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System for machine learning

  1. (NSDI) Minder: Faulty Machine Detection for Large-scale Distributed Model Training
    Yangtao Deng, Xiang Shi, Zhuo Jiang, Xingjian Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Bo Li, Zuquan Song, Hang Zhu, Gaohong Liu, Fuliang Li, Shuguang Wang, Haibin Lin, Jianxi Ye and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2025

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  2. (NSDI) THC: Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning Using Tensor Homomorphic Compression
    Minghao Li, Ran Ben Basat, Shay Vargaftik, ChonLam Lao, Kevin Xu, Michael Mitzenmacher and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2024

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Accelerate distributed systems using eBPF

  1. (NSDI) eTran: Extensible Kernel Transport with eBPF
    Zhongjie Chen, Qingkai Meng, ChonLam Lao, Yifan Liu, Fengyuan Ren, Minlan Yu and Yang Zhou
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2025

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  2. (NSDI) DINT: Fast In-Kernel Distributed Transactions with eBPF
    Yang Zhou, Xingyu Xiang, Matthew Kiley, Sowmya Dharanipragada and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2024

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  3. (NSDI) Electrode: Accelerating Distributed Protocols with eBPF
    Yang Zhou, Zezhou Wang, Sowmya Dharanipragada and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2023

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Machine learning for systems

  1. (SIGCOMM) Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
    Zhiying Xu, Francis Yan, Rachee Singh, Justin Chiu, Alexander Rush and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2023

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  2. (CONEXT) Boosting Existing DDoS Detection Systems Using Auxiliary Signals
    Zhiying Xu, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Alexander Rush, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    Dec. 2022

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  3. (NDSS) BLAG: Improving Accuracy of Blacklists
    Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
    Feb. 2020

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Programmable measurement architecture

  1. (CoNEXT) F3: Fast and Flexible Network Telemetry with an FPGA coprocessor
    Weiqi Feng, Jiaqi Gao, Xiaoqi Chen, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mingchao Shao, Ying Zhang and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    Dec. 2024

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  2. (ICDE) BitMatcher: Bit-level Counter Adjustment for Sketches
    Qilong Shi, Chengjun Jia, Wenjun Li, Zaoxing Liu, Tong Yang, Jianan Ji, Gaogang Xie, Weizhe Zhang and Minlan Yu
    IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
    May 2024

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  3. (SIGCOMM) Direct Telemetry Access
    Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben Basat, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu and Gianni Antichi
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2023

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  4. (NSDI) Evolvable Network Telemetry at Facebook
    Yang Zhou, Ying Zhang, Minlan Yu, Guangyu Wang, Dexter Cao, Eric Sung and Starsky Wong
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2022

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  5. (USENIX Security) Jaqen: A High-Performance Switch-Native Approach for Detecting and Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches
    Zaoxing Liu, Hun Namkung, Georgios Nikolaidis, Jeongkeun Lee, Changhoon Kim, Xin Jin, Vladimir Braverman, Minlan Yu and Vyas Sekar
    USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
    Aug. 2021

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  6. (HotNets) Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
    Jonatan Langlet, Ran Ben Basat, Sivaram Ramanathan, Gabriele Oliaro, Michael Mitzenmacher, Minlan Yu and Gianni Antichi
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    2021

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  7. (CONEXT) Detecting Routing Loops in the Data Plane
    Jan Kučera, Ran Ben Basat, Mario Kuka, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu and Michael Mitzenmacher
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    Dec. 2020

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  8. (SIGCOMM) PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network Telemetry
    Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu and Michael Mitzenmacher
    ACM SIGCOMM (Also published as highlights in SYSTOR’21: ACM International Systems and Storage Conference)
    Aug. 2020

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  9. (SIGCOMM) Microscope: Queue-based Performance Diagnosis for Network Functions
    Junzhi Gong, Yuliang Li, Bilal Anwer, Aman Shaikh and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2020

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  10. (SIGCOMM) Scouts: Improving the Diagnosis Process Through Domain-customized Incident Routing
    Jiaqi Gao, Nofel Yaseen, Robert MacDavid, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Vincent Liu, Ricardo Bianchini, Ramaswamy Aditya, Xiaohang Wang, Henry Lee, David Maltz, Minlan Yu and Behnaz Arzani
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2020

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  11. (IFIP) Routing Oblivious Measurement Analytics
    Ran Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Shir Landau Feibish, Danny Raz and Minlan Yu
    IFIP the International Federation for Information Processing Networking
    Jun. 2020

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  12. (NSDI) DETER: Deterministic TCP Replay for Performance Diagnosis
    Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Mohammad Alizadeh and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Feb. 2019

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  13. (CCR) Network Telemetry: Towards A Top-Down Approach
    Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Editorial)
    2019

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  14. (SIGMOD) Cold Filter: A Meta-Framework for Faster and More Accurate Stream Processing
    Yang Zhou, Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui, Minlan Yu, Xiaoming Li and Steve Uhlig
    SIGMOD
    Jun. 2018

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  15. (SOSR) A Comparison of Performance and Accuracy of Measurement Algorithms in Software
    Omid Alipourfard, Masoud Moshref, Yang Zhou, Tong Yang and Minlan Yu
    Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
    Mar. 2018

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  16. (CCR) Accelerating Network Measurement in Software
    Yang Zhou, Omid Alipoufard, Minlan Yu and Tong Yang
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    2018

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  17. (CIKM) Stream Aggregation Through Order Sampling
    Nick Duffield, Yunhong Xu, Liangzhen Xia, Nesreen Ahmed and Minlan Yu
    ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
    2017

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  18. (CoNEXT) LossRadar: Fast Detection of Lost Packets in Data Center Networks
    Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    Dec. 2016

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  19. (SIGCOMM) Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data Centers
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin Vahdat
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2016

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  20. (NSDI) FlowRadar: A Better NetFlow for Data Centers
    Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2016

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  21. (SOSR) MOZART: Temporal Coordination of Measurement
    Xuemei Liu, Meral Shirazipour, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang
    Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
    Mar. 2016

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  22. (IMC) The Dark Menace: Characterizing Network-based Attacks in the Cloud
    Rui Miao, Rahul Potharaju, Minlan Yu and Navendu Jain
    Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
    Oct. 2015

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  23. (HotNets) Re-evaluating Measurement Algorithms in Software
    Omid Alipourfard, Masoud Moshref and Minlan Yu
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    2015

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  24. (CONEXT) SCREAM: Sketch Resource Allocation for Software-defined Measurement
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin Vahdat
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    2015

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  25. (JNSM) HONE: Joint Host-Network Traffic Management in Software-Defined Networks
    Peng Sun, Minlan Yu, Michael J. Freedman, Jennifer Rexford and David Walker
    Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), special issue on software-defined networking
    Jul. 2014

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  26. (SIGCOMM) DREAM: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Software-defined Measurement
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin Vahdat
    ACM SIGCOMM
    2014

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  27. (HotSDN) Resource/Accuracy Tradeoffs in Software-Defined Measurement
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu and Ramesh Govindan
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
    2013

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  28. (NSDI) Software defined traffic measurement with OpenSketch
    Minlan Yu, Lavanya Jose and Rui Miao
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2013

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  29. (NSDI) Profiling network performance for multi-tier data center applications
    Minlan Yu, Albert Greenberg, Dave Maltz, Jennifer Rexford, Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula and Changhoon Kim
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2011

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Data center network management

  1. (EUROSYS) SmartNIC Security Isolation in the Cloud with S-NIC
    Yang Zhou, Mark Wilkening, James Mickens and Minlan Yu
    European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys)
    Apr. 2024

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  2. (NSDI) Practical Intent-driven Routing Configuration Synthesis
    Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Ying Zhang, Mohab Gawish, Yogesh Mundada, Zhaodong Wang, Sangki Yun, Eric Lippert, Walid Taha, Minlan Yu and Jelena Mirkovic
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2023

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  3. (TON) Optimal Oblivious Routing with Concave Objectives for Structured Networks
    Kanatip Chitavisutthivong, Sucha Supittayapornpong, Pooria Namyar, Mingyang Zhang, Minlan Yu and Ramesh Govindan
    IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON)
    2023

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  4. (SIGCOMM) SwitchV: Automated SDN Switch Validation with P4 Models
    Kinan Dak Albab, Steffen Smolka, Jonathan Dilorenzo, Ali Kheradmand, Konstantin Weitz, Stefan Heule, Minlan Yu, Jiaqi Gao and Muhammad Tirmazi
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2022

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  5. (ATC) Hashing Design in Modern Networks: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques
    Yunhong Xu, Keqiang He, Rui Wang, Minlan Yu, Nick Duffield, Hassan Wassel, Shidong Zhang, Leon Poutievski, Junlan Zhou and Amin Vahdat
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)
    Jul. 2022

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  6. (INFOCOM) Optimal Oblivious Routing for Structured Networks
    Sucha Supittayapornpong, Pooria Namyar, Mingyang Zhang, Minlan Yu and Ramesh Govindan
    IEEE INFOCOM
    May 2022

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  7. (SIGCOMM) Aquila: A Practically Usable Verification System for Production-Scale Programmable Data Planes
    Bingchuan Tian, Jiaqi Gao, Mengqi Liu, Ennan Zhai, Yanqing Chen, Yu Zhou, Li Dai, Feng Yan, Mengjing Ma, Ming Tang, Jie Lu, Xionglie Wei, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Ming Zhang, Chen Tian and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2021

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  8. (SIGCOMM) A Throughput-Centric View of the Performance of Datacenter Topologies
    Pooria Namyar, Sucha Supittayapornpong, Mingyang Zhang, Minlan Yu and Ramesh Govindan
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2021

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  9. (SIGCOMM) Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICs
    Jiaqi Gao, Ennan Zhai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Rui Miao, Yu Zhou, Bingchuan Tian, Chen Sun, Dennis Cai, Ming Zhang and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2020

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  10. (IFIP) Enabling Premium Service for Streaming Video in Cellular Networks
    Xing Xu, Ramesh Govindan, Ajay A Mahimkar, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Jia Wang and Minlan Yu
    IFIP the International Federation for Information Processing Networking
    Jun. 2020

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  11. (HotNets) Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable Switches
    Nadeen Gebara, Alberto Lerner, Mingran Yang, Minlan Yu, Paolo Costa and Manya Ghobadi
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    2020

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  12. (SOSP) Risk-based planning for evolving data-center networks
    Omid Alipourfard, Jiaqi Gao, Jeremie Koenig, Chris Harshaw, Amin Vahdat and Minlan Yu
    Symposium on operating systems principles (SOSP)
    Oct. 2019

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  13. (HotNets) Decoupling algorithms and optimizations in network functions
    Omid Alipourfard and Minlan Yu
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    Nov. 2018

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  14. (SIGCOMM) SilkRoad: Making Stateful L4 Load Balancing Fast and Cheap Using Switching ASICs
    Rui Miao, Hongyi Zeng, Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    2017

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  15. (SIGCOMM) Condor: Better Topologies through Declarative Design
    Brandon Schlinker, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Sean Smith, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Amin Vahdat, Minlan Yu, Ethan Katz-Bassett and Michael Rubin
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2015

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  16. (CONEXT) Tango: Simplifying SDN Programming with Automatic Switch Behavior Inference, Abstraction, and Optimizatione
    Aggelos Lazaris, Daniel Tahara, Xin Huang, Li Erran Li, Andreas Voellmy, Y. Richard Yang and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    Dec. 2014

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  17. (CCR) NOSIX: A Lightweight Portability Layer for the SDN OS
    Minlan Yu, Andreas Wundsam and Muruganantham Raju
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    Apr. 2014

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  18. (HotSDN) Flow-level State Transition as a New Switch Primitive for SDN
    Masoud Moshref, Apoorv Bhargava, Adhip Gupta, Minlan Yu and Ramesh Govindan
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
    2014

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  19. (NSDI) FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions
    Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu and Jeff Mogul
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2014

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  20. (HotSDN) A Secure Computation Framework for Software Defined Networks
    Nachikethas A. Jagadeesan, Ranjan Pal, Kaushik Nadikuditi, Yan Huang, Elaine Shi and Minlan Yu
    poster in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking
    2014

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  21. (NSDI) Scalable Rule Management for Data Centers
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Abhishek Sharma and Ramesh Govindan
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2013

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  22. (SIGCOMM) SIMPLE-fying Middlebox Policy Enforcement Using SDN
    Zafar Qazi, Cheng-chun Tu, Luis Chiang, Rui Miao, Vyas Sekar and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    2013

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  23. (HotSDN) FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions
    Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu and Jeff Mogul
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
    2013

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  24. (HotCloud) VCRIB: Virtualized rule management in the cloud
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Abhishek Sharma and Ramesh Govindan
    USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)
    2012

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  25. (commag) A Survey of virtual LAN usage in campus networks
    Minlan Yu, Xin Sun, Nick Feamster, Sanjay Rao and Jennifer Rexford
    IEEE Communications Magazine
    Jul. 2011

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  26. Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networks
    Minlan Yu
    Ph.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
    2011

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  27. (HotNets) CloudPolice: Taking Access Control out of the Network
    Lucian Popa, Minlan Yu, Steven Y. Ko, Sylvia Ratnasamy and Ion Stoica
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    2010

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  28. (SIGCOMM) Scalable Flow-Based Networking with DIFANE
    Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman and Jia Wang
    ACM SIGCOMM
    2010

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  29. (CONEXT) Virtually Eliminating Router Bugs
    Eric Keller, Minlan Yu, Matthew Caesar and Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    2009

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  30. (CONEXT) BUFFALO: Bloom Filter Forwarding Architecture for Large Organizations
    Minlan Yu, Alex Fabrikant and Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    2009

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  31. (WREN) Hash, Don’t Cache: Fast Packet Forwarding for Enterprise Edge Routers
    Minlan Yu and Jennifer Rexford
    Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Research in Enterprise Networks (WREN)
    2009

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  32. (CCR) Rethinking virtual network embedding: Substrate support for path splitting and migration
    Minlan Yu, Yung Yi, Jennifer Rexford and Mung Chiang
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    Apr. 2008

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Cloud computing

  1. (NSDI) Preventing Network Bottlenecks: Accelerating Datacenter Services withHotspot-Aware Placement for Compute and Storage
    Hamid Bazzaz, Weiwu Pang, Yingjie Bi, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan, Neal Cardwell, Nandita Dukkipati, Meng-Jung Tsai, Chris DeForeest, Yuxue Jin, Charles Carver, Jan Kopański and Liqun Cheng
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2025

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  2. (MetaCom) Challenges in Metaverse Research: An Internet of Things Perspective
    Tarek Abdelzaher, Matthew Caesar, Charith Mendis, Klara Nahrstedt, Mani Srivastava and Minlan Yu
    IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing Networking and Applications
    Jun. 2023

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  3. (NSDI) Rearchitecting the TCP Stack for I/O-Offloaded Content Delivery
    Taehyun Kim, Deondre Martin Ng, Junzhi Gong, Youngjin Kwon, Minlan Yu and KyoungSoo Park
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2023

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  4. (OSDI) Carbink: Fault-tolerant far memory
    Yang Zhou, Hassan Wassel, Sihang Liu, Jiaqi Gao, James Mickens, Minlan Yu, Chris Kennelly, Paul Turner, David Culler, Hank Levy and Amin Vahdat
    USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) (Also published The Third Workshop On Resource Disaggregation and Serverless Computing (WORDS22))
    Jul. 2022

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  5. (OSDI) Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock-synchronization for Datacenters
    Yuliang Li, Gautam Kumar, Hema Hariharan, Hassan Wassel, Peter Hochschild, Dave Platt, Simon Sabato, Minlan Yu, Nandita Dukkipati, Prashant Chandra and Amin Vahdat
    USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
    Nov. 2020

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  6. (SIGMOD) Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch Pruning
    Muhammad Tirmazi, Ran Ben Basat, Jiaqi Gao and Minlan Yu
    SIGMOD
    Jun. 2020

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  7. (SIGCOMM) HPCC: High Precision Congestion Control for RDMA
    Yuliang Li, Rui Miao, Hongqiang Liu, Yan Zhuang, Fei Feng, Lingbo Tang, Zheng Cao, Frank Kelly, Mohammad Alizadeh, Minlan Yu and Ming Zhang
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2019

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  8. (SEC) VideoEdge: Processing Camera Streams using Hierarchical Clusters
    Chien-Chun Hung, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodik, Leana Golubchik, Minlan Yu, Paramvir Bahl and Matthai Philipose
    ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)
    Oct. 2018

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  9. (EUROSYS) Wide-Area Analytics with Multiple Resources
    Chien-Chun Hung, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Leana Golubchik, Minlan Yu and Mingyang Zhang
    European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys)
    Apr. 2018

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  10. (NSDI) Enabling Wide-spread Communications on Optical Fabric with MegaSwitch
    Li Chen, Kai Chen, Joshua Zhu, Minlan Yu, George Porter, Chunming Qiao and Shan Zhong
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Mar. 2017

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  11. (NSDI) CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations
    Omid Alipourfard, Jianshu Chen, Hongqiang Liu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Minlan Yu and Ming Zhang
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Mar. 2017

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  12. (SIGCOMM) Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at Scale
    Xiaoqi Ren, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Adam Wierman and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2015

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  13. (SOCC) Scheduling Jobs Across Geo- Distributed Datacenters
    Chien-Chun Hung, Leana Golubchik and Minlan Yu
    ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC)
    Aug. 2015

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  14. (INFOCOM) RAPIER: Integrating Routing and Scheduling for Coflow-aware Data Center Networks
    Yangming Zhao, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, Minlan Yu, Chen Tian, Yanhui Geng, Yiming Zhang, Dan Li and Sheng Wang
    IEEE INFOCOM
    Apr. 2015

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  15. (CompNet) Joint VM placement and topology optimization for traffic scalability in dynamic datacenter networks
    Yangming Zhao, Yifan Huang, Kai Chen, Minlan Yu, Sheng Wang and DongSheng Li
    Computer Networks
    2015

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  16. (MAMA) Speculation-Aware Cluster Scheduling
    Xiaoqi Ren, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Adam Wierman and Minlan Yu
    Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA)
    2015

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  17. (EUROSYS) DIBS: Just-in-time Congestion Mitigation for Data Centers
    Kyriakos Zarifis, Rui Miao, Matt Calder, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Minlan Yu and Jitu Padhye
    European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys)
    2014

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  18. (NSDI) GRASS: Trimming Stragglers in Approximation Analytics
    Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Michael Chien-Chun Hung, Xiaoqi Ren, Ion Stoica, Adam Wierman and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2014

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  19. (HotICE) Online measurement of large traffic aggregates on commodity switches
    Lavanya Jose, Minlan Yu and Jennifer Rexford
    USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services
    2011

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Internet

  1. (NSDI) Scalable Distributed Massive MIMO Baseband Processing
    Junzhi Gong, Anuj Kalia and Minlan Yu
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    Apr. 2023

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  2. (IMC) Quantifying the Impact of Blacklisting in the Age of Address Reuse
    Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Anushah Hossain, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Sadia Afroz
    Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
    Oct. 2020

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  3. (SOSR) Enabling Policy Innovation in Interdomain Routing: A Software-Defined Approach
    Anduo Wang, Zhijia Chen, Tony Yang and Minlan Yu
    Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
    Apr. 2019

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  4. (ACSAC) SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS Attacks
    Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
    Dec. 2018

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  5. (PAM) The Need for End-to-End Evaluation of Cloud Availability
    Zi Hu, Liang Zhu, Calvin Ardi, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha Madhyastha, John Heidemann and Minlan Yu
    Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM)
    Mar. 2014

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  6. (TON) Latency equalization as a new network service primitive
    Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li Li
    IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON)
    Feb. 2012

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  7. (CONEXT) Tradeoffs in CDN designs for throughput oriented traffic
    Minlan Yu, Wenjie Jiang, Haoyuan Li and Ion Stoica
    ACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
    2012

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  8. (WMUST) Identifying performance bottlenecks in CDNs through TCP-level monitoring
    Peng Sun, Minlan Yu, Michael J. Freedman and Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST)
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