USENIX Courses

Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems

Investigates vulnerabilities in aircraft instrument landing systems to wireless attacks using software-defined radio, demonstrating potential for spoofing signals and causing off-runway landings in low-visibility conditions.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

TESSERACT - Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification Across Space and Time

Unveils TESSERACT framework to eliminate spatial and temporal biases in Android malware classification, improving real-world robustness and revealing counterintuitive performance insights.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Computer Security and Privacy in the Interactions Between Victim Service Providers and Human Trafficking Survivors

Exploring technology's role in victim service provider-survivor interactions, balancing trust-building and risk mitigation for human trafficking survivors' recovery and empowerment.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

BITE - Bitcoin Lightweight Client Privacy Using Trusted Execution

Innovative approach to enhance privacy for Bitcoin lightweight clients using SGX enclaves, combining trusted execution and private information retrieval techniques for improved security without compromising performance.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GRIMOIRE - Synthesizing Structure while Fuzzing

Innovative fuzzing technique for programs with structured inputs, synthesizing complex structures on-the-fly without pre-configuration, outperforming existing methods and uncovering 19 memory corruption bugs.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Users Really Do Answer Telephone Scams

Explores factors influencing susceptibility to telephone scams through ethical phishing experiments, revealing the significant impact of spoofed Caller ID on victims' willingness to disclose sensitive information.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Data Domain Cloud Tier - Backup Here, Backup There, Deduplicated Everywhere!

Innovative cloud tier for Data Domain appliances, enabling cost-effective deduplication in the cloud. Focuses on space estimation, efficient data transfer, and file management between on-premises and cloud storage.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Measure, Then Build

Explore an empirically-driven approach to systems research, focusing on analyzing existing systems before designing new solutions. Learn from two decades of research examples at UW-Madison.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Transactuations - Where Transactions Meet the Physical World

Exploring transactuations: a novel abstraction for building reliable IoT applications, addressing inconsistencies in smart home environments caused by failures and unwanted interleaving.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

From Laptop to Lambda - Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers

Explore gg, a framework enabling near-interactive execution of everyday tasks using thousands of parallel cloud functions, revolutionizing how we approach resource-intensive computing jobs.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Unification of Temporary Storage in the NodeKernel Architecture

Explores NodeKernel architecture for efficient temporary data storage, fusing file system and key-value semantics to enhance performance in data processing frameworks using modern hardware.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

R2P2 - Making RPCs First-Class Datacenter Citizens

Innovative UDP-based protocol for efficient RPC routing in datacenters, improving tail latency and throughput for μs-scale applications through centralized load balancing and in-network scheduling.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Cross-Dataset Time Series Anomaly Detection for Cloud Systems

Innovative approach combining transfer and active learning for detecting anomalies in cloud systems using limited labeled data, improving efficiency in maintaining service availability.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Dashboard Is Worth a Thousand Words - Better Monitoring for Better Ops

Explore how CERN's new monitoring system improved service operations and fostered SRE practices, discussing design decisions, operational challenges, and the benefits of implementing SLIs/SLOs.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

HBase Internals and Operations

Explore HBase architecture, components, and key metrics for efficient high-availability operations in this comprehensive overview of the Hadoop-based key-value datastore.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk