Publications

Operation-Centric Data Center Network Architectures

Yiting Xia*, Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Xin Sunny Huang, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, T. S. Eugene Ng, “Masking Failures from Application Performance in Data Center Networks with Shareable Backup, in ACM SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 2018

Yiting Xia,  “On Designing Convertible Data Center Network Architectures”, PhD thesis, Rice University

Yiting Xia, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, “Stop Rerouting! Enabling ShareBackup for Failure Recovery in Data Center Networks“, in 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2017), Palo Alto, CA, December 2017

Yiting Xia, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Dingming Wu, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, “A Tale of Two Topologies: Exploring Convertible Data Center Network Architectures with Flat-tree“, in ACM SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, “Flat-tree: A Convertible Data Center Network Architecture from Clos to Random Graph“, in 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2016), Atlanta, GA, November 2016 [slides] [talk]

Yiting Xia, Mike Schlansker, T. S. Eugene Ng, Jean Tourrilhes, “Enabling Topological Flexibility for Data Centers Using OmniSwitch“, in 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2015), Santa Clara, CA, July 2015 [slides]

Cross-Layer Optimized Data-Parallel Systems

Xiaoye Steven Sun, Yiting Xia, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Xin Sunny Huang, Dingming Wu, T. S. Eugene Ng, “Republic: Data Multicast Meets Hybrid Rack-Level Interconnections in Data Centers“, IEEE ICNP 2018, Cambridge, UK, September 2018

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Xiaoye Steven Sun, “Blast: Accelerating High-Performance Data Analytics Applications by Optical Multicast“, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, April 2015 [slides]

Yiting Xia, “Control Plane Design and Performance Analysis for Optical Multicast-Capable Datacenter Networks“, Master’s Thesis, Rice University

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Sambit Sahu, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, “Rethinking the Physical Layer of Data Center Networks of the Next Decade: Using Optics to Enable Efficient *-Cast Connectivity“, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2013

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, “λgroup: Using Optics to Take Group Data Delivery in the Datacenter to the Next Degree“, Rice University Technical Report TR14-01, February 2014

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sambit Sahu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, “End-to-End Demonstration of Optical Multicasting Over a Dynamically-Reconfigurable Hybrid Data Center Network Architecture“, in 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series,Waikoloa, HI, July 2013

Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Sun, Yiting Xia, Xin Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, “HyperOptics: A High Throughput and Low Latency Multicast Architecture for Datacenters“, in 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’16), Denver, CO, June 2016

Payman Samadi, Howard Wang, David Calhoun, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, “An Optical Programmable Network Architecture Supporting Iterative Multicast for Data-intensive Applications“, IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference, Coronado, CA, May 2014

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, “A Cross-Layer SDN Control Plane for Optical Multicast-Featured Datacenters“, Poster in Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Chicago, IL, August 2014

Internet Routing

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Yiting Xia, Chengchen Hu, “RPIM: Inferring BGP Routing Policies in ISP Networks“, in 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), Houston, TX, December 2011

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Wenzhong Li, Yiting Xia, “Towards Inferring Inter-Domain Routing Policies in ISP Networks“, in IEICE Transactions on Communications, November 2011