Publications

Anvaya B. Narappa, Federico Parola, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Z-stack: A High-performance DPDK-based Zero-copy TCP/IP Protocol Stack
The 30th IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2024)
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Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen,
L26GC: Evolving the Low Latency Core for Future Cellular Networks
IEEE Internet Computing, 2024
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Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Myungjin Lee,
LIFL: A Lightweight, Event-driven Serverless Platform for Federated Learning
Seventh Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys 2024)
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Shixiong Qi, Leslie Monis, Ziteng Zeng, Ian-chin Wang, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
SPRIGHT: High-performance eBPF-based Event-driven, Shared-memory Processing for Serverless Computing
IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, 2024
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Yu-Sheng Liu, Shixiong Qi, Po-Yi Lin, Han-Sing Tsai, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen
L25GC+: An Improved, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core for Low-latency Control Plane Operations
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2023)
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Shixiong Qi, Han-Sing Tsai, Yu-Sheng Liu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen
X-IO: A High-performance Unified I/O Interface using Lock-free Shared Memory Processing
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2023)
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Shixiong Qi, Ziteng Zeng, Leslie Monis, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
MiddleNet: A Unified, High-Performance NFV and Middlebox Framework with eBPF and DPDK
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2023
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Shixiong Qi, Leslie Monis, Ziteng Zeng, Ian-chin Wang, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
SPRIGHT: Extracting the Server from Serverless Computing! High-Performance eBPF-based Event-driven, Shared-Memory Processing
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ‘22).
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Vivek Jain, Hao-Tse Chu, Shixiong Qi, Chia-An Lee, Hung-Cheng Chang, Cheng-Ying Hsieh, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jyh-Cheng Chen,
L25GC: A Low Latency 5G Core Network based on High-Performance NFV Platforms
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM ‘22).
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Ziteng Zeng, Leslie Monis, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
MiddleNet: A High-Performance, Lightweight, Unified NFV and Middlebox Framework
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2022).
🏆 Selected as one of the top-scored papers and invited to provide an extended version to be submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
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Vivek Jain, Sourav Panda, Shixiong Qi, K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Evolving to 6G: Improving the Cellular Core to lower control and data plane latency
1st International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet 2022)
🏆 Best Paper Award

Viyom Mittal, Shixiong Qi, Ratnadeep Bhattacharya, Xiaosu Lyu, Junfeng Li, Sameer G Kulkarni, Dan Li, Jinho Hwang, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood,
Mu: An Efficient, Fair and Responsive Serverless Framework for Resource-Constrained Edge Clouds
2021 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’21).
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Ian-Chin Wang, Shixiong Qi, Elizabeth Liri and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Towards a Proactive Lightweight Serverless Edge Cloud for Internet-of-Things Applications
The 15th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2021)
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Vivek Jain, Shixiong Qi and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Fast Function Instantiation with Alternate Virtualization Approaches
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2021)

Shixiong Qi, Sameer G. Kulkarni, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Assessing container network interface plugins: Functionality, performance, and scalability
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2020

Shixiong Qi, Sameer G. Kulkarni, and K. K. Ramakrishnan,
Understanding container network interface plugins: design considerations and performance
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2020)
 

Kun Wang, Shixiong Qi, Zheng Chen, Yintang Yang, and Huaxi Gu,
SMONoC: Optical network-on-chip using a statistical multiplexing strategy
Optical Switching and Networking 2019

Jiaxiang Li, Huaxi Gu, Shixiong Qi, Haoran Wang, and Kang Wang,
ALPHA: A hybrid topology for memory-centric network
IEICE Electronics Express 2019

Shixiong Qi, Huaxi Gu, Haibo Zhang, and Yawen Chen,
Testudo: A low latency and high-efficient memory-centric network using optical interconnect
2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’2017)

Lei Huang, Shixiong Qi, Kun Wang, and Huaxi Gu,
LACE: A non-blocking on-chip optical router by utilizing the wavelength routing technology
2017 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2017)

Xinglong Diao, Lei Huang, Wei Tan, Shixiong Qi, and Huaxi Gu,
A low-crosstalk optical router using multi-layer coupled MR for ONoC
2017 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2017)

Lei Huang, Kun Wang, Shixiong Qi, Huaxi Gu, and Yintang Yang,
Panzer: A 6× 6 photonic router for optical network on chip
IEICE Electronics Express 2016

Shixiong Qi, Kun Wang, Huaxi Gu, Kang Wang, and Xiaolu Wang,
Crosstalk analysis for closed ring-based optical network-on-chip
2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Problem-Solving (ICCP 2015)