USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Talks & Presentations

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Gearbox - A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queuing

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Hierarchical packet scheduler for approximate weighted fair queuing, offering efficient bandwidth allocation and flow isolation in high-speed networks with low complexity and resource usage.

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

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Learning in Situ - A Randomized Experiment in Video Streaming

Randomized trial of video-streaming algorithms reveals challenges for sophisticated schemes in real-world settings. New algorithm developed using in situ learning outperforms others.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
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• Conference Talk

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High Throughput Cryptocurrency Routing in Payment Channel Networks

Innovative routing solution for payment channel networks, introducing "Spider" to packetize transactions and use multi-path transport, enhancing throughput and efficiency in cryptocurrency payments.

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

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TCP ≈ RDMA - CPU Efficient Remote Storage Access with i10

Innovative remote storage stack i10 achieves RDMA-like performance on commodity hardware, saturating 100Gbps links with low CPU usage while allowing unmodified applications to use the kernel's TCP/IP stack.

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

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Gandalf - An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure

Intelligent analytics service for safe software deployment in large-scale cloud infrastructure, monitoring fault signals and assessing rollout impact to prevent widespread outages.

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

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Millions of Tiny Databases

Innovative database system for cloud storage, optimizing availability and consistency through distributed architecture. Explores Physalia's design and applications in AWS, offering insights for distributed systems.

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• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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FlowBlaze - Stateful Packet Processing in Hardware

Innovative hardware-based solution for stateful packet processing, enabling high-speed network functions with low latency and power consumption using Extended Finite State Machines on programmable NICs.

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

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Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets

Explores improving application performance by deliberately delaying and reordering network packets to increase traffic locality, enhancing cache efficiency in high-speed network interfaces.

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

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Aquila - A Unified, Low-Latency Fabric for Datacenter Networks

Introducing Aquila: A revolutionary datacenter network fabric designed for ultra-low latency communication, supporting resource disaggregation and emerging programming models while maintaining compatibility with traditional traffic.

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

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FreeFlow - Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds

FreeFlow: software-based RDMA virtualization for containerized clouds, enabling high-performance networking with isolation, portability, and controllability. Achieves near bare-metal RDMA performance for applications like TensorFlow and Spark.

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

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Riverbed - Enforcing User-defined Privacy Constraints in Distributed Web Services

Riverbed: A framework for privacy-respecting web services, allowing users to define data processing constraints. Uses remote attestation and IFC to enforce policies without requiring code modifications.

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

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Monoxide - Scale Out Blockchains with Asynchronous Consensus Zones

Explores Asynchronous Consensus Zones to scale blockchain systems linearly, introducing eventual atomicity and Chu-ko-nu mining for improved throughput and security without compromising decentralization.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
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• Conference Talk

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Hyperscan - A Fast Multi-pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs

Efficient regular expression matching for network security using graph decomposition and SIMD acceleration, improving performance of applications like Snort by 8.7x on real traffic.

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

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HeteroSketch - Coordinating Network-wide Monitoring in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Networks

Innovative framework for optimizing network-wide monitoring in diverse, dynamic environments. Reduces resource overhead while maintaining performance, coverage, and accuracy through automated profiling and task allocation.

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

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Efficient Scheduling Policies for Microsecond-Scale Tasks

Explores efficient scheduling policies for microsecond-scale tasks in datacenters, comparing load-balancing and core allocation strategies to optimize latency and resource utilization.

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