Tenured Associate Professor

College of Intelligence and Computing

Tianjin University

Address: B122, Building 55, Tianjin University (Peiyang Campus), Jinnan, Tianjin, P. R. China

Email: toliwenxin@gmail.com,  toliwenxin@tju.edu.cn

I am currently a tenured associate professor of the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University. Before that, I used to be a researcher in the Theory Lab of Hong Kong Huawei from May 2019 to Sept. 2021. In addition, I was a post-doc researcher in HKUST working with Prof. Kai Chen from May 2018 to April 2019. I received my B.E. degree and Ph.D degree (Advisor: Prof. Keqiu Li) both from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, in 2012 and 2018 respectively. I was a research assistant in National University of Defense Technology from May 2014 to May 2015, under supervison of Prof. Deke Guo. From Oct. 2016 to Sept. 2017, I was a visiting student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Toronto, under the supervison of Prof. Baochun Li.

News

    July 2023     One paper accepted to NSDI.
    July 2023     One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
    Jan 2021     Hone accepted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
    Dec 2020     Won the CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
    Nov 2020     Two papers accepted to INFOCOM'20.
    Nov 2020     Two papers accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
    Oct 2020     SmartCoflow accepted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Research Interests

Publications

Conference Papers

  • Flow Scheduling with Imprecise Knowledge

    Wenxin Li, Xin He, Yuan Liu, Keqiu Li, Kai Chen, Zhao Ge, Zewei Guan, Heng Qi, Song Zhang, Guyue Liu

    The 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2024

  • Host-Driven In-Network Aggregation on RDMA

    Yulong Li, Wenxin Li, Yinan Yao, Yuxuan Du, Keqiu Li

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications ((INFOCOM)), 2024

  • BULB: Lightweight and Automated Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks

    Yuan Liu, Wenxin Li, Wenyu Qu, Heng Qi

    Proceedings of the 51st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2022

  • DarkTE: Towards Dark Traffic Engineering in Data Center Networks with Ensemble Learning

    Renhai Xu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Xiaobo Zhou, and Heng Qi

    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2021, to appear

  • Efficient Coflow Transmission for Distributed Stream Processing[pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Xu Yuan, Wenyu Qu, Heng Qi, Xiaobo Zhou, Sheng Chen, and Renhai Xu

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2020

  • TINA: A Fair Inter-Datacenter Transmission Mechanism with Deadline Guarantee[pdf]

    Xiaodong Dong, Wenxin Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2020

  • OSTB: Optimizing Fairness and Efficiency for Coflow Scheduling without Prior Knowledge [pdf]

    Handong Qu, Renhai Xu, Wenxin Li锛學enyu Qu, Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2019

  • Leveraging Endpoint Flexibility When Scheduling Coflows across Geo-distributed Datacenters [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Xu Yuan, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, and Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2018 (Best-in-Session Presentation!)

  • Shaping Deadline Coflows to Accelerate Non-Deadline Coflows [pdf]

    Renhai Xu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2018

  • Wide-Area Spark Streaming: Automated Routing and Batch Sizing [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Di Niu, Yinan Liu, Shuhao Liu, Baochun Li

    IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2017

  • More Peak, Less Differentiation: Towards A Pricing-aware Online Control Framework for Inter-Datacenter Transfers [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi and Deke Guo

    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017

  • Optimizing the Cost-Performance Tradeoff for Geo-distributed Data Analytics with Uncertain Demand [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Renhai Xu, Heng Qi, Keqiu Li , Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017

  • Scheduling Dependent Coflows with Guaranteed Job Completion Time [pdf]

    Yang Liu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Xiaoyi Tao and Sheng Chen

    IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, 2016

  • Towards Application-Aware In-Network Bandwidth Management in Data Centers [pdf]

    Renhai Xu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi

    IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, 2016

  • Zebra: An East-west Control Framework for SDN Controllers [pdf]

    Haisheng Yu, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Wenxin Li, Xiaoyi Tao

    International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2015

  • Pota: Maximizing Profit for Task-level Scheduling for Data Center Networks [pdf]

    Xiaoyi Tao, Heng Qi, Wenxin Li锛孠eqiu Li, Yingwei Jin

    IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC), 2015 (Best paper award!)

Journal Papers

  • Accelerating Data Delivery of Latency-Sensitive Applications in Container Overlay Network [pdf]

    Hao Liu, Wenxin Li, Yiren Pang, Renjie Pei, Yitao Hu, Yuan Liu, Lide Suo, Keqiu Li

    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2023

  • Hone: Mitigating Stragglers in Distributed Stream Processing with Tuple Scheduling [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Duowen Liu, Kai Chen, Keqiu Li, and Heng Qi

    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2021

  • Endpoint-Flexible Coflow Scheduling Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Xu Yuan, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Xiaobo Zhou, Renhai Xu

    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2020

  • Efficient Online Scheduling for Coflow-aware Machine Learning Clusters [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Sheng Chen, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Renhai Xu, and Song Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020

  • Trading Cost and Throughput in Geo-distributed Analytics with A Two Time Scale Approach [pdf]

    Xinping Xu, Wenxin Li, Renhai Xu, Heng Qi, Keqiu Li, Xiaobo Zhou and Sheng Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020

  • Data Center Network Flow Scheduling Progress and Trends [pdf]

    Xinping Xu, Wenxin Li, Renhai Xu, Heng Qi, Keqiu Li, Xiaobo Zhou and Sheng Chen

    Chinese Journal of Computers, 2020(in Chinese)

  • Scheduling Mix-Coflows in Datacenter Networks [pdf]

    Renhai Xu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li and Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2020

  • Latency-Constrained Cost-Minimized Request Allocation for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services [pdf]

    Xinping Xu, Wenxin Li, Heng Qi, Junxiao Wang, Keqiu Li

    IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCS), 2020

  • A Blockchain-driven IIoT Traffic Classification Service for Edge Computing [pdf]

    Heng Qi, Junxiao Wang, Wenxin Li, Yuxin Wang, Tie Qiu

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT Journal), 2020

  • Dynamic SDN Control Plane Request Assignment in NFV Datacenters [pdf]

    Junxiao Wang, Heng Qi, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Steve Uhlig, and Yuxin Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2020

  • FlowTracer: An Effective Flow Trajectory Detection Solution Based on Probabilistic Packet Tagging in SDN-Enabled Networks [pdf]

    Junxiao Wang, Heng Qi, Yang He, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Xiaobo Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management ( (TNSM), 2019

  • TrafficShaper: Shaping Inter-datacenter Traffic to Reduce the Transmission Cost [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, and Deke Guo

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2018

  • CoMan: Managing Bandwidth Across Computing Frameworks in Multiplexed Datacenters [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Deke Guo, Alex X. Liu, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Song Guo, Ali Munir, and Xiaoyi Tao

    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2018

  • On efficient virtual cluster scaling across geo鈥恉istributed data centers [pdf]

    Xinping Xu, Wenxin Li, Heng Qi, and Keqiu Li

    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2018

  • iDaaS: Inter-datacenter network as a service [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Deke Guo, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Jianhui Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2018

  • Optimizing the Cost-Performance Tradeoff for Coflows Across Geo-Distributed Datacenters [pdf]

    Xinping Xu, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Yinwei Jin

    IEEE Access, 2018

  • The packing problem of uncertain multicasts [pdf]

    Bangbang Ren, Deke Guo, Junjie Xie, Wenxin Li, Bo Yuan, and Yunfei Liu

    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2017

  • Communication-aware virtual machine migration in cloud data centres

    Weilian Xue,, Wenxin Li, Heng Qi, Keqiu Li, Xiaoyi Tao, Xinhua Ji

    International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), 2017

  • Profit-aware scheduling in task-level for datacenter networks [pdf]

    Xiaoyi Tao, Heng Qi, Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Yang Liu

    Computers and Electrical Engineering (CAEE), 2017

  • Cost-minimizing Bandwidth Guarantee for Inter-Datacenter traffic [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Keqiu Li, Deke Guo, Geyong Min, Heng Qi, and Jianhui Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2016

  • Joint Optimization of Bandwidth for Provider and Delay for User in Software Defined Data Centers [pdf]

    Wenxin Li, Heng Qi, Keqiu Li, Ivan Stojmenovic, and Julong Lan

    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2015

  • ATFQ: A Fair and Efficient Packet Scheduling Method in Multi-resource Environments [pdf]

    Jianhui Zhang, Heng Qi, Deke Guo, Keqiu Li, Wenxin Li and Yingwei Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2015

  • MDFS: deadline-driven flow scheduling scheme in multi-resource environments [pdf]

    Jianhui Zhang, Keqiu Li, Deke Guo, Heng Qi, Wenxin Li and Yingwei Jin

    IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), 2015

  • Congestion-free Routing Strategy in Software Defined Data Center Networks [pdf]

    Yan Li, Wenxin Li, Honghui Chen, Deke Guo, Tian Zhang, Ting Qu

    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2015 (The best student paper award of 5th IEEE BDCloud)

  • Compound graph based hybrid data center topologies [pdf]

    Lailong Luo, Deke Guo, Wenxin Li, Tian Zhang, Junjie Xie, Xiaolei Zhou

    Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2015

Honors and Awards

Professional Activities

Recent Projects

Current Members

  • Renhai Xu (PhD student, Fall 2017)

  • Song Zhang (PhD student, Fall 2019)

  • Yuan Liu (Master student, Fall 2019)

  • Zhao Ge (Master student, Fall 2019)

  • Jie Deng (Master student, Fall 2020)

  • Haiqiang Lin (Master student, Fall 2020)

  • Hao Liu (Master student, Fall 2021)

  • Lide Suo (Master student, Fall 2021)

  • Xin He (Master student, Fall 2021)

  • Zewei Guan (Master student, Fall 2021)

  • Linxuan Zhong (Master student, Fall 2022)

  • Renjie Pei (Master student, Fall 2022)

  • Yulong Li (Master student, Fall 2022)

  • Yinan Yao(Master student, Fall 2023)

  • Yaozhen Li(Master student, Fall 2023)

  • Yuxuan Du(Master student, Fall 2023)

  • Xiancheng Meng(Master student, Fall 2023)

  • Yubo Wang(Master student, Fall 2023)

  • Chen Wei(Master student, Fall 2023)

Last Updated:  Aug. 20, 2023