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Programmable measurement architecture

  1. (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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  2. (CCR) Network Telemetry: Towards A Top-Down Approach
    Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Editorial)
    2019
    [paper]
  3. (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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  4. (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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  5. (CCR) Accelerating Network Measurement in Software
    Yang Zhou, Omid Alipoufard, Minlan Yu and Tong Yang
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    2018
    [paper]
  6. (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
    [ paper ]
  7. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  8. (SIGCOMM) Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data Centers
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan and Amin Vahdat
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2016
    [ paper ][ slides ][ video ]
  9. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  10. (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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  11. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ][ code ]
  12. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  13. (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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  14. (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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  15. (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
    [paper]
  16. (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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  17. (NSDI) Software defined traffic measurement with OpenSketch
    Minlan Yu, Lavanya Jose and Rui Miao
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
    2013
    [ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ]
  18. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]

Data center network management

  1. (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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  2. (HotNets) Decoupling algorithms and optimizations in network functions
    Omid Alipourfard and Minlan Yu
    ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
    Nov. 2018
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  3. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ video ]
  4. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ public review ][ video ][ examples ]
  5. (CCR) NOSIX: A Lightweight Portability Layer for the SDN OS
    Minlan Yu, Andreas Wundsam and Muruganantham Raju
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    Apr. 2014
    [paper]
  6. (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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  7. (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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  8. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ]
  9. (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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  10. (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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  11. (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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  12. Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networks
    Minlan Yu
    Ph.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
    2011
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  13. (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
    [paper]
  14. (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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  15. (SIGCOMM) Scalable Flow-Based Networking with DIFANE
    Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman and Jia Wang
    ACM SIGCOMM
    2010
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  16. (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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  17. (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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  18. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ full tech report ]
  19. (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
    [ paper ]

Cloud computing

  1. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  2. (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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  3. (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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  4. (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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  5. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ][ video ]
  6. (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
    [paper]
  7. (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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  8. (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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  9. (SIGCOMM) Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at Scale
    Xiaoqi Ren, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Adam Wierman and Minlan Yu
    ACM SIGCOMM
    Aug. 2015
    [ paper ][ slides ][ public review ][ video ]
  10. (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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  11. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]

Internet

  1. (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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  2. (ACSAC) SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS Attacks
    Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
    Dec. 2018
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  3. (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
    [ paper ][ slides ]
  4. (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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  5. (TON) Latency equalization as a new network service primitive
    Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li Li
    IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON)
    Feb. 2012
    [paper]
  6. (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)
    2011
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  7. (Presto) Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service Primitive
    Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li Li
    ACM SIGCOMM PRESTO Workshop
    2008
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