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Programmable measurement architecture
- (CONEXT) Detecting Routing Loops in the Data PlaneJan Kučera, Ran Ben Basat, Mario Kuka, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu and Michael MitzenmacherACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)Dec. 2020
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGCOMM) Microscope: Queue-based Performance Diagnosis for Network FunctionsJunzhi Gong, Yuliang Li, Bilal Anwer, Aman Shaikh and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMMAug. 2020
[ paper ][ long slides ][ short slides ] - (SIGCOMM) Scouts: Improving the Diagnosis Process Through Domain-customized Incident RoutingJiaqi Gao, Nofel Yaseen, Robert MacDavid, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Vincent Liu, Ricardo Bianchini, Ramaswamy Aditya, Xiaohang Wang, Henry Lee, David Maltz, Minlan Yu and Behnaz ArzaniACM SIGCOMMAug. 2020
[ paper ][ long slides ][ short slides ] - (SIGCOMM) PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network TelemetryRan Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu and Michael MitzenmacherACM SIGCOMMAug. 2020
[ paper ][ long slides ][ short slides ][ long video ] - (IFIP) Routing Oblivious Measurement AnalyticsRan Ben Basat, Xiaoqi Chen, Gil Einziger, Shir Landau Feibish, Danny Raz and Minlan YuIFIP the International Federation for Information Processing NetworkingJun. 2020
[ paper ] - (NSDI) DETER: Deterministic TCP Replay for Performance DiagnosisYuliang Li, Rui Miao, Mohammad Alizadeh and Minlan YuUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)Feb. 2019
[ paper ][ slides ][ code ] - (CCR) Network Telemetry: Towards A Top-Down ApproachMinlan YuACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Editorial)2019
[paper] - (SIGMOD) Cold Filter: A Meta-Framework for Faster and More Accurate Stream ProcessingYang Zhou, Tong Yang, Jie Jiang, Bin Cui, Minlan Yu, Xiaoming Li and Steve UhligSIGMODJun. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SOSR) A Comparison of Performance and Accuracy of Measurement Algorithms in SoftwareOmid Alipourfard, Masoud Moshref, Yang Zhou, Tong Yang and Minlan YuSymposium on SDN Research (SOSR)Mar. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CCR) Accelerating Network Measurement in SoftwareYang Zhou, Omid Alipoufard, Minlan Yu and Tong YangACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review2018
[paper] - (CIKM) Stream Aggregation Through Order SamplingNick Duffield, Yunhong Xu, Liangzhen Xia, Nesreen Ahmed and Minlan YuACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)2017
[ paper ] - (CoNEXT) LossRadar: Fast Detection of Lost Packets in Data Center NetworksYuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)Dec. 2016
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGCOMM) Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data CentersMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin VahdatACM SIGCOMMAug. 2016
[ paper ][ slides ][ video ] - (NSDI) FlowRadar: A Better NetFlow for Data CentersYuliang Li, Rui Miao, Changhoon Kim and Minlan YuUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)Apr. 2016
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SOSR) MOZART: Temporal Coordination of MeasurementXuemei Liu, Meral Shirazipour, Minlan Yu and Ying ZhangSymposium on SDN Research (SOSR)Mar. 2016
[ paper ][ slides ] - (IMC) The Dark Menace: Characterizing Network-based Attacks in the CloudRui Miao, Rahul Potharaju, Minlan Yu and Navendu JainInternet Measurement Conference (IMC)Oct. 2015
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CONEXT) SCREAM: Sketch Resource Allocation for Software-defined MeasurementMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin VahdatACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)2015
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ][ code ] - (HotNets) Re-evaluating Measurement Algorithms in SoftwareOmid Alipourfard, Masoud Moshref and Minlan YuACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)2015
[ paper ][ slides ] - (JNSM) HONE: Joint Host-Network Traffic Management in Software-Defined NetworksPeng Sun, Minlan Yu, Michael J. Freedman, Jennifer Rexford and David WalkerJournal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), special issue on software-defined networkingJul. 2014
[paper] - (SIGCOMM) DREAM: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Software-defined MeasurementMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin VahdatACM SIGCOMM2014
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ] - (HotSDN) Resource/Accuracy Tradeoffs in Software-Defined MeasurementMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu and Ramesh GovindanACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)2013
[ paper ][ slides ] - (NSDI) Software defined traffic measurement with OpenSketchMinlan Yu, Lavanya Jose and Rui MiaoUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)2013
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ] - (NSDI) Profiling network performance for multi-tier data center applicationsMinlan Yu, Albert Greenberg, Dave Maltz, Jennifer Rexford, Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula and Changhoon KimUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)2011
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Data center network management
- (SIGCOMM) Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICsJiaqi Gao, Ennan Zhai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Rui Miao, Yu Zhou, Bingchuan Tian, Chen Sun, Dennis Cai, Ming Zhang and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMMAug. 2020
[ paper ][ long slides ][ short slides ][ short video ] - (IFIP) Enabling Premium Service for Streaming Video in Cellular NetworksXing Xu, Ramesh Govindan, Ajay A Mahimkar, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Jia Wang and Minlan YuIFIP the International Federation for Information Processing NetworkingJun. 2020
[ paper ] - (HotNets) Challenging the Stateless Quo of Programmable SwitchesNadeen Gebara, Alberto Lerner, Mingran Yang, Minlan Yu, Paolo Costa and Manya GhobadiACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)2020
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SOSP) Risk-based planning for evolving data-center networksOmid Alipourfard, Jiaqi Gao, Jeremie Koenig, Chris Harshaw, Amin Vahdat and Minlan YuSymposium on operating systems principles (SOSP)Oct. 2019
[ paper ][ slides ][ code ] - (HotNets) Decoupling algorithms and optimizations in network functionsOmid Alipourfard and Minlan YuACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)Nov. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGCOMM) SilkRoad: Making Stateful L4 Load Balancing Fast and Cheap Using Switching ASICsRui Miao, Hongyi Zeng, Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMM2017
[ paper ][ slides ][ video ] - (SIGCOMM) Condor: Better Topologies through Declarative DesignBrandon Schlinker, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Sean Smith, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Amin Vahdat, Minlan Yu, Ethan Katz-Bassett and Michael RubinACM SIGCOMMAug. 2015
[ paper ][ slides ][ public review ][ video ][ examples ] - (CONEXT) Tango: Simplifying SDN Programming with Automatic Switch Behavior Inference, Abstraction, and OptimizationeAggelos Lazaris, Daniel Tahara, Xin Huang, Li Erran Li, Andreas Voellmy, Y. Richard Yang and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)Dec. 2014
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CCR) NOSIX: A Lightweight Portability Layer for the SDN OSMinlan Yu, Andreas Wundsam and Muruganantham RajuACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewApr. 2014
[paper] - (NSDI) FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox ActionsSeyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu and Jeff MogulUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)2014
[ paper ][ slides ] - (HotSDN) A Secure Computation Framework for Software Defined NetworksNachikethas A. Jagadeesan, Ranjan Pal, Kaushik Nadikuditi, Yan Huang, Elaine Shi and Minlan Yuposter in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking2014
[ abstract ][ poster ] - (HotSDN) Flow-level State Transition as a New Switch Primitive for SDNMasoud Moshref, Apoorv Bhargava, Adhip Gupta, Minlan Yu and Ramesh GovindanACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)2014
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGCOMM) SIMPLE-fying Middlebox Policy Enforcement Using SDNZafar Qazi, Cheng-chun Tu, Luis Chiang, Rui Miao, Vyas Sekar and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMM2013
[ paper ][ slides ] - (HotSDN) FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox ActionsSeyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu and Jeff MogulACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)2013
[ paper ][ slides ] - (NSDI) Scalable Rule Management for Data CentersMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Abhishek Sharma and Ramesh GovindanUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)2013
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ] - (HotCloud) VCRIB: Virtualized rule management in the cloudMasoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Abhishek Sharma and Ramesh GovindanUSENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)2012
[ paper ][ slides ][ poster ] - (commag) A Survey of virtual LAN usage in campus networksMinlan Yu, Xin Sun, Nick Feamster, Sanjay Rao and Jennifer RexfordIEEE Communications MagazineJul. 2011
[paper] - Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networksMinlan YuPh.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award)2011
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGCOMM) Scalable Flow-Based Networking with DIFANEMinlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman and Jia WangACM SIGCOMM2010
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ] - (HotNets) CloudPolice: Taking Access Control out of the NetworkLucian Popa, Minlan Yu, Steven Y. Ko, Sylvia Ratnasamy and Ion StoicaACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)2010
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CONEXT) Virtually Eliminating Router BugsEric Keller, Minlan Yu, Matthew Caesar and Jennifer RexfordACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)2009
[ paper ][ slides ] - (WREN) Hash, Don’t Cache: Fast Packet Forwarding for Enterprise Edge RoutersMinlan Yu and Jennifer RexfordProc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Research in Enterprise Networks (WREN)2009
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CONEXT) BUFFALO: Bloom Filter Forwarding Architecture for Large OrganizationsMinlan Yu, Alex Fabrikant and Jennifer RexfordACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)2009
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ] - (CCR) Rethinking virtual network embedding: Substrate support for path splitting and migrationMinlan Yu, Yung Yi, Jennifer Rexford and Mung ChiangACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewApr. 2008
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Cloud computing
- (OSDI) Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock-synchronization for DatacentersYuliang Li, Gautam Kumar, Hema Hariharan, Hassan Wassel, Peter Hochschild, Dave Platt, Simon Sabato, Minlan Yu, Nandita Dukkipati, Prashant Chandra and Amin VahdatUSENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)Nov. 2020
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SIGMOD) Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch PruningMuhammad Tirmazi, Ran Ben Basat, Jiaqi Gao and Minlan YuSIGMODJun. 2020
[ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ][ code ][ video ] - (SIGCOMM) HPCC: High Precision Congestion Control for RDMAYuliang Li, Rui Miao, Hongqiang Liu, Yan Zhuang, Fei Feng, Lingbo Tang, Zheng Cao, Frank Kelly, Mohammad Alizadeh, Minlan Yu and Ming ZhangACM SIGCOMMAug. 2019
[ paper ][ slides ][ code ] - (SEC) VideoEdge: Processing Camera Streams using Hierarchical ClustersChien-Chun Hung, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodik, Leana Golubchik, Minlan Yu, Paramvir Bahl and Matthai PhiliposeACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)Oct. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (EUROSYS) Wide-Area Analytics with Multiple ResourcesChien-Chun Hung, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Leana Golubchik, Minlan Yu and Mingyang ZhangEuropean Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys)Apr. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (NSDI) CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud ConfigurationsOmid Alipourfard, Jianshu Chen, Hongqiang Liu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Minlan Yu and Ming ZhangUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)Mar. 2017
[ paper ][ slides ][ video ] - (NSDI) Enabling Wide-spread Communications on Optical Fabric with MegaSwitchLi Chen, Kai Chen, Joshua Zhu, Minlan Yu, George Porter, Chunming Qiao and Shan ZhongUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)Mar. 2017
[ paper ][ slides ][ video ] - (SIGCOMM) Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at ScaleXiaoqi Ren, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Adam Wierman and Minlan YuACM SIGCOMMAug. 2015
[ paper ][ slides ][ public review ][ video ] - (SOCC) Scheduling Jobs Across Geo- Distributed DatacentersChien-Chun Hung, Leana Golubchik and Minlan YuACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC)Aug. 2015
[ paper ][ slides ][ poster ] - (INFOCOM) RAPIER: Integrating Routing and Scheduling for Coflow-aware Data Center NetworksYangming Zhao, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, Minlan Yu, Chen Tian, Yanhui Geng, Yiming Zhang, Dan Li and Sheng WangIEEE INFOCOMApr. 2015
[ paper ][ slides ] - (CompNet) Joint VM placement and topology optimization for traffic scalability in dynamic datacenter networksYangming Zhao, Yifan Huang, Kai Chen, Minlan Yu, Sheng Wang and DongSheng LiComputer Networks2015
[paper] - (MAMA) Speculation-Aware Cluster SchedulingXiaoqi Ren, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Adam Wierman and Minlan YuWorkshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA)2015
[ paper ] - (EUROSYS) DIBS: Just-in-time Congestion Mitigation for Data CentersKyriakos Zarifis, Rui Miao, Matt Calder, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Minlan Yu and Jitu PadhyeEuropean Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys)2014
[ paper ][ slides ] - (NSDI) GRASS: Trimming Stragglers in Approximation AnalyticsGanesh Ananthanarayanan, Michael Chien-Chun Hung, Xiaoqi Ren, Ion Stoica, Adam Wierman and Minlan YuUSENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)2014
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Internet
- (USENIX Security) Jaqen: A High-Performance Switch-Native Approach for Detecting and Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable SwitchesZaoxing Liu, Georgios Nikolaidis, Jeongkeun Lee, Changhoon Kim, Xin Jin, Vladimir Braverman, Minlan Yu and Vyas SekarUSENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)Aug. 2021
[ paper ][ slides ] - (IMC) Quantifying the Impact of Blacklisting in the Age of Address ReuseSivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Anushah Hossain, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Sadia AfrozInternet Measurement Conference (IMC)Oct. 2020
[ paper ][ slides-long ][ slides-short ] - (NDSS) BLAG: Improving Accuracy of BlacklistsSivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan YuNetwork and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)Feb. 2020
[ paper ][ slides ] - (SOSR) Enabling Policy Innovation in Interdomain Routing: A Software-Defined ApproachAnduo Wang, Zhijia Chen, Tony Yang and Minlan YuSymposium on SDN Research (SOSR)Apr. 2019
[ paper ][ slides ] - (ACSAC) SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS AttacksSivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying ZhangAnnual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)Dec. 2018
[ paper ][ slides ] - (PAM) The Need for End-to-End Evaluation of Cloud AvailabilityZi Hu, Liang Zhu, Calvin Ardi, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha Madhyastha, John Heidemann and Minlan YuPassive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM)Mar. 2014
[ paper ][ slides ] - (TON) Latency equalization as a new network service primitiveMinlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li LiIEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON)Feb. 2012
[paper] - (CONEXT) Tradeoffs in CDN designs for throughput oriented trafficMinlan Yu, Wenjie Jiang, Haoyuan Li and Ion StoicaACM SIGCOMM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)2012
[ paper ][ slides ] - (WMUST) Identifying performance bottlenecks in CDNs through TCP-level monitoringPeng Sun, Minlan Yu, Michael J. Freedman and Jennifer RexfordACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST)2011
[ paper ][ slides ] - (Presto) Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service PrimitiveMinlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li LiACM SIGCOMM PRESTO Workshop2008
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