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

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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.

(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.

Professional Activities

• ROADS 2007 TPC
• Globecom 2007 TPC
• TRAM 2007 (IEEE ICDCS) PC
• Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer Journal) Editorial Board
• IEICE IN Committee
• IEICE NS Committee
• IEICE CQ Committee
• IPSJ SIGOS Commitee

Lectures

• 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)

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

2008

• 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.
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)

older papers will be posted soon...

Fun Stuff

• Slithy!

Links

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

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