Dave Levin (dml)PhD Candidate, University of Maryland, Computer ScienceAdvisors: Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan Microsoft Live Labs Fellow Curriculum Vitae |
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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.
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| Email: | dml@cs.umd.edu |
| Office: | AVW 3122 |
| Office Phone: | 301-405-2776 |
| About: | Bio |
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Stay or go? Participation in Under-Provisioned Video Streams Dave Levin, Daniel Malter, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee To appear in NetEcon 2009 (Workshop on The Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation) |
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Systems-Compatible Incentives Dave Levin, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee GameNets 2009 (International Conference on Game Theory for Networks), Invited paper |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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On the Fidelity of 802.11 Packet Traces Aaron Schulman, Dave Levin, Neil Spring PAM 2008 (Passive and Active Measurement Conference) |
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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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PeerWise Discovery and Negotiation of Faster Paths Cristian Lumezanu, Dave Levin, Neil Spring HotNets 2007 (Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking) |
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Accountability as a Service Adam Bender, Neil Spring, Dave Levin, Bobby Bhattacharjee SRUTI 2007 (Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Punishment in Selfish Wireless Networks: A Game Theoretic Analysis Dave Levin NetEcon 2006 (Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems) |
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Fair File Swarming with FOX Dave Levin, Rob Sherwood, Bobby Bhattacharjee IPTPS 2006 (International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems) |
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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 |
- 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: June 10, 2009 | -Dave |