Liudong Xing's Publications


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Book Chapters
  1. L. Xing and S. Amari, “Reliability of Phased-Mission Systems,” in Handbook of Performability Engineering, Chapter 23, 20 pages, Editor: Krishna B. Misra, Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84800-130-5.
  2. L. Xing and S. Amari, “Fault Tree Analysis,” in Handbook of Performability Engineering, Chapter 38, 26 pages, Editor: Krishna B. Misra, Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84800-130-5.
Published/Accepted Journal Papers
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  1. R. Robidoux*, H. Xu, L. Xing, and M. Zhou, “Automated Verification of Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams Using Colored Petri Nets,” IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans (in press).
  2. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and Y. Dai, “Decision Diagram-Based Methods, and Complexity Analysis for Multistate Systems,” IEEE Trans. Reliability (in press).
  3. L. Xing, P. Boddu*, Y. Sun, and W. Wang, “Reliability Analysis of Static and Dynamic Fault-Tolerant Systems subject to Probabilistic Common-Cause Failures,” Journal of Risk and Reliability (in press)
  4. L. Xing, J. B. Dugan, and B. A. Morrissette*, “Efficient Reliability Analysis of Systems with Functional Dependence Loops,” Maintenance and Reliability, pp. 65-69, No. 3/2009, ISSN 1507-2711.
  5. L. Xing and Y. Dai, “A New Decision Diagram Based Method for Efficient Analysis on Multi-State Systems,” IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 161-174, July-Sept. 2009.
  6. R. Ma*, L. Xing, and H. E. Michel, “Achieving Fault-Tolerance and Intrusion Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Special Issue on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (accepted).
  7. S. V. Amari, K. Mohan, B. Cline, and L. Xing, “Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Failure Analysis Using Incomplete Warranty Data,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 403-417, October 2009.
  8. L. Xing, H. Li*, and H. E. Michel, “Fault-Tolerance and Reliability Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 419-431, October 2009.
  9. H. Xu, L. Xing, and R. Robidoux*, “DRBD: Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams for System Reliability Modeling,” International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vo. 31, No. 2, pp. 132-141, 2009.
  10. A. Parikh*, H. Joshi*, L. Xing, V. M. Vokkarane, and H. Liu “Optimizing Sensor Count in Layered Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Short Communications, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 296-298, April 2009.
  11. L. Xing, A. Shrestha*, L. Meshkat, and W. Wang, “Incorporating Common-Cause Failures into the Modular Hierarchical Systems Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 10-19, March 2009 (#3 Top Accessed Article in the journal in May 2009).
  12. Y. Dai, X. Li, X. Zou, and L. Xing, “Rebound Wall: A Novel Technology against DoS Attacks,” Special Issue on System Survivability and Defense against External Impacts, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 55-70, January 2009.
  13. A. Shrestha* and L. Xing, “Improved Modular Reliability Analyses of Hybrid Phased Mission Systems,” Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 222, No. 4, 2008, pp. 507-520
  14. A. Shrestha* and L. Xing, “A Logarithmic Binary Decision Diagrams-Based Method for Multistate Systems Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 595-606, December 2008.
  15. L. Xing, “An Efficient Binary Decision Diagrams Based Approach for Network Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 105-115, January 2008. (pdf)
  16. A. Shrestha* and L. Xing, “Quantifying Application Communication Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Special Issue on Reliability and Quality in Design, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 43-56, January 2008.
  17. L. Xing, “Handling Functional Dependence without Using Markov Models,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Short Communications, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 95-97, January 2008.
  18. L. Xing and S. V. Amari, “Effective Component Importance Analysis for the Maintenance of Systems with Common-Cause Failures,” International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 459-478, October 2007.
  19. L. Xing, “Reliability Importance Analysis of Generalized Phased-Mission Systems,” International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 303-318, July 2007.
  20. L. Xing, L. Meshkat, and S. K. Donohue, “Reliability Analysis of Hierarchical Computer-Based Systems Subject to Common-Cause Failures,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 351-359, March 2007.
  21. L. Xing, “Reliability Evaluation of Phased-Mission Systems with Imperfect Fault Coverage and Common-Cause Failures,” IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 58-68, March 2007 ( #1 Top Accessed Article in the journal in November 2007 ; pdf)
  22. L. Xing and A. Shrestha*, “Reliability Evaluation of Distributed Computer Systems Subject to Imperfect Coverage and Dependent Common-Cause Failures”, Journal of Computer Sciences, Special Issue on Reliability and Autonomic Management, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 473-479, 2006.
  23. L. Xing, “Reliability modeling and analysis of complex hierarchical systems”, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (IJRQSE), Vol. 12, No. 6, December 2005 (#2 Top Accessed Article in the journal in 2006).
  24. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, "A Separable TDD-Based Analysis of Generalized Phased-Mission Reliability", IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 53, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 174-184. (pdf)
  25. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, "Comments on PMS BDD Generation", IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 53, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 169-173. (pdf)
  26. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, "Analysis of Generalized Phased Mission System Reliability, Performance and Sensitivity" Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 199-211, IEEE Trans. Reliability, June 2002 (pdf)

Published/Accepted Conference Papers
  1. L. Xing, J. B. Dugan, and B. A. Morrissette*, "Efficient Analysis of Imperfect Coverage Systems with Functional Dependence," The 56th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, San Jose, CA, USA, January 25-28, 2010 (accepted)
  2. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and S. Amari, “Reliability, Sensitivity Analysis of Imperfect Coverage Multi-State Systems,” The 56th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, San Jose, CA, USA, January 25-28, 2010 (accepted)
  3. R. Ma*, L. Xing, T. Jin, and T. Song, “A Data Transmission Mechanism for Survivable Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), pp. 9-15, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3741-2, Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 9-11, 2009 (Best Paper Award, 25% acceptance rate)
  4. L. Xing, J. B. Dugan, and B. A. Morrissette*, "An Efficient Approach to Handling Functional Dependence Loops," The 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, pp. 37-40, Chengdu, China, July 2009.
  5. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and D. W. Coit, “Multistate Component Importance Analysis Using Multistate Multivalued Decision Diagrams,” The 8th International Conference on Reliability Maintainability and Safety, pp. 99-103, Chengdu, China, July 21-25, 2009.
  6. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and Y. Dai, “Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Phased-Mission Systems,” Proc. of The 55th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, pp. 151-156, Fort Worth, TX, January 2009.
  7. L. Xing, P. Boddu*, and Y. Sun, “System Reliability Analysis Considering Fatal and Non-Fatal Shocks,” Proc. of The 55th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, pp. 436-441, Fort Worth, TX, January 2009.
  8. L. Xing and W. Wang, “Probabilistic Common-Cause Failures Analysis,” Proc. of The 54th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, pp. 354-358, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2008
  9. J. Akers, R. Bergman, S. Amari, L. Xing, “Analysis of Multi-State Systems using Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams,” Proc. of The 54th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, pp. 347-353, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2008.
  10. H. Xu and L. Xing, “Formal Semantics and Verification of Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams for System Reliability Modeling,” Proc. of The 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, pp. 155-162, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 19–21, 2007
  11. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and Y. Dai, “MBDD versus MMDD for Multistate Systems Analysis,” Proc. of The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, pp. 172-180, Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA, September 2007
  12. P. Boddu* and L. Xing, “Incorporating Modular Imperfect Coverage into Dynamic Hierarchical Systems Analysis,” The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, pp. 21-28, Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA, September 2007
  13. S. Parikh*, V. M. Vokkarane, L. Xing, and D. Kasilingam, “Node-Replacement Policies to Maintain Threshold-Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, pp. 760-765, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 13-16, 2007. (29% acceptance rate)
  14. H. Liu, A. Shrestha*, and L. Xing, “Internet Architecture Supporting Sensor Networking,” Proc. of The 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2007, pp. 394-402.
  15. R. Ma*, L. Xing, and H. E. Michel “A New Mechanism for Achieving Secure and Reliable Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, May 16-17, 2007, pp. 274-279.
  16. A. Shrestha* and L. Xing, “A Performance Comparison of Different Topologies for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, May 16-17, 2007, pp. 280-285.
  17. A. Shrestha* and L. Xing, “Common-Cause Failure Analysis for Dynamic Hierarchical Computer Systems,” Proc. of The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia (Frontiers in Networking with Applications), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007, pp. 166- 171.
  18. L. Xing, “Efficient Analysis of Systems with Multiple States,” Proc. of The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007, pp. 666-672 (29% acceptance rate).
  19. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and H. Liu, “Modeling and Evaluating the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The 53rd Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Orlando, Florida, January 2007 (RAMS’07) (45.7% acceptance rate)
  20. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and H. Liu, “Infrastructure Communication Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC’06), Indianapolis, September 29-October 1, 2006 (40% acceptance rate)
  21. R. Ma*, L. Xing, and H. E. Michel, “Fault-Intrusion Tolerant Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC’06), Indianapolis, September 29-October 1, 2006 (40% acceptance rate)
  22. A. Shrestha*, L. Xing, and H. Liu, “Application Communication Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of The 12th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, August 3-5, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  23. L. Xing, L. Meshkat, and S. Donohue, "An efficient approach for the reliability analysis of phased-mission systems with dependent failures", Proc. of The 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM8), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 14-19, 2006
  24. L. Xing and A. Shrestha*, “QoS Reliability of Hierarchical Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of The 25th IEEE Intl. Performance Computing and Communications Conference (eSCo-Wi’06), pp. 641-646, Phoenix, Arizona. April 2006 (Invited Paper)
  25. S. Distefano* and L. Xing, “A New Modeling Approach – Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams”, The 52nd Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS’2006), Newport Beach, CA, January 2006
  26. L. Xing and H. Michel, “Integrated Modeling for Fault-Tolerant Sensor Network Reliability and Security”, The 52nd Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS’2006), Newport Beach, CA, January 2006
  27. L. Xing, Y. Dai, "Reliability Evaluation Using Novel Decision Diagrams", The 10th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications & Practice, December 4 - 7, 2005 Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA
  28. L. Xing, A. Shrestha*, "DNA: a tool for network reliability and sensitivity analysis", The Fourth International Conference on Quality and Reliability (ICQR4), Beijing, China, August 2005
  29. Haoli Li*, L. Xing, “Fault-Tolerance and Reliability in Networked Sensor Systems”, The Fourth International Conference on Quality and Reliability (ICQR4), Beijing, China, August 2005
  30. L. Xing, S. K. Donohue, "An Approach to the Reliability Analysis of Hierarchical Computer-Based Systems Subject to Common-Cause Failures", The Fourth International Conference on Quality and Reliability (ICQR4), Beijing, China, August 2005
  31. L. Xing, A. Shrestha*, "Distributed Computer Systems Reliability Considering Imperfect Coverage and Common-Cause Failures", Proc. of The 1st IEEE Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Japan, July 2005
  32. Q. Zhang, L. Xing, M. Cheng, and I. Hayee, “Achieving Comparable Global Accuracy in the Split-Step Fourier Simulation of Optical Fiber Communication Channel,” 2005 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, pp. 175-176, San Diego, California, July 2005.
  33. R. Suryanarayanan*, H. Liu, L. Xing, “Delay Reliability Analysis of a Diffserv Router”, Proceedings of The IASTED International Conference on Comunication and Computer Networks (CCN 2004), MIT, Cambridge, USA, November 2004
  34. L. Xing, Maintenance-Oriented Fault Tree Analysis of Component Importance, Proceedings of The 50th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Los Angeles, CA, January 2004
  35. L. Xing, Fault-Tolerant Network Reliability and Importance Analysis Using Binary Decision Diagrams, Proceedings of The 50th Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Los Angeles, CA, January 2004
  36. L. Xing, Phased-Mission Reliability and Safety in the Presence of Common-Cause Failures, Proceedings of The 21st International System Safety Conference, August 2003, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (ISSC'2003)
  37. L. Meshkat, L. Xing, S. Donohue, Y. Ou, An Overview of the Phase-Modular Fault Tree Approach To Phased-Mission System Analysis, Proceedings of The 1st International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), Pasadena, CA, July 2003, pp. 393-398; JPL Publication 03-13A, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calfornia Institute of Technology.
  38. L. Xing, Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Systems with Common-Cause Failures, Proceedings of The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2003, San Francisco, CA (DSN'2003) (acceptance rate: 30%)
  39. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, Dependability Analysis Using Multiple-Valued Decision Diagrams, Proceedings of The 6th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, June 2002, Puerto Rico, USA (PSAM6)
  40. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, Generalized Imperfect Coverage Phased-Mission Analysis, Proceedings of The Annual Reliability and Maintainability symposium, ISBN 0-7803-7348-0, IEEE Catalog Number: 02CH37318, pp112-119, Seattle, WA, January 2002 (RAMS'2002)
  41. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, Dependability Analysis of Hierarchical Systems with Modular Imperfect Coverage, Proceedings of The 19th International System Safety Conference, September 2001, Huntsville, Alabama (ISSC'2001)
  42. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, Reliability Analysis of Phased Mission Systems with Combinatorial Phase Requirements, Proceedings of The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, ISBN 0-7803-6615-8, IEEE Catalog Number: 01CH37179, pp344-351, Philadelphia, PA, January 2001 (RAMS'2001)
  43. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, Reliability Analysis of Static Phased-Mission Systems with Imperfect Coverage, The Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Bordeaux, France, July 2000 (MMR'2000)
  44. Binggang Li and L. Xing, Driver Examination and Management Network Computer System, Proceedings of The Fifth Graduate Academy Symposium of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pp168-173, July 1998 (in Chinese)
  45. L. Xing, Load Balance Issues in Distributed Computer Systems, Proceedings of The Fifth Graduate Academy Symposium of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pp13-17, July 1998 (in Chinese)

Conference Paper Abstracts & Presentations/Posters
  1. T. Jin, Y. Yu, and L. Xing, "Reliability Analysis of RAID Systems using Repairable k-out-of-n Modeling Techniques," The International Conference on the Interface between Statistics and Engineering, Beijing, China, July 13-15, 2009
  2. R. Ma and L. Xing, “Queueing Analysis of a Survivable Data Transmission Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2009
  3. B. A. Morrissette and L. Xing, “A Combinatorial Method for Reliability Analysis of Imperfect Coverage Systems Subject to Functional Dependence,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2009
  4. T. Song and L. Xing, “A New Framework of Supportability System Engineering,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2009
  5. A. Kumar, A. Parikh, L. Xing, and V. Vokkarane, “Optimizing Sensor Position and Count in Layered Wireless Sensor Networks,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2008
  6. P. Boddu and L. Xing, “Modeling and Analysis of Fatal and Non-Fatal Shocks in System Reliability Analysis”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2008
  7. A. Shrestha and L. Xing, “Comparison of Decision Diagram Based Methods for Multi-State System Analysis,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2008
  8. A. Shrestha and L. Xing, “Hierarchical Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Phased-Mission Systems,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2008
  9. R. Ma, L. Xing, and H. E. Michel, “MVMP – A New Secure and Reliable Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2007
  10. G. Gupta, A. LNU, and L. Xing, “Reliability Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sensor Nodes,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2007
  11. A. Shrestha and L. Xing, “Combinatorial Methods for Multistate Systems Analysis,” UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2007
  12. S. Parikh, L. Xing, D. Kasilingam, and V. Vokkarane, “Improving the Coverage Life of Wireless Sensor Networks Using Mobile Nodes”, UMassD Sigma-Xi, April 2006
  13. R. Ma, L. Xing, and H. E. Michel, “Fault-Intrusion Tolerant Routing Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2006
  14. H. Li and L. Xing, “Fault-Tolerant Computing for Sensor Networks”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2006
  15. A. Shrestha and L. Xing, “Evaluating the Distributed Program Reliability of Distributed Computer Systems”, UMassD Sigma-Xi, April 2006
  16. A. Shrestha, L. Xing, and H. Liu, “A Quantitative Approach for Reliability Analysis of Distributed Sensor Networks”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2005
  17. L. Xing, R. Ma, and H. Michel, “Fault-Intrusion Tolerance in Sensor Networks”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2005
  18. A. Shrestha, L. Xing, “Fault-Tolerant Network Dependability Analysis using Dependable Network Analyzer”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2005
  19. H. Li and L. Xing, “Different Models for Achieving Fault-Tolerance in Networked Sensor Systems”, UMassD Sigma Xi, April 2005
  20. R. Suryanarayanan, H. Liu, L. Xing, “Reliability Evaluation of Next-Generation Internet”, UMassD Sigma Xi, 2004

Documentations
  1. L. Xing and other Galileo group members, "Galileo/ASSAP: Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis Tool", User Manual, NAS1-99098, NASA Langley Research Center
  2. L. Xing and J. B. Dugan, "Galileo/ASSAP: Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis Tool", Reference Manual, NAS1-99098, NASA Langley Research Center

Thesises
  1. Ph.D. Dissertation, "Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Hierarchical Computer-Based Systems", defended on August 31st, 2001
  2. M.S. Thesis, "Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Static Phased-Mission Systems with Imperfect Coverage", defended on December 3rd, 1999
  3. B.E. Thesis, "Point-to-Point Real-Time Communication Based on NETBIOS", defended in June 1996