Xiaoliang Wang

Associate professor (PhD supervisor) at Nanjing University.

I am interested in cloud computing network systems, distributed storage/computation systems.

E-mail: waxili (at) nju.edu.cn

Address: CS Building 517, No.163 XianLin Avenue, Jiang Su, Nanjing, 210023, China

.: Short CV

2010, Assistant Professor; 2014, Associate Professor, Nanjing University
2014, Visiting Scholar (微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”学者)
2019~, Consultant, Cloud Network, Tencent TEG/Alibaba Cloud（曾任腾讯、阿里云网络部门荣誉顾问）

.: Recruitment

招收云计算，网络系统，分布式机器学习，分布式存储方向的博士和硕士同学，请直接通过邮箱 waxili (at) nju (dot) edu (dot) cn 联系

仍招收 2025年硕士生，具有系统背景的博士生

We are always searching for passionate students (both graduate and undergraduate students) to join our team. Please feel free to contact me (waxili at nju.edu.cn).

.: Teaching

Data Communication (221580) for Undergraduate Students
Ubiquitous Computing for Graduate Students

.: Research

我们构建分布式机器学习、分布式存储、云与边缘计算的支撑平台，通过与产业界合作，解决实际问题并应用于现网环境中。
Build high-performance distributed system to improve the performance of deployed services and applications; apply data mining/machine learning methodology and domain knowledge (cloud computing, 5G) to improve the user experience

.: Selected Publication [Full List]

News

** 2023 江苏省科学技术奖二等奖
** One paper is accepted by CoNEXT 2024
** One paper is accepted by OOPSLA 2024
** Two papers are accepted by NSDI 2025
** One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2024
** Serve as Keynote Speaker at 2024 SIGCOMM FMANO Workshop
** Serve on NSDI 2025 TPC
** One paper is accepted by SIGCOMM 2024, Cong to Zhenghao
** One paper is accepted by ATC 2024, Cong to Tingting
** One paper is accepted by Eurosys 2024
** Cong！BIGCOM 2023 paper won the Best Paper Award
** Two papers are accepted by ICNP 2023
** One paper is accepted by OSDI 2023
** One paper is accepted by Eurosys 2023
** One paper is accepted by FAST 2023
** Two papers are accepted by INFOCOM 2023
** One paper is accepted by ICNP 2022
** Cong！HPC-AI亚太区RDMA竞赛一等奖 2021
** One paper is accepted by SIGCOMM 2021
** One paper is accepted by NSDI 2021
** One paper is accepted by INFOCOM 2021

Cloud and Networking

H. Zheng, X. Yan, W. Li, J. Zheng, X. Wang, Q. Zhao, L. He, X. Lai, F. Gao, F. Huang, W. Dou, G. Chen, C. Tian, When P4 Meets Run-to-completion Architecture, USENIX NSDI, 2025
K. Liu, Z. Zhang, C. Liu, Y. Wang, V. Addanki, S. Schmid, Q. Wang, W. Chen, X. Wang, J. Zheng, W. Sun, T. Wu, K. Meng, F. Chen, W. Wang, B. Liu, W. Dou, G. Chen, C. Tian, Pyrrha: Congestion-Root-Based Flow Control to Eliminate Head-of-Line Blocking in Datacenter, USENIX NSDI, 2025
Yiyu Zhang, Tianyi Liu, Yueyang Wang, Yun Qi, Kai Ji, Jian Tang, Xiaoliang Wang, Xuandong Li, and Zhiqiang Zuo, HardTaint: Production-Run Dynamic Taint Analysis via Selective Hardware Tracing, OOPSLA2 2024
Xiaoliang Wang, Penghui Mi, Yong Zhu, Baoyi An, Yinhua Wang, Lixiang Wang, Xuezhi Yu, Qiong Xie, Xiang Huang, Mingliang Yin, Chaoyang Ji, Wei Sun, Yihang Lv, Yuhang Chen, Cam-Tu Nguyen, Chen Tian, and Xiaoming Fu. 2024. EdgeCross: Cloud Scale Traffic Management at Peering Edges. ACM CoNEXT, December 2024
Huang, Chengyuan; Xue, Feiyang; Yu, Peiwen; Wang, Xiaoliang; Chen, Yanqing; Wu, Tao; Han, Lei; Han, Zifa; Wang, Bingquan; Gong, Xiangyu; Tian, Chen; Dou, Wanchun; Chen, Guihai; Yin, Hao, Minimizing Buffer Utilization for Lossless Inter-DC Links, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, November 2024
Chengyuan Huang, Tianfan Zhang, Li Wang, Yibo Xiao, Chao Yang, Chen Tian, Xiaoliang Wang, Dong Zhang, Bingheng Yan, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, MpScope: Enabling multi-pipeline monitoring inside a switch, Computer Networks, 2024
B. Li, X. Wang, J. Wang, Y. Liu, Y. Gong, H. Lu, W. Dang, W. Zhang, X. Huang, M. Chen, J. Chen, C. He, Y. Liu, X. Hu, C. Liu, X. Ji, Y. Xia, X. Li, Z. He, Y. Wang, X. Zou, TCCL: Co-optimizing Collective Communication and Traffic Routing for GPU-centric Clusters, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networks for AI Computing (NAIC), 2024
Tingting Xu, Bengbeng Xue, Yang Song, Xiaomin Wu, Xiaoxin Peng, Yilong Lyu, Xiaoliang Wang, Chen Tian, Baoliu Ye, Camtu Nguyen, Biao Lyu, Rong Wen, Zhigang Zong, and Shunmin Zhu, CyberStar: Simple, Elastic and Cost-Effective Network Functions Management in Cloud Network at Scale, ATC 2024
Hao Zheng, Chengyuan Huang, Xiangyu Han, Xiaoliang Wang, Jiaqi Zheng, Chen Tian, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Che, μMon: Empowering Microsecond-level Network Monitoring with Wavelets, SIGCOMM 2024
Songyuan Bai, Hao Zheng, Chen Tian, Xiaoliang Wang, Chang Liu, Xin Jin, Fu Xiao, Qiao Xiang, Wanchun Dou, Guihai Chen, Unison: A Parallel-Efficient and User-Transparent Network Simulation Kernel, Eurosys, 2024
Mingtao Ji, Mingxian Zhou, Haodong Zou, Ming Tang, Zhuzhong Qian, Xiaoliang Wang, SAC: Dynamic Caching upon Sketch for In-Memory Big Data Analytics, BigCom, 2023 (Best Paper Award)
P. Yu, F. Xue, C. Tian, Xiaoliang Wang, Y. Chen, T. Wu, L. Han, Z. Han, B. Wang, X. Gong, W. Dou, G. Chen, Bifrost: Extending RoCE for Long Distance Inter-DC Links, ICNP, 2023
Qiang Li, Yixiao Gao, Xiaoliang Wang, et al. Flor: An Open High Performance RDMA Framework Over Heterogeneous RNICs, OSDI, 2023
Zhiying Xu, Jiafan Xu, Hongding Peng, Wei Wang, Xiaoliang Wang, Haipeng Dai, Yixu Xu, Hao Cheng, Kun Wang, Guihai Chen, ALT: Breaking the Wall between Data Layout and Loop Optimizations for Deep Learning Compilation, Eurosys 2023
Qiang Li, Lulu Chen, Xiaoliang Wang, et.al, Fisc: A Large-scale Cloud-native-oriented File System, FAST, 2023
Jian Tang, Huichen Dai, Xiaoliang Wang, Scalable RDMA Transport with Efficient Connection Sharing, INFOCOM, 2023
Tingting Xu, Xiaoliang Wang, Chen Tian, Xiong Yun, Yun Lin, Baoliu Ye, CLIP: Accelerating Features Deployment for Programmable Switch, INFOCOM, 2023
Lin Qian, Bin Tang, Baoliu Ye, Jianyu Wu, Xiaoliang Wang, et.al, Stabilizing and boosting I/O performance for file systems with journaling on NVMe SSD, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, Vol. 65 132102:1–132102:15, March 2022
Siyu Yan, Xiaoliang Wang (corresponding author), Xiaolong Zheng, Yinben Xia, Derui Liu, ACC: Automatic ECN Tuning for High-speed Datacenter Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 2021.
Hua Shao, Xiaoliang Wang (co-first author), Yuanwei Lu, Yanbo Yu, and Shengli Zheng, Youjian Zhao, Accessing Cloud with Disaggregated Software-Defined Router, USENIX NSDI 2021.
Xiaoliang Wang, Hexiang Song, Camtu Nguyen, Dongxu Cheng, Tiancheng Jin, Maximizing the Benefit of RDMA at End Hosts, IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
Mingkai Lin, Wenzhong Li, Lynda J. Song, Cam-tu Nguyen, Xiaoliang Wang, Sanglu Lu, SAKE: Estimating Katz Centrality Based on Sampling for Large-Scale Social Networks, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), vol 15, issue 4, August 2021
B. Tang, Xiaoliang Wang, C. Nguyen, B. Ye, et.al, "Construction of Subexponential-Size Optical Priority Queues With Switches and Fiber Delay Lines," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 336-346, Feb. 2020.
Yibo Jin, Lei Jiao, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Sanglu Lu, Xiaoliang Wang, Minimizing Resource Usage Considering Performance and Iterations in Federated Learning, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020)
W. Li, H. Zhang, S. Gao, C. Xue, Xiaoliang Wang, et.al, "SmartCC: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multipath TCP Congestion Control in Heterogeneous Networks", in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2621-2633, Nov. 2019.
Han Zhang, Wenzhong Li, S.H. Gao, Xiaoliang Wang, Baoliu Ye. ReLeS: A Neural Adaptive Multipath Scheduler based on Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE INFOCOM 2019.
X. Zhang, Z. Qian, S. Zhang, X. Li, X. Wang, et.al, "Semi-Clairvoyant Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 1376-1389, 1 Sept. 2019.
Xiaoliang Wang, Mingzhi Chen, et.al, Modeling Geographically Correlated Failures to Assess Network Vulnerability, IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), 2018.
Haonan Qiu, Xiaoliang Wang, et al. Toward Effective and Fair RDMA Resource Sharing. 2nd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet, 2018). (Best Paper Award)
Guo Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Yuan Meng, Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Dan Pei, Peng Cheng, Layong Luo, and Yongqiang Xiong, Xiaoliang Wang, Youjian Zhao, FUSO: Fast Multi-path Loss Recovery for Data Center Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), VOL. 26, NO. 3, JUNE 2018
Nai Xia, Chen Tian, Yan Luo, Hang Liu, and Xiaoliang Wang. UKSM: Swift Memory Deduplication via Hierarchical and Adaptive Memory Region Distilling. USENIX FAST, 2018.
Xiaoda Zhang, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Xiangbo Li, Xiaoliang Wang, et.al, COBRA: Toward Provably Efficient Semi-clairvoyant Scheduling in Data Analytics Systems. IEEE INFOCOM 2018
Yuanwei Lu, Guo Chen, Kun Tan, Layong Luo, Yongqiang Xiong, Xiaoliang Wang and EnHong Chen, One More Queue is Enough: Minimizing Flow Completion Time with Explicit Priority Notification, IEEE INFOCOM 2017
Xiaoliang Wang, Toward Building Disaster-Relient Network, IEEE International Cloud Resiliency Workshop, Shenzhen, China, 2016.10.18-2016.10.21 (Panel Speaker)
Nai Xia and Xiaoliang Wang, Ultra KSM: A Real Time Main Memory Deduplication Scanner with Two Level Random Sampling, USENIX ATC, June 2016, Poster
Guo Chen,Yuanwei Lu,Yuan Meng,Bojie Li,Kun Tan, Dan Pei,Peng Cheng,Layong Luo, Yongqiang Xiong, Xiaoliang Wang, Youjian Zhao, Fast and Cautious: Leveraging Multi-path Diversity for Transport Loss Recovery in Data Centers, USENIX ATC, 22-14 June, 2016
B. Tang, Xiaoliang Wang, C. T. Nguyen and S. Lu, "Constructing sub-exponentially large optical priority queues with switches and fiber delay lines," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT), Barcelona, 2016
Xiao Zhang, Xiaoliang Wang, Xiaohong Jiang, Sanglu Lu, Degree of Network Damage: A Measurement for Intensity of Network Damage, 19th IEEE European Conference on networks and optical communication (NOC), June 2014. (Invited Paper)
Xiaoliang Wang, Xiaohong Jiang, Camtu Nguyen, X. Zhang, Sanglu Lu, “Fast Connection Recovery against Region Failures with Landmark-based Source Routing”, 9th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication networks (DRCN 2013)， March 4-7，2013. （Invited Lecture）
Xiaoliang Wang, Xiaohong Jiang and Achille Pattavina, Constructing N-to-N Shared Optical Queue with Switches and Fiber Delay Lines, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 58(6): 3836-3842 2012.

Machine Learning and Mobile Computing