Publications

ArXiv

ObjectCache: Layerwise Object-Storage Retrieval for KV Cache Reuse.
Yu Zhu, Aditya Dhakal, Yunming Xiao, Dejan Milojicic, Gustavo Alonso
ArXiv:2605.22850.

ArXiv

Collusion Resistant DNS With Private Information Retrieval.
Yunming Xiao, Peizhi Liu, Ruijie Yu, Chenkai Weng, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
ArXiv:2507.20806.

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SIGCOMM'26

CubeTrace: Microscopic Network Tracing for Heterogeneous Cloud Gateways.
Yunming Xiao, Yinchao Yang, Jiaqi Zheng, Xuqian Li, Dongbo Gu, Chao Pei, Chen Tian, Mingwei Xu, Ang Chen, Congcong Miao
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Conference.

SIGCOMM'26

XFir: Accelerating New-Flow Setup on Host Servers of a Large Cloud Network.
Shihan Lin, Shunqiao Jiang, Liang Wang, Jian Wang, Chao Pei, Jian Zhao, Wenjun Wu, Kai Ren, Lijun Zhuang, Qingmin Liu, Heng Yu, Sirui Li, Yibo Huang, Yifei Zhu, Yunming Xiao, Linghe Kong
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Conference.

SIGCOMM'26

Horizon: A Hyper-Edge Observability Engine for Live Streaming Networks.
Ziqian Liu, Daqian Ding, Rui Han, Zhendong Xie, Aifang Xu, Changqian Wang, Kefei Liu, Jialin Li, Yunming Xiao, Heming Cui, Yiming Qiu
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Conference.

APNet'26

RAG on the Decentralized Web: An Empirical Study of Akash and Golem.
Suting Chen, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Yunming Xiao^#
To appear in Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking. 2026.

NSDI'26

DDoS Detection at the Scale of One Hundred Tbps.
Yunming Xiao, Xijun Luo, Youliang Jiang, Aike Wang, Hu Chen, Zhibin Zhou, Heng Yu, Jiahao Cao, Yong Jiang, Jilong Wang, Mingwei Xu, Yan Chen, Congcong Miao
In Proceedings of 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 2026.

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NSDI'26

Secure Vickrey Auctions for Online Advertising.
Archit Bhatnagar, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
In Proceedings of 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 2026.

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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
In Proceedings of 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 2026.

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NSDI'25

PreAcher: Secure and Practical Password Pre-Authentication by Content Delivery Networks.
Shihan Lin, Suting Chen, Yunming Xiao^#, Yanqi Gu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Xiaowei Yang
In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 2025.

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NSDI'25

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
In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 2025.

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TOCS

Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge.
Yunming Xiao^#, Yanqi Gu, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 43 (4), 1-39. 2025.

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EMNLP (Oral)

SQUiD: Synthesizing Relational Databases from Unstructured Text.
Mushtari Sadia, Zhenning Yang, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Oral Presentation.

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APNet'25

Exposing RDMA NIC Resources for Software-Defined Scheduling.
Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Yunming Xiao, Archit Bhatnagar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ang Chen
In Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking. 2025.
Best Paper Award!

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OSR

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
In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR), 59 (1), 1-8. 2025.

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RESDIS@SC

An RDMA-First Object Storage System with SmartNIC Offload.
Yu Zhu, Aditya Dhakal, Pedro Bruel, Gourav Rattihalli, Yunming Xiao, Johann Lombardi, Dejan Milojicic
In Proceedings of the SC'25 Workshops of International Workshop on RESource DISaggregation in High Performance Computing. 2025.

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EuroSys'24

Snatch: Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge.
Yunming Xiao, Yibo Zhao, Sen Lin, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. 2024.
Best Student Paper Award!

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SIGCOMM'24

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
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference.

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ATC'24

Conspirator: SmartNIC-Aided Control Plane for Distributed ML Workloads.
Yunming Xiao, Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Aditya Dhakal, Lianjie Cao, Puneet Sharma, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.

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HotInfra'24

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
In the 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure. 2024.

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SIGCOMM'23

TENSOR: Lightweight BGP Non-Stop Routing.
Congcong Miao*, Yunming Xiao*, Marco Canini, Ruiqiang Dai, Shengli Zheng, Jilong Wang, Jiwu Bu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Yachen Wang
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference.

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TWEB

Decoding the Kodi Ecosystem.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Marc Anthony Warrior, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In ACM Transactions on the Web, 17 (1), 1-36. 2023.

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CoNEXT'22

FIAT: Frictionless Authentication of IoT Traffic.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello
In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. 2022.

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JSAC

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
In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 40 (12), 3405-3421. 2022.

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EJCO

Direct Nonlinear Acceleration.
Aritra Dutta, El Houcine Bourger, Yunming Xiao, Marco Canini, Peter Richtarik
In EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, 10, 100047. 2022.

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AFT'22

Blockchain Mining: Optimal Resource Allocation.
Yunming Xiao, Sarit Markovich, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. 2022.

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SIGMETRICS'22

Monetizing Spare Bandwidth: the Case of Distributed VPNs.
Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 6(2), 1-27. 2022.

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WWW'20

De-Kodi: Understanding the Kodi Ecosystem.
Marc Anthony Warrior, Yunming Xiao, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020.

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PLoS Comput. Biol.

Close spatial arrangement of mutants favors and disfavors fixation.
Yunming Xiao, Bin Wu
In PLOS Computational Biology, 15(9), e1007212. 2019.

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LCN'18

Common Knowledge Based Transfer Learning for Traffic Classification.
Yunming Xiao, Haifeng Sun, Zirui Zhuang, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi
In IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks. 2018.

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