Papers

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Books

  1. Zili Meng, Mingwei Xu.
    Latency Optimization in Interactive Multimedia Streaming,
    Springer. ISBN 978-981-97-6728-1, 2024.

2025

  1. Xiangjie Huang, Jiayang Xu, Haiping Wang, Hebin Yu, Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana, Shu Shi, Zili Meng,
    ACE: Sending Burstiness Control for High-Quality Real-time Communication,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2025, Coimbra, Portugal.

  2. Congkai An, Huanhuan Zhang, Shibo Wang, Jingyang Kang, Anfu Zhou, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma, Zili Meng, Delei Ma, Yusheng Dong, Xiaogang Lei,
    Tooth: Toward Optimal Balance of Video QoE and Redundancy Cost by Fine-Grained FEC in Cloud Gaming Streaming,
    USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (paper)

  3. Guanglin Duan, Yucheng Huang, Zhengxin Zhang, Qing Li, Dan Zhao, Zili Meng, Dirk Kutscher, Ruoyu Li, Yong Jiang, Mingwei Xu,
    Learning-Enhanced High-Throughput Pattern Matching Based on Programmable Data Plane,
    USENIX ATC 2025, Boston, MA, USA.

  4. Yixuan Zhang, Zili Meng, Enhuan Dong, Yan Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu,
    Active Management of Jammed Packets in Wireless Real-Time Communications,
    ACM NOSSDAV 2025, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2024

  1. Zili Meng, Xiao Kong, Jing Chen, Bo Wang, Mingwei Xu, Rui Han, Honghao Liu, Venkat Arun, Hongxin Hu, Xue Wei,
    Hairpin: Rethinking Packet Loss Recovery in Edge-based Interactive Video Streaming,
    USENIX NSDI 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA. (paper)(video) hairpin
    Top 1% Cited Paper (SciVal)

  2. Adithya Abraham Philip, Rukshani Athapathu, Ranysha Ware, Fabian Francis Mkocheko, Alexis Schlomer, Mengrou Shou, Zili Meng, Srinivasan Seshan, Justine Sherry,
    Prudentia: Findings of an Internet Fairness Watchdog,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2024, Sydney, Australia. (paper)(website)

  3. Ziwen Ye, Qing Li, Chunyu Qiao, Xiaoteng Ma, Yong Jiang, Qian Ma, Shengbin Meng, Zhenhui Yuan, Zili Meng,
    KEPC-Push: A Knowledge-Enhanced Proactive Content Push Strategy for Edge-Assisted Video Feed Streaming,
    USENIX ATC 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA. (paper)

  4. Jia Zhang, Haixuan Tong, Enhuan Dong, Xin Qian, Mingwei Xu, Xiaotian Li, Zili Meng,
    Cold Start or Hot Start? Robust Slow Start in Congestion Control with A Priori Knowledge for Mobile Web Services,
    WWW 2024, Singapore. (paper)

  5. Jing Chen, Bo Wang, Zhiyuan Xu, Yan Zhang, Minhu Wang, Mingwei Xu, Zili Meng,
    Bidirectional Bandwidth Coordination under Half-Duplex Bottlenecks for Video Streaming,
    IEEE ICNP 2024, Charleroi, Belgium. (paper)

  6. Bo Wang, Xingxing Yang, Zili Meng, Yaning Guo, Chen Sun, Justine Sherry, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu,
    Zhuge: Towards Consistent Low Latency with Minimal Control Loop Delay,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024.

  7. Jiang Li, Jiahao Cao, Zili Meng, Renjie Xie, Qi Li, Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu,
    RoLL+: Real-time and Accurate Route Leak Locating with AS Triplet Features at Scale,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024.

  8. Jiaye Zhang, Zili Meng, Mingwei Xu,
    Beimin: Serverless-based Adaptive Real-Time Video Processing,
    IEEE ICME 2024, Niagara Falls, Canada.

  9. Yaning Guo, Zili Meng, Bo Wang, Mingwei Xu,
    Inferring In-Network Queue Management from End Hosts in Real-Time Communications,
    IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA. (paper)

  10. Wei Li, Zili Meng,
    Content-aware Retransmission for Ultra-low-latency Video Streaming,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2024 (poster paper), Sydney, Australia. (paper)

  11. Hyun Hu Park, Zili Meng,
    Controlling TCP Socket Queueing Delay,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2024 (poster paper), Sydney, Australia. (paper)
    SIGCOMM’24 Student Research Competition Winner (The 1st place)

  12. Alexis Schlomer, Adithya Abraham Philip, Justine Sherry, Zili Meng,
    User-Controllable Congestion Mitigation for Low-Latency Applications,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2024 (poster paper), Sydney, Australia. (paper)

2023

  1. Zili Meng, Tingfeng Wang, Yixin Shen, Bo Wang, Mingwei Xu, Rui Han, Honghao Liu, Venkat Arun, Hongxin Hu, Xue Wei,
    Enabling High Quality Real-Time Communications with Adaptive Frame-Rate,
    USENIX NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, USA. (paper)(website)(video) afr
    Top 1% Cited Paper (SciVal)

  2. Jia Zhang, Yixuan Zhang, Enhuan Dong, Yan Zhang, Shaorui Ren, Zili Meng, Mingwei Xu, Xiaotian Li, Zongzhi Hou, Zhicheng Yang, Xiaoming Fu,
    Bridging the Gap between QoE and QoS in Congestion Control: A Large-scale Mobile Web Service Perspective,
    USENIX ATC 2023, Boston, MA, USA. (paper)

  3. Jia Zhang, Shaorui Ren, Enhuan Dong, Zili Meng, Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu, Sijie Yang, Miao Zhang, Yang Yue,
    Reducing Mobile Web Latency through Adaptively Selecting Transport Protocol,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2023. (paper) wisetrans

  4. Jiang Li, Jiahao Cao, Yuan Yang, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Yangyang Wang, Zili Meng, Renjie Xie, Mingwei Xu,
    DeBGP: Decentralized and Efficient BGP Hijacking Prevention System,
    IEEE ICCCN 2023, Honolulu, HI, USA. (paper)

  5. Jiang Li, Jiahao Cao, Zili Meng, Renjie Xie, Mingwei Xu,
    RoLL: Real-time and Accurate Route Leak Location with AS Triplet Features,
    IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy. (paper)

2022

  1. Zili Meng, Yaning Guo, Chen Sun, Bo Wang, Justine Sherry, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Mingwei Xu,
    Achieving Consistent Low Latency for Wireless Real-Time Communications with the Shortest Control Loop,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (paper)(slides)(video) zhuge
    Top 1% Cited Paper (SciVal)

  2. Congcong Miao, Minggang Chen, Arpit Gupta, Zili Meng, Lianjin Ye, Jingyu Xiao, Jie Chen, Zekun He, Xulong Luo, Jilong Wang, Heng Yu,
    Detecting Ephemeral Optical Events with OpTel,
    USENIX NSDI 2022 (experience track), Renton, WA, USA. (paper)(slides)(video)

  3. Xiang Chen, Dong Zhang, Qun Huang, Zili Meng, Hongyan Liu, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Qiang Yang,
    Automatic Performance-Optimal Offloading of Network Functions on Programmable Switches,
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2022. (paper)

2021

  1. Jia Zhang, Enhuan Dong, Zili Meng, Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu, Sijie Yang, Miao Zhang, Yang Yue,
    WiseTrans: Adaptive Transport Protocol Selection for Mobile Web Service,
    WWW 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (paper)(video) wisetrans

  2. Zili Meng, Yaning Guo, Yixin Shen, Jing Chen, Chao Zhou, Minhu Wang, Jia Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Chen Sun, Hongxin Hu,
    Practically Deploying Heavyweight Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms With Teacher-Student Learning,
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 29, No. 2, 2021. (paper)(website) pitree pitree-dataset

  3. Jing Chen, Zili Meng, Yaning Guo, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu,
    HierTopo: Towards High-Performance and Efficient Topology Optimization for Dynamic Networks,
    IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021, Tokyo, Japan. (paper)(slides) HierTopo

  4. Xiang Chen, Qun Huang, Peiqiao Wang, Zili Meng, Hongyan Liu, Yuxin Chen, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Boyang Zhou, Chunming Wu,
    LightNF: Simplifying Network Function Offloading in Programmable Networks,
    IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021, Tokyo, Japan. (paper)
    Best Paper Award!

  5. Tingfeng Wang, Zili Meng, Mingwei Xu, Rui Han, Honghao Liu,
    Enabling High Frame-rate UHD Real-time Communication with Frame-Skipping,
    ACM MobiCom 2021 HotEdgeVideo Workshop, New Orleans, LA, USA. (paper) Frame-Skipping-simulator

  6. Yixin Shen, Zili Meng, Jing Chen, Mingwei Xu,
    Quantifying the Transient Performance of Congestion Control Algorithms,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2021 (poster paper), Virtual Event. (paper) TPCCA

2020

  1. Zili Meng, Minhu Wang, Jiasong Bai, Mingwei Xu, Hongzi Mao, Hongxin Hu,
    Interpreting Deep Learning-Based Networking Systems,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2020, New York, NY, USA. (paper)(website)(video)(slides) metis
    Top 1% Cited Paper (SciVal)

  2. Shuhe Wang, Chen Sun, Zili Meng, Minhu Wang, Jiamin Cao, Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi, Qun Huang, Masoud Moshref, Tong Yang, Hongxin Hu, Gong Zhang,
    Martini: Bridging the Gap between Network Measurement and Control Using Switching ASICs,
    IEEE ICNP 2020, Madrid, Spain. (paper)(slides)(video)

  3. Shuhe Wang, Zili Meng, Chen Sun, Minhu Wang, Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi, Tong Yang, Qun Huang, Hongxin Hu,
    SmartChain: Enabling High-Performance Service Chain Partition between SmartNIC and CPU,
    IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland. (paper)(video)
    Best Paper Award!

2019

  1. Hongzi Mao, Malte Schwarzkopf, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Zili Meng, Mohammad Alizadeh,
    Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2019, Beijing, China. (paper)(website)(slides)(poster) decima-sim
    Top 1% Cited Paper (SciVal)

  2. Zili Meng, Jing Chen, Yaning Guo, Chen Sun, Hongxin Hu, Mingwei Xu,
    PiTree: Practical Implementation of ABR Algorithms Using Decision Trees,
    ACM MM 2019, Nice, France. (paper)(website)(slides)(poster) pitree pitree-dataset
    Oral Paper (88/936=9.4%)

  3. Zili Meng, Jun Bi, Haiping Wang, Chen Sun, Hongxin Hu,
    MicroNF: An Efficient Framework for Enabling Modularized Service Chains in NFV,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 37, No. 8, 2019. (paper)

2018 and earlier

  1. Zili Meng, Jun Bi, Chen Sun, Shuhe Wang, Minhu Wang, Hongxin Hu,
    PAM: When Overloaded, Push Your Neighbor Aside!,
    ACM SIGCOMM 2018 (poster paper), Budapest, Hungary. (paper)(poster)(slides)
    SIGCOMM’18 Student Research Competition Winner (The 1st place)

  2. Chen Sun, Jun Bi, Zili Meng, Tong Yang, Xiao Zhang, Hongxin Hu,
    Enabling NFV Elasticity Control with Optimized Flow Migration,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 36, No. 10, 2018. (paper) ofm

  3. Chen Sun, Jun Bi, Zili Meng, Xiao Zhang, Hongxin Hu,
    OFM: Optimized Flow Migration for NFV Elasticity Control,
    IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2018, Banff, Canada. (paper) ofm

  4. Zili Meng, Jun Bi, Haiping Wang, Chen Sun, Hongxin Hu,
    CoCo: Compact and Optimized Consolidation of Modularized Service Function Chains in NFV,
    IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA. (paper)(slides)

  5. Zhilong Zheng, Jun Bi, Chen Sun, Heng Yu, Hongxin Hu, Zili Meng, Shuhe Wang, Kai Gao, Jianping Wu,
    GEN: A GPU-Accelerated Elastic Framework for NFV,
    APNet 2018, Beijing, China. (paper)(slides)

Patents

  1. 阮召崧, 孟子立, 黄羽丰. 调度方法、装置、介质及电子设备. ZL202111070148.9 (已授权).

  2. 徐明伟, 孟子立, 王敏虎, 白家松. 一种基于深度学习的全局视野网络系统的解释方法. ZL202010532906.3 (已授权).

  3. 徐明伟, 张佳, 董恩焕, 孟子立, 杨芫. 针对移动Web服务的自适应传输协议选择方法和装置. ZL202011444788.7 (已授权).

  4. 徐明伟, 孟子立, 陈婧, 郭雅宁, 孙晨. 一种视频播放方法、视频播放器及计算机存储介质. ZL201910871317.5 (已授权).

Preprints

  1. Yuxi Zhu, Zili Meng, Yixin Shen, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu,
    Robustifying Measurement-Based Congestion Control Algorithms,
    arXiv:2308.03350, 2023. (paper)

Thesis

  1. Latency Optimization in Real-Time Multimedia Streaming (In Chinese)
    (实时多媒体传输延迟优化)
    Ph.D. @ Computer Network, Tsinghua University, 2023. Advisor: Prof. Mingwei Xu. (paper)(English translation)

  1. On the Practicality and Interpretability of Learning-based Networked Systems (In Chinese)
    (智能网络系统的实用性与可解释性研究)
    B.Eng. @ Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2019. Advisor: Prof. Jun Bi. (paper)(slides)