USENIX Courses

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

Explore Rainmaker, a tool for reliability testing of cloud-backed applications. Learn about its fault injection techniques, automatic policies, and success in detecting bugs in popular software.

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

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation

Explores RDMA performance isolation challenges in cloud environments, presenting a model for RNIC resource usage and a test suite to evaluate isolation solutions, offering insights for future designs.

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

Fast, Approximate Vector Queries on Very Large Unstructured Datasets

Explore Auncel, a vector query engine for large datasets, offering bounded errors and latencies. Learn how it outperforms existing solutions in processing high-dimensional data efficiently.

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

Enabling Users to Control Their Internet

CRAB system enables users to control bandwidth allocation across incoming flows without ISP support, improving web page load times and video quality through a novel control loop at receiver devices.

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

Scalable Distributed Massive MIMO Baseband Processing

Innovative system for scaling massive MIMO baseband processing in software-defined radio networks. Reduces inter-server communication to support larger MIMO configurations, enhancing 5G network capacity.

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

BGL - GPU-Efficient GNN Training by Optimizing Graph Data I/O and Preprocessing

Optimizing GPU-based GNN training for large graphs through improved data preprocessing, caching, and partitioning techniques, enhancing efficiency and performance in graph-based machine learning tasks.

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

Synthesizing Runtime Programmable Switch Updates

Explores FlexPlan, a tool for safe runtime updates of programmable switches. Discusses techniques for generating step-by-step plans that maintain correctness and memory constraints during live reconfigurations.

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

Enabling High-Quality Real-Time Communications with Adaptive Frame-Rate

Explore adaptive frame rate control for ultra-low latency in high-quality real-time communications, addressing decoder bottlenecks and network fluctuations to enhance user experience in cloud gaming.

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

SLNet - A Spectrogram Learning Neural Network for Deep Wireless Sensing

Innovative deep learning approach for wireless sensing, combining spectrogram generation and learning to enhance accuracy in various applications like gesture recognition and fall detection.

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

DOTE - Rethinking Predictive WAN Traffic Engineering

Innovative approach to WAN traffic engineering using historical data and deep learning, outperforming existing methods in quality and runtime while nearly matching an omniscient oracle.

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

OpenLoRa - Validating LoRa Implementations through an Extensible and Open-sourced Framework

Explore OpenLoRa, an open-source platform for evaluating LoRa packet collision resolution techniques. Learn about implementation challenges and performance benchmarks in low SNR environments.

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

OneWAN is Better Than Two - Unifying a Split WAN Architecture

Unifying split WAN architecture for cloud providers, addressing operational complexity and cost inefficiency. Introduces ONEWAN, a software-defined solution for Internet and inter-datacenter traffic, featuring innovative routing and traffic engineering t…

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

Sketchovsky - Enabling Ensembles of Sketches on Programmable Switches

Optimizing network measurement tasks on programmable switches using Sketchovsky, a framework for efficient cross-sketch optimization and composition to reduce hardware resource usage.

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

SelfTune - Tuning Cluster Managers

Automated framework for optimizing cluster manager parameters in large-scale cloud environments, improving throughput and performance through reinforcement learning algorithms.

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

SRNIC - A Scalable Architecture for RDMA NICs

Scalable RDMA NIC architecture improving connection and network scalability while maintaining high performance and low CPU overhead, outperforming commercial RNICs in large-scale data centers.

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