Publications

• "MASTER: A Multicore Cache Energy Saving Technique Using Dynamic Cache Reconfiguration." Sparsh Mittal, Yanan Cao, and Zhao Zhang. To appear in IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI).
• "MemGuard: A Low Cost and Energy Efficient Design to Support and Enhance Memory System Reliability." Long Chen and Zhao Zhang. To appear in the Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-41), Minneapolis, MN, June 14-18, 2014.
• "A Host-based Approach for Unknown Fast Spreading Worm Detection and Containment." Songqing Chen, Lei Liu, XinyuanWang, Xinwen Zhang, and Zhao Zhang. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4, Article No. 2, Jan. 2014.

• "Free ECC: An Efficient Error Protection for Compressed Last-Level Caches." Long Chen, Yanan Cao, and Zhao Zhang. Accepted by the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Asheville, NC, Oct. 6-9, 2013. (Acceptance rate 25%)
• "FlexiWay: A Cache Energy Saving Technique Using Fine-grained Cache Reconfiguration." Sparsh Mittal, Zhao Zhang, and Jeffrey Vetter. Accepted by the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Asheville, NC, Oct. 6-9, 2013. (Acceptance rate 25%)
• "E3CC: A Memory Error Protection Scheme with Novel Address Mapping for Sub-Ranked and Low-Power Memories." Long Chen, Yanan Cao, and Zhao Zhang. To appear in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO).
• "Energy Saving Strategies for Parallel Applications with Point-to-Point Communication Phases." Vaibhav Sundriyal, Alexander Gaenko, Masha Sosonkina, and Zhao Zhang. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 73, issue 8, August 2013, pp. 1157-1169. Abstract & PDF.
• "ESTO: A Performance Estimation Approach for Efficient Design Space Exploration." Sparsh Mittal and Zhao Zhang. Design Contest at 26th International Conference for VLSI Design, January 2013.
• "CASHIER: A Cache Energy Saving Technique for QoS Systems." Sparsh Mittal, Zhao Zhang, and Yanan Cao. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Pune, India, January 2013. (Acceptance rate 21%)

• "Mini-Rank: A Power-Efficient DDRx DRAM Memory Architecture." Kun Fang, Hongzhong Zheng, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, and Zhichun Zhu. Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers. Preprint.
• "Disk Array Performance Prediction With CART-MARS Hybrid Models.'' Yong Li, Dan Feng, Zhan Shi, and Zhao Zhang. 2012 Digest APMRC, Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference (APMRC), Signapore, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2012.
• "Achieving Energy Efficiency During Collective Communications." Vaibhav Sundriyal, Masha Sosonkina, and Zhao Zhang. Accepted by Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Preprint.
• "Thermal Modeling and Management of DRAM Systems." Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichun Zhu, and Zhao Zhang. Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers. Preprint.
• "EnCache: Improving Cache Energy Efficiency Using A Software-Controlled Profiling Cache." Sparsh Mittal and Zhao Zhang. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), Indianapolis, IN, May 6-8, 2012.
• "Integrating Sampling Approach with Full System Simulation: Bringing Together the Best of Both." Sparsh Mittal and Zhao Zhang. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), Indianapolis, IN, May 6-8, 2012.

• "Memory Architecture for Integrating Emerging Memory Technologies." Kun Fang, Long Chen, Zhao Zhang, and Zhichun Zhu. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Galveston Island, Texas, October 10-14, 2011.

• "An Application-Level Data Transparent Authentication Scheme without Communication Overhead." Songqing Chen, Shiping Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Zhao Zhang, and Sushil Jajodia. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 943-954, July 2010.
• "Enhancing Adaptive Middleware for Quantum Chemistry Applications with a Database Framework." Lakshminarasimhan Seshagiri, Meng-Shiou Wu, Masha Sosonkina, Zhao Zhang, Mark S. Gordon, and Michael W. Schmidt. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-10), in conjection with the 24th Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-10).

• "Enabling Software Multicore Cache Management with Lightweight Hardware Support." Jiang Lin, Qingda Lu, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and P. Sadayappan. In Proceedings of Supercomputing'09, Portland, Oregon, November 14-20, 2009.
• "Soft-OLP: Improving Hardware Cache Performance Through Software-Controlled Object-Level Partitioning." Qingda Lu, Jiang Lin, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, and P. Sadayappan. In Proceedings of Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Raleigh, North Carolina. September 12-16, 2009. Abstract PDF
• "Run-time Detection of Malwares via Dynamic Control-Flow Inspection." Yong-Joon Park, Zhao Zhang, and Songqing Chen. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Boston, Massachusetts, July 7-9, 2009. (Short paper)
• "Decoupled DIMM: Building High-Bandwidth Memory System from Low-Speed DRAM Devices." Hongzhong Zheng, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu. In Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-36), Austin, TX, June 20-24, 2009. Abstract PDF
• "Electronic Structure Calculations and Adaptation Scheme in Multi-core Computing Environments." Lakshminarasimhan Seshagiri, Masha Sosonkina, and Zhao Zhang. In Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS-2009), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 25-27, 2009.

• Hongzhong Zheng, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, Eugene Gorbatov, Howard David, and Zhichun Zhu. "Mini-Rank: Adaptive DRAM Architecture for Improving Memory Power Efficiency." In Proceedings of the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41), Lake Como, Italy, November 8-12, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Hongzhong Zheng, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, and Zhichun Zhu. "Memory Access Scheduling Schemes for Systems with Multi-Core Processors." To appear in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-08), Partland, Oregon, September 8-12, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichun Zhu, Eugene Gorbatov, Howard David and Zhao Zhang. "Software Thermal Management of DRAM Memory for Multicore Systems." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Annapolis, Maryland, June 2-6, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Lei Liu, Songqing Chen, Guanhua Yan, and Zhao Zhang. "BotTracer: Execution-based Bot-like Malware Detection". In Proceedings of the 11th Information Security Conference (ISC 2008), Taipei, Taiwan, September 15-18, 2008. PDF
• Jiang Lin, Qingda Lu, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang and P. Sadayappan. "Gaining Insights into Multicore Cache Partitioning: Bridging the Gap between Simulation and Real Systems." In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-14), Salt Lake City, UT, February 16-20, 2008. Abstract PDF
• Xinwen Zhang, Dongyu Liu, Songqing Chen, Zhao Zhang, and Ravi Sandhu. "Towards Digital Rights Protection in BitTorrent-like P2P Systems." In Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2008), San Jose, CA, January 30-31, 2008.

• Souvik Ray, Giora Slutzki and Zhao Zhang. "Incentive-Driven P2P Anonymity System: A Game-Theoretic Approach." In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07), XiAn, China, Sept. 10-14, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Souvik Ray and Zhao Zhang. "An Information-theoretic framework for analyzing leak of privacy in Distributed Hash Tables." In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2007), Sept. 2-5, 2007, Galway, Ireland. Abstract PDF
• Souvik Ray and Zhao Zhang. "SCUBE: A DoS-Resistant Distributed Search Protocol." In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Aug. 13 - 16, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Yong-Joon Park, Zhao Zhang and Gyungho Lee. "An Efficient Hardware Support for Control Data Validation." In Proceedings of IEEE 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP07), Montreal, Canada, July 8-11, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichu Zhu, Howard David and Zhao Zhang. "Thermal Modeling and Management of DRAM Memory Systems." In Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-34), San Diego, CA, June 9-13, 2007. Abstract PDF
• Daniel Helvick, Ramon Mercado, Zhao Zhang, and Diane Rover. Reflections on Implementing and Teaching an Advanced Undergraduate Course in Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE 2007), San Diego, CA, June 2-4 2007. Best paper award.
• Jiang Lin, Hongzhong Zheng, Zhichun Zhu, Zhao Zhang and Howard David. "DRAM-Level Prefetching for Fully-Buffered DIMM: Design, Performance and Power Saving." In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2007), San Jose, California, April 25-27, 2007. Abstract PDF

• Songqing Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Xinwen Zhang, and Zhao Zhang. "WormTerminator: An Effective Containment of Unknown and Polymorphic Fast Spreading Worms." In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, San Jose, California, December 3-5, 2006.
• Mikel Bezdek, Daniel Helvick, Ramon Mercado, Diane Rover, Akhilesh Tyagi, and Zhao Zhang. "Developing and Teaching an Integrated Series of Courses in Embedded Computer Systems." In Proceedings of the 36th Frontier in Education Conference (FIE), San Diego, CA, October 28-31, 2006.
• Tien N. Nyugen and Zhao Zhang, "Component-oriented version management for hardware software co-design." In Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research (CASCON'06), Markham, Ontario, Canada, October 16-19, 2006. (Short paper)
• Yong-Joon Park, Gyungho Lee and Zhao Zhang. "Microarchitectural Protection Against Buffer Overflow Attack." IEEE Micro, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 62-71, 2006.

• Joseph Schneider, Mikel Bezdek, Ziyu Zhang, Zhao Zhang and Diane Rover. "A Platform FPGAbased hardware-software undergraduate laboratory." In Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE-2005), June 12-13, 2005.
• Wei Huang, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, and J. Morris Chang, "Towards Pairing Java Applications on SMT Processors." In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Atalanta, GA, October 7-14, 2005. Acceptance rate 30%.
• Meng-Shiou Wu, Ricky A. Kendall, Zhao Zhang and Kyle Wright, "Performance Modeling and Tuning Strategies of Mixed Mode Collective Communications." In the Proceedings of Supercomputing 2005.
• Wei Huang, Jiang Lin, Zhao Zhang, and J. Morris Chang. "Performance Characterization of Java Applications on SMT Processors." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2005), Austin, TX, March 2005. Abstract PDF
• Zhichun Zhu and Zhao Zhang. "A performance comparison of DRAM memory system optimizations for SMT processors." In the Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-11), San Francisco, CA, February 2005. Abstract PDF

• Souvik Ray and Zhao Zhang. ”Heuristic-Based Scheduling to Maximize Throughput of Data-Intensive Grid Applications.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC 2004), Kolkata, India, December 2004, pp. 63-74.
• Souvik Ray and Zhao Zhang, "An efficient anonymity protocol in grid computing," in the Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004), 2004
• Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Design and optimization of large size and low overhead off-chip caches." IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 843-855, Vol. 53, No.7, July 2004. Abstract PDF

• Zhichun Zhu, Zhao Zhang, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Fine-grain priority scheduling on multi-channel memory systems". in Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-8), Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2-6, 2002. Abstract PDF

• Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Breaking address mapping symmetry at multi-levels of memory hierarchy to reduce DRAM row-buffer conflicts", Journal of Instruction-level Parallelism (JILP), Vol. 3, October 2001. Abstract PDF

• Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Cached DRAM for ILP processor memory access latency reduction", IEEE Micro, Vol. 21, No. 4, July/August, 2001, pp. 22-32. Abstract PDF
• Zhao Zhang and Xiaodong Zhang, "Fast Bit-reversals on uniprocessors and shared-memory multiprocessors", SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), Vol. 22, No. 6, 2001, pp. 2113-2134. Abstract PDF

• Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, and Xiaodong Zhang, "A permutation-based page interleaving scheme to reduce row-buffer conflicts and exploit data locality", in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro-33), Monterey, California, December 10-12, 2000, pp. 32-41. Abstract PDF

• Yong Yan, Xiaodong Zhang, and Zhao Zhang, "Cacheminer: A runtime approach to exploit cache locality on SMP", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 11, No. 4, April 2000, pp. 357-374. Abstract PDF

• Zhao Zhang and Xiaodong Zhang, "Cache-optimal methods for bit-reversals", in Proceedings of Supercomputing'99 (SC'99), Portland, Oregon, November 1999. Abstract  PDF

• Yong Yan, Xiaodong Zhang, and Zhao Zhang, "A memory-layout oriented run-time technique for locality optimization", in Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'98), Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1998, pp. 189-196. Abstract PDF