Publications

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2024

• Anvaya B. Narappa, Federico Parola, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Z-stack: A High-performance DPDK-based Zero-copy TCP/IP Protocol Stack
  The 30th IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2024)
  📄paper 📙slides ⚙️code

• Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen,
  L26GC: Evolving the Low Latency Core for Future Cellular Networks
  IEEE Internet Computing, 2024
  📄paper

• Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Myungjin Lee,
  LIFL: A Lightweight, Event-driven Serverless Platform for Federated Learning
  Seventh Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys 2024)
  📄paper 📙slides ⚙️code

• Shixiong Qi, Leslie Monis, Ziteng Zeng, Ian-chin Wang, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  SPRIGHT: High-performance eBPF-based Event-driven, Shared-memory Processing for Serverless Computing
  IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, 2024
  📄paper ⚙️code

2023

• Yu-Sheng Liu, Shixiong Qi, Po-Yi Lin, Han-Sing Tsai, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen
  L25GC+: An Improved, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core for Low-latency Control Plane Operations
  The 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2023)
  📄paper 📙slides ⚙️code

• Shixiong Qi, Han-Sing Tsai, Yu-Sheng Liu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen
  X-IO: A High-performance Unified I/O Interface using Lock-free Shared Memory Processing
  The 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2023)
  📄paper 📙slides ⚙️code

• Shixiong Qi, Ziteng Zeng, Leslie Monis, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  MiddleNet: A Unified, High-Performance NFV and Middlebox Framework with eBPF and DPDK
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023
  📄paper

2022

• Shixiong Qi, Leslie Monis, Ziteng Zeng, Ian-chin Wang, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  SPRIGHT: Extracting the Server from Serverless Computing! High-Performance eBPF-based Event-driven, Shared-Memory Processing
  Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ‘22).
  📙slides ⚙️code

• Vivek Jain, Hao-Tse Chu, Shixiong Qi, Chia-An Lee, Hung-Cheng Chang, Cheng-Ying Hsieh, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen,
  L25GC: A Low Latency 5G Core Network based on High-Performance NFV Platforms
  Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ‘22).
  ⚙️code

• Ziteng Zeng, Leslie Monis, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  MiddleNet: A High-Performance, Lightweight, Unified NFV and Middlebox Framework
  The 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2022).
  Selected as one of the top-scored papers and invited to provide an extended version to be submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM).
  📙slides

• Vivek Jain, Sourav Panda, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Evolving to 6G: Improving the Cellular Core to lower control and data plane latency
  1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet 2022)
  Best Paper Award

2021

• Viyom Mittal, Shixiong Qi, Ratnadeep Bhattacharya, Xiaosu Lyu, Junfeng Li, Sameer G Kulkarni, Dan Li, Jinho Hwang, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood,
  Mu: An Efficient, Fair and Responsive Serverless Framework for Resource-Constrained Edge Clouds
  2021 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’21).
  📙slides

• Ian-Chin Wang, Shixiong Qi, Elizabeth Liri and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Towards a Proactive Lightweight Serverless Edge Cloud for Internet-of-Things Applications
  The 15th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2021)
  📙slides

• Vivek Jain, Shixiong Qi and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Fast Function Instantiation with Alternate Virtualization Approaches
  2021 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2021)

2020

• Shixiong Qi, Sameer G. Kulkarni, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Assessing container network interface plugins: Functionality, performance, and scalability
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2020

• Shixiong Qi, Sameer G. Kulkarni, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
  Understanding container network interface plugins: design considerations and performance
  2020 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2020)

Before 2020

• Kun Wang, Shixiong Qi, Zheng Chen, Yintang Yang, and Huaxi Gu,
  SMONoC: Optical network-on-chip using a statistical multiplexing strategy
  Optical Switching and Networking 2019

• Jiaxiang Li, Huaxi Gu, Shixiong Qi, Haoran Wang, and Kang Wang,
  ALPHA: A hybrid topology for memory-centric network
  IEICE Electronics Express 2019

• Shixiong Qi, Huaxi Gu, Haibo Zhang, and Yawen Chen,
  Testudo: A low latency and high-efficient memory-centric network using optical interconnect
  2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’2017)

• Lei Huang, Shixiong Qi, Kun Wang, and Huaxi Gu,
  LACE: A non-blocking on-chip optical router by utilizing the wavelength routing technology
  2017 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2017)

• Xinglong Diao, Lei Huang, Wei Tan, Shixiong Qi, and Huaxi Gu,
  A low-crosstalk optical router using multi-layer coupled MR for ONoC
  2017 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2017)

• Lei Huang, Kun Wang, Shixiong Qi, Huaxi Gu, and Yintang Yang,
  Panzer: A 6× 6 photonic router for optical network on chip
  IEICE Electronics Express 2016

• Shixiong Qi, Kun Wang, Huaxi Gu, Kang Wang, and Xiaolu Wang,
  Crosstalk analysis for closed ring-based optical network-on-chip
  2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Problem-Solving (ICCP 2015)