NSDI 2026

150 papers

BayWatch: Practical Internet-Scale Topology Monitoring with Dynamic Bayesian Estimation

Zhongxu Guan, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Zhaoteng Yan, Jiaye Lin

MORP4: A Dynamic Network Telescope

Iliana Xygkou, Jithin K. Sojan, Dhruv Rauthan, Feng Zhu, Thomas Holterbach

SketchPipe: Toward Accurate Sketch-based Network Measurement on Multi-Pipeline Switches with Splitless Sketch Placement

Xiang Chen, Longlong Zhu, Linying Zheng, Hongyang Du, Dong Zhang

DDoS Detection at the Scale of One Hundred Tbps

Yunming Xiao, Xijun Luo, Youliang Jiang, Aike Wang, Hu Chen

FENIX: Enabling In-Network DNN Inference with FPGA-Enhanced Programmable Switches

Xiangyu Gao, Tong Li, Yinchao Zhang, Ziqiang Wang, Xiangsheng Zeng

RollPacker: Taming Long-Tail Rollouts for RL Post-Training with Tail Batching

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Dakai An, Tianyuan Wu, Lunxi Cao

JITServe: SLO-aware LLM Serving with Imprecise Request Information

Wei Zhang, Zhiyu Wu, Yi Mu, Rui Ning, Banruo Liu

Making Logic a First-Class Citizen in Generative ML for Networking

Hongyu He, Minhao Jin, Maria Apostolaki

Eywa: Automating Model-Based Testing using LLMs

Rajdeep Mondal, Rathin Singha, Todd Millstein, George Varghese, Ryan Beckett

Iceberg: Automated Verification of DNS Authoritative Engines via Just-in-Time Summarization

Yuxing Xiang, Rilin Huang, Naiqian Zheng, Xin Jin

Count-Based Abstractions for Performance Verification of Contention Points

Amir Seyhani, Aarti Gupta, David Walker, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo

From Intention to Practice: Towards Systematic Validation of NIDS Rule Enforcement

Huan Liu, Haoyu Chen, Biang Xu, Jingyao Zhou, Bin Yuan

Feedback-guided Adaptive Testing of Distributed Systems Designs

Ao Li, Ankush Desai, Rohan Padhye

Skyline: A Cloud Centric Internet Monitoring Engine

Shixian Guo, Ziqian Liu, Yangyang Bai, Yuan Chen, Kefei Liu

Detecting and Diagnosing Errors in Serving Archived Web Pages

Jingyuan Zhu, Huanchen Sun, Harsha V. Madhyastha

CrossCheck: Input Validation for WAN Control Systems

Alexander Krentsel, Rishabh Iyer, Isaac Keslassy, Bharath Modhipalli, Sylvia Ratnasamy

Slowpoke: End-to-end Throughput Optimization Modeling for Microservice Applications

Yizheng Xie, Di Jin, Oğuzhan Çölkesen, Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris

R-TCP: A Framework to Optimize TCP Performance Over Rate-Limiting Networks

Shengtong Zhu, Yan Liu, Lingfeng Guo, Jack Yiu Bun Lee

Attack of the Bubbles: Straggler-Resilient Pipeline Parallelism for Large Model Training

Tianyuan Wu, Lunxi Cao, Hanfeng Lu, Xiaoxiao Jiang, Yinghao Yu

Bifrost: Alibaba's Next-Generation VPC Network with High-Performance Multipath Reliable Transport

Zihao Fan, Xing Li, Ye Yang, Bo Jiang, Bowen Yang

OSCAR: O(1)-Step Convergence and Readily-deployable Congestion Control

Zhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Rui Ning, Keqiang He, Gianni Antichi

Remote TCP Connection Offload and Applications

Shuo Li, Steven Chien, Tianyi Gao, Michio Honda

ZooRoute: Enhancing Cloud-Scale Network Reliability via Candidate Path Provisioning and Overlay Proactive Rerouting

Xiaoqing Sun, Xing Li, Xionglie Wei, Tian Pan, Ju Zhang

CacheCatalyst: Enhancing Web Caching for the Latency-Constrained Internet

Mohammad Hosseini, Sina Darabi, Hannaneh B. Pasandi, Patrick Eugster, Mahmood Choopani

Lemonshark: Asynchronous DAG-BFT With Early Finality

Michael Yiqing Hu, Alvin Hong Yao Yan, Yihan Yang, Xiang Liu, Jialin Li

DistVS: Large-scale Vector Search with Compute-Memory Disaggregation

Peiqi Yin, Xiao Yan, Shiyuan Deng, Hui Li, Yifan Zhu

FalconFS: Distributed File System for Large-Scale Deep Learning Pipeline

Jingwei Xu, Junbin Kang, Mingkai Dong, Mingyu Liu, Lu Zhang

HydraServe: Minimizing Cold Start Latency for Serverless LLM Serving in Public Clouds

Chiheng Lou, Sheng Qi, Chao Jin, Dapeng Nie, Haoran Yang

Stimpack: An Adaptive Rendering Optimization System for Scalable Cloud Gaming

Jin Heo, Vic Wang, Ketan Bhardwaj, Ada Gavrilovska

Di-PS: System-Algorithm Co-Design for Asynchronous and Heterogeneous Cross-cluster LLM Training at Scale

Shengwei Li, Qiaoling Chen, Zhiquan Lai, Penglong Jiao, Wenwen Qu

HybridMesh: A Hardware-software Hybrid Approach for Accelerating Service Mesh Ingress

Myoungsung You, Jaehyun Nam, Minjae Seo, Taejune Park, Seungwon Shin

Checkmate: Zero Performance Overhead Model Checkpointing via Network Gradient Replication

Ankit Bhardwaj, Weiyang Wang, Jeremy Carin, Adam Belay, Manya Ghobadi

DroidSpeak: KV Cache Sharing Across Fine-tuned Model Variants

Yuhan Liu, Yuyang Huang, Jiayi Yao, Shaoting Feng, Zhuohan Gu

Morphe: High-Fidelity Generative Video Streaming with Vision Foundation Model

Tianyi Gong, Zijian Cao, Zixing Zhang, Jiangkai Wu, Xinggong Zhang

SPLIDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate

Murayyiam Parvez, Annus Zulfiqar, Roman Beltiukov, Shir Landau Feibish, Walter Willinger

BBC: Enabling BLE to Support Bluetooth Classic

Hsun-Wei Cho, Kang G. Shin

Decoding RSSI Compression in RFID: Dynamic RCS Modeling and Tag-Intrinsic Power Metrics for Reliable Backscatter Networks

Jia Liu, Yifei Ma, Xingyu Chen, Haipeng Dai, He Huang

RASC: Enhancing Observability & Programmability in Smart Spaces

Anna Karanika, Kai-Siang Wang, Han-Ting Liang, Shalni Sundram, Indranil Gupta

KeepON: Supporting Deterministic Traffic on Standard NICs

Chuanyu Xue, Tianyu Zhang, Andrew Loveless, Song Han

From Bits to Tokens: Knowledge-Driven Generative Communication of Multimodal Data

Xingyu Chen, Zihao Feng, Wuqiong Zhao, Jianrong Ding, Ke Sun

MirrorNet: High-fidelity and Scalable Network Emulation for Software-defined WAN

Congcong Miao, Yuejie Wang, Jianming Wang, Xuefeng Ji, Guozhi Shan

Observability Is Eating Your Cores: Fine-Grained Analysis of Microservice Metrics with IPU-Hosted Sketches

Alessandro Cornacchia, Theophilus A. Benson, Muhammad Bilal, Marco Canini

BLADE: Adaptive Wi-Fi Contention Control for Next-Generation Real-Time Communication

Fengqian Guo, Yuhan Zhou, Longwei Jiang, Congcong Miao, Yuxin Liu

Pilot Execution: Simulating Failure Recovery In Situ for Production Distributed Systems

Zhenyu Li, Angting Cai, Chang Lou

Towards Performance Robustness for Microservices

Divyanshu Saxena, Gaurav Vipat, Jiaxin Lin, Jingbo Wang, Isil Dillig

SYMI: Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Training via Model and Optimizer State Decoupling

Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Mark Zhao, Swapnil Gandhi, Thomas Norrie, Shrijeet Mukherjee

FastServe: Iteration-Level Preemptive Scheduling for Large Language Model Inference

Bingyang Wu, Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Shengyu Liu, Fangyue Liu

PolicyCache: Intra-flow Learning in Congestion Control

Han Tian, Han Wang, Wenbo Li, Xudong Liao, Decang Sun

BURST: Seeking High-performance, Interoperability and Scalability in Soft-RDMA

Huijun Shen, Zelong Yue, Jian Yang, Zhuo Jiang, Lang An

UNUM: A New Framework for Network Control

Jiayi Chen, Nihal Sharma, Debajit Chakraborty, Saurabh Agarwal, Jeffrey Zhou