Posco Fung Po Tso

Senior Lecturer

Loughborough University

Biography

I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) 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:

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. https://fruit-testbed.org, £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!

Interests

Programmable Data Plane
Network Service Chaining
Network Resource Management
Edge/Cloud Computing

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2011

City University of Hong Kong
MPhil in Computer Science, 2007

City University of Hong Kong
BEng in Computer Engineering, 2005

City University of Hong Kong

Publications

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C Chen, L Nagel, L Cui, FP Tso (2022). B-Scale: Bottleneck-aware VNF scaling and flow routing in edge clouds. **.

M Qian, L Cui, X Zhang, FP Tso, Y Deng (2022). dDrops: Detecting silent packet drops on programmable data plane. Computer Networks.

X Zhang, L Cui, FP Tso (2022). pSFC: Fine-grained composition of service function chains in the programmable data plane. **.

C Chen, L Nagel, L Cui, FP Tso (2022). Distributed federated service chaining: A scalable and cost-aware approach for multi-domain networks. Computer Networks.

Wenjie Liang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso (2022). Low-latency service function chain migration in edge-core networks based on open Jackson networks. Journal of Systems Architecture.

Chen Chen, Lars Nagel, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso (2021). Distributed Federated Service Chaining for Heterogeneous Network Environments. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC ‘21).

Yu-Jia Chen, Kai-Min Liao, Meng-Lin Ku, Fung Po Tso, Guan-Yi Chen (2021). Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based 3D Trajectory Design in Aerial-Terrestrial Wireless Caching Networks. *IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology *.

Xiaoquan Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Weijia Jia (2021). pHeavy: Predicting Heavy Flows in the Programmable Data Plane. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Xiaoquan Zhang, Lin Cui, Kaimin Wei, Fung Po Tso, Yangyang Ji, Weijia Jia (2020). A survey on stateful data plane in software defined networks. Computer Networks.

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Weijia Jia (2020). Federated Service Chaining: Architecture and Challenges.

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Yu-Jia Chen, Kai-Min Liao, Meng-Lin Ku, Fung Po Tso (2019). Mobility-aware Probabilistic Caching in UAV-assisted Wireless D2D Networks. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2019.

Blesson Varghese, Philipp Leitner, Suprio Ray, Kyle Chard, Adam Barker, Yehia Elkhatib, Herry Herry, Cheol-Ho Hong, Jeremy Singer, Fung Po Tso, Eiko Yoneki, and Mohamed-Faten Zhani (2019). Cloud Futurology. IEEE Computer Magazine.

Yuxiang Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Quanlong Guan, Weijia Jia, Jipeng Zhou (2019). Mystique: A Fine-grained and Transparent Congestion Control Enforcement Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Jinting Lin, Lin Cui, Yuxiang Zhang, Fung Po Tso, Quanlong Guan (2019). Extensive evaluation on the performance and behaviour of TCP congestion control protocols under varied network scenarios. Computer Networks.

Philip J. Basford, Steven J. Johnston, Colin S. Perkins, Tony Garnock-Jones, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios Pezaros, Robert D. Mullins, Eiko Yoneki, Jeremy Singer, Simon J. Cox (2019). Performance analysis of single board computer clusters. Future Generation Computer Systems.

Gareth J. Nunns, Yu-Jia Chen, Deng-Kai Chang, Kai-Min Liao, Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui (2019). Autonomous flying WiFi access point. The 24rd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications.

Matthew Lee-Smith, Tracy Ross, Martin Maguire, Fung Po Tso, Jeremy Morley, Stephano Cavazzi (2019). What can we expect from navigating? Exploring navigation, wearables and data through critical design concepts. *Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2019 *.

Wajdi Hajji, Thiago Lopes Genez, Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui, Iain Phillips (2018). Dynamic Network Function Chain Composition for Mitigating Network Latency. 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).

Yuxiang Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso (2018). Modest BBR: Enabling Better Fairness for BBR Congestion Control. 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Song Guo, Weijia Jia, Kaimin Wei, Zhao Wei (2018). Enabling heterogeneous network function chaining. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Quanlong Guan, Weijia Jia Yuxiang Zhang, Jipeng Zhou (2018). A Fine-grained and Transparent Congestion Control Enforcement Scheme. The ACM, IRTF & ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop 2018 (ANRW'18).

Jeremy Singer, Herry Herry, Philip J. Basford, Wajdi Hajji, Colin S. Perkins, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios Pezaros, Robert D. Mullins, Eiko Yoneki, Simon J. Cox, Steven J. Johnston (2018). Next generation single board clusters. NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

Steven J. Johnston, Philip J. Basford, Colin S. Perkins, Herry Herry, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios Pezaros, Robert D. Mullins, Eiko Yoneki, Simon J. Cox, JeremySinger (2018). Commodity single board computer clusters and their applications. Future Generation Computer Systems.

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Weijia Jia (2018). Enforcing Network Policy in Heterogeneous Network Function Box Environment. Journal of Computer Networks.

Ilias Avramidis, Michael Mackay, Fung Po Tso, Takaaki Fukai, Takahiro Shinagawa (2018). Live migration on ARM-based micro-datacentres. 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC).

Thiago Genez, Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui (2018). Latency-aware Joint Virtual Machine and Policy Consolidation for Mobile Edge Computing. 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC).

Thu Yein Win, Fung Po Tso, Quentin Mair, Huaglory Tianfield (2017). PROTECT: Container Process Isolation Using System Call Interception. 2017 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks & 2017 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology & 2017 Third International Symposium of Creative Computing (ISPAN-FCST-ISCC).

Yuxiang Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Quanlong Guan, Weijia Jia (2017). TCon: A Transparent Congestion Control Deployment Platform for Optimizing WAN Transfers. *The 14th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2017) *.

Yuxiang Zhang, Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Yuan Zhang (2017). Track: Tracerouting in SDN Networks with Arbitrary Network Functions. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2017).

Wajdi Hajji, Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui, Dimitrios P Pezaros (2017). Experimental Evaluation of SDN-Controlled, Joint Consolidation of Policies and Virtual Machines. The 22 nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications.

L Cui, F Tso, W Jia (2017). Heterogeneous Network Policy Enforcement in Data Centers. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management.

A Alfoudi, M Dighriri, GM Lee, R Pereira, F Tso (2017). Traffic Management in LTE-WiFi Slicing Networks. The 20th Conference on Innovations in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN).

G Kecskemeti, W Hajji, F Tso (2017). Modelling Low Power Compute Clusters for Cloud Simulation. The 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2017).

Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Weijia Jia, Wei Zhao Lin Cui (2016). PLAN: Joint Policy- and Network-Aware VM Management for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Fung Po Tso, Simon Jouet, Dimitrios P. Pezaros (2016). Network and Server Resource Management Strategies for Data Centre Infrastructures: A Survey. Journal of Computer Networks.

Wajdi Hajji, Fung Po Tso (2016). Understanding the Performance of Low Power Raspberry Pi Cloud for Big Data. Electronics.

Lin Cui, Richard Cziva, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros (2016). Synergistic Policy and Virtual Machine Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers. The 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).

Fung Po Tso (2016). Understanding The Network I/O Performance of Heterogenous Virtualisation in Cloud Data Centres.

Richard Cziva, Simon Jouet, David Stapleton, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios Pezaros (2016). SDN-based Virtual Machine Management for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Weijia Jia (2015). PLAN: A Policy-Aware VM Management Scheme for Cloud Data Centres. IEEE/ACM Utility & Cloud Computing (UCC).

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso (2015). Joint Virtual Machine and Network Policy Consolidation in Cloud Data Centers. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET).

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Weijia Jia, Wei Zho (2015). Policy-Aware Virtual Machine Management in Data Center Networks. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

Richard Cziva, David Stapleton, Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P Pezaros (2014). SDN-based Virtual Machine Management for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CLOUDNET).

Fung Po Tso, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Eleni Kavvadia, Dimitrios P. Pezaros (2014). Scalable Traffic-Aware Virtual Machine Management for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui, Lizhuo Zhang, Weijia Jia, Di Yao, Jin Teng, Dong Xuan (2013). DragonNet: A Robust Mobile Internet Service System for Long-Distance Trains. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Fung Po Tso, Gregg Hamilton, Rene Weber, Colin Perkins, Dimitrios Pezaros (2013). Longer is Better: Exploiting Path Diversity in Data Cente. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

Fung Po Tso, Gregg Hamilton, Rene Weber, Colin Perkins, Dimitrios Pezaros (2013). Longer is Better: Exploiting Path Diversity in Data Cente. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

Fung Po Tso, David R. White, Simon Jouet, Jeremy Singer, Dimitrios Pezaros (2013). The Glasgow Raspberry Pi Cloud: A Scale Model for Cloud Computing Infrastructures. The First International Workshop on Resource Management of Cloud Computing (Co-located with ICDCS 2013).

Fung Po Tso, Gregg Hamilton, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Dimitrios P. Pezaros (2013). Implementing Scalable, Network-Aware Virtual Machine Migration for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD).

Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios P. Pezaros (2013). Improving Data Center Network Utilization Using Near-Optimal Traffic Engineering. IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems.

Fung Po Tso, Dimitrios Pezaros (2013). Baatdaat: Measurement-Based Flow Scheduling for Cloud Data Centers. IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’13).

Fung Po Tso, Konstantinos Oikonomous, Eleni Kavvdia, Gregg Hamilton, Dimitrios Pezaros (2012). S-CORE: Scalable Communication Reduction in Data Center Environments.

Neil Alexander Twigg, Marwan Fayed, Colin Perkins, Dimitrios Pezaros, Fung Po Tso (2012). User-level Data Center Tomography. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.

Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Yu5 (2012). Blind detection of spread spectrum flow watermarks. Security and Communication Networks.

Lin Cui, Fung Po Tso, Di Yao, Weijia Jia (2012). WeFiLab: A Web-Based WiFi Laboratory Platform for Wireless Networking Education. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

Fung Po Tso, Jin Teng, Weijia Jia, Dong Xuan (2011). Mobility: A Double-Edged Sword for HSPA Networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems.

Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui, Lizhuo Zhang, Weijia Jia, Di Yao, Jin Teng, Dong Xuan (2011). DragonNet: A Robust Mobile Internet Services System for Long Distance Trains. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).

Fung Po Tso, Lin Cui, Lizhuo Zhang, Weijia Jia (2011). Building a Platform to Bridge Low End Mobile Phones and Cloud Computing Services. ZTE Communications.

Fung Po Tso, Jin Teng, Weijia Jia, Dong Xuan (2010). Mobility: A Double-Edged Sword for HSPA Networks. ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc).

Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Xinwen Fu, Zheng Lin, Dong Xuan, Wei Yu (2009). Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).

Guoliang Xing, Weijia Jia, Yufei Du, Fung Po Tso, Mo Sha, Xue Liu (2008). Toward ubiquitous Video-based Cyber-Physical Systems. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (ICSMC).

Yufei Du, Fung Po Tso, Weijia Jia (2008). Architecture design of video transmission between UMTS and WSN. IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing.

Fung Po Tso, Yufei Du, Weijia Jia (2008). Design of an Efficient and Robust Multimedia Gateway for Pervasive Communication. IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium.

Weijia Jia, Guoliang Xing, Fung Po Tso, Bin Dai (2007). AnySense: a Video Communication Architecture for Urban Sensing Applications. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys).

Fung Po Tso, Lizhuo Zhang, Weijia Jia (2007). Video Surveillance Patrol Robot System in 3G Internet and Sensor Networks. ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ).

Bo Han, Fung Po Tso, Lidong Ling, Weijia Jia (2006). Performance Evaluation of Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Based Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS).

Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Lizhou Zhang (2006). Efficient 3G324M protocol Implementation for Low Bit Rate Multipoint Video Conferencing. Journal of Networks.