Publications (Since 2010)

Data-driven Networking

• [SECURITY 25] Wenhao Wu, Zhenyu Li, Xilai Liu, Zhaohua Wang, Heng Pan, Guangxing Zhang, Gaogang Xie, Lemon: Network-wide DDoS Detection with Routing-Oblivious Per-flow Measurement, USENIX SECURITY 2025
• [WWW 25] Wenhao Wu, Zhaohua Wang, Li Qinxin, Zihan Li, Yi Li, Jin Yan, Zhenyu Li, ODNS Clustering: Unveiling Client-side Dependency in Open DNS Infrastructure, ACM WWW 2025
• [IMC 24] Yu Tian, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Gaogang Xie, Cost-Saving Streaming: Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Edge Node Resources, ACM IMC 2024
• [APNET 24] Enhan Li, Wenhao Wu, Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Jianwei Niu, SAROS: A Self-Adaptive Routing Oblivious Sampling Method for Network-wide Heavy Hitter Detection ACM APNET 2024
• [PAM 24] Yu Tian, Zhenyu Li, Dom-BERT: Detecting Malicious Domains with Pre-training Model, PAM 2024
• [AINTEC 23] Zhenyu Li, Yiwen Huang, A First Look into the Third-Party Web Dependencies in China, ACM AINTEC 2023
• [ICN 23] Xingguo Long, Kun Huang, Rongwei Yang, Qingguo Dai, Zhenyu Li “Pegasus: A High-Speed NDN Router with Programmable Switches and Server Clusters”, ACM ICN, 2023
• [TMC 23] Gerui Lv, Qinghua Wu, Qingyue Tan, Weiran Wang, Zhenyu Li and Gaogang Xie, “Accurate Throughput Prediction for Improving QoE in Mobile Adaptive Streaming”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, 2023
• [SIGCOMM 22] Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Ri Lu, Kai Xiao, Songlin Li, Jufeng Chen, Jingyu Yang, Chunli Zong, Aiyun Chen, Qinghua Wu, Chen Sun, Gareth Tyson and Hongqiang Harry Liu, “LiveNet: A Low-Latency Video Transport Network for Large-Scale Live Streaming”, ACM SIGCOMM, 2022
• [INFOCOM 22] Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Qinghua Wu, and Gareth Tyson, “On Uploading Behavior and Optimizations of a Mobile Live Streaming Service”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
• [COMNET 22]Donghui Yang, Zhenyu Li, Haiyang Jiang, Gareth Tyson, Hongtao Li, Gaogang Xie, and Yu Zeng, “A deep dive into DNS behavior and query failures”, Comput. Networks 214: 109131, 2022
• [TMC 21] Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “Characterising Usage Patterns and Privacy Risks of a Home Security Camera Service”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021
• [ATC 20] Donghui Yang, Zhenyu Li, and Gareth Tyson, “A Deep Dive into DNS Query Failures’”, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2020
• [PAM 20] Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Minhui Xue, and Gareth Tyson, “Exploring the Eastern Frontier: A First Look at Mobile App Tracking in China”, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM), 2020
• [INFOCOM 20] Jinyang Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “Your Privilege Gives Your Privacy Away: An Analysis of a Home Security Camera Service”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2020[BBC Radio] [CNN] [Daily Mail] [Times] [iNews] [CPO Magazin] [Tech Times] [Popular Mechanics]
• [ToN 20] Xiaocan Li, Kun Xie, Xin Wang, Gaogang Xie, DongliangXie, Zhenyu Li, Jigang Wen, Zulong Diao, and Tian Wang, “Quick and Accurate False Data Detection in Mobile Crowd Sensing”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2020
• [ICDCS 19] Xi Chen, Minghao Zhao, Xinlei Yang, Zhenhua Li, Yao Liu, Zhenyu Li, and Yunhao Liu, “The Cask Effect of Multi-source Content Delivery: Measurement and Mitigation”, IEEE ICDCS, 2019
• [INFOCOM 19] Kun Xie, Xiaocan Li, Xin Wang, Gaogang Xie, Dongliang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Jigang Wen, Zulong Diao, “Quick and Accurate False Data Detection in Mobile Crowd Sensing”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2019
• [ComCom 18] Jingxiu Su, Zhenyu Li, Stephane Grumbach, Muhammad Ikram, Kave Salamatian, and Gaogang Xie, “A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records”, Computer Communications, 2018
• [PAM 18] Zhenyu Li, Donghui Yang, Zhenhua Li, Chunjing Han, Gaogang Xie, Content Hosting Infrastructure in China: A View from a Cellular ISP, Passive and Active Measurement, 2018
• [VLDB 17] Ennan Zhai, Zhenhua Li, Zhenyu Li, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen, “Resisting Tag Spam by Leveraging Implicit User Behaviors”, VLDB, 2017
• [TCSVT 17] Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar, Qinghua Wu, “Access Types Effect on Internet Video Services and Its Implications on CDN Caching””, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2017
• [LCN 16] Fangzhou Jiang, Zhi Liu, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Zhenyu Li, Yusheng Ji, Aruna Seneviratne, “TransFetch: A Viewing Behavior Driven Video Distribution Framework in Public Transport”, IEEE LCN, 2016
• [INFOCOM 16] Dong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Kave Salamatian, “Adwords Management for Third-parties in SEM: an Optimisation Model and the Potential of Twitter”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2016
• [ToC 16] Yonggong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig, Gaogang Xie, “Design and Evaluation of the Optimal Cache Allocation for Content-Centric Networking”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2016
• [TCSVT 16] Zhenyu Li, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar, Kave Salamatian and Gaogang Xie, ``Characterizing and Modeling User Behavior in a Large-scale Mobile Live Streaming System’’, EEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2016
• [JSAC 16] Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar and Gaogang Xie, “Privacy-aware Multipath Video Caching for Content-Centric Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2016
• [WWW 15] Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Mohamed Ali Kaafar and Kave Salamatian, “User Behavior Characterization of a Large-scale Mobile Live Streaming System”, ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2015
• [TMM 15] Zhenyu Li, Qinghua Wu, Kave Salamatian, Gaogang Xie, “Video Delivery Performance of a Large-Scale VoD System and the Implications on Content Delivery”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2015
• [INFOCOM 14] Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Jiali Lin, Yun Jin, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Kave Salamatian, “On the geographic patterns of a large-scale mobile video-on-demand system”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2014
• [ICNP 13] Yonggong Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Steve Uhlig, Gaogang Xie, “Optimal cache allocation for Content-Centric Networking”, IEEE ICNP, 2013
• [TNSM 13] Zhenyu Li, Jiali Lin, Kave Salamatian, Gaogang Xie, “Social Connections in User-Generated Content Video Systems: Analysis and Recommendation”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2013
• [Comms. 13] Jiali Lin, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Yi Sun, Kave Salamatian, Wenjie Wang, “Mobile video popularity distributions and the potential of peer-assisted video delivery”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2013
• [Network 13] Yi Sun, Yang Guo, Zhenyu Li, Jiali Lin, Gaogang Xie, Xiaobing Zhang, Kave Salamatian, “The case for P2P mobile video system over wireless broadband networks: A practical study of challenges for a mobile video provider”, IEEE Network, 2013
• [IMC 12] Zhenyu Li, Jiali Lin, Marc-Ismael Akodjenou, Gaogang Xie, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Yun Jin, Gang Peng, “Watching videos from everywhere: a study of the PPTV mobile VoD system”, ACM IMC, 2012
• [ICPP 12] Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Kave Salamatian, “Exploiting Interest Locality for Peer-Assisted Search in UGC Video Systems”, ICPP, 2012
• [IWQoS 11] Zhenyu Li, Rong Gu, Gaogang Xie, “Measuring and enhancing the social connectivity of UGC video systems: A case study of YouKu”, IEEE IWQoS, 2011
• [TPDS 11] Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Kai Hwang, Zhongcheng Li, “Churn-Resilient Protocol for Massive Data Dissemination in P2P Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2011
• [Book Chapter] Zhenyu Li, Kai Hwang, Gaogang Xie, ‘‘Peer-to-Peer Computing and Overlay Networks”, in Distributed and Cloud Computing, editors: K. Hwang, G. Fox, and J. Dongarra, Morgan Kauffmann, 2011.10, pp.479-544

Transport Protocols & Systems

• [NOSSDAV 24] Yuankang Zhao, Qinghua Wu, Gerui Lv, Furong YANG, Jiuhai Zhang, Feng Peng, Yammei Liu, Zhenyu Li, Ying Chen, Hongyu Guo, Gaogang Xie, JitBright: towards Low-Latency Mobile Cloud Rendering through Jitter Buffer Optimization, NOSSDAV 2024 (Best paper award)
• [MobiCom 24]Gerui Lv, Qinghua Wu, Yanmei Liu, Zhenyu Li, Qingyue Tan, Furong Yang, Wentao Chen, Yunfei Ma, hongyu Guo, Ying Chen, Gaogang Xie, Chorus: Coordinating Mobile Multipath Scheduling and Adaptive Video Streaming, ACM Mobicom 2024
• [ICNP 23] Furong Yang, Zhenyu Li, Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Qinghua Wu, Giovanni Pau, Gaogang Xie, “Disco: A Framework for Dynamic Selection of Multipath Congestion Control Algorithms”, IEEE ICNP, 2023
• [NSDI 24] Jiaxing Zhang, Furong Yang, Ting Liu, Qinghua Wu, Wu Zhao, Yuanbo Zhang, Wentao Chen, Yanmei Liu, Hongyu Guo, Yunfei Ma, Zhenyu Li, TECC: Towards Efficient QUIC Tunneling via Collaborative Transmission Control, USENIX NSDI 2024
• [ToN 23]Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Qiu, Zhenyu Li, Qing Li, Gareth Tyson, Jingpu Duan, Yi Wang, Heng Pan, and Qinghua Wu, A Machine Learning-based Framework for Dynamic Selection of Congestion Control Algorithms, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2022
• [ComNet 23] Jianer Zhou, Zengxie Ma, Weijian Tu, Xinyi Qiu, Jingpu Duan, Zhenyu Li, Qing Li, Xinyi Zhang, Weichao Li, Cable: A framework for accelerating 5G UPF based on eBPF, Computer Networks, 2023
• [TMC 22] Zhenyu Li, Jinyang Li, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “A Large-Scale Measurement and Optimization of Mobile Live Streaming Services”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, 2022
• [INFOCOM 22] Zhiren Zhong, Wei Wang, Yiyang Shao, Zhenyu Li, Heng Pan, Hongtao Guan, Gareth Tyson, Gaogang Xie, and Kai Zheng, “Muses: Enabling Lightweight Learning-Based Congestion Control for Mobile Devices”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
• [INFOCOM 22] Gerui Lv, Qinghua Wu, Weiran Wang, Zhenyu Li and Gaogang Xie, “Lumos: towards Better Video Streaming QoE through Accurate Throughput Prediction”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
• [ComNet 22] Furong Yang, Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Yanmei Liu, Giovanni Pau, and Gaogang Xie, “BBRv2+: Towards Balancing Aggressiveness and Fairness with Delay-based Bandwidth Probing”, Computer Networks, 2022
• [WWW 22] Ting Liu, Tianhao Miao, Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Guangxin He, Jiaoren Wu, Xingwu Yang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie. Demystifying Scaling Performance Bottlenecks in Distributed Deep Learning. ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022
• [ICNP 21] Jianer Zhou, Xinyi Qiu, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Qing Li, and Yi Wang, “Antelope: A Framework for Dynamic Selection of Congestion Control Algorithms”, IEEE ICNP, 2021
• [SIGCOMM 21] Zhilong Zheng, Yunfei Ma, Yanmei Liu, Furong Yang, Zhenyu Li, Jiuhai Zhang, Wei Shi, Wentao Chen, Ding Li, Qing An, Hai Hong, Hongqiang Harry Liu, and Ming Zhang, “XLINK: QoE-Driven Multi-Path QUIC Transport in Large-scale Video Services”, ACM SIGCOMM, 2021
• [ToN 19] Jianer Zhou, Zhenyu Li, Qinghua Wu, Peter Steenkiste, Steve Uhlig, Jun Li, and Gaogang Xie, “TCP Stalls at the Server Side: Measurement and Mitigation”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019
• [Comm. 16] Zhenyu Li, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar, and Gaogang Xie, “Session throughput prediction for Internet videos”, IEEE Communications magazine, Nov. 2016
• [IMC 16] Zhenyu Li, Xiaohui Wang, Ningjing Huang, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Zhenhua Li, Jianer Zhou, Gaogang Xie, Peter Steenkiste, “An Empirical Analysis of a Large-scale Mobile Cloud Storage Service”, ACM IMC, 2016
• [CoNEXT 15] Jianer Zhou, Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Steve Uhlig, Peter Steenkiste, Jian Chen, Gaogang Xie, “Demystifying and Mitigating TCP Stalls at the Server Side”, ACM CoNEXT, 2015
• [Network 14] Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Jianer Zhou, Heng Jiang, Zhiyang Hu, Yunjie Liu, Gaogang Xie, “SOFIA: toward service-oriented information centric networking”, IEEE Network, 2014

DCN & Cloud Network

• [ASPLOS 25] Luyang Li, Heng Pan, Xinchen Wan, Kai Lv, Zilong Wang, Qian Zhao,Feng Ning, Qingsong Ning, Shideng Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Layong Luo, Gaogang Xie, A Unified Framework for Heterogeneous FPGA Acceleration in the Cloud, ACM ASPLOS 2025.
• [ICNP 24] Kai Lv, Heng Pan, Chengjun Jia, Jiaxing Zhang, Luyang Li, Jianer Zhou, Yanbiao Li, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Roundabout: Solving PFC Deadlocks with Distributed Detection and Buffer Collaboration, IEEE ICNP 2024.
• [ICNP 24] Heng Pan, Penglai Cui, Zhenyu Li, Ru Jia, Penghao Zhang, Leilei Zhang, Ye Yang, Jiahao Wu, Mathy Laurent, Gaogang Xie, Zebra: Accelerating Distributed Sparse Deep Training with In-network Gradient Aggregation for Hot Parameters, IEEE ICNP 2024.
• [EuroSys 24] Heng Pan, Peng He, Zhenyu Li, Pan Zhang, Junjie Wan, Yuhao Zhou, Xiongchun Duan, Yu Zhang, Gaogang Xie. Hoda: a High-performance Open vSwitch Dataplane with Multiple Specialized Data Paths, in ACM EuroSys, 2024.
• [TPDS 23] Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Heng Pan, Guangming Liu, Yunfei Chen, Qinghua Wu, Gareth Tyson, Gang Cheng. Large-Scale Measurements and Prediction of DC-WAN Traffic, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2023.3245092.
• [IWQoS 23] Rui Ren, Yang Wang, Fengrui Liu, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Triple:The Interpretable Deep Learning Anomaly Detection framework based on Trace-Metric-Log of Microservice, IEEE IWQoS 2023
• [IWQoS 23] Rui Ren, Yang Wang, Fengrui Liu, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Tianhao Miao, Gaogang Xie, Grace: Interpretable Root Cause Analysis by Graph Convolutional Network for Microservices, IEEE IWQoS 2023
• [TPDS 22] Penglai Cui, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Penghao Zhang, Tianhao Miao, Jianer Zhou, Hongtao Guan, and Gaogang Xie. Enabling in-network Floating-point Arithmetic for Efficient Computation Offloading. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022
• [TDSC 22] Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Penghao Zhang, Penglai Cui, Kave Salamatian, and Gaogang Xie. Misconfiguration-free Compositional SDN for Cloud Networks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022
• [ICCBR 22] Fengrui Liu, Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Rui Ren, Hongtao Guan, Xian Yu, Xiaofan Chen and Gaogang Xie. MicroCBR: Case-based Reasoning on Spatio-temporal Fault Knowledge Graph for Microservices Troubleshooting. The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 2022
• [TPDS 22] Penghao Zhang, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Penglai Cui, Ru Jia, Peng He, Zhibin Zhang, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “NetSHa: In-network Acceleration of LSH-based Distributed Search”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022
• [IMC 21] Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Guangming Liu, Yunfei Chen, Qinghua Wu, and Gang Cheng, “Examination of WAN Traffic Characteristics in a Large-scale Data Center Network”, ACM IMC, 2021
• [ICNP 21] Penglai Cui, Heng Pan, Zhenyu, Jiaoren Wu, Shengzhuo Zhang, Xingwu Yang, Hongtao Guan, and Gaogang Xie, “NetFC: enabling accurate floating-point arithmetic on programmable switches”, IEEE ICNP, 2021
• [INFOCOM 21] Penghao Zhang, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Peng He, Zhibin Zhang, Gareth Tyson and Gaogang Xie, “Accelerating LSH-based Distributed Search with In-network Computation”, IEEE INFOCOM 2021
• [IMC 20] Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Jianbo Dong, Zheng Cao, Tao Lan, Di Zhang, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “Dissecting the Communication Latency in Distributed Deep Sparse Learning”, ACM IMC, 2020
• [ICNP 20] Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Penghao Zhang, Kave Salamatian, and Gaogang Xie, “Misconfiguration Checking for SDN: Data Structure, Theory and Algorithms”, IEEE ICNP, 2020
• [IWQoS 20] Pengpeng Zhou, Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Xin Wang, Gareth Tyson, and Gaogang Xie, “LogSayer: Log Pattern-driven Cloud Component Anomaly Diagnosis with Machine Learning”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2020
• [ComNet 20] Pengpeng Zhou, Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Hongtao Guan, and Gaogang Xie, “LogChain: Cloud Workflow Reconstruction & Troubleshooting with Unstructured Logs”, Computer Networks, 2020
• [ICPP 18] Minghao Zhao, Zhenhua Li, Ennan Zhai, Gareth Tyson, Chen Qian, Zhenyu Li, Leiyu Zhao, “H2Cloud: Maintaining the Whole Filesystem in an Object Storage Cloud”. ICPP 2018
• [TNSM 18] Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Peng He, Hongtao Guan, Laurent Mathy, “Efficient Action Computation for Compositional SDN Policies”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2018
• [TOMPECS 18] Zhenhua Li, Yongfeng Zhang, Yunhao Liu, Tianyin Xu, Ennan Zhai, Yao Liu, Xiaobo Ma, Zhenyu Li, A Quantitative and Comparative Study of Network-level Efficiency for Cloud Storage Services, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), 2018.
• [INFOCOM 17] Heng Pan, Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Peng He, Laurent Mathy, “FlowConvertor: Enabling Portability of SDN Applications”, IEEE INFOCOM, 2017
• [IWQoS 17] Yang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Kave Salamatian, “Enabling Automatic Composition and Verification of Service Function Chain”, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, 2017
• [ICNP 16] Yang Wang, Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Peng He and Kave Salamatian, “Transparent Flow Migration for NFV”, IEEE ICNP, 2016
• [Networking 16] Heng Pan, Gaogang Xie, Peng He, Zhenyu Li, Laurent Mathy, “Action Computation for compositional SDN hypervisors”, IFIP Networking, 2016
• [Comm. 11] Gaogang Xie, Peng He, Hongtao Guan, Zhenyu Li, Yingke Xie, Layong Luo, Jianhua Zhang, Yonggong Wang, Kave Salamatian, PEARL: a programmable virtual router platform, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011