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ABOUT

WHAT ARE THE SYNC PROJECT* PURPOSES?

VISION

SYNC leverage the synergy amongst policy rules, applications and the underlying temporal network state for achieving network-wide performance optimisation. SYNC takes in high-level network policy expressions and implement them in network function boxes at different network locations, be they the middleboxes, network switches, or end hosts, using a minimum set of network-wide consistent policy rules

INOVATION

SYNC exploits the underlying network state to arrange application virtual machines (VMs) so that the network-wide impact of pairwise traffic patterns is minimised while still adhering strictly to network policies. SYNC optimises both application and network performance by dynamically reallocating both applications and policy rules according to temporal network load amongst applications

CHALLENGES

Dynamic VM consolidation means both flow state and the mapping state of IPs must be updated across the network. Rapid change of the application life-cycle means frequent change to governing policies as well as network-wide temporal traffic load




*This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P004407/1)

Current work involves the applicability of the SYNC project for Mobile Edge Computing

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

  • T. A. L. Genez, F. P. Tso and L. Cui, Latency-aware Joint Virtual Machine and Policy Consolidation for Mobile Edge Computing, in the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 12-15 January 2018, Las Vegas, USA, (Accepted)
    [Bibtex] 
    
@inproceedings{genez_ccnc_2017, 
author = {T. A. L. Genez, F. P. Tso and L. Cui,}, 
booktitle = {IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)}, 
title = {{Latency-aware Joint Virtual Machine and Policy Consolidation for Mobile Edge Computing}}, 
year={2017}, 
pages={}, 
month={},
doi={}, 
}
  • L. Cui, R. Cziva, F. P. Tso and D. P. Pezaros, Synergistic policy and virtual machine consolidation in cloud data centers, in the Future Generation Computer Systems, San Francisco, CA, 2016, pp. 1-9.
    [Bibtex] 
    
@inproceedings{cui_infocom_2016, 
author = {L. Cui and R. Cziva and F. P. Tso and D. P. Pezaros}, 
booktitle = {35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)}, 
title = {{Synergistic policy and virtual machine consolidation in cloud data centers}}, 
year={2016}, 
pages={1-9}, 
month={April},
doi={10.1109/INFOCOM.2016.7524354}, 
}
  • L. Cui, F. P. Tso, D. P. Pezaros and W. Jia, PLAN: A Policy-Aware VM Management Scheme for Cloud Data Centres, in the IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Limassol, 2015, pp. 142-151.
    [Bibtex] 
    						
@inproceedings{cui_ucc_2015, 
author={L. Cui and F. P. Tso and D. P. Pezaros and W. Jia}, 
booktitle={IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)}, 
title={{PLAN: A Policy-Aware VM Management Scheme for Cloud Data Centres}}, 
year={2015}, 
pages={142-151}, 
doi={10.1109/UCC.2015.30}, 
month={Dec},
}
  • L. Cui and F. P. Tso, Joint virtual machine and network policy consolidation in cloud data centers, in the IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Niagara Falls, ON, 2015, pp. 153-158.
    [Bibtex] 
    						
@inproceedings{cui_cloudnet_2015, 
author={L. Cui and F. P. Tso}, 
booktitle={IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)}, 
title={{Joint virtual machine and network policy consolidation in cloud data centers}}, 
year={2015}, 
pages={153-158}, 
doi={10.1109/CloudNet.2015.7335298}, 
month={Oct},
}
  • L. Cui, F. P. Tso, D. P. Pezaros, W. Jia and W. Zhao, Policy-Aware Virtual Machine Management in Data Center Networks, in the IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Columbus, OH, 2015, pp. 730-731.
    [Bibtex] 
    						
@inproceedings{cui_icdcs_2015, 
author={L. Cui and F. P. Tso and D. P. Pezaros and W. Jia and W. Zhao}, 
booktitle={IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)}, 
title={{Policy-Aware Virtual Machine Management in Data Center Networks}}, 
year={2015}, 
pages={730-731}, 
doi={10.1109/ICDCS.2015.81}, 
ISSN={1063-6927}, 
month={June},
}

Journals

  • L. Cui, F. P. Tso, D. P. Pezaros, W. Jia and W. Zhao, PLAN: Joint Policy- and Network-Aware VM Management for Cloud Data Centers in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1163-1175, April 1 2017
    [Bibtex] 
    						
@article{cui_ieee_transactions_2017, 
author={L. Cui and F. P. Tso and D. P. Pezaros and W. Jia and W. Zhao}, 
journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems}, 
title={{PLAN: Joint Policy- and Network-Aware VM Management for Cloud Data Centers}}, 
year={2017}, 
volume={28}, 
number={4}, 
pages={1163-1175}, 
doi={10.1109/TPDS.2016.2604811}, 
ISSN={1045-9219}, 
month={April},
}

TEAMWORK

SYNC PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM

  • Dr Posco (Fung Po) TSO

    Lecturer (assistant professor)

    Loughborough University, UK

    P.Tso@lboro.ac.uk

  • Dr Lin Cui

    Assistant Professor

    Jinan University, China

    tcuilin@jnu.edu.cn

  • Thiago A. L. Genez

    Assistant Researcher

    Loughborough University, UK

    T.A.Lopes-genez@lboro.ac.uk

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