USENIX Courses

ExoPlane - An Operating System for On-Rack Switch Resource Augmentation

Innovative operating system for augmenting programmable switches with additional hardware, enabling concurrent stateful applications in network computing. Addresses resource limitations and offers scalable, low-latency solutions.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

POLYCORN - Data-driven Cross-layer Multipath Networking for High-speed Railway

Innovative multipath networking system for high-speed railways, improving Internet performance through data-driven schedulers. Outperforms existing solutions with significant gains in goodput and reduced delivery time.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Boggart - Towards General-Purpose Acceleration of Retrospective Video Analytics

Innovative system for accelerating retrospective video analytics, balancing accuracy, latency, and efficiency while supporting custom queries and CNNs for diverse applications.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Tambur - Efficient Loss Recovery for Videoconferencing via Streaming Codes

Innovative approach to improve videoconferencing quality using streaming codes, reducing packet loss and bandwidth usage while enhancing user experience through fewer freezes and better frame recovery.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Remote Procedure Call as a Managed System Service

Explores a novel approach to Remote Procedure Call (RPC) as a system service, improving performance, policy flexibility, and hardware compatibility for cloud computing applications.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

TopoOpt - Co-optimizing Network Topology and Parallelization Strategy for Distributed Training Jobs

Novel direct-connect fabric optimizing distributed DNN training across computation, communication, and network topology. Reduces training time by up to 3.4x compared to similar-cost Fat-Tree interconnects.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Norma - Towards Practical Network Load Testing

Practical network load tester using programmable switch ASICs. Achieves stateful protocol customization and real traffic emulation. Detects performance issues in production networks with high-throughput generation.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hamilton - A High-Performance Transaction Processor for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Explores Hamilton, a high-performance transaction processor for central bank digital currencies, offering high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance while minimizing data storage and providing flexibility.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Understanding the Impact of Host Networking Elements on Traffic Bursts

Explores traffic burstiness in host networking, analyzing congestion control, scheduling, and hardware offloading. Introduces Valinor framework for multi-scale burst measurement and challenges conventional assumptions about traffic patterns.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NetRPC - Enabling In-Network Computation in Remote Procedure Calls

Explore NetRPC, a system enabling in-network computation in RPCs. Learn about its user-friendly interfaces, general-purpose implementation, and optimization techniques for efficient shared data plane usage.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

SECRECY - Secure Collaborative Analytics in Untrusted Clouds

Secure collaborative analytics system for multi-party data analysis in untrusted clouds, preserving privacy through cryptographic techniques and optimized query execution.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Boomerang - Metadata-Private Messaging under Hardware Trust

Innovative messaging system leveraging secure enclaves to protect communication metadata while balancing security, performance, and trust. Offers low latency and scalability for large-scale deployment.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

LinkLab 2.0 - A Multi-tenant Programmable IoT Testbed for Experimentation with Edge-Cloud Integration

Explore LinkLab 2.0, a scalable IoT testbed integrating edge and cloud technologies. Learn about its tiered architecture, programmable devices, and innovative features for IoT experimentation and research.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

RHINE - Robust and High-performance Internet Naming with E2E Authenticity

Explores RHINE, a secure Internet naming system offering end-to-end authentication, robust trust model, and improved performance over DNSSEC. Addresses DNS vulnerabilities with novel approaches.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hermit - Low-Latency, High-Throughput, and Transparent Remote Memory via Feedback-Directed Asynchrony

Innovative remote memory system using adaptive asynchrony to significantly improve latency and throughput in datacenters without modifying user code.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk