Selected Publications

Zhihao Zhang, Lanzheng Liu, Chen Chen, Huiba Li, Jiwu Shu, Windsor Hsu, Yiming Zhang. PlanB: Efficient Software IPv6 Lookup with Linearized B+-Tree. 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘26).
Zhihao Zhang, Huiba Li, Lu Tang, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Yiming Zhang. SkySync: Accelerating File Synchronization with Collaborative Delta Generation. 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ‘26), 461-476.
Zhihao Zhang, Lu Tang, Huiba Li, Yue Yu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Yiming Zhang. ParaSync: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism for Efficient File Synchronization. 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ‘26), 477-492.
Xiangyu Liu, Huiba Li, Shun Gai, Youmin Chen, Yiming Zhang. zBuffer: Zero-Copy and Metadata-Free Serialization for Fast RPC with Scatter-Gather Reflection. 31st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP ‘26).
Yiming Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Yan Chen, Huiba Li, Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong, Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li. Efficient Block Storage in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024.
Huiba Li, Rui Du, Sinan Lin, Windsor Hsu. Stackful Coroutine Made Fast. Alibaba Cloud, 2024.
Yan Chen, Qiwen Ke, Huiba Li, Yongwei Wu, Yiming Zhang. xMeta: SSD-HDD-hybrid Optimization for Metadata Maintenance of Cloud-scale Object Storage. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 21 (2), 1-20, 2024.
Huiba Li, Zhihao Zhang, Yifan Yuan, Rui Du, Kai Ma, Lanzheng Liu, Yiming Zhang, Windsor Hsu. Block-level Image Service for the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) 20 (1), 1-28, 2024.
Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang. Hybrid Block Storage for Efficient Cloud Volume Service. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) 19 (4), 1-25, 2023.
Ao Wang, Shuai Chang, Huangshi Tian, Hongqi Wang, Haoran Yang, Huiba Li, Rui Du, Yue Cheng. FaaSNet: Scalable and Fast Provisioning of Custom Serverless Container Runtimes at Alibaba Cloud Function Compute. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘21), 443-457.
Huiba Li, Yifan Yuan, Rui Du, Kai Ma, Lanzheng Liu, Windsor Hsu. DADI: Block-Level Image Service for Agile and Elastic Application Deployment. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘20), 727-740.
Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong. URSAL: Ultra-Efficient, Reliable, Scalable, and Available Block Storage at Low Cost. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM ‘20), 2165-2174.
Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue. PBS: An Efficient Erasure-Coded Block Storage System Based on Speculative Partial Writes. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) 16 (1), 1-25, 2020.
Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, Yongqiang Xiong. URSA: Hybrid Block Storage for Cloud-Scale Virtual Disks. 14th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ‘19), 1-17.
Yiming Zhang, Jon Crowcroft, Dongsheng Li, Chengfen Zhang, Huiba Li, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Yongqiang Xiong, Guihai Chen. KylinX: A Dynamic Library Operating System for Simplified and Efficient Cloud Virtualization. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘18), 173-186.
Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaohui Liu, Yuxing Peng. PARIX: Speculative Partial Writes in Erasure-Coded Systems. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘17), 581-587.
Zhaoning Zhang, Ziyang Li, Kui Wu, Dongsheng Li, Huiba Li, Yuxing Peng, Xicheng Lu. VMThunder: Fast Provisioning of Large-Scale Virtual Machine Clusters. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 25 (12), 3328-3338, 2014.
Huiba Li, Tian Tian, Yuxing Peng, Dongsheng Li, Xicheng Lu. Concurrency-Related Complexities in Network Programming. Journal of Software (JOS) 22 (1), 132-148, 2011.
Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Yuxing Peng, Dongsheng Li, Hangjun Zhou, Xicheng Lu. Superscalar Communication: A Runtime Optimization for Distributed Applications. Science China Information Sciences (SCIS) 53 (10), 1931-1946, 2010.