Publications | Yunming Xiao

DDoS Detection at the Scale of One Hundred Tbps.
Yunming Xiao, Xijun Luo, Youliang Jiang, Aike Wang, Hu Chen, Zhibin Zhou, Heng Yu, Yong Jiang, Jilong Wang, Yan Chen, Congcong Miao (2025).
To appear in NSDI'26.

Secure Vickrey Auctions for Online Advertising.
Archit Bhatnagar, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury (2025).
To appear in NSDI'26.

Cost-effective and Reliable Global Internet Peering with Programmable Switches.
Congcong Miao, Zhiyi Yao, Jianchao Lv, Jinglin Wang, Shihan Lin, Xinyi Zhang, Yunming Xiao, Wei Guo, Jiwu Bu, Yachen Wang, Marco Canini, Gaogang Xie (2025).
To appear in NSDI'26.

An RDMA-First Object Storage System with SmartNIC Offload.
Yu Zhu, Aditya Dhakal, Pedro Bruel, Gourav Rattihalli, Yunming Xiao, Johann Lombardi, Dejan Milojicic (2025).
In RESDIS@SC.

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SQUiD: Synthesizing Relational Databases from Unstructured Text.
Mushtari Sadia, Zhenning Yang, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury (2025).
In EMNLP (Oral).

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Cloud Infrastructure Management in the Age of AI Agents.
Zhenning Yang, Archit Bhatnagar, Yiming Qiu, Tongyuan Miao, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yunming Xiao, Yibo Huang, Martin Casado, Ang Chen (2025).
In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR).

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Exposing RDMA NIC Resources for Software-Defined Scheduling.
Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Yunming Xiao, Archit Bhatnagar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ang Chen (2025).
In APNet'25. Best Paper Award!

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Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge.
Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2025).
In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS).

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Collusion Resistant DNS With Private Information Retrieval.
Yunming Xiao, Peizhi Liu, Ruijie Yu, Chenkai Weng, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2025).
In ArXiv.

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PreAcher: Secure and Practical Password Pre-Authentication by Content Delivery Networks.
Shihan Lin, Suting Chen, Yunming Xiao, Yanqi Gu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Xiaowei Yang (2025).
In NSDI'25.

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Unlocking ECMP Programmability for Precise Traffic Control.
Yadong Liu*, Yunming Xiao*, Xuan Zhang, Weizhen Dang, Huihui Liu, Xiang Li, Zekun He, Jilong Wang, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Ang Chen, Congcong Miao (2025).
In NSDI'25.

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OpenInfra: A Co-simulation Framework for the Infrastructure Nexus.
Jiaheng Lu, Yunming Xiao, Shmeelok Chakraborty, Silvery Fu, Yoon Sung Ji, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Nalini Rao, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Xinyu Wang (2024).
In HotInfra'24.

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MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud.
Congcong Miao*, Zhizhen Zhong*, Yunming Xiao*, Feng Yang*, Senkuo Zhang*, Chaodong Lu, Jingyi Geng, Yachen Wang, Xianneng Zou, Yinan Jiang, Zizhuo Bai, Chuanchuan Yang (2024).
In SIGCOMM'24.

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Conspirator: SmartNIC-Aided Control Plane for Distributed ML Workloads.
Yunming Xiao, Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Aditya Dhakal, Lianjie Cao, Puneet Sharma, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2024).
In USENIX ATC'24.

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Snatch: Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge.
Yunming Xiao, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2024).
In EuroSys'24. Best Student Paper Award!

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TENSOR: Lightweight BGP Non-Stop Routing.
Congcong Miao*, Yunming Xiao*, Marco Canini, Ruiqiang Dai, Shengli Zheng, Jilong Wang, Jiwu Bu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Yachen Wang (2023).
In SIGCOMM'23.

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Decoding the Kodi Ecosystem.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Marc Anthony Warrior, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2023).
In ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB).

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FIAT: Frictionless Authentication of IoT Traffic.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello (2022).
In CoNEXT'22.

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Blockchain-enhanced Federated Learning Market with Social Internet of Things.
Pengfei Wang, Yian Zhao, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Zongzheng Wei, Heng Qi, Chi Lin, Yunming Xiao, Qiang Zhang (2022).
In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).

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Direct Nonlinear Acceleration.
Aritra Dutta, El Houcine Bourger, Yunming Xiao, Marco Canini, Peter Richtarik (2022).
In EURO Journal on Computational Optimization.

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Blockchain Mining: Optimal Resource Allocation.
Yunming Xiao, Sarit Markovich, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2022).
In ACM AFT'22.

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Monetizing Spare Bandwidth: the Case of Distributed VPNs.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2022).
In SIGMETRICS'22.

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De-Kodi: Understanding the Kodi Ecosystem.
Marc Anthony Warrior, Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (2020).
In WWW'20.

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Close spatial arrangement of mutants favors and disfavors fixation.
Yunming Xiao, Bin Wu (2019).
In PLOS Computational Biology.

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Common Knowledge Based Transfer Learning for Traffic Classification.
Yunming Xiao, Haifeng Sun, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi (2018).
In IEEE LCN'18.

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