NSDI (Networked Systems Design and Implementation) Courses

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NSDI '20 - Performant TCP for Low Power Wireless Networks

Syllabus: Intro Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks Challenges of Low-Power Networks Low-Power Embedded Devices Implementation of TCP How Many In-Flight Segments? TCP New Reno in a LOWPAN Overview of Techniques Receiver-Initiated Radio Duty Cycle H…

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NSDI '14 - Bringing Gesture Recognition to All Devices

Syllabus: Intro New Forms of User Interaction Limitations of Connect Internet of Things Devices AlwaysOn HighLevel Idea AllC Hardware Architecture Wireless Receiver Challenges Ambient Backscatter Power Consumption Design Challenges Demonstration Gesture…

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NSDI '22 - Decentralized cloud wide-area network traffic engineering with BLASTSHIELD

Syllabus: Intro Software-driven WAN SWAN traffic SWAN outage of global scope BlastShield slices Design assumptions BlastShield controller Inter-slice routing Blast ripple and routing loops Source routing Traffic engineering scheduler Symphony or cacophon…

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NSDI '22 - SCALE: Automatically Finding RFC Compliance Bugs in DNS Nameservers

Syllabus: Intro Many DNS Implementations DNS Software needs to be absolutely How the Domain Name System Wo DNS is way more complex than people BIND Crash Remote Exploitation BIND Crash Disclosure Standard Automated Testers are insufficie Our Approach FER…

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NSDI '22 - MLaaS in the Wild: Workload Analysis and Scheduling in Large-Scale Heterogeneous GPU...

Syllabus: Intro Production ML Workloads Trace Overview Run-time and Queueing delays Resource Requests & Usage Machine Resource Utilization GPU Sharing Duration Predict for Recurring Tasks CPU can be the bottleneck Imbalanced Scheduling Takeaways

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NSDI '22 - Modular Switch Programming Under Resource Constraints

Syllabus: Intro Traditional switches hinder innovation Protocol Independent Switch Architecture Programming Protocol Independent Packet Processors P4 code should be reusable P4 code is not reusable Circular Development P4All mitigates circularity Protoco…

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NSDI '22 - CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service

Syllabus: Intro Anatomy of a Cloud Service: The Customer View Anatomy of a Cloud Service: The Provider View Today: Monitoring at Different levels of Abstract A New Abstraction: The Functional Structure What do we mean by Functional Structure? The Provide…

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NSDI '22 - NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks

Syllabus: Intro Data plane objects Diminishing return Existing solutions and limitations Realizing dynamic register memory allocat Virtual register memory Address translation Problem formulation Scope of dynamic resource allocation Challenges for dynamic…

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NSDI '22 - SketchLib: Enabling Efficient Sketch-based Monitoring on Programmable Switches

Syllabus: Intro Let's try to run sketches on programmable switches Sketch is inefficient or infeasible on programmable switch Our work: Sketchlib bridges the gap! Outline Two background questions for bottleneck analysis Sketches have four common steps Sk…

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• Free Online Course

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NSDI '22 - Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines

Syllabus: Intro Data-plane programmability is mainstr Can improve performance for many sy What is isolation? Why do existing works not suffice? How to implement isolation in RMT? Menshen's high-level approach Menshen program IDs Review: How a RMT stage w…

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• Free Online Course

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NSDI '22 - Whisper: IoT in the TV White Space Spectrum

Syllabus: Intro Experience with mainstream lot solutions How to bridge the gap? Why TVWS? Challenges with TVWS Whisper and our contributions Whisper MAC protocol: FTDMA core Whisper MAC protocol: Slot allocation process Dynamic spectrum access: Challenge…

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NSDI '22 - Check-N-Run: a Checkpointing System for Training Deep Learning Recommendation Models

Syllabus: Intro Recommendation Models are important . Use cases include Recommendation Model Architecture High Performance Training at Meta The Criticality of Checkpointing • Failure recovery ensure progress Checkpoint Challenges Check-n-Run Checkpointin…

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NSDI '22 - Differential Network Analysis

Syllabus: Intro Existing control plane verifiers Changes are often small Analyzing from scratch is wasteful Hard to select properties to reverify Make differences first class citizens! Differential control plane simulation Modular, three-stage framework…

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NSDI '22 - Evolvable Network Telemetry at Facebook

Syllabus: Intro Network Telemetry is Critical for Network Managem Key Challenge for Telemetry in Production: Evolvability Network devices and management applications are constantly evolving Magnitude of Changes Incident 1: Changes Affect Many Components…

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NSDI '22 - NetHint: White-Box Networking for Multi-Tenant Data Centers

Syllabus: Intro Data-Intensive Applications Are Movin The Cloud Today's Cloud Offers a "Black-Box" Ab Data-Intensive Applications Can Adapt Data-Intensive Applications Have Incer Adapt Traffic Mismatch! Strawman White-Box Solution NetHint Overview What i…

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