Tianyin Xu

A Large Scale Study of Data Center Network Reliability

2018

The ability to tolerate, remediate, and recover from network incidents (caused by device failures and fiber cuts, for example) is critical for building and operating highly-available web services. Achieving fault tolerance and failure preparedness requires …

SpecFaaS: Accelerating Serverless Applications with Speculative Function Execution

2023

Serverless computing has emerged as a popular cloud computing paradigm. Serverless environments are convenient to users and efficient for cloud providers. However, they can induce substantial application execution overheads, especially in applications with many functions.In …