Research

My research interests include serverless, hybrid cloud, FPGA for acceleration, container networks, online algorithms, and queueing theory.

Publications

Yipei Niu, Panpan Jin, Jian Guo, Yikai Xiao, Rong Shi, Fangming Liu, Chen Qian, and Yang Wang, "PostMan: Rapidly Mitigating Bursty Traffic via On-demand Offloading of Packet Processing", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 33, Issue 2, pp 374-387, Feb 2022. (paper)
Xiuxiu Wang, Yipei Niu, Fangming Liu, and Zichen Xu, "When FPGA Meets Cloud: A First Look at Performance", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020. (preprint)
Fangming Liu, Bin Luo, Yipei Niu, "Cost-Effective Service Provisioning for Hybrid Cloud Applications", ACM/Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Volume 22, Issue 2, pp 153–160, Apr 2017. (paper)

Panpan Jin, Jian Guo, Yikai Xiao, Rong Shi, Yipei Niu, Fangming Liu, Chen Qian, and Yang Wang, "PostMan: Rapidly Mitigating Bursty Traffic by Offloading Packet Processing", in Proc. of USENIX ATC, Renton, WA, USA, July, 2019. (paper) (slides) (lightning talk)
Yipei Niu, Fangming Liu, Zongpeng Li, "Load Balancing across Microservices", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April, 2018. (paper) (slides)
Yipei Niu, Fangming Liu, Xincai Fei, Bo Li, "Handling Flash Deals with Soft Guarantee in Hybrid Cloud", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May, 2017. (paper) (slides)
Yipei Niu, Bin Luo, Fangming Liu, Jiangchuan Liu, Bo Li, "When Hybrid Cloud Meets Flash Crowd: Towards Cost-Effective Service Provisioning", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, China, April, 2015. (paper) (slides)
Bin Luo, Yipei Niu, Fangming Liu, "Cost-effective service provisioning for hybrid cloud applications", in Proc. of EAI CollaborateCom, Wuhan, China, November, 2015. (paper)

Tricircle: An OpenStack big-tent project for networking automation across Neutron. (Homepage) (Source code) (Statistics)