Richard T. B. Ma

• About Me
• Curriculum Vitae
• Research
• Education

Curriculum Vitae 

Research Interests

• Cloud Computing and Big Data Systems 
• Economics and Evolution of the Internet

Education

• Columbia University, New York, USA
• Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, 2010 
• Master of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, 2008 
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Master of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering, 2004 
• Bachelor of Science (First Class Honors), Computer Science, 2002 

Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2021 -- now 
• Assitant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2014 -- 2021 
• Research Scientist, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois, 2010 -- 2014 
• Visiting Research Fellow, Telefonica Research & Development, Internet Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 
• Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 2006 

Awards

• Best Paper Award Runners-up, ACM Mobihoc Conference 2020. 
• Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2017. 
• Bell Labs Best Paper Award, IEEE Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP) 2015. 
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2014 
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) 2013 

Publications (DBLP) (Google Scholar) 

Selected Journal Papers

• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Internet Transport Economics: Model and Analysis.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 29, Issue 6, pp. 2843 - 2854, 2021. 
• Xin Wang, Yinlong Xu and Richard T. B. Ma.
  Paid Peering, Settlement-Free Peering, or Both?
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 585 - 594, April 2021. 
• Xin Wang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  On the Tussle between Over-the-Top and Internet Service Providers: Analysis of the Netflix-Comcast Type of Deals.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 28, Issue 6, pp. 2823 - 2835, December 2020. 
• Walid A. Y. Aljoby, Xin Wang, Tom Z. J. Fu and Richard T. B. Ma.
  On SDN-Enabled Online and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Stream Analytics.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 37, Issue 8, pp. 1688 - 1702, August 2019. 
• Jing Tang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  Regulating Monopolistic ISPs Without Neutrality.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 37, Issue 7, pp. 1666 - 1680, July 2019. 
• Mao Zou, Richard T. B. Ma, Xin Wang and Yinlong Xu.
  On Optimal Service Differentiation in Congested Network Markets.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 26, Issue 6, pp. 2693 - 2706, December 2018. 
• Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma and Yinlong Xu.
  The Role of Data Cap in Optimal Two-Part Network Pricing.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 3602 - 3615, December 2017. 
• Tom Z. J. Fu, Jianbing Ding, Richard T. B. Ma, Marianne Winslett, Yin Yang and Zhenjie Zhang.
  DRS: Auto-Scaling for Real-Time Stream Analytics.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 3338 - 3352, December 2017. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Pay or Perish: The Economics of Premium Peering.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 353 - 366, February 2017. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Jingjing Wang and Dah Ming Chiu.
  Paid Prioritization and Its Impact on Net Neutrality.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 367 - 379, February 2017. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Usage-Based Pricing and Competition in Congestible Network Service Markets.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Issue 5, pp. 3084 - 3097, October 2016. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Subsidization Competition: Vitalizing the Neutral Internet.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp. 2563 - 2576, August 2016. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, John C. S. Lui and Vishal Misra.
  Evolution of the Internet Economic Ecosystem.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 85 - 98, February 2015. 
• Richard T. B. Ma and Vishal Misra.
  The Public Option: A Non-Regulatory Alternative to Network Neutrality.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 21, Issue 6, pp. 1866 - 1879, December 2013.
  Featured in "FCC Gives Municipal Broadband Providers (and Internet Competition) a Boost" IEEE Spectrum Magazine, February 26th 2015.
  Featured in "Why President Obama's Plan Just Might Fix the Internet" Money Magazine, January 16th 2015.
  Featured in Special Issue on Network Neutrality, the Internet & QoS IEEE ComSoc Technology News, June 2014.
  
• Richard T. B. Ma and Vishal Misra.
  Congestion and Its Role in Network Equilibrium.
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 30, Issue 11, pp. 2180 - 2189, December 2012. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 19, Issue 3, pp. 802 - 815, June 2011.
  Featured in "Routing Money, Not Packets. Revisiting Network Neutrality" Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Number 6, June 2015.
  Featured in Special Issue on Network Neutrality, the Internet & QoS IEEE ComSoc Technology News, June 2014.
  
• Richard T. B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Internet Economics: The Use of Shapley Value for ISP Settlement.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 775 - 787, June 2010. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  An Analysis of Generalized Slotted-Aloha Protocols.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Issue 3, pp. 936 - 949, June 2009. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui and David K. Y. Yau.
  Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 14, Issue 5, pp. 978 - 991, October 2006. 

Selected Conference Papers

• Yancan Mao, Yuan Huang, Runxin Tian, Xin Wang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  Trisk: Task-Centric Data Stream Reconfiguration.
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), Seattle, WA, USA, Novermber 1st-4th, 2021. 
• Shuhao Zhang, Yancan Mao, Jiong He, Philipp M. Grulich, Steffen Zeuch, Bingsheng He, Richard T. B. Ma and Volker Markl.
  Parallelizing Intra-Window Join on Multicores: An Experimental Study.
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, Xi'an, China, June 20th-25th, 2021. 
• Xin Wang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  On Private Peering Agreements between Content and Access Providers: A Contractual Equilibrium Analysis.
  Proceedings of the ACM Sigmetrics Conference, Beijing, China, June 14th-18th, 2021. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Internet Transport Economics: Model and Analysis.
  Proceedings of the ACM MobiHoc Conference, October 11-14, 2020.
  Best Paper Award Runners-up (Acceptance rate: 30 out of 196) 
• Li Wang, Tom Z. J. Fu, Richard T. B. Ma, Marianne Winslett and Zhenjie Zhang.
  Elasticutor: Rapid Elasticity for Realtime Stateful Stream Processing.
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, June 30 - July 5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019. 
• Lianjie Shi, Xin Wang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  On Optimal Hybrid Premium Peering and Caching Purchasing Strategy of Internet Content Providers.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 29 - May 2, Paris, France, 2019. 
• Lailong Luo, Deke Guo, Ori Rottenstreich, Xueshan Luo, Richard T. B. Ma and Bangbang Ren.
  The Consistent Cuckoo Filter.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 29 - May 2, Paris, France, 2019. 
• Mao Zou, Richard T. B. Ma and Yinlong Xu.
  Towards an Efficient Market Mediator for Divisible Resources.
  Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), December 5-7, Toulouse, France, 2018. 
• Lianjie Shi, Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma and Y. C. Tay.
  Weighted Fair Caching: Occupancy-Centric Allocation for Space-Shared Resources.
  Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), December 5-7, Toulouse, France, 2018. 
• Walid A. Y. Aljoby, Xin Wang, Tom Z. J. Fu and Richard T. B. Ma.
  On SDN-Enabled Online and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Stream Analytics.
  Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), September 24-27, Cambridge, UK, 2018. 
• Xin Wang, Yinlong Xu and Richard T. B. Ma.
  Paid Peering, Settlement-Free Peering, or Both?
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 15 - 19, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018. 
• Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma and Yinlong Xu.
  On Optimal Two-Sided Pricing of Congested Networks.
  Proceedings of the ACM Sigmetrics Conference, University of Illinois, IL, USA, June 5th-9th, 2017. 
• Mao Zou, Richard T. B. Ma, Xin Wang and Yinlong Xu.
  On Optimal Service Differentiation in Congested Network Markets.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 1st - 4th, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2017. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Efficient Resource Allocation and Consolidation with Selfish Agents: An Adaptive Auction Approach.
  Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Nara, Japan, June 27th - June 30th, 2016. 
• Richard T. B. Ma and Don Towsley.
  Cashing in on Caching: On-demand Contract Design with Linear Pricing.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Heidelberg, Germany, December 2015. 
• Tom Z. J. Fu, Jianbing Ding, Richard T. B. Ma, Marianne Winslett, Yin Yang and Zhenjie Zhang.
  DRS: Dynamic Resource Scheduling for Real-Time Analytics over Fast Streams.
  Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 29th - July 2nd, 2015. 
• Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma and Yinlong Xu.
  The Role of Data Cap in Two-part Pricing under Market Competition.
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP), Hong Kong, China, April 27, 2015.
  Bell Labs Best Paper Award 
• Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma and Yinlong Xu.
  The Role of Data Cap in Optimal Two-part Network Pricing.
  Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, May 18-22, 2015. 
• Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma, Yinlong Xu and Zhipeng Li.
  Sampling Online Social Networks via Heterogeneous Statistics.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 26 - May 1, Hong Kong, China, 2015. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Subsidization Competition: Vitalizing the Neutral Internet.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Sydney, Australia, December 2014. 
• Richard T. B. Ma.
  Pay-As-You-Go Pricing and Competition in Congested Network Service Markets.
  Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), October 21-24, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2014. 
• Jing Tang and Richard T. B. Ma.
  Regulating Monopolistic ISPs Without Neutrality.
  Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), October 21-24, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2014.
  Best Paper Award (Acceptance rate: 32 out of 160) 
• Weijie Wu, Richard T. B. Ma and John C. S. Lui.
  Exploring Bundling Sale Strategy in Online Service Markets with Network Effects.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 27- May 2, Toronto, Canada, 2014. 
• Yudong Yang, Richard T. B. Ma and John C. S. Lui.
  Price Differentiation and Control in the Kelly Mechanism.
  Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation (IFIP Performance), September 24-26, Vienna, Austria, 2013. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, John C. S. Lui and Vishal Misra.
  On the Evolution of the Internet Economic Ecosystem.
  Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 849-860, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013. 
• Zhenjie Zhang, Richard T. B. Ma, Jianbing Ding and Yin Yang.
  ABACUS: An Auction-Based Approach to Cloud Service Differentiation.
  Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), pp. 292-301, San Francisco, California, USA, March 25-28, 2013.
  Best Paper Award (Acceptance rate: 22 out of 107) 
• Richard T. B. Ma and Vishal Misra.
  The Public Option: a Non-Regulatory Alternative to Network Neutrality.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Tokyo, Japan, December 2011. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  On Cooperative Settlement Between Content, Transit and Eyeball Internet Service Providers.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Madrid, Spain, December 2008. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Dah Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Internet Economics: The Use of Shapley Value for ISP Settlement.
  Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), New York, USA, December 2007. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Vishal Misra and Dan Rubenstein.
  Modeling and Analysis of Generalized Slotted-Aloha MAC Protocols in Cooperative, Competitive and Adversarial Environments.
  Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui and David K. Y. Yau.
  A Game Theoretic Approach to Provide Incentive and Service Differentiation in P2P Networks.
  Proceedings of the ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Conference, Columbia University, New York, USA, June 12th-16th, 2004. 
• Richard T. B. Ma, Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui and David K. Y. Yau.
  An Incentive Mechanism for P2P Networks.
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004. 

Professional Services -- Conference TPC Member

• ACM CoNEXT 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011 
• ACM SIGMETRICS 2014, 2013 
• ACM MobiHoc 2017, 2016 
• IEEE ICNP 2015 
• IFIP Performance 2014, 2011 
• IFIP Networking 2012, 2011 
• IEEE ICDCS 2012 
• IEEE ICDCN 2016 
• IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016 
• IEEE MASCOTS 2015, 2013 
• IEEE International Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP) 2014, 2015 
• Joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems (W-PIN+NetEcon) 2014, 2013, 2012 
• Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON) 2014, 2013, 2012 
• IEEE International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2016, 2012 
• COMSNETS 2015 
• WiOpt 2015