USENIX Courses

USENIX Security '21 - Risky Business? Investigating the Security Practices of Vendors on an Online

Syllabus: Introduction Online Anonymous Markets Poor Security Practices Method Vendor Types Security Practices Password Strength PGP Keys Conclusion

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USENIX ATC '21 - Argus: Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications...

Syllabus: Intro Existing tools for diagnosing desktop apps Desktop app diagnosis is under-investigated An example of existing causal tracing Existing causal tracing fails to diagnose desktop apps * It is hard to identify accurate execution segment bounda…

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USENIX ATC '21 - Octo: INT8 Training with Loss-aware Compensation and Backward Quantization for Tiny

Syllabus: Intro Rise of On-device Learning Common Compression Methods The Workflow of DNN Training Bridge the Gap: Data Quantization Why We Need Quantization? Potential Gains Co-design of Network and Training Engine Our System: Octo Loss-aware Compensati…

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USENIX ATC '21 - RainBlock: Faster Transaction Processing in Public Blockchains

Syllabus: Intro Blockchains: Decentralized Databases Public Blockchains: Proof-of-work consensus Public Blockchains - Low throughput Prior work: Modify Pow or New Consensus Can we Increase the Throughput of Public Blockchains Without Modifying Pow? Impac…

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USENIX ATC '21 - RIFF: Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

Syllabus: Intro Coverage is important for Guided Fuzzing Coverage Pipeline in Fuzzers Example: Coverage Collection in AFL Example: Coverage Analysis in AFL Overhead in Coverage Collection Overhead in Coverage Analysis RIFF: Overview and Insights Single-I…

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USENIX ATC '21 - Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX

Syllabus: Intro Outsourcing Storage Encrypted Deduplication MLE-based Implementation Contributions SGX Basics Design Goals SGXDedup Questions Enclave Management Renewable Blinded Key Management SGX-based Speculative Encryption Experimental Setup Overall…

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USENIX ATC '21 - ICARUS: Attacking low Earth orbit satellite networks

Syllabus: Intro SpaceX Starlink Shell 1 The ICARUS attack Starting point: the Coremelt DDoS attack Space-based low-latency network - Predictability Global access - DDoS attack stealthiness Low-latency/higher cost - Tight operation margins ICARUS Attack m…

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USENIX ATC '21 - Controlling Memory Footprint of Stateful Streaming Graph Processing

Syllabus: Intro Graph Analytics Streaming Graph Processing Stateful Iterative Processing Model Streaming Graph Systems: GraphBolt & DZIG Memory-Efficient Stateful Iterative Models Selective Stateful Iterative Model: Challenges Selectively Tracking Interm…

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USENIX ATC '21 - Avocado: A Secure In-Memory Distributed Storage System

Syllabus: Intro Distributed in-memory KVS Trust in cloud storage Problem statement Basic design Trusted computing Design challenges Networking Trusted network stack Fault tolerance Trusted replication protocol Hardware limitations In-memory KV store Over…

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USENIX ATC '21 - INFaaS: Automated Model-less Inference Serving

Syllabus: Intro Model Registration Diverse application requirements Today's Inference serving Goals & Requirements INFaaS overview The model-less abstraction Existing systems Autoscaling Model-Autoscaler at each worker Evaluation How well does INFaaS sca…

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USENIX ATC '21 - DART: A Scalable and Adaptive Edge Stream Processing Engine

Syllabus: Intro What is Edge Stream Processing? Why Edge Stream Processing? Outline Our Goal and Challenges Challenge #1: How to scale to #applications? Challenge #2: How to adapt to edge dynamics? DART Design and implementation Dynamic Dataflow Abstract…

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OSDI '21 - Addra: Metadata-private voice communication over fully untrusted infrastructure

Syllabus: Introduction Metadata Challenges Private Information Retrieval Architecture Advantages Scaling Performance comparison Summary

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OSDI '21 - Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency: a hugepage-aware memory allocator

Syllabus: Intro normally reducing malloc cycles is good business logic changes, infrastructure does not malloc cycles do not matter. $$$ spent on hardware matter. most cpu cycles do nothing hugepages cheapen the page table walk hugepages make the TLB big…

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OSDI '21 - Oort: Efficient Federated Learning via Guided Participant Selection

Syllabus: Intro Emerging Trend of Machine Learning Emerging Federated Learning on the Edge Execution of Federated Learning (FL) Challenges in Federated Learning Existing Client Selection: Suboptimal Efficiency Existing Client Selection: Unable for Select…

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OSDI '21 - PET: Optimizing Tensor Programs with Partially Equivalent Transformations and Automated

Syllabus: Intro Tensor Program Transformations Current Systems Consider only Fully Equivalent Transformations Motivating Example PET Overview Key Challenges Mutant Generator Challenges: Examine Transformations A Strawman Approach Multi-Linear Tensor Prog…

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