USTC Wins Computer Journal Wilkes Award

A research group led by Associate Professor TIAN Ye won the Computer
Journal Wilkes Award 2016. The winning paper is “Cost-aware Capacity
Provisioning for Internet Video Streaming CDNs”. The paper’s first
author is Mr. HE Huajun, who is a master student from the Computer
Science School of USTC, and his supervisor, Dr. TIAN Ye, is the
corresponding author. USTC is the only affiliation of this award-winning
paper.

The paper addresses the issue that with the increasing
popularity of the Internet video streaming services, content delivery
networks (CDNs) are heavily used to stream video contents to users, and
consume more and more power and bandwidths in recent years, and propose a
cost-aware capacity provisioning algorithm, which dynamically plans the
service capacities of a CDN’s server clusters in numerous ISPs, and
optimizes its overall operating cost regarding both the energy
consumptions and the cross-ISP traffics.

 

The Computer Journal, which is published by Oxford
University Press on behalf of the British Computer Society, is a
high-level journal in Computer Science. The journal is also listed as a
Class B recommendation journal by the China Computer Federation (CCF).

 

The Wilkes Award is given for the best paper published
in a volume of The Computer Journal. It is awarded each year to the
author(s) of a paper appearing in the previous volume (year). Criteria
for the Award are originality and quality of theme and treatment. The
assessment is made by members of the Editorial Board. The 2016 Wilkes
Award is selected from 217 papers published in The Computer Journal in
2015. It is the first time that a research institute from Mainland China
wins this award.

 

The research is funded by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China, the Strategic Research Program of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science
Foundation.

 

 

Paper link: http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/12/3255.full

Further information on http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/computer_journal/wilkes_award.html

 

 

(School of Computer Science and Technology)