Compendium of Best Papers

2011

FAST '11
Best Paper:
A Study of Practical Deduplication
Dutch T. Meyer, Microsoft Research and the University of British Columbia; William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research

Best Paper:
Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Laboratories America; Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

2010

LISA '10
Best Paper:
Log Analysis and Event Correlation Using Variable Temporal Event Correlator (VTEC)
Paul Krizak, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Best Student Paper:
First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy Faults
Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu, Michigan State University; JeeHyun Hwang and Tao Xie, North Carolina State University

Best Practice and Experience Report:
Internet on the Edge
Andrew Mundy, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

OSDI '10
Jay Lepreau Best Paper:
Efficient System-Enforced Deterministic Parallelism
Amittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, and Bryan Ford, Yale University

Jay Lepreau Best Paper:
The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization
Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Research—Haifa; Michael D. Day, IBM Linux Technology Center; Zvi Dubitzky, Michael Factor, Nadav Har'El, and Abel Gordon, IBM Research—Haifa; Anthony Liguori, IBM Linux Technology Center; Orit Wasserman and Ben-Ami Yassour, IBM Research—Haifa

USENIX Security '10
Best Paper:
VEX: Vetting Browser Extensions for Security Vulnerabilities
Sruthi Bandhakavi, Samuel T. King, P. Madhusudan, and Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Best Student Paper:
Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX
Robert N.M. Watson and Jonathan Anderson, University of Cambridge; Ben Laurie and Kris Kennaway, Google UK Ltd.

USENIX ATC '10
Best Paper:
LiteGreen: Saving Energy in Networked Desktops Using Virtualization
Tathagata Das, Microsoft Research India; Pradeep Padala, DOCOMO USA Labs; Venkat Padmanabhan and Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research India; Kang G. Shin, The University of Michigan

Best Paper:
ZooKeeper: Wait-free Coordination for Internet-scale Systems
Patrick Hunt and Mahadev Konar, Yahoo! Grid; Flavio P. Junqueira and Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research

WebApps '10
Best Paper:
Separating Web Applications from User Data Storage with BSTORE
Ramesh Chandra, Priya Gupta, and Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL

NSDI '10
Best Paper:
Reverse traceroute
Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington; Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of California, San Diego; Vijay Kumar Adhikari, University of Minnesota; Colin Scott, Justine Sherry, Peter van Wesep, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington

 

 

FAST '10
Best Paper:
quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
Kaushik Veeraraghavan and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan; Edmund B. Nightingale, Microsoft Research, Redmond; Brian Noble, University of Michigan

 

Best Paper:
Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Michael M. Swift, University of Wisconsin—Madison

2009

LISA '09
Best Paper:
Crossbow Virtual Wire: Network in a Box
Sunay Tripathi, Nicolas Droux, Kais Belgaied, and Shrikrishna Khare, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Best Student Paper:
Federated Access Control and Workflow Enforcement in Systems Configuration
Bart Vanbrabant, Thomas Delaet, and Wouter Joosen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

USENIX Security '09
Outstanding Student Paper:
Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards
Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, LASEC/EPFL

Outstanding Student Paper:
Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data
Roxana Geambasu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Amit A. Levy, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington

EVT/WOTE '09
Best Paper:
Electing a University President Using Open-Audit Voting: Analysis of Real-World Use of Helios
Ben Adida, Harvard University; Olivier de Marneffe, Olivier Pereira, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université catholique de Louvain

USENIX '09
Best Paper:
Satori: Enlightened Page Sharing
Grzegorz Miłoś, Derek G. Murray, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Michael A. Fetterman, NVIDIA Corporation

Best Paper:
Tolerating File-System Mistakes with EnvyFS
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, NetApp., Inc.; Swaminathan Sundararaman, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

NSDI '09
Best Paper:
TrInc: Small Trusted Hardware for Large Distributed Systems
Dave Levin, University of Maryland; John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, and Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research

Best Paper:
Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors
Kun Tan and Jiansong Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia; Ji Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University; He Liu, Yusheng Ye, and Shen Wang, Tsinghua University; Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, and Wei Wang, Microsoft Research Asia; Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego

FAST '09
Best Paper:
CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System
Alexandros Batsakis, NetApp and Johns Hopkins University; Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University; Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, and Thomas Talpey, NetApp

Best Paper:
Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2008

OSDI '08
Jay Lepreau Best Paper:
Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Diwaker Gupta, University of California, San Diego; Sangmin Lee, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

Jay Lepreau Best Paper:
DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language
Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, and Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Úlfar Erlingsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Pradeep Kumar Gunda and Jon Currey, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Jay Lepreau Best Paper:
KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs
Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University

LISA '08
Best Paper:
ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization
Qi Liao, Andrew Blaich, Aaron Striegel, and Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame

Best Student Paper:
Automatic Software Fault Diagnosis by Exploiting Application Signatures
Xiaoning Ding, The Ohio State University; Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, and Anees Shaikh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University

USENIX Security '08
Best Paper:
Highly Predictive Blacklisting
Jian Zhang and Phillip Porras, SRI International; Johannes Ullrich, SANS Institute

Best Student Paper:
Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University; Seth D. Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Nadia Heninger and William Clarkson, Princeton University; William Paul, Wind River Systems; Joseph A. Calandrino and Ariel J. Feldman, Princeton University; Jacob Appelbaum; Edward W. Felten, Princeton University

USENIX '08
Best Paper:
Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments
Jim Chow, Tal Garfinkel, and Peter M. Chen, VMware

Best Student Paper:
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Bryan Ford and Russ Cox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NSDI '08
Best Paper:
Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
Brendan Cully, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Dutch Meyer, Mike Feeley, and Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia; Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia and Citrix Systems, Inc.

Best Paper:
Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
John P. John, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

LEET '08
Best Paper:
Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware (PDF) or read in HTML
Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FAST '08
Best Paper:
Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification
Dan Tsafrir, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Tomer Hertz, Microsoft Research; David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley; Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Best Student Paper:
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Garth Goodson, Network Appliance Inc.; Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2007

LISA '07
Best Paper:
Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTG
David Plonka, Archit Gupta, and Dale Carder, University of Wisconsin Madison

Best Paper:
PoDIM: A Language for High-Level Configuration Management
Thomas Delaet and Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

16th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint Generation
David Brumley, Juan Caballero, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, and Dawn Song, Carnegie Mellon University

Best Student Paper:
Keep Your Enemies Close: Distance Bounding Against Smartcard Relay Attacks
Saar Drimer and Steven J. Murdoch, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

USENIX '07
Best Paper:
Hyperion: High Volume Stream Archival for Retrospective Querying
Peter Desnoyers and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Best Paper:
SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage System
Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin

NSDI '07
Best Paper:
Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code
Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

Best Student Paper:
Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?
Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

FAST '07
Best Paper:
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Best Paper:
TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2006

LISA '06
Best Paper:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration
Melanie R. Rieback, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Georgi N. Gaydadjiev, Delft University of Technology; Bruno Crispo, Rutger F.H. Hofman, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Honorable Mention:
A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack
Daniel V. Klein, LoneWolf Systems

OSDI '06
Best Paper:
Rethink the Sync
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

Best Paper:
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Google, Inc.

15th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture
Stephen McCamant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Greg Morrisett, Harvard University

Best Student Paper:
Keyboards and Covert Channels
Gaurav Shah, Andres Molina, and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania

2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Best Paper:
Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen
Aravind Menon, EPFL; Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL

Best Paper:
Replay Debugging for Distributed Applications
Dennis Geels, Gautam Altekar, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

NSDI '06
Best Paper:
Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Kevin Walsh and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University

 

Best Paper:
Availability of Multi-Object Operations
Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Suman Nath, Microsoft Research

2005

FAST '05
Best Paper:
Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage
Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, and Jay J. Wylie, Carnegie Mellon University

Best Paper:
On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks
Steven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jiri Schindler, EMC Corporation; Stratos Papadomanolakis, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

LISA '05
Best Paper:
Toward a Cost Model for System Administration
Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, and Hengky Susanto, Tufts University

Best Student Paper:
Toward an Automated Vulnerability Comparison of Open Source IMAP Servers
Chaos Golubitsky, Carnegie Mellon University

Best Student Paper:
Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and Upgrades
Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh, Columbia University

IMC 2005
Best Student Paper:
Measurement-based Characterization of a Collection of On-line Games
Chris Chambers and Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University; Sambit Sahu and Debanjan Saha, IBM Research

Security '05
Best Paper:
Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response Attacks
John Bethencourt, Jason Franklin, and Mary Vernon University of Wisconsin, Madison

Best Student Paper:
Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device
Steve Bono, Matthew Green, and Adam Stubblefield, Johns Hopkins University; Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories; Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Szydlo, RSA Laboratories

MobiSys '05
Best Paper:
Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads
Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra Narayanaswami, and Mandayam Raghunath, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

NSDI '05
Best Paper:
Detecting BGP Configuration Faults with Static Analysis
Nick Feamster and Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Best Student Paper:
Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds
Srikanth Kandula and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthias Jacob, Princeton University; Arthur Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Akamai

2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
Best Paper:
Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines
Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, and Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan

Best Student Paper:
Itanium—A System Implementor's Tale
Charles Gray, University of New South Wales; Matthew Chapman and Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; David Mosberger-Tang, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia

FREENIX Track
Best Paper:
USB/IP—A Peripheral Bus Extension for Device Sharing over IP Network
Takahiro Hirofuchi, Eiji Kawai, Kazutoshi Fujikawa, and Hideki Sunahara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

2004

OSDI '04
Best Paper:
Recovering Device Drivers

Michael M. Swift, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington

Best Paper:
Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors

Junfeng Yang, Paul Twohey, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University; Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research

 

LISA '04
Best Paper:
Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter

Jeremy Blosser and David Josephsen, VHA, Inc.

 

Security '04
Best Paper:
Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation

Jim Chow, Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, Kevin Christopher, and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University

Best Student Paper:
Fairplay—A Secure Two-Party Computation System

Dahlia Malkhi and Noam Nisan, Hebrew University; Benny Pinkas, HP Labs; Yaron Sella, Hebrew University

 

2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

General Track Best Paper:
Handling Churn in a DHT

Sean Rhea and Dennis Geels, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley

Best Paper:
Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching

Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester

 

FREENIX Track Best Paper:
Wayback: A User-level Versioning File System for Linux

Brian Cornell, Peter A. Dinda, and Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern University

Best Student Paper:
Design and Implementation of Netdude, a Framework for Packet Trace Manipulation

Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge, UK

 

VM '04
Best Paper:
Semantic Remote Attestation—A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing

Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine

 

FAST '04
Best Paper:
Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction

Peter Corbett, Bob English, Atul Goel, Tomislav Grcanac, Steven Kleiman, James Leong, and Sunitha Sankar, Network Appliance, Inc.

Best Student Paper:
Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID

Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Best Student Paper:
A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications

Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

 

NSDI '04
Best Paper:
Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks

Philip Levis, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Neil Patel, University of California, Berkeley; David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI

Best Student Paper:
Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, University of California, Berkeley; Volker Roth, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI; Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley

 

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LISA '03
Award Paper:

STRIDER: A Black-box, State-based Approach to Change and Configuration Management and Support

Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Yu Chen, Helen J. Wang, Chun Yuan, and Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research

 

Award Paper:

Distributed Tarpitting: Impeding Spam Across Multiple Servers

Tim Hunter, Paul Terry, and Alan Judge, eircom.net

 

BSDCon '03
Best Paper:
Cryptographic Device Support for FreeBSD

Samuel J. Leffler, Errno Consulting

Best Student Paper:
Running BSD Kernels as User Processes by Partial Emulation and Rewriting of Machine Instructions

Hideki Eiraku and Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba

 

12th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical

David Brumley and Dan Boneh, Stanford University

Best Student Paper:
Establishing the Genuinity of Remote Computer Systems

Rick Kennell and Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University

 

2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

General Track

Award Paper:

Undo for Operators: Building an Undoable E-mail Store

Aaron B. Brown and David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley

 

Award Paper:

Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One

Keir Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Fay Chang, Google Inc.

 

FREENIX Track Best Paper:
StarFish: Highly Available Block Storage

Eran Gabber, Jeff Fellin, Michael Flaster, Fengrui Gu, Bruce Hillyer, Wee Teck Ng, Banu Özden, and Elizabeth Shriver, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs

Best Student Paper:
Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS

Adam Agnew and Adam Sulmicki, University of Maryland at College Park; Ronald Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs; William Arbaugh, University of Maryland at College Park

 

First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Best Paper:
Energy Aware Lossless Data Compression

Kenneth Barr and Krste Asanovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Best Paper:
Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays

Mustafa Uysal and Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Guillermo A. Alvarez, IBM Almaden Research Center

Best Student Paper:
Pond: The OceanStore Prototype

Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley

 

4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Best Paper:
SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties

Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Microsoft Research and University of Washington; Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research; Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington; Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research

Best Student Paper:
Scriptroute: A Public Internet Measurement Facility

Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson, University of Washington

 

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5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server

Carl A. Waldspurger, VMware, Inc.

Best Student Paper:
An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems

Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington

 

LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper:
RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers

Robert Beverly, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Best Paper:
Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System

Thomas Stepleton, Swarthmore College Computer Society

 

11th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Security in Plan 9

Russ Cox, MIT LCS; Eric Grosse and Rob Pike, Bell Labs; Dave Presotto, Avaya Labs and Bell Labs; Sean Quinlan, Bell Labs

Best Student Paper:
Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance

Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger, MIT

 

2nd Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium
Best Paper:
An Empirical Study of Method In-lining for a Java Just-in-Time Compiler

Toshio Suganuma, Toshiaki Yasue, and Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

Best Student Paper:
Supporting Binary Compatibility with Static Compilation

Dachuan Yu, Zhong Shao, and Valery Trifonov, Yale University

 

2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

     General Track Best Paper:
Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System

Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Jeffrey S. Chase, Andrew J. Gallatin, Richard Kisley, and Rajiv G. Wickremesinghe, Duke University; and Eran Gabber, Lucent Technologies

Best Student Paper:
EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring

Yun Fu and Amin Vahdat, Duke University; Ludmila Cherkasova and Wenting Tang, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

 

     FREENIX Track

Best FREENIX Paper:

CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based on Cryptographic Names

Jonathan S. Shapiro and John Vanderburgh, Johns Hopkins University

 

Best FREENIX Student Paper:

SWILL: A Simple Embedded Web Server Library

Sotiria Lampoudi and David M. Beazley, University of Chicago

 

BSDCon '02
Best Paper:
Running "fsck" in the Background Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant

Best Paper:
Design And Implementation of a Direct Access File System (DAFS) Kernel Server for FreeBSD

Kostas Magoutis, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

 

Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Best Paper:
VENTI - A New Approach to Archival Data Storage Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Best Student Paper:
Track-aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics

Jiri Schindler, John Linwood Griffin, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University