Middleware Systems Research Group

University of Toronto, Canada

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Department

Computer Science

Previous Status

Post-Doctoral Fellow

(2010-09-01 — 2017-11-30)

E-mail

kaiwen dot zhang at etsmtl dot ca

Personal Home Page

http://fuseelab.github.io

Biography

Kaiwen Zhang is an Assistant Professor at ÉTS Montréal (University of Québec). Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in Computer Science at the TU Munich (2015-2017) and a member of the Middleware Systems Research Group. Kaiwen obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc at McGill University in Montréal and his Ph.D at the University of Toronto. His research interests include fast and scalable event-based systems, massively multiplayer online games, blockchain technologies, and software-defined networking.

First Employment At

École de technologie supérieure, University of Québec

Last Known Affiliation

École de technologie supérieure, University of Québec

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Publications

• Multi-client Transactions in Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Martin Jergler, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In ICDCS, 2018.
  Acceptance rate: 20%.
  Tags: publish/subscribe
• EVA: Fair and Auditable Electric Vehicle Charging Service using Blockchain.
  Jelena Pacic, José Rivera, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In DEBS, 2018.
  Tags: blockchains
• Towards Dependable, Scalable, and Pervasive Distributed Ledgers with Blockchains.
  Kaiwen Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In ICDCS, 2018.
  Tags: blockchains
• Towards Dependable, Scalable, and Pervasive Distributed Ledgers with Blockchains.
  Kaiwen Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  University of Toronto, 03 2018.
  Tags: blockchains, bitcoin, distributed ledgers, dlt, ethereum, hyperledger
• VIBES: Fast Blockchain Simulations for Large-scale Peer-to-Peer Networks.
  Lyubomir Stoykov, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Middleware Demos, 2017.
  Tags: bitcoin, blockchains, simulation
• Combat State-Aware Interest Management for Online Games.
  Jing-Yi Wang, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Middleware Demos, 2017.
  Tags: online games, publish/subscribe, interest management
• HyperPubSub: a Decentralized, Permissioned, Publish/Subscribe Service using Blockchains.
  Nejc Zupan, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Middleware Demos, 2017.
  Tags: hyperledger, kafka, publish/subscribe, blockchains
• Multi-client Transactions in Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Martin Jergler, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  TU-Munich, 2017.
  Tags: publish/subscribe, transactions, workflow management
• Efficient Covering for Top-k Filtering in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Middleware, 2017.
  Acceptance rate: 24.0%.
  Tags: publish/subscribe, top-k filtering
• PopSub: Improving Resource Utilization in Distributed Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Pooya Salehi, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In DEBS, 2017.
  Acceptance rate: 23.0%.
  Tags: publish/subscribe, content-based, gossiping
• Hardware Acceleration Landscape for Distributed Real-time Analytics: Virtues and Limitations.
  Mohammadreza Najafi, Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In ICDCS, 2017.
  Tags: fpga, stream joins, big data
Self-Evolving Subscriptions for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ICDCS, 2017.
Tags: online games, publish/subscribe, mammoth
Incremental Topology Transformation for Publish/Subscribe Systems Using Integer Programming.
Pooya Salehi, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ICDCS, 2017.
Acceptance rate: 16.9%.
Tags: overlay transformation, planning, integer programming
Subscription Covering for Relevance-based Filtering in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, Mohammad Sadoghi, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ICDCS, 2017.
Tags: content-based publish/subscribe, subscription covering, top-k filtering
Scalable Support for Incremental View Maintenance in Key-Value Stores.
Jan Adler, Martin Jergler, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
TUM, 2017.
Tags: key-value stores, hbase, view maintenance, materialized views
Demo Abstract: MOS: A Bandwidth-Efficient Cross-Platform Middleware for Publish/Subscribe.
Christoph Doblander, Simon Zimmermann, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Middleware Demos, 2016.
Tags: compression, publish/subscribe, mobile, ios, android
MothPad: Monitoring Pub/Sub Activity in Cyber-Physical Systems.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In CASCON, 2016.
Tags: cyber-physical systems, padres, publish/subscribe, mammoth
Self-Evolving Subscriptions for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
MSRG, McGill University, 2016.
Tags: content-based publish/subscribe, online games, distributed systems
Publish/Subscribe for Mobile Applications using Shared Dictionary Compression.
Christoph Doblander, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ICDCS Demos, 2016.
Tags: compression, publish/subscribe, content-based publish/subscribe, mobile
DL-Store: A Distributed Hybrid OLTP and OLAP Data Processing Engine.
Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ICDCS Demos, 2016.
Tags: olap/oltp, data store, distributed transactions, spark
Demo: Evolving Pub/Sub Subscriptions for Multiplayer Online Games.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In DEBS Demos, 2016.
Best Demo Award.
Tags: publish/subscribe, content-based publish/subscribe, online games
Shared Dictionary Compression in Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Christoph Doblander, Tanuj Ghinaiya, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In DEBS, 2016.
Tags: content-based publish/subscribe, compression, publish/subscribe
Efficient Covering for Top-k Filtering in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, Mohammad Sadoghi, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
University of Toronto, 2016.
Tags: topk, content-based publish/subscribe, covering
Language Expressiveness and Quality of Service for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang.
University of Toronto, 2015.
Tags: total order, top-k, aggregation, online games, content-based publish/subscribe
Grand Challenge: High Performance Stream Queries in Scala.
Dantong Song, Kaiwen Zhang, Tilmann Rabl, Prashanth Menon, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In DEBS, 2015.
Tags: grand challenge, spark, scala, taxi monitoring
Minimizing the Communication Cost of Aggregation in Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Navneet Kumar Pandey, Kaiwen Zhang, Stéphane Weiss, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, and Roman Vitenberg.
In 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2015.
Acceptance rate: 13%. Number of submissions: 543.
Tags: aggregation, publish/subscribe, content-based publish/subscribe, traffic monitoring, icdcs15
A Publish/Subscribe Network Engine Testbed for Multiplayer Games.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Middleware Demos, 2014.
Tags: pub/sub, pub/sub applications, publish/subscribe, online games
PSBench: A Benchmark for Content- and Topic-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang, Tilmann Rabl, Yi Ping Sun, Rushab Kumar, Nayeem Zen, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Middleware Demos, 2014.
Tags: pub/sub, pub/sub applications, publish/subscribe, benchmarking
PSoCCN: Publish/Subscribe Support in Content-Centric Networking.
Nischay Bodapati, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Middleware Demos, 2014.
Tags: pub/sub, pub/sub applications, publish/subscribe, cvst, concent-centric networking
The World Cup of Event Processing.
Kaiwen Zhang.
July 2014.
Big Data Summer School.
Tags: application performance management, apm, big data, bpm, event processing, event processing systems, grand challenge, soccer monitoring, blue bay
Publish/Subscribe Network Designs for Multiplayer Games.
César Cañas, Kaiwen Zhang, Bettina Kemme, Jörg Kienzle, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In ACM/IFIP/USENIX 15th International Conference on Middleware, 2014.
Acceptance rate: 18.75%.
Tags: pub/sub, publish/subscribe, online games, middleware
Distributed Event Aggregation for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Navneet Kumar Pandey, Kaiwen Zhang, Stéphane Weiss, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, and Roman Vitenberg.
In Distributed Event-based Systems (DEBS), 2014.
Acceptance rate: 9%.
Tags: aggregation, content-based publish/subscribe, content-based routing, padres, pub/sub, publish/subscribe
Smart Phone Application for Connected Vehicles and Smart Transportation .
Daniel Qiu, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Middleware Posters, 2013.
Tags: cvst, traffic monitoring, event processing, android
Distributed Event Aggregation for Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Navneet Kumar Pandey, Kaiwen Zhang, Stéphane Weiss, Roman Vitenberg, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
University of Toronto, 2013.
Tags: aggregation, publish/subscribe, content-based routing
SDN-like: The Next Generation of Pub/Sub.
Kaiwen Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
University of Toronto, 2013.
Tags: sdn, publish/subscribe, openflow, decoupling
MADES - A Multi-Layered, Adaptive, Distributed Event Store.
Tilmann Rabl, Mohammad Sadoghi, Kaiwen Zhang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2013.
Grand Challenge: The BlueBay Soccer Monitoring Engine.
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Kianoosh Mokhtarian, Tilmann Rabl, Mohammad Sadoghi, Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh, Young Yoon, and Kaiwen Zhang.
In The 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2013.
Acceptance rate 40%.
Tags: event processing systems, live monitoring, soccer, content-based matching
Distributed Ranked Data Dissemination in Social Networks.
Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2013.
Acceptance rate: 13%.
Tags: aggregation, topk, content-based publish/subscribe, social networks
Language Expressiveness and Quality of Service for Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang.
In Middleware PhD Symposium, 2012.
Tags: padres, predictive publish/subscribe, publish/subscribe, pub/sub applications, online games, total order, topk
Distributed Ranked Data Dissemination in Social Networks.
Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
University of Toronto, 2012.
Tags: topk, publish/subscribe, aggregation
Solving Manufacturing Equipment Monitoring Through Efficient Complex Event Processing.
Tilmann Rabl, Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Navneet Kumar Pandey, Aakash Nigam, Chen Wang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2012.
Best DEBS Challenge Award - Public Voting.
Tags: event processing, grand challenge
Total Order in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012.
Acceptance rate: 13%.
Tags: total order, content-based publish/subscribe
Total Order in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
University of Toronto, 2011.
Pages 1-13.
Tags: total order, padres, content-based publish/subscribe
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