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  1. Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones

    Jaeyeon Jung This paper focuses on straggling tasks (tasks that run much longer than others, thus ... jobs. The paper first shows (using real production traces, from Yahoo!, Facebook, and Bing) that most ... jobs have a small number of tasks, and therefore get affected by the stragglers. The paper then shows ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:22 pm

  2. Wire Speed Name Lookup: A GPU-based Approach

    paper studies the name lookup issue with longest prefix matching, which is widely used in URL filtering, ... Walfish Using GPU hardware, the authors of this paper implement longest prefix matching (LPM) of arbitrary ... they cause the system to rebuild the data structure in the worst case. A question about the paper ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:42 am

  3. SoNIC: Precise Realtime Software Access and Control of Wired Networks

    this paper we introduce SoNIC, Software-defined Network Interface Card, which provides access to the ... (FPGA and SFP converter) for the electrical to digital conversion,serialization, and timing. The paper ... data rate is too high." In this sense I find the paper is especially interesting and instructive, ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:47 pm

  4. Split/Merge: System Support for Elastic Execution in Virtual Middleboxes

    Columbia Developing elastic applications should be easy. This paper takes a step toward the goal of ... others. Only global state, such as policy or counters, must be synchronized across replicas. This paper ... (re-)balancing. Still, some middleboxes use global state that must be kept consistent. The paper argues that most ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:22 pm

  5. PinPoint: Localizing Interfering Radios

    Kiran Joshi, Steven Hong, and Sachin Katti, Stanford University This paper presents PinPoint, ... This paper considers a direct approach to mitigating wireless interference in the ISM band: locating ... the latest in a number of papers leveraging the unique properties of cyclostationary features (e.g. ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:38 pm

  6. SloMo: Downclocking WiFi Communication

    Feng Lu, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Alex C. Snoeren, University of California, San Diego As manufacturers continue to improve the energy efficiency of battery-powered wireless devices, WiFi has become one of—if not the—most significant power draws. Hence, mod ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:16 pm

  7. Splash: Fast Data Dissemination with Constructive Interference in Wireless Sensor Networks

    dominated by the overhead of resolving the contention for the underlying wireless channel. In this paper, we ... Rodrigo Fonseca This paper presents Splash, a dissemination protocol for large objects in wireless sensor ... forindividual missing packets, a process that converges quickly. The paper evaluates a full implementation of ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:27 pm

  8. Expanding Rural Cellular Networks with Virtual Coverage

    This paper addresses a practical real-world challenge: making cellular network service cost-effective ... from carriers in developing regions.  Their paper presents those insights in an engaging way, and will ... garage door opener. The paper shows that the Virtual Coverage idea can yield a modest energy savings even ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 5:06 pm

  9. EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation at the Edge

    tenants. In this paper we present EyeQ, a simple and practical system that provides tenants with bandwidth ... Lakshminarayanan Subramanian The basic question addressed in this paper is: "How do we provide the abstraction ... over, the volume of traffic from each tenant.  This paper presents EyeQ, a system that aims to provide ...

    michele - December 16, 2021 - 4:52 am

  10. Stronger Semantics for Low-Latency Geo-Replicated Storage

    consistency, but sacrifice low latency by blocking on replication across data centers.  This paper presents ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:06 pm

  11. Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud

    dedicated compute, storage, and networking resources. This paper addresses a particularly important and ... paper, the authors have made two primary contributions. First, they have carried out a multi-week long ... performance. The resulting node-local test forms the basis of this paper's second major contribution, ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:13 am

  12. Rhea: Automatic Filtering for Unstructured Cloud Storage

    WAN link which impacts performance but also incurs egress bandwidth charges. This paper presents Rhea, ... Lee This paper presents a new approach to reduce transmission between data storage nodes and compute ... not necessary for further processing. This paper identifies and addresses an important problem facing ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:47 pm

  13. Robustness in the Salus Scalable Block Store

    and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin This paper describes Salus, a block store that ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:44 am

  14. MemC3: Compact and Concurrent MemCache with Dumber Caching and Smarter Hashing

    paper presents a set of architecturally and workload inspired algorithmic and engineering improvements ... this paper propose MemC3. MemC3 is a low-latency memory-based distributed object caching system for ... the paper rely on serialize all writers. This is totally fine for the read-oriented workloads ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:36 pm

  15. Scaling Memcache at Facebook

    Venkataramani, Facebook Inc. Memcached is a well known, simple, in memory caching solution. This paper describes ... the de-facto storage system. This paper describes how Facebook has engineered their caching layer, ... this a must-read paper for anyone building large-scale web services today. While the ensemble of ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 2:30 pm

  16. F10: A Fault-Tolerant Engineered Network

    Awarded Best Paper!    The data center network is increasingly a cost, reliability and performance ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:53 pm

  17. LOUP: The Principles and Practice of Intra-Domain Route Dissemination

    transient loops, and routing failures. In this paper, we consider the intra-domain route dissemination ... achieve faster convergence. There are additional reasons to read the paper. It provides a fresh ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:56 pm

  18. Improving Availability in Distributed Systems with Failure Informers

    Microsoft Research Silicon Valley;   Michael Walfish,  The University of Texas at Austin This paper ... reported), accuracy (reports are justified), and timeliness (reports come quickly). This paper describes ... Argyraki This paper addresses one of the quintessential questions in system design: how much and what kind ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:49 pm

  19. BOSS: Building Operating System Services

    Richard Mortier This paper presents BOSS, a set of operating system services on which to build ... development of robust, portable applications. It is an integration paper that describes a system consisting of ... actuators, so we can write portable building monitoring and control applications. The paper describes three ...

    michele - January 19, 2022 - 2:25 pm

  20. Stochastic Forecasts Achieve High Throughput and Low Delay over Cellular Networks

    Lakshminarayanan Subramanian This is a highly refreshing paper among the large gamut of papers on congestion ... and low delay. This paper has many interesting design surprises. One of the surprising observations in ... this paper is that link speeds change dramatically with time, and current transport protocols build up ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:40 am

  21. Demystifying Page Load Performance with WProf

    parsing of HTTP objects, and JavaScript and CSS evaluation.  This paper presents a profiling tool called ... widely-used browsers. The second half of the paper uses WProf to identify the PLT bottlenecks of 150 popular ... effectiveness under different operating conditions. This paper is timely and relevant—everyone suffers from poor ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 10:57 am

  22. Dasu: Pushing Experiments to the Internet’s Edge

    service they receive from their ISP (this aspect of Dasu is covered in another publication). This paper ... paper demonstrates the usefulness of this deployment with three case study experiments. These case ... Internet. In the opinion of the PC, the great strength of this paper is that it describes a practical, real ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 11:11 am

  23. πBox: A Platform for Privacy-Preserving Apps

    off their privacy for apps' functionality. This paper takes a significant step towards addressing ... paper will fuel more community interest and future work on designing privacy-preserving app platforms.  ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:44 pm

  24. P3: Toward Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing

    scenario and security expectations.  Other important questions remain, which we can't expect one paper ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:28 pm

  25. Embassies: Radically Refactoring the Web

    Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, and John R. Douceur, Microsoft Research Awarded Best Paper!    Web ... common.  This paper argues for a radical refactoring of the web interface to fix these problems. The ... interface and API flexibility is a familiar one, but where this paper shines is in its treatment of the ...

    michele - January 20, 2022 - 1:33 pm

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