LLM-ABR: Designing Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms via Large Language Models format_quote

Zhiyuan He, Aashish Gottipati, Lili Qiu, Francis Y. Yan, Xufang Luo, Kenuo Xu, Yuqing Yang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01617, April 2024

Diffy: Data-Driven Bug Finding for Configurations format_quote

Siva Kakarla, Francis Y. Yan, Ryan Beckett

To appear in ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2024

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

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2024

emoji_events Outstanding Paper Award

Grace: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video through Neural Codecs format_quote

Yihua Cheng, Ziyi Zhang, Hanchen Li, Anton Arapin, Yue Zhang, Qizheng Zhang, Yuhan Liu, Xu Zhang, Francis Y. Yan, Amrita Mazumdar, Nick Feamster, Junchen Jiang

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2024

Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers format_quote

Anuj Kalia, Nikita Lazarev, Leyang Xue, Xenofon Foukas, Bozidar Radunovic, Francis Y. Yan

Revise and Resubmit at USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2024

ACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge format_quote

Sami Khairy, Gabriel Mittag, Vishak Gopal, Francis Y. Yan, Zhixiong Niu, Ezra Ameri, Scott Inglis, Mehrsa Golestaneh, Ross Cutler

To appear in ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), April 2024

Octopus: In-Network Content Adaptation to Control Congestion on 5G Links format_quote

Yongzhou Chen, Ammar Tahir, Francis Y. Yan, Radhika Mittal

In ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), December 2023

Accelerating Open RAN Research Through an Enterprise-scale 5G Testbed format_quote

Paramvir (Victor) Bahl, Matthew Balkwill, Xenofon Foukas, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Manikanta Kotaru, Zhihua Lai, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Bozidar Radunovic, Stefan Saroiu, Connor Settle, Ankit Verma, Alec Wolman, Francis Y. Yan, Yongguang Zhang
(*authors in alphabetical order)

Short paper in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), October 2023

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

Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (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

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

Short paper in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 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 preprint arXiv:2011.09611, 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

Proceedings of the Workshop on 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