Note
Underlined are my students/RAs.
Email me if you are interested in the preprints that are not available online.
Preprints
2D-Empowered 3D Object Detection on the Edge
Jingzong Li, Yik Hong Cai, Libin Liu, Yu Mao, Chun Jason Xue, Hong Xu
arXiv:2302.09221, 2023
Conference and workshop proceedings
2023
Accelerating Distributed MoE Training and Inference with Lina
Jiamin Li, Yimin Jiang, Yibo Zhu, Cong Wang, HX
USENIX ATC
LRSDP: Low-Rank SDP for Triple Patterning Lithography Layout Decomposition
Yu Zhang, Yifan Chen, Zhonglin Xie, HX, Zaiwen Wen, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu
ACM/IEEE DAC
Lyra: Elastic Scheduling for Deep Learning Clusters
Jiamin Li, HX, Yibo Zhu, Zherui Liu, Chuanxiong Guo, Cong Wang
ACM EuroSys
(arXiv) version
Cross-Camera Inference on the Constrained Edge
Jingzong Li, Libin Liu, HX, Shudeng Wu, Chun Jason Xue
IEEE INFOCOM
2022
PipeDevice: A Hardware-Software Co-Design Approach to Intra-Host Container Communication
Qiang Su, Chuanwen Wang, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Dongsu Han, Chun Jason Xue, HX
ACM CoNEXT
Probabilistic Analysis of Network Availability
Yunmo Zhang, Hong Xu, Chun Jason Xue, Tei-Wei Kuo
IEEE ICNP
Software-defined Network Assimilation: Bridging the Last Mile Towards Centralized Network Configuration Management with NAssim
Huangxun Chen, Yukai Miao, Li Chen, Haifeng Sun, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Gong Zhang, Wei Wang
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award
(Under deployment trial as part of Huawei's iMaster NCE platform for network automation)
DeepQueueNet: Towards Scalable and Generalized Network Performance Estimation with Packet-level Visibility
Qing-Qing Yang, Xi Peng, Li Chen, Libin Liu, Jingze Zhang, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Gong Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM
[Code]
Load Balancing in PFC-enabled Datacenter Networks
Jinbin Hu, Chaoliang Zeng, Zilong Wang, Hong Xu, Jiawei Huang, Kai Chen
APNet
When Power-of-d-Choices Meets Priority
Jianyu Niu, Chunpu Wang, Chen Feng, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM IWQoS
APS: Adaptive Packet Sizing for Efficient End-to-End Network Transmission
Feixue Han, Qing Li, Jianer Zhou, Hong Xu, Yong Jiang
IEEE/ACM IWQoS
Alfie: Neural-Reinforced Adaptive Prefetching for Short Videos
Jingzong Li, Hong Xu, Ming Ma, Haopeng Yan, Chun Jason Xue
IEEE ICME
(Alfie is a little alligator from one of my daughter's favorite books.)
2021
Two-Dimensional Learning Rate Decay: Towards Accurate Federated Learning with Non-IID Data
Kaiwei Mo, Chen Chen, Jiamin Li, Hong Xu, Chun Jason Xue
IEEE IJCNN
Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Adaptive Parameter Freezing
Chen Chen, Hong Xu, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, Gong Zhang
IEEE ICDCS
2020
Saec: Similarity-Aware Embedding Compression in Recommendation Systems
Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Honglin Zhang, Huaming Chen, Jian Wang
APSys.
Irina: Accelerating DNN Inference with Efficient Online
Scheduling
Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Yi Wang
APNet.
OPS: Optimized Shuffle Management System for Apache Spark
Yuchen Cheng, Chunghsuan Wu, Yanqiang Liu, Rui Ren, Hong Xu, Bin Yang, Zhengwei Qi
ICPP.
NetKernel: Making Network Stack Part of the Virtualized
Infrastructure [Project website] [long version]
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Peng Cheng, Qiang Su, Yongqiang Xiong, Tao Wang, Dongsu
Han, Keith Winstein
USENIX ATC.
Joint Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution
for SDN Systems: An Integration of Online Control and Online Learning
Xi Huang, Yinxu Tang, Ziyu Shao, Yang Yang, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM IWQoS.
Bottleneck-Aware Coflow Scheduling Without Prior Knowledge
Libin Liu, Hong Xu, Chengxi Gao, Peng Wang
Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN), IEEE INFOCOM.
Automated Traffic Engineering in SDWAN: Beyond Reinforcement
Learning
Libin Liu, Li Chen, Hong Xu, Hua Shao
Workshop on Networking Algorithms (WNA), IEEE INFOCOM.
Simulating Performance of ML Systems with Offline Profiling
Hongming Huang, Peng Cheng, Hong Xu, Yongqiang Xiong
Workshop on MLOps Systems, MLSys.
Scalable Traffic Engineering for Higher Throughput in Heavily-Loaded Software
Defined Networks
Che Zhang, Shiwei Zhang, Yi Wang, Weichao Li, Bo Jin, Ka Pui Mok, Qing Li, Hong Xu
IEEE NOMS.
Packet-in Request Redirection for Minimizing Control Plane Response Time
Rui Xia, Haipeng Dai, Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Meng Li, Guihai Chen
IEEE IPDPS.
2019
Flash: Efficient Dynamic Routing for Offchain
Networks (arxiv preprint)
Peng Wang, Hong Xu, Xin Jin, Tao Wang
ACM CoNEXT (full paper).
[Code]: GitHub
repo for testbed and simulation, and traces of two real offchain networks
Tyrus: PHY-Assisted Neural Adaptive Congestion Control
for Cellular Networks
Libin Liu, Hong Xu
ACM SIGCOMM (poster).
Predictive Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM IWQoS.
2018
Bohr: Similarity Aware Geo-Distributed Data Analytics
Hangyu Li, Hong Xu, Sarana Nutanong
ACM CoNEXT (full paper).
Elasecutor: Elastic Executor Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems (source code)
Libin Liu, Hong Xu
ACM SoCC.
Hermes: Utility-Aware Network Update in Software-defined WANs
Jiaqi Zheng, Qifang Ma, Chen Tian, Bo Li, Haipeng Dai, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen
IEEE ICNP.
DHL: Enabling Flexible Software Network Functions with FPGA Acceleration (source code)
Xiaoyao Li, Xiuxiu Wang, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu
IEEE ICDCS.
Adaptive VNF Scaling and Flow Routing with Proactive Demand Prediction
Xincai Fei, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin
IEEE INFOCOM.
2017
Unveiling Performance of NFV Software Dataplanes
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Yongqiang Tian, Peng Wang, Zhenhua Li
CAN Workshop, co-located with ACM CoNEXT.
Network Stack as a Service in the Cloud (project site) (slides) (talk video)
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Dongsu Han, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Guo Chen, Keith Winstein
ACM HotNets.
Aemon: Information-Agnostic Mix-Flow Scheduling in Data Center Networks
Tao Wang, Hong Xu, Fangming Liu
ACM APNet.
Bohr: Similarity Aware Geo-Distributed Data Analytics
Hangyu Li, Hong Xu, Sarana Nutanong
USENIX HotCloud.
Towards Load-Balanced VNF Assignment in Geo-Distributed NFV Infrastructure
Xincai Fei, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin
IEEE/ACM IWQoS.
THOR: A Server-Level Hybrid Switching Data Center Network with Heterogeneous Topologies
Xiaoshan Yu, Hong Xu, Huaxi Gu
ACM TURC (Sigcomm China). Best Paper Award
Multi-Resource Load Balancing for Virtual Network Functions
Tao Wang, Hong Xu, Fangming Liu
IEEE ICDCS.
NetKernel: Network Stack as a Service in the Cloud
Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Dongsu Han, Peng Wang, Libin Liu
USENIX NSDI (poster).
Dynamic Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
Xi Wang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
IEEE ICC.
2016
Expeditus: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing in Clos Data Center Networks
Peng Wang, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Dongsu Han, Yongqiang Xiong
ACM SoCC 2016.
Kuijia: Traffic Rescaling in Data Center WANs
Che Zhang, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Peng Wang, Yongqiang Tian, Chengchen Hu
IEEE Sarnoff 2016.
We've Got You Covered: Failure Recovery with Backup Tunnels in Traffic Engineering
Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Xiaojun Zhu, Guihai Chen, Yanhui Geng
IEEE ICNP 2016.
U-HAUL: Efficient State Migration in NFV
Libin Liu, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Peng Wang, Dongsu Han
ACM APSys 2016.
More is Better? Measurement of MPTCP based Cellular Bandwidth Aggregation in the Wild
Zhixiong Niu, Zhi Wang, Hong Xu, Chuan Wu, Francis C.M. Lau
IEEE MASS 2016.
Performance Impact Inference with Failures in Data Center Networks
Che Zhang, Hong Xu, Chengchen Hu
IEEE/CIC ICCC 2016.
Demystifying the Energy Efficiency of Network Function Virtualization
Zhifeng Xu, Fangming Liu, Tao Wang, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016. Best Paper Candidate
Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks: Stable Matching with Transfers
Tao Wang, Fangming Liu, Jian Guo, Hong Xu
IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
2015
Minimizing Transient Congestion during Network Update in Data Centers
Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai
IEEE ICNP 2015. Best Paper Award
2014
Expeditus: Distributed Load Balancing with Global Congestion Information in Data Center Networks
Peng Wang, Hong Xu
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2014. Best Paper Award
Minimizing Transient Congestion during Network Update in Data Centers
Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2014.
Reducing Electricity Demand Charge for Data Centers with Partial Execution
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
ACM e-Energy, 2014.
TinyFlow: Breaking Elephants Down Into Mice in Data Center Networks
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE LANMAN, 2014.
RepFlow: Minimizing Flow Completion Times with Replicated Flows in Data Centers
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, 2014.
Security-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
Shuhao Liu, Zhiping Cai, Hong Xu, Ming Xu
IEEE ICC, 2014.
Journal publications (in order of acceptance date)
Synchronize Only the Immature Parameters: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning By Freezing Parameters Adaptively
Chen Chen, HX, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, Gong Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023.
GIFT: Towards Accurate and Efficient Federated Learning with Gradient-Instructed Frequency Tuning
Chen Chen, HX, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, Gong Zhang
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Commmunications, Special Issue on Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning over Networks, 2022.
ScaleFlux: Efficient Stateful Scaling in NFV
Libin Liu, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Jingzong Li, Wei Zhang, Peng Wang, Jiamin Li, Jason Xue Chun, Cong Wang
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022.
Packet-in Request Redirection: A Load-balancing Mechanism for Minimizing Control Plane Response Time in SDNs
Rui Xia, Haipeng Dai, Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Meng Li, Guihai Chen
Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, 2022.
NetKernel: Making Network Stack Part of the Virtualized Infrastructure
Zhixiong Niu, Qiang Su, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Dongsu Han, Keith Winstein, Jason Xue Chun, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021.
Bottleneck-Aware Non-Clairvoyant Coflow Scheduling with Fai
Libin Liu, Chengxi Gao, Peng Wang, Hongming Huang, Jiamin Li, Hong Xu, Wei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2021.
Flash: Joint Flow Scheduling and Congestion Control in Data Center Networks
Chengxi Gao, Shuhui Chu, Hong Xu, Minxian Xu, Kejiang Ye, Chengzhong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2021.
Elasecutor: Elastic Executor Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems
Libin Liu, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.
Joint Switch-Controller Association and Control
Devolution for SDN Systems:
An Integrated Online Perspective of Control and Learning
Xi Huang, Xinyu Tang, Ziyu Shao, Yang Yang, Hong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management,
Special Issue on Advanced
Management of Softwarized Networks, 2020
Predictive Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.
Stanza: Layer Separation for Distributed Training in Deep Learning
Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Bo Li, Yongqiang Xiong
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2020.
Sentinel: Failure Recovery in Centralized Traffic Engineering
Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Xiaojun Zhu, Guihai Chen, Yanhui Geng
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019.
Node-Constrained Traffic Engineering: Theory and Applications
(tech report)
George Trimponias, Yan Xiao, Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Yanhui Geng
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019.
Luopan: Sampling based Load Balancing in Data Center Networks
Peng Wang, George Trimponias, Hong Xu, Yanhui Geng
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2018.
C2Net: A Network-Efficient Approach to Collision Counting LSH Similarity Join
Hangyu Li, Sarana Nutanong, Hong Xu, Chenyun Yu, Foryu Ha
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2018.
THOR: A Scalable Hybrid Switching Architecture for Data Centers
Xiaoshan Yu, Hong Xu, Huaxi Gu, Hao Lan
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2018.
On the Synchronization Bottleneck of OpenStack Swift-Like Cloud Storage Systems
Mingkang Ruan, Titcheu Thierry, Ennan Zhai, Zhenhua Li, Yao Liu, Jinlong E, Yong Cui, Hong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 29(9):2059–2074, September 2018.
RepNet: Cutting Latency with Flow Replication in Data Center Networks
Shuhao Liu, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Wei Bai, Kai Chen, Zhiping Cai
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2018.
Resource Auto-Scaling and Sparse Content Replication for Video Storage Systems
Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, 2(4):19:1–19:30, November 2017.
Expeditus: Congestion-Aware Load Balancing in Clos Data Center Networks
Peng Wang, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Dongsu Han, Yongqiang Xiong
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(5):3175–3188, October 2017.
An Efficient Online Algorithm for Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks
Tao Wang, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(5):2788–2801, October 2017.
An Alternating Direction Method Approach to Cloud Traffic Management
Chen Feng, Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(8):2145–2158, August 2017.
Congestion-Minimizing Network Update Data Centers
Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai, Jie Wu
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016.
Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Diversity for Water Saving in Geo-Distributed Data Centers
Mohammad A. Islam, Kishwar Ahmed, Hong Xu, Nguyen H. Tran, Gang Quan, Shaolei Ren
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(3):734–746, July–September 2018.
Carbon-Aware Online Control of Geo-Distributed Cloud Services
Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu, Ruolan Zou, Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(9):2506–2519, September 2016.
Towards Security-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
Shuhao Liu, Zhiping Cai, Hong Xu, Ming Xu
Elsevier Computer Networks, 91:151–163, November 2015.
Spot Transit: Cheaper Internet Transit for Elastic Traffic (Supplementary material)
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 8(5):768–781, September 2015.
Temperature Aware Workload Management in Geo-Distributed Datacenters (Supplementary material)
Hong Xu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(6):1743–1753, June 2015.
An Optimization Framework for XOR-Assisted Cooperative Relaying in Cellular Networks
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 13(5):979–991, May 2014.
Dynamic Cloud Pricing for Revenue Maximization
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 1(2):158–171, July–December 2013.
Before joining CityU
Conference and workshop
Carbon-Aware Load Balancing for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services
Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu, Yong Xu, Ruolan Zou, Hong Xu, John C.S. Lui, Hai Jin
IEEE MASCOTS, 2013.
Temperature Aware Workload Management in Geo-Distributed Datacenters
Hong Xu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
USENIX ICAC, 2013.
Temperature Aware Workload Management in Geo-Distributed Datacenters
Hong Xu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
ACM SIGMETRICS, Extended Abstract, 2013.
Joint Request Mapping and Response Routing for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
Cost Efficient Datacenter Selection for Cloud Services
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE/CIC ICCC, 2012.
A General and Practical Datacenter Selection Framework for Cloud Services
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE CLOUD, 2012.
Maximizing Revenue with Dynamic Cloud Pricing: The Infinite Horizon Case
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE ICC, 2012.
Quality-Assured Cloud Bandwidth Auto-Scaling for Video-on-Demand Applications
Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Shuqiao Zhao
IEEE INFOCOM, 2012.
Risk Management for Video-on-Demand Servers Leveraging Demand Forecast
Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Shuqiao Zhao.
ACM Multimedia (MM), 2011, short paper.
Seen As Stable Marriages
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, mini-conference, 2011.
Egalitarian Stable Matching for VM Migration in Cloud Computing
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Cloud Computing, 2011.
Efficient Resource Allocation with Flexible Channel Cooperation in OFDMA Cognitive Radio Networks
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.
A Secondary Market for Spectrum
Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, mini-conference, 2010.
Multicast Scheduling with Cooperation and Network Coding in Cognitive Radio Networks
Jin Jin, Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.
A Channel Portfolio Optimization Framework for Trading in a Spectrum Secondary Market
Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
IEEE ICC, 2010.
XOR-Assisted Cooperative Diversity in OFDMA Wireless Networks: Optimization Framework and Approximation Algorithms
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.
YMMV: Multiple Session Multicast with MIMO
Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
IEEE Globecom, 2011.
Journal
Anchor: A Versatile and Efficient Framework for Resource Management in the Cloud (Supplementary material)
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Special Issue on Cloud Computing, 24(6):1066–1076, June 2013.
Resource Allocation with Flexible Channel Cooperation in Cognitive Radio Networks (Supplementary material)
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 12(5):957–970, May 2013.
A Study of Pricing for Cloud Resources
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Special Issue on Cloud Computing, 40(4):3–12, March 2013.
Book chapters
Network Coding in Relay-Based Networks
Hong Xu, Baochun Li
In Cooperative Cellular Wireless Networks, Ekram Hossain, Dong In Kim, Vijay Bhargava, Editors, Cambridge University Press, pp. 324–344, ISBN 978-0-521-76712-5, Hardback, 2011.
Network Coding in Bi-Directed and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Zongpeng Li, Hong Xu, Baochun Li
In Next-Generation Internet Architectures and Protocols, Byrav Ramamurthy, George Rouskas, Krishna Sivalingam, Editors, Cambridge University Press, pp. 359–377, ISBN 978-0-521-11368-7, Hardback, 2011
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