Research

I work on the management and the orchestration of telecommunication and Internet infrastructures, services, and applications, spanning edge computing, cloud computing, machine learning, network security, virtual reality, and social networks. In this context, I exploit mathematics and theories of optimization, control, learning, and mechanism design, and design algorithms, often with provable performance guarantees or practical insights, to solve a variety of problems, including resource allocation, service placement, job scheduling, content caching, mobility support, energy efficiency, and economic incentives. I am also interested in building systems that incorporate novel algorithms and analytics.

Papers

  1. MOBIHOC '20 Qin Zhang, Ruiting Zhou, Chuan Wu, Lei Jiao, Zongpeng Li, Online Scheduling of Heterogeneous Distributed Machine Learning Jobs, ACM 21st International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2020

  2. IWQoS '20 Tiantian Wang, Zhuzhong Qian, Lei Jiao, Xin Li, Sanglu Lu, GeoClone: Online Task Replication and Scheduling for Geo-Distributed Analytics under Uncertainties, IEEE/ACM 27th International Symposium on Quality of Service, 2020

  3. ICDCS '20 Yibo Jin, Lei Jiao, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Sanglu Lu, Xiaoliang Wang, Resource-Efficient and Convergence-Preserving Online Participant Selection in Federated Learning, IEEE 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2020

  4. SECON '20 Yibo Jin, Lei Jiao, Zhuzhong Qian, Sheng Zhang, Ning Chen, Sanglu Lu, Xiaoliang Wang, Provisioning Edge Inference as a Service via Online Learning, IEEE 17th International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2020

  5. SECON '20 Wencong You, Lei Jiao, Sourav Bhattacharya, Yuan Zhang, Dynamic Distributed Edge Resource Provisioning via Online Learning across Timescales, IEEE 17th International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2020

  6. INFOCOM '20 Wencong You, Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Ruiting Zhou, Scheduling DDoS Cloud Scrubbing in ISP Networks via Randomized Online Auctions, IEEE 39th International Conference on Computer Communications, 2020

  7. TPDS '20 Xiaotong Li, Ruiting Zhou, Lei Jiao, Chuan Wu, Yuhang Deng, Zongpeng Li, Online Placement and Scaling of Geo-Distributed Machine Learning Jobs via Volume-Discounting Brokerage, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 31(4):948-966, 2020

  8. COMNET '20 Xiaotong Li, Ruiting Zhou, Ying-Jun Angela Zhang, Lei Jiao, Zongpeng Li, Smart Vehicular Communication via 5G mmWaves, Elsevier Computer Networks, (in press) 2020

  9. AsiaCCS '20 Devkishen Sisodia, Jun Li, Lei Jiao, In-Network Filtering of Distributed Denial-of-Service Traffic with Near-Optimal Rule Selection, ACM 15th Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2020

  10. JSAC '19 Yuan Zhang, Lei Jiao, Jinyao Yan, Xiaojun Lin, Dynamic Service Placement for Virtual Reality Group Gaming on Mobile Edge Cloudlets, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 37(8):1881-1897, 2019

  11. SIGMETRICS '19 Ming Shi, Xiaojun Lin, Lei Jiao, On the Value of Look-Ahead in Competitive Online Convex Optimization, ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE 14th Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2019

  12. MOBIHOC '19 Lei Jiao, Ruiting Zhou, Xiaojun Lin, Xu Chen, Online Scheduling of Traffic Diversion and Cloud Scrubbing with Uncertainty in Current Inputs, ACM 20th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2019

  13. ICDCS '19 Amit Samanta, Lei Jiao, Max Mühlhäuser, Lin Wang, Incentivizing Microservices for Online Resource Sharing in Edge Clouds, IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2019

  14. INFOCOM '19 Shutong Chen, Lei Jiao, Lin Wang, Fangming Liu, An Online Market Mechanism for Edge Emergency Demand Response via Cloudlet Control, IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Communications, 2019

  15. CNS '19, Best Paper Award Yebo Feng, Jun Li, Lei Jiao, Xintao Wu, BotFlowMon: Learning-Based, Content-Agnostic Identification of Social Bot Traffic Flows, IEEE 7th Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2019

  16. TMC '19 Lin Wang, Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Julien Gedeon, Max Mühlhäuser, MOERA: Mobility-Agnostic Online Resource Allocation for Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18(8):1843-1856, 2019

  17. JSAC '18 Lingjun Pu, Lei Jiao, Xu Chen, Lin Wang, Qinyi Xie, Jingdong Xu, Online Resource Allocation, Content Placement and Request Routing for Cost-Efficient Edge Caching in Cloud Radio Access Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, (36)8:1751-1767, 2018

  18. SECON '18 Lei Jiao, Lingjun Pu, Lin Wang, Xiaojun Lin, Jun Li, Multiple Granularity Online Control of Cloudlet Networks for Edge Computing, IEEE 15th International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, 2018

  19. IWQoS '18 Lei Jiao, Antonia Tulino, Jaime Llorca, Yue Jin, Alessandra Sala, Jun Li, Online Control of Cloud and Edge Resources Using Inaccurate Predictions, IEEE/ACM 25th International Symposium on Quality of Service, 2018

  20. INFOCOM '18 Lin Wang, Lei Jiao, Ting He, Jun Li, Max Mühlhäuser, Service Entity Placement for Social Virtual Reality Applications in Edge Computing, IEEE 37th International Conference on Computer Communications, 2018

  21. ToN '17 Lei Jiao, Antonia Tulino, Jaime Llorca, Yue Jin, Alessandra Sala, Smoothed Online Resource Allocation in Multi-Tier Distributed Cloud Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(4):2556-2570, 2017

  22. ICDCS '17 Lin Wang, Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Max Mühlhäuser, Online Resource Allocation for Arbitrary User Mobility in Distributed Edge Clouds, IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2017

  23. Middleware '17 Jörg Thalheim, Antonio Rodrigues, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Pramod Bhatotia, Ruichuan Chen, Bimal Viswanath, Lei Jiao, Christof Fetzer, Sieve: Actionable Insights from Monitored Metrics in Distributed Systems, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 18th International Middleware Conference, 2017

  24. ToN '16 Xu Chen, Lei Jiao, Wenzhong Li, Xiaoming Fu, Efficient Multi-User Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge Cloud Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(5):2795-2808, 2016

  25. ToN '16 Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, Wei Du, Xiaoming Fu, Optimizing Cost for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(1):99-112, 2016

  26. IPDPS '16 Lei Jiao, Antonia Tulino, Jaime Llorca, Yue Jin, Alessandra Sala, Smoothed Online Resource Allocation in Multi-Tier Distributed Cloud Networks, IEEE 30th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2016

  27. IPSN '16 Nicholas Lane, Sourav Bhattacharya, Petko Georgiev, Claudio Forlivesi, Lei Jiao, Lorena Qendro, Fahim Kawsar, DeepX: A Software Accelerator for Low-Power Deep Learning Inference on Mobile Devices, ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2016

  28. ICNP '16 Workshop, Best Paper Award Lin Wang, Lei Jiao, Dzmitry Kliazovich, Pascal Bouvry, Reconciling Task Assignment and Scheduling in Mobile Edge Clouds, International Workshop on Hot Topics in Practical Networked Systems, with IEEE 24th International Conference on Network Protocols, 2016

  29. TSC '15 Song Li, Yangfan Zhou, Lei Jiao, Xinya Yan, Xin Wang, Michael R. Lyu, Towards Operational Cost Minimization in Hybrid Clouds for Dynamic Resource Provisioning with Delay-Aware Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 8(3):398-409, 2015

  30. INFOCOM '14 Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Wei Du, Xiaoming Fu, Multi-Objective Data Placement for Multi-Cloud Socially Aware Services, IEEE 33rd International Conference on Computer Communications, 2014

  31. ICWS '14 Song Li, Yangfan Zhou, Lei Jiao, Xinya Yan, Xin Wang, Michael R. Lyu, Delay-Aware Cost Optimization for Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Hybrid Clouds, IEEE 21st International Conference on Web Services, 2014

  32. LANMAN '13, Best Paper Award Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Xiaoming Fu, Optimizing Data Center Traffic of Online Social Networks, IEEE 19th International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 2013

  33. ICNP '12 Lei Jiao, Jun Li, Tianyin Xu, Xiaoming Fu, Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE 20th International Conference on Network Protocols, 2012

  34. CloudNet '12 Yuan Zhang, Hao Liu, Lei Jiao, Xiaoming Fu, To Offload or Not to Offload: An Efficient Code Partition Algorithm for Mobile Cloud Computing, IEEE 1st International Conference on Cloud Networking, 2012

  35. Middleware '11 Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Lei Jiao, Ben Zhao, Pan Hui, Xiaoming Fu, Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, 2011

  36. ANCS '11 Jiachen Chen, Mayutan Arumaithurai, Lei Jiao, Xiaoming Fu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, COPSS: An Efficient Content Oriented Publish/Subscribe System, ACM/IEEE 7th Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, 2011

Patents

  1. Lei Jiao, Jesus Iglesias Omana, Diego Lugones, Alessandra Sala, Volker Hilt, A Method and System for Managing Workload Distribution in a Virtualized System, European Patent, Publication Number: EP3291091, Publication Date: 2018/03/07

  2. Lei Jiao, Diego Lugones, Yue Jin, Alessandra Sala, Volker Hilt, A Method and System for Scaling Resources, and a Computer Program Product, European Patent, Publication Number: EP3226134, Publication Date: 2017/10/04

Teaching

As Instructor at Oregon

In University of Oregon an academic year consists of four terms.

  • (CIS 621) Algorithms and Complexity: Winter 2019
  • (CIS 607) Seminar on Edge Computing: Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
  • (CIS 445⁄545) Modeling and Simulation: Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
  • (CIS 410⁄510) Selected Topics on Optimization: Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
  • (CIS 410⁄510) Cloud Computing and Optimization: Winter 2017, Winter 2018
  • (CIS 315) Intermediate Algorithms: Winter 2020, Winter 2021
  • (CIS 212) Computer Science III (Java): Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018

As Teaching Assistant at Göttingen

In Germany an academic year consists of two semesters.

  • Seminar on Internet Technologies (B.Sc./M.Sc.): Summer Semesters 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
  • Practical Course Networking Lab (B.Sc.): Summer Semesters 2013, 2011
  • Advanced Computer Networks (M.Sc.): Summer Semester 2013

Services

Departmental Services

  • 2016-2017: Chair of the Colloquium Committee
  • 2016-2019: Member of the Computing Resource Committee
  • 2017-2020: Member of the Diversity Committee
  • 2019-2020: Member of the Undergraduate Education Committee

Editorial Boards

  • Guest Editor: IEEE JSAC Series on Network Softwarization and Enablers, 2018-present
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Access, 2018-2021

Technical Program Committees (TPCs)

  • TPC Chair
    • International Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Mobile and Online Social Networking (HotPOST): 2017 (with ICDCS), 2018 (with INFOCOM)
    • International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC): 2020 (with ICDCS)
  • TPC Member
    • ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC): 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM): 2019 (Distinguished Member), 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2019, 2020
    • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2018, 2019, 2020
    • ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) Poster/Demo: 2019
    • IFIP Networking Conference (Networking): 2018, 2019, 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): 2018, 2019, 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN): 2020
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN): 2018, 2019
    • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS): 2018, 2019
    • IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM): 2019
    • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 2018, 2020
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC): 2017, 2018
    • IEEE/GI/ITG International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys): 2017
    • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) PhD Consortium: 2016

Organization Committees

  • Steering Committee Member: International Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Mobile and Online Social Networking (HotPOST) 2020 (with INFOCOM)
  • Steering Committee Member: International Workshop on Hot Topics in Social and Mobile Connected Smart Objects (HotSALSA) 2019 (with INFOCOM)
  • Steering Committee Member: International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN) 2019 (with INFOCOM)
  • Publicity Chair: International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) 2018 (with MobiSys)

Reviewer for Journals

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ToIT)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM)
  • IEEE Communications Letters (COMML)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
  • Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)
  • Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
  • Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
  • Elsevier Information Sciences
  • Springer World Wide Web Journal
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Access

Reviewer for Conferences/Workshops

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM): 2012, 2013, 2015-2018
  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2012-2015
  • ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN): 2014
  • IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN): 2014
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM): 2014
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet): 2012, 2013
  • IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM): 2011

Activities

Invited Talks

  • Scheduling Traffic Diversion and Cloud Scrubbing via a Novel Competitive Online Learning Framework, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA, November 2019
  • Online Control of Cloud and Edge Resources Using Inaccurate Predictions, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2018
  • Online Control of Cloud/Cloudlet Networks in Adversarial Environments, Oregon Cyber Security Day, Eugene, OR, USA, April 2018
  • Smart Resource Orchestration against Economic DDoS Attacks toward Cloud, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 2018
  • Competitive Online Resource Allocation in Edge Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, September 2017
  • DDoS for Cloud Auto-Scaling: Attack and Defense, Oregon Cyber Security Day, Eugene, OR, USA, April 2017
  • Predictive Resource Control across Edge and Core Clouds, Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, August 2016
  • Optimizing Cloud Resource Allocation and Reconfiguration, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, June 2016
  • Smoothed Online Resource Allocation in Multi-Tier Distributed Cloud Networks, IEEE IPDPS, Chicago, IL, USA, May 2016
  • Online Social Network Data Placement over Geo-Distributed Clouds, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, September 2015
  • Placing Data of Socially Aware Services over Geo-Distributed Clouds, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA, September 2014
  • Placing Data of Socially Aware Services over Geo-Distributed Clouds, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014
  • Multi-Objective Data Placement for Multi-Cloud Socially Aware Services, Huawei European Research Center, Munich, Germany, July 2014
  • Multi-Objective Data Placement for Multi-Cloud Socially Aware Services, IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2014
  • Optimizing Data Center Traffic of Online Social Networks, IEEE LANMAN, Brussels, Belgium, April 2013
  • Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, March 2013
  • Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP, Austin, TX, USA, October 2012
  • Latency-Aware Data Partitioning for Geo-Replicated Online Social Networks, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, September 2011

Invited Participation

Awards/Honors

  • IEEE CNS 2019 Best Paper Award, June 2019
  • Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Technical Program Committee, February 2019
  • HotPNS 2016 (in conjunction with IEEE ICNP 2016) Best Paper Award, November 2016
  • Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs UK & Ireland Recognition Award, January 2016
  • IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grant, March 2014
  • IEEE LANMAN 2013 Best Paper Award, April 2013