Publications
2026
SIGCOMM CCR ’26
A DualPI2 Module for Mahimahi: Behavioral Characterization and Cross-Platform Analysis
Nawel Alioua, Linghe Zhang, Aneesh Garg, Francis Y. Yan, Elizabeth Belding
To appear in SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (SIGCOMM CCR ’26), Jul 2026
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MobiSys ’26
AquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices
Beitong Tian, Lingzhi Zhao, Bo Chen, Mingyuan Wu, Haozhen Zheng, Deepak Vasisht, Francis Y. Yan, Klara Nahrstedt
In ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys ’26), Jun 2026
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IEEE ICC ’26
Offline Meta-learning for Real-time Bandwidth Estimation
Aashish Gottipati, Sami Khairy, Yasaman Hosseinkashi, Gabriel Mittag, Vishak Gopal, Francis Y. Yan, Ross Cutler
In IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC ’26), May 2026
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ICLR ’26
Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
Ruiying Ma, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yanjie Gao, Francis Y. Yan
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR ’26), Apr 2026
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ICLR ’26
Winner of AgentX–AgentBeats Competition (Coding Agent Track)
NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
Yajie Zhou, Jiajun Ruan, Eric S. Wang, Sadjad Fouladi, Francis Y. Yan, Kevin Hsieh, Zaoxing Liu
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR ’26), Apr 2026
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EuroSys ’26
Concord: Learning Network Configuration Contracts
Ryan Beckett, Francis Y. Yan, Raghunadha Pocha, Vineesh V. Raj, Ayyub Shaik, Siva Kakarla
In European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ’26), Apr 2026
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2025
arXiv
Congestion Control System Optimization with Large Language Models
Zhiyuan He, Aashish Gottipati, Lili Qiu, Yuqing Yang, Francis Y. Yan
Preprint arXiv:2508.16074, Aug 2025
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OSDI ’25
Decouple and Decompose: Scaling Resource Allocation with DeDe
Zhiying Xu, Minlan Yu, Francis Y. Yan
In USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’25), Jul 2025
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NSDI ’25
Mowgli: Passively Learned Rate Control for Real-Time Video
Neil Agarwal, Rui Pan, Francis Y. Yan, Ravi Netravali
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’25), Apr 2025
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NSDI ’25
Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers
Anuj Kalia, Nikita Lazarev, Leyang Xue, Xenofon Foukas, Bozidar Radunovic, Francis Y. Yan
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’25), Apr 2025
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2024
HotNets ’24
Designing Network Algorithms via Large Language Models
Zhiyuan He, Aashish Gottipati, Lili Qiu, Xufang Luo, Kenuo Xu, Yuqing Yang, Francis Y. Yan
In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets ’24), Nov 2024
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arXiv
AutoSpec: Automated Generation of Neural Network Specifications
Shuowei Jin, Francis Y. Yan, Cheng Tan, Anuj Kalia, Xenofon Foukas, Z. Morley Mao
Preprint arXiv:2409.10897, Sep 2024
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PLDI ’24
Diffy: Data-Driven Bug Finding for Configurations
Siva Kakarla, Francis Y. Yan, Ryan Beckett
In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ’24), Jun 2024
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NSDI ’24
Outstanding Paper Award
Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices
Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Feng Wu, Francis Y. Yan
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’24), Apr 2024
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NSDI ’24
Grace: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video through Neural Codecs
Yihua Cheng, Ziyi Zhang, Hanchen Li, Anton Arapin, Yue Zhang, Qizheng Zhang, Yuhan Liu, Kuntai Du, Xu Zhang, Francis Y. Yan, Amrita Mazumdar, Nick Feamster, Junchen Jiang
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’24), Apr 2024
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MMSys ’24
ACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge
Sami Khairy, Gabriel Mittag, Vishak Gopal, Francis Y. Yan, Zhixiong Niu, Ezra Ameri, Scott Inglis, Mehrsa Golestaneh, Ross Cutler
In ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys ’24), Apr 2024
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2023
SEC ’23
Octopus: In-Network Content Adaptation to Control Congestion on 5G Links
Yongzhou Chen, Ammar Tahir, Francis Y. Yan, Radhika Mittal
In ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC ’23), Dec 2023
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MobiCom ’23
Accelerating Open RAN Research Through an Enterprise-scale 5G Testbed
Paramvir Bahl, Matthew Balkwill, Xenofon Foukas, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Manikanta Kotaru, Zhihua Lai, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Bozidar Radunovic, Stefan Saroiu, Connor Settle, Ankit Verma, Alec Wolman, Francis Y. Yan, Yongguang Zhang (*authors in alphabetical order)
In Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’23), Oct 2023
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SIGCOMM ’23
Teal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
Zhiying Xu, Francis Y. Yan, Rachee Singh, Justin T. Chiu, Alexander M. Rush, Minlan Yu
In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication Conference (SIGCOMM ’23), Sep 2023
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SIGCOMM ’23
Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot
Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, Aditya Akella
In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication Conference (SIGCOMM ’23), Sep 2023
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ICLR ’23
Mitigating Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems with Offline Reinforcement Learning
Yueying Li, Daochen Zha, Tianjun Zhang, G. Edward Suh, Christina Delimitrou, Francis Y. Yan
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR ’23), May 2023
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NSDI ’23
Tambur: Efficient loss recovery for videoconferencing via streaming codes
Michael Rudow, Francis Y. Yan, Abhishek Kumar, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Martin Ellis, K.V. Rashmi
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’23), Apr 2023
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2022
SIGCOMM ’22
Genet: Automatic Curriculum Generation for Learning Adaptation in Networking
Zhengxu Xia*, Yajie Zhou*, Francis Y. Yan, Junchen Jiang (*equal contribution)
In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication Conference (SIGCOMM ’22), Aug 2022
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APNet ’22
Best Paper Award
OpenNetLab: Open Platform for RL-based Congestion Control for Real-Time Communications
Jeongyoon Eo, Zhixiong Niu, Wenxue Cheng, Francis Y. Yan, Rui Gao, Jorina Kardhashi, Scott Inglis, Michael Revow, Byung-Gon Chun, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
In Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ’22), Jul 2022
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2020 and earlier
arXiv
Implementing BOLA-BASIC on Puffer: Lessons for the use of SSIM in ABR logic
Emily Marx, Francis Y. Yan, Keith Winstein
Preprint arXiv:2011.09611, Nov 2020
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Dissertation
Practical Machine Learning for Sequential Decision Problems on the Internet
Francis Y. Yan
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Jun 2020
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NSDI ’20
Community Award
IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming
Francis Y. Yan, Hudson Ayers, Chenzhi Zhu, Sadjad Fouladi, James Hong, Keyi Zhang, Philip Levis, Keith Winstein
In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’20), Feb 2020
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ATC ’18
Best Paper Award
Pantheon: the training ground for Internet congestion-control research
Francis Y. Yan, Jestin Ma, Greg D. Hill, Deepti Raghavan, Riad S. Wahby, Philip Levis, Keith Winstein
In USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ’18), Jul 2018
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HotPower ’15
Optimizing Power Consumption of Mobile Games
Francis Y. Yan, Songtao He, Yunxin Liu, Longbo Huang
In Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower ’15), Oct 2015
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INFOCOM ’15
Speedup of Information Exchange using Multiple Channels in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Dongxiao Yu, Yuexuan Wang, Francis Y. Yan, Jiguo Yu, Francis C.M. Lau
In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM ’15), Apr 2015
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Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Bounded information dissemination in multi-channel wireless networks
Francis Y. Yan, Dongxiao Yu, Yuexuan Wang, Jiguo Yu, Francis C.M. Lau
In Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Oct 2014
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Patents
  1. Determining Reference Signal Transmission Times
    • Filed with Neil Agarwal, Manikanta Kotaru, and Victor Bahl, May 2022
    • Granted as U.S. Patent 12,413,358, Sep 2025
  2. Wireless Parameter Limits for Predicted vRAN Resource Loads
  3. Artificial Intelligence for Intent-Based Networking
  4. Data Streaming Protocols in Edge Computing
  5. Data Stream Prioritization for Communication Session
  6. Media Server Management for Communication Session
  7. Loss Recovery Using Streaming Codes in Forward Error Correction
    • Filed with Michael Rudow, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, and Martin Ellis, Sep 2021
    • Granted as U.S. Patent 11,489,620, Nov 2022
  8. Extracting Alert Rules From Log Files Using Language Models
    • Filed with Ryan Beckett, Behnaz Arzani, and Siva Kakarla, Apr 2025
  9. Generating Adaptive Bitrate Data Streaming Neural Network Code by Large Language Model
    • Filed with Zhiyuan He, Lili Qiu, and Xufang Luo, Jun 2024
  10. Techniques for Detecting Anomalies in Data Files
    • Filed with Ryan Beckett and Siva Kakarla, Apr 2024
  11. Automatically Detecting Anomalies in Complex Configurations
    • Filed with Ryan Beckett and Siva Kakarla, May 2023
  12. Bi-Level Machine-Learning-Assisted Management of Computing Resources
    • Filed with Zibo Wang, Pinghe Li, and Mike Liang, May 2023
  13. Power Control for Energy-Efficient 5G vRAN
    • Filed with Anuj Kalia, Xenofon Foukas, and Bozidar Radunovic, May 2023
  14. CPU Power Management for Virtualized Radio Access Networks
    • Filed with Anuj Kalia, Xenofon Foukas, and Bozidar Radunovic, May 2023