Networked Computing Lab.

We envision and aim at realizing the future of networked computing and AI through working on broad research topics such as  6G cellular architecture design with Performance Guarantee, AI Factory and data center design with high-performance networking, Knowledge-based reasoning (generative decision making) with transformers, Networking with/for AI (including reinforcement learning), Computerized Network (Network-as-a-Computer), AI-based image/video/data encoding, Internet of Things, and Semantic Communications.
(You can check this Paper Reading List to understand what we are interested in.)
(You can also check what we do with the following materials: NXC Lab Overview, NXC Lab_Intro)

NXC Lab welcomes passionate Ph.D./M.S. students, undergraduate research interns, and Post Doc. researchers, who are interested in the NXC vision above. If you are interested in working with us, you can send an email with your CV to Prof. Lee.  Here, you can find a brief overview of how you can start Internship at NXC Lab (Link). 

• [2025.03.10] Prof. Lee and our TAs received the Lee Byoungho Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering at Seoul National University for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Data Communications Networks taught in 2024 Fall. Congratulations!

• [2025.02.12] Daewook and Taekyoung won Bronze Prize from the 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Award in the field of communications & networks. Many congratulations!! 

• [2025.01.20] Our joint work paper with MMLAB on designing a security oracle for the Internet, "A Certificate-centric Security Oracle for the Trustworthy Internet" has been accepted to ACM WWW 2025. Congratulations!

• [2025.01.13] Wooseung and Sungyong's paper on neural compressive transmission "nCTX: A Neural Network-Powered Lossless Compressive Transmission using Shared Information" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.7). Many Congratulations!!

• [2024.12.19] Kyungmin and Seyeon's paper on timely DNN processing for mobile platforms, "NeuroBalancer: Balancing System Frequencies with Punctual Laziness for Timely and Energy-efficient DNN Inferences" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 7.7). Many Congratulations!!

• [2024.12.15] Our paper "Towards a Dynamic Future with Adaptable Computing and Network Convergence (ACNC)" has been accepted to IEEE Network (IF: 7.61). Congratulations!

• [2024.12.13] Wooseung, Sungyong, and Huijeong's paper on neural semantic compression technique, "N-epitomizer: A Semantic Offloading Framework leveraging Essential Information for Timely Neural Network Inferences" has been accepted to the most respected journal in networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IF: 4.00). Many congratulations!! 

• [2024.12.04] Prof. Lee will serve IEEE ICNP 2025 as a General co-Chair with Prof. Dongsu Han and Prof. Songmin Kim (KAIST), which will be held in Seoul.

• [2024.11.04] Chanjeong received the Best Presentation Award from the A3 Foresight Program 2024 (Beijing, China). Congratulations! 

• [2024.10.16] Prof. Lee received the Sinyang Outstanding Researcher Award 2024 (신양공학학술상, 학술부문) from the College of Engineering at Seoul National University. Congratulations!

• [2024.09.29] Dongwook's 1st research paper on efficient packet processing in mobile devices, "ADQ: Application-aware Socket Buffer Dequeueing for Mobile Devices," has been accepted to IEEE CCNC 2025. Many Congratulations!!

• [2024.09.27] Prof. Lee has been selected as a recipient of Okawa Research Grant Award 2024 from the Okawa Foundation, Japan. Congratulations! 

• [2024.08.16] Kyungmin received the Outstanding Paper Award 2024 from the Samsung DS Division. Congratulations! 

• [2024.06.17] Donggyu received the Best Presentation Award from the A3 Foresight Program 2024 (Jeju, South Korea). Congratulations! 

• [2024.06.11] Prof. Lee won the JCN Best Paper 2024 for his co-authored paper, 6G R&D Vision: Requirements and Candidate Technologies published in JCN (Journal of Communications Networks).  

• [2024.05.18] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE INFOCOM 2025 (London, UK). 

• [2024.05.08] Chanjeong is awarded a Student Travel Grant from ACM MobiSys 2024. Congratulations! 

• [2024.03.07] Kyungmin, Jongseok, Chanjeong, and Seyeon's paper on coactive neural inference offloading, "CoActo: CoActive Neural Network Inference Offloading with Fine-grained and Concurrent Execution" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2024. Many congratulations!

• [2024.02.07] NXC received 4 Prizes from the 30th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (3 in the field of communications/networking and 1 in the field of computing). 1 Gold Prize (Jeongmin and Jongyun) and 3 Encouragement Prize (Shinik, Wooseung, and Jongseok). Outstanding! Many congratulations!!

• [2023.12.01] Shinik, Sanghyun, Jongyun, and Junseon's paper on extremely low-latency video streaming, "ExStream: A Delay-minimized Streaming System with Explicit Frame Queueing Delay Measurement" has been accepted to INFOCOM 2024. Many congratulations!!

• [2023.09.22] Jongseok, Kyungmin, and Gibum's paper on opportunistic parallelism for dynamic computation of neural networks, "ASPEN: Breaking Operator Barriers for Efficient Parallelization of Deep Neural Networks" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023 with high review scores. Many many congratulations!

• [2023.08.16] ORIA (Open RAN Industrial Alliance) of Korea has been launched with the support of the Korean government and major networking service and equipment companies in Korea. Prof. Lee will serve as the chair of the softwarization committee in ORIA. 

• [2023.07.26] Seyeon, Kyungmin, and Donggyu's paper on offloaded computing, "ENTRO: Tackling the Encoding and Networking Trade-off in Offloaded Video Analytics" has been accepted to ACM Multimedia (MM) 2023, which is the top ACM conference on multimedia topics. Many Congratulations!!

• [2023.05.18] Multi-path video conferencing work in collaboration with CU Boulder, "Converge: QoE-driven Multipath Video Conferencing over WebRTC" has been accepted to ACM SIGCOMM 2023. Congratulations!!

• [2023.04.29] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE INFOCOM 2024 (Vancouver, Canada). 

• [2023.04.24] Jongyun and Junseon's large-scale measurement work in collaboration with CU Boulder and Purdue, "An Empirical Study of 5G: Effect of Edge on Transport Protocol and Application Performance" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 6.075). Many congratulations!! 

• [2023.04.22] Prof. Lee joins the panel discussion event at the Networking Channel organized by Prof. Jim Kurose (UMass) and Dr. Christope Diot (Google) as a panelist. Prof. Lee will discuss "AI for Networking and Networking for AI" in the perspective of his 6G vision. 

• [2023.04.04] Serae, Sunghyun, and Junseon's paper on new cellular resource orchestration, "Towards Enabling Performance-Guaranteed Slice Management and Orchestration in 6G" has been accepted to the 2023 EuCNC & 6G Summit. Congratulations!!

• [2023.04.02] Junseon's paper on cellular latency control, "Enabling Delay-Guaranteed Congestion Control with One-Bit Feedback in Cellular Networks" has been accepted to the most respected journal in networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IF: 3.796). Many congratulations!! 

• [2023.02.04] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for WiOPT 2023 (Singapore).

• [2023.02.03] Prof. Lee is honored to serve HSN 2024 (Jeju, South Korea) as the Technical Program Chair. 

• [2022.12.20] Junseon won NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award 2022 from UNIST for the second time! Many many congratulations! 

• [2022.12.07] Many congratulations to Junseon and Sungyong for successfully defending their Ph.D. dissertation. All the best wishes to Dr. Kim and Dr. Lee! 

• [2022.10.18] Prof. Lee will serve ACM MobiHoc 2023 as a Program Committee Member.

• [2022.09.29] Prof. Lee received the Best Teaching Faculty Award (우수강의 교수상) 2022 from KSEE (Korean Society for Engineering Education, 한국공학교육학회) for his engineering courses at Seoul National University. Congratulations!

• [2022.09.13] Junseon's paper on designing a revolutionary 6G architecture for guaranteeing application-level performance, "Towards Enabling Performance-Guaranteed Networking in Next-Generation Cellular Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 9.03). Many congratulations!!

• [2022.07.20] Jinmyung (NXC Intern) has been awarded to join Qualcomm IT Tour Program 2022. Congratulations!

• [2022.06.30] Seyeon and Kyungmin's paper in collaboration with CU Boulder, "R-FEC: RL-based FEC Adjustment for better QoE in WebRTC" has been accepted to ACM Multimedia (MM) 2022, the top ACM conference on multimedia topics. Congratulations! 

• [2022.05.26] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for COMSNETS 2023 (Bengaluru, India).

• [2022.05.24] Jongseok is awarded Student Travel Grant from ACM MobiSys 2022. Congratulations! 

• [2022.04.20] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE INFOCOM 2023 (New York, USA). 

• [2022.03.19] Jongseok and Kyungmin's paper on the optimization of GEMM for mobile platforms, "mGEMM: Low-latency Convolution with Minimal Memory Overhead Optimized for Mobile Devices" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2022. Many congratulations to both of you! Jongseok got this result while doing his undergraduate internship. Unbelievable!! 

• [2022.03.07] Prof. Lee and our TAs received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the ECE department for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Data Structures, taught in 2021 Fall. Congratulations!

• [2022.02.24] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for IEEE CCNC 2023 (Las Vegas, NV) as a TPC Track Chair. 

• [2022.02.23] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for WiOPT 2022 (Turin, Italy).

• [2022.01.27] Sungyong won Bronze Prize from Samsung Humantech Paper Award 2021 in the field of communications & networks. Many congratulations!! 

• [2022.01.05] Sungyong's paper on neural sound sensing, "DeepVehicleSense: An Energy-efficient Transportation Mode Recognition Leveraging Staged Deep Learning over Sound Samples" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IF: 5.577). Many congratulations and Happy New Year! 

• [2021.12.31] Prof. Lee is honored to win Official Commendation from the Minister of Science and ICT of Korea (과학기술정보통신부 장관 표창) for his contribution to the development of 5G and 6G technologies. 

• [2021.12.10] Junseon won NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award 2021 from UNIST. Many congratulations! 

• [2021.12.02] Prof. Lee is honored to be selected as a new member of Y-KAST (Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Next-generation member, 한국과학기술한림원 차세대회원). 

• [2021.11.29] Prof. Lee will serve on the Technical Program Committee for ACM MobiSys 2022 (Portland, OR).

• [2021.08.13] The 1st NXC-HCS Joint Workshop on Next-generation Computing and Networking was successfully held at SNU. Great presentations with insightful questions/answers!

• [2021.07.04] Our paper in collaboration with CU Boulder, "Demystifying Commercial Video Conferencing Applications" has been accepted to ACM Multimedia (MM) 2021, which is the top ACM conference on multimedia topics. Congratulations! 

• [2021.06.28] Our paper "zTT: Learning-based DVFS with Zero Thermal Throttling for Mobile Devices" won the BEST PAPER AWARD from ACM MobiSys 2021! (MobiSys Opening Session in YouTube) Many many congratulations to Seyeon and Kyungmin!! (The 1st MobiSys Best Paper from Korean universities.) 

• [2021.05.26] Seyeon and Kyungmin's paper on ML-based processor control, "zTT: Learning-based DVFS with Zero Thermal Throttling for Mobile Devices" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2021 with one of the highest-level ACM artifact badges (ACM Results Reproduced Badge). Many congratulations to both of you!! 

• [2021.04.20] Junseon (Ph.D. candidate) is awarded Student Conference Grant (aka Travel Grant) from IEEE INFOCOM 2021. Congratulations! 

• [2021.03.08] Prof. Lee and our TAs received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the ECE department for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Data Communication Networks, taught in 2020 Fall. Congratulations!

• [2021.03.01] Prof. Lee is honored to serve ACM MobiHoc 2022 as a General co-Chair with Prof. Song Chong (KAIST) and Prof. Changhee Joo (Korea University), which will be held in Seoul.

• [2021.01.29] Prof. Lee will serve WiOpt 2021 as a Program Committee Member.

• [2020.12.08] Our paper "Towards Programmable DOCSIS 4.0 Networks: Adaptive Modulation in OFDM Channels" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IF: 3.878). Congratulations!

• [2020.12.05] Our paper "ECLAT: An ECN Marking System for Latency Guarantee in Cellular Networks" has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2021 (AR: 19.9%). Many congratulations to Junseon!! 

• [2020.12.03] Prof. Lee will serve on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology as an Editor, which is one of the most influential journals in the field of wireless communications. 

• [2020.11.12] Prof. Lee will serve ACM MobiHoc 2021 as a Program Committee Member.

• [2020.08.18] Prof. Lee will serve on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking as an Associate Editor, which is the topmost journal in the field of computer networking.

• [2020.07.07] Our project, "On-path Computing enabling Large-scale Neural Network Services in 6G," teamed up with Prof. Saewoong Bahk and Prof. Hyunjong Lee is getting the premium research fund from Samsung FTF (Samsung Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology). Congratulations!!

• [2020.06.07] Our paper "Collaboration of Network Operators and Cloud Providers in Software-Controlled Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Network (IF: 8.808). Congratulations!

• [2020.05.28] We made a huge success in running the first virtual conference of IEEE WCNC 2020. Many thanks to student volunteers who have done the heavy-lifting job, as Zoom room host (a.k.a. shadow session chair). 

• [2020.04.09] Prof. Lee will serve on the organizing committee of IEEE WCNC 2020 as a General Vice co-Chair for the success of WCNC in the format of virtual conference. 

• [2020.03.07] Our paper "PERCEIVE: Deep Learning-based Cellular Uplink Prediction Using Real-time Scheduling Patterns" is accepted at ACM MobiSys 2020 (AR: 19.4%). Congratulations to Sungyong and Jongyun!

• [2020.03.05] Prof. Lee will serve ACM CoNEXT 2020 as a Program Committee Member. Prof. Lee is also serving ACM MobiHoc 2020 as a Program Committee Member and IEEE WCNC 2020 as a TPC Track Chair.

• [2020.03.01] NXC Lab (Networked Computing Lab) begins at Seoul National University (Department of ECE).