Technical Report:

[arXiv] Yu Hua, "First Principles of Big Memory Systems", arXiv, September 2023. Videos: Chinese and English.

Conference/Workshop:

[ICCD] Menglei Chen, Yu Hua, Rong Bai, Jianming Huang, "A Cost-Efficient Failure-Tolerant Scheme for Distributed DNN Training", Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2023, pages: 150-157. Slides, Source code

[ICCD] Xiangyu Xiang, Yu Hua, Hao Xu, "PMA: A Persistent Memory Allocator with High Efficiency and Crash Consistency Guarantee", Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2023, pages: 182-189. Slides, Source code

[IWQoS] Bolun Zhu, Yu Hua, Ziyin Long, Xue Liu, "CATS: A Computation-Aware Transaction Processing System with Proactive Unlocking", Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 62/264=23.5% for regular papers), Best Paper Award, Slides, Source code, Press: WNLO, HUST (Chinese), HUST (English)

[ICCD] Bo Ding, Wei Tong, Yu Hua, Zhangyu Chen, Xueliang Wei, Dan Feng, "RMMIO: Enabling Reliable Memory-Mapped I/O for Persistent Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2022, pages: 722-725.

[DAC] Ming Zhang, Yu Hua, Xuan Li, Hao Xu, "Scalable Crash Consistency for Secure Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022, pages: 817-822. (Acceptance rate: 23%) Slides

[HPCC] Yuxuan Mo, Yu Hua, Pengfei Li, Qin Cao, Xue Liu, "A Cost-Efficient Metadata Scheme for High-Performance Deduplication Systems", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2021, pages: 49-56. Best Paper Award

[ICCD] Xinxin Liu, Yu Hua, Rong Bai, "Consistent RDMA-Friendly Hashing on Remote Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2021, pages: 174-177. Slides, Video

[ICCD] Xinxin Liu, Yu Hua, Xuan Li, Qifan Liu, "Write-Optimized and Consistent RDMA-based Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2021, pages: 248-251. Slides, Video

[ICCAD] Wei Zhao, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Jie Xu, Chunyan Li, Gaoxiang Xu, Yiran Chen, "MORE2: Morphable Encryption and Encoding for Secure NVM", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021, pages: 1-8. (Acceptance rate: 121/514=23.5%)

[DAC] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Ling Liang, Xingfeng Xie, Xing Hu, Yuan Xie, "SEALing Neural Network Models in Encrypted Deep Learning Accelerators", Proceedings of the 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021, pages: 1255-1260. (Acceptance rate: 23%)

[Middleware] Pengfei Li, Yu Hua, Qin Cao, Mingxuan Zhang, "Improving the Restore Performance via Physical-Locality Middleware for Backup Systems", Proceedings of the annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference (Middleware), 2020, pages: 341-355. (Acceptance rate:30/119=25.2%) Video, Source code, Awarded with ACM Badges: Artifacts Available and Artifacts Evaluated-Functional

[DAC] Zhangyu Chen, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Yuanyuan Sun, Yuncheng Guo, "Reducing Bit Writes in Non-volatile Main Memory by Similarity-aware Compression", Proceedings of the 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020. (Acceptance rate:23%)

[ICPP] Jianming Huang, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Wen Zhou, Fangting Huang, "An Efficient Wear-level Architecture using Self-adaptive Wear Leveling", Proceedings of the 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2020. (Acceptance rate:78/269=29%) Video, Slides

[DAC] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Yiran Chen, Chunyan Li, Gaoxiang Xu, "Adaptive Granularity Encoding for Energy-efficient Non-Volatile Main Memory", Proceedings of the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019. (Acceptance rate: 22%)

[DAC] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Fangting Huang, Wen Zhou, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, "An Efficient Spare-Line Replacement Scheme to Enhance NVM Security", Proceedings of the 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019. (Acceptance rate: 22%)

[ICDCS] Xinxin Liu, Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Ling Yang, Yuanyuan Sun, "Smoother: A Smooth Renewable Power-Aware Middleware", Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2019, pages: 249-260. (Acceptance rate:19.6%)

[IWQoS] Xianghao Xu, Fang Wang, Hong Jiang, Yongli Cheng, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Yongxuan Zhang, "LOSC: Efficient Out-of-Core Graph Processing with Locality-optimized Subgraph Construction", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2019. (Acceptance rate: 42/153=27.4%)

[DSC] Helei Cui, Cong Wang, Yu Hua, Yuefeng Du, Xingliang Yuan, "A Bandwidth-Efficient Middleware for Encrypted Deduplication", Proceedings of The IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), 2018.

[ICPP] Xiaoyi Zhang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Jianxi Chen, Mandi Fu, "A Write-efficient and Consistent Hashing Scheme for Non-Volatile Memory", Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 2018. (Acceptance rate: 83/313=26.5%)

[HotStorage] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, "SecPM: a Secure and Persistent Memory System for Non-volatile Memory", Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (USENIX HotStorage), July 2018. Slides.

[ICDCS] Yi Su, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Zhan Shi, Tingwei Zhu, "NetRS: Cutting Response Latency of Distributed Key-Value Store with In-Network Replica Selection", Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018, pages: 143-153 (main research program, Acceptance rate: 78/378=20.6%).

[IPDPS] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Cong Wang, Wen Xia, Shunde Cao, Yukun Zhou, Yuanyuan Sun, "Mitigating Traffic-based Side Channel Attacks in Bandwidth-efficient Cloud Storage", Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2018, pages: 1153-1162. (Acceptance rate: 113/461=24.5%).

[DATE] Yuncheng Guo, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, "DFPC: A Dynamic Frequent Pattern Compression Scheme in NVM-based Main Memory", Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2018, pages: 1634-1639. (Acceptance rate: 185/766=24%)

[DATE] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Chunyan Li, Zheng Li, "An Efficient PCM-based Main Memory System via Exploiting Fine-grained Dirtiness of Cachelines", Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2018, pages: 1628-1633.(Acceptance rate: 185/766=24%)

[DATE] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Chunyan Li, "Extending the Lifetime of NVMs with Compression", Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2018, pages: 1616-1621.(Acceptance rate: 185/766=24%)

[HiPEAC/TACO] Zheng Li, Fang Wang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Jingning Liu, Wei Tong, "MaxPB : Accelerating PCM Write by Maximizing the Power Budget Utilization", Invited presentation at the International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC), 2017, and ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol.13, No.4, December 2016, pages:46-71.

[SoCC] Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Shunde Cao, Pengfei Zuo, "DLSH: A Distribution-aware LSH Scheme for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Query in Cloud Computing", Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2017, pages: 242-255. (Acceptance rate: 48/203=23.6%). Source codes

[MSST] Jie Wu, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Yuanyuan Sun, "A Cost-efficient Rewriting Scheme to Improve Restore Performance in Deduplication Systems", Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2017.

[MSST] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, "A Write-friendly Hashing Scheme for Non-volatile Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2017. Source codes with 29 Stars

[ICDCS] Landu Jiang, Yu Hua, Chen Ma, Xue Liu, "SunChase: Energy-Efficient Route Planning for Solar Powered EVs", Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017, pages: 383-393. (Acceptance rate: 89/531=16.8%)

[ICDCS] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Dan Feng, Wen Xia, Shunde Cao, Jie Wu, Yuanyuan Sun, Yuncheng Guo, "BEES: Bandwidth- and Energy- Efficient Image Sharing for Real-time Situation Awareness", Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017, pages: 1510-1520.

[ICCD] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Chunyan Li and Wen Zhou, "Improving Performance of TLC RRAM with Compression-Ratio-Aware Data Encoding", Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2017, pages: 573-580.

[ICCD] Xiaoyi Zhang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua and Jianxi Chen, "A Cost-efficient NVM-based Journaling Scheme for File Systems", Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2017, pages: 57-64.

[DATE] Chu Li, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Fang Wang, Chuntao Jiang, Wei Zhou, "A Log-aware Synergized Scheme for Page-level FTL Design", Proceedings of the 20th Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2017, pages: 1080-1085.

[DATE] Fangting Huang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wen Zhou, "A Wear-Leveling-Aware Counter Mode for Data Encryption in Non-Volatile Memories", Proceedings of the 20th Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2017, pages: 910-913.

[INFOCOM] Chunguang Li, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wen Xia, Leihua Qin, Yue Huang, Yukun Zhou, "BAC: Bandwidth-Aware Compression for Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machines", Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017, pages: 55-63. (Acceptance rate: 292/1395=21%)

[INFOCOM] Yongli Cheng, Hong Jiang, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, "BlitzG: Exploiting High-Bandwidth Networks for Fast Graph Processing", Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017, pages: 2340-2348. (Acceptance rate: 292/1395=21%)

[ICPP] Yi Su, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Zhan Shi, "Predicting Response Latency Percentiles for Cloud Object Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2017, pages: 241-250.

[IWQoS] Weibin Xie, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Yuchong Hu, Chu Li, "A Cost-efficient Scheme with Decoupling Host-side Flow Scheduling from Switches in DCNs", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017.

[HPDC] Yongli Cheng, Fang Wang, Hong Jiang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Xiuneng Wang, "DD-Graph: A Highly Cost-Effective Distributed Disk-based Graph-Processing Framework", Proceedings of ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2016, pages: 259-262. (Acceptance rate: 28/129=21.7%)

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, "Cheetah: An Efficient Flat Addressing Scheme for Fast Query Services in Cloud Computing", Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016, pages: 82-90. (Acceptance rate: 300/1644=18%, Best-in-Session Presentation Award) WNLO News (Cheetah)

[INFOCOM] Yixin Chen, Wenbo He, Yu Hua, Wen Wang, "CompoundEyes: Near-duplicate Detection in Large Scale Online Video Systems in the Cloud", Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016, pages: 892-900. (Acceptance rate: 300/1644=18%)

[DATE] Zheng Li, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Yu Chen and Dan Feng, "Exploiting more parallelism from write operations on PCM", Proceedings of the 19th Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2016, pages: 768-773. (Long paper, Acceptance rate: 199/829=24%)

[ISLPED] Wen Zhou, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Jingning Liu, Fangting Huang, Yu Chen, "An Efficient Parallel Scheduling Scheme on Multi-partition PCM Architecture", Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2016, pages: 344-349. (Acceptance rate as full paper: 44/190=23.2%)

[ICPP] Chu Li, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Fang Wang, "Improving RAID Performance Using an Endurable SSD Cache", Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2016. (Regular Paper, Acceptance rate: 53/251=21.1%)

[ICPP] Zheng Li, Fang Wang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Xiang Liu, "Tetris Write: Exploring More Write Parallelism Considering PCM Asymmetries", Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2016, pages: 159-168. (Regular Paper, Acceptance rate: 53/251=21.1%)

[ICPP] Tingwei Zhu, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Qingyu Shi, Jiahao Liu, "MIC: An Efficient Anonymous Communication System in Data Center Networks", Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2016, pages:11-20. (Regular Paper, Acceptance rate: 53/251=21.1%)

[IWQoS] Yongli Cheng, Fang Wang, Hong Jiang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Xiuneng Wang, "LCC-Graph: A High-Performance Graph-Processing Framework with Low Communication Costs", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2016, pages: 91-100. (Full paper, Acceptance rate: 27/131=20.6%)

[IWQoS] Tingwei Zhu, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Yong Wan, Qingyu Shi, Yanwen Xie, "MCTCP: Congestion-Aware and Robust MultiCast TCP in Software-Defined Networks", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2016, pages: 51-60. (Full paper, Acceptance rate: 27/131=20.6%)

[MSST] Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Ling Yang, Pengfei Zuo, Shunde Cao, "MinCounter: An Efficient Cuckoo Hashing Scheme for Cloud Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2015. (Acceptance rate: 23/100=23%)

[HotStorage] Wen Xia, Chunguang Li, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Leihua Qin, Yucheng Zhang, "Edelta: A Word-Enlarging Based Fast Delta Compression Approach", Proceedings of  the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2015.

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, Wenbo He,  Xue Liu, Dan Feng, "SmartEye: Real-time and Efficient Cloud Image Sharing for Disaster Environments", Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015, pages: 1616-1624. (Acceptance rate: 316/1640=19%)  WNLO News (SmartEye)

[ICPP] Yunxiang Wu, Fang Wang, Yu Hua, Dan Feng, Yuchong Hu, Jingning Liu, Wei Tong, "FastFCoE: An Efficient and Scale-up Multi-core Framework for FCoE-based SAN Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2015, pages: 330-339. (Acceptance rate: 99/305=32.5%)

[SECON] Jiwei Li, Zhe Peng, Bin Xiao, Yu Hua, "Make Smartphones Last A Day: Pre-processing Based Computer Vision Application Offloading", Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2015. (Acceptance rate: 55/194=28.3%)

[IWQoS] Yu Hua, "Smart Hashing based Queries in the Cloud", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2015, pages: 1-10. (Acceptance rate: 20/89=22.5% as Full Paper, in conjunction with ACM FCRC 2015)

[SC] Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, "FAST: Near Real-time Searchable Data Analytics for the Cloud", Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2014, Pages: 754-765. (Acceptance rate: 82/394=20.8%)

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Dan Feng, "Neptune: Efficient Remote Communication Services for Cloud Backups", Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2014, pages: 844-852. (Acceptance rate: 19.4%)

[INFOCOM] Jing Zhang, Xiangke Liao, Shanshan Li, Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Bin Lin, "Aggrecode: Constructing Route Intersection for Data Reconstruction in Erasure Coded Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2014, pages: 2139-2147. (Acceptance rate: 19.4%)

[ICDCS] Yu Hua, Lei Rao, Xue Liu, Dan Feng, "Cooperative and Efficient Real-time Scheduling for Automotive Communications", Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2014, pages:134-143. (Acceptance rate: 66/500=13%)

[IWQoS] Ying Fang, Yu Hua, Xue Liu, "Efficient End-to-End Communication Services for Mixed Criticality Avionics Systems", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2014, pages: 66-75. (Acceptance rate: 23.8%)

[IWQoS] Yu Hua, Dan Feng, "Needle in A Haystack: Cost-Effective Data Analytics for Real-Time Cloud Sharing", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2014, pages: 41-49. (Acceptance rate: 23.8%)

[IWQoS] Qiuyu Li, Yu Hua, Wenbo He, Dan Feng, Zhenhua Nie, Yuanyuan Sun, "Necklace: An Efficient Cuckoo Hashing Scheme for Cloud Storage Services", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2014, pages: 50-55.

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, Bin Xiao, Xue Liu, "NEST: Locality-aware Approximate Query Service for Cloud Computing", Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2013, pages: 1327-1335. (Acceptance rate: 17%, Download  Source Codes and Manual) WNLO News (NEST)

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Wenbo He, "HOSA: Holistic Scheduling and Analysis for Scalable Fault-tolerant FlexRay Design", Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), March 2012, pages: 1233-1241. (Acceptance rate: 18%)

[MASCOTS] Yu Hua, Xue Liu, Dan Feng, "MERCURY: A Scalable and Similarity-aware Scheme in Multi-level Cache Hierarchy", Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), August 2012, pages: 371-378.

[INFOCOM] Yu Hua, Xue Liu, "Scheduling Design and Analysis for End-to-End Heterogeneous Flows in an Avionics Network", Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on  Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2011, pages: 2417-2425. (Acceptance rate: 16%)

[USENIX ATC] Wen Xia, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, “SiLo: A Similarity-Locality based Near-Exact Deduplication Scheme with Low RAM Overhead and High Throughput,”  Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), June 2011. (Acceptance rate: 27/180=15%)

[SC] Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Dan Feng, Lei Tian, "SmartStore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm with Semantic-Awareness for Next-Generation File Systems", Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2009. (Acceptance rate: 22.6%)

[ICDCS] Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian, "Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management in Ultra Large-scale File Systems", Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2008, pages: 403-410. (Acceptance rate: 16%)

[ICPP] Yu Hua, Bin Xiao, Dan Feng, Bo Yu, "Bounded LSH for Similarity Search in Peer-to-Peer File Systems", Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), September 2008, pages: 644-651. (Acceptance rate: 30.8%)

[HiPC] Yu Hua, Bin Xiao. "A Multi-attribute Data Structure with Parallel Bloom Filters for Network Services", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), LNCS 4297, December 2006, pages: 277-288. (Acceptance rate: 15.5%)