Publications [Google Scholar]

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• Nomad: Non-Exclusive Memory Tiering via Transactional Page Migration
  Lingfeng Xiang, Zhen Lin, Weishu Deng, Hui Lu, Jia Rao, Yifan Yuan, Ren Wang
  In Proc. of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI' 24), Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 10-12, 2024. (49/282 = 17.4%)
  


• PVM: Efficient Shadow Paging for Deploying Secure Containers in Cloud-native Environment
  Hang Huang, Jiangshan Lai, Jia Rao, Hui Lu, Wenlong Hou, Hang Su, Quan Xu, Jiang Zhong, Jiahao Zeng, Xu Wang, Zhengyu He, Weidong Han, Jiang Liu, Tao Ma, Song Wu
  In Proc. of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles(SOSP' 23), Koblenz, Germany, Oct. 2023. (43/229 = 18.7%)
  


• When Caching Systems Meet Emerging Storage Devices: A Case Study
  Zhen Lin, Lianjie Cao, Faraz Ahmed, Hui Lu, Puneet Sharma
  In Proc. of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems(HotStorage' 23), Boston, MA, July 2023. (17/43 = 39.5%)
  


• P2CACHE: Exploring Tiered Memory for In-Kernel File Systems Caching
  Zhen Lin, Lingfeng Xiang, Jia Rao and Hui Lu
  In Proc. of the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC' 23), Boston, MA, July 2023. (65/353 = 18.4%)
  


• mFlow: Accelerating Packet Processing in Container Overlay Networks via Packet-level Parallelism
  Jiaxin Lei, Manish Munikar, Hui Lu and Jia Rao
  In Proc. of 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS' 23), St. Petersburg, Florida, May 2023. (95/369 = 25.7%)
  


• PRISM: Streamlined Packet Processing for Containers with Flow Prioritization
  Manish Munikar, Jiaxin Lei, Hui Lu and Jia Rao
  In Proc. of 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS' 22), Bologna, Italy, July 2022. (114/573 = 19.9%)
  


• FlashCube: Fast Provisioning of Serverless Functions with Streamlined Container Runtimes
  Zhen Lin, Kao-Feng Hsieh, Yu Sun, Seunghee Shin, Hui Lu
  In Proc. of the 11th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS' 21), online, October 2021.


• Parallelizing Packet Processing in Container Overlay Networks
  Jiaxin Lei*, Manish Munikar*, Kun Suo*, Hui Lu, Jia Rao (*equal contribution)
  In Proc. of 16th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys' 21), online, April 2021. (38/191 = 19.9%)
  


• BAOVERLAY: A Block-Accessible Overlay File System for Fast and Efficient Container Storage
  Yu Sun, Jiaxin Lei, Seunghee Shin, Hui Lu
  In Proc. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2020 (SoCC' 20), Virutal Event, 2020. (35/143 = 24%)
  


• FedMax: Enabling a Highly-Efficient Federated Learning Framework
  Haohang Xu, Jin Li, Hongkai Xiong, Hui Lu
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference for Cloud Computing (Cloud' 20), Beijing, China, 2020. (53/256 = 20.7%)
  


• PLASMA: Programmable Elasticity for Stateful Cloud Computing Applications
  Bo Sang, Pierre-Louis Roman, Patrick Eugster, Hui Lu, Srivatsan Ravi, Gustavo Petri
  In Proc. 15th European Conference on Computer Systems, (EuroSys' 20), Heraklion, Greece, online, 2020. (43/234 = 18.4%)
  


• SDN-based Order-aware Live Migration of Virtual Machines
  Dinuni Fernando, Ping Yang, Hui Lu
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM' 20), Beingjing, China online, 2020. (268/1354 = 19.8%)
  


• Tackling Parallelization Challenges of Kernel Network Stack for Container Overlay Networks
  Jiaxin Lei, Kun Suo, Hui Lu, Jia Rao
  In Proc. 11th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud' 19), Renton, WA, 2019. (22/59 = 37.3%)
  


• Exploring Potential for Non-Disruptive Vertical Auto Scaling and Resource Estimation in Kubernetes
  Gourav Rattihalli, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Hui Lu, Devesh Tiwari
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference for Cloud Computing (Cloud' 19), Milan, Italy, 2019. (Invited)
  


• ShadeNF: Testing Online Network Functions
  Hui Lu, Abhinav Srivastava, Yu Sun
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E' 19), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019. (Accepted unconditionally, 26%)
  


• mWarp: Accelerating Intra-Host Live Container Migration via Memory Warping,
  Piush Kumar Sinha, Spoorti Doddamani, Hui Lu, Kartik Gopalan
  In Proc. 2019 IEEE INFOCOM WorkShops: Big Data and Cloud Performance Workshop (DCPerf' 19), Paris, France, 2019. (Invited)
  


• Fast and Live Hypervisor Replacement
  Spoorti Doddamani, Piush Sinha, Hui Lu, Tsu-Hsiang K Cheng, Hardik H Bagdi, Kartik Gopalani
  In Proc. 15th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE' 19), Providence, Rhode Island, 2019.
  


• Poster:ShadeNF: A Platform for Online Network Function Verification,
  Yu Sun, Hui Lu, Abhinav Srivastava, Cong Xu
  In Proc. 9th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC' 18, poster), Carlsbad, CA, 2018.
  


• Thesis: Rethinking Cloud Storage System Software under Multi-Tenancy,
  Hui Lu
  Purdue University, 2017.
  


• BASS: Improving I/O Performance for Cloud Block Storage via Byte-Addressable Storage Stack
  Hui Lu, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Cong Xu, Umesh Bellur, Dongyan Xu
  In Proc. 7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC' 16), Santa Clara, CA, 2016. (25%)
  


• StorM: Enabling Tenant-Defined Cloud Storage Middle-Box Services
  Hui Lu, Abhinav Srivastava, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Dongyan Xu
  In Proc. 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN' 16), Toulouse, France, 2016. (22.3%)
  


• vFair: Latency-Aware Fair Storage Scheduling via Per-IO Cost-Based Differentiation
  Hui Lu, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Ramana Kompella, Dongyan Xu
  In Proc. 6th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC' 15), Kohala Coast, HI, 2015. (21.6%)
  


• vHaul: Towards Optimal Scheduling of Live Multi-VM Migration for Multi-tier Applications
  Hui Lu, Cong Xu, Cheng Cheng, Ramana Kompella, Dongyan Xu
  In Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (Cloud' 15), New York, NY, 2015. (14%)
  


• Hybnet: Network manager for a hybrid network infrastructure
  Hui Lu, Nipun Arora, Hui Zhang, Cristian Lumezanu, Junghwan Rhee, Guofei Jiang
  In Proc. 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware' 13, Industry Track), Beijing, China, 2013. (22.7%)
  


• vTurbo: Accelerating Virtual Machine I/O Processing Using Designated Turbo-Sliced Core
  Cong Xu, Sahan Gamage, Hui Lu, Ramana Kompella, Dongyan Xu
  In Proc. of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC' 13), San Jose, CA, 2013. (14.2%)
  


• Virtualization challenges: a view from server consolidation perspective
  Hui Lu, Yaozu Dong, Jiangang Duan, Kevin Tian
  In Proc. 8th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS conference on Virtual Execution Environments(VEE' 12), London, UK, 2012. (37.7%)
  


• Tackling the challenges of server consolidation on multi-core systems
  Hui Lu, Xudong Zheng, Zhiteng Huang, Jiangang Duan
  In Proc. 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC' 10), Atlanta, GA, 2010. (37.5%)
  


• Subgraphs matching-based side information generation for distributed multiview video coding
  Hongkai Xiong, Hui Lu, Yongsheng Zhang, Li Song, Zhihai He, Tsuhan Chen
  In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2010
  


• Graph matching based side information generation for distributed multi-view video coding
  Hui Lu, Hongkai Xiong, Li Song, Zhihai He, Tsuhan Chen
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC' 09), Dresden, Germany, 2009.
  


• Side information generation with constrained relaxation for distributed multi-view video coding
  Hui Lu, Hongkai Xiong, Yongsheng Zhang, Zhihai He
  In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System (ISCAS' 08), Seattle, WA, 2008.
  


• A Source-Driven Error Recovery Scheme using Wyner-Ziv Coding
  Yongsheng Zhang, Hongkai Xiong, Songu Yu, Hui Lu
  In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference Multimedia and Expo (ICME' 07), Beijing, China, 2007.