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Senior Research Scientist
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
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2021

On Exploring Attention-based Explanation for Transformer Models in Text Classification
Shengzhong Liu, Franck Le, Supriyo Chakraborty, Tarek Abdelzaher
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2021

Generalizable and Interpretable Deep Learning for Network Congestion Prediction
Konstantinos Poularakis, Qiaofeng Qin, Franck Le, Sastry Kompella, and Leandros Tassiulas
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2021

More Is Not Always Better: An Analytical Study of Controller Synchronizations in Distributed SDN
Ziyao Zhang, Liang Ma, Kin K. Leung, Franck Le
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1-11, 2021

Optimizing in the Dark: Learning Optimal Network Resource Reservation Through a Simple Request Interface
Qiao Xiang, Haitao Yu, James Aspnes, Franck Le, Chin Guok, Linghe Kong, Y. Richard Yang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 29(2), 571-584, 2021


2020

Discovering Unknown IoT Devices
Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa
IJCAI Workshop AI for Internet of Things, 2020

Network Scheduling and Compute Resource Aware Task Placement in Datacenters
Ali Munir, Ting He, Ramya Raghavendra, Franck Le, Alex X. Liu
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 28(6), 2435--2448, 2020

Deriving Interpretable Rules for IoT Discovery Through Attention
Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa
Internet of Things - ICIOT 2020 - 5th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA, September 18-20, 2020, Proceedings, pp. 32--44, Springer

Improving Inter-domain Routing through Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Xiaoyang Zhao, Chuan Wu, Franck Le
IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 1129-1134

Toward Optimal Software-Defined Interdomain Routing
Qiao Xiang, Jingxuan Zhang, Kai Gao, Yeon-sup Lim, Franck Le, Geng Li, Y. Richard Yang
IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1529–1538, IEEE Press
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2019

Deep Neural Networks for Network Routing
Joao Reis, Miguel Rocha, Truong Khoa Phan, David Griffin, Franck Le, Miguel Rio
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2019

DeviceMien: Network Device Behavior Modeling for Identifying Unknown IoT Devices
Jorge Ortiz, Catherine H Crawford, Franck Le
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2019

Experiences Implementing Live VM Migration over the WAN with Multi-Path TCP
Franck Le, Erich Nahum
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2019

Update Algebra: Toward Continuous, Non-Blocking Composition of Network Updates in SDN
Geng Li, Y. Richard Yang, Franck Le, Yeon-sup Lim, Junqi Wang
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2019

A Future/Promise Framework for Asynchronous Network Functions
Jingpu Duan, Xiaodong Yi, Junjie Wang, Chuan Wu, Franck Le
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2019

NFVactor: A Resilient NFV System Using the Distributed Actor Model
Jingpu Duan, Xiaodong Yi, Shixiong Zhao, Chuan Wu, Heming Cui, Franck Le
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2019

Optimizing in the Dark: Learning an Optimal Solution Through a Simple Interface
Qiao Xiang, Haitao Yu, James Aspnes, Franck Le, Linghe Kong, Y. Richard Yang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019

Unearthing and Exploiting Latent Semantics behind DNS Domains for DeepNetwork Traffic Analysis
Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Dinesh Verma
IJCAI Workshop AI for Internet of Things, 2019


2018

Fine-grained, Multi-domain Network Resource Abstraction As a Fundamental Primitive to Enable High-performance, Collaborative Data Sciences
Qiao Xiang, J. Jensen Zhang, X. Tony Wang, Y. Jace Liu, Chin Guok, Franck Le, John MacAuley, Harvey Newman, Y. Richard Yang
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), pp. 5:1--5:13, 2018


2017

Dynamic Scaling of Virtualized, Distributed Service Chains: A Case Study of IMS
Jingpu Duan, Chuan Wu, Franck Le, Alex X. Liu, Yanghua Peng
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 2017

Fast Transparent Virtual Machine Migration in Distributed Edge Clouds
Lucas Chaufournier, Prateek Sharma, Franck Le, Erich Nahum, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley
IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2017

Multipath TCP Traffic Diversion Attacks and Countermeasures
Ali Munir, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, Alex Liu, Franck Le
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2017

Online Learning-Assisted VNF Service Chain Scaling With Network Uncertainties
Xiaoke Wang, Chuan Wu, Franck Le, Francis C.M. Lau
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud), 2017

Stateless Network Functions: Breaking the Tight Coupling of State and Processing
Murad Kablan, Azzam Alsudais, Eric Keller, Franck Le
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2017


2016

Network Scheduling Aware Task Placement in Datacenters
Ali Munir, Ting He, Ramya Raghavendra, Franck Le, and Alex Liu
Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2016

CRONets: Cloud-Routed Overlay Networks
Chris X. Cai, Franck Le, Xin Sun, Geoffrey G. Xie, Hani Jamjoom and Roy H. Campbell
IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2016

Online VNF Scaling in Datacenters
Xiaoke Wang, Chuan Wu, Franck Le, Alex Liu, Zongpeng Li, Francis C.M. Lau
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud), 2016

Declarative Framework for Specification, Simulation and Analysis of Distributed Applications
Jiefei Ma, Franck Le, Alessandra Russo, Jorge Lobo
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2016


2015

Experimental Results on the use of Genetic Algorithms for Scaling Virtualized Network Functions
Windhya Rankothge, Franck Le, Alessandra Russo, Jorge Lobo
IEEE International Conference on Network Function Virtualization & Software Defined Networks, 2015

Experiences Deploying a Transparent Split TCP Middlebox and the Implications for NFV
Franck Le, Erich Nahum, Vasilis Pappas, Maroun Touma, Dinesh Verma
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization, pp. 31--36, ACM

Towards Making Network Function Virtualization a Cloud Computing Service
Windhya Rankothge, Jiefei Ma, Franck Le, Alessandra Russo, Jorge Lobo
IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 2015

Detecting Distributed Signature-based Intrusion: The Case of Multi-Path Routing Attacks
Jiefei Ma, Franck Le, Alessandra Russo, Jorge Lobo
IEEE INFOCOM, 2015


2014

Interconnecting Routing Instances
Franck Le, Joao Luis Sobrinho
Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on (ToN) 22(2), 540--553, IEEE, 2014

Distributed Route Aggregation on the Global Network
Joao Luis Sobrinho, Laurent Vanbever, Franck Le, Jennifer Rexford
Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), pp. 161--172, 2014


2013

A declarative approach to distributed computing: Specification, execution and analysis
Jiefei Ma, Franck Le, David Wood, Alessandra Russo, Jorge Lobo
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 13(4-5), 815--830, Cambridge Univ Press, 2013

Cross-path inference attacks on multipath TCP
M Zubair Shafiq, Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Alex X Liu
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), pp. 15, 2013


2012

A fresh look at inter-domain route aggregation
Joao Sobrinho, Franck Le
INFOCOM Mini-conference, 2012 Proceedings IEEE, pp. 2556--2560

Byte Caching in Wireless Networks
Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Arun Iyengar
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012 IEEE 32nd International Conference on, pp. 265--274


2011

On Route Aggregation
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie, Hui Zhang
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2011


2010

Theory and New Primitives for Safely Connecting Routing Protocol Instances
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie, Hui Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM, 2010


2009

Detecting Network-wide and Router-specific Misconfigurations through Data Mining
Franck Le, Sihyung Lee, Tina Wong, Hyong S. Kim, Darrell Newcomb
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2009


2008

Shedding Light on the Glue Logic of the Internet Routing Architecture
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie, Dan Pei, Jia Wang, Hui Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM, 2008

Instability Free Routing: Beyond One Protocol Instance
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie, Hui Zhang
International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2008


2007

On Guidelines for Safe Route Redistributions
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM), 2007

Understanding Route Redistribution
Franck Le, Geoffrey Xie, Hui Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (Winner of the Best Paper Award), 2007


2006

Minerals: using data mining to detect router misconfigurations
Franck Le, Sihyung Lee, Tina Wong, Hyong Kim, Darrell Newcomb
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet), 2006


Year Unknown

Declarative distributed computing

Correct Reasoning, 2012 - Springer