USENIX Courses

RainBlock - Faster Transaction Processing in Public Blockchains

Innovative blockchain architecture that significantly increases transaction processing speed without modifying proof-of-work consensus, using novel data structures and I/O optimization techniques.

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

RIFF - Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

Efficient coverage measurement technique for fuzzing, reducing overhead in runtime collection and post-execution processing. Improves fuzzer performance and coverage exploration.

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

Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX

Explore SGXDedup, a novel approach leveraging Intel SGX to accelerate encrypted deduplication for outsourced storage, offering significant performance improvements while maintaining security and efficiency.

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

ICARUS - Attacking Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

Explores vulnerabilities in low Earth orbit satellite networks, introducing ICARUS attacks that exploit global accessibility, low-latency constraints, and network predictability to disrupt communications over large areas.

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

Controlling Memory Footprint of Stateful Streaming Graph Processing

Innovative techniques for reducing memory usage in streaming graph processing systems, enabling analysis of larger dynamic graphs while maintaining performance and accuracy.

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

Avocado - A Secure In-Memory Distributed Storage System

Explore Avocado, a secure in-memory distributed storage system for untrusted cloud environments, offering strong security, fault-tolerance, consistency, and performance through innovative design and implementation.

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

INFaaS - Automated Model-less Inference Serving

Automated system for distributed inference serving, optimizing model selection and resource allocation to meet performance and accuracy requirements while reducing costs and complexity for developers.

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

DART - A Scalable and Adaptive Edge Stream Processing Engine

Scalable, adaptive edge stream processing engine for IoT applications, enabling fast processing of concurrent queries in dynamic environments through dynamic dataflow abstraction and P2P overlay networks.

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

Addra - Metadata-Private Voice Communication Over Fully Untrusted Infrastructure

Innovative system for metadata-private voice communication, scaling to 32K users with low latency. Utilizes untrusted infrastructure and novel mailbox assignment, improving on existing solutions for secure communication.

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

Beyond Malloc Efficiency to Fleet Efficiency - A Hugepage-Aware Memory Allocator

Explore TEMERAIRE, a hugepage-aware memory allocator enhancing TCMALLOC to reduce CPU overheads, improve application performance, and optimize fleet efficiency in warehouse-scale computing.

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

Oort - Efficient Federated Learning via Guided Participant Selection

Efficient federated learning system that improves model training and testing by intelligently selecting participants based on data utility and device capabilities, enhancing accuracy and performance.

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

PET - Optimizing Tensor Programs with Partially Equivalent Transformations and Automated Corrections

Optimizing tensor programs with partially equivalent transformations, improving DNN efficiency by up to 2.5×. Introduces PET framework for automated corrections and theoretical foundations for equivalence examination.

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

Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for µs Latency and High Throughput

Explore a novel Linux kernel storage stack architecture achieving microsecond-scale latency and high throughput, adapting network switch techniques for improved performance without application modifications.

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

Scalable Memory Protection in the PENGLAI Enclave

Innovative hardware-software design for scalable, dynamic secure memory in enclaves, featuring Guarded Page Tables and Mountable Merkle Trees to enhance protection, performance, and resource utilization.

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

MAGE - Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation

MAGE: An execution engine for secure computation, enabling efficient processing of large-scale encrypted data by leveraging oblivious memory access patterns to optimize virtual memory management.

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