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Knock Out 2PC with Practicality Intact: a High-performance and General Distributed Transaction Protocol (Technical Report)
Ziliang Lai, Hua Fan, Wenchao Zhou +4
Two-phase-commit (2PC) has been widely adopted for distributed transaction processing, but it also jeopardizes throughput by introducing two rounds of network communications and tw…
When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database
Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Eric Lo
Private blockchain as a replicated transactional system shares many commonalities with distributed database. However, the intimacy between private blockchain and deterministic data…
Saguaro: An Edge Computing-Enabled Hierarchical Permissioned Blockchain
Mohammad Javad Amiri, Ziliang Lai, Liana Patel +3
We present Saguaro, a permissioned blockchain system designed specifically for edge computing networks. Saguaro leverages the hierarchical structure of edge computing networks to r…
Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach
Ziliang Lai, Chenxia Han, Chris Liu +3
The impressive accuracy of deep neural networks (DNNs) has created great demands on practical analytics over video data. Although efficient and accurate, the latest video analytic…
Towards Self-Tuning Parameter Servers
Chris Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Bo Tang +4
Recent years, many applications have been driven advances by the use of Machine Learning (ML). Nowadays, it is common to see industrial-strength machine learning jobs that involve…
Decentralized Search on Decentralized Web
Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Eric Lo +2
Decentralized Web, or DWeb, is envisioned as a promising future of the Web. Being decentralized, there are no dedicated web servers in DWeb; Devices that retrieve web contents also…