I’m currently pursuing my PhD in Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Gala Yadgar. My research interests include:

• Edge computing
• Virtual network embedding for distributed systems
• Performance and reliability in storage systems

My research focuses on the challenges of managing load in distributed edge systems. I study issues surrounding the optimal allocation of services for mobile users and the service capacity of distributed storage systems operating at the network’s edge.

Publications

• The Power of Alternatives in Network Embedding

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, Rasoul Behravesh, David Breitgand, Dean H. Lorenz. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025).

• PASE: Pro-active Service Embedding in The Mobile Edge

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, David Breitgand, Dean H. Lorenz. 2024 Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM).

• WoW-IO: a Gaming-Based Storage Trace Generator for Edge Computing

  Oleg Kolosov, Tom Herman, Ido Zohar, Gala Yadgar. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC). Best paper award.

• Data Storage at the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar. IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine 2024.

• Theory vs. Practice in Modeling Edge Storage Systems

  Oleg Kolosov, Mehmet Aktas, Emina Soljanin, Gala Yadgar. 2023 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications (IPCCC). Candidate for Best Paper Award.

• PASE: Pro-active Service Embedding in The Mobile Edge

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, David Breitgand, Dean H. Lorenz. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

• Benchmarking in The Dark: On the Absence of Comprehensive Edge Datasets

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, Sumit Maheshwari, and Emina Soljanin.  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge ’20). 2020.

• On Fault Tolerance, Locality, and Optimality in Locally Repairable Codes

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, Matan Liram, Itzhak Tamo, and Alexander Barg. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). Volume 16, Issue 2, May 2020.

• Modeling The Edge: Peer-to-Peer Reincarnated

  Gala Yadgar, Oleg Kolosov, Mehmet Fatih Aktas, Emina Soljanin.  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge ’19). 2019.

• On Fault Tolerance, Locality, and Optimality of Locally Repairable Codes

  Oleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, Matan Liram, Itzhak Tamo, Alexander Barg. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ’18). 2018.