Kevin Lai

Overview

I am a scientist in the Information Dynamics Lab (IDL) at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. I'm interested in incentive-compatible computer systems, peer-to-peer systems, and mobile and wireless networking. My current project is Tycoon, a market-based resource allocation system.

Projects

• Tycoon
• Oath
• Internet Indirection Infrastructure
• Nettimer
• Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
• Mobile People Architecture
• UNIX Benchmarking

Publications

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» [PDF] [bibtex] Thomas Sandholm and Kevin Lai, "Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON), Aug, 2007.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Thomas Sandholm and Kevin Lai, "A Statistical Approach to Risk Mitigation in Computational Markets", Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June, 2007.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai, Jorge Andrade, and Jacob Odeberg, "Market-Based Resource Allocation using Price Prediction in a High Performance Computing Grid for Scientific Applications", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June, 2006.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Thomas Sandholm and Kevin Lai, "Evaluating Demand Prediction Techniques for Computational Markets", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON), May, 2006. (invited)

» [PDF] [bibtex] Kevin Lai, Lars Rasmusson, Eytan Adar, Stephen Sorkin, Li Zhang and Bernardo A. Huberman, "Tycoon: an Implemention of a Distributed Market-Based Resource Allocation System", Multiagent and Grid Systems, 1:3, August, 2005.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Kevin Lai, "Markets are Dead, Long Live Markets", ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 5:4, July 2005.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, and Li Zhang, "A Price-Anticipating Resource Allocation Mechanism for Distributed Shared Clusters", ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June, 2005, arXiv:cs.DC/0502019.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, John Chuang, and Ion Stoica, "Robust Incentive Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks", ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 2004.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Shelley Zhuang and Kevin Lai and Ion Stoica and Randy Katz and Scott Shenker, "Host Mobility Using an Internet Indirection Infrastructure", Proceedings of MobiSys, May 2003.

» [PDF] [HTML] [bibtex] Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Nettimer: A Tool for Measuring Bottleneck Link Bandwidth", Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, March 2001.

» [PDF] [HTML] [bibtex] Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Measuring Link Bandwidths Using a Deterministic Model of Packet Delay", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, August 2000.

» [PDF] [bibtex] Sergio Marti, T.J. Giuli, Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings of MOBICOM 2000, August 2000.