Mengwei Xu

Commutativity-guaranteed Docker Image Reconstruction towards Effective Layer Sharing

2022 · Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

Owing to the benefit of light weight, containers have become a promising enabler for cloud native computing. Container images composed of applications and dependencies support flexible service deployment and migration. Rapid adoption and integration of …

FLASH: Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Learning at Scale

2022 · IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Federated learning (FL) becomes a promising machine learning paradigm. The impact of heterogeneous hardware specifications and dynamic states on the FL process has not yet been studied systematically. This paper presents the first large-scale study …

Rust Meets Linux: Lessons from an Evolving Experiment

2026 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Linux, developed over the past three decades, has become the cornerstone of modern computing, serving as the foundation for a wide array of applications ranging from large-scale supercomputers to resource-constrained embedded devices. However, this infrastructure …