Publications

2023

• Modular Data Plane Verification for Compositional Networks
  Xu Liu, Peng Zhang, Hao Li, Wenbing Sun
  ACM CoNEXT 2023

• Network Specification Mining with High Fidelity and Scalability
  Ning Kang, Peng Zhang, Hao Li, Sisi Wen, Chaoyang Ji, Yongqiang Yang
  IEEE ICNP 2023

• Programming Network Stack for Physical Middleboxes and Virtualized Network Functions
  Hao Li, Yihan Dang, Changhao Wu, Guangda Sun, Peng Zhang, Danfeng Shan, Tian Pan, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023

• Enforcing Fairness in the Traffic Policer among Heterogeneous Congestion Control Algorithms
  Danfeng Shan, Linbing Jiang, Peng Zhang, Wanchun Jiang, Hao Li, Fengyuan Ren
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023

• Less is More: Dynamic and Shared Headroom Allocation in PFC-enabled Datacenter Networks
  Danfeng Shan, Yuqi Liu, Tong Zhang, Yifan Liu, Yazhe Tang, Hao Li, Peng Zhang
  ICDCS 2023

• LemonNFV: Consolidating Heterogeneous Network Functions at Line Speed
  Hao Li, Yihan Dang, Guangda Sun, Guyue Liu, Danfeng Shan, Peng Zhang
  USENIX NSDI 2023

• Detecting DGA-based Botnet through Effective Phonics-based Features
  Dan Zhao, Hao Li, Xiuwen Sun, Yazhe Tang
  Future Generation Computer Systems 2023

• Burst can be Harmless: Achieving Line-rate Software Traffic Shaping by Inter-flow Batching
  Danfeng Shan, Shihao Hu, Yuqi Liu, Wanchun Jiang, Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Yazhe Tang, Huanzhao Wang, Fengyuan Ren
  IEEE INFOCOM 2023

2022

• DOLPHIN: Phonics based Detection of DGA Domain Names
  Dan Zhao, Hao Li, Xiuwen Sun, Yazhe Tang
  IEEE Globecom 2022

• Compiling Cross-Language Network Programs into Hybrid Data Plane
  Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Guangda Sun, Wanyue Cao, Chengchen Hu, Danfeng Shan, Tian Pan, Qiang Fu
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2022

• Raze Policy Conflicts in SDN
  Yadong Zhou, Hao Li, Kaiyue Chen, Tian Pan, Kun Qian, Kai Zheng, Bin Liu, Peng Zhang, Yazhe Tang, Chengchen Hu
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2022

• Differential Network Analysis
  Peng Zhang, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Yueshang Zuo, Yuhao Huang, Xu Liu, Hao Li
  USENIX NSDI 2022

2021

• FastUp: Fast TCAM Update for SDN Switches in Datacenter Network
  Ying Wan, Haoyu Song, Hao Che, Yang Xu, Yi Wang, Chuwen Zhang, Zhijun Wang, Tian Pan, Hao Li, Hong Jiang, Chengchen Hu, Zhikang Chen, Bin Liu
  IEEE ICDCS 2021

• NB-Cache: Non-Blocking In-Network Caching for High-Performance Content Routers
  Tian Pan, Xingchen Lin, Enge Song, Cheng Xu, Jiao Zhang, Hao Li, Jianhui Lv, Tao Huang, Bin Liu, Beichuan Zhang
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2021

• Programming Network Stack for Middleboxes with Rubik
  Hao Li, Changhao Wu, Guangda Sun, Peng Zhang, Danfeng Shan, Tian Pan, Chengchen Hu
  USENIX NSDI 2021

• Towards the Fairness of Traffic Policer
  Danfeng Shan, Peng Zhang, Wanchun Jiang, Hao Li, and Fengyuan Ren
  IEEE INFOCOM 2021

• Network-Wide Forwarding Anomaly Detection and Localization in Software Defined Networks
  Peng Zhang, Fangzheng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, Chao Shen, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2021

2020

• A Modular Compiler for Network Programming Languages
  Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Guangda Sun, Chengchen Hu, Danfeng Shan, Tian Pan, Qiang Fu
  ACM CoNEXT 2020

• An Intermediate Representation for Network Programming Languages
  Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Guangda Sun, Chengchen Hu, Danfeng Shan, Tian Pan, Qiang Fu
  ACM APNet 2020

• Application-Oblivious L7 Parsing Using Recurrent Neural Networks
  Hao Li, Zhengda Bian, Peng Zhang, Zhun Sun, Chengchen Hu, Qiang Fu, Tian Pan, Jia Lv
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2020

• Efficient Regular Expression Matching over Compressed Traffic
  Xiuwen Sun, Hao Li, Dan Zhao, Xingxing Lu, Zheng Peng, Chengchen Hu
  Computer Networks 2020

• A Scalable Approach to SDN Control Plane Management: High Utilization Comes with Low Latency
  Victoria Huang, Gang Chen, Peng Zhang, Hao Li, Chengchen Hu, Tian Pan, Qiang Fu
  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2020

• APKeep: Realtime Verification for Real Networks
  Peng Zhang, Xu Liu, Hongkun Yang, Ning Kang, Zhengchang Gu, Hao Li
  USENIX NSDI 2020

2019

• NB-Cache: Non-Blocking In-Network Caching for High-Speed Content Routers
  Tian Pan, Xingchen Lin, Jiao Zhang, Hao Li, Jianhui Lv, Tao Huang, Bin Liu, Beichuan Zhang
  IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2019

• COIN: A Fast Packet Inspection Method over Compressed Traffic
  Xiuwen Sun, Hao Li, Dan Zhao, Xingxing Lu, Kaiyu Hou, Chengchen Hu
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications 2019

2018

• DIAL: Distributed Elephant Flow Counting on SDN
  Zheng Peng, Hao Li, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE Globecom 2018

• Taming the Wild: A Scalable Anycast-based CDN Architecture (T-SAC)
  Qiang Fu, Bradley Rutter, Hao Li, Peng Zhang, Chengchen Hu, Tian Pan, Zhangqin Huang, Yibin Hou
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2018

• FOCES: Detecting forwarding anomalies in software defined networks
  Peng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE ICDCS 2018

• ShiftRoute: Achieving location privacy for map services on smartphones
  Peng Zhang, Chengchen Hu, Di Chen, Hao Li, Qi Li
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2018

• Towards a Fast Regular Expression Matching Method over Compressed Traffic
  Xiuwen Sun, Hao Li, Xingxing Lu, Dan Zhao, Zheng Peng, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2018

• CORA: Conflict Razor for Policies in SDN
  Hao Li, Kaiyue Chen, Tian Pan, Yadong Zhou, Kun Qian, Kai Zheng, Bin Liu, Peng Zhang, Yazhe Tang, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE INFOCOM 2018

2017

• SoftRing: Taming the Reactive Model for Software Defined Networks
  Chengchen Hu, Kaiyu Hou, Hao Li, Ruilong Wang, Peng Zheng, Peng Zhang, Huanzhao Wang
  IEEE ICNP 2017

• Towards a Fast Packet Inspection over Compressed HTTP Traffic
  Xiuwen Sun, Kaiyu Hou, Hao Li, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2017

2016

• Mind the Gap: Monitoring the Control-Data Plane Consistency in Software Defined Networks
  Peng Zhang, Hao Li, Chengchen Hu, Liujia Hu, Lei Xiong, Ruilong Wang, Yuemei Zhang
  ACM CoNEXT 2016

• Modular SDN Compiler Design with Intermediate Representation
  Hao Li, Chengchen Hu, Peng Zhang, Lei Xie
  ACM SIGCOMM Poster 2016

• Stick to the Script: Monitoring the Policy Compliance of SDN Data Plane
  Peng Zhang, Hao Li, Chengchen Hu, Liujia Hu, Lei Xiong
  ACM/IEEE ANCS 2016

• Deep Semantics Inspection over Big Network Data at Wire Speed
  Chengchen Hu, Hao Li, Yuming Jiang, Yu Cheng, Poul Heegaard
  IEEE Network Magazine 2016

2015

• Parsing Application Layer Protocol with Commodity Hardware for SDN
  Hao Li, Chengchen Hu, Junkai Hong, Xiyu Chen, Yuming Jiang
  ACM/IEEE ANCS 2015

2014

• MP-ROOM: Optimal Matching On Multiple PDUs for Fine-Grained Traffic Identification
  Hao Li, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 2014

2013

• ROOM: Rule Organized Optimal Matching for Fine-Grained Traffic Identification
  Hao Li, Chengchen Hu
  IEEE INFOCOM 2013