98 lines
5.7 KiB
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98 lines
5.7 KiB
YAML
venue: TOCS
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year: 2025
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selected:
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- title: "Whole-system Persistence Made Efficient with Tree-structured Checkpointing on Microkernel"
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authors:
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- Mingkai Dong
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- Fangnuo Wu
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- Gequan Mo
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- Haibo Chen
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tldr: "A microkernel-based whole-system persistence scheme uses tree-structured incremental checkpointing to achieve low-overhead, crash-consistent snapshots of the entire OS state."
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why_notable: "Whole-system persistence is a foundational building block for reliable systems; this paper shows it can be done efficiently within a microkernel architecture."
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- title: "XpuTEE: A High-Performance and Practical Heterogeneous Trusted Execution Environment for GPUs"
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authors:
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- Shulin Fan
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- Zhichao Hua
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- Yubin Xia
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- Haibo Chen
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tldr: "XpuTEE extends trusted execution environments to GPUs by designing a hardware-assisted isolation mechanism that protects GPU computations with low performance overhead."
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why_notable: "As GPUs process sensitive ML workloads in shared clouds, TEE support for accelerators is urgently needed; XpuTEE is a comprehensive and practical solution."
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- title: "RegVault II: Achieving Hardware-Assisted Selective Kernel Data Randomization for Multiple Architectures"
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authors:
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- Ruorong Guo
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- Yangye Zhou
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- Jinyan Xu
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- Wenbo Shen
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- Yajin Zhou
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- Rui Chang
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tldr: "RegVault II uses hardware features to selectively randomize sensitive kernel data structures at runtime across multiple ISAs, raising the bar for kernel exploitation."
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why_notable: "Kernel data-only attacks bypass existing code-randomization defenses; this work's multi-architecture approach makes selective data randomization practical for production kernels."
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- title: "Validating JIT Compilers via Compilation Space Exploration"
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authors:
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- Cong Li
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- Yanyan Jiang
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- Chang Xu
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- Zhendong Su
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tldr: "Compilation space exploration systematically generates and tests the large space of valid JIT compilation outcomes to find miscompilation bugs in production JIT compilers."
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why_notable: "JIT correctness is notoriously hard to test; this paper's systematic exploration strategy finds real bugs in widely-used runtimes and advances the state of compiler validation."
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- title: "Freezing-based Memory and Process Co-design for User Experience on Resource-limited Mobile Devices"
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authors:
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- Changlong Li
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- Zongwei Zhu
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- Chun Jason Xue
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- Yu Liang
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- Rachata Ausavarungnirun
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- Liang Shi
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- Xuehai Zhou
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tldr: "A co-designed memory and process management scheme freezes background processes at fine granularity to reclaim memory while preserving fast resume latency on constrained mobile hardware."
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why_notable: "Mobile memory pressure directly degrades user experience; this paper's co-design perspective yields measurable improvements on real devices with limited resources."
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- title: "Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems"
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authors:
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- Tabassum Mahmud
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- Om Rameshwar Gatla
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- Duo Zhang
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- Carson Love
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- Ryan Bumann
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- Varun S. Girimaji
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- Mai Zheng
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tldr: "This work systematically analyzes the dependency graph among file-system configuration options to reveal hidden interactions that lead to silent data corruption or crashes."
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why_notable: "File-system misconfiguration is a major source of data loss in practice; understanding configuration dependencies is essential for building safer storage systems."
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- title: "Efficient Fault Tolerance for Stateful Serverless Computing with Asymmetric Logging"
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authors:
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- Sheng Qi
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- Haoyu Feng
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- Xuanzhe Liu
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- Xin Jin
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tldr: "Asymmetric logging decouples the logging cost between the fast and slow paths of stateful serverless functions, enabling low-overhead fault tolerance without sacrificing recovery guarantees."
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why_notable: "Fault tolerance for stateful serverless remains an open performance challenge; this paper's asymmetric design significantly reduces logging overhead compared to symmetric approaches."
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- title: "Towards Serialization/Deserialization-free State Transfer in Serverless Workflows"
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authors:
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- Xingda Wei
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- Fangming Lu
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- Zhuobin Huang
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- Rong Chen
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- Mingyu Wu
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- Haibo Chen
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tldr: "This system eliminates serialization and deserialization costs when passing state between serverless functions by enabling direct in-memory state transfer across workflow stages."
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why_notable: "Ser/deser overhead is a dominant cost in serverless workflows; removing it fundamentally changes the performance profile of function chaining at scale."
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- title: "Enabling Anonymous Online Streaming Analytics at the Network Edge"
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authors:
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- Yunming Xiao
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- Yanqi Gu
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- Yibo Zhao
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- Sen Lin
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- Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
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tldr: "This paper designs an edge-based streaming analytics framework that enforces differential privacy while processing high-throughput data streams with low latency."
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why_notable: "Privacy-preserving analytics at the edge is increasingly required by regulation and user expectation; this system shows it can be done at practical streaming throughputs."
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- title: "LCL+: a Lock Chain Length-based Distributed Deadlock Detection and Resolution Service Built for OceanBase"
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authors:
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- Zhenkun Yang
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- Chen Qian
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- Xuwang Teng
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- Fanyu Kong
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- Fusheng Han
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- Quanqing Xu
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- Daokun Hu
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tldr: "LCL+ detects and resolves distributed deadlocks in the OceanBase database by tracking lock-chain lengths across nodes, achieving low overhead with fast detection latency."
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why_notable: "Deadlock detection in large-scale distributed databases is an unsolved production problem; this paper presents a battle-tested algorithm deployed in a major commercial system."
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