Dave Levin (dml)

PhD Candidate, University of Maryland, Computer Science
Advisors: Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan

Microsoft Live Labs Fellow

Curriculum Vitae

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at the University of Maryland. 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 recently received a Microsoft Live Labs fellowship. This is in no small part due to the many wonderful collaborators with whom I have been fortunate to work.

News

Our PropShare BitTorrent client is available.

Contact Info

Email:	dml@cs.umd.edu
Office:	AVW 3122
Office Phone:	301-405-2776
About:	Bio

Selected Publications

(pdf) (slides) (www)	BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent's Incentives Dave Levin, Katrina LaCurts, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee SIGCOMM 2008 (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)
(pdf) (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)

Active Projects

Incentives for file swarming, such as in BitTorrent.
Routing and forwarding in selfish networks.
Sharing network resources in mobile environments.
Decentralized, hard-to-cheat currency systems.
Anonymous, censorship-resistant file storage.
Wireless network capacity and quality.

SIGs at UMD

UMD Game Theory Reading Group - Game theory.
Syschat - Recent papers in systems, networking, distributed systems.
SHRUG - OS, networking, implementation.

Misc

RC Planes - A purchasing guide for budding hobbyists.
Cool Google Trends - Favorite searches from an addictive site.

Last modified: May 12, 2008

-Dave