Publications

2023


Practical Cloud-Edge Scheduling for Large-Scale Crowdsourced Live Streaming

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Changpeng Yang, Xiaochan Wang, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

TPDS

Buffer Awareness Neural Adaptive Video Streaming for Avoiding Extra Buffer Consumption

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

Infocom23

RDladder: Resolution-Duration Ladder for VBR-encoded Videos via Imitation Learning

Lianchen Jia, Chao Zhou, Tianchi Huang, Chaoyang Li, Lifeng Sun

Infocom23

Who is the Rising Star? Demystifying the Promising Streamers in Crowdsourced Live Streaming

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

Infocom23

Owl: A Pre-and Post-processing Framework for Video Analytics in Low-light Surroundings

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chaoyang Li, Chenglei Wu, Tianchi Huang, Lifeng Sun

Infocom23

Optimizing Adaptive Video Streaming with Human Feedback

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

MM23

Concerto: Client-server Orchestration for Real-Time Video Analytics

Chaoyang Li, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang, Lianchen Jia, Lifeng Sun

MM23

2022


Learning Tailored Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms to Heterogeneous Network Conditions: A Domain-Specific Priors and Meta-Reinforcement Learning Approach

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

IEEE JSAC.

Zwei: A Self-Play Reinforcement Learning Framework for Video Transmission Services

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

IEEE TMM

Distance-aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading in MEC Network

Lili Jiang, Lifeng Sun, Wenwu Zhu

HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys 2022.

ZiXia: A Reinforcement Learning Approach via Adjusted Ranking Reward for Internet Congestion Control

Lianchen Jia, Tianchi Huang, Lifeng Sun

ICC 2022.

AggCast: Practical Cost-effective Scheduling for Large-scale Cloud-edge Crowdsourced Live Streaming

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Changpeng Yang, Xiaochan Wang, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia 2022.

Learned Internet Congestion Control for Short Video Uploading

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Lianchen Jia, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia 2022.

Federated Knowledge Transfer for Heterogeneous Visual Models

Wenzhe Li, Zirui Zhu, Tianchi Huang, Lifeng Sun, Chun Yuan

MMAsia 2022.

2021


Deadline and Priority-aware Congestion Control for Delay-sensitive Multimedia Streaming

Chao Zhou, Wenjun Wu, Dan Yang, Tianchi Huang, Liang Guo, Bing Yu

ACM Multimedia 2021 Grand Challenge.

Deep Reinforced Bitrate Ladders for Adaptive Video Streaming

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

NOSSDAV 2021.

2020


Optimized Bitrate Ladders for Adaptive Video Streaming with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Tianchi Huang, Lifeng Sun

SIGCOMM 2020 Conference Posters & Demos.

Leveraging QoE Heterogenity for Large-Scale Livecaset Scheduling

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Ming Ma, Tianchi Huang, Hanyu Li, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia 2020.

DeepMPC: A Mixture ABR Approach via Deep Learning and MPC

Tianchi Huang, Lifeng Sun

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2020.

Continual Local Training for Better Initialization of Federated Models

Xin Yao, Lifeng Sun

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2020. [PDF] [Code]

Self-play Reinforcement Learning for Video Transmission

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

NOSSDAV 2020. [PDF] [Code]

A Practical Learning-based Approach for Viewer Scheduling in the Crowdsourced Live Streaming

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang, Ming Ma, Haitian Pang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM).

Quality-aware Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Lifelong Imitation Learning

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Xin Yao, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chenglei Wu, Bing Yu, Lifeng Sun

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).

Stick: A Harmonious Fusion of Buffer-based and Learning-based Approach for Adaptive Streaming

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

INFOCOM 2020.

A Spherical Convolution Approach for Learning Long Term Viewport Prediction in 360 Immersive Video

Chenglei Wu, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Zhi Wang, Lifeng Sun

The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20). [PDF]

2019


Federated Learning with Unbiased Gradient Aggregation and Controllable Meta Updating

Xin Yao, Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Ruiyu Li, Lifeng Sun

NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Federated Learning for Data Privacy and Confidentiality (FL-NeurIPS 2019). [PDF]

Generalizing Rate Control Strategies for Real-time Video Streaming via Learning from Deep Learning

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chenglei Wu, Xin Yao, Chao Zhou, Bing Yu, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia Asia 2019. [PDF]

Federated Learning with Additional Mechanisms on Clients to Reduce Communication Costs

Xin Yao, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

arXiv Preprint. [PDF]

Adversarial Feature Alignment: Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Task Lifelong Learning

Xin Yao, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

Neural Computation 2019 (Volume 31, Issue 11). [Link] [PDF]

Comyco: Quality-aware Adaptive Video Streaming via Imitation Learning

Tianchi Huang, Chao Zhou, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019. [PDF] [Code]

Livesmart: a QoS-Guaranteed Cost-minimum framework of viewer scheduling for Crowdsourced Live streaming

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Ming Ma, Tianchi Huang, Haitian Pang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019. [PDF]

Being more Effective and Interpretable: Bridging the Gap Between Heuristics and AI for ABR Algorithms

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Conference Posters & Demos. [PDF]

Towards Faster and Better Federated Learning: A Feature Fusion Approach

Xin Yao, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Lifeng Sun

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2019. [PDF] [Code]

Enhancing the Crowdsourced Live Streaming: a Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang, Ming Ma, Haitian Pang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

NOSSDAV 2019. (Best Student Paper) [PDF]

Towards QoS-Aware Cloud Live Transcoding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Zhengyuan Pang, Lifeng Sun, Tianchi Huang, Zhi Wang, Shiqiang Yang

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2019. [PDF]

Tiyuntsong: A Self-Play Reinforcement Learning Approach for ABR Video Streaming

Tianchi Huang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Zhengyuan Pang, Lifeng Sun

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2019. [PDF] [Code]

Towards Low Latency Multi-viewpoint 360° Interactive Video: A Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Haitian Pang, Cong Zhang, Fangxin Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

INFOCOM 2019. [PDF]

Reactive Video Caching via long-short-term fusion approach

Rui-Xiao Zhang, Tianchi Huang, Chenglei Wu, Lifeng Sun

arXiv Preprint. [PDF]

2018


Two-Stream Federated Learning: Reduce the Communication Costs

Xin Yao, Chaofeng Huang, Lifeng Sun

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2018. [PDF] [Code]

QARC: Video Quality Aware Rate Control for Real-Time Video Streaming based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chao Zhou, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia 2018. [PDF] [Code]

Optimizing Personalized Interaction Experience in Crowd-Interactive Livecast: A Cloud-Edge Approach

Haitian Pang, Cong Zhang, Fangxin Wang, Han Hu, Zhi Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

ACM Multimedia 2018. [PDF]

Content Harvest Network: Optimizing First Mile for Crowdsourced Live Streaming

Haitian Pang, Zhi Wang, Chen Yan, Qinghua Ding, Kun Yi, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2018 (Volume 29, Issue 7). [PDF]

Joint sponsor scheduling in cellular and edge caching networks for mobile video delivery

Lifeng Sun, Haitian Pang, Lin Gao

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2018 (Volume 20, Issue 12). [PDF]

Toward smart and cooperative edge caching for 5g networks: A deep learning based approach

Haitian Pang, Jiangchuan Liu, Xiaoyi Fan, Lifeng Sun

IEEE/ACM 26th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2018. [PDF]

Competitive analysis of data sponsoring and edge caching for mobile video streaming

Haitian Pang, Lin Gao, Qinghua Ding, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun

NOSSDAV 2018. [PDF]

Delay-Constrained Rate Control for Real-Time Video Streaming with Bounded Neural Network

Tianchi Huang, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Chao Zhou, Lifeng Sun

NOSSDAV 2018. [PDF]