Publications

• [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] Kevin Lai, Bernardo A. Huberman and Leslie Fine, "Tycoon: A Distributed Market-based Resource Allocation Systems", Technical Report arXiv:cs.DC/0404013, April 5, 2004.
• [PDF] [bibtex] Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, John Chuang, and Ion Stoica, "Quantifying Disincentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks", Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003.
• [PDF] [bibtex] Kevin Lai, Michal Feldman, John Chuang, and Ion Stoica, "Incentives for Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Networks", Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003.
• [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] [bibtex] Kevin Lai , "Measuring the Bandwidth of Packet Switched Networks", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, October 2002.
• [PDF] B. Raman, S. Agarwal, Y. Chen, M. Caesar, W. Cui, P. Johansson, K. Lai, T. Lavian, S. Machiraju, Z. M. Mao, G. Porter, T. Roscoe, M. Seshadri, J. Shih, K. Sklower, L. Subramanian, T. Suzuki, S. Zhuang, A. D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Ion Stoica, "The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple Providers", Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing, August 26-28, 2002.
• [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.
• [PDF] [HTML] [bibtex] Mema Roussopoulos, Petros Maniatis, Edward Swierk, Kevin Lai, Guido Appenzeller, Mary Baker, "Person-Level Routing in the Mobile People Architecture", Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, October 1999.
• [PS] [bibtex] Petros Maniatis, Mema Roussopoulos, Ed Swierk, Kevin Lai, Guido Appenzeller, Xinhua Zhao, and Mary Baker, "The Mobile People Architecture", ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC²R), July 1999.
• [PDF] [HTML] Guido Appenzeller, Kevin Lai, Petros Maniatis, Mema Roussopoulos, Edward Swierk, Xinhua Zhao and Mary Baker, "The Mobile People Architecture", Technical Report CSL-TR-99-777, January, 1999.
• [PDF] [HTML] [bibtex] Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "Measuring Bandwidth", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '99, March 1999.
• [PDF] [HTML] Stephen Cheng, Kevin Lai, and Mary Baker, "Analysis of HTTP/1.1 Performance on a Wireless Network", Technical Report CSL-TR-99-778, February, 1999.
• [PDF] Kevin Lai, Mema Roussopoulos, Diane Tang, Xinhua Zhao, and Mary Baker, "Experiences with a Mobile Testbed", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Worldwide Computing and its Applications (WWCA'98), March 1998.
• [PDF] Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, "A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium", Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Technical Conference, January 1996.