Conference Papers
- Cheng Wang, Qianlin Liang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar. "An empirical analysis of Amazon EC2 spot instance features affecting cost-effective resource procurement." The 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017), L'Aquila, Italy, April 2017.
- Neda Nasiriani, Cheng Wang, George Kesidis, and Bhuvan Urgaonkar. "Characterizing the network bandwidth dynamism of Amazon EC2 burstable instances." The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017), Vancouver, Canada, April 2017.
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Aayush Gupta, Lydia Y. Chen, Robert Birke and George Kesidis. "Effective capacity modulation as an explicit control knob for public cloud profitability." The 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Computing (ICAC 2016), Wurzburg, Germany, July 2016 (Best paper award finalist: 1/3).
- Cheng Wang, Aayush Gupta, and Bhuvan Urgaonkar. "Fine-Grained resource scaling in a public cloud: A tenant's perspective.'' The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2016), San Francisco, USA, June 2016. Acceptance ratio: 15% (Best student paper award; top 5 picks paper)
- Qianlin Liang, Cheng Wang, and Bhuvan Urgaonkar. "Spot Characterization: What are the Right Features to Model?" The 1st International Workshop on System Analytics and Characterization (SAC 2016), co-located with SIGMETRICS 2016, Antibes Juan-les-pines, France, June 2016.
- George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Neda Nasiriani and Cheng Wang. "Neutrality in future public clouds: Implications and challenges.'' The 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2016), Denver, USA, June 2016. Acceptance ratio: 21/68
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Aayush Gupta, and Qianlin Liang. “Navigating the public cloud labyrinth: A study of price, capacity, and scaling Granularity trade-offs.” SThe 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2016), Denver, USA, June 2016. (Poster).
- Cheng Wang, Neda Nasiriani, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang, Lydia Y. Chen, Aayush Gupta and Robert Birke. "Recouping energy costs from cloud tenants: Tenant demand response aware pricing design." The 6th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2015), Bangalore, India, July 2015. (Best paper award - Runner up)
- Yijun Ying, Robert Birke, Cheng Wang, Lydia Y. Chen and Gautam Natarajan. “Optimizing energy, locality and priority in a MapReduce cluster.” The 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Computing (ICAC 2015), Grenoble, France, July 2015.
- Neda Nasiriani, Cheng Wang, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Lydia Y. Chen, and Robert Birke. “On fair attribution of costs under peak-based pricing to cloud tenants.” 23nd International Symposium on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication System (MASCOTS 2015), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 2015.
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang, and George Kesidis. "A hierarchical demand response framework for data center power cost optimization under real-world electricity pricing." 22nd International Symposium on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication System (Mascots 2014), Paris, France, September 2014.
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, George Kesidis, Uday V. Shanbhag, and Qian Wang. "A case for virtualizing the electric utility in cloud data centers." 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2014), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2014.
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang, George Kesidis, and Anand Sivasubramaniam. "Data center power cost optimization via workload modulation." Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Uitlity and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013) (short paper), Dresden, Germany, December 2013.
- Bhuvan Urgaonkar, George Kesidis, Uday V. Shanbhag, and Cheng Wang. "Pricing of service in clouds: Optimal response and strategic interactions." Workshop on Mathematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2013), co-located with ACM SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh PA, USA, June 2013.
- Cheng Wang, Wenqing Yao, Mu He, Yuhao Wang. "Optimal management of energy consumption for data centers." College of Engineering Research Symposium 2012, Pennsylvania State Univeristy. (Best graduate paper and presentation)
- Cheng Wang, Wei Dong, and Yindong Ji. "An agent-based monitoring framework for distributed complex engineering simulation system." 6th IEEE Joint International Conference on Information Technology and Articial Intelligence (ITAIC 2011), Chongqing, China, June 2011.
Journal Papers
- Neda Nasiriani, Cheng Wang, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Lydia Y. Chen, and Robert Birke. "On fair attribution of costs under peak-based pricing to cloud tenants.'' ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), 2016.
Patents
- Wei Dong, Cheng Wang, Yindong J. "A Meta-model based modeling method for geographic in-formation system of high-speed railway." China Patent 201010591817.2, Apr. 27, 2011.
- US patent filed, 2015.
Technical Report
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Aayush Gupta, Lydia Y. Chen, Robert Birke and George Kesidis. “Effective capacity modulation as an explicit control knob for public cloud profitability.” Penn State University, CSE TR-16-001. 2016.01.
- Cheng Wang, Neda Nasiriani, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang, Lydia Y. Chen, Aayush Gupta and Robert Birke. "Recouping energy costs from cloud tenants: Tenant demand response aware pricing design." Penn State University, CSE TR-15-001. 2015.01.
- Cheng Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Qian Wang, George Kesidis and Anand Sivasubramaniam. "Data center cost optimization via workload modulation under real-world electricity pricing." Penn State University, CSE TR-13-010. 2013.08.