Publication List

Theses

[PhD Thesis] Li Chen. Flow scheduling for parallel computing applications in datacenters. PhD thesis, HKUST, 2018. [ bib ]
[MPhil Thesis] Li Chen. Optimizing data center network for real-time applications. MPhil thesis, HKUST, 2013. [ bib ]

Conference Publications

[SIGCOMM] Gui, Fei, Songtao Wang, Dan Li, Li Chen, Kaihui Gao, Congcong Min, and Yi Wang. "RedTE: Mitigating subsecond traffic bursts with real-time and distributed traffic engineering." In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf, pp. 1-12. 2024. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Ma, Tie; Luo, Long; Yu, Hongfang; Chen, Xi; Xie, Jingzhao; Ma, Chongxi; Xie, Yunhan; Sun, Gang; Wei, Tianxi; Chen, Li. Klonet: an {Easy-to-Use} and Scalable Platform for Computer Networks Education. In Proceedings of 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24), 2024. [ bib ]
[NDSS] Yingying Su, Dan Li, Li Chen, Qi Li, Sitong Ling. dRR: A Decentralized, Scalable, and Auditable Architecture for RPKI Repository. In Proceedings of the NDSS 2024, 2024. [ bib ]
[NDSS] Lancheng Qin, Li Chen, Dan Li, Honglin Ye, Yutian Wang. Understanding Route Origin Validation (ROV) Deployment in the Real World and Why MANRS Action 1 Is Not Followed. In Proceedings of the NDSS 2024, 2024. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang, and Lu Lu. Dons: Fast and affordable discrete event network simulation with automatic parallelization. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, pages 167--181, 2023. [ bib ]
[MSN] Wang, Weiyan; Zhang, Yiming; Jin, Yilun; Tian, Han; Chen, Li. MDP: Model Decomposition and Parallelization of Vision Transformer for Distributed Edge Inference. In Proceedings of 2023 19th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN) , pages 570-578, 2023. [ bib ]
[CogMI] Wenlong Ding, Libin Liu, Li Chen, Hong Xu. ABC: Automatic Bottom-up Construction of Configuration Knowledge Base for Multi-Vendor Networks. In The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI'23), 2023. [ bib ]
[ICIT] Anatoly Nazarov, Alexander Moiseev, Ivan Lapatin, Svetlana Paul, Olga Lizyura, Pavel Pristupa, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. Real waiting time in single-server resource queue with markovian arrival process. In International Conference on Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling, pages 116--125. Springer Nature Switzerland Cham, 2022. [ bib ]
[ICCD] Jingsong Yuan, Xiangyu Zou, Han Xu, Zhichao Cao, Shiyi Li, Wen Xia, Peng Wang, and Li Chen. A focused garbage collection approach for primary deduplicated storage with low memory overhead. In 2022 IEEE 40th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pages 315--323. IEEE, 2022. [ bib ]
[MICRO] Jianyu Jiang, Ji Qi, Tianxiang Shen, Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Sen Wang, Li Chen, Gong Zhang, Xiapu Luo, and Heming Cui. Cronus: Fault-isolated, secure and high-performance heterogeneous computing for trusted execution environment. In MICRO (55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture), 2022. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Gaoxiong Zeng, Li Chen, Bairen Yi, and Kai Chen. Cutting tail latency in commodity datacenters with cloudburst. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pages 1--10, 2022. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Huangxun Chen, Yukai Miao, Li Chen, Haifeng Sun, Hong Xu, Libin Liu, Gong Zhang, and Wei Wang. Software-defined network assimilation: Bridging the last mile towards centralized network configuration management with nassim. In ACM SIGCOMM 2022, 2022. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Qingqing Yang, Xi Peng, Li Chen, Libin Liu, Jingze Zhang, Hong Xu, Baochun Li, and Gong Zhang. Deepqueuenet: Towards scalable and generalized network performance estimation with packet-level visibility. In ACM SIGCOMM 2022, 2022. [ bib ]
[ATC] Tianxiang Shen, Ji Qi, Jianyu Jiang, Xian Wang, Siyuan Wen, Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Sen Wang, Li Chen, Xiapu Luo, et al. {SOTER}: Guarding black-box inference for general neural networks at the edge. In 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 22), pages 723--738, 2022. [ bib ]
[DCCN] Anatoly A Nazarov, Alexander N Moiseev, Ivan L Lapatin, Svetlana V Paul, Olga D Lizyura, Pavel V Pristupa, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. Analysis of the amount of information in semi-markov flow. In DCCN, 2021. [ bib ]
[DCCN] Olga Lizyura, Pavel Pristupa, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. Semi-markov resource flow as a bit-level model of traffic. In Distributed Computer and Communication Networks: 24th International Conference, DCCN 2021, Moscow, Russia, September 20-24, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, page 220. Springer Nature, 2022. [ bib ]
[ASPLOS] Shixiong Zhao, Fanxin Li, Xusheng Chen, Tianxiang Shen, Li Chen, Sen Wang, Nicholas Zhang, Cheng Li, and Heming Cui. Naspipe: high performance and reproducible pipeline parallel supernet training via causal synchronous parallelism. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pages 374--387, 2022. [ bib ]
[DCCN] Anatoly Nazarov, Alexander Moiseev, Ivan Lapatin, Svetlana Paul, Olga Lizyura, Pavel Pristupa, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. Semi-markov resource flow as a bit-level model of traffic. In Distributed Computer and Communication Networks: 24th International Conference, DCCN 2021, Moscow, Russia, September 20--24, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, pages 220--232. Springer International Publishing Cham, 2022. [ bib ]
[IWQoS] Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Li Chen, Jinkun Geng, Fei Gui, Yang Cheng, and Yue Gu. Incorporating intra-flow dependencies and inter-flow correlations for traffic matrix prediction. In 2020 IEEE/ACM 28th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), pages 1--10. IEEE, 2020. [ bib ]
[VALUETOOLS] Gang Chen, Li Xia, Zhaoyu Jiang, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. A two-step fitting approach of batch markovian arrival processes for teletraffic data. In Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools: 14th EAI International Conference, VALUETOOLS 2021, Virtual Event, October 30--31, 2021, Proceedings, pages 22--35. Springer International Publishing, 2021. [ bib ]
[SOSP] Ji Qi, Xusheng Chen, Yunpeng Jiang, Jianyu Jiang, Tianxiang Shen, Shixiong Zhao, Sen Wang, Gong Zhang, Li Chen, Man Ho Au, et al. Bidl: A high-throughput, low-latency permissioned blockchain framework for datacenter networks. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pages 18--34, 2021. [ bib ]
[ICDCS] Chen Chen, Hong Xu, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, and Gong Zhang. Communication-efficient federated learning with adaptive parameter freezing. In 2021 IEEE 41st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pages 1--11. IEEE, 2021. [ bib ]
[ITMM] Anatoly Nazarov, Alexander Moiseev, and Bo Bai. Multi-level mmpp as a model of fractal traffic. In Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling: Queueing Theory and Applications: 19th International Conference, ITMM 2020, Named After AF Terpugov, Tomsk, Russia, December 2-5, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, volume 1391, page 61. Springer Nature, 2021. [ bib ]
[ICIT] Anatoly Nazarov, Alexander Moiseev, Ivan Lapatin, Svetlana Paul, Olga Lizyura, Pavel Pristupa, Xi Peng, Li Chen, and Bo Bai. Mathematical model of scheduler with semi-markov input and bandwidth sharing discipline. In 2021 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), pages 494--498. IEEE, 2021. [ bib ]
[ICC] Xi Peng, Fan Zhang, Li Chen, and Gong Zhang. A map-based performance analysis on 5g-powered cloud vr streaming. In ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pages 1--6. IEEE, 2021. [ bib ]
[KDD] Yikai Zhao, Zheng Zhong, Yuanpeng Li, Yi Zhou, Yifan Zhu, Li Chen, Yi Wang, and Tong Yang. Cluster-reduce: Compressing sketches for distributed data streams. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pages 2316--2326, 2021. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Guihua Zhou, Guo Chen, Fusheng Lin, Tingting Xu, Dehui Wei, Jianbing Wu, Li Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Andrew Qu, Hua Shao, et al. Primus: Fast and robust centralized routing for large-scale data center networks. In IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pages 1--10. IEEE, 2021. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Yikai Zhao, Kaicheng Yang, Zirui Liu, Tong Yang, Li Chen, Shiyi Liu, Naiqian Zheng, Ruixin Wang, Hanbo Wu, Yi Wang, et al. Lightguardian: A full-visibility, lightweight, in-band telemetry system using sketchlets. In 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 21), 2021. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Hua Shao, Li Chen, and Youjian Zhao. Unsupervised and network-aware diagnostics for latent issues in network information databases. In IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pages 426--435. IEEE, 2020. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Li Chen, Justinas Lingys, Kai Chen, and Feng Liu. Auto: scaling deep reinforcement learning for datacenter-scale automatic traffic optimization. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, pages 191--205. ACM, 2018. [ bib ]
[CoNEXT] Wei Bai, Kai Chen, Li Chen, Changhoon Kim, and Haitao Wu. Enabling ecn over generic packet scheduling. In Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, pages 191--204. ACM, 2016. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Li Chen, Jiacheng Xia, Bairen Yi, and Kai Chen. Powerman: An out-of-band management network for datacenters using power line communication. In 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 18), pages 561--578. USENIX Association, 2018. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Li Chen, Kai Chen, Joshua Zhu, Minlan Yu, George Porter, Chunming Qiao, and Shan Zhong. Enabling wide-spread communications on optical fabric with megaswitch. In 14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 17). USENIX Association, 2017. [ bib ]
[ICNP] Pascal Poupart, Zhitang Chen, Priyank Jaini, Fred Fung, Hengky Susanto, Yanhui Geng, Li Chen, Kai Chen, and Hao Jin. Online flow size prediction for improved network routing. In 2016 IEEE 24th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pages 1--6. IEEE, 2016. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Hong Zhang, Li Chen, Bairen Yi, Kai Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, and Yanhui Geng. Coda: Toward automatically identifying and scheduling coflows in the dark. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pages 160--173. ACM, 2016. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Li Chen, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, and Mohammad Alizadeh. Scheduling mix-flows in commodity datacenters with karuna. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pages 174--187. ACM, 2016. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, and Haitao Wu. Enabling ecn in multi-service multi-queue data centers. In 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’16), 2016. [ bib ]
[NSDI] Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, and Hao Wang. Information-agnostic flow scheduling for commodity data centers. In 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 15), pages 455--468, 2015. [ bib ]
[ICDCS] Hao Wang, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Ziyang Li, Yiming Zhang, Haibing Guan, Zhengwei Qi, Dongsheng Li, and Yanhui Geng. Flowprophet: Generic and accurate traffic prediction for data-parallel cluster computing. In Distributed Computing Systems, International Conference on (ICDCS2015), 2015. [ bib ]
[IWCMC] Li Chen, Tengyi Zhang, and Danny HK Tsang. Salt: Sensing enabled localization and tracking for geolocation database in tv white space. In Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2013 9th International, pages 712--717. IEEE, 2013. [ bib ]

Journal Publications

[TKDE] Wei Tang, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Huangxun Chen, Li Chen. Cross-graph Embedding with Trainable Proximity for Graph Alignment. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023. [ bib ]
[ToN] Fusheng Lin, Hongyu Wang, Guo Chen, Guihua Zhou, Tingting Xu, Dehui Wei, Li Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Andrew Qu, Hua Shao, et al. Fast, scalable and robust centralized routing for data center networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023. [ bib ]
[ToCC] Fusheng Lin, Xin Zhang, Guo Chen, Li Chen, Kenli Li, Hongbo Jiang. Slim and Fast: Low-Overhead Container Overlay Network With Fast Connection Setup. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2023. [ bib ]
[ToIM] Zhuochen Fan, Yanwei Xu, Peng Liu, Xiaodong Li, Ruwen Zhang, Tong Yang, Wenfei Wu, Yuqing Li, Li Chen, and Gong Zhang. Ssa: Microsecond-level clock synchronization based on machine learning for iot devices. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 72:1--12, 2023. [ bib ]
[JSAC] Chen Chen, Hong Xu, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, and Gong Zhang. Gift: Toward accurate and efficient federated learning with gradient-instructed frequency tuning. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 41(4):902--914, 2023. [ bib ]
[TPDS] Chen Chen, Hong Xu, Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Bo Li, Li Chen, and Gong Zhang. Synchronize only the immature parameters: Communication-efficient federated learning by freezing parameters adaptively. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023. [ bib ]
[电信科学] 谢景昭, 单炜, 肖畅, 马铁, 陈力, 虞红芳, and 孙罡. Klonet: 面向技术创新的网络模拟实验平台. 电信科学, 37(10):66--75, 2021. [ bib ]
[ToN] Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, and Hao Wang. Pias: Practical information-agnostic flow scheduling for commodity data centers. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 25(4):1954--1967, 2017. [ bib ]
[OpEx] Zhonghua Zhu, Shan Zhong, Li Chen, and Kai Chen. Fully programmable and scalable optical switching fabric for petabyte data center. Optics express, 23(3):3563--3580, 2015. [ bib ]

Book Chapters

[Wiley] Li Chen, Justinas Lingys, Kai Chen, and Xudong Liao. Datacenter traffic optimization with deep reinforcement learning. Communication Networks and Service Management in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, pages 223--259, 2021. [ bib ]

Patents

[CN] 易百忍, 陈力, and 陈凯. 一种基于rdma的零拷贝数据流, 2021. CN Patent CN107,480,080 A. [ bib ]
[CN] 陈凯, 张弘, and 陈力. Dispatching method and server based on concurrent, 2019. CN Patent CN106,656,858 B. [ bib ]
[CN] 陈凯, 张弘, and 陈力. Method and server for processing coflow information in rpc communication, 2019. CN Patent CN106,453,112 A. [ bib ]
[CN] 陈凯 and 陈力. The method of adjustment of congestion window, method for controlling network congestion and interchanger in network, 2018. CN Patent CN106,027,407 B. [ bib ]
[CN] 陈凯, 陈力, and 易百忍. hybrid network flow scheduling method and switch, 2019. CN Patent CN106,302,227 B. [ bib ]
[US] Li Chen, Kai Chen, YI Bairen, Kai Zheng, Sayee Kompalli Chakravartula, and Jing Zuo. Method for transmitting data streams, and device, April 11 2019. US Patent App. 16/209,699. [ bib ]

Workshops and Posters

[ANRW] Qin, Lancheng; Liu, Libin; Chen, Li; Li, Dan; Shi, Yuqian; Yang, Hongbing. UniSAV: A Unified Framework for Internet-Scale Source Address Validation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Applied Networking Research Workshop , pages 81--87, 2024. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Yutian Wang, Dan Li, and Li Chen. Seeing the invisible: Auditing ebpf programs in hypervisor with hyperbee. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions, pages 28--34, 2023. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang, and Lu Lu. Netvision: Efficient visualization front-end for packet-level discrete-event network simulation. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, pages 1179--1181, 2023. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Li Chen, Jinkun Geng, Fei Gui, Yang Cheng, and Yue Gu. Predicting traffic demand matrix by considering inter-flow correlations. In IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pages 165--170. IEEE, 2020. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Libin Liu, Li Chen, Hong Xu, and Hua Shao. Automated traffic engineering in sdwan: Beyond reinforcement learning. In IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pages 430--435. IEEE, 2020. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Li Chen and Hua Shao. Network-aware and unsupervised diagnostics for latent issues in network management databases. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Conference Posters and Demos, pages 96--97. ACM, 2019. [ bib ]
[SIGCOMM] Bairen Yi, Jiacheng Xia, Li Chen, and Kai Chen. Towards zero copy dataflows using rdma. In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, pages 28--30. ACM, 2017. [ bib ]
[HotNets] Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, and Weicheng Sun. Pias: Practical information-agnostic flow scheduling for data center networks. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, page 25. ACM, 2014. [ bib ]
[HotCloud] Li Chen and Kai Chen. Bitbill: Scalable, robust, verifiable peer-to-peer billing for cloud computing. In HotCloud'14 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, pages 20--20, 2014. [ bib ]
[HotNets] Li Chen, Shuihai Hu, Kai Chen, Haitao Wu, and Danny HK Tsang. Towards minimal-delay deadline-driven data center tcp. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, pages 1--7, 2013. [ bib ]
[INFOCOM] Xiangxia Sun, Li Chen, and Danny HK Tsang. Energy-efficient cooperative sensing scheduling for heterogeneous channel access in cognitive radio. In 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM Workshops, pages 145--150. IEEE, 2012. [ bib ]

Preprints

[arXiv] Bai, Yu; Miao, Yukai; Chen, Li; Li, Dan; Ren, Yanyu; Xie, Hongtao; Yang, Ce; Cai, Xuhui. Pistis-RAG: A Scalable Cascading Framework Towards Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00072, 2024. [ bib ]
[arXiv] Yukai Miao, Yu Bai, Li Chen, Dan Li, Haifeng Sun, Xizheng Wang, Ziqiu Luo, Dapeng Sun, and Xiuting Xu. An empirical study of netops capability of pre-trained large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05557, 2023. [ bib ]
[arXiv] Jin Guang, Guiyu Hong, Xinyun Chen, Xi Peng, Li Chen, Bo Bai, and Gong Zhang. Tail quantile estimation for non-preemptive priority queues. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03760, 2022. [ bib ]
[arXiv] Ge Chen, Gaoxiong Zeng, Li Chen, Kai Chen. P4COM: In-Network Computation with Programmable Switches. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13694, 2018. [ bib ]
[arXiv] Li Chen, Ge Chen, Justinas Lingys, and Kai Chen. Programmable switch as a parallel computing device. arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01491, 2018. [ bib ]

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