Posco Fung Po Tso

N.3.25

Haslegrave Building

Loughborough University

I am Professor of Computer Networks and Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University. I am currently researching in the areas of computer networks and systems including stateful programmable data plane, in-network computing, in-network intelligence, network service composition and chaining, edge computing, edge intelligence.

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

VISION: Virtual Integrated Supply-chain Improvement with Optimized Networking, 07/2025-06/2028, €3,852.8K
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

Quark: Implementing Convolutional Neural Networks Entirely on Programmable Data Plane

Mai Zhang , Lin Cui , Xiaoquan Zhang , Fung Po Tso , Zhang Zhen , Yuhui Deng , and 1 more author

In IEEE INFOCOM 2025-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications , 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{zhang2025quark,
  title = {Quark: Implementing Convolutional Neural Networks Entirely on Programmable Data Plane},
  author = {Zhang, Mai and Cui, Lin and Zhang, Xiaoquan and Tso, Fung Po and Zhen, Zhang and Deng, Yuhui and Li, Zhetao},
  booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2025-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications},
  pages = {1--10},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

DisPLOY: Target-Constrained Distributed Deployment for Network Measurement Tasks on Data Plane

Mimi Qian , Lin Cui , Xiaoquan Zhang , Fung Po Tso , Yuhui Deng , Zhetao Li , and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025

Bib

@article{qian2025disploy,
  title = {DisPLOY: Target-Constrained Distributed Deployment for Network Measurement Tasks on Data Plane},
  author = {Qian, Mimi and Cui, Lin and Zhang, Xiaoquan and Tso, Fung Po and Deng, Yuhui and Li, Zhetao and Jia, Weijia},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

FlxVRM: Enabling Online Configuring Memory Via Virtualization on Programmable Data Plane.

Mimi Qian , Lin Cui , Fung Po Tso , Yuhui Deng , Zhen Zhang , and Weijia Jia

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025

Bib

@article{qian2025flxvrm,
  title = {FlxVRM: Enabling Online Configuring Memory Via Virtualization on Programmable Data Plane.},
  author = {Qian, Mimi and Cui, Lin and Tso, Fung Po and Deng, Yuhui and Zhang, Zhen and Jia, Weijia},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

Carlo: Cross-Plane Collaboration for Multiple In-network Computing Applications

Xiaoquan Zhang , Lin Cui , WaiMing Lau , Fung Po Tso , Yuhui Deng , and Weijia Jia

In IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications , 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{zhang2024carlo,
  title = {Carlo: Cross-Plane Collaboration for Multiple In-network Computing Applications},
  author = {Zhang, Xiaoquan and Cui, Lin and Lau, WaiMing and Tso, Fung Po and Deng, Yuhui and Jia, Weijia},
  booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications},
  pages = {2528--2537},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

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},
}