6 papers
Diffusing Your Mobile Apps: Extending In-Network Function Virtualization to Mobile Function Offloading
Mario Almeida, Liang Wang, Jeremy Blackburn +2
Motivated by the huge disparity between the limited battery capacity of user devices and the ever-growing energy demands of modern mobile apps, we propose INFv. It is the first off…
C3PO: Computation Congestion Control (PrOactive) - an algorithm for dynamic diffusion of ephemeral in-network services
Liang Wang, Mario Almeida, Jeremy Blackburn +1
There is an obvious trend that more and more data and computation are migrating into networks nowadays. Combining mature virtualization technologies with service-centric net- worki…
Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Community Network Clouds
Mennan Selimi, Llorenc Cerda-Alabern, Liang Wang +3
Seamless computing and service sharing in community networks have been gaining momentum due to the emerging technology of community network micro-clouds (CNMCs). However, running s…
Approximate Networking for Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA)
Junaid Qadir, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang +1
Decades of experience have shown that there is no single one-size-fits-all solution that can be used to provision Internet globally and that invariably there are tradeoffs in the d…
"Resource Pooling" for Wireless Networks: Solutions for the Developing World
Junaid Qadir, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Liang Wang +1
We live in a world in which there is a great disparity between the lives of the rich and the poor. Technology offers great promise in bridging this gap. In particular, wireless tec…
XBF: Scaling up Bloom-filter-based Source Routing
Markku Antikainen, Liang Wang, Dirk Trossen +1
A well known drawback of IP-multicast is that it requires per-group state to be stored in the routers. Bloom-filter based source-routed multicast remedies this problem by moving th…