Selected Publications

Yan Cai, Jialong Li, Kutalmis Akpinar, Peter Li, Hany Morsy, Jason Wilson, Sunil Khaunte, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Matryoshka: Realizing Hyperscale Data Center Network Design for the AI Era, 23th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2026), to appear.

Federico De Marchi, Jialong Li, Ying Zhang, Wei Bai, Yiting Xia, Unlocking Superior Performance in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks with Credit-Based Transport, 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2025).

Jialong Li, Federico De Marchi, Yiming Lei, Raj Joshi, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Yiting Xia, Unlocking Diversity of Fast-Switched Optical Data Center Networks with Unified Routing, IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN).

Aoyu Gong, Sepehr Mousavi, Yiting Xia, Savvas Zannettou, ClipMind: A Framework for Auditing Short-Format Video Recommendations Using Multimodal AI Models, 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025).

Jialong Li, Haotian Gong, Federico De Marchi, Aoyu Gong, Yiming Lei, Wei Bai, Yiting Xia, Uniform-Cost Multi-Path Routing for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks, 2024 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2024).

Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Yiting Xia, Yan Cai, Yanping Li, Ying Zhang, Ang Chen, Occam: A Programming System for Reliable Network Management, 19th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2024).

Rui Pan, Yiming Lei, Jialong Li, Zhiqiang Xie, Binhang Yuan, Yiting Xia, Efficient Flow Scheduling in Distributed Deep Learning Training with Echelon Formation, 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2022).

Jialong Li, Yiming Lei, Federico De Marchi, Raj Joshi, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Yiting Xia, Hop-On Hop-Off Routing: A Fast Tour across the Optical Data Center Network for Latency-Sensitive Flows, 6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2022).

Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Varun Gupta, Vinayak Dangui, Soshant Bali, Abishek Gopalan, Hao Zhong, Petr Lapukhov, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Capacity-Efficient and Uncertainty-Resilient Backbone Network Planning with Hose, 2021 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2021).

Zhizhen Zhong, Manya Ghobadi, Alaa Khaddaj, Jonathan Leach, Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Arrow: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering, 2021 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2021).

Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Zhizhen Zhong, Guanqing Yan, Chiun Lin Lim, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Soshant Bali, Alexander Nikolaidis, Kimia Ghobadi, Manya Ghobadi, A Social Network Under Social Distancing: Risk-Driven Backbone Management During COVID-19 and Beyond, 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2021).

Xin Huang, Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Weaver: Efficient Coflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Parallel Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2020).

Yiting Xia*, Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Xin Sunny Huang, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, T. S. Eugene Ng, Masking Failures from Application Performance in Data Center Networks with Shareable Backup, 2018 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2018).

Xiaoye Steven Sun, Yiting Xia, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Xin Sunny Huang, Dingming Wu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Republic: Data Multicast Meets Hybrid Rack-Level Interconnections in Data Centers, IEEE 26th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2018).

Yiting Xia,  On Designing Convertible Data Center Network Architectures, PhD thesis, Rice University, February 2018.

Yiting Xia, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, Stop Rerouting! Enabling ShareBackup for Failure Recovery in Data Center Networks, 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2017).

Yiting Xia, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Dingming Wu, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, A Tale of Two Topologies: Exploring Convertible Data Center Network Architectures with Flat-tree, 2017 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2017).

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Flat-tree: A Convertible Data Center Network Architecture from Clos to Random Graph, 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2016).

Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Sun, Yiting Xia, Xin Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, HyperOptics: A High Throughput and Low Latency Multicast Architecture for Datacenters, 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2016).

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Xiaoye Sun, Blast: Accelerating High-Performance Data Analytics Applications by Optical Multicast, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015).

Yiting Xia, Mike Schlansker, T. S. Eugene Ng, Jean Tourrilhes, Enabling Topological Flexibility for Data Centers Using OmniSwitch, 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2015).

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, A Cross-Layer SDN Control Plane for Optical Multicast-Featured Datacenters, 2014 ACM Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN 2014).

Payman Samadi, Howard Wang, David Calhoun, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, An Optical Programmable Network Architecture Supporting Iterative Multicast for Data-intensive Applications, IEEE 3rd Optical Interconnects Conference (OIC 2014).

Yiting Xia, Control Plane Design and Performance Analysis for Optical Multicast-Capable Datacenter Networks, Master's Thesis, Rice University, April 2014.

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, λgroup: Using Optics to Take Group Data Delivery in the Datacenter to the Next Degree, Rice University Technical Report TR14-01, February 2014.

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Sambit Sahu, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Rethinking the Physical Layer of Data Center Networks of the Next Decade: Using Optics to Enable Efficient *-Cast Connectivity, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2013.

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sambit Sahu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, End-to-End Demonstration of Optical Multicasting Over a Dynamically-Reconfigurable Hybrid Data Center Network Architecture, 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series.

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Yiting Xia, Chengchen Hu, RPIM: Inferring BGP Routing Policies in ISP Networks, 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011).

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Wenzhong Li, Yiting Xia, Towards Inferring Inter-Domain Routing Policies in ISP Networks, in IEICE Transactions on Communications, November 2011.