USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2008: Boston, MA, USA

Virtualization

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

Disk Storage

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

Network

• Aravind Menon, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Optimizing TCP Receive Performance. 85-98
  
• Lindsey Poole, Vivek S. Pai:
  ConfiDNS: Leveraging Scale and History to Detect Compromise. 99-112
  
• 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
  

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
  
• Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev:
  Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation. 143-156
  
• Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Michael Kozuch:
  Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments. 157-170
  

Web and Internet Services

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

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
  
• Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Vahdat:
  Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter? 227-240
  
• Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeffrey S. Chase, Thileepan Subramaniam, Shivnath Babu:
  Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking. 241-254
  

Short Papers

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

Security and Bugs

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

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
  
• Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park:
  Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays. 363-376
  
• Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu, Cristiana Amza:
  Context-Aware Prefetching at the Storage Server . 377-390
  

Wide-Area Systems

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