nakao, Larry Peterson and Andy Bavier, "Constructing End-to-End Paths for Media Objects" The 4th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming. OpenArch 2001 (April 2001)

Professional Activities

• Sub-Leader of Assessment Working Group, New Generation Network Forum, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (2008-2010)
• Leader of Assessment Sub-Working Group on Network Virtualization and Cloud Networking (2008-2010)
• TPC, IEEE ICNP (2011)
• TPC, IEEE ICC NGNI/FutureNet IV(2011)
• TPC, IEEE ITC (2011)
• TPC, ACM CoNEXT (2011)
• TPC, IEEE SUNSET (2011)
• Co-chair IEEE CSE (2011)
• TPC, ACM SIGCOMM VISA (2010)
• TPC, ACM SIGCOMM VISA (2009)
• Steering Committee, ACM ROADS (2009)
• TPC, IEEE ITC (2009)
• TPC, IEEE IPCCC (2009)
• TPC, ACM ReArch (2009)
• TPC, AINTEC (2009)
• TPC, IEEE Green Com II (2009)
• TPC, TridentCom (2009)
• TPC, AINTEC (2009)
• IEICE NS Committee
• IEICE CQ Committee
• IPSJ SIGOS Commitee

Links

• Nakao Lab
• CFP List
• PlanetLab
• CoreLab
• Computer Science Department, Princeton University
• NSG at Princeton

Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graudate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies