Publications

Note

Underlined are my students/research staff when the work was done.
Email me if you are interested in the preprints that are not available online.

Preprints

You can go to my arXiv author page to access the preprints (some of which may have been published already).

1. DSV: Exploiting Dynamic Sparsity to Accelerate Large-Scale Video DiT Training
   Xin Tan, Yuetao Chen, Yimin Jiang, Xing Chen, Kun Yan, Nan Duan, Yibo Zhu, Daxin Jiang, HX
   Feb 2025

2. Learning Provably Improves the Convergence of Gradient Descent
   Qingyu Song, Wei Lin, HX
   Jan 2025

3. Echo: Simulating Distributed Training At Scale
   Yicheng Feng, Yuetao Chen, Kaiwen Chen, Jingzong Li, Tianyuan Wu, Peng Cheng, Chuan Wu, Wei Wang, Tsung-Yi Ho, HX
   Dec 2024
   [Code]

4. BlockLLM: Multi-tenant Finer-grained Serving for Large Language Models
   Bodun Hu, Jiamin Li, Le Xu, Myungjin Lee, Akshay Jajoo, Geon-Woo Kim, HX, Aditya Akella
   Apr 2024

5. Meili: Enabling SmartNIC as a Service in the Cloud
   Qiang Su, Shaofeng Wu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Chun Jason Xue, Alan Zaoxing Liu, HX
   Dec 2023

Conference and workshop proceedings

2025

1. Inferring Likely Counting-related Atomicity Program Properties for Persistent Memory
   Yunmo Zhang, Junqiao Qiu, HX, Chun Jason Xue
   USENIX ATC
   

2. PIE: Enabling Fast and Scalable Incremental Evolving Graph Analytics on Persistent Memory
   Yunmo Zhang, Jiacheng Huang, Xizhe Yin, Junqiao Qiu, HX, Chun Jason Xue
   ACM ICS
   

3. Easz: An Agile Transformer-based Image Compression Framework for Resource-constrained IoTs
   Yu Mao, Jingzong Li, Jun Wang, HX, Tei-Wei Kuo, Guan Nan, Chun Jason Xue
   ACM/IEEE DAC
   

4. Towards End-to-End Optimization of LLM-based Applications with Ayo
   Xin Tan, Yimin Jiang, Yitao Yang, HX
   ACM ASPLOS
   [Code] [arXiv]

5. Performance Prediction of On-NIC Network Functions with Multi-Resource Contention and Traffic Awareness
   Shaofeng Wu, Qiang Su, Zhixiong Niu, HX
   ACM ASPLOS
   [Code] [arXiv]

6. QuickLLaMA: Query-Aware Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models
   Jingyao Li, Han Shi, Pengguang Chen, Sitong Wu, Chuanyang Zheng, Zhenguo Li, Xin Jiang, HX, Jiaya Jia
   COLING
   

2024

1. RTLRewriter: Methodologies for Large Models aided RTL Code Optimization
   Xufeng Yao, Yiwen Wang, Xing Li, Yingzhao Lian, Ran Chen, Lei Chen, Mingxuan Yuan, HX, Bei Yu
   ACM/IEEE ICCAD
   

2. Tianshu: Towards Accurate Measuring, Modeling and Simulation of Deep Neural Networks
   Hongming Huang, HX, Nan Guan
   European Modeling & Simulation Symposium
   

3. Arlo: Serving Transformer-based Language Models with Dynamic Input Lengths
   Xin Tan, Jiamin Li, Yitao Yang, Jingzong Li, HX
   ACM ICPP
   

4. Is Low Similarity Threshold A Bad Idea in Delta Compression?
   Hongming Huang, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan, HX
   ACM HotStorage
   

5. Adaptive Personalized Federated Learning for Non-IID Data with Continual Distribution Shift
   Sisi Chen, Weijie Liu, Xiaoxi Zhang, HX, Wanyu Lin, Xu Chen
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS
   

6. Towards Robust Learning to Optimize with Theoretical Guarantees
   Qingyu Song, Wei Lin, Juncheng Wang, HX
   IEEE/CVF CVPR
   [Slides] [Code] [Poster]

7. Fracturing-aware Curvilinear ILT via Circular E-beam Mask Writer
   Xinyun Zhang, Su Zheng, Guojin Chen, Binwu Zhu, HX, Bei Yu
   ACM/IEEE DAC

8. Disentangle, Align and Generalize: Learning A Timing Predictor from Different Technology Nodes
   Xinyun Zhang, Binwu Zhu, Fangzhou Liu, Ziyi Wang, Peng Xu, HX, Bei Yu
   ACM/IEEE DAC

9. An Online Auction Approach to UAV Scheduling and Trajectory Planning
   Kaiwei Mo, Xianglong Li, Chun Jason Xue, Zongpeng Li, HX
   IEEE ICC

10. Dynamic Learning-based Link Restoration in Traffic Engineering with Archie
    Wenlong Ding, HX
    IEEE INFOCOM
    [Slides] [Video]

11. A Learning-Only Method for Multi-Cell Multi-User MIMO Sum Rate Maximization
    Qingyu Song, Juncheng Wang, Jingzong Li, Guochen Liu, HX
    IEEE INFOCOM
    [Slides] [Video]

12. BREAK: A Holistic Approach for Efficient Container Deployment among Edge Clouds
    Yicheng Feng, Shihao Shen, Xiaofei Wang, Qiao Xiang, HX, Chenren Xu, Wenyu Wang
    IEEE INFOCOM

13. Fed2Com: Towards Efficient Compression in Federated Learning
    Yu Zhang, Wei Lin, Sisi Chen, Qingyu Song, Jiaxun Lu, Yunfeng Shao, Bei Yu, HX
    IEEE ICNC

14. Palantir: Hierarchical Similarity Detection for Post-Deduplication Delta Compression
    Hongming Huang, Peng Wang, Qiang Su, HX, Chun Jason Xue, André Brinkman
    ACM ASPLOS
    

Posters

1. Automating Network Configuration with Natural Language Intents
   Wenlong Ding, Jianqiang Li, Zhixiong Niu, Huangxun Chen, HX
   ACM SIGCOMM

2023

1. Adaptive Gating in Mixture-of-Experts based Language Models
   Jiamin Li, Qiang Su, Yitao Yang, Yimin Jiang, Cong Wang, HX
   EMNLP
   [Video] [arXiv]
   

2. ABC: Automatic Bottom-up Construction of Configuration Knowledge Base for Multi-Vendor Networks
   Wenlong Ding, Libin Liu, Li Chen, HX
   IEEE CogMI
   (invited paper)
   

3. Enabling Load Balancing for Lossless Datacenters
   Jinbin Hu, Chaoliang Zeng, Zilong Wang, Junxue Zhang, Kun Guo, HX, Jiawei Huang, Kai Chen
   IEEE ICNP
   Best Paper Award
   

4. Moby: Empowering 2D Models for Efficient Point Cloud Analytics on the Edge
   Jingzong Li, Yik Hong Cai, Libin Liu, Yu Mao, Chun Jason Xue, HX
   ACM MM
   [Slides] [Video] [Poster] [arXiv] (Moby is a ninja boy in this fun book)

5. Learning to Optimize Non-Convex Sum-Rate Maximization Problems
   Qingyu Song, Guochen Liu, HX
   1st Workshop on the Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modeling, ICML
   

6. Accelerating Distributed MoE Training and Inference with Lina
   Jiamin Li, Yimin Jiang, Yibo Zhu, Cong Wang, HX
   USENIX ATC
   [Slides] [Video] [arXiv]
   

7. 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
   

8. Lyra: Elastic Scheduling for Deep Learning Clusters
   Jiamin Li, HX, Yibo Zhu, Zherui Liu, Chuanxiong Guo, Cong Wang
   ACM EuroSys
   [Slides] [Poster] [arXiv] (Deployed partially at ByteDance)
   

9. Cross-Camera Inference on the Constrained Edge
   Jingzong Li, Libin Liu, HX, Shudeng Wu, Chun Jason Xue
   IEEE INFOCOM
   (The system, Polly, is named after the little parrot in my daughter's favorite “Peppa Pig” series)

Posters

1. Meili: Towards SmartNIC as a Service
   Qiang Su, Shaofeng Wu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Chun Jason Xue, Zaoxing Alan Liu, HX
   ACM SIGCOMM

2022

1. 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
   

2. Probabilistic Analysis of Network Availability
   Yunmo Zhang, Hong Xu, Chun Jason Xue, Tei-Wei Kuo
   IEEE ICNP
   

3. 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)
   

4. 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]

5. Load Balancing in PFC-enabled Datacenter Networks
   Jinbin Hu, Chaoliang Zeng, Zilong Wang, Hong Xu, Jiawei Huang, Kai Chen
   APNet
   

6. When Power-of-d-Choices Meets Priority
   Jianyu Niu, Chunpu Wang, Chen Feng, Hong Xu
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS
   

7. APS: Adaptive Packet Sizing for Efficient End-to-End Network Transmission
   Feixue Han, Qing Li, Jianer Zhou, Hong Xu, Yong Jiang
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS
   

8. 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

1. 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
   

2. 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

1. Saec: Similarity-Aware Embedding Compression in Recommendation Systems
   Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Honglin Zhang, Huaming Chen, Jian Wang
   APSys.
   

2. Irina: Accelerating DNN Inference with Efficient Online Scheduling
   Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Yi Wang
   APNet.
   

3. OPS: Optimized Shuffle Management System for Apache Spark
   Yuchen Cheng, Chunghsuan Wu, Yanqiang Liu, Rui Ren, Hong Xu, Bin Yang, Zhengwei Qi
   ICPP.
   

4. 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.
   

5. 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.
   

6. 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.
   

7. Automated Traffic Engineering in SDWAN: Beyond Reinforcement Learning
   Libin Liu, Li Chen, Hong Xu, Hua Shao
   Workshop on Networking Algorithms (WNA), IEEE INFOCOM.
   

8. Simulating Performance of ML Systems with Offline Profiling
   Hongming Huang, Peng Cheng, Hong Xu, Yongqiang Xiong
   Workshop on MLOps Systems, MLSys.
   

9. 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.
   

10. 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

1. 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
   

2. Tyrus: PHY-Assisted Neural Adaptive Congestion Control for Cellular Networks
   Libin Liu, Hong Xu
   ACM SIGCOMM (poster).
   

3. Predictive Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
   Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS.
   

2018

1. Bohr: Similarity Aware Geo-Distributed Data Analytics
   Hangyu Li, Hong Xu, Sarana Nutanong
   ACM CoNEXT (full paper).
   

2. Elasecutor: Elastic Executor Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems (source code)
   Libin Liu, Hong Xu
   ACM SoCC.
   

3. 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.
   

4. DHL: Enabling Flexible Software Network Functions with FPGA Acceleration (source code)
   Xiaoyao Li, Xiuxiu Wang, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu
   IEEE ICDCS.

5. Adaptive VNF Scaling and Flow Routing with Proactive Demand Prediction
   Xincai Fei, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin
   IEEE INFOCOM.

2017

1. 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.
   

2. 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.
   

3. Aemon: Information-Agnostic Mix-Flow Scheduling in Data Center Networks
   Tao Wang, Hong Xu, Fangming Liu
   ACM APNet.
   

4. Bohr: Similarity Aware Geo-Distributed Data Analytics
   Hangyu Li, Hong Xu, Sarana Nutanong
   USENIX HotCloud.
   

5. Towards Load-Balanced VNF Assignment in Geo-Distributed NFV Infrastructure
   Xincai Fei, Fangming Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS.
   

6. 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

7. Multi-Resource Load Balancing for Virtual Network Functions
   Tao Wang, Hong Xu, Fangming Liu
   IEEE ICDCS.
   

8. NetKernel: Network Stack as a Service in the Cloud
   Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu, Dongsu Han, Peng Wang, Libin Liu
   USENIX NSDI (poster).
   

9. Dynamic Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
   Xi Wang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
   IEEE ICC.
   

2016

1. Expeditus: Distributed Congestion-Aware Load Balancing in Clos Data Center Networks
   Peng Wang, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Dongsu Han, Yongqiang Xiong
   ACM SoCC 2016.
   

2. Kuijia: Traffic Rescaling in Data Center WANs
   Che Zhang, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Peng Wang, Yongqiang Tian, Chengchen Hu
   IEEE Sarnoff 2016.
   

3. 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.
   

4. U-HAUL: Efficient State Migration in NFV
   Libin Liu, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Peng Wang, Dongsu Han
   ACM APSys 2016.
   

5. 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.
   

6. Performance Impact Inference with Failures in Data Center Networks
   Che Zhang, Hong Xu, Chengchen Hu
   IEEE/CIC ICCC 2016.
   

7. Demystifying the Energy Efficiency of Network Function Virtualization
   Zhifeng Xu, Fangming Liu, Tao Wang, Hong Xu
   IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016.
   Best Paper Candidate

8. Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks: Stable Matching with Transfers
   Tao Wang, Fangming Liu, Jian Guo, Hong Xu
   IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
   

2015

1. Minimizing Transient Congestion during Network Update in Data Centers
   Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai
   IEEE ICNP 2015.
   Best Paper Award

2014

1. Expeditus: Distributed Load Balancing with Global Congestion Information in Data Center Networks
   Peng Wang, Hong Xu
   ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2014.
   Best Paper Award

2. Minimizing Transient Congestion during Network Update in Data Centers
   Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai
   ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2014.
   

3. Reducing Electricity Demand Charge for Data Centers with Partial Execution
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   ACM e-Energy, 2014.
   

4. TinyFlow: Breaking Elephants Down Into Mice in Data Center Networks
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE LANMAN, 2014.

5. RepFlow: Minimizing Flow Completion Times with Replicated Flows in Data Centers
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE INFOCOM, 2014.
   

6. Security-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
   Shuhao Liu, Zhiping Cai, Hong Xu, Ming Xu
   IEEE ICC, 2014.

Journal publications (in order of acceptance date)

1. Low-Overhead Intra-Host Container Communication with Hardware Offloading
   Qiang Su, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Dongsu Han, Chun Jason Xue, HX
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted in December 2024.
   

2. A Practical Congestion Control Algorithm for Low-Latency Interactive Video Streaming
   Shibo Wang, Jianjun Xiao, Xiao Kong, Chenglei Wu, Shusen Yang, Cong Zhao, Chenren Xu, HX, Jing Wang, Honghao Liu
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted in December 2024.
   

3. Pre-Routing Timing Prediction Across Different Technology Nodes
   Xinyun Zhang, Binwu Zhu, Fangzhou Liu, Jiaxi Jiang, Ziyi Wang, Peng Xu, HX, Bei Yu
   IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, accepted in December 2024.
   

4. Load Balancing with Multi-level Signals for Lossless Datacenter Networks
   Jinbin Hu, Chaoliang Zeng, Zilong Wang, Junxue Zhang, Kun Guo, HX, Jiawei Huang, Kai Chen
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32(3):2736–2748, June 2024.
   

5. Efficient Time-Series Data Delivery in IoT with Xender
   Libin Liu, Jingzong Li, Zhixiong Niu, Wei Zhang, Chun Jason Xue, HX
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023.
   

6. Efficient Real-time Video Conferencing with Adaptive Frame Delivery
   Libin Liu, Jingzong Li, HX, Kaiwen Xue, Chun Jason Xue
   Elsevier Computer Network, 2023.
   

7. 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.
   

8. 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.
   

9. ScaleFlux: Efficient Stateful Scaling in NFV
   Libin Liu, Hong Xu, Zhixiong Niu, Jingzong Li, Wei Zhang, Peng Wang, Jiamin Li, Chun Jason Xue, Cong Wang
   IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022.
   

10. 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.
    

11. NetKernel: Making Network Stack Part of the Virtualized Infrastructure
    Zhixiong Niu, Qiang Su, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Dongsu Han, Keith Winstein, Chun Jason Xue, Hong Xu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021.
    

12. 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.
    

13. 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.
    

14. Elasecutor: Elastic Executor Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems
    Libin Liu, Hong Xu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.
    

15. 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
    

16. Predictive Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
    Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao, Hong Xu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020.
    

17. Stanza: Layer Separation for Distributed Training in Deep Learning
    Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Bo Li, Yongqiang Xiong
    IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2020.
    

18. Sentinel: Failure Recovery in Centralized Traffic Engineering
    Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Xiaojun Zhu, Guihai Chen, Yanhui Geng
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019.
    

19. 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.
    

20. 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.
    

21. 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.
    

22. THOR: A Scalable Hybrid Switching Architecture for Data Centers
    Xiaoshan Yu, Hong Xu, Huaxi Gu, Hao Lan
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2018.
    

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.
    

26. 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.
    

27. 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.
    

28. 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.

29. Congestion-Minimizing Network Update Data Centers
    Jiaqi Zheng, Hong Xu, Guihai Chen, Haipeng Dai, Jie Wu
    IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. Towards Security-Aware Virtual Network Embedding
    Shuhao Liu, Zhiping Cai, Hong Xu, Ming Xu
    Elsevier Computer Networks, 91:151–163, November 2015.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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

1. 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.
   

2. Temperature Aware Workload Management in Geo-Distributed Datacenters
   Hong Xu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
   USENIX ICAC, 2013.
   

3. Temperature Aware Workload Management in Geo-Distributed Datacenters
   Hong Xu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
   ACM SIGMETRICS, Extended Abstract, 2013.

4. Joint Request Mapping and Response Routing for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.
   

5. Cost Efficient Datacenter Selection for Cloud Services
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE/CIC ICCC, 2012.

6. A General and Practical Datacenter Selection Framework for Cloud Services
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE CLOUD, 2012.
   

7. Maximizing Revenue with Dynamic Cloud Pricing: The Infinite Horizon Case
   Hong Xu, Baochun Li
   IEEE ICC, 2012.

8. Quality-Assured Cloud Bandwidth Auto-Scaling for Video-on-Demand Applications
   Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Shuqiao Zhao
   IEEE INFOCOM, 2012.
   

9. Risk Management for Video-on-Demand Servers Leveraging Demand Forecast
   Di Niu, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, Shuqiao Zhao.
   ACM Multimedia (MM), 2011, short paper.

10. Seen As Stable Marriages
    Hong Xu, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM, mini-conference, 2011.
    

11. Egalitarian Stable Matching for VM Migration in Cloud Computing
    Hong Xu, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Cloud Computing, 2011.

12. Efficient Resource Allocation with Flexible Channel Cooperation in OFDMA Cognitive Radio Networks
    Hong Xu, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.
    

13. A Secondary Market for Spectrum
    Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM, mini-conference, 2010.
    

14. Multicast Scheduling with Cooperation and Network Coding in Cognitive Radio Networks
    Jin Jin, Hong Xu, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.
    

15. A Channel Portfolio Optimization Framework for Trading in a Spectrum Secondary Market
    Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
    IEEE ICC, 2010.

16. XOR-Assisted Cooperative Diversity in OFDMA Wireless Networks: Optimization Framework and Approximation Algorithms
    Hong Xu, Baochun Li
    IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.
    

17. YMMV: Multiple Session Multicast with MIMO
    Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
    IEEE Globecom, 2011.

Journal

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

1. 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.

2. 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