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Publications

2018

(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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2017

(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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(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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(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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2016

(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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(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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(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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2015

(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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2014

(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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2013

(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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2012

(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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(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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(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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2011

(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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(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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(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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Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networks
Minlan Yu
Ph.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
2011
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2010

(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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2009

(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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(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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2008

(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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(Presto) Latency Equalization: A Programmable Routing Service Primitive
Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan and Li Li
ACM SIGCOMM PRESTO Workshop
2008
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