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Predictive Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao +1
For software-defined networking (SDN) systems, to enhance the scalability and reliability of control plane, existing solutions adopt either multi-controller design with static swit…
Online VNF Chaining and Predictive Scheduling: Optimality and Trade-offs
Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Xin Gao +4
For NFV systems, the key design space includes the function chaining for network requests and resource scheduling for servers. The problem is challenging since NFV systems usually…
Joint Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems: An Integration of Online Control and Online Learning
Xi Huang, Yinxu Tang, Ziyu Shao +2
In software-defined networking (SDN) systems, it is a common practice to adopt a multi-controller design and control devolution techniques to improve the performance of the control…
Service Chain Composition with Failures in NFV Systems: A Game-Theoretic Perspective
Simeng Bian, Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao +2
For state-of-the-art network function virtualization (NFV) systems, it remains a key challenge to conduct effective service chain composition for different network services (NSs) w…
Online Task Scheduling for Fog Computing with Multi-Resource Fairness
Simeng Bian, Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao
In fog computing systems, one key challenge is online task scheduling, i.e., to decide the resource allocation for tasks that are continuously generated from end devices. The desig…
PORA: Predictive Offloading and Resource Allocation in Dynamic Fog Computing Systems
Xin Gao, Xi Huang, Simeng Bian +2
In multi-tiered fog computing systems, to accelerate the processing of computation-intensive tasks for real-time IoT applications, resource-limited IoT devices can offload part of…
Green Offloading in Fog-Assisted IoT Systems: An Online Perspective Integrating Learning and Control
Xin Gao, Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao +1
In fog-assisted IoT systems, it is a common practice to offload tasks from IoT devices to their nearby fog nodes to reduce task processing latencies and energy consumptions. Howeve…
History-Aware Online Cache Placement in Fog-Assisted IoT Systems: An Integration of Learning and Control
Xin Gao, Xi Huang, Yinxu Tang +2
In Fog-assisted IoT systems, it is a common practice to cache popular content at the network edge to achieve high quality of service. Due to uncertainties in practice such as unkno…
Online User-AP Association with Predictive Scheduling in Wireless Caching Networks
Xi Huang, Shuang Zhao, Xin Gao +3
For wireless caching networks, the scheme design for content delivery is non-trivial in the face of the following tradeoff. On one hand, to optimize overall throughput, users can a…
POTUS: Predictive Online Tuple Scheduling for Data Stream Processing Systems
Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao, Yang Yang
Most online service providers deploy their own data stream processing systems in the cloud to conduct large-scale and real-time data analytics. However, such systems, e.g., Apache…
MIPS: Instance Placement for Stream Processing Systems based on Monte Carlo Tree Search
Xi Huang, Ziyu Shao, Yang Yang
Stream processing engines enable modern systems to conduct large-scale analytics over unbounded data streams in real time. They often view an application as a direct acyclic graph…
Dynamic Switch-Controller Association and Control Devolution for SDN Systems
Xi Huang, Simeng Bian, Ziyu Shao +1
In software-defined networking (SDN), as data plane scale expands, scalability and reliability of the control plane have become major concerns. To mitigate such concerns, two kinds…