Systems and Networking Reading Group - Spring 2019

Co-organizers: Shuwen Jethro Sun (jethrosun@ccs.neu.edu) & Connor Zanin (zanin@ccs.neu.edu)

URL to access this web page: tinyurl.com/NUsysnet

Meeting time and location

Time: Weekly Thur 2:30-3:30 pm

NOTE: We have changed our meeting time

Location: ISEC 632

Meeting Schedule

Thur, Jan 10, 2019: Blockchain

Lead student: Connor Zanin

• Paper: Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains 
(Eurosys ’18), IBM

• Paper: Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies (SOSP ’17), MIT (we may or may not cover it)

• Reference: Research on Scaling Blockchains

Thur, Jan 17, 2019: Software Defined Networking & Network Function Virtualization & P4

Lead student: Shuwen Jethro Sun

1. Paper: NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination (NSDI ’18 best paper)

   1. Optional for NetChain: P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Paket Processors (SIGCOMM ’14 CCR) – You can only read the abstract!

   2. Related material: ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems and notes on zookeeper

2. Paper: An Industrial-Scale Software Defined Internet Exchange Point (NSDI ’16, community award and ATC ’16 Best of the rest)

   1. Optional for iSDX: Section 1-6 of SDX: A Software Defined Internet Exchange (SIGCOMM ’14)

Thur, Jan 24, 2019: Machine Learning for Systems, and Systems for ML

Lead student: Giorgio Severi

• Paper: Neural Adaptive Video Streaming with Pensieve (SIGCOMM ’17)

• Recommanded: Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning (Jeff Dean), NIPS ’17 (slides) and SysML ’18 (youtube video)

• Optional (if you want to read more): Learning Scheduling Algorithms for Data Processing Clusters, Hongzi Mao et al., (arxiv)

• Optional: Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server (OSDI ’14), Mu Li et al. (CMU)

• Optional: CherryPick: Adaptively Unearthing the Best Cloud Configurations for Big Data Analytics (NSDI ’17) Omid Alipourfard, Yale University. Basically they show that you don't (and often times you can't) use some ML techniques to acquire the best(/optimal) solution, choosing sub-optimal solution usually offers better scalability.

• Additional: Prof. Junchen Jiang (U Chicago)'s research and research statement.

Thur, Jan 31, 2019: Cloud computing – Serverless

Lead student: Shuwen Jethro Sun

• Paper: Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (CIDR ’19), UC Berkeley

• Optional (more on serveless): Encoding, Fast and Slow: Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads (NSDI ’17), Stanford & UCSD (Demo: NSDI video 4:35, 16:14)

• Optional: Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99% (SoCC ’17), UC Berkeley

• Additional: NU CS6620 Cloud Computing

Thur, Feb 7, 2019: Networking in the wild

Lead student: Hira Javaid

• Paper: An Internet-Wide Analysis of Traffic Policing (SIGCOMM ‘16), Tobias Flach et al.

• Optional: BingeOn Under the Microscope:Understanding T-Mobile’s Zero-Rating Implementation (Internet-QoE, SIGCOMM ’16), Arash Molavi Kakhki et al.

Thur, Feb 14, 2019: IoT systems and Networks

Lead student: Muhammad Ali

• Paper: FarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture (NSDI ’17)

Thur, Feb 21, 2019: Programming Languages for Systems

Lead student: Shuwen Jethro Sun

• Paper: NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV (OSDI ’16)

• Optional: Uniqueness and reference immutability for safe parallelism (OOPSLA ’12)

• Optional: Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack (SIGOPS Operating Systems Review )

Thur, Feb 28, 2019: NSDI ’2019, no meeting

Thur, March 7, 2019: Spring break, no meeting!

Thur, Mar 15, 2019: PhD open house events etc. No meeting!

Thur, Mar 21, 2019: Recap from NSDI ’19

• Cristina, Connor and I will lead a recap session for NSDI ’19. The format is probably 30 min of brief recap plus 30 min of open question/discussion.

Thur, March 28, 2019: What is still missing in systems research – Diagnosis/Testing

Lead student: Shuwen Jethro Sun

• Paper: Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems (SOSP ’15 best paper, TOCS journal), Jonathan Mace et al.

Thur, April 4, 2019: What is still missing in systems research (cont'd) – Security/Measurement

Lead student: Amogh Pradeep

• Paper: Karaoke: Distributed Private Messaging Immune to Passive Traffic Analysis (OSDI’18), David Lazar et al.

Thur, April 11, 2019: Formal Verification

Lead student: Hira Javaid

• Paper: The Good, the Bad, and the Differences: Better Network Diagnostics with Differential Provenance (SIGCOMM’16) Ang Chen et al.

Reference

Reading group covered topics

NU SysNet reading group draft schedule

Systems seminar at UIUC

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