Yiting Xia is a Tenure-Track Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, where she leads the network and cloud systems research group. She got her PhD degree in Computer Science from Rice University. Before joining Max Planck Institute, she was a research scientist at Facebook. Her research is to build network infrastructure and software systems for emerging cloud applications. Her works on both future network designs and industry systems have been published on top networking and systems venues. She has served on the technical program committee for SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SOSR, ICNP, HotNets, etc. She won the N2Women rising star award in 2021.

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English

60 Minutes

Saarbrücken

Optical data center networks (DCNs) are transforming cloud infrastructure, yet current architectures remain closed ecosystems tightly bound to specific optical hardware. In this talk, we unveil an innovative open framework that decouples software from hardware, empowering researchers and practitioners to freely explore and deploy diverse software solutions across multiple optical platforms. Building on this flexible foundation, we tackle three critical system challenges—time synchronization, routing, and transport protocols—to enable optical DCNs to achieve nanosecond-precision, high throughput, and ultra-low latency. This presentation highlights the fundamental design shifts brought by optical DCNs and demonstrates how our breakthrough solutions surpass traditional DCN performance, setting new standards for future cloud networks.

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