CS 456/656: Project Papers (Fall 2026)

Paper Authors Venue Artifact
Web Applications
Vroom: Accelerating the Mobile Web with Server-Aided Dependency Resolution Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk (University of Michigan), Ravi Netravali (MIT), Muhammed Uluyol (University of Michigan), Harsha V. Madhyastha (University of Michigan) SIGCOMM '17 ravinet/mahimahi
Vroom's evaluation is built on Mahimahi, an open-source platform for recording and replaying web page loads under emulated network conditions. Vroom's own changes were not released, so you would add them on top of Mahimahi. If you choose this paper, you only need to reproduce the paper's results; no further analysis is needed.
Video Streaming
Syntra: Synthesizing Cross-Layer Controllers for Low-Latency Video Streaming Jia Pan (UT Austin), Anup Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University), Işıl Dillig (UT Austin), Venkat Arun (UT Austin) NSDI '26 tonyPan123/syntra-experiment
MAE: More Adaptive Video Encoder for Consistent Low Latency in High-Quality Real-Time Communication Hua Meng (HKUST), Yufan Zhuang (HKUST), Yasna Noushirvani (HKUST), Xiangjie Huang (HKUST), Zili Meng (HKUST) NSDI '26 hkust-spark/sparkrtc
Transport and Congestion Control
Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate Anchengcheng Zhou (Princeton University), Joshua Lau (Princeton University), P. Brighten Godfrey (UIUC and Broadcom), Maria Apostolaki (Princeton University) NSDI '26 AnnZhouCcc/Titrate
Homa: A Receiver-Driven Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities Behnam Montazeri (Stanford University), Yilong Li (Stanford University), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT), John Ousterhout (Stanford University) SIGCOMM '18 PlatformLab/homa-paper-artifact
Network Verification
Flash: Fast, Consistent Data Plane Verification for Large-Scale Network Settings Dong Guo (Tongji University), Shenshen Chen (Tongji University), Kai Gao (Sichuan University), Qiao Xiang (Xiamen University), Ying Zhang (Facebook), Y. Richard Yang (Yale University) SIGCOMM '22 snlab/flash
Collective Communication and AI Infrastructure
Rethinking Machine Learning Collective Communication as a Multi-Commodity Flow Problem Xuting Liu (University of Pennsylvania), Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research), Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (Microsoft Research), Liangyu Zhao (University of Washington), Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania), Miguel Castro (OpenAI), Srikanth Kandula (Microsoft), Luke Marshall (Microsoft Research) SIGCOMM '24 microsoft/TE-CCL
TACCL: Guiding Collective Algorithm Synthesis using Communication Sketches Aashaka Shah (UT Austin), Vijay Chidambaram (UT Austin and VMware Research), Meghan Cowan (Microsoft Research), Saeed Maleki (Microsoft Research), Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research), Todd Mytkowicz (Microsoft Research), Jacob Nelson (Microsoft Research), Olli Saarikivi (Microsoft Research), Rachee Singh (Microsoft and Cornell University) NSDI '23 microsoft/taccl
PlanetServe: A Decentralized, Scalable, and Privacy-Preserving Overlay for Democratizing Large Language Model Serving Fei Fang (UC Santa Cruz), Yifan Hua (UC Santa Cruz), Shengze Wang (UC Santa Cruz), Ruilin Zhou (UC Santa Cruz), Yi Liu (UC Santa Cruz), Chen Qian (UC Santa Cruz), Xiaoxue Zhang (University of Nevada, Reno) NSDI '26 fffeifang/PlanetServe
LEO Satellite Networks
Low-Latency Live Video Streaming over a Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network with DASH Jinwei Zhao (University of Victoria), Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) MMSys '24 clarkzjw/mmsys24-starlink-livestreaming
StarCDN: Moving Content Delivery Networks to Space William X. Zheng (UIUC), Aryan Taneja (UIUC), Maleeha Masood (UIUC), Anirudh Sabnis (Akamai Technologies), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (UMass Amherst and Akamai Technologies), Deepak Vasisht (UIUC) SIGCOMM '25 ConnectedSystemsLab/StarCDN-Simulator
ConnectedSystemsLab/SpaceGEN