Publications

2026

1. S&P/Oakland’26

   Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

   Tianyi Gao, Xinshu Ma, Suhas Narreddy, Eugenio Luo, Steven W. D. Chien, and Michio Honda

   To appear

2025

1. APNet’25

   Remote TCP Connection Offload with XO

   Shuo Li^*, Steven W.D. Chien^*, Tianyi Gao, and Michio Honda

   Abs DOI Bib

   Efficient resource utilization in server clusters is essential for maximizing service capacity and minimizing latency while reducing infrastructure costs, whether in edge clouds or hyperscale deployments. Current approaches face significant limitations: layer 4 load balancing (L4LB) alone causes load imbalance over time with long-lived connections, while layer 7 load balancing (L7LB) introduces substantial CPU, memory, and network overhead despite enabling fine-grained server selection based on application-level requests.This paper presents XO, a set of concept and techniques to enable a TCP server to offload entire TCP connection and application-request processing to another machine at request granularity. Together with L4LB, XO achieves L7LB-level load distribution without the associated overheads.

   @inproceedings{10.1145/3735358.3735377,
     author = {Li, Shuo and Chien, Steven W.D. and Gao, Tianyi and Honda, Michio},
     title = {Remote TCP Connection Offload with XO},
     year = {2025},
     isbn = {9798400714016},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3735358.3735377},
     doi = {10.1145/3735358.3735377},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking},
     pages = {37–43},
     numpages = {7},
     series = {APNET '25},
   }