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Zhaoxiang Bao
dblp:403/5362
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0007-6149-9828ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
High-performance computing · 44% Distributed systems · 44% Cloud and datacenter computing · 13% | |
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Datacenter networks · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Datacenter networks › flow scheduling
coflow scheduling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025 |
High-performance computing
cluster computing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025 |
Distributed systems
communication optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
cluster computing framework |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
trace-driven simulation · 1.7flow merging · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster ComputingabstractAs one of the pillars in cluster computing frameworks, coflow scheduling algorithms can effectively shorten the network transmission time of cluster computing jobs, thus reducing the job completion times and improving the execution performance. However, most of existing coflow scheduling algorithms failed to consider the influences of concurrent flows, which can degrade their performance under a massive number of concurrent flows. To fill the gap, we propose a unified communication agent named Courier to minimize the number of concurrent flows in cluster computing applications, which is compatible with the mainstream coflow scheduling approaches. To maintain the scheduling order given by the scheduling algorithms, Courier merges multiple flows between each pair of hosts into a unified flow, and determines its order based on that of origin flows. In addition, in order to adapt to various types of topologies, Courier introduces a control mechanism to adjust the number of flows while maintaining the scheduling order. Extensive large-scale trace-driven simulations have shown that Courier is compatible with existing scheduling algorithms, and outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches by about 30% under a variety of workloads and topologies. Zhaochen Zhang, Xu Zhang 0006, Zhaoxiang Bao, Chaohong Tan, Wan-Chun Dou, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. | 3 |