SelectedWorks - Zhengyu Yang

Selected Works of Zhengyu Yang

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston in August 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Ningfang Mi in NUCSRL. My research area is mainly on Cloud Computing, NVMe SSD I/O Stack, Flash Resource Management, Caching Storage System, Deduplication, Docker and Virtualization, VM Migration, and Performance Simulations. I am currently a Researcher/Engineer, Infrastructure at Bytedance Inc., Mountain View, CA.

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About Zhengyu Yang

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston in August 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Ningfang Mi in NUCSRL. My research area is mainly on Cloud Computing, NVMe SSD I/O Stack, Flash Resource Management, Caching Storage System, Deduplication, Docker and Virtualization, VM Migration, and Performance Simulations. I am currently a Researcher/Engineer, Infrastructure at Bytedance Inc., Mountain View, CA.

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Computer Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Present	Research Assistant, Northeastern University
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-5843

PhD Dissertation

[Defense] Flash-based Storage Management in Cloud Computing Datacenter Infrastructures

Northeastern University (2018)

Flash-based Storage Management in Cloud Computing Datacenter Infrastructures

A basic credendum of cloud computing can be summarized as: user devices are light terminals to assign jobs and gather ...

[Presentation] All PhD Projects

Northeastern University (2018)

[Proposal] Flash-based Storage Management in Cloud Computing Datacenter Infrastructures

Northeastern University (2018)

Papers

Understanding Flash-Based Storage I/O Behavior of Games

IEEE Cloud 2021 (2021)

Adnan Maruf, Zhengyu Yang, Bridget Davis, Daniel Kim, et al.

Computer games are an extremely popular but overlooked workload. Cloud-gaming has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the gaming ...

Reinforcing Cloud Environments via Index Policy for Bursty Workloads

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) (2020)

Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Moayad Aloqaily, Olufogorehan Tunde-Onadele, Zhengyu Yang, et al.

In recent years, the amounts of network trafﬁc targeted towards cloud data centers have ﬂuctuated based on user requests. This ...

New Performance Modeling Methods for Parallel Data Processing Applications

Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (ACM TOMACS) (2019)

Janki Bhimani, Ningfang Mi, Miriam Leeser and Zhengyu Yang

Predicting the performance of an application running on parallel computing platforms is increasingly becoming important because of its influence on ...

AutoAdmin: Automatic and Dynamic Resource Reservation Admission Control in Hadoop ...

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on Advances in Emerging Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 53-67, 2018. (2018)

Zhengyu Yang, Janki Bhimani, Yi Yao, Cho-Hsien Lin, et al.

Hadoop YARN is an Apache Software Foundation’s open project that provides a resource management frameworkfor large scale parallel data processing, ...

BloomStream: Data Temperature Identiﬁcation for Flash Based Memory Storage Using ...

2018 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018) (2018)

Janki Bhimani, Ningfang Mi and Bo Sheng

Data temperature identiﬁcation is an importance issue of many ﬁelds like data caching and storage tiering in modern ﬂash-based storage ...

EAD: Elasticity Aware Deduplication Manager for Datacenters with Multi-tier Storage ...

Cluster Computing, DOI: 10.1007/s10586-018-2141-z, 2018. (2018)

Zhengyu Yang, Yufeng Wang, Janki Bhimani, Chiu C. Tan, et al.

The popularity of Big Data applications places pressures on storage systems to efficiently scale to meet the demand. At the ...

FIOS: Feature Based I/O Stream Identiﬁcation for Improving Endurance ...

2018 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018) (2018)

Janki Bhimani, Ningfang Mi, Zhengyu Yang, Jingpei Yang, et al.

The demand for high speed ‘Storage-as-a-Service’ (SaaS) is increasing day-by-day. SSDs are commonly used in higher tiers of storage rack ...

I/O Workload Management for All-Flash Datacenter Storage Systems Based ...

IEEE Transactions on Big Data, DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2018.2871114, 2018 (2018)

Zhengyu Yang, Manul Awasthi, Mrinmoy Ghosh, Janki Bhimani, et al.

Recently, the capital expenditure of ﬂash-based Solid State Driver (SSDs) keeps declining and the storage capacity of SSDs keeps increasing. ...

Intermediate Data Caching Optimization for Multi-Stage and Parallel Big Data ...

2018 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018) (2018)

Zhengyu Yang, Danlin Jia, Stratis Ioannidis, Ningfang Mi, et al.

In the era of big data and cloud computing, large amounts of data are generated from user applications and need ...

New YARN Non-Exclusive Resource Management Scheme through Opportunistic Idle Resource ...

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2018)

Zhengyu Yang, Yi Yao, Han Gao, Jiayin Wang, et al.

Efficiently managing resources and improving throughput in a large-scale cluster has become a crucial problem with the explosion of data ...

Accelerating Big Data Applications Using Lightweight Virtualization Framework on Enterprise ...

21st IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC 2017) (2017)

Janki Bhimani, Zhengyu Yang, Miriam Leeser and Ningfang Mi

Hypervisor-based virtualization technology has been successfully used to deploy high-performance and scalable infrastructure for Hadoop, and now Spark applications. Container-based ...

AutoPath: Harnessing Parallel Execution Paths for Efficient Resource Allocation in ...

26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2017) (2017)

Han Gao, ZHENGYU YANG, Janki Bhimani, Teng Wang, et al.

Due to the flexibility of data operations and scalability of in-memory cache, Spark has revealed the potential to become the ...

AutoTiering: Automatic Data Placement Manager in Multi-Tier All-Flash Datacenter

36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2017) (2017)

Zhengyu Yang, Morteza Hoseinzadeh, Allen Andrews, Clay Mayers, et al.

In the year of 2017, the capital expenditure of Flash-based Solid State Drivers (SSDs) keeps declining and the storage capacity ...

Automatic and Scalable Data Replication Manager in Distributed Computation and ...

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber-Physical Systems, 2017. (2017)

Zhengyu Yang, Janki Bhimani, Jiayin Wang, David Evans, et al.

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a rising technology that utilizes computation and storage resources for sensing, processing, analysis, predicting, understanding of ...

Cyber-Physical System Enabled Nearby Trafﬁc Flow Modelling for Autonomous Vehicles

36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Special Session on Cyber Physical Systems: Security, Computing, and Performance (IPCCC-CPS 2017). (2017)

Baiyu Chen, Zhengyu Yang, Siyu Huang, Xianzhi Du, et al.

We propose a nearby trafﬁc ﬂow modelling solution based on built-in Cyber-Physical System (CPS) sensors of autonomous vehicles. Our goal ...

EA2S2: An Efficient Application-Aware Storage System for Big Data Processing ...

26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2017) (2017)

Teng Wang, Jiayin Wang, Son Nam Nguyen, ZHENGYU YANG, et al.

Big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop have been widely adopted to process a large volume of data. A lot ...

Enhancing SSDs with Multi-Stream: What? Why? How?

36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2017), Poster Paper. (2017)

Janki Bhimani, Jingpei Yang, Zhengyu Yang, Ningfang Mi, et al.

The adoption of SSDs has become very prominent, but they still suffer from challenges to control write amplification. Traditional SSDs ...

FiM: Performance Prediction for Parallel Computation in Iterative Data Processing ...

10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2017) (2017)

Janki Bhimani, Ningfang Mi, Miriam Leeser and Zhengyu Yang

Predicting performance of an application running on high performance computing (HPC) platforms in a cloud environment is increasingly becoming important ...

H-NVMe: A Hybrid Framework of NVMe-based Storage System in Cloud ...

36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2017) (2017)

Zhengyu Yang, Morteza Hoseinzadeh, Ping Wong, John Artoux, et al.

In the year of 2017, more and more datacenters have started to replace traditional SATA and SAS SSDs with NVMe ...

SEINA: A Stealthy and Effective Internal Attack in Hadoop Systems

International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2017) (2017)

Jiayin Wang, Teng Wang, ZHENGYU YANG, Ying Mao, et al.

Big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop [1] have been widely adopted in the past few years. However, the security ...

A Fresh Perspective on Total Cost of Ownership Models for ...

8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (2016)

Zhengyu Yang, Manu Awasthi, Mrinmoy Ghosh and Ningfang Mi

Recently, adoption of Flash based devices has become increasingly common in all forms of computing devices. Flash devices have started ...