Best System Research Papers: My Personal Picks

Here are my personal picks of outstanding papers in various areas of systems research that interest me.

Cloud and Datacenter

• [Serverless] Pocket, OSDI '18 | ORION, OSDI '22

• [Tail] DeTail, SIGCOMM '11 | The Tail at Scale, CACM '13| Tales of the Tail, SoCC '14 | Perséphone, SOSP '21

• [RPC] eRPC, NSDI '19 | PRISM, SOSP '21 | FaSST, OSDI '16 | 1RMA, SIGCOMM '20 | Design guidelines for RDMA, ATC '16

• [Scheduling] SEDA, SOSP '01 | Firmament, OSDI '16 | Quincy, SOSP '09 | Hadoop YARN, SoCC '13

• [Burst] Snappy, SelfDN '18 | Breakwater, OSDI '20 | Valinor, NSDI '23

Storage and Database

• [LLM] LLM in a Flash, ACL '24 | PagedAttention, SOSP '23

• [Vector DB] Milvus, SIGMOD '21

• [Disaggregation] ReFlex, ASPLOS '17 | Network Requirements, OSDI '16 | FaRM, NSDI '14

• [QoS] CAKE, SoCC '12 | FIOS, FAST '12

• [SSD] CAFTL, FAST '11 | ZNS, ATC '21

• [Archival] A DNA-Based Archival Storage System, ASPLOS '16 | DepSky, EuroSys '11 | Pelican, OSDI '14

OS and Architecture

• [AI Accelerator] The Accelerator Wall, HPCA '19, AI and Memory Wall, MICRO '24

• [Disaggregation] LegoOS, OSDI '18

• [Network] IX, OSDI '14 | mTCP, NSDI '14

• [Memory] Hoard, ASPLOS 'IX

• [Metric] COST, HotOS '15

• [Chip Network] Chiplet, ISCA ’18

• [Distributed Computing] Ray, OSDI '18

Network and Security

• [Congestion Control] DCTCP, SIGCOMM '10 | PCC, NSDI '15 | Timely, SIGCOMM '15 | Copa, NSDI '18 | Poseidon, NSDI '23

• [Datacenter Networks] NetHide, USENIX Security '18 | Space Shuffle, ICNP '14

• [P2P] Chord, SIGCOMM '01

• [Host] Carousel, SIGCOMM '17

• [Hashing] Cuckoo hashing, J. Algorithms '04 | Othello, ICNP '17

• [ORAM] Obladi, OSDI '18

• [Stream] Popcorn, NSDI '16