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
[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