USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008: Boston, MA, USA

Rebecca Isaacs, Yuanyuan Zhou (Eds.): 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, June 22-27, 2008. Proceedings. USENIX Association 2008, ISBN 978-1-931971-59-1 BibTeX

Virtualization

Jim Chow, Tal Garfinkel, Peter M. Chen:
VMwareDecoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments. 1-14
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Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox:
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices. 15-28
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Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, G. John Janakiraman, Ian Pratt:
Bridging the Gap between Software and Hardware Techniques for I/O Virtualization. 29-42
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Disk Storage

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel:
Idle Read After Write - IRAW. 43-56
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Nitin Agrawal, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, John D. Davis, Mark S. Manasse, Rina Panigrahy:
Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance. 57-70
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Igor Crk, Chris Gniady:
Context-Aware Mechanisms for Reducing Interactive Delays of Energy Management in Disks. 71-84
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Network

Aravind Menon, Willy Zwaenepoel:
Optimizing TCP Receive Performance. 85-98
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Lindsey Poole, Vivek S. Pai:
ConfiDNS: Leveraging Scale and History to Detect Compromise. 99-112
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Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Jonathon Duerig, Shashi Guruprasad, Tim Stack, Kirk Webb, Jay Lepreau:
Large-scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed. 113-128
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File and Storage Systems

John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Robert Fair, Eric Hamilton, Andy Kahn, Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, Ashish Prakash, Keith A. Smith, Edward R. Zayas:
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL. 129-142
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Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev:
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation. 143-156
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Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Michael Kozuch:
Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments. 157-170
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Web and Internet Services

Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell:
Handling Flash Crowds from Your Garage. 171-184
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Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh:
Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints of Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds. 185-198
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Christopher Stewart, Terence Kelly, Alex Zhang, Kai Shen:
A Dollar from 15 Cents: Cross-Platform Management for Internet Services. 199-212
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Workloads and Benchmarks

Andrew W. Leung, Shankar Pasupathy, Garth R. Goodson, Ethan L. Miller:
Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads. 213-226
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Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat:
Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter? 227-240
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Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeffrey S. Chase, Thileepan Subramaniam, Shivnath Babu:
Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking. 241-254
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Short Papers

Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa:
Power-aware Remote Replication for Enterprise-level Disaster Recovery Systems. 255-260
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Jin Qian, Christopher R. Meyers, An-I Andy Wang:
A Linux Implementation Validation of Track-Aligned Extents and Track-Aligned RAIDs. 261-266
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Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstein, Utkarsh Srivastava:
Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs. 267-273
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Sérgio Freire, André Zúquete:
A TCP-layer Name Service for TCP Ports. 275-280
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Mona Attariyan, Jason Flinn:
Using Causality to Diagnose Configuration Bugs. 281-286
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Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker:
Diverse Replication for Single-Machine Byzantine-Fault Tolerance. 287-292
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Security and Bugs

Bryan Ford, Russ Cox:
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86. 293-306
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Yan Tang, Qi Gao, Feng Qin:
LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages. 307-320
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Dan Wendlandt, David G. Andersen, Adrian Perrig:
Perspectives: Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing. 321-334
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V. Benjamin Livshits, Weidong Cui:
Spectator: Detection and Containment of JavaScript Worms. 335-348
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Memory and Buffer Management

Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes Payer, Ana Sokolova, Horst Stadler, Robert Staudinger:
A Compacting Real-Time Memory Management System. 349-362
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Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park:
Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays. 363-376
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Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu, Cristiana Amza:
Context-Aware Prefetching at the Storage Server . 377-390
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Wide-Area Systems

Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege, George M. Church:
Free Factories: Unified Infrastructure for Data Intensive Web Services. 391-404
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Dionysios Logothetis, Ken Yocum:
Wide-Scale Data Stream Management. 405-418
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John R. Lange, Peter A. Dinda, Samuel Rossoff:
Experiences with Client-based Speculative Remote Display. 419-432
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