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Static Call Graph Construction in AWS Lambda Serverless Applications
Matthew Obetz, Stacy Patterson, and Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute We present new means for performing static program analysis on serverless programs. We propose a new type of call graph that captures the stateless, event-driven nature of ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 pm
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Just In Time Delivery: Leveraging Operating Systems Knowledge for Better Datacenter Congestion Control
resources in isolation. In this paper, we make the observation that, in the datacenter, the allocation of ... benefit if the traffic arrives at an overloaded server that will only queue the request. This paper ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 pm
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The Seven Sins of Personal-Data Processing Systems under GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this paper, we review GDPR from a system design perspective, ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 pm
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Carving Perfect Layers out of Docker Images
provides limited benefits as layers are rarely fully identical. In this paper, we argue that Docker image ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 pm
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A Double-Edged Sword: Security Threats and Opportunities in One-Sided Network Communication
is a double-edged sword in security. This paper presents our insights into security implications and ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 pm
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Bridging the Edge-Cloud Barrier for Real-time Advanced Vision Analytics
sufficient and stable bandwidth to stream high-fidelity video data in real time. This paper presents ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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NetWarden: Mitigating Network Covert Channels without Performance Loss
Jiarong Xing, Adam Morrison, and Ang Chen, Rice University Network covert channels are an advanced threat to the security and privacy of cloud systems. One common limitation of existing defenses is that they all come at the cost of performance. This prese ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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NLUBroker: A Flexible and Responsive Broker for Cloud-based Natural Language Understanding Services
make recommendations based on their needs. To fill this gap, in this paper, we propose NLUBroker, ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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Characterization and Prediction of Performance Interference on Mediated Passthrough GPUs for Interference-aware Scheduler
performance degradation. In this paper, we proposedan interference-aware VM scheduler at the cluster level ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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The True Cost of Containing: A gVisor Case Study
Ethan G. Young, Pengfei Zhu, Tyler Caraza-Harter, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison We analyze many facets of the performance of gVisor, a new security-oriented container engine that integrates with Doc ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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DynaShield: Reducing the Cost of DDoS Defense using Cloud Services
In this paper, we present a low-cost DDoS solution, DynaShield, which a user can deploy at common ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 10:30 pm
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JumpSwitches: Restoring the Performance of Indirect Branches In the Era of Spectre
against Spectre, they come with a significant penalty — 20% on some workloads. In this paper, we describe ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 am
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M³x: Autonomous Accelerators via Context-Enabled Fast-Path Communication
Nils Asmussen, Michael Roitzsch, and Hermann Härtig, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Barkhausen Institut, Dresden, Germany Performance and efficiency requirements are driving a trend towards specialized accelerators in both datacenters and embedd ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:30 am
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Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers
paper, we propose a practical static analysis approach named DCUAF, to effectively detect concurrency ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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SILK: Preventing Latency Spikes in Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores
Chandhiramoorthi, Nutanix, Inc.; Diego Didona, IBM Research–Zurich Awarded Best Paper! LSM-based KV stores are ... limiting compactions to the highest level by so-called fragmented LSMs. In this paper we focus on latencies ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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Extension Framework for File Systems in User space
Ashish Bijlani and Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology User file systems offer numerous advantages over their in-kernel implementations, such as ease of development and better system reliability. However, they incur heavy performance ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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GAIA: An OS Page Cache for Heterogeneous Systems
Tanya Brokhman, Pavel Lifshits, and Mark Silberstein, Technion We propose a principled approach to integrating GPU memory with an OS page cache. We design GAIA, a weakly-consistent page cache that spans CPU and GPU memories. GAIA enables the standard mmap ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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OPTR: Order-Preserving Translation and Recovery Design for SSDs with a Standard Block Device Interface
standard block device interface. This paper addresses the above issues by breaking the impression that ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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Detecting Asymmetric Application-layer Denial-of-Service Attacks In-Flight with FineLame
overhead in terms of both performance and programmer effort. This paper introduces Finelame, ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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BRAVO—Biased Locking for Reader-Writer Locks
Dave Dice and Alex Kogan, Oracle Labs Designers of modern reader-writer locks confront a difficult trade-off related to reader scalability. Locks that have a compact memory representation for active readers will typically suffer under high intensity read- ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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Data Domain Cloud Tier: Backup here, backup there, deduplicated everywhere!
architectural changes necessary to support a cloud tier in a mature storage product, in this paper, we focus on ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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The Design and Operation of CloudLab
In this paper, we cover one such facility, CloudLab, which supports systems research by providing raw ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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NICA: An Infrastructure for Inline Acceleration of Network Applications
Haggai Eran, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology & Mellanox Technologies; Lior Zeno, Maroun Tork, Gabi Malka, and Mark Silberstein, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology With rising network rates, cloud vendors increasingly deploy FPGA-based Sma ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:45 am
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From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers
Sadjad Fouladi, Francisco Romero, Dan Iter, and Qian Li, Stanford University; Shuvo Chatterjee, unaffiliated; Christos Kozyrakis, Matei Zaharia, and Keith Winstein, Stanford University We present gg, a framework and a set of command-line tools that helps ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:46 am
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Everyone Loves File: File Storage Service (FSS) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Matteo Frigo, Justin Mazzola Paluska, and Alexander (Sasha) Sandler, Oracle Corporation File Storage Service (FSS) is an elastic filesystem provided as a managed NFS service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Using a pipelined Paxos impl ...admin - December 1, 2021 - 9:46 am