Francis Y. Yan

Publications

Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering format_quote

Zhiying Xu, Francis Y. Yan, Rachee Singh, Justin T. Chiu, Alexander M. Rush, Minlan Yu

To appear at SIGCOMM, September 2023

Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot format_quote

Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, Aditya Akella

To appear at SIGCOMM, September 2023

Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices format_quote

Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Feng Wu, Francis Y. Yan

arXiv:2212.12180 (preprint), May 2023

Mitigating Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems with Offline Reinforcement Learning format_quote

Yueying Li, Daochen Zha, Tianjun Zhang, G. Edward Suh, Christina Delimitrou, Francis Y. Yan

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Tiny Papers Track, May 2023

Tambur: Efficient loss recovery for videoconferencing via streaming codes format_quote

Michael Rudow, Francis Y. Yan, Abhishek Kumar, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Martin Ellis, K.V. Rashmi

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2023

Genet: Automatic Curriculum Generation for Learning Adaptation in Networking format_quote

Zhengxu Xia*, Yajie Zhou*, Francis Y. Yan, Junchen Jiang (*equal contribution)

Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), August 2022

OpenNetLab: Open Platform for RL-based Congestion Control for Real-Time Communications format_quote

Jeongyoon Eo, Zhixiong Niu, Wenxue Cheng, Francis Y. Yan, Rui Gao, Jorina Kardhashi, Scott Inglis, Michael Revow, Byung-Gon Chun, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong

Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet), July 2022

emoji_events Best Paper Award

Implementing BOLA-BASIC on Puffer: Lessons for the use of SSIM in ABR logic format_quote

Emily Marx, Francis Y. Yan, Keith Winstein

arXiv:2011.09611 (preprint), November 2020

Practical Machine Learning for Sequential Decision Problems on the Internet format_quote

Francis Y. Yan

Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, June 2020

Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming format_quote

Francis Y. Yan, Hudson Ayers, Chenzhi Zhu, Sadjad Fouladi, James Hong, Keyi Zhang, Philip Levis, Keith Winstein

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), February 2020

emoji_events USENIX NSDI Community Award

emoji_events IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize

Pantheon: the training ground for Internet congestion-control research format_quote

Francis Y. Yan, Jestin Ma, Greg D. Hill, Deepti Raghavan, Riad S. Wahby, Philip Levis, Keith Winstein

USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), July 2018

emoji_events USENIX ATC Best Paper Award

Optimizing Power Consumption of Mobile Games format_quote

Francis Y. Yan, Songtao He, Yunxin Liu, Longbo Huang

Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), October 2015

Speedup of Information Exchange using Multiple Channels in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks format_quote

Dongxiao Yu, Yuexuan Wang, Francis Y. Yan, Jiguo Yu, Francis C.M. Lau

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2015

Bounded information dissemination in multi-channel wireless networks format_quote

Francis Y. Yan, Dongxiao Yu, Yuexuan Wang, Jiguo Yu, Francis C.M. Lau

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, October 2014

Patents

Loss Recovery Using Streaming Codes in Forward Error Correction
Filed with Michael Rudow, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, and Martin Ellis in September 2021
Granted as US11489620B1 in November 2022
Media Server Management for Communication Session
Filed with Landon Cox in June 2021
Granted as US11601478B2 in March 2023
Data Stream Prioritization for Communication Session
Filed with Landon Cox and Shadi Noghabi in June 2021
Data Streaming Protocols in Edge Computing
Filed with Ganesh Ananthanarayanan and Yuanchao Shu in June 2021
Wireless Parameter Limits for Predicted vRAN Resource Loads
Filed with Anuj Kalia, Sanjeev Mehrotra, and Victor Bahl in May 2022
Determining Reference Signal Transmission Times
Filed with Neil Agarwal, Manikanta Kotaru, and Victor Bahl in May 2022
Automatically Detecting Anomalies in Complex Configurations
Filed with Ryan Beckett and Siva Kakarla in May 2023
Bi-Level Machine-Learning-Assisted Management of Computing Resources
Filed with Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, and Mike Liang in May 2023
Power Control for Energy-Efficient 5G vRAN
Filed with Anuj Kalia, Xenofon Foukas, and Bozidar Radunovic in May 2023
CPU Power Management for Virtualized Radio Access Networks
Filed with Anuj Kalia, Xenofon Foukas, and Bozidar Radunovic in May 2023
Artificial Intelligence for Intent-Based Networking
Filed with Ryan Beckett and Victor Bahl in June 2023