Selective Publications

Network Intelligence for Distributed Systems

• [EuroSys 27] Xiongwen Guo, Jianbo Dong, Heng Pan, Jun Zhang, Qingxu Li, Jiamin Cao, Feiyang Xue, Yongchen Wang, Ang Liu, Bin Luo, Binzhang Fu, Yanbiao Li, Dongbiao He, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, CLEM: Towards Full-Stack Collective Communication Emulation for Large-scale AI clusters, ACM EuroSys 2027
• [SIGCOMM 26] Ting Liu, Qinghua Wu, Jun Zhou, Yuan Sun, Jingbin Yang, Jinglei Pei, Chen Zhang, Heng Pan, Zhenyu Li, Yunjie Liu, GeoOrchestra: Orchestrating Heterogeneous Geo-Distributed Training with Network-Aware Scheduling, ACM SIGCOMM 2026
• [ATC 25] Qiaoyin Gan, Heng Pan, Luyang Li, Kai Lv, Hongtao Guan, Zhaohua Wang, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, SNARY: A High-Performance and Generic SmartNIC-accelerated Retrieval System, USENIX ATC 2025
• [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.
• [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
• [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
• [INFOCOM 17] Heng Pan, Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Peng He, Laurent Mathy, FlowConvertor: Enabling Portability of SDN Applications, IEEE INFOCOM, 2017
• [ICNP 16] Yang Wang, Gaogang Xie, Zhenyu Li, Peng He and Kave Salamatian, Transparent Flow Migration for NFV, IEEE ICNP, 2016

Intelligent Network Protocols and Systems

• [WWW 2026] Shiyang Huang, Gerui Lv, Yuankang Zhao, Jiaxing Zhang, Qingyue Tan, Congkai An, Huanhuan Zhang, Xinyi Zhang, Qinghua Wu and Zhenyu Li Breath: Adaptive Protection Boundary in FEC Encoding for Mobile Real-Time Video Streaming, WWW 2026
• [EuroSys 26] Yu Tian, Gerui Lv, Qinghua Wu, Ruili Fang, Yajie Peng, Zhichen Xue, Rui Han, Chuanqing Lin, Xiaofei Pang, Jingxing Liu, Zhenyu Li, RLive: Robust Delivery System for Scaling Live Streaming Services, ACM EuroSys 2026
• [RTSS 2025] Jiaxing Zhang, Qinghua Wu, Gerui Lv, Wenji Du, Qingyue Tan, Wanghong Yang, Kai Lv, Yuankang Zhao, Yongmao Ren, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Predictable Real-Time Video Latency Control with Frame-level Collaboration, IEEE RTSS 2025
• [ATC 2025] Yuankang Zhao, Furong YANG, Gerui Lv, Qinghua Wu, Yammei Liu, Jiuhai Zhang, Yutang Peng， Feng Peng, Hongyu Guo, Ying Chen, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, MARC: Motion-Aware Rate Control for Mobile E-commerce Cloud Rendering, USENIX ATC 2025
• [CoNEXT 25] Chuanqing Lin, Gerui Lv, Fuhua Zeng, Hanlin Yang, Junwei Li, Xiaodong Li, Jingyu Yang, Yu Tian, Qinghua Wu, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Oceanus: Scheduling Traffic Flows to Achieve Cost-Efficiency under Uncertainties in Large-Scale Edge CDNs, ACM CoNEXT 2025
• [CoNEXT 25] Yu Tian, Zhenyu Li, Matthew Yang Liu, Qinghua Wu, Zhaoxue Zhong, Ao Li, Jiaxing Zhang, Gerui Lv, Chuanqing Lin, Xi Wang, Jian Mao, Gareth Tyson, Jie Xiong, Zhenhua Li, Gaogang Xie, Cost-efficient Request Mapping for Large-scale Live Streaming Services, ACM CoNEXT 2025
• [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
• [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] 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
• [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
• [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 Observability, Intelligence, and Security

• [IMC 26] Zihan Li, Wenhao Wu, Zhaohua Wang, Yu Tian, Chuan Gao, Qinxin Li, Yiming Xia, Zhenyu Li, Taming DNS Responses: A Measurement Study of Response Size and Its Impact, ACM IMC, 2026
• [SIGCOMM 26] Xinzhe Liu, Jianer Zhou, Xiaoyong Ni, Ke Luo, Zhenyu Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Weichao Li, Unveiling Low‑Altitude 5G Performance: Linking Key Influencing Factors with UAV Flight Parameters, ACM SIGCOMM 2026
• [CCS 26] Jiahao Wu, Heng Pan, Kai Lv, Zhenyu Li, Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie, TurboRetry: Mitigating Large-Scale QUIC Handshake Floods with Off-the-shelf DPU Offloading, ACM CCS 2026
• [WWW 26] Wenhao Wu, Zhaohua Wang, Zihan Li, Qinxin Li, Yiming Xia, Chuan Gao, Guangxing Zhang and Zhenyu Li, Tracking the Stray Sheep: Understanding DNS Response Manipulation in the Wild, WWW 2026
• [WWW 26] Qinxin Li, Zhaohua Wang, Wenhao Wu, Zihan Li, Yiming Xia, Chuan Gao and Zhenyu Li, Balancing Privacy and Security of QNAME Minimisation, WWW 2026
• [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
• [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
• [ATC 20] Donghui Yang, Zhenyu Li, and Gareth Tyson, “A Deep Dive into DNS Query Failures’”, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 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]
• [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
• [VLDB 17] Ennan Zhai, Zhenhua Li, Zhenyu Li, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen, “Resisting Tag Spam by Leveraging Implicit User Behaviors”, VLDB, 2017
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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

Journals

• [TDSC 26] Dingwei Liu, Zhenyu Li, Zhibin Zhang, Zhaohua Wang, Jin Yan. Ppin: Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection on Provenance Graph via Behavior Pattern Mining. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026
• [TOMM 2025] Yuankang Zhao, Qinghua Wu, Gerui Lv, Furong Yang, Jiuhai Zhang, Feng Peng, Yanmei Liu, Zhenyu Li, Hongyu Guo, Ying Chen, Gaogang Xie, Understanding and Taming the Inflated Latency in Mobile Cloud Rendering, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2025
• [TNET 2025] Jianer Zhou, Zhiyuan Pan, Zhenyu Li, Gareth Tyson, Weichao Li, Xinyi Qiu, Heng Pan, Xinyi Zhang, Gaogang Xie, Safety in DRL-Based Congestion Control: A Framework Empowered by Expert Refinement, IEEE Trans. Networking, 2025
• [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
• [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, 2023
• [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.
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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.
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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

Workshops

• [APNET 26] M. Qiao, Z. Diao, G. Zhang, W. Li, L. Wang, H. Jiang, X. Liang, Z. Li, G. Xie, Not All Pretrained Representation has The Sweet Danger of Sugar: Robust and Trustworthy Representation Learning for Encrypted Malicious Traffic Identification, ACM APNET 2026
• [APNET 26] M. Qiao, Z. Diao, G. Zhang, L. Wang, K. Lv, X. Liang, Y. Gong, H. Jiang, J. Wang, Z. Li, G. Xie, Not All Flows are Worth N Packets: Robust Encrypted Traffic Classification via Dynamic Patch-level Feature Learning, ACM APNET 2026
• [APNET 25] Kai Lv, Jinyang Li, Pengyi Zhang, Heng Pan, Luyang Li, Shuaihai Hu, Zhenyu Li, Gaogang Xie, Jingbin Zhou, Kun Tan, OmniDMA: Scalable RDMA Transport over WAN, ACM APNET 2025
• [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
• [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)