Table of Contents

• Tributary: spot-dancing for elastic services with latency SLOsAaron Harlap, Andrew Chung, Alexey Tumanov, Gregory R. Ganger, Phillip B. Gibbons. 1-14 [doi]
• FastTrack: Foreground App-Aware I/O Management for Improving User Experience of Android SmartphonesSangwook Shane Hahn, Sungjin Lee, Inhyuk Yee, Donguk Ryu, Jihong Kim. 15-28 [doi]
• Mainstream: Dynamic Stem-Sharing for Multi-Tenant Video ProcessingAngela H. Jiang, Daniel L.-K. Wong, Christopher Canel, Lilia Tang, Ishan Misra, Michael Kaminsky, Michael A. Kozuch, Padmanabhan Pillai, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger. 29-42 [doi]
• VideoChef: Efficient Approximation for Streaming Video Processing PipelinesRan Xu, Jinkyu Koo, Rakesh Kumar, Peter Bai, Subrata Mitra, Sasa Misailovic, Saurabh Bagchi. 43-56 [doi]
• SOCK: Rapid Task Provisioning with Serverless-Optimized ContainersEdward Oakes, Leon Yang, Dennis Zhou, Kevin Houck, Tyler Harter, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. 57-70 [doi]
• DynaMix: Dynamic Mobile Device Integration for Efficient Cross-device Resource SharingDongju Chae, Joonsung Kim, Gwangmu Lee, Hanjun Kim, Kyung-Ah Chang, Hyogun Lee, Jangwoo Kim. 71-84 [doi]
• The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFSJustinien Bouron, Sebastien Chevalley, Baptiste Lepers, Willy Zwaenepoel, Redha Gouicem, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Julien Sopena. 85-96 [doi]
• The Design and Implementation of HyperupcallsNadav Amit, Michael Wei. 97-112 [doi]
• AIQL: Enabling Efficient Attack Investigation from System Monitoring DataPeng Gao, Xusheng Xiao, Zhichun Li, Fengyuan Xu, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Prateek Mittal. 113-126 [doi]
• Application Memory Isolation on Ultra-Low-Power MCUsTaylor Hardin, Ryan Scott, Patrick Proctor, Josiah D. Hester, Jacob Sorber, David Kotz. 127-132 [doi]
• Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless PlatformsLiang Wang, Mengyuan Li, Yinqian Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart, Michael M. Swift. 133-146 [doi]
• Soteria: Automated IoT Safety and Security AnalysisZ. Berkay Celik, Patrick D. McDaniel, Gang Tan. 147-158 [doi]
• Scaling Guest OS Critical Sections with eCSSanidhya Kashyap, Changwoo Min, Taesoo Kim. 159-172 [doi]
• KylinX: A Dynamic Library Operating System for Simplified and Efficient Cloud VirtualizationYiming Zhang, Jon Crowcroft, Dongsheng Li, Chengfen Zhang, Huiba Li, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Yongqiang Xiong, Guihai Chen. 173-186 [doi]
• Virtualizing Energy Storage Management Using RAIBATzi-cker Chiueh, Mao-Cheng Huang, Kai-Cheung Juang, Shih-Hao Liang, Welkin Ling. 187-198 [doi]
• Cntr: Lightweight OS ContainersJörg Thalheim, Pramod Bhatotia, Pedro Fonseca 0001, Baris Kasikci. 199-212 [doi]
• Throwhammer: Rowhammer Attacks over the Network and DefensesAndrei Tatar, Radhesh Krishnan Konoth, Elias Athanasopoulos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi. 213-226 [doi]
• Varys: Protecting SGX Enclaves from Practical Side-Channel AttacksOleksii Oleksenko, Bohdan Trach, Robert Krahn, Mark Silberstein, Christof Fetzer. 227-240 [doi]
• Kernel-Supported Cost-Effective Audit Logging for Causality TrackingShiQing Ma, Juan Zhai, Yonghwi Kwon, Kyu Hyung Lee, Xiangyu Zhang 0001, Gabriela F. Ciocarlie, Ashish Gehani, Vinod Yegneswaran, Dongyan Xu, Somesh Jha. 241-254 [doi]
• EPTI: Efficient Defence against Meltdown Attack for Unpatched VMsZhichao Hua, Dong Du, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang. 255-266 [doi]
• Effectively Mitigating I/O Inactivity in vCPU SchedulingWeiwei Jia, Cheng Wang, Xusheng Chen, Jianchen Shan, Xiaowei Shang, Heming Cui, Xiaoning Ding, Luwei Cheng, Francis C. M. Lau 0001, Yuexuan Wang, Yuangang Wang. 267-280 [doi]
• Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive ModelJustin R. Funston, Maxime Lorrillere, Alexandra Fedorova, Baptiste Lepers, David Vengerov, Jean-Pierre Lozi, Vivien Quéma. 281-294 [doi]
• Getting to the Root of Concurrent Binary Search Tree PerformanceMaya Arbel-Raviv, Trevor Brown 0001, Adam Morrison 0001. 295-306 [doi]
• TerseCades: Efficient Data Compression in Stream ProcessingGennady Pekhimenko, Chuanxiong Guo, Myeongjae Jeon, Peng Huang, Lidong Zhou. 307-320 [doi]
• Troubleshooting Transiently-Recurring Errors in Production Systems with Blame-Proportional LoggingLiang Luo, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Madan Musuvathi, Luis Ceze. 321-334 [doi]
• NanoLog: A Nanosecond Scale Logging SystemStephen Yang, Seo Jin Park, John K. Ousterhout. 335-350 [doi]
• Model Governance: Reducing the Anarchy of Production MLVinay Sridhar, Sriram Subramanian, Dulcardo Arteaga, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Drew S. Roselli, Nisha Talagala. 351-358 [doi]
• Fine-grained consistency for geo-replicated systemsCheng Li 0001, Nuno M. Preguiça, Rodrigo Rodrigues. 359-372 [doi]
• Log-Free Concurrent Data StructuresTudor David, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Rachid Guerraoui, Igor Zablotchi. 373-386 [doi]
• Stable and Consistent Membership at Scale with RapidLalith Suresh, Dahlia Malkhi, Parikshit Gopalan, Ivan Porto Carreiro, Zeeshan Lokhandwala. 387-400 [doi]
• On Smart Query Routing: For Distributed Graph Querying with Decoupled StorageArijit Khan, Gustavo Segovia, Donald Kossmann. 401-412 [doi]
• Locality-Aware Software Throttling for Sparse Matrix Operation on GPUsYan Hao Chen, Ari B. Hayes, Chi Zhang, Timothy Salmon, Eddy Z. Zhang. 413-426 [doi]
• Accelerating PageRank using Partition-Centric ProcessingKartik Lakhotia, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor K. Prasanna. 427-440 [doi]
• CGraph: A Correlations-aware Approach for Efficient Concurrent Iterative Graph ProcessingYu Zhang 0027, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin 0001, Lin Gu, Ligang He, Bingsheng He, Haikun Liu. 441-452 [doi]
• Don't share, Don't lock: Large-scale Software Connection Tracking with KrononatFabien André, Stéphane Gouache, Nicolas Le Scouarnec, Antoine Monsifrot. 453-466 [doi]
• Accurate Timeout Detection Despite Arbitrary Processing DelaysSixiang Ma, Yang Wang. 467-480 [doi]
• Improving Service Availability of Cloud Systems by Predicting Disk ErrorYong Xu, Kaixin Sui, Randolph Yao, Hongyu Zhang, Qingwei Lin, Yingnong Dang, Peng Li, Keceng Jiang, Wenchi Zhang, Jian-Guang Lou, Murali Chintalapati, Dongmei Zhang. 481-494 [doi]
• RAFI: Risk-Aware Failure Identification to Improve the RAS in Erasure-coded Data CentersJuntao Fang, Shenggang Wan, Xubin He. 495-506 [doi]
• Siphon: Expediting Inter-Datacenter Coflows in Wide-Area Data AnalyticsShuhao Liu, Li Chen 0019, Baochun Li. 507-518 [doi]
• PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive ServicesCalin Iorgulescu, Reza Azimi, Youngjin Kwon, Sameh Elnikety, Manoj Syamala, Vivek R. Narasayya, Herodotos Herodotou, Paulo Tomita, Alex Chen, Jack Zhang, Junhua Wang. 519-532 [doi]
• On the diversity of cluster workloads and its impact on research resultsGeorge Amvrosiadis, Jun Woo Park, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Elisabeth Baseman, Nathan DeBardeleben. 533-546 [doi]
• SLAOrchestrator: Reducing the Cost of Performance SLAs for Cloud Data AnalyticsJennifer Ortiz, Brendan Lee, Magdalena Balazinska, Johannes Gehrke, Joseph L. Hellerstein. 547-560 [doi]
• Spindle: Informed Memory Access MonitoringHaojie Wang, Jidong Zhai, Xiongchao Tang, Bowen Yu, Xiaosong Ma, Wenguang Chen. 561-574 [doi]
• Touchstone: Generating Enormous Query-Aware Test DatabasesYuming Li, Rong Zhang 0002, Xiaoyan Yang, Zhenjie Zhang, Aoying Zhou. 575-586 [doi]
• DSAC: Effective Static Analysis of Sleep-in-Atomic-Context Bugs in Kernel ModulesJia-Ju Bai, Yu-Ping Wang, Julia Lawall, Shi-Min Hu. 587-600 [doi]
• Coccinelle: 10 Years of Automated Evolution in the Linux KernelJulia Lawall, Gilles Muller. 601-614 [doi]
• Albis: High-Performance File Format for Big Data SystemsAnimesh Trivedi, Patrick Stuedi, Jonas Pfefferle, Adrian Schüpbach, Bernard Metzler. 615-630 [doi]
• Litz: Elastic Framework for High-Performance Distributed Machine LearningAurick Qiao, Abutalib Aghayev, Weiren Yu, Haoyang Chen, Qirong Ho, Garth A. Gibson, Eric P. Xing. 631-644 [doi]
• Putting the "Micro" Back in MicroserviceSol Boucher, Anuj Kalia, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky. 645-650 [doi]
• Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries using RDMA-assisted GPU Graph ExplorationSiyuan Wang, Chang Lou, Rong Chen 0001, Haibo Chen. 651-664 [doi]
• MDev-NVMe: A NVMe Storage Virtualization Solution with Mediated Pass-ThroughBo Peng, Haozhong Zhang, Jianguo Yao, Yaozu Dong, Yu Xu, Haibing Guan. 665-676 [doi]
• AutoSSD: an Autonomic SSD ArchitectureBryan Suk Kim, Hyun Suk Yang, Sang Lyul Min. 677-690 [doi]
• Geriatrix: Aging what you see and what you don't see. A file system aging approach for modern storage systemsSaurabh Kadekodi, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Gregory R. Ganger. 691-704 [doi]
• Can't We All Get Along? Redesigning Protection Storage for Modern WorkloadsYamini Allu, Fred Douglis, Mahesh Kamat, Ramya Prabhakar, Philip Shilane, Rahul Ugale. 705-718 [doi]
• STMS: Improving MPTCP Throughput Under Heterogeneous NetworksHang Shi, Yong Cui 0001, Xin Wang, Yuming Hu, Minglong Dai, Fanzhao Wang, Kai Zheng 0003. 719-730 [doi]
• Pantheon: the training ground for Internet congestion-control researchFrancis Y. Yan, Jestin Ma, Greg D. Hill, Deepti Raghavan, Riad S. Wahby, Philip Levis, Keith Winstein. 731-743 [doi]
• ClickNF: a Modular Stack for Custom Network FunctionsMassimo Gallo, Rafael P. Laufer. 745-757 [doi]
• Selecta: Heterogeneous Cloud Storage Configuration for Data AnalyticsAna Klimovic, Heiner Litz, Christos Kozyrakis. 759-773 [doi]
• Remote regions: a simple abstraction for remote memoryMarcos K. Aguilera, Nadav Amit, Irina Calciu, Xavier Deguillard, Jayneel Gandhi, Stanko Novakovic, Arun Ramanathan, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Lalith Suresh, Kiran Tati, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Michael Wei. 775-787 [doi]
• Understanding Ephemeral Storage for Serverless AnalyticsAna Klimovic, Yawen Wang, Christos Kozyrakis, Patrick Stuedi, Jonas Pfefferle, Animesh Trivedi. 789-794 [doi]
• Solar: Towards a Shared-Everything Database on Distributed Log-Structured StorageTao Zhu, Zhuoyue Zhao, Feifei Li 0001, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou, Dong Xie 0001, Ryan Stutsman, HaiNing Li, Huiqi Hu. 795-807 [doi]
• Toward Coordination-free and Reconfigurable Mixed Concurrency ControlDixin Tang, Aaron J. Elmore. 809-822 [doi]
• Scaling Hardware Accelerated Network Monitoring to Concurrent and Dynamic Queries With *FlowJohn Sonchack, Oliver Michel, Adam J. Aviv, Eric Keller, Jonathan M. Smith. 823-835 [doi]
• Applying Hardware Transactional Memory for Concurrency-Bug Failure Recovery in Production RunsYuxi Chen, Shu Wang, Shan Lu, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam. 837-850 [doi]
• Tailwind: Fast and Atomic RDMA-based ReplicationYacine Taleb, Ryan Stutsman, Gabriel Antoniu, Toni Cortes. 851-863 [doi]
• On Fault Tolerance, Locality, and Optimality in Locally Repairable CodesOleg Kolosov, Gala Yadgar, Matan Liram, Itzhak Tamo, Alexander Barg. 865-877 [doi]
• TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide ACID TransactionsYige Hu, Zhiting Zhu, Ian Neal, Youngjin Kwon, Tianyu Cheng, Vijay Chidambaram, Emmett Witchel. 879-891 [doi]
• Towards Better Understanding of Black-box Auto-Tuning: A Comparative Analysis for Storage SystemsZhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Sachin Tiwari, Erez Zadok. 893-907 [doi]
• HeavyKeeper: An Accurate Algorithm for Finding Top-k Elephant FlowsJunzhi Gong, Tong Yang 0003, Haowei Zhang, Hao Li, Steve Uhlig, Shigang Chen, Lorna Uden, Xiaoming Li. 909-921 [doi]
• SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless ComputingIstemi Ekin Akkus, Ruichuan Chen, Ivica Rimac, Manuel Stein, Klaus Satzke, Andre Beck, Paarijaat Aditya, Volker Hilt. 923-935 [doi]
• Cavs: An Efficient Runtime System for Dynamic Neural NetworksShizhen Xu, Hao Zhang, Graham Neubig, Wei Dai 0003, Jin Kyu Kim, Zhijie Deng, Qirong Ho, Guangwen Yang, Eric P. Xing. 937-950 [doi]
• DeepCPU: Serving RNN-based Deep Learning Models 10x FasterMinjia Zhang, Samyam Rajbhandari, Wenhan Wang, Yuxiong He. 951-965 [doi]
• Closing the Performance Gap Between Volatile and Persistent Key-Value Stores Using Cross-Referencing LogsYihe Huang, Matej Pavlovic, Virendra J. Marathe, Margo Seltzer, Tim Harris 0001, Steve Byan. 967-979 [doi]
• Metis: Robustly Tuning Tail Latencies of Cloud SystemsZhao Lucis Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, WenJia He, Lianjie Zhu, Wenjun Dai, Jin Jiang, Guangzhong Sun. 981-992 [doi]
• Redesigning LSMs for Nonvolatile Memory with NoveLSMSudarsun Kannan, Nitish Bhat, Ada Gavrilovska, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau. 993-1005 [doi]
• HashKV: Enabling Efficient Updates in KV Storage via HashingHelen H. W. Chan, Yongkun Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, Yinlong Xu. 1007-1019 [doi]