Zhaoxiang Bao

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0007-6149-9828ORCID · reported

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Datacenter networks › flow scheduling
coflow scheduling
0.912025
Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025
High-performance computing
cluster computing
0.912025
Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing · IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 2025
Distributed systems
communication optimization
0.912025
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
0.312025
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Courier: A Unified Communication Agent to Support Concurrent Flow Scheduling in Cluster Computing
abstract
As 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