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  1. ffsck: The Fast File System Checker

    Ao Ma, EMC Corporation and University of Wisconsin—Madison; Charlotte Dragga, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison Crash failures, hardware errors, and file system bugs can corrupt file systems and cause d ...

    michele - May 26, 2022 - 10:07 pm

  2. Building Workload-Independent Storage with VT-Trees

    Pradeep Shetty, Richard Spillane, Ravikant Malpani, Binesh Andrews, Justin Seyster, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University As the Internet and the amount of data grows, the variability of data sizes grows too—from small MP3 tags to large VM images. With a ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 12:33 pm

  3. A Study of Linux File System Evolution

    Wisconsin—Madison     Awarded Best Paper!  We conduct a comprehensive study of file-system code evolution. By ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 1:12 pm

  4. Shroud: Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center

    Jacob R. Lorch, Bryan Parno, and James Mickens, Microsoft Research;  Mariana Raykova, IBM Research; Joshua Schiffman, AMD Recent events have shown online service providers the perils of possessing private information about users. Encrypting data mitigates ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 1:23 pm

  5. Getting Real: Lessons in Transitioning Research Simulations into Hardware Systems

    difficult to judge the true benefit of the proposed designs. In this paper, we describe our efforts to ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 12:35 pm

  6. To Zip or Not to Zip: Effective Resource Usage for Real-Time Compression

    Danny Harnik, Ronen Kat, Oded Margalit, Dmitry Sotnikov, and Avishay Traeger,  IBM Research—Haifa Real-time compression for primary storage is quickly becoming widespread as data continues to grow exponentially, but adding compression on the data path con ...

    michele - January 13, 2022 - 2:21 pm

  7. LDPC-in-SSD: Making Advanced Error Correction Codes Work Effectively in Solid State Drives

    issue, this paper presents three techniques to mitigate the LDPC-induced response time delay so that SSDs ...

    michele - January 18, 2022 - 4:27 pm

  8. Extending the Lifetime of Flash-based Storage through Reducing Write Amplification from File Systems

    Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu, and Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University Flash memory has gained in popularity as storage devices for both enterprise and embedded systems because of its high performance, low energy and reduced cost. The endurance problem of flash memory ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 1:14 pm

  9. Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault

    storage systems. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to expose reliability issues in block devices ...

    michele - January 18, 2022 - 4:25 pm

  10. Gecko: Contention-Oblivious Disk Arrays for Cloud Storage

    Ji Yong Shin, Cornell University; Mahesh Balakrishnan, Microsoft Research; Tudor Marian, Google; Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University Disk contention is increasingly a significant problem for cloud storage, as applications are forced to co-exist on machi ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 12:32 pm

  11. Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions

    Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz This paper has been removed because of a dispute ...

    michele - December 16, 2021 - 10:52 am - 1 comment

  12. Virtual Machine Workloads: The Case for New NAS Benchmarks

    produce workloads typical to physical machines. This paper makes two contributions. First, we studied the ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 12:26 pm

  13. Composing Software Defined Networks

    support for creating modular applications. This paper introduces new abstractions for building ... Given the complexity of Pyretic, it is hard to do the language justice in a single paper. The paper ... but the full power of Pyretic remains an open issue. For brevity, the paper does not include details ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:26 pm

  14. VeriFlow: Verifying Network-Wide Invariants in Real Time

    that network performance is not affected. In this paper, we present a design, VeriFlow, which achieves ... = {USENIX Association}, month = apr} Download Khurshid PDF View the slides by Richard Mortier This paper ... paper: it addresses a hard problem, producing a working prototype that achieves good performance. The key ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:43 pm

  15. Software Defined Traffic Measurement with OpenSketch

    This paper presents OpenSketch; software-defined traffic measurement architecture.  The authors are ... of Sketches. The nomenclature of the paper owes much to the SDN literature: a (measurement) ... codebase that is at the core of this paper in a publicly available repository. While the authors, by their ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:09 am

  16. V-edge: Fast Self-constructive Power Modeling of Smartphones Based on Battery Voltage Dynamics

    mobile devices. Until this paper, that is. "At a first glance, this paper felt like magic." ... This was one of the reviewer's reactions to this paper, and it underlies both why the PC accepted ... it and why you will probably be as skeptical as we were at first blush. The magic in this paper is ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:11 am

  17. eDoctor: Automatically Diagnosing Abnormal Battery Drain Issues on Smartphones

    a significant number of users. This paper presents eDoctor, a practical tool that helps regular users ... and only 22.4 MB of storage space. In general, reviewers thought that this paper attacked an important ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:25 pm

  18. ArrayTrack: A Fine-Grained Indoor Location System

    perspective. This paper presents the design and experimental evaluation of ArrayTrack, an indoor location ... ArrayTrack paper leverages MIMO radios to achieve more accurate localization, through some variations of some ... information. The paper is quite comprehensive in its design and implementation. The implementation was done on ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:28 am

  19. Walkie-Markie: Indoor Pathway Mapping Made Easy

    Walkie-Markie paper presents a technique that tries to automatically determine the indoor pathway map of ... localization techniques have used that approach in recent years, and this paper leverages similar information ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 11:02 am

  20. Real Time Network Policy Checking Using Header Space Analysis

    compliance checker. Our paper introduces a real time policy checking tool called NetPlumber based on Header ... important correctness and security policies, a subset of this paper's authors (Kazemian et al., NSDI ... on a campus-scale network in seconds to minutes. Now, in this paper, Kazemian et al. take the next ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:40 pm

  21. Ensuring Connectivity via Data Plane Mechanisms

    rates. In this paper we propose moving the responsibility for connectivity to the data plane. Our design, ... control plane is recomputing the routes. This paper contains an important result. Namely, it shows that it ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:55 pm

  22. Juggling the Jigsaw: Towards Automated Problem Inference from Network Trouble Tickets

    Purdue University This paper presents NetSieve, a system that aims to do automated problem inference from ... language. This paper takes a practical step towards automatically analyzing natural language text in network ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:30 pm

  23. Yank: Enabling Green Data Centers to Pull the Plug

    In this paper, we present Yank, which uses a transient server abstraction to maintain server ... consumption of the DC and the energy implications of added redundancy.)  The paper does a good job in ironing ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 11:00 am - 1 comment

  24. Scalable Rule Management for Data Centers

    various traffic management policies. In this paper, we explore automated rule management in the context of ... dynamics, and VM mobility. The paper evaluates the design with a simulated large-scale datacenter topology, ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:28 pm

  25. Chatty Tenants and the Cloud Network Sharing Problem

    implement these deep and intricate cloud component service structures. This paper takes an importantstep ... The approach this paper proposes is to seek to offer bandwidth guarantees, for a given communication ... different tenants. The paper presents Hadrian, a practical VM placement and bandwidth allocation system ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:24 pm

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