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FAST '09

Best Paper

Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking

Nitin Agrawal, University of Wisconsin--Madison

OSDI '08

Jay Lepreau Best Paper

KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs

Cristian Cadar, Stanford University; Daniel Dunbar, Stanford University; Dawson Engler, Stanford University

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, University of California, San Diego; Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego; Alex C. Snoeren, University of California, San Diego; George Varghese, University of California, San Diego; Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego; 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 Ylleyu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Michael Isard, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Dennis Fetterly, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Úlfar Erlingsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland, and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley; Jon Currey, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

LISA '08

Best Student Paper

Automatic Software Fault Diagnosis by Exploiting Application Signatures

Xiaoning Ding, The Ohio State University; Hai Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Yaoping Ruan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Anees Shaikh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University

Best Paper

ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization

Qi Liao, University of Notre Dame; Andrew Blaich, University of Notre Dame; Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame; Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame

USENIX Security '08

Best Paper

Highly Predictive Blacklisting

Jian Zhang, SRI International; 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, Princeton University; William Clarkson, Princeton University; William Paul, Wind River Systems; Joseph A. Calandrino, Princeton University; Ariel J. Feldman, Princeton University; Jacob Appelbaum; Edward W. Felten, Princeton University

USENIX ATC '08

Best Paper

Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments

Jim Chow, VMware; Tal Garfinkel, VMware; Peter M. Chen, VMware

Best Student Paper

Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86

Bryan Ford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Russ Cox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NSDI '08

Best Paper

Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System

John P. John, University of Washington; Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Best Paper

Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication

Brendan Cully, University of British Columbia; Geoffrey Lefebvre, University of British Columbia; Dutch Meyer, University of British Columbia; Mike Feeley, University of British Columbia; Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia; Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia and Citrix Systems, Inc.

LEET '08

Best Paper

Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware

Samuel T. King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joseph Tucek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anthony Cozzie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chris Grier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Weihang Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 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, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

LISA '07

Best Paper

Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World’s Largest MRTG

David Plonka, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Archit Gupta, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Dale Carder, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Best Paper

PoDIM: A Language for High-Level Configuration Management

Thomas Delaet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

USENIX Security '07

Best Student Paper

Keep Your Enemies Close: Distance Bounding Against Smartcard Relay Attacks

Saar Drimer, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Steven J. Murdoch, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

USENIX ATC '07

Best Paper

Hyperion: High Volume Stream Archival for Retrospective Querying

Peter Desnoyers, University of Massachusetts; Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts

Best Paper

SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage System

Ramakrishna Kotla, The University of Texas at Austin; Lorenzo Alvisi, The University of Texas at Austin; Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin

NSDI '07

Best Student Paper

Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?

Michael Piatek, University of Washington; Tomas Isdal, University of Washington; Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Best Paper

Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code

Charles Killian, University of California, San Diego; James W. Anderson, University of California, San Diego; Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego; Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

FAST '07

Best Paper

Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?

Bianca Schroeder, Carnegie Mellon University; Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

Best Paper

TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage

James Cipar, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Mark D. Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Rutger F.H. Hofman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Honorable Mention

A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack

Daniel V. Klein, LoneWolf Systems

USENIX Security '06

Best Student Paper

Keyboards and Covert Channels

Gaurav Shah, University of Pennsylvania; Andres Molina, University of Pennsylvania

Best Paper

Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture

Stephen McCamant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Greg Morrisett, Harvard University

FAST '05

Best Paper

Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage

Michael Abd-El-Malek, Carnegie Mellon University; William V. Courtright II, Carnegie Mellon University; Chuck Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University; Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; James Hendricks, Carnegie Mellon University; Andrew J. Klosterman, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Mesnier, Carnegie Mellon University; Manish Prasad, Carnegie Mellon University; Brandon Salmon, Carnegie Mellon University; Raja R. Sambasivan, Carnegie Mellon University; Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Carnegie Mellon University; John D. Strunk, Carnegie Mellon University; Eno Thereska, Carnegie Mellon University; Matthew Wachs, Carnegie Mellon University; 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, Carnegie Mellon University; Minglong Shao, Carnegie Mellon University; Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University; Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

LISA '05

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, Columbia University; Jason Nieh, Columbia University

Best Paper

Toward a Cost Model for System Administration

Alva L. Couch, Tufts University; Ning Wu, Tufts University; Hengky Susanto, Tufts University

IMC '05

Best Student Paper

Measurement-based Characterization of a Collection of On-line Games

Chris Chambers, Portland State University; Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University; Sambit Sahu, IBM Research; Debanjan Saha, IBM Research

USENIX Security '05

Best Student Paper

Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device

Steve Bono, Johns Hopkins University; Matthew Green, Johns Hopkins University; Adam Stubblefield, Johns Hopkins University; Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories; Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Szydlo, RSA Laboratories

Best Paper

Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response Attacks

John Bethencourt, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jason Franklin, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MobiSys2005

Best Paper

Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads

Ramón Cáceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Casey Carter, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Mandayam Raghunath, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

USENIX ATC '05

General Track Best Student Paper

Itanium—A System Implementor's Tale

Charles Gray, University of New South Wales; Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; David Mosberger-Tang, Hewlett-Packard Labs

FREENIX Track Best Paper

USB/IP—A Peripheral Bus Extension for Device Sharing over IP Network

Takahiro Hirofuchi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology; Eiji Kawai, Nara Institute of Science and Technology; Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology; Hideki Sunahara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

General Track Best Paper

Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines

Samuel T. King, University of Michigan; George W. Dunlap, University of Michigan; Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan

OSDI '04

Best Paper

Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors

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

Best Paper

Recovering Device Drivers

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

USENIX Security '04

Best Student Paper

Fairplay—A Secure Two-Party Computation System

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

Best Paper

Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation

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

USENIX ATC '04

Best Paper

Wayback: A User-level Versioning File System for Linux

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

Best Paper

Handling Churn in a DHT

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

Best Student Paper

Design and Implementation of Netdude, a Framework for Packet Trace Manipulation

Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge, UK

Best Paper

Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching

Athanasios E. Papathanasiou, University of Rochester