About Me

I’m an assistant professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Computer Science Department. Before that, I received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in June 2022 (Supervisors: Prof. Jun Bi, Prof. Fengyuan Ren). I received my B.S. in computer science and technology from BUPT in 2017 (rank 1/304).

Research Interests

Traffic Control and Management in Computer Networks
Datacenter Network
Satellite Network

Publications

Datacenter Networking and Computing

(#: corresponding author)

  • [SIGCOMM’24] (poster) Adaptive Load Balancing with Flow Block for LLM
    ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2024
    Xingyi Li, Yiran Zhang#, Hu Zhang and Shangguang Wang

  • [IEEE Network’24] Predictable Host Networking in Data Centers: Challenges, Techniques and Future Directions
    IEEE Network (Volume: 38, Issue: 6, November 2024)
    Zhongjie Chen, Qingkai Meng,Yiran Zhang, Ziyang Zheng and Fengyuan Ren

  • [ATC’24] CrossMapping: Harmonizing Memory Consistency in Cross-ISA Binary Translation
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2024
    Chen Gao, Xiangwei Meng, Wei Li, Jinhui Lai,Yiran Zhang and Fengyuan Ren

  • [NOMS’24] An Enhancement Framework for RDMA Congestion Control in Multi-tenant Datacenters
    IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024
    Tianshi Wang,Yiran Zhang#, Ao Zhou and Shangguang Wang

  • [NSDI'24] Revisiting Congestion Control for Lossless Ethernet
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2024
    Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng, Chaolei Hu and Fengyuan Ren

  • [INFOCOM’24] Explicit Dropping Notification in Data Centers
    International Conference on Computer Communications, 2024
    Qingkai Meng, Yiran Zhang#, Chaolei Hu, Bo Wang and Fengyuan Ren

  • [TON’23] Switch-assistant Loss Recovery for RDMA Transport Control
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023
    Qingkai Meng, Yiran Zhang#, Shan Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Tong Zhang, Hongbin Luo and Fengyuan Ren

  • [TON’23] Revisiting Congestion Detection in Lossless Networks
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023
    Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng, Yifan Liu, Fengyuan Ren

  • [Blocksys’23] Congestion Control with Receiver-Aided Network Status Awareness in RDMA Transmission
    Tianshi Wang, Yiran Zhang#, Ao Zhou, Ruidong Li, Kun Zhao, Shangguang Wang
    Awarded Best Paper!

  • [ICWS’23] Container Image Similarity-Aware Resource Provisioning for Serverless Edge Computing
    International Conference on Web Services, 2023
    Ao Zhou, Sisi Li, Xiao Ma, Yiran Zhang, and Shangguang Wang
    Awarded Best Paper!

  • [Euro-Par’22] CrossDBT: An LLVM-based User-level Dynamic Binary Translation Emulator
    European Conference on Parallel Processing, 2022
    Wei Li, Xiaohui Luo, Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng and Fengyuan Ren
    Awarded Best Paper!

  • [SIGCOMM'21] Congestion Detection in Lossless Networks
    ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2021
    Yiran Zhang, Yifan Liu, Qingkai Meng, Fengyuan Ren

  • [ICPP’21] Receiver-Driven Congestion Control for InfiniBand.
    The International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2021
    Yiran Zhang, Kun Qian, Fengyuan Ren

  • [CNSM’21] NUFTCP: Towards Smooth Network Updates in Software-Defined Datacenter Networks
    International Conference on Network and Service Management, 2021
    Abdul Basit Dogar, Yiran Zhang

  • [JSAC’20] VMS: Load Balancing Based on the Virtual Switch Layer in Datacenter Networks
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2020
    Yiran Zhang, Jun Bi, Zhaogeng Li, Yu Zhou, Yangyang Wang

  • [ICNP’17] VMS: Traffic balancing based on virtual switches in datacenter networks
    IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2017
    Zhaogeng Li, Jun Bi, Yiran Zhang, Abdul Basit Dogar, Chengwei Qin

  • [ISCC’17] EAalo: Enhanced coflow scheduling without prior knowledge in a datacenter network.
    IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2017
    Zhaogeng Li, Jun Bi, Yiran Zhang, Chuang Wang

Satellite Networking and Computing

  • [SIGCOMM’24] (poster) An End-to-End Study on Performance and Reliability of LEO Satellite-Terrestrial Data Links
    ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2024
    Zuo Zhu, Ruolin Xing, Yiran Zhang, Chaoxin Yu, Ao Zhou, Shangguang Wang

  • [ICWS’24] Flexible Shadow: Enhancing Service Reliability in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing
    International Conference on Web Services, 2024
    Lipei Yang, Ao Zhou, Xiao Ma, Yiran Zhang, Yuanzhe Li and Shangguang Wang

  • [MOBICOM'24] Deciphering the Enigma of Satellite Computing with COTS Devices: Measurement and Analysis
    International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024
    Ruolin Xing, Mengwei Xu, Ao Zhou, Qing Li, Yiran Zhang, Feng Qian, Shangguang Wang

  • [INFOCOM’24] Resource-efficient In-orbit Detection of Earth Objects
    International Conference on Computer Communications, 2024
    Qiyang Zhang, Xin Yuan, Ruolin Xing, Yiran Zhang, Zimu Zheng, Xiao Ma, Mengwei Xu

  • [Satcom’23] SABM: Adaptive Backup Mechanism for Satellite Services
    1st ACM Workshop on Satellite Communication, 2023
    Chuanxiu Chi, Yiran Zhang, Qibo Sun, Shangguang Wang

Honors and Awards

N2Women Rising Star, 2024
IEEE TCCLD Technology Innovation Award, 2022
IEEE TCSVC Early Carrer Award, 2022
Euro-Par Best Paper Award, 2022
Graduate Launch Award (Silver award), Tsinghua University, 2022
Outstanding Graduate, Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University, 2022
First Class Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2021
SIGCOMM Travel Grant, 2018
National Scholarship in BUPT, 2014, 2015, 2016

Services

Program committee:
NSDI 2025
ICA3PP 2024,2025

Links

Materials (keep updating)
Yiran Blog (keep updating)