Publications
Book Chapter
Probabilistic
control of nonlinear uncertain systems
Q. Wang and R. F. Stengel
Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under
Uncertainty, Springer-Verlag, London, 2006.
Patents
Global data
placement
Q. Wang, A. Merchant, N. Mishra,
M. Kallahalla, and R. Swaminathan,
Granted
US Patent 7225118, May 29, 2007.
Data placement
for fault tolerance
M. Karlsson,
Q. Wang, and J. Wilkes.
Granted
US Patent 7000141, Feb. 14,
2006.
Journal Papers
Nonlinear control of an uncertain hypersonic aircraft model
using robust sum-of-squares method
A.Ataei and Q. Wang
IET Control Theory
& Applications, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2012, pp. 203-215.
Delay-dependent control design for a time-delay supercavitating vehicle model
X.
Mao and Q. Wang
Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol.17, No. 3, 2011, pp. 431- 448.
Convergence speed in distributed consensus over
dynamically switching random networks
J.
Zhou and Q. Wang
Automatica, Vol. 45, No. 6, 2009, pp. 1455- 1461.
Research Challenges in Control Engineering of Computing
Systems
J.
L. Hellerstein, S. Singhal,
and Q. Wang
IEEE
Transactions on Network Service Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2009, pp. 1-6.
Nonlinear control design for a supercavitating
vehicle
X.
Mao and Q. Wang
IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2009, pp. 816-832.
An \alpha-stable model based
linear-parameter-varying control for managing server performance under
self-similar workloads
W.
Qin, Q., Wang and A. Sivasubramaniam
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 17, No.1, 2009, pp. 123- 134.
On convex parameterization of robust control design for
minimizing (conditional) performance at risk
Q.
Wang
International
Journal of Nonlinear and Robust Control, Vol. 18, No. 17, 2008, pp. 1575-1591.
A CFD-based tool for studying temperature in rack-mounted
servers
J.
Choi, Y., Kim, A., Sivasubramaniam, J. Srebric, Q. Wang, and J. Lee
IEEE
Transactions on Computers,
Vol. 57, No. 8, 2008, pp. 1129-1142.
An LPV approximation for admission control of an Internet
Web server: Identification and control
W.
Qin and Q. Wang
Control
Engineering Practice,
Vol. 15, No. 12, 2007, pp. 1457-1467.
Modeling and control design for performance management of
Web servers via an LPV approach
W.
Qin and Q. Wang
IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2007, pp. 259-275.
Robust failure compensation for a morphing aircraft model
using a probabilistic approach
A.
Ataei-Esfanahi
and Q. Wang
IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2007, pp. 324-331.
Storage
performance virtualization via throughput and latency control
J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, Q.
Wang, A. Riska and E. Riedel
ACM Transactions on Storage,
Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006, pp. 283-308.
Consolidating
clients on back-end servers with co-location and frequency control
Y. Chen, A. Das, Q. Wang, A.
Sivasubramaniam, R. Harper, and M. Bland
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance
Evaluation Review, 2006, pp. 383-384.
Quickly finding
near-optimal storage designs
E. Anderson, S. Spence, R. Swaminathan, M. Kallahalla, and
Q. Wang
ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2006, pp. 337-374.
Managing server
energy and operational costs in hosting centers
Y. Chen, A. Das, W. Qin, A.
Sivasubramaniam, Q. Wang, and N. Gautam
ACM
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2005,
pp. 303-314.
An interposed two
level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization
J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, A. Riska, Q. Wang and E. Riedel
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance
Evaluation Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2005, pp.
406-407.
Probabilistic
robust control of rotorcraft
J.
Horn, D. Tolani, C. Lagoa,
Q. Wang and A. Ray
Control
Engineering Practice, Vol.
12, (8), 2005, pp. 1037-1046.
Robust nonlinear
flight control of a high-performance aircraft
Q. Wang and R. F. Stengel
IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol.
13, No. 1, 2005, pp. 15-26.
Pricing-based
strategies for autonomic control of Web servers for time-varying request
arrivals
Y.
Chen, A. Das, N. Gautam, Q. Wang and A.
Sivasubramaniam
Journal
of Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence (special issue on Autonomic
Computing), Vol. 17, No. 7, 2004, pp. 841-854.
Robust control of
nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty
Q.
Wang and R. F. Stengel
Automatica,
Vol. 38, 2002, pp. 1591-1599.
Searching for
robust minimal-order compensators
Q. Wang and R. F. Stengel
ASME
Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol.
123, No. 2, 2001, pp. 233-236.
Robust nonlinear
control of a hypersonic aircraft
Q.
Wang and R. F. Stengel
Journal
of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 23, No.
4, 2000, pp. 577-585.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
Estimating the region of attraction for uncertain
polynomial systems using polynomial chaos functions and sum of squares method
A.Ataei and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the 2012 ASME DSCC Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, October, 2012
Development of an adaptive dual controller for glucose
management in patients with insulin-deficient diabetes
K. Freeman, Q. Wang, P.
Molenaar, J. Zhou, J. Ulbrecht,
C. Gold, and M. Rovine
Proceedings of the 2012
ASME DSCC Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, October, 2012
An ellipsoid algorithm for linear optimization with
uncertain LMI constraints
A.Ataei and Q. Wang
Proceedings of American
Control Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, June, 2012, pp. 857-862.
Robust adaptive backstepping
control design for a supercavitating vehicle model
X.
Mao and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the 2011 ASME DSCC Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Arlington, VA, October, 2011.
Robust nonlinear control design for a hypersonic aircraft
using Sum-of-Squares method
A.Ataei-Esfahani and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the 2010 ASME DSCC Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Cambridge, MA, October, 2010.
Stochastic semistability with
application to agreement problems over random networks
J. Zhou and Q. Wang
Proceedings of American
Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June, 2010, pp.
568-573.
Receding horizon control of type I diabetes based on a
data-driven linear time-varying state-space model
J. Zhou, Q. Wang, P. Molenaar, J. Ulbrecht, C. Gold,
and M. Rovine
Proceedings of American
Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June, 2010, pp.
2033-2038.
Distributed discrete-time nonlinear consensus protocols
J. Zhou and Q. Wang
Proceedings of IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai,
China, December, 2009, pp. 4759-4764.
Finite horizon linear quadratic regulation for linear
discrete time-varying systems with single/multiple input delay(s)
J. Zhou and Q. Wang
Proceedings of IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai,
China, December, 2009, pp. 4050-4055.
Characterizing convergence speed for consensus seeking
over dynamically switching directed random networks
J. Zhou and Q. Wang
Proceedings of American Control Conference, St. Louis,
SHARP Control: Controlled
shared cache management in chip multiprocessors
S. Srikantaiah, M. Kandemir, and Q.
Wang
Proceedings
of 42nd IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Microarchitecture, New York, NY, December, 2009. (Peer Reviewed).
DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1669112.1669177
Robust control of time-delay systems with application to
a supercavitating vehicle
X.
Mao and Q. Wang
Proceedings of 2008 ASME Dynamic
Systems and Control Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, October, 2008.
Using stochastic linear-parameter-varying control for CPU
management of Internet servers
W.
Qin and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007, pp.
3824-3829. (Invited Paper)
An LPV approach to performance control of Web servers
under self-similar workloads
W.
Qin, Q. Wang, and A. Sivasubramaniam
Proceedings
of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Feedback Control
Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, Munich, Germany, May 2007, pp. 27-32.
Nonlinear control design of a hypersonic aircraft using
Sum-of-Squares method
A.
Ataei-Esfahani
and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the American Control Conference, New York City, July, 2007, pp. 5278-5283. (American
Control Conference Best Presentation in Session Award)
Modeling and managing thermal profiles of rack-mounted
servers with ThermoStat
J.
Choi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Srebric, Q. Wang and J. Lee
Proceedings
of the IEEE 13th International Symposium
on High Performance Computer Architecture, Scottsdale, AZ, February, 2007,
pp. 205-215.
(Acceptance rate: 28 accepted / 174
submissions)
Nonlinear robust control design for a supercavitating
vehicle
X.
Mao and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL, November, 2006, IMECE
2006-14519.
A first-principles based LPV modeling and
design for performance management of Internet Web servers
W.
Qin, Q. Wang, Y. Chen, and N. Gautam
Proceedings
of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis,
MN, June 2006, pp. 2939-2944. (First
author supervised by candidate)
Robust failure compensation for a morphing aircraft model
using a probabilistic approach
A.
Ataei-Esfahani,
and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis,
MN, June 2006, pp. 351-356.
(American
Control Conference Best Presentation in Session Award)
Storage performance
virtualization via throughput and latency control
J. Zhang, A. Riska,
A. Sivasubramaniam, Q. Wang and E. Riedel
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication
Systems (MASCOTS), Atlanta, GA, September 2005, pp.
135-142.
Feedback
performance control for computer systems: An LPV approach
W. Qin and Q. Wang
Proceedings of the American
Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 2005, pp.
4760-4765.
Pricing and
autonomic control of Web servers with time-varying request patterns
Y. Chen, A. Das, N. Gautam, Q. Wang and A. Sivasubramaniam
Proceedings
of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Seattle,
WA, June, 2004, pp. 290-291.
Probabilistic
robust control design of polynomial vector fields
Q. Wang
Proceedings
of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui,
HI, December 2003, pp. 2447 - 2452.
Reliable
operation of rotorcraft using probabilistic robust control
J. Horn, D. Tolani,
C. Lagoa, Q. Wang and A. Ray
Proceedings
of IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical
Processes, Washington, DC, June 2003, pp.
181-186.
Plutus: Scalable secure
sharing on untrusted storage
M. Kallahalla, E. Reidel, R. Swaminathan, Q. Wang,
and K. Fu
Proceedings of
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST),
San Francisco, CA, January 2003, pp. 29-42.
(Acceptance
rate: 18 accepted / 87 submissions)
Robust flight control of a high performance
aircraft
Q. Wang and R. F. Stengel
AIAA paper 2001-4101, Montreal, Canada, August 2001.
Robust nonlinear control of a hypersonic
aircraft
Q. Wang and R. F. Stengel
Proceedings of
the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Portland,
OR, August 1999, pp. 413-423.
Robust control of nonlinear systems with
parametric uncertainty
Q. Wang and R.
F. Stengel
Proceedings of
the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa,
FL, December 1998, pp. 3341-3346.
Searching for
robust minimal-order compensators
R.
F. Stengel and Q. Wang
Proceedings
of the American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 1998, pp.
3138-3142.