Donglin Yang, Wei Rang, Dazhao Cheng, Yu Wang, Jiannan Tian, and Dingwen Tao Elastic Executor Provisioning for Iterative Workloads on Apache Spark IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2019.

Donglin Yang, Wei Rang and Dazhao Cheng Joint Optimization of MapReduce Scheduling and Network Policy in Hierarchical Clouds Proc. of the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing(ICPP), 10 pages, Oregon, August, 2018.

Palden Lama, Shaoqi Wang, Xiaobo Zhou and Dazhao Cheng Performance Isolation of Data-Intensive Scale-out Applications in a Multi-tenant Cloud Proc. of the 32th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), 10 pages, Vancouver, May 2018(acceptance rate 20%).

Dazhao Cheng, Yuan Chen, Xiaobo Zhou, Daniel Gmach and Dejan Milojicic Adaptive Scheduling of Parallel Jobs in Spark Streaming Proc. of the 36th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 9 pages, Atlanta, May 2017 (acceptance rate 20.9%)

Dazhao Cheng, Palden Lama, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou Towards Energy Efficiency in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters by Adaptive Task Assignment Proc. of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 10 pages, Columbus, June 2015 (Acceptance rate 12.8%).

Dazhao Cheng, Jia Rao, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou Resource and Deadline-aware Job Scheduling in Dynamic Hadoop Clusters Proc. of the 29th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), 10 pages, Hyderabad, May 2015(acceptance rate 22%).

Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, Dazhao Cheng, Changjun Jiang, Cheng-Zhong Xu and Xiaobo Zhou StoreApp: A Shared Storage Appliance for Efficient and Scalable Virtualized Hadoop Clusters Proc. of the 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 9 pages, Hong Kong, April 2015 (acceptance rate 19%).

Dazhao Cheng, Jia Rao, Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments with Adaptive Task Tuning Proc. of the 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), 12 pages, Bordeaux, December 2014 (acceptance rate 18%).

Dazhao Cheng, Changjun Jiang and Xiaobo Zhou Heterogeneity-aware Workload Placement and Migration in Distributed Sustainable Datacenters Proc. of the 28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), 10 pages, Phoenix, May 2014 (acceptance rate 21%).

Dazhao Cheng, Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou Self-tuning Batching with DVFS for Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency in Servers Proc. of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 10 pages, San Francisco, August 2013 (acceptance rate 27%).