# 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](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/klimovic) | [ORION, OSDI '22](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/mahgoub)
    
* \[Tail\] [DeTail, SIGCOMM '11](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2377677.2377711) | [The Tail at Scale, CACM '13](https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/2/160173-the-tail-at-scale)| [Tales of the Tail, SoCC '14](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2670979.2670988) | [Perséphone, SOSP '21](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483571)
    
* \[RPC\] [eRPC, NSDI '19](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi19/presentation/kalia) | [PRISM, SOSP '21](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483587) | [FaSST, OSDI '16](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/kalia) | [1RMA, SIGCOMM '20](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3387514.3405897) | [Design guidelines for RDMA, ATC '16](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/kalia)
    
* \[Scheduling\] [SEDA, SOSP '01](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502034.502057) | [Firmament, OSDI '16](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gog) | [Quincy, SOSP '09](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1629575.1629601) | [Hadoop YARN, SoCC '13](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2523616.2523633)
    
* \[Burst\] [Snappy, SelfDN '18](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229584.3229586) | [Breakwater, OSDI '20](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/cho) | [Valinor, NSDI '23](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/sharafzadeh)
    

### Storage and Database

* \[LLM\] [LLM in a Flash, ACL '24](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514) | [PagedAttention, SOSP '23](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613165)
    
* \[Vector DB\] [Milvus, SIGMOD '21](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457550)
    
* \[Disaggregation\] [ReFlex, ASPLOS '17](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3037697.3037732) | [Network Requirements, OSDI '16](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gao) | [FaRM, NSDI '14](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/dragojevi%C4%87)
    
* \[QoS\] [CAKE, SoCC '12](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2391229.2391243) | [FIOS, FAST '12](https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast12/fios-fair-efficient-flash-io-scheduler)
    
* \[SSD\] [CAFTL, FAST '11](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1960475.1960481) | [ZNS, ATC '21](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc21/presentation/bjorling)
    
* \[Archival\] [A DNA-Based Archival Storage System, ASPLOS '16](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2872362.2872397) | [DepSky, EuroSys '11](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1966445.1966449) | [Pelican, OSDI '14](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/balakrishnan)
    

### OS and Architecture

* \[AI Accelerator\] [The Accelerator Wall, HPCA '19](https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hpca/2019/144400a001/18M7NjbwTxm), [AI and Memory Wall, MICRO '24](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14123)
    
* \[Disaggregation\] [LegoOS, OSDI '18](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/shan)
    
* \[Network\] [IX, OSDI '14](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/belay) | [mTCP, NSDI '14](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/jeong)
    
* \[Memory\] [Hoard, ASPLOS 'IX](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/378993.379232)
    
* \[Metric\] [COST, HotOS '15](https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/mcsherry)
    
* \[Chip Network\] [Chiplet, ISCA ’18](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8416868)
    
* \[Distributed Computing\] [Ray, OSDI '18](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05889)
    

### Network and Security

* \[Congestion Control\] [DCTCP, SIGCOMM '10](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1851182.1851192) | [PCC, NSDI '15](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi15/technical-sessions/presentation/dong) | [Timely, SIGCOMM '15](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2829988.2787510) | [Copa, NSDI '18](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/arun) | [Poseidon, NSDI '23](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/wang-weitao)
    
* \[Datacenter Networks\] [NetHide, USENIX Security '18](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/meier) | [Space Shuffle, ICNP '14](https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~qian/papers/SpaceShuffle.pdf)
    
* \[P2P\] [Chord, SIGCOMM '01](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/964723.383071)
    
* \[Host\] [Carousel, SIGCOMM '17](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3098822.3098852)
    
* \[Hashing\] [Cuckoo hashing, J. Algorithms '04](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jalgor.2003.12.002) | [Othello, ICNP '17](https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05699)
    
* \[ORAM\] [Obladi, OSDI '18](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3291168.3291222)
    
* \[Stream\] [Popcorn, NSDI '16](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gupta-trinabh)