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Yongning Tang

Assistant Professor
School of Information Technology
Illinois State University

Campus Box 5150
Normal, IL  61790-5150

Office: OU 108

Phone: 309-438-8002


Teaching

·         IT 177 – Structured Problem-Solving Using the Computer (U)

·         IT 178 – Computer Application Programming (U)

·         IT 275 – Java as a Second Programming Language (U/G)

·         IT 277 – Programming for Telecommunications (U)

·         IT 328 – Theory of Computation (U/G)

·         IT 375 – Data Communications and Networking (U/G)

·         IT 377 – Practical Telecommunication Networking (U/G)

·         IT 381 – Network Design and Analysis (U/G)

·         IT 389 – Network Management Programming (U/G)

·         IT 497 – Research Methodology (G)

 

Research Interest

 

My research interests are in fault diagnosis in large-scale distributed networking systems, cloud computing, network security, wireless networks, and traffic classification, as well as various machine learning and AI techniques. 

 

Current Research Projects

·         Evidential Reasoning for Network Fault Diagnosis

·         Uncertainty Reasoning in Botnet Detection

·         Declarative Network Management

·         Traffic Classification

·         Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment

 

Selected Publications (complete list) (Listed by IEEE Xplore)

·         Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer, Kaustubh Joshi, Reasoning under Uncertainty in Overlay Fault Diagnosis, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume: 9, Number: 1, March 2012

·         Yongning Tang, Guang Cheng and Zhiwei Xu, Probabilistic and Reactive Fault Diagnosis for Dynamic Overlay Networks, Springer Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications: Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 439-452, 2011

·         Yongning Tang , Ehab S. Al-Shaer,  Sharing End-user Negative Symptoms for Improving Overlay Network Dependability. The 39th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009) Lisbon, Portugal (Acceptance rate: 37/177 = 20.9%)

·         Yongning Tang , Ehab S. Al-Shaer,  Overlay Fault Diagnosis Based on Evidential Reasoning. IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Acceptance rate: 382/1453 = 26.7%)

·         Yongning Tang , Guang Cheng, Zhiwei Xu and Ehab S. Al-Shaer,  Community-base Fault Diagnosis Using Incremental Belief Revision. The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2009), Zhang Jia Jie, China. (Acceptance rate: 45/178 = 25.2%)

·         Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, Efficient Fault Diagnosis Using Incremental Alarm Correlation and Active Investigation for Internet and Overlay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management , Volume: 5, Number: 1, Pages: 36--49, 2008

·         Yongning Tang , Ehab S. Al-Shaer,  Towards User-Level Collaborative Overlay Fault Diagnosis. IEEE INFOCOM 2008 Mini-Conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA (Acceptance rate: 321/1152 = 27.9%)

·         Yongning Tang , Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Bin Zhang, Toward Globally Optimal Event Monitoring and Aggregation for Large-scale Overlay Networks IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2007), May 2007 (Acceptance rate: 51/187 = 27.3%)

·         Yongning Tang , Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Raouf Boutaba, Active Integrated Fault Localization in Communication Networks IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2005), May 2005. (One of 4 papers nominated for Best Paper Award) (Acceptance rate: 53/226 = 23.5%)

 

Professional Services

·         TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN) 2010, 2011 

·         TPC member, IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2011

·         TPC member, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2009, 2010, 2011

·         TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

·         TPC member, International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) 2009, 2010, 2011

·         TPC member, International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP) 2009, 2010

·         TPC member, The First International Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructure (PCSI) 2009

 

Family (I will put more pictures soon. All my credits go to them. :-))

 

When I met her, she looked like: Wife-pic-1; now she becomes: Wife-pic-2, which is because: Daughter-pic-1, Daughter-pic-2, Daughter-pic-3, Daughter-pic-4

 (Academic Calendar)