Posco Fung Po Tso

N.3.25

Haslegrave Building

Loughborough University

I am Reader in Computer Networks and Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the Loughborough University. I am currently researching in the areas of network service composition and chaining, edge computing, stateful programmable data plane and network resource management.

My research has been mainly funded by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK include:

IoDT²: Internet of Digital Twin Things, 05/2024-04/2027, €2,682.2K
5G-IoTNet: Enabling Seamless Federation of 5G and IoT Networks, 04/2024-03/2025, £1,004,204
Serverless Edge Computing for 5G Edge Devices, 11/2022-05/2024, £499,223
IEoT: Intelligent Edge of Things, 07/2020-06/2022, £972,750
SYNC: Synergistic Network Policy Management for Cloud Data Centres, 4/2017-3/2018. http://www.sync-project.com, £100,786
Fruit: The Federated Raspberry Pi Micro-infrastructure Testbed, 1/2017-12/2018. £909,548

I am accepting self-funded PhD student applications (including CSC studentship). If you’re interested in doing a PhD with me, please get in touch!

selected publications

IN3: A Framework for In-Network Computation of Neural Networks in the Programmable Data Plane

Xiaoquan Zhang , Lin Cui , Fung Po Tso , Wenzhi Li , and Weijia Jia

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2024

Bib DOI

@article{10494953,
  author = {Zhang, Xiaoquan and Cui, Lin and Tso, Fung Po and Li, Wenzhi and Jia, Weijia},
  journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
  title = {IN3: A Framework for In-Network Computation of Neural Networks in the Programmable Data Plane},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {62},
  number = {4},
  pages = {96-102},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2300587},
  keywords = {Neural networks;Application specific integrated circuits;Task analysis;Memory management;Control systems;Programmable control;Computational modeling;Telecommunication traffic;Data models},
}

S-Cache: Function Caching for Serverless Edge Computing

C Chen , L Nagel , L Cui , and FP Tso

In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking , May 2023

Bib URL DOI

@inproceedings{chen2023scachecomputing,
  author = {Chen, C and Nagel, L and Cui, L and Tso, FP},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking},
  month = may,
  publisher = {ACM},
  title = {S-Cache: Function Caching for Serverless Edge Computing},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3578354.3592865},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3578354.3592865},
  conference = {EdgeSys '23: 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking},
  day = {8},
  publicationstatus = {published},
}

OffsetINT: Achieving High Accuracy and Low Bandwidth for In-Band Network Telemetry

M Qian , L Cui , FP Tso , Y Deng , and W Jia

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, May 2024

Bib URL DOI

@article{qian2024ioffsetintitelemetry,
  author = {Qian, M and Cui, L and Tso, FP and Deng, Y and Jia, W},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
  pages = {1--12},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  title = {<i>OffsetINT</i>: Achieving High Accuracy and Low Bandwidth for In-Band Network Telemetry},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3323697},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3323697},
  eissn = {1939-1374},
  publicationstatus = {published},
}