Where to Split? A Pareto-Front Analysis of DNN Partitioning for Edge Inference
A. Masud, N. Foley, P.D. Rajarajan and P. Lama. Proc. of the IEEE EdgeCom, New York City, Nov. 7-9, 2025. PDF
Publications
Research publications in cloud and edge computing, autonomous systems, cyber security, performance modeling, and energy-efficient AI systems.
Peer-reviewed conferences
Efficient Backdoor Defense for Federated Learning with Partial Model Inspection
K. Wilkerson, P. Lama, A. Merrow, R. Bonnet, V. Vedula and R. Boppana. Proc. of the IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2025. PDF
LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework For Troubleshooting Distributed Systems
M. De Jesus, P. Sylvester, W. Clifford, A. Perez and P. Lama. Proc. of the IEEE Cloud Summit 2025. Best Paper Award. PDF
CAE-Net: Enhanced Converting Autoencoder Based Framework for Low-Latency Energy-Efficient DNN with SLO-Constraints
H. Mahmud, P. Kang, P. Lama, K. Desai and S. Prasad. Proc. of the IEEE Cloud Summit 2024.
Data-Priority Aware Fair Task Scheduling for Stream Processing at the Edge
F. Akram, P. Kang, P. Lama and S. Khan. Proc. of the IEEE Cloud Summit 2024. Best Paper Award.
EncodeNet: A Framework for Boosting DNN Accuracy with Entropy-driven Generalized Converting Autoencoder
H. Mahmud, P. Lama, K. Desai and S. Prasad. Proc. of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2024.
Towards Quality of Experience Fairness for Serverless Functions
X. Li, P. Lama, T.L. Botran and W. Wang. Proc. of the IEEE Cloud Summit 2024. Best Paper Award.
Attack-specific Feature Construction To Detect Malicious Tcp Flows
V. Vedula, R.V. Boppana and P. Lama. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience 2024.
Towards Autonomous Laboratories by Integrating IoT, Robotics, Computer Vision, and AI with Container Technology
Korkmaz, T., Alqaisi, O.I., Kang, P., Tosun, A., Lama, P. SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science 2024. Poster.
Towards Live Detection Of Ransomware Attacks
Thummapudi, K., Lama, P., Boppana, R.V. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience 2024.
A Converting Autoencoder Toward Low-latency and Energy-efficient DNN Inference at the Edge
Mahmud, H., Kang, P., Desai, K., Lama, P., Prasad, S. 2024 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops.
High-throughput Real-time Edge Stream Processing with Topology-Aware Resource Matching
Kang, P., Khan, S., Zhou, X., Lama, P. Proc. of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2024.
Mable: Towards Quality of Service Fairness for Serverless Functions
Li, X., Botran, T.L., Wang, W., Lama, P. Women in Machine Learning Workshop (NeurIPS 2023).
Some New Observations on SLO-aware Edge Stream Processing
Shahid, Amna, Peng Kang, Palden Lama, and Samee U. Khan. Proc. of the IEEE Cloud Summit, Maryland, USA, June 2023.
KneeScale: Efficient Resource Scaling for Serverless Computing at the Edge
Xue Li, Peng Kang, Jordan Molone, Wei Wang and Palden Lama. Proc. of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 10 pages, Taormina, Italy, May 2022.
Performance Testing for Cloud Computing with Dependent Data Bootstrapping
Sen He, Tianyi Liu, Palden Lama, Jaewoo Lee, In Kee Kim and Wei Wang. Proc. of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 13 pages, Melbourne, Australia, November 2021. PDF
SLO-aware Virtual Rebalancing for Edge Stream Processing
Peng Kang, Palden Lama and Samee U. Khan. Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 10 pages, Virtual, October 2021. PDF
Robust Resource Scaling of Containerized Microservices with Probabilistic Machine Learning
Peng Kang and Palden Lama. Proc. of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 10 pages, Leicester, UK, December 2020. PDF
Performance Assessment of mHealth Apps
Gerson Rodriguez, Devasena Inupakutika, Sahak Kaghyan, David Akopian, Palden Lama, Patricia Chalela, and Amelie G. Ramirez. Proc. of the 5th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Health Technologies, 7 pages, Austin, Texas, March 2020.
Towards Self-Managing Cloud Storage with Reinforcement Learning
Ridwan Rashid Noel, Rohit Mehra, and Palden Lama. Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 10 pages, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2019. Acceptance Rate: 26%. PDF
Predicting the End-to-End Tail Latency of Containerized Microservices in the Cloud
Joy Rahman and Palden Lama. Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 10 pages, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2019. Acceptance Rate: 26%. PDF
Performance Isolation of Data-Intensive Scale-out Applications in a Multi-tenant Cloud.
Palden Lama, Shaoqi Wang, Xiaobo Zhou and Dazhao Cheng. Proc. of the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 10 pages, Vancouver, Canada, May 2018. Acceptance rate 8% in first round review. PDF
MPLEX: In-situ Big Data Processing with Compute-Storage Multiplexing.
Joy Rahman and Palden Lama. Best Paper Nominee (5 out of 84 submissions). Proc. of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2017), 10 pages, Banff, AB, Canada, September 2017. PDF
Taming Performance Hotspots In Cloud Storage With Dynamic Load Redistribution.
Ridwan Rashid Noel and Palden Lama. Best Paper Award (2 out of 161 submissions). Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 8 pages, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2017. PDF
Towards Energy Efficiency in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters by Adaptive Task Assignment.
Dazhao Cheng, Palden Lama, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 10 pages, Ohio, July 2015. Acceptance rate 12.8%.
User-centric Heterogeneity-aware MapReduce Job Provisioning in the Public Cloud.
Eric Pettijohn, Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 11th USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Philadelphia, June 2014.
pVOCL: Power-Aware Dynamic Placement and Migration in Virtualized GPU Environments.
Palden Lama, Yan Li, Ashwin M. Aji, Pavan Balaji, James Dinan, Shucai Xiao, Yunquan Zhang, Wu-chun Feng, Rajeev Thakur and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 10 pages, Philadelphia, July 2013. Acceptance rate 13%. PDF
Autonomic Performance and Power Control for Co-located Web Applications on Virtualized Servers.
Palden Lama, Yanfei Guo and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 10 pages, Montreal, June 2013. Acceptance rate 28%. PDF
V-Cache: Towards Flexible Resource Provisioning for Clustered Applications in IaaS Clouds
Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, Jia Rao, and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 12 pages, Boston, May 2013. Acceptance rate 21%. PDF
AROMA: Automated Resource Allocation and Configuration of MapReduce Environment in the Cloud
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 10 pages, San Jose, September 2012. Acceptance rate 24%. PDF
NINEPIN: Non-Invasive and Energy Efficient Performance Isolation in Virtualized Servers
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 12 pages, Boston, June 2012. Acceptance rate 17%. PDF
Automated and Agile Server Parameter Tuning with Learning and Control
Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposim (IPDPS), 12 pages, Shanghai, May 2012. Acceptance rate 21%.
aMOSS: Automated Multi-Objective Server Provisioning with Stress-Strain Curving
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 10 pages, Taipei, Sep 2011. Acceptance rate 21%.
PERFUME: Power and Performance Guarantee with Fuzzy MIMO Control in Virtualized Servers
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 19th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), 9 pages, San Jose, June 2011. Acceptance rate 28%.
Autonomic Provisioning with Self-Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control for End-to-end Delay Guarantee
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pages 151-160, Miami, August 2010. Long paper acceptance rate 16%.
Efficient Server Provisioning with End-to-End Delay Guarantee on Multi-tier Clusters
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. Proc. of the 17th IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), 9 pages, July 2009. Acceptance rate 33%.
Journals
Detection of Ransomware Attacks using Processor and Disk Usage Data
Kumar Thummapudi, Palden Lama and Rajendra V. Boppana.
On the Performance of Cloud-Based mHealth Applications: A Methodology on Measuring Service Response Time and a Case Study
Devasena Inupakutika, Gerson Rodriguez, Sahak Kaghyan, David Akopian, Palden Lama, Patricia Chalela, and Amelie G. Ramirez.
On the Detection of Low-Rate Denial of Service Attacks at Transport and Application Layers
Vasudha Vedula, Palden Lama, Rajendra V. Boppana, and Luis A. Trejo. Electronics 10, no. 17: 2105.
Energy Efficiency Aware Task Assignment with DVFS in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters
Dazhao Cheng, Xiaobo Zhou, Palden Lama, Mike Ji and Changjun Jiang. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Disributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 29, No. 1, pages 70-82, January 2018.
Cross-platform Resource Scheduling for Spark and MapReduce on YARN
Dazhao Cheng, Xiaobo Zhou, Palden Lama, Jun Wu and Changjun Jiang. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 14 pages, Feb 2017.
Autonomic Performance and Power Control for Co-located Web Applications in Virtualized Datacenters
Palden Lama, Yanfei Guo, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Disributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 27, No. 5, pages 1289-1302, May 2016.
Autonomic Provisioning with Self-Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Control for Percentile-based Delay Guarantee
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pages 1-31, July 2013. PDF
Coordinated Power and Performance Guarantee with Fuzzy MIMO Control in Virtualized Server Clusters
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 14 pages, accepted August 2013. PDF
Automated and Agile Server Parameter Tuning by Coordinated Learning and Control
Yanfei Guo, Palden Lama, Changjun Jiang, and Xiaobo Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 25, No. 4, pages 876-886, April 2014. PDF
Efficient Server Provisioning with Control for End-to-End Delay Guarantee on Multi-tier Clusters
Palden Lama and Xiaobo Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2012. PDF