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Wireless Inference-based Notification (WIN) without Packet Decoding
Kevin Chen and H. T. Kung, Harvard University We consider ultra-energy-efficient wireless transmission of notifications in sensor networks. We argue that the usual practice where a receiver decodes packets sent by a remote node to acquire its state or me ...michele - December 15, 2021 - 1:52 pm
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Optimizing VM Checkpointing for Restore Performance in VMware ESXi
Irene Zhang, University of Washington and VMware; Tyler Denniston, MIT CSAIL and VMware; Yury Baskakov, VMware; Alex Garthwaite, CloudPhysics and VMware Cloud providers are increasingly looking to use virtual machine checkpointing for new applications b ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 11:31 am
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Hyper-Switch: A Scalable Software Virtual Switching Architecture
server goes up, the last hop switch can be a performance bottleneck. This paper presents the ... efficiency. In addition, this paper presents several optimizations that enhance performance. They include ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:13 pm
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MiG: Efficient Migration of Desktop VMs Using Semantic Compression
Anshul Rai and Ramachandran Ramjee, Microsoft Research India; Ashok Anand, Bell Labs India; Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research India; George Varghese, Microsoft Research US We consider the problem of efficiently migrating desktop virtual machi ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:15 pm
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Copysets: Reducing the Frequency of Data Loss in Cloud Storage
Stanford University Awarded Best Student Paper! Random replication is widely used in data center storage ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 1:20 pm
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TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
Nathan Bronson, Zach Amsden, George Cabrera, Prasad Chakka, Peter Dimov, Hui Ding, Jack Ferris, Anthony Giardullo, Sachin Kulkarni, Harry Li, Mark Marchukov, Dmitri Petrov, Lovro Puzar, Yee Jiun Song, and Venkat Venkataramani, Facebook, Inc. We introduce ...michele - December 15, 2021 - 2:52 pm
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PIKACHU: How to Rebalance Load in Optimizing MapReduce On Heterogeneous Clusters
heterogeneous nodes has been explored in Tarazu, but shown to be only mildly effective. In this paper, we ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:26 pm
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FlashFQ: A Fair Queueing I/O Scheduler for Flash-Based SSDs
queueing approaches that do not enforce task-specific timeslices. This paper develops a new Flash I/O ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:09 pm
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The Harey Tortoise: Managing Heterogeneous Write Performance in SSDs
Laura M. Grupp, University of California, San Diego; John D. Davis, Microsoft Research; Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego Recent years have witnessed significant gains in the adoption of flash technology due to increases in bit dens ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:27 pm
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Janus: Optimal Flash Provisioning for Cloud Storage Workloads
Christoph Albrecht, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely, Muhammad Waliji, Fran ç ois Labelle, Nate Coehlo, Xudong Shi, and C. Eric Schrock, Google, Inc. Janus is a system for partitioning the flash storage tier between workloads in a cloud-scale distributed fil ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 10:49 am
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Using One-Sided RDMA Reads to Build a Fast, CPU-Efficient Key-Value Store
features be exploited in datacenter-scale systems infrastructure? In this paper, we explore the design of ...michele - January 25, 2022 - 10:24 am
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Lightweight Memory Tracing
to a small set of watched locations. This paper introduces memTrace, a lightweight memory tracing ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:16 pm
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Flash Caching on the Storage Client
David A. Holland, Elaine Angelino, Gideon Wald, and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University Flash memory has recently become popular as a caching medium. Most uses to date are on the storage server side. We investigate a different structure: flash as a cache ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:31 pm
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Practical and Effective Sandboxing for Non-root Users
CPU overheads of 0.1–45.2% for various workloads. In this paper, we present MBOX’s design, efficient ...michele - January 25, 2022 - 10:11 am
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TABLEFS: Enhancing Metadata Efficiency in the Local File System
improvement in workloads dominated by metadata and small files. In this paper we present a stacked file ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:11 pm
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Characterization of Incremental Data Changes for Efficient Data Protection
Hyong Shim, Philip Shilane, and Windsor Hsu, EMC Corporation Protecting data on primary storage often requires creating secondary copies by periodically replicating the data to external target systems. We analyze over 100,000 traces from 125 customer blo ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 11:46 am
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On the Efficiency of Durable State Machine Replication
Alysson Bessani, Marcel Santos, Jo ã o Felix, and Nuno Neves, FCUL/LaSIGE, University of Lisbon; Miguel Correia, INESC-ID, IST, University of Lisbon State Machine Replication (SMR) is a fundamental technique for ensuring the dependability of critical se ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 11:27 am
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Estimating Duplication by Content-based Sampling
Fei Xie, Michael Condict, and Sandip Shete, NetApp Inc. We define a new technique for accurately estimating the amount of duplication in a storage volume from a small sample and we analyze its performance and accuracy. The estimate is useful for determin ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 11:41 am
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Redundant State Detection for Dynamic Symbolic Execution
input size. This paper presents a technique that attacks this problem by eliminating paths that cannot ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:24 pm
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packetdrill: Scriptable Network Stack Testing, from Sockets to Packets
Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng, Lawrence Brakmo, Matt Mathis, Barath Raghavan, Nandita Dukkipati, Hsiao-keng Jerry Chu, Andreas Terzis, and Tom Herbert, Google Testing today’s increasingly complex network protocol implementations can be a painstaking proces ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:39 pm
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MutantX-S: Scalable Malware Clustering Based on Static Features
become a major challenge for anti-virus industries. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 1:23 pm - 1 comment
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DeepDive: Transparently Identifying and Managing Performance Interference in Virtualized Environments
Dejan Novakovi ć, Nedeljko Vasi ć, and Stanko Novakovi ć, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Dejan Kosti ć, Institute IMDEA Networks; Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University We describe the design and implementation of DeepDive, a system for ...michele - January 25, 2022 - 10:25 am
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Efficient and Scalable Paravirtual I/O System
Nadav Har’El, Abel Gordon, and Alex Landau, IBM Research–Haifa; Muli Ben-Yehuda, Technion IIT and Hypervisor Consulting; Avishay Traeger and Razya Ladelsky, IBM Research–Haifa The most popular I/O virtualization method today is paravirtual I/O. Its po ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:29 pm
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vTurbo: Accelerating Virtual Machine I/O Processing Using Designated Turbo-Sliced Core
to I/O processing latency because of the CPU access latency experienced by each VM. In this paper, we ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 11:39 am
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When Slower Is Faster: On Heterogeneous Multicores for Reliable Systems
this paper, we show that heterogeneous multicore architectures allow us to run OS code efficiently by ...michele - January 24, 2022 - 12:38 pm