I'am Xiao, a 1st year Phd student at UT Austin, working together with Daehyeok Kim at UTNS. Besides, I am also fortunate to work closely with Liangcheng Yu as a visiting student at UPenn. Prior to my Phd experiences, I received my M.S. and B.S. degree at SJTU.

My research interests focus on networkd systems. I am fascinated by the simple but effective designs in networked systems and the creative potential of programmable devices.

News

Aug. 2024
Start my Phd journey at UTNS.
Apr. 2024
Beaver is accepted by OSDI'24.
Oct. 2023
FC+ (Flattened Clos Plus) accepted to ISPA 2023.
Sep. 2023
Start as a visiting student in Prof. Vincent Liu 's group @ UPenn CIS.

Publication

Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan Ports, Vincent Liu
Santa Clara, CA, USA, Jul. 2024
Description
FC+ (Flattened Clos Plus): Near-optimal Deadlock-free Expander Data Center Networks
Xiao Zhang, Peirui Cao, Yongxi Lyu, Qizhou Zhang, Shizhen Zhao, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
ISPA, Wuhan, China, Dec. 2023
Description
Flattened Clos: Designing High-performance Deadlock-free Expander Data Center Networks Using Graph Contraction
Shizhen Zhao, Qizhou Zhang, Peirui Cao, Xiao Zhang, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
NSDI, Boston, U.S., Apr. 2023 [PDF]
Description
Design of Robust and Efficient Edge Server Placement and Server Scheduling Policies
Shizhen Zhao*, Xiao Zhang*, Peirui Cao, Xinbing Wang (* means equal contribution)
IWQOS, Virtual Event, Jun. 2021 [PDF]
Description

Interesting Projects

Earliest deadline first (EDF) switch: A special case of Push-in First-out (PIFO) switch, which means the packets have the earliest deadlines are transmitted first.
Implemented on a ZYNQ7000 Board
Working since September 2021 for over 2 years. [picture, code]
EDF Switch Implemented on ZYNQ7000 Board

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