======= Xiang Song (宋翔) =======

Ph.D Candidate\\
[[http://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/|Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems]]\\
[[http://www.fudan.edu.cn/englishnew|Fudan University]]\\
[[www.sjtu.edu.cn/|ShangHai Jiaotong University]]\\
825 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, P.R.China\\
Zip/Postal Code: 201203\\
Phone: (86-21)51355363-11\\
Email: [[xiangsong@fudan.edu.cn]]\\
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===== About Me =====

I am a forth year Ph.D student in the Computer Science at Fudan University. I work in the System Research Group of Parallel Processing Institute, adviced by Prof. Binyu Zang and Haibo Chen. My research interests are operating system and system virtualization. I intend to graduate at the summer of 2014.
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===== Research Area =====
  * Operating System
  * Virtualization

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===== Education =====
 
  * Sep. 2009 - Current   Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science, Fudan University Supervisor: Binyu Zang 
  * Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2009 B.S. Software School, Fudan University   
===== Pulications =====
  * **Xiang Song**, Jian Yang, Haibo Chen. Architecting Flash-based Solid-State Drive for High-performance I/O Virtualization. IEEE Computer Architecture Letter (CAL, to Appear). 2013.

  * **Xiang Song**, Jicheng Shi, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang. Schedule Processes, Not VCPUs. In Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APsys 2013, Best Paper Award), Singapore, 2013. 

  * **Xiang Song**, Jicheng Shi, Ran Liu, Jian Yang, Haibo Chen. Parallelizing Live Migration of Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of 2013 ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (**VEE 2013**, to Appear), March, 2013.{{:publications:pmigrate-vee13.pptx|pptx}}

  * **Xiang Song**, Jicheng Shi, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang. Revisiting Software Zero-Copy forWeb-caching Applications with Twin Allocators. Proceedings of 2012 Usenix Annual Technical Conference (Usenix ATC 2012, short paper, to appear). Boston, Massachusetts USA, June, 2012. [{{:talk:zero-copy.pptx|pptx}}]

  * Jichen Shi, **Xiang Song**, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang. Limiting Cached-based Side-Channel in Multi-tenant Cloud using Dynamic Page Coloring. Appear on the 7th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability 2011 (**HotDep'11**) 

  * **Xiang Song**, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Yuanxuan Wang, Binyu Zang. A Case for Scaling Applications to Many-core Platforms with OS Clustering. In 2011 ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (**Eurosys'2011**). Salzburg, Austria. April, 2011. [{{:publications:surf-ispass11.pdf|pdf}}]
 
  * **Xiang Song**, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang. Why Software Hangs and What can be done with it? The 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (**DSN-2010**, DCCS Track, Practical Experience Reports) pp. 311--316 . Chicago, Illinois, USA, June, 2010. [{{:publications:hang-survey.pdf|pdf}}]
  
  * Pengcheng Liu, Ziye Yang, **Xiang Song**, Yixun Zhou, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang. Heterogeneous Live Migration of Virtual Machines. Appear on 2008 International Workshop on Virtualization Technology (**IWVT'08**).[{{:publications:vagrant-iwvt.pdf|pdf}}] 
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===== Projects =====
 - [[VCPU-Balloon]]: In virtual environments, it is better to let guest VM schedule processes than let hypervisor schedule vcpus. Use VCPU-Ballooning to do so     2013.5 ~ Now 

 - [[VFlash]]: Architecting Flash-based Solid-State Drive for High-performance I/O Virtualization  2012.6 ~ 2013.6

 - [[VMOPS]]: Paralleling VM Management Operations  2012.2 ~ 2013.2

 - [[Zero-copy]]: Revisiting Software Zero-Copy for Web-caching Applications 2011.8 ~ 2012.2
  * Improving Xen scalability, 2010.10 ~ 2011.10
 - [[IXEN]]: Analyzing and improving performance and scalability of virtual platforms on many-core machines.
  * Device Driver Reuse, 2010.5 ~
 - [[ICA]]: Safe binary device driver reuse via user-level binary translation.
  * Improving the Scalability and Performance of System Software  2008.10~2010.12
 - Design and implement Cerberus system, which scales many-core applications with clustering of commodity OSes.
  * Software Hang Survey 2007.10
- A comprehensive study how software hang, a phenomenon of unresponsiveness.
  * Live Migration of Virtual Machines
- Participate in 'Vagrant' - Heterogeneous Live Migration of Virtual Machines.
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===== TA Work =====
  *	Spring, 2011	Computer System Engineering[[http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/cse/2011/Overview.html|]]
  *	Autumn, 2010	Operating System[[http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/os/|]]
  *	Autumn, 2009	Operating System
  *	Autumn, 2008	Operating System
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===== Awards =====
  *	Autumn, 2011	Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship
  *	Autumn, 2009    Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Fudan University
  *	Summer, 2009	Received the Title of JunZheng Scholar

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