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Programmable measurement architecture
Data center network management
Cloud computing
Internet

Programmable measurement architecture

(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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(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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(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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(SIGCOMM) PINT: Probabilistic In-band Network Telemetry
Ran Ben Basat, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Yuliang Li, Gianni Antichi, Minlan Yu and Michael Mitzenmacher
ACM SIGCOMM
Aug. 2020
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(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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(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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(CCR) Network Telemetry: Towards A Top-Down Approach
Minlan Yu
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Editorial)
2019
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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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

(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networks
Minlan Yu
Ph.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
2011
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(SIGCOMM) Scalable Flow-Based Networking with DIFANE
Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman and Jia Wang
ACM SIGCOMM
2010
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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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

(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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Internet

(USENIX Security) Jaqen: A High-Performance Switch-Native Approach for Detecting and Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches
Zaoxing Liu, 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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Presto) Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service Primitive
Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li Li
ACM SIGCOMM PRESTO Workshop
2008
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