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NSDI 2026

150 papers

FRCC: Towards Provably Fair and Robust Congestion Control

Anup Agarwal, Venkat Arun, Srinivasan Seshan

Net-P4ct: Enhanced WAN Bandwidth Fair Sharing Using P4 Programmable Switches

Haoran Chen, Mingwei Cui, Yihan Zou, Yihang Miao, Suhan Jiang

Syntra: Synthesizing Cross-Layer Controllers for Low-Latency Video Streaming

Jia Pan, Anup Agarwal, Işıl Dillig, Venkat Arun

KRAKENGUARD: Towards Fine-Grained eBPF Isolation

Jainil Patel, Lucas Graeff Buhl-Nielsen, Adrien Ghosn, Marios Kogias

Cost-effective and Reliable Global Internet Peering with Programmable Switches

Congcong Miao, Zhiyi Yao, Jianchao Lv, Jinglin Wang, Shihan Lin

HyperEdge: An Edge CDN Infrastructure for Cost Efficient Video Streaming

Dehui Wei, Jiao Zhang, Haozhe Li, Rui Han, Zhichen Xue

XLL: Cross-Layer Logging for Data Deduplication in Consensus-Based Storage

John Shawger, Arnav Jhingran, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

HCDN: Coordinated Stream Scheduling for Cost-Effective Live Video Delivery

Liying Wang, Jing Liu, Yuhan Zhou, Chengke Wang, Mingming Lu

AnyPro: Preference-Preserving Anycast Optimization based on Strategic AS-Path Prepending

Minyuan Zhou, Yuning Chen, Jiaqi Zheng, Yifei Xu, Pan Hu

Offloading Cloud Network Services at Production Scale with SONiC DASH SmartSwitch

Shaofeng Wu, Zhixiong Niu, Riff Jiang, Lawrence Lee, Junhua Zhai

Medley: Optimizing Midgress Bandwidth for Commercial Live Streaming CDNs

Haiping Wang, Wanxin Shi, Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana, Shu Shi, Feng Qian

FAST: An Efficient Scheduler for All-to-All GPU Communication

Yiran Lei, Dongjoo Lee, Liangyu Zhao, Daniar Kurniawan, Chanmyeong Kim

Mitigating CPU Frontend for Complex Data Plane Applications

Yihan Dang, Hao Li, Ze Xia, Jiajun Luan, Peng Zhang

Hierarchical Integration of WebAssembly in Serverless for Efficiency and Interoperability

Mohammadamin Baqershahi, Changyuan Lin, Visal Saosuo, Paul Chen, Mohammad Shahrad

Queue-Mem: Energy-Efficient Hardware Storage for Advanced Network Function Acceleration

Mariano Scazzariello, Tommaso Caiazzi, Hamid Ghasemirahni, Dejan Kostić, Marco Chiesa

Agentix: An Efficient Serving Engine for LLM Agents as General Programs

Michael Luo, Xiaoxiang Shi, Colin Cai, Tianjun Zhang, Justin Wong

Unleashing The Potential of Datacenter SSDs by Taming Performance Variability

Gohar Irfan Chaudhry, Ankit Bhardwaj, Zhenyuan (Zain) Ruan, Adam Belay

ZipLLM: Efficient LLM Storage via Model-Aware Synergistic Data Deduplication and Compression

Zirui Wang, Tingfeng Lan, Zhaoyuan Su, Juncheng Yang, Yue Cheng

eXpressSFU: Toward Super-Scalable Video Conferencing with SmartNICs

Tuan Tran, S. M. H. Hosseini, Seyeon Kim, Kyunghan Lee, Nam Bui

Fractal: Fault-Tolerant Shell-Script Distribution

Zhicheng Huang, Ramiz Dundar, Yizheng Xie, Konstantinos Kallas, Nikos Vasilakis

Harvesting Spare CPU Resources in Container Systems

Adam Hall, Anirudh Sarma, Esha Choukse, Umakishore Ramachandran, Sameh Elnikety

A Systematic Threat Analysis and Practical Attacks on Automated Frequency Coordination Systems

Yilu Dong, Tianchang Yang, Arupjyoti Bhuyan, Syed Rafiul Hussain

EZ-SAVE: Evaluation of Easy-to-Deploy Source Address Validation Policies

Nicholas Scaglione, Justin Furuness, Yossi Gilad, Hemi Leibowitz, Cameron Morris

Secure Vickrey Auctions for Online Advertising

Archit Bhatnagar, Yunming Xiao, Ang Chen, Amrita Roy Chowdhury

Predict, Prune, Play: Efficient Video Playback Optimization Under Device Diversity and Drift

Harsha Sharma, Pouya Hamadanian, Arash Nasr-Esfahany, Zahaib Akhtar, Mohammad Alizadeh

Heuristic Analysis from Source Code via Symbolic-Guided Optimization

Pantea Karimi, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, Ryan Beckett, Santiago Segarra, Pooria Namyar

MoCE: A Mixture-of-Context Aware Experts Framework for Troubleshooting Internet-scale Services

Vipul Harsh, Sayan Sinha, Henry Milner, B. Aditya Prakash, Vyas Sekar

Matryoshka: Realizing Hyperscale Data Center Network Design for the AI Era

Yan Cai, Jialong Li, Kutalmis Akpinar, Tianxiang Li, Hany Morsy

ForestColl: Throughput-Optimal Collective Communications on Heterogeneous Network Fabrics

Liangyu Zhao, Saeed Maleki, Yuanhong Wang, Zezhou Wang, Ziyue Yang

Defending against Traffic Analysis Attacks with Flexible In-Network Obfuscation

Guorui Xie, Qing Li, Zhenning Shi, Gianni Antichi, Yijia Zhu

SYMPHONY: Enabling Compute-Memory Disaggregation in LLM Serving Systems

Saurabh Agarwal, Bodun Hu, Anyong Mao, Aditya Akella, Shivaram Venkataraman

Uber's Failover Architecture: Reconciling Reliability and Efficiency in Hyperscale Microservice Infrastructure

Mayank Bansal, Milind Chabbi, Kenneth Bøgh, Srikanth Prodduturi, Kevin Xu

SmartNIC-Enabled Live Migration for Storage-Optimized VMs with PYROCUMULUS

Jiechen Zhao, Ran Shu, Lei Qu, Ziyue Yang, Rui Ma

Themis: Scheduling-Aware Buffer Management for HBM-Based Hybrid Buffers

Zhiyu Zhang, Minkun Xue, Kan Yu, Ruyi Yao, Shili Chen

Remembrall: Leaning into Memory for Accurate Video Analytics on System-on-Chip GPUs

Murali Ramanujam, Yinwei Dai, Kyle Jamieson, Ravi Netravali

AVA: Towards Agentic Video Analytics with Vision Language Models

Yuxuan Yan, Shiqi Jiang, Ting Cao, Yifan Yang, Qianqian Yang

A Fast Solver-Free Algorithm for Traffic Engineering in Large-Scale Data Center Network

Yingming Mao, Qiaozhu Zhai, Ximeng Liu, Zhen Yao, Xia Zhu

SLATE: Service Layer Traffic Engineering

Gangmuk Lim, Aditya Prerepa, Brighten Godfrey, Radhika Mittal

ZOC: Elastic and Cost-Efficient Virtual SmartNIC Architecture for Cloud Physical Machines

Naixuan Guan, Xiaokang Hu, Yisheng Xie, Xishi Qiu, Chaojie Liu

REAL: Emulating Control Plane at Simulator’s Cost

Ze Xia, Hao Li, Jinyu Fu, Xin Wan, Yihan Dang

PrvTel: Lightweight Models for Private and Accurate Telemetry Data Retention

Yajie Zhou, Fuheng Zhao, Eric Wang, Ayse K. Coskun, Divyakant Agrawal

Phantora: Maximizing Code Reuse in Simulation-based Machine Learning System Performance Estimation

Jianxing Qin, Jingrong Chen, Xinhao Kong, Yongji Wu, Tianjun Yuan

Enabling AI Network Cross-Layer Design and Operations with Arcadia: A Simulation Platform at Scale

Zhaodong Wang, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Xu Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Max Noormohammadpour

Learning to Tune Optical WANs: A Field Deployment of Noise Models in Optical Networks

Bhaskar Kataria, Howard Hua, Andrea D Amico, Bill Owens, Rachee Singh

QCON: Seamless QoE-Aware 5G Streaming via Multi-Connectivity

Goodsol Lee, Junhong Min, Seyeon Kim, Juheon Yi, Kwang Taik Kim

A Composable Emulation Framework for Whitebox Switches

Congcong Miao, Xianneng Zou, Chuwen Zhang, Shiping Yang, Qihang Liu

Diagnosing and Repairing Distributed Routing Configurations Using Selective Symbolic Simulation

Rulan Yang, Gao Han, Hanyang Shao, Xiaoqiang Zheng, Xing Fang

CascadeNet: Generating Network Traffic with High-Fidelity Temporal Patterns

Runwei Lu, Yanran Deng, Ruixuan Li, Jinting Liu, Yuejie Wang

HEDGE: Traffic Engineering with Probabilistic Link Capacities

Arjun Devraj, Bill Owens, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Rachee Singh

Starfish: A Topology-Routing Co-Design for Small-Scale Data Centers

Anchengcheng Zhou, Vipul Harsh, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Maria Apostolaki, Brighten Godfrey

CCC: Re-architecting Delay-based Congestion Control in Datacenter Networks

Wanchun Jiang, Haoyang Li, Kai Wang, Yujie Hu, Xiao Han

DistRS: Disaggregated Reward Service for RLVR with Batch-Level Constraint

Ruidong Zhu, Mingcong Han, Yinmin Zhong, Wencong Xiao, Xuanzhe Liu

Managing Congestion Control Heterogeneity on the Internet with Approximate Performance Isolation

Ayush Mishra, Archit Bhatnagar, YIXUAN ZHANG, Ben Leong, Ya Gao

Controlling Arbitrary Internet Queues with Titrate

Anchengcheng Zhou, Joshua Lau, P. Brighten Godfrey, Maria Apostolaki

In Link We Trust: BFT at the Speed of CFT using Switches

Lior Zeno, Naama Ben-David, Mark Silberstein

MAE: More Adaptive Video Encoder for Consistent Low Latency in High-Quality Real-Time Communication

Hua Meng, Yufan Zhuang, Yasna Noushirvani, Xiangjie Huang, Zili Meng

Sparse Checkpointing for Fast and Reliable MoE Training

Swapnil Gandhi, Christos Kozyrakis

FlexLLM: Token-Level Co-Serving of LLM Inference and Finetuning with SLO Guarantees

Gabriele Oliaro, Xupeng Miao, Xinhao Cheng, Vineeth Kada, Mengdi Wu

RLBoost: Harvesting Preemptible Cloud Resources for Cost-Efficient Reinforcement Learning on LLMs

Yongji Wu, Xueshen Liu, Haizhong Zheng, Juncheng Gu, Beidi Chen

Octopus: Enhancing CXL Memory Pods via Sparse Topology

Yuhong Zhong, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Pantea Zardoshti, Shuwei Teng, Rodrigo Fonseca

Wallet: Confidential Serverless Computing

Patrick Sabanic, Masanori Misono, Teofil Bodea, Julian Pritzi, Michael Hackl

Come Hell or Still Water: Alleviating Tail Latency in Cloud Block Store

Chaolei Hu, Kun Qian, Erci Xu, Yifan Shen, Haoran Zhang

UpFuzz: Detecting Data Format Incompatibility Bugs during Distributed Storage System Upgrade

Ke Han, Sruthi P C, Yayu Wang, Yaoxu Song, Bishal Basak Papan

PD3: Prefetching Data with DPUs for Disaggregated Memory

Sidharth Sankhe, Felix Zhang, Umayrah Chonee, Sherman Lim, Jiasheng Hu

Who Watches the Watchers? On the Reliability of Softwarizing Cloud Application Management

Jiawei Tyler Gu, Zhen Tang, Yiming Su, Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Xudong Sun

Iris: Expressive Traffic Analysis for the Modern Internet

Thea Rossman, Diana Qing, Gerry Wan, Zakir Durumeric

EROICA: Online Performance Troubleshooting for Large-scale Model Training

Yu Guan, Zhiyu Yin, Haoyu Chen, Sheng Cheng, Chaojie Yang

SwiftEP: Accelerating MoE Inference with Buffer Fusion and TMA Offloading

Xingyi Li, Yadong Liu, Xiaojie Huang, Yiran Zhang, Shuai Wang

Defeating Slow-and-Low Threats via Diffusion Model-based Generative Inference

Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mirnajafizadeh, Prashant Khanduri, DaeHun Nyang, Rhongho Jang

TurboTest: Learning When Less is Enough through Early Termination of Internet Speed Tests

Haarika Manda, Manshi Sagar, Yogesh, Kartikay Singh, Cindy Zhao

PlanB: Efficient Software IPv6 Lookup with Linearized B+-Tree

Zhihao Zhang, Lanzheng Liu, Chen Chen, Huiba Li, Jiwu Shu

OpenOptics: Enabling Open Research and Implementation of Optical Data Center Networks

Yiming Lei, Federico De Marchi, Jialong Li, Raj Joshi, Shu-Ting Wang

SyncWise: Error-Aware Time Synchronization for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks

Yiming Lei, Jialong Li, Zhengqing Liu, Raj Joshi, Yiting Xia