Accepted Presentations

Industry Talks

Experience with B4: Google's Private SDN Backbone
Subhasree Mandal, Google

Anon: Rack-Level Networking for Ultra-Dense Data Centers
Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Microsoft Research

Scalability and Load in Online Games
James Gwertzman, PlayFab, Inc.

Refereed Papers

Unlocking the Power of Locality and End-point Flexibility in Cloud Scale Load Balancer
Rohan Gandhi, Purdue University; Hongqiang Liu, Microsoft; Y. Charlie Hu and Cheng-kok Koh, Purdue University; Ming Zhang, Microsoft

Mercury: Hybrid Centralized and Distributed Scheduling in Large Shared Clusters
Konstantinos Karanasos, Sriram Rao, Carlo Curino, Chris Douglas, Kishore Chaliparambil, Giovanni Matteo Fumarola, Solom Heddaya, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Sarvesh Sakalanaga, Microsoft Corporation

FloSIS: A Highly Scalable Network Flow Capture System for Fast Retrieval and Storage Efficiency
Jihyung Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Sungryoul Lee and Junghee Lee, The Attached Institute of ETRI; Yung Yi and KyoungSoo Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Accurate Latency-based Congestion Feedback for Datacenters
Changhyun Lee and Chunjong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Keon Jang, Intel Labs; Sue Moon and Dongsu Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Bolt: Faster Reconfiguration in Operating Systems
Sankaralingam Panneerselvam and Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bistro: Scheduling Data-Parallel Jobs Against Live Production Systems
Andrey Goder, Alexey Spiridonov, and Yin Wang, Facebook

Establishing a Base of Trust with Performance Counters for Enterprise Workloads
Andrzej Nowak, CERN openlab and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Ahmad Yasin, Intel; Avi Mendelson, Technion; Willy Zwaenepoel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Best of the Rest

Designing Distributed Systems Using Approximate Synchrony in Data Center Networks
Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li, Vincent Liu, Naveen Kr. Sharma, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
Best Paper at NSDI '15: Link to Paper

Queues Don't Matter When You Can JUMP Them!
Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Robert N. M. Watson, Andrew W. Moore, Steven Hand, and Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
Best Paper at NSDI '15: Link to Paper

Realtime High-Speed Network Traffic Monitoring Using ntopng
Luca Deri, ntop / IIT-CNR; Maurizio Martinelli, IIT-CNR; Alfredo Cardigliano, ntop
Best Paper at LISA14: Link to Paper

Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich
Best Paper at OSDI '14: Link to Paper

Industry Talks

Simba: Building Data-Centric Applications for Mobile Devices
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs

A New Paradigm for Power Management
MyungJoo Ham, Geunsik Lim, and Dongyun Jin, Samsung Electronics

Faster Booting in Consumer Electronics
Geunsik Lim, Samsung Electronics

Refereed Papers

Memory-Centric Data Storage for Mobile Systems
Jinglei Ren, Tsinghua University; Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Microsoft Research; Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University; Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research

WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables
Jian Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra and Ed Nightingale, Microsoft Research

Selectively Taming Background Android Apps to Improve Battery Lifetime
Marcelo Martins, Brown University; Justin Cappos, New York University; Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University

U-root: A Go-based, Firmware Embeddable Root File System with On-demand Compilation
Ronald Minnich, Google; Andrey Mirtchovski, Cisco

Industry Talks

Power Your Big Data Analytics With Pivotal Greenplum Database
Kuien Liu and Yandong Yao, Pivotal Software, Inc.

Mambo: Running Analytics on Enterprise Storage
Gokul Soundararajan and Jingxin Feng, NetApp; Xing Lin, University of Utah

A Reference Architecture for Securing Big Data Infrastructures
Abhay Raman and Shezan Chagani, Ernst & Young LP

Industry Talks

In a World of Ephemeral Containers, How Do We Keep Track of Things?
Brian Dorsey, Google

The Pain Curve—The Complexity of Clusters
Greg Bruno, StackIQ, Inc.

Hypervisor-based Memory Introspection at the Next Level: User-Mode Memory Introspection And Protection of Live VMs
Andrei Vlad Lutas, Bitdefender

Terminal.com: Full System Linux Containers with Bare-metal Speed
Joshua Goldbard, Terminal.com

Best of the Rest

The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
Ben Pfaff, Justin Pettit, Teemu Koponen, Ethan Jackson, Andy Zhou, Jarno Rajahalme, Jesse Gross, Alex Wang, Joe Stringer, and Pravin Shelar, VMware, Inc.; Keith Amidon, Awake Networks; Martín Casado, VMware, Inc.
Best Paper at NSDI '15: Link to Paper

Refereed Papers

Systematically Exploring the Behavior of Control Programs
Jason Croft, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research; Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research

Fence: Protecting Device Availability With Uniform Resource Control
Tao Li and Albert Rafetseder, New York University; Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University; Justin Cappos, New York University

Surviving Peripheral Failures in Embedded Systems
Rebecca Smith and Scott Rixner, Rice University

Log2: A Cost-Aware Logging Mechanism for Performance Diagnosis
Rui Ding, Hucheng Zhou, Jian-Guang Lou, Hongyu Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Qiang Fu, and Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research; Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Refereed Papers

GraphQ: Graph Query Processing with Abstraction Refinement—Programmable and Budget-Aware Analytical Queries over Very Large Graphs on a Single PC
Kai Wang and Guoqing (Harry) Xu, University of California, Irvine; Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis; Yu David Liu, SUNY at Binghamton

GridGraph: Large Scale Graph Processing on a Single Machine Using 2-Level Hierarchical Partitioning
Xiaowei Zhu, Wentao Han, and Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University

Spartan: A Distributed Array Framework with Smart Tiling
Chien-Chin Huang, New York University; Qi Chen, Peking University; Zhaoguo Wang and Russell Power, New York University; Jorge Ortiz, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Jinyang Li, New York University; Zhen Xiao, Peking University

Refereed Papers

Secure Deduplication of General Computations
Yang Tang and Junfeng Yang, Columbia University

SecPod: a Framework for Virtualization-based Security Systems
Xiaoguang Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Florida State University; Yue Chen and Zhi Wang, Florida State University; Yajin Zhou, North Carolina State; Yong Qi, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Best of the Rest

Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven
Andrew Baumann, Marcus Peinado, and Galen Hunt, Microsoft Research
Best Paper at OSDI '14: Link to Paper

IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency
Adam Belay, Stanford University; George Prekas, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Ana Klimovic, Samuel Grossman, and Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University; Edouard Bugnion, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Best Paper at OSDI '14: Link to Paper

Privacy in Pharmacogenetics: An End-to-End Case Study of Personalized Warfarin Dosing
Matthew Fredrikson, Eric Lantz, and Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Simon Lin, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation; David Page and Thomas Ristenpart, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Best Paper at USENIX Security '14: Link to Paper

Industry Talks

Erasure Code Foundations
W. David Schwaderer

Its Not Your Father’s Scale-out Storage Architecture!
Sandeep Uttamchandani, VMware

Experiences with Scaling Blockchain-based Data Stores
Muneeb Ali, Onename

Refereed Papers

Shoal: Smart Allocation and Replication of Memory For Parallel Programs
Stefan Kaestle, Reto Achermann, and Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich; Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, Cambridge

DirectKV: A Scalable, Lightweight, FTL-aware Key-Value Store
Leonardo Marmol, Florida International University; Swaminathan Sundararaman and Nisha Talagala, Sandisk; Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

Lightweight Application-Level Crash Consistency on Transactional Flash Storage
Changwoo Min, Georgia Institute of Technology; Woon-Hak Kang, Sungkyunkwan University; Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sang-Won Lee and Young Ik Eom, Sungkyunkwan University

Thread and Memory Placement on NUMA Systems: Asymmetry Matters
Baptiste Lepers, Simon Fraser University; Vivien Quéma, Grenoble INP; Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University

CDStore: Toward Reliable, Secure, and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage via Convergent Dispersal
Mingqiang Li, Chuan Qin, and Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Data Sharing or Resource Contention: Toward Performance Transparency on Multicore Systems
Sharanyan Srikanthan, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Kai Shen, University of Rochester

SpanFS: A Scalable File System on Fast Storage Devices
Junbin Kang, Benlong Zhang, Tianyu Wo, Weiren Yu, Lian Du, and Shuai Ma, Beihang University

Latency-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory
Jacob Nelson, Brandon Holt, Brandon Myers, Preston Brigg, Luis Ceze, Simon Kahan, and Mark Oskin, University of Washington

LAMA: Optimized Locality-aware Memory Allocation for Key-value Cache
Xiameng Hu, Xiaolin Wang, Yechen Li, Lan Zhou, and Yingwei Luo, Peking University; Chen Ding, University of Rochester; Song Jiang, Wayne State University; Zhenlin Wang, Michigan Technological University

Utilizing the IOMMU Scalably
Omer Peleg and Adam Morrison, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology; Benjamin Serebrin, Google; Dan Tsafrir, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

LSM-trie: An LSM-tree-based Ultra-Large Key-Value Store for Small Data Items
Xingbo Wu and Yuehai Xu, Wayne State University; Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Song Jiang, Wayne State University

MetaSync: File Synchronization Across Multiple Untrusted Storage Services
Seungyeop Han and Haichen Shen, University of Washington; Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and David Wetherall, University of Washington

Request-Oriented Durable Write Caching for Application Performance
Sangwook Kim, Sungkyunkwan University; Hwanju Kim, University of Cambridge; Sang-Hoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Joonwon Lee and Jinkyu Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University

Tiered Replication: A Cost-effective Alternative to Full Cluster Geo-replication
Asaf Cidon, Stanford University; Robert Escriva, Cornell University; Sachin Katti and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University; Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University

NightWatch: Integrating Lightweight and Transparent Cache Pollution Control into Dynamic Memory Allocation Systems
Rentong Guo, Xiaofei Liao, and Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Jianhui Yue, Auburn University; Guang Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Best of the Rest

Skylight—A Window on Shingled Disk Operation
Abutalib Aghayev and Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Best Paper at FAST '15: Link to Paper