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Publications
Journal
Elastic Power-aware Resource Provisioning of Heterogeneous Workloads in Self-Sustainable Datacenters
Dazhao Cheng, Jia Rao, Changjun Jiang and Xiaobo Zhou
In IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol.65, No.2, 14 pages, Feb 2016
iShuffle: Improving Hadoop Performance with Shuffle-on-Write
Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, Dazhao Cheng, and Xiaobo Zhou.
In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016
URL: A Unified Reinforcement Learning Approach for Autonomic Cloud Management
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Jia Rao, and Xiangping Bu.
In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 72, Issue 2, 2012.
Top 25 Hottest Articles of JPDC in 2012
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Coordinated Self-configuration of Virtual Machines and Appliances using A Model-free Learning Approach
Xiangping Bu, Jia Rao ,and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2012.
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Online Capacity Identification of Multitier Websites Using Hardware Performance Counters
Jia Rao and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 22, Issue 3, March, 2011.
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QoS Guarantees and Service Differentiation for Dynamic Cloud Applications
Jia Rao, Yudi Wei, Jiayu Gong, and Cheng-Zhong Xu
In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM).
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Conference and Workshops
vNetTracer: Efficient and Programmable Packet Tracing in Virtualized Networks
Kun Suo, Yong Zhao, Wei Chen, and Jia Rao.
In Proceedings of The 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018
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eBrowser: Making Human-Mobile Web Interactions Energy Efficient with Event Rate Learning
Fei Xu, Shuai Yang, Zhi Zhou, and Jia Rao.
In Proceedings of The 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018
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A Side-channel Attack on HotSpot Heap Management
Xiaofeng Wu, Kun Suo, Yong Zhao, and Jia Rao.
In Proceedings of The 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 2018
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Characterizing and Optimizing Hotspot Parallel Garbage Collection on Multicore Systems
Kun Suo, Jia Rao, Hong Jiang, and Witawas Srisa-an.
In Proceedings of The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2018
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Dynamic Vertical Memory Scalability for OpenJDK Cloud Applications
Rodrigo Bruno, Paulo Ferreira, Ruslan Synytsky, Tetiana Fydorenchyk, Jia Rao, Hang Huang, and Song Wu
In Proceedings of The International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), 2018
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An Analysis and Empirical Study of Container Networks
Kun Suo, Yong Zhao, Wei Chen, and Jia Rao.
In Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2018
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Scheduler Activations for Interference-resilient SMP Virtual Machine Scheduling
Yong Zhao, Kun Suo, Luwei Cheng, and Jia Rao.
In Proceedings of The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Conference on Middleware (Middleware), 2017
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Preserving I/O Prioritization in Virtualized OSes
Kun Suo, Yong Zhao, Jia Rao, Luwei Cheng, Xiaobo Zhou, and Francis C.M. Lau.
In Proceedings of The Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2017
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Preemptive, Low Latency Datacenter Scheduling via Lightweight Virtualization
Wei Chen, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2017
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Addressing Performance Heterogeneity in MapReduce Clusters with Elastic Tasks
Wei Chen, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of The IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2017
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Container-Based Cloud Platform for Mobile Computation Offloading
Song Wu, Chao Niu, Jia Rao, Hai Jin, and Xiaohai Dai.
In Proceedings of The IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2017
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Characterizing and Optimizing the Performance of Multithreaded Programs Under Interference
Yong Zhao, Jia Rao and Qing Yi.
In Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2016
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Time Capsule: Tracing Packet Latency across Different Layers in Virtualized Systems
Kun Suo, Jia Rao, Luwei Cheng and Francis C.M. Lau.
In Proceedings of The 7th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), 2016
Best paper award (2 out of 52 submissions)
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vScale: Automatic and Efficient Processor Scaling for SMP Virtual Machines
Luwei Cheng, Jia Rao and Francis C.M. Lau.
In proceedings of The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2016
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Self-boosted Co-scheduling for SMP Virtual Machines
Kun Wang, Yudi Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Jia Rao
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposim on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) , 2015.
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Resource and Deadline-aware Job Scheduling in Dynamic Hadoop Clusters
Dazhao Cheng, Jia Rao, Changjun Jiang and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2015
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StoreApp: A Shared Storage Appliance for Efficient and Scalable Virtualized Hadoop Clusters
Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, Dazhao Cheng, Changjun Jiang, Cheng-Zhong Xu and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015
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Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments with Adaptive Task Tuning
Dazhao Cheng, Jia Rao, Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), 2014.
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Moving Hadoop into the Cloud with Flexible Slots
Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao , Changjun Jiang and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2014.
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iShuffle: Improving Hadoop Performance with Shuffle-on-Write
Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2013.
Best paper award (1 out of 73 submissions)
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Interference and Locality-Aware Task Scheduling for MapReduce Applications in Virtual Clusters
Xiangping Bu, Jia Rao, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2013.
Best paper nominee (3 out of 131 submissions)
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Optimizing Virtual Machine Scheduling in NUMA Multicore Systems
Jia Rao, Kun Wang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-19), 2013.
Best paper nominee (4 out of 249 submissions)
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V-Cache: Towards Flexible Resource Provisioning for Multi-tier Applications in IaaS Clouds
Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2013.
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A Distributed Self-learning Approach for Elastic Provisioning of Virtualized Cloud Resources
Jia Rao, Xiangping Bu, Kun Wang, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposim on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) , 2011.
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DynaQoS: Model-free Self-tuning Fuzzy Control of Virtualized Resources for QoS Provisioning
Jia Rao, Yudi Wei, Jiayu Gong, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) , 2011.
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A Model-free Learning Approach for Coordinated Configuration of Virtual Machines and Appliances
Xiangping Bu, Jia Rao, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposim on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) , 2011.
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Rethink the Virtual Machine Template
Kun Wang, Jia Rao, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), 2011.
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VCONF: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Virtual Machines Auto-configuration
Jia Rao, Xiangping Bu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Leyi Wang, and Goerge Yin.
In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC), 2009.
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Web System Auto-configuration
Xiangping Bu, Jia Rao, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conferece on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2009.
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Posters ===
Self-adaptive provisioning of virtualized resources in cloud computing
Jia Rao, Xiangping Bu, Kun Wang, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2011.
CoTuner: A Framework for Coordinated Auto-configuration of Virtualized Resources and Appliances
Xiangping Bu, Jia Rao, and Cheng-Zhong Xu.
In International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC), 2010.
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