Jaehong Kim

Publications

1. EuroSys

   FlexPass: A Case for Flexible Credit-based Transport for Datacenter Networks (to appear)

   Hwijoon Lim, Jaehong Kim, Inho Cho, Keon Jang, Wei Bai, and Dongsu Han

   In Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems 2023

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2. CoNEXT

   OutRAN: Co-Optimizing for Flow Completion Time in Radio Access Network

   Jaehong Kim, Yunheon Lee, Hwijoon Lim, Youngmok Jung, Song Min Kim, and Dongsu Han

   In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2022 (Best Paper Award Nominee)

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   Traffic from interactive applications demanding low latency has become dominant in cellular networks. However, existing schedulers of cellular network base stations fall short in delivering low latency when prior information (i.e., dedicated Quality of Service (QoS)) is unavailable; they become service agnostic and perform towards maximizing the radio resource utilization or user fairness. We identify a new opportunity of providing a better latency for those latency-sensitive traffic flows by additionally taking the Flow Completion Time (FCT) into account in downlink scheduling at the base stations. However, the key challenges are 1) it can bring a severe cost in optimization metrics of the existing scheduler and 2) it should work without prior knowledge of the traffic.To this end, we present OutRAN, a practical flow scheduler designed for Radio Access Network that co-optimizes the FCT and optimization objectives of the cellular scheduler. The resulting system does not require prior information. Through simulation and over-the-air evaluation, we demonstrate that OutRAN outperforms the legacy LTE/5G schedulers in FCT, which leads to the reduction in webpage load time of Android phones.

3. SIGCOMM

   NeuroScaler: Neural Video Enhancement at Scale

   Hyunho Yeo, Hwijoon Lim, Jaehong Kim, Youngmok Jung, Juncheol Ye, and Dongsu Han

   In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Conference 2022

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   High-definition live streaming has experienced tremendous growth. However, the video quality of live video is often limited by the streamer’s uplink bandwidth. Recently, neural-enhanced live streaming has shown great promise in enhancing the video quality by running neural super-resolution at the ingest server. Despite its benefit, it is too expensive to be deployed at scale. To overcome the limitation, we present NeuroScaler, a framework that delivers efficient and scalable neural enhancement for live streams. First, to accelerate end-to-end neural enhancement, we propose novel algorithms that significantly reduce the overhead of video super-resolution, encoding, and GPU context switching. Second, to maximize the overall quality gain, we devise a resource scheduler that considers the unique characteristics of the neural-enhancing workload. Our evaluation on a public cloud shows NeuroScaler reduces the overall cost by 22.3\texttimes and 3.0–11.1\texttimes compared to the latest per-frame and selective neural-enhancing systems, respectively.

4. SIGCOMM

   Neural-Enhanced Live Streaming: Improving Live Video Ingest via Online Learning

   Jaehong Kim, Youngmok Jung, Hyunho Yeo, Juncheol Ye, and Dongsu Han

   In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication 2020

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   Live video accounts for a significant volume of today’s Internet video. Despite a large number of efforts to enhance user quality of experience (QoE) both at the ingest and distribution side of live video, the fundamental limitations are that streamer’s upstream bandwidth and computational capacity limit the quality of experience of thousands of viewers.To overcome this limitation, we design LiveNAS, a new live video ingest framework that enhances the origin stream’s quality by leveraging computation at ingest servers. Our ingest server applies neural super-resolution on the original stream, while imposing minimal overhead on ingest clients. LiveNAS employs online learning to maximize the quality gain and dynamically adjusts the resource use to the real-time quality improvement. LiveNAS delivers high-quality live streams up to 4K resolution, outperforming WebRTC by 1.96 dB on average in Peak-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio on real video streams and network traces, which leads to 12%-69% QoE improvement for live stream viewers.

5. OSDI

   Neural Adaptive Content-Aware Internet Video Delivery

   Hyunho Yeo, Youngmok Jung, Jaehong Kim, Jinwoo Shin, and Dongsu Han

   In Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation 2018

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   Internet video streaming has experienced tremendous growth over the last few decades. However, the quality of existing video delivery critically depends on the bandwidth resource. Consequently, user quality of experience (QoE) suffers inevitably when network conditions become unfavorable. We present a new video delivery framework that utilizes client computation and recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce the dependency for delivering high-quality video. The use of DNNs enables us to enhance the video quality independent to the available bandwidth. We design a practical system that addresses several challenges, such as client heterogeneity, interaction with bitrate adaptation, and DNN transfer, in enabling the idea. Our evaluation using 3G and broadband network traces shows the proposed system outperforms the current state of the art, enhancing the average QoE by 43.08% using the same bandwidth budget or saving 17.13% of bandwidth while providing the same user QoE.