Publications

Fast-Switching OCS: Benefits, Technologies, System-Level Considerations, and Emerging Applications for Dynamic AI Fabrics

Iwan Kartawira, Michael DeMerchant, Swapna Nannapaneni, Spencer Giacalone, Shawn Chen, James Burch, Seema Mehta, Zibo Hu

The OCP Foundation whitepaper 2026

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Reshaping Data Center Networks with Reconfigurability

Shawn Shuoshuo Chen

Carnegie Mellon University Thesis 2026

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Optical Circuit Switching for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters: Benefits, Technologies, Current and Future Deployments

Iwan Kartawira, Michael DeMerchant, Swapna Nannapaneni, Spencer Giacalone, Shawn Chen, James Burch

The OCP Foundation whitepaper 2026

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Virtual Slicing: Achieving Control Plane Availability and Traffic Engineering Efficiency in Data Centers

Brian Chang, Keqiang He, Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Jiaxin Lin, Mingyang Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Fan Wu, Chen Tian, Aditya Akella

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 2026

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Toward Co-adapting Machine Learning Job Shape and Cluster Topology

Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Daiyaan Arfeen, Minlan Yu, Peter Steenkiste, Srinivasan Seshan

arXiv 2025

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Balancing SDN Control Plane Availability and Traffic Engineering Efficiency in Data Centers

Brian Chang, Keqiang He, Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Jiaxin Lin, Mingyang Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella

ICNP 2024

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Precise Data Center Traffic Engineering with Constrained Hardware Resources

Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Keqiang He, Rui Wang, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste

NSDI 2024

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Time-division TCP for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks

Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Weiyang Wang, Christopher Canel, Srinivasan Seshan, Alex C. Snoeren, Peter Steenkiste

SIGCOMM 2022

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Orion: Google's Software-Defined Networking Control Plane

Andrew D. Ferguson, Steve Gribble, Chi-Yao Hong, Charles Killian, Waqar Mohsin, Henrik Muehe, Joon Ong, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Lorenzo Vicisano, Richard Alimi, Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Mike Conley, Subhasree Mandal, Karthik Nagaraj, Kondapa Naidu Bollineni, Amr Sabaa, Shidong Zhang, Min Zhu, Amin Vahdat

NSDI 2021

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Advances in Reliable File-Stream Multicasting over Multi-Domain Software Defined Networks (SDN)

Yuanlong Tan, Shuoshuo Chen, Steve Emmerson, Yizhe Zhang, Malathi Veeraraghavan

ICCCN 2019

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A Cross-Layer Multicast-Push Unicast-Pull (MPUP) Architecture for Reliable File-Stream Distribution

Shuoshuo Chen, Xiang Ji, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Steve Emmerson, Joseph Slezak, Steven G. Decker

IEEE COMPSAC 2016

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