Dave Levin (dml@cs.umd.edu)

PhD Graduate, University of Maryland, Computer Science
Advisors: Bobby Bhattacharjee, Aravind Srinivasan, and Neil Spring


Curriculum Vitae

About Me

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2010. I am now a researcher at HP Labs in the Social Computing Group. I study how to provide incentives to selfish users to participate in a network. My vision is of an Internet where users feel motivated and safe to help one another achieve better performance and reliability. I have been fortunate to work with many wonderful collaborators.

Publications

(pdf) Making Currency Cheap with iOwe
Dave Levin, Aaron Schulman, Katrina LaCurts, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
NetEcon 2011 (Workshop on The Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation)
(pdf) Secure Sharing in Distributed Information Management Applications: Problems and Directions
Piotr Mardziel, Adam Bender, Michael Hicks, Dave Levin, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Jonathan Katz
ACITA 2010 (Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance)
(pdf) Don't Love Thy Nearest Neighbor
Cristian Lumezanu, Dave Levin, Bo Han, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
IPTPS 2010 (International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems)
(pdf) Stay or go? Participation in Under-Provisioned Video Streams
Dave Levin, Daniel Malter, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
NetEcon 2009 (Workshop on The Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation)
(pdf)
Systems-Compatible Incentives
Dave Levin, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
GameNets 2009 (International Conference on Game Theory for Networks), Invited paper
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(slides)
TrInc: Small Trusted Hardware for Large Distributed Systems
Dave Levin, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas Moscibroda
NSDI 2009 (USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation)
Awarded best paper
(pdf)
(www)
Symbiotic Relationships in Internet Routing Overlays
Cristian Lumezanu, Randolph Baden, Dave Levin, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
NSDI 2009 (USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation)
(pdf)
(slides)
(www)
BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent's Incentives
Dave Levin, Katrina LaCurts, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
SIGCOMM 2008 (ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications)
(pdf)
(slides)
(www)
Motivating Participation in Internet Routing Overlays
Dave Levin, Randolph Baden, Cristian Lumezanu, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
NetEcon 2008 (Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation)
(pdf)
(www)
On the Fidelity of 802.11 Packet Traces
Aaron Schulman, Dave Levin, Neil Spring
PAM 2008 (Passive and Active Measurement Conference)
(pdf) Capacity of Asynchronous Random-Access Scheduling in Wireless Networks
Deepti Chafekar, V. S. Anil Kumar, Dave Levin, Madhav V. Marathe, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Aravind Srinivasan
INFOCOM 2008 (IEEE Conference on Computer Communications)
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(www)
PeerWise Discovery and Negotiation of Faster Paths
Cristian Lumezanu, Dave Levin, Neil Spring
HotNets 2007 (Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking)
(pdf) Accountability as a Service
Adam Bender, Neil Spring, Dave Levin, Bobby Bhattacharjee
SRUTI 2007 (Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet)
(pdf) Backbone Construction in Selfish Wireless Networks
Seungjoon Lee, Dave Levin, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee
SIGMETRICS 2007 (ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems)
(pdf)
(slides)
Boycotting and Extorting Nodes in an Internetwork
Dave Levin, Adam Bender, Cristian Lumezanu, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee
NetEcon+IBC 2007 (Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems and Incentive-Based Computing)
(pdf)
(slides)
Punishment in Selfish Wireless Networks: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Dave Levin
NetEcon 2006 (Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems)
(pdf)
(www)
Fair File Swarming with FOX
Dave Levin, Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee
IPTPS 2006 (International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems)
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(www)
ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor
Kevin Conroy, Dave Levin, François Guimbretière
UIST 2004 Demo (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology)

Active Projects

SIGs at UMD

Misc


Last modified: December 2011 -Dave