USENIX Courses

AutoSketch: Automatic Sketch-Oriented Compiler for Query-driven Network Telemetry

Innovative compiler integrating query-driven telemetry and sketch algorithms for efficient network monitoring, balancing expressiveness, accuracy, and resource usage through automated optimization.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

TANGO: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the Public Internet

Secure system enabling smaller networks to optimize Internet routing without relying on large providers. Exposes diverse paths, collects telemetry, and dynamically reroutes traffic to improve performance.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Flow Scheduling with Imprecise Knowledge in Data Center Networks

Innovative flow scheduling solution QCLIMB minimizes completion times in data center networks using imprecise flow information, outperforming existing methods without switch modifications.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Leo: Online ML-based Traffic Classification at Multi-Terabit Line Rate

Innovative system for high-speed online traffic classification using ML in network switches. Enables real-time analysis for security, QoS, and IoT applications at multi-terabit rates with high accuracy and flexibility.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MegaScale - Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10,000 GPUs

Innovative system for training large language models on 10,000+ GPUs, addressing efficiency and stability challenges through full-stack optimization and advanced diagnostic tools.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

LoLKV - Logless, Linearizable, RDMA-based Key-Value Storage System

Innovative key-value storage system using lock-free design for concurrent updates, achieving higher throughput and lower latency than state-of-the-art alternatives.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud with Junction

Junction: A kernel bypass system enabling dense packing of cloud instances while maintaining Linux app compatibility. Improves throughput and latency without code changes, supporting various runtimes and outperforming native Linux.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Spectrumize - Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for IoT

Innovative satellite network system for IoT devices, leveraging Doppler shift for improved packet detection and decoding in low-signal environments, with 3x better performance.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Bedrock of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Unified Platform for BFT Protocols - NSDI '24

Unified platform for analyzing, implementing, and experimenting with Byzantine Fault-Tolerant protocols, exploring design dimensions and trade-offs to navigate the complex BFT landscape.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fast Vector Query Processing for Large Datasets Beyond GPU Memory with Reordered Pipelining

Innovative GPU-accelerated system for efficient vector query processing on large datasets, overcoming memory limitations and outperforming existing solutions in performance and cost-effectiveness.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dangling Resources Abuse on Cloud Platforms - Identifying and Analyzing Real-Life Hijacks

Unveils real-life cloud resource hijacks, revealing unexpected attacker strategies and developing novel detection methods. Analyzes 20,904 hijacked resources, exposing prevalent abuse tactics and attacker infrastructures.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GRACE: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video through Neural Codecs

Innovative neural video codec enhances real-time communication resilience, reducing undecodable frames by 95% and stall duration by 90% compared to conventional methods, while maintaining high video quality across various loss scenarios.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sequence Abstractions for Flexible, Line-Rate Network Monitoring

Introduces FLM, a language for network monitoring that recognizes packet sequences. Compiles to P4 code for switch ASICs, enabling efficient implementation of various monitoring tasks.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Jolteon - Unleashing the Promise of Serverless for Serverless Workflows

Explore Jolteon, an innovative orchestrator for serverless workflows that optimizes resource provisioning, enhancing cost-efficiency and performance through advanced modeling and optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OctoSketch - Enabling Real-Time, Continuous Network Monitoring over Multiple Cores

Innovative framework for scaling sketching algorithms across multiple cores, enhancing network monitoring accuracy and performance with continuous, change-based aggregation mechanism.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video