Tianzhu Zhang

I am a research scientist at Nokia Bell Labs and an Associate Member of the Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS). In 2012, I graduated from the computer science department of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) with a Bachelor of Science degree. In October 2014, I obtained my Master of Science degree in computer and communication networks engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Polito) in Turin, Italy. From November 2014 to November 2017, I was a PhD candidate in a joint program between PoliTo and Telecom Italia under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Giaccone. From June to August 2017, I participated in a 3-month internship at Nokia Bell Labs (Massy, France) under the supervision of Dr. Massimo Gallo. From October 2017 to November 2019, I was a PostDoc researcher at LINCS under a research grant from Telecom ParisTech and Cisco Systems. I had the pleasure to collaborate with Prof. Dario Rossi and Prof. Luigi Iannone. My research centered around Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and High-speed network systems. I am also highly interested in applied AI/ML in real systems. I am always open to establishing new connections and collaborations. Please feel free to drop me .

List of Publications

Journals

  1. Tianzhu Zhang, Han Qiu, Gabriele Castellano, Myriana Rifai, Chung Shue Chen, and Fabio Pianese. "System Log Parsing: A Survey," in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 8596-8614, 1 Aug. 2023.
  2. Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang, Tianzhu Zhang, Hongyu Li, and Meikang Qiu. "Quantization as a Defense against Inference Slow-down Attack for Edge Computing," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 3243-3251, 15 Feb, 2023.
  3. Tianzhu Zhang, Han Qiu, Marco Mellia, Yuanjie Li, Hewu Li, and Ke Xu. "Interpreting AI for Networking: Where We Are and Where We Are Going," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 25-31, Feb, 2022.
  4. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Paolo Giaccone, Luigi Iannone, and James Roberts. "Performance Benchmarking of State-of-the-Art Software Switches for NFV," Computer Networks, vol. 188, 107861, April, 2021.
  5. Tianzhu Zhang, Han Qiu, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Walter Cerroni, and Paolo Giaccone. "NFV Platforms: Taxonomy, Design Choices and Future Challenges," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 30-48, March 2021.
  6. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Massimo Gallo, Paolo Giaccone, and Dario Rossi. "FloWatcher-DPDK: lightweight line-rate flow-level monitoring in software," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1143-1156, Sept. 2019.
  7. Tianzhu Zhang, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, and Paolo Giaccone. "TAME: An efficient task allocation algorithm for integrated mobile gaming," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1546-1557, June 2019.
  8. Tianzhu Zhang, Paolo Giaccone, Andrea Bianco, and Samuele De Domenico. "The role of the inter-controller consensus in the placement of distributed SDN controllers," Computer Communications, vol. 113, pp. 1-13, 15 Nov, 2017.

Conference papers

  1. Qiong Liu, Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa. "Non-invasive performance prediction of high-speed softwarized network services with limited knowledge," IEEE INFOCOM, 2024.
  2. Zhengyan Zhou, Jingwen Lv, Lingfei Cheng, Xiang Chen, Tianzhu Zhang, Qun Huang, Jiayu Luo, Longlong Zhu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu. "SketchGuide: Reconfiguring Sketch-based Measurement on Programmable Switches," 2022 IEEE 30th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Lexington, KY, USA, 2022, pp. 1-11.
  3. Gabriele Castellano, Fabio Pianese, Damiano Carra, Tianzhu Zhang, Giovanni Neglia. "Regularized Bottleneck with Early Labeling," 2022 34th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-34), Shenzhen, China, 2022, pp. 1-9.
  4. Charles Shelbourne, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Tianzhu Zhang, and Aldo Lipani. "Inference of virtual network functions' state via analysis of the CPU behavior," 2021 33th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-33), Avignon, France, 2021, pp. 1-9.
  5. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Massimo Gallo, Paolo Giaccone, Luigi Iannone, and James Roberts. "Comparing the performance of state-of-the-art software switches for NFV," ACM CoNEXT, 2019.
  6. Charles Shelbourne, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Aldo Lipani, Tianzhu Zhang, and Fabien Geyer. "On the Learnability of Software Router Performance via CPU Measurements," ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2019.
  7. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Massimo Gallo, Paolo Giaccone, and Dario Rossi. "FlowMon-DPDK: Parsimonious per-flow software monitoring at line rate," 2018 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Vienna, Austria, 2018, pp. 1-8.
  8. Tianzhu Zhang, Andrea Bianco, Paolo Giaccone, and Aliakbar Payandehdari Nezhad. "Dealing with misbehaving controllers in SDN networks," 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Singapore (GLOBECOM 2017), 2017, pp. 1-6.
  9. Tianzhu Zhang, Andrea Bianco, Paolo Giaccone, Seyedaidin Kelki, Nicolas Mejia Campos, and Stefano Traverso. "On-the-fly traffic classification and control with a stateful SDN approach," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 2017, pp. 1-6.
  10. Tianzhu Zhang, Andrea Bianco, and Paolo Giaccone. "The role of inter-controller traffic in SDN controllers placement," 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 87-92.

Posters and demos

  1. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, James Roberts, Luigi Iannone, Massimo Gallo, and Paolo Giaccone. "A benchmarking methodology for evaluating software switch performance for NFV," 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), Paris, France, 2019, pp. 251-253.
  2. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Massimo Gallo, Paolo Giaccone, and Dario Rossi. "High-speed per-flow software monitoring with limited resources." ACM SIGCOMM Demo Session, 2018.

Technical Reports

  1. Qiong Liu, Tianzhu Zhang, Masoud Hemmatpour, Han Qiu, Dong Zhang, Chung Shue Chen, Marco Mellia and Armen Aghasaryan. "Operationalizing AI in Future Networks: A Bird's Eye View from the System Perspective." arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04073 (2023).
  2. Tianzhu Zhang, Leonardo Linguaglossa, Paolo Giaccone, Luigi Iannone, and James Roberts. "Performance Benchmarking of State-of-the-Art Software Switches for NFV." arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13489 (2020).
  3. Tianzhu Zhang. "Design of NFV Platforms: A Survey." arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11059 (2020).
  4. Tianzhu Zhang , Andrea Bianco, Samuele De Domenico, and Paolo Giaccone. "The role of inter-controller traffic for placement of distributed SDN controllers." arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09268 (2016).

Theses

  1. Tianzhu Zhang. "Control plane optimization in Software Defined Networking and task allocation for Fog Computing." PhD dissertation, Politecnico di Torino, 2018.
  2. Tianzhu Zhang. "Distributed Controllers in Software Defined Networks." Master thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014.

Invited talks

  1. Tianzhu Zhang, "Edge Intelligence for Industrial IoT". Telecom Paris, 08/11/2021.
  2. Tianzhu Zhang, "Performance benchmarking of software switches in the context of NFV". LINCS Seminar, 14/10/2020.
  3. Tianzhu Zhang, "High-speed traffic generation and monitoring". University of Rome Tor Vergata, 11/10/2017.

Community services

Program committee

  • TPC Member, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (Cloudnet), 2023.
  • TPC Member, the 26th IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2023.
  • TPC Member, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (Cloudnet), 2022.
  • TPC Member, the 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2022.
  • TPC Member, the 25th IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2022.
  • TPC Member, the 21st International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), 2021.
  • TPC Member, the 7th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (Netsoft), 2021.
  • TPC Member, the 24th IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2021.
  • Member, ACM Sigcomm Artifact Evaluation Program committee, 2020.
  • TPC Member, the 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (Netsoft), 2020.
  • TPC Member, the 23th IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2020.

Reviewer

  • Shadow PC, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2018.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE Transactions On Networking.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE GLOBECOM.
  • Guest Reviewer, Elsevier Computer Communications.
  • Guest Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Others

  • Volunteer, IEEE Infocom 2019.

Awards & Certifications

  • Exemplary reviewer award, IEEE communications letters, 2018
  • Ph.D. scholarship, Telecom Italia & Politecnico di Torino, 2014-2017
  • First-class master scholarship, Compagna di San Paolo, 2013-2014

Resources

FloWatcher-DPDK Demo @ ACM SIGCOMM'18
Benchmarking Demo for Software Switches @ IEEE NetSoft'19

Contact

Please feel free to contact me through any of the following links!