USENIX Courses

Augmenting Augmented Reality with Non-Line-of-Sight Perception

Innovative AR system with RF sensing enables perception of occluded objects, enhancing applications in manufacturing, warehousing, and smart homes through advanced localization and verification techniques.

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

Hydra - Serialization-Free Network Ordering for Strongly Consistent Distributed Applications

Distributed network sequencing system for improved scalability, fault tolerance, and load balancing in distributed applications, offering performance gains over traditional ordering protocols.

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

Canvas - Isolated and Adaptive Swapping for Multi-Applications on Remote Memory

Isolated and adaptive swapping system for multi-application remote memory, minimizing interference and performance degradation through dedicated swap paths and optimized techniques for datacenter applications.

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

mmWall - A Steerable, Transflective Metamaterial Surface for NextG mmWave Networks

Innovative metamaterial surface enhances mmWave network reliability, reducing blockage vulnerability and improving indoor/outdoor coverage. Boosts SNR by up to 30 dB and significantly reduces link failures.

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

SHEPHERD - Serving DNNs in the Wild

SHEPHERD: A scalable model serving system that optimizes goodput, resource utilization, and scalability for unpredictable workloads, using a two-level design and novel online algorithm for efficient DNN inference.

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

Addax - A Fast, Private, and Accountable Ad Exchange Infrastructure

Innovative ad exchange system offering privacy, verifiability, and efficiency. Enhances transparency in online advertising while maintaining speed and scalability for real-world implementation.

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

Exploring Practical Vulnerabilities of Machine Learning-Based Wireless Systems

Unveils practical vulnerabilities in ML-based wireless systems through RAFA, a hardware-implemented adversarial attack platform, demonstrating significant performance drops in communication and sensing approaches.

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

Protego - Overload Control for Applications with Unpredictable Lock Contention

Innovative system for managing overload in applications with complex lock contention, improving throughput and reducing latency through adaptive admission control and latency-aware synchronization.

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

Disaggregating Stateful Network Functions

Innovative approach to network function processing in public clouds, offering improved reliability and performance at lower costs through disaggregation and shared resource pools.

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

Waverunner - An Elegant Approach to Hardware Acceleration of State Machine Replication

Elegant hardware acceleration for state machine replication using FPGA-based SmartNICs. Achieves high performance in common scenarios while maintaining software flexibility for rare cases.

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

NetPanel - Traffic Measurement of Exchange Online Service

Traffic measurement platform for Exchange Online, fusing multiple data sources to profile network characteristics and reduce costs while maintaining low overhead.

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

Channel-Aware 5G RAN Slicing with Customizable Schedulers

Explores innovative 5G RAN slicing technique for improved spectrum efficiency, fairness, and customization. Introduces RadioSaber, achieving superior throughput while supporting diverse enterprise scheduling policies.

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

Gemel - Model Merging for Memory-Efficient, Real-Time Video Analytics at the Edge

Innovative memory management technique for edge video analytics, reducing GPU memory usage by 60.7% and improving accuracy by 8-39% through model merging and optimized inference schedules.

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

On Modular Learning of Distributed Systems for Predicting End-to-End Latency

Modular learning framework for predicting end-to-end latency in distributed systems, reducing adaptation costs and improving accuracy for better performance tuning in cloud deployments.

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

CyberCIEGE Scenario Design and Implementation

Explore CyberCIEGE's network security simulation game, its Scenario Development Kit, and techniques for creating customized scenarios to teach cybersecurity concepts through interactive storytelling.

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