Publications

Note

Underlined are my students/RAs.
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 are published already).

  1. 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

2024

  1. Towards Robust Learning to Optimize with Theoretical Guarantees
    Qingyu Song, Wei Lin, Juncheng Wang, HX
    IEEE/CVF CVPR

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

  3. 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

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

  5. Dynamic Learning-based Link Restoration in Traffic Engineering with Archie
    Wenlong Ding, HX
    IEEE INFOCOM

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

  7. 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

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

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

2023

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

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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

  11. 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

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

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

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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

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

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

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

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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