Song Jiang Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: (313) 577-8944 Fax: (313) 578-5860

Research

My research interests include operating system, file and storage system, fault tolerance in parallel systems, and distributed systems.

Graduate Research Assistantships

Currently available to those who plan to pursue their Ph.D. Interested students should contact Dr. Jiang for further information.

Teaching

v Spring/Summer 2008 ECE 3330: Electrical Circuit ll

v Winter 2008 ECE 3610: Digital Logic

v Fall 2007 ECE 7995: Caching and Prefetching Techniques in Computer Systems

v Winter 2007 ECE 7995: Computer Storage and Operating System Design

v Fall 2006 ECE 5610: Introduction to parallel and distributed computing

Representative Publications (see also Full publication list):

v Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch", to appear in Proceedings of 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'07), Santa Clara, CA, June, 2007.

v Song Jiang, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DULO: an Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit both Temporal and Spatial Locality", in Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05) , San Francisco, CA, December, 2005.

v Song Jiang, Feng Chen, and Xiaodong Zhang, ``CLOCK-Pro: An Effective Improvement of the CLOCK Replacement ", in Proceedings of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'05), Anaheim, CA, April, 2005.

v Song Jiang and Xiaodong Zhang, "LIRS: An Efficient Low Inter-Reference Recency Set Replacement Policy to Improve Buffer Cache Performance" in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS'02), Marina Del Rey, CA, June, 2002.

Impacts of the Representative Work:

• ``Token-ordered LRU: an effective page replacement policy and its implementation in Linux systems", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 60, Issue 1-4, 2005, pp. 5-29.
• The token algorithm in this paper has been officially adopted in Linux Kernel version 2.6.
• Discussion on the implementation of the algorithm on lwn.net
• The token source code in Linux kernel.

• ``CLOCK-Pro: an effective improvement of the CLOCK replacement", Proceedings of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'05), Anaheim, CA, April 10-15, 2005, pp. 323-336.
• Clock-pro has been adopted in NetBSD. (See FreeBSD/Linux Kernel Cross Reference)
• The Linux Kernel Development Page.
• A report about its Linux kernel implementation.
• Clock-Pro patches in 2.6.12 developed by Rik van Riel from the Red Hat, Inc..
• An alternative Linux kernel implementation of Clock-Pro by Peter Zijlstra