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Publications

    2012

  1. VCRIB: Virtualized rule management in the cloud
    Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Abhishek Sharma, Ramesh Govindan
    the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud).
    Boston, MA, June 2012.
    [
    paper ]
  2. NOSIX: A portable switch interface for the network operating system
    Andreas Wundsam, Minlan Yu
    poster in 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementations (NSDI poster).
    San Jose, CA, April 2012.
    [ abstract ] [ poster ]
  3. Latency equalization as a new network service primitive
    Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan, Li Li
    IEEE/ACM Trasactions on Networking (TON).
    Vol. 20, No. 1, Feb 2012.
    [ paper ]
  4. 2011

  5. Scalable management of enterprise and data-center networks
    Minlan Yu
    Ph.D. Thesis (ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award) .
    August 2011.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  6. Identifying performance bottlenecks in CDNs through TCP-level monitoring
    Peng Sun, Minlan Yu, Michael J. Freedman, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST).
    Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2011.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  7. A Survey of virtual LAN usage in campus networks
    Minlan Yu, Xin Sun, Nick Feamster, Sanjay Rao, Jennifer Rexford
    Network & Service Management Series, IEEE Communications Magazine.
    July 2011.
    [ paper ] [ survey ]
  8. Online measurement of large traffic aggregates on commodity switches
    Lavanya Jose, Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford
    Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE).
    Boston, MA, March 2011.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  9. Profiling network performance for multi-tier data center applications
    Minlan Yu, Albert Greenberg, Dave Maltz, Jennifer Rexford, Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim
    8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
    Boston, MA, March 2011.
    [ paper ] [ slides ] [ video ]
  10. 2010

  11. CloudPolice: Taking access control out of the network
    Lucian Popa, Minlan Yu, Steven Y. Ko, Ion Stoica, Sylvia Ratnasamy
    9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-IX).
    Monterey, CA, October 2010.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  12. Scalable flow-based networking with DIFANE
    Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Michael J. Freedman, Jia Wang
    ACM SIGCOMM.
    New Delhi, India, August 2010.
    [ paper ] [ slides ] [ full tech report ]
  13. 2009

  14. BUFFALO: Bloom filter forwarding architecture for large organizations
    Minlan Yu, Alex Fabrikant, Jennifer Rexford
    5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT).
    Rome, Italy, December 2009.
    [ paper ] [ slides ] [ full tech report ]
  15. Virtually Eliminating Router Bugs
    Eric Keller*, Minlan Yu*, Matthew Caesar, Jennifer Rexford
    5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT).
    Rome, Italy, December 2009.
    Also presented at NANOG 46, Philadelphia, PA, June 2009.
    * indicates indicates alphabetical order
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  16. Hash, don't cache: Fast packet forwarding for enterprise edge routers
    Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop: Research on Enterprise Networking (WREN).
    Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  17. Fast packet forwarding on commodity platforms
    Minlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford
    poster in 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementations (NSDI poster).
    Boston, MA, April 2009.
    [ abstract ] [ poster ]
  18. 2008

  19. Latency equalization: A programmable routing service primitive
    Minlan Yu, Marina Thottan, Li Li
    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow (PRESTO).
    Seattle, WA, August 2008.
    [ paper ] [ slides ]
  20. Rethinking virtual network embedding: Substrate support for path splitting and migration
    Minlan Yu, Yung Yi, Jennifer Rexford, Mung Chiang
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.
    April 2008.
    [ paper ]

Work

Intern for Microsoft Research and Bing Group, Redmond, WA, Summer 2010
Intern for AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, Summer 2008
Intern for Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, Summer 2007
Teaching Assistant (Preceptor) for COS126 General Computer Science, Spring 2008
Teaching Assistant for COS109 Computers in Our World, Fall 2007


Software Release

- DIFANE prototype [Download]
- BUFFALO switch prototype [ Download ]
- Virtual Network Embedding Simulator for CCR08 paper [ Download (Updated on 05/07/2010)]
- dedup (next-generation compression with data deduplication): Benchmark program for Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC) benchmark suite (Download)
- Distributed packet monitoring tool (website)


Professional Activities

Program Committee:
2012 PAM, COMSNET


Minlan Yu
I am a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley. I will join
USC as an assistant professor in Fall 2012. I am interested in solving real-world networking and distributed systems problems using efficient algorithms and data structures.
I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in August 2011, advised by Jennifer Rexford. My thesis research focuses on enterprise and data center networks, by leveraging emerging techniques such as network virtualization and software-defined networking.

Contact

E-mail: minlanyu (at) usc (dot) edu
Address:
420 Soda Hall, Computer Science Division
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1776
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