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 at May 2026
   🏆 Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2026

   DOI Bib PDF Video (ANRP)

   @inproceedings{smtsp26,
     author = {Gao, Tianyi and Ma, Xinshu and Narreddy, Suhas and Luo, Eugenio and Chien, Steven W. D. and Honda, Michio},
     title = {{ Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks }},
     booktitle = { 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) },
     year = {2026},
     volume = {},
     issn = {2375-1207},
     pages = {1485-1502},
     keywords = {security;transport protocol;datacenter},
     doi = {10.1109/SP63933.2026.00080},
     url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP63933.2026.00080},
     publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
     address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
     month = may,
   }

2. NSDI’26

   Remote TCP Connection Offload and Applications

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

   To Appear at May 2026

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{xonsdi26,
     author = {Li, Shuo and Chien, Steven W. D. and Gao, Tianyi and Honda, Michio},
     title = {Remote TCP Connection Offload and Applications},
     booktitle = {23rd {USENIX} Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ({NSDI} 26)},
     pages = {to appear},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
     month = may,
   }

2025

1. SIGCOMM’25 Short

   Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

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

   (Note: SP’26 version updates this paper)

   Abs DOI arXiv Bib

   This paper presents SMT, a protocol design for emerging datacenter transports, such as NDP and Homa, to integrate data encryption. It supports NIC offloading designed for TLS over TCP, native protocol number alongside TCP and UDP, and message-based abstraction that enables low latency RPCs with fine-grained parallelism.

   @inproceedings{10.1145/3718958.3750482,
     author = {Gao, Tianyi and Ma, Xinshu and Narreddy, Suhas and Luo, Eugenio and Chien, Steven and Honda, Michio},
     title = {Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks},
     year = {2025},
     isbn = {9798400715242},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     address = {New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3718958.3750482},
     doi = {10.1145/3718958.3750482},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference},
     pages = {1248–1250},
     numpages = {3},
     location = {S\~{a}o Francisco Convent, Coimbra, Portugal},
     series = {SIGCOMM '25},
   }

2. APNet’25

   Designing Transport-Level Encryption for Datacenter Networks

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

   (Note: SP’26 version updates this paper)

   DOI
3. APNet’25

   Remote TCP Connection Offload with XO

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

   (Note: NSDI’26 version updates this paper)

   DOI