NSDI 2022

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/technical-sessions

Sessions

1. Cluster resource management

   1. Efficient Scheduling Policies for Microsecond-Scale Tasks

   2. A Case for Task Sampling based on Learning for Cluster Job Scheduling

   3. Starlight: Fast Container Provisioning on the Edge and over the WAN

2. Transport layer

   1. PowerTCP: Pushing the Performance Limits for Datacenter Networks

   2. RDMA is Turing complete, we just did not know it yet!

   3. FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism

   4. An edge-queued datagram service for all datacenter traffic

   5. Backpressure Flow Control

   6. Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets

3. Video streaming

   1. Swift: Adaptive Video Streaming with Layered Neural Codecs

   2. Ekya: Continuous Learning of Video Analytics Models on Edge Computer Servers

   3. Yuzu: Neural-Enhanced Volumetric Video Streaming

4. Programmable switches

   1. NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Netowrks

   2. SwiSh: Distributed Shared State Abstractions for Programmable Switches

   3. Modular Switch Programming Under Resource Constraints

   4. Enabling In-situ Programmability in Network Data Plane: From Architecture to Language

   5. Runtime Programmable Swtiches

   6. IMap: Fast and Scalable In-Network Scanning with Programmable Switches

   7. Unlocking the Power of Inline Floating-Point Operations on Programmable Switches

5. Security and Privacy

   1. Privid: Practical, Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics Queries

   2. Spectrum: High-bandidth Anonymous Broadcast

   3. Donar: Anonymous VoIP over Tor

6. Network troubleshooting and debugging

   1. Closed-loop Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnosis with SpiderMon

   2. Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA subsystems

   3. SCALE: Automatically Finding RFC Compliance Bugs in DNS Nameservers

7. Operational track

   1. Decentralized cloud wide-area network traffic engineering with BLASTSHIELD

   2. Detecting Ephemeral Optical Events with OpTel

   3. Bluebird: High-performance SDN for Bare-metal Cloud Services

   4. Cetus: Releasing P4 Programmers from the Chore of Trial and Error Compiling

8. Wireless

   1. Exploiting Digital Micro-Mirror Devices for Ambient Light Communication

   2. Whisper: IoT in the TV White Space Spectrum

   3. Learning to Communicate Effectively Between Battery-free Devices

   4. Saiyan: Design and Implementation of a Low-power Demodulator for LoRa Backscatter Systems

9. Reliable distributed systems

   1. Graham: Synchronizing Clocks by Leveraging Local Clock Properties

   2. IA-CCF: Individual Accountability for Permissioned Ledgers

   3. DispersedLedger: High-Throughput Byzantine Consensus on Variable Bandwidth Networks

10. Raising the bar for programmable hardware

    1. Re-architecting Traffic Analysis with Neural Network Interface Cards

    2. Elixir: A High-performance and Low-cost Approach to Managing Hardware/Siftware Hybrid Flow Tables Considering Flow Burstiness

    3. Gearbox: A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queueing

11. Testing and verification

    1. Performance Interfaces for Network Functions

    2. Automated Verification of Network Function Binaries

    3. Differential Network Analysis

    4. Katra: Realtime Verificiation for Multilayer Networks

12. Sketch-based telemetry

13. Cloud scale services

    1. Accelerating Collective Communication in Data Parallel Training across Deep Learning Frameworks

    2. Cocktail: A Multidimensional Optimization for Model Serving in Cloud

    3. Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems

    4. Orca: Server-assisted Multicast for Datacenter Networks

14. ISPs and CDNs

    1. Yeti: Stateless and Generalized Multicast Forwarding

    2. cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider

    3. Configanator: A Data-driven Approach to Improving CDN Performance

    4. C2DN: How to Harness Erasure Codes at the Edge for Efficient Content Delivery

15. Cloud Scale Resource Management

    1. Optimizing Netowrk Provisioning through Cooperation

    2. OrbWeaver: Using IDLE Cycles in Programmable Networks for Opportunistic Coordination

    3. CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service

16. Data center network infrastructure

    1. Zeta: A Scalable and Robust East-West Communication Framework in Large-scale Clouds

    2. Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks

    3. RDC: Energy-Efficient Data Center Network COngestion Relief with Topological Reconfigurability at the Edge

17. Multitenancy

    1. Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines

    2. Justitia: Software Multi-Tenancy in Hardware Kernel-Bypass Networks

    3. NetHint: White-Box Networking for Multi-Tenant Data Centers

18. Software switching and beyond

    1. Tiara: A Scalable and Efficient Hardware Acceleration Architecture for Stateful Layer-4 Load Balancing

    2. Scaling Open vSwitch with a Computational Cache

    3. Backdraft: a Lossless Virtual Switch that Prevents the Slow Receiver Problem