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System Register Hijacking: Compromising Kernel Integrity By Turning System Registers Against the System
techniques. In this paper, we propose System Register Hijacking, a previously overlooked frontier in the ...admin - October 14, 2025 - 3:09 pm
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Batchy: Batch-scheduling Data Flow Graphs with Service-level Objectives
Tamás Lévai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics & University of Southern California; Felicián Németh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Barath Raghavan, University of Southern California; Gábor Rétvári, MTA-BME Information ...admin - November 13, 2025 - 4:49 pm
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Inf2Guard: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Learning Privacy-Preserving Representations against Inference Attacks
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More is Less: Extra Features in Contactless Payments Break Security
George Pavlides, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, University of Surrey; Anna Clee, University of Birmingham; Ioana Boureanu, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, University of Surrey; Tom Chothia, University of Birmingham The EMV contactless payment system ...admin - December 8, 2025 - 9:05 am
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Disparate Privacy Vulnerability: Targeted Attribute Inference Attacks and Defenses
a phenomenon known as disparate vulnerability. This paper illustrates that an adversary can take advantage of ...admin - December 18, 2025 - 4:11 pm
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HotRestore: A Fast Restore System for Virtual Machine Cluster
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 2:00pm – 2:15pm Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Tianyu Wo, Bo ... consequently leading to the TCP backoff problem. In this paper, we present a novel restore approach called ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 2:35 pm
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Automatic and Dynamic Configuration of Data Compression for Web Servers
Refereed Paper Thursday, November 13, 2014- 2:00pm – 2:15pm Eyal Zohar, Yahoo! Labs; Yuval ... a compression level and hope for the best. In this paper we present a novel elastic compression framework that ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 3:09 pm
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An Administrator’s Guide to Internet Password Research
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 2:30pm – 2:45pm Dinei Flor ê ncio and Cormac Herley, ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 2:42 pm
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ParaSwift: File I/O Trace Modeling for the Future
Refereed Paper Thursday, November 13, 2014- 2:30pm – 2:45pm Rukma Talwadker and Kaladhar ... semantics. In this paper we present an algorithm and a unified framework that models and replays NFS as well ... made over the entire trace. In this paper, in addition to being able to model the intricacies of the ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 3:02 pm
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Realtime High-Speed Network Traffic Monitoring Using ntopng
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 3:00pm – 3:15pm Luca Deri, IIT/CNR and ntop; Maurizio ... Martinelli, IIT/CNR; Alfredo Cardigliano, ntop Awarded Best Paper! Monitoring network traffic has become ... virtual machine based, software traffic monitoring applications. This paper covers the design and ...hilaryh - December 12, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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The Truth About MapReduce Performance on SSDs
Refereed Paper Thursday, November 13, 2014- 2:15pm – 2:30pm Karthik Kambatla, Cloudera Inc. and ... as a viable alternative to rotational hard-disk drives (HDDs). In this paper, we investigate if SSDs ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 2:48 pm
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Towards Detecting Target Link Flooding Attack
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 3:15pm – 3:30pm Lei Xue, The Hong Kong Polytechnic ... proposed, the deployment issues limit their usages since they require modifying routers. In this paper, we ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 3:07 pm
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Compiling Abstract Specifications into Concrete Systems—Bringing Order to the Cloud
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 2:15pm – 2:30pm Ian Unruh, Alexandru G. Bardas, Rui ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 3:05 pm
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Analyzing Log Analysis: An Empirical Study of User Log Mining
Refereed Paper Wednesday, November 12, 2014- 2:45pm – 3:00pm S. Alspaugh, University of ... Student Paper! We present an in-depth study of over 200K log analysis queries from Splunk, a platform for ...hilaryh - December 21, 2021 - 1:06 pm
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De-indirection for Flash-based SSDs with Nameless Writes
publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Updated full paper, 2/7/12 Presentation ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory
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When Poll Is Better than Interrupt
traditional interrupt-driven I/O. This paper thus argues for the synchronous completion of block I/O first ... safe and correct. This paper further discusses challenges and opportunities introduced by synchronous ... = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/when-poll-better-interrupt}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Characteristics of Backup Workloads in Production Systems
paper, we present a comprehensive characterization of backup workloads by analyzing statistics and ... = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/characteristics-backup-workloads-production-systems}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Updated full paper, 2/7/12 ... Updated full paper, 2/9/12 Presentation Video Presentation Audio Download Audio ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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WAN Optimized Replication of Backup Datasets Using Stream-Informed Delta Compression
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Power Consumption in Enterprise-Scale Backup Storage Systems
practitioners to rely on existing assumptions. In this paper we present the first analysis of power consumption ... -consumption-enterprise-scale-backup-storage-systems}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation Audio ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 9:52 am
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Recon: Verifying File System Consistency at Runtime
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Understanding Performance Implications of Nested File Systems in a Virtualized Environment
management of such an environment. In this paper, we focus on one particular layer: storage virtualization, ... = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation Audio Download ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 9:52 am
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Consistency Without Ordering
paper, we introduce the No-Order File System (NoFS), a simple, lightweight file system that employs ... = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/consistency-without-ordering}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 9:52 am
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Reducing SSD Read Latency via NAND Flash Program and Erase Suspension
this paper a low-overhead P/E suspension scheme, which suspends the on-going P/E to service pending ... -ssd-read-latency-nand-flash-program-and-erase-suspension}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation Audio ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 9:52 am
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Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation
These greatly impact the performance of future SSDs. In this paper, we present the first work to improve ... = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/optimizing-nand-flash-based-ssds-retention-relaxation}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, month = feb} Download Full paper Presentation Video Presentation ...joey - December 18, 2021 - 9:52 am