Aaron Ding, PhD

Assistant Professor, TU Delft
Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki
Cyber-Physical Intelligence (CPI) Lab

Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl
Address: P.O. Box 5015, ESS, TU Delft
Jaffalaan 5, 2600GA Delft, Netherlands

Software Highlight

"Good software, like wine, takes time." -- Joel Spolsky

Software and system implementations are key part of my research. Besides delivering the contributions via scientific publications, CPI Lab always release, if permitted, our work as open-source software. Here I list the implementations that are completed through CPI projects. The source codes can be forked from corresponding GitHub repositories.

Links to SoftOffload | MADNet | NAO | more CPI implementations

SoftOffload

Overview

SoftOffload is a joint work with Helsinki and Cambridge through EIT-SDN project.

Homepage

SoftOffload for Mobile Data Offloading

Team

Aaron Ding - TU Delft / Helsinki
Yanhe Liu - Sina / Helsinki
Hannu Flinck - Nokia Bell Labs
Sasu Tarkoma - Helsinki
Henning Schulzrinne - Columbia
Jon Crowcroft - Cambridge

Source Code

GitHub repository

MADNet

Overview

Metropolitan Advanced Delivery Network (MADNet) is a collaborative WiFi-based mobile data offloading architecture that targets to improve energy efficiency for smartphones. MADNet achieves collaboration by intelligently aggregating the power of cellular operators, WiFi service providers and end-users. It utilizes an energy-aware algorithm to assist the offloading decision for smartphones, which enables them to select the most energy efficient WiFi APs to offload mobile traffic. MADNet project is in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom T-Labs, AT&T and University of Maryland College Park.

Publications

"Energy Awareness in Mobile Traffic Offloading"
Aaron Yi Ding, Jon Crowcroft
Cambridge University Press: Smartphone Energy Consumption: Modelling and Optimization, 2014.
"Enabling Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones"
Aaron Yi Ding, Bo Han, Yu Xiao, Pan Hui, Aravind Srinivasan, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma
IEEE SECON, New Orleans, USA, June 2013.
"Collaborative Communication and Sensing for Mobile Systems"
Aaron Yi Ding, Jon Crowcroft, Sasu Tarkoma
ACM SenSys Doctoral Colloquium, Rome, Italy, November 2013.
"Enable Energy-Aware Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones through Vertical Collaboration"
Aaron Yi Ding, Pan Hui, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma
ACM CoNEXT PhD Student Workshop, Nice, France, December 2012. (32 accepted out of 62 submissions)
"Enabling Energy-aware and Collaborative Management of Data Traffic for Mobile Systems"
Aaron Yi Ding, Markku Kojo, Sasu Tarkoma
ACM EuroSys Doctoral Workshop, Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.

Team

Aaron Ding - TU Delft / Helsinki
Yu Xiao - Aalto
Bo Han - AT&T Research / UMD
Pan Hui - Deutsche Telekom Labs
Sasu Tarkoma - Helsinki

Source Code

GitHub repository

NAO

Overview

Network-Assisted Offloading (NAO) is a framework that utilizes network assistance to achieve efficient IP traffic offloading. It enables mobile network operators to actively trigger and guide the traffic offloading through dedicated protocols. NAO supports two offloading modes, namely host-driven mode with DHCPv6 and network-driven mode with Neighbor Discovery. NAO project is in collaboration with Nokia and Broadcom.

Publications

"Toward Network Controlled IP Traffic Offloading"
Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Aaron Yi Ding, Markku Kojo
IEEE Communications Magazine (IEEE COMMAG), Volume 51, Issue 3, p.96 - 102, 2013.
"Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol"
Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, Aaron Yi Ding
IETF Internet Draft, 2012.
"NAO: A Framework to Enable Efficient Mobile Offloading"
Aaron Yi Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Pan Hui, Teemu Savolainen, Sasu Tarkoma, Markku Kojo
ACM Middleware PDT Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2011.
Aaron Yi Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, "Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol", In Proceedings of IETF-83, Internet Area, France, 2012.
» Presentation at IETF, Paris.
Aaron Yi Ding, Jouni Korhonen, Teemu Savolainen, "Controlling Traffic Offloading Using Neighbor Discovery Protocol", In Proceedings of IETF-82, Internet Area, 2011.
» Presentation at IETF, Taipei.

Team

Aaron Ding - TU Delft / Helsinki
Jouni Korhonen - Broadcom
Teemu Savolainen - Nokia
Peng Liu - Aalto
Yonghao Li - Helsinki
Markku Kojo - Helsinki
Sasu Tarkoma - Helsinki

Source Code

Linux kernel extensions and P-GW/GGSN module - classified under industrial partner agreement.

CPI Implementations

IoT Resource-aware Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing:

GitHub repository
Publication at ACM CoNEXT 2019

Linux netlink patch for IPv6 address label manipulation:

GitHub repository
Publication at IEEE ICC 2012

ns-2 modules for EAP fast authentication:

GitHub repository

Virtualization-based Platform Migration for On-Demand VoIP Services

not maintained by us due to sub-contract agreement with Nokia Corporation