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2026
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A High-Performance Persistent Transactional Memory System via Cooperative Concurrency Control
by Hao Hu , Xinrui Zheng , Yizou Chen , Xiangyu Zou , Erci Xu , Hongpeng Wang , Wen Xia
35th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, HPDC'26 (CCF-A).
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Don't Surrender to Low QPS/$: Fast and Cost-Efficient ANNS with TridentANN
by Yuchen Huang , Baiteng Ma , Erci Xu , Chuliang Weng
53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA'26 (CCF-A).
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Break on Through to the Other Side: Pooling Memory Elastically with RAMRyder
by Yanbo Zhou , Erci Xu # , Dongjoo Seo , Adam Manzanares , Steven Swanson
20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'26 (CCF-A).
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The Clustering Strikes Back: Building Cost-Effective and High-Performance ANNS at Scale with Helmsman
by Yuchen Huang , Baiteng Ma , Yiping Sun , Yang Shi , Xiao Chen , XiaoCheng Zhong , Zhiyong Wang , Yao Hu , Erci Xu # , Chuliang Weng
20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'26 (CCF-A).
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StriaTrace: Efficient Tracing and Diagnosis for Online LLM Inference
by Haonan Wu , Yanqing Chen , Kun Qian , Xue Li , Erci Xu # , Ennan Zhai , Wenyuan Yu , Jingren Zhou
20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'26 (CCF-A).
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All Along the Watchtower: Achieving the Trinity of Observability in Cloud with DiTing
by Zhenyu Ren , Shuzhi Feng , Erci Xu # , Changsheng Niu , Beibei Wang , Haoyu Mao , Chong Gao , Zhenshan Zhang , Xinrui Yu , Jiangwei Huang , Jiesheng Wu , Hong Tang
20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'26 (CCF-A).
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Come Hell or Still Water: Alleviating Tail Latency in Cloud Block Store
by Chaolei Hu , Kun Qian , Erci Xu # , Yifan Shen , Haoran Zhang , Xue Li , Yuesheng Gu , Lingjun Zhu , Fengyuan Ren # , Ennan Zhai
23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI'26 (CCF-A).
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How Soon is Now? Preloading Images for Virtual Disks with ThinkAhead
by Xinqi Chen , Yu Zhang , Erci Xu # , Changhong Wang , Jifei Yi , Qiuping Wang , Shizhuo Sun , Zhongyu Wang , Haonan Wu , Junping Wu , Hailin Peng , Rong Liu , Yinhu Wang , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu , Guangtao Xue , Patrick P. C. Lee
24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'26 (CCF-A).
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MlsDisk: Trusted Block Storage for TEEs Based on Layered Secure Logging
by Erci Xu , Xinyi Yu , Lujia Yin , Xinyuan Luo , Shaowei Song , Qingsong Chen , Shoumeng Yan , Jiwu Shu , Hongliang Tian , Yiming Zhang #
24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'26 (CCF-A).
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"Range as a Key" is the Key! Fast and Compact Cloud Block Store Index with RASK
by Haoru Zhao , Mingkai Dong # , Erci Xu # , Zhongyu Wang , Haibo Chen
24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'26 (CCF-A).
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Here, There and Everywhere: The Past, the Present and the Future of Local Storage in Cloud
Erik Riedel Best Paper Award
by Leping Yang , Yanbo Zhou , Gong Zeng , Li Zhang , Saisai Zhang , Ruilin Wu , Chaoyang Sun , Shiyi Luo , Wenrui Li , Keqiang Niu , Xiaolu Zhang , Junping Wu , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu , Mariusz Barczak , Wayne Gao , Ruiming Lu , Erci Xu # , Guangtao Xue
24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'26 (CCF-A).
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Scheduling Cloud Block Storage Proactively and Reactively with Omar
by Xinqi Chen , Weidong Zhang , Zhongyu Wang , Erci Xu # , Xiaolu Zhang , Dong Wu , Junping Wu , Haonan Wu , Ruiming Lu , Yaheng Song , Chaolei Hu , Lijun Ding , Guangtao Xue , Patrick P.C. Lee
21st ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'26 (CCF-A).
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2025
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Sleeping with One Eye Open: Fast, Sustainable Storage with Sandman
by Yanbo Zhou , Erci Xu # , Anisa Su , Jim Harris , Adam Manzanares , Steven Swanson
31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP'25 (CCF-A).
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Don't Maintain Twice, It's Alright: Merged Metadata Management in Deduplication File System with GogetaFS
Distinguished Artifacts Award
by Yanqi Pan , Wen Xia # , Erci Xu # , Hao Huang , Xiangyu Zou , Shiyi Li
23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'25 (CCF-A).
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AtomicDisk: A Secure Virtual Disk for TEEs against Eviction Attacks
by Hongliang Tian , Xinyi Yu , Shaowei Song , Qingsong Chen , Zhihao Zhang , Shiyu Wang , Weijie Liu , Erci Xu , Shoumeng Yan , Yiming Zhang
23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'25 (CCF-A).
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Hey Hey, My My, Skewness Is Here to Stay: Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Block Store Traffic
by Haonan Wu , Erci Xu # , Ligang Wang , Yuandong Hong , Changsheng Niu , Bo Shi , Lingjun Zhu , Jinnian He , Dong Wu , Weidong Zhang , Qiuping Wang , Changhong Wang , Xinqi Chen , Guangtao Xue , Yi-Chao Chen , Dian Ding
20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'25 (CCF-A).
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2024
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Ransom Access Memories: Achieving Practical Ransomware Protection in Cloud with DeftPunk
by Zhongyu Wang , Yaheng Song , Erci Xu # , Haonan Wu , Guangxun Tong , Haoran Li , Jincheng Liu , Lijun Ding , Rong Liu , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu
18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'24 (CCF-A).
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CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud
by Yanbo Zhou , Erci Xu # , Li Zhang , Kapil Karkra , Mariusz Barczak , Wayne Gao , Wojciech Malikowski , Mateusz Kozlowski , Łukasz Łasek , Ruiming Lu , Feng Yang , Lilong Huang , Xiaolu Zhang , Wenrui Li , Jinhu Li , Keqiang Niu , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu
19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'24 (CCF-A).
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What's the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store
Best Paper Award
by Weidong Zhang , Erci Xu # , Qiuping Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Yuesheng Gu , Zhenwei Lu , Tao Ouyang , Guanqun Dai , Wenwen Peng , Zhe Xu , Shuo Zhang , Dong Wu , Yilei Peng , Tianyun Wang , Haoming Zhang , Jiasheng Wang , Wenyuan Yan , Yuanyuan Dong , Wenhui Yao , Zhongjie Wu , Lingjun Zhu , Chao Shi , Yinhu Wang , Rong Liu , Junping Wu , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu
22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'24 (CCF-A).
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2023
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DiffForward: On Balancing Forwarding Traffic for Modern Cloud Block Services via Differentiated Forwarding
by Wenzhe Zhu , Yongkun Li , Erci Xu , Fei Li , Yinlong Xu , John C.S. Lui
2023 ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGMETRICS'23 (CCF-B).
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Deploying User-space TCP at Cloud Scale with LUNA
by Lingjun Zhu , Yifan Shen , Erci Xu # , Bo Shi , Ting Fu , Shu Ma , Shuguang Chen , Zhongyu Wang , Haonan Wu , Zhendan Yang , Xingyu Liao , Wei Lin , Yijun Hou , Rong Liu , Chao Shi , Jiaji Zhu , Jiesheng Wu
2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'23 (CCF-A).
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Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems
Best Paper Award
by Ruiming Lu * , Erci Xu * , Yiming Zhang , Fengyi Zhu , Zhaosheng Zhu , Mengtian Wang , Zongpeng Zhu , Guangtao Xue , Jiwu Shu , Minglu Li , Jiesheng Wu
21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'23 (CCF-A).
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SMRSTORE: A Storage Engine for Cloud Object Storage on HM-SMR Drives
by Su Zhou , Erci Xu # , Hao Wu , Yu Du , Jiacheng Cui , Wanyu Fu , Chang Liu , Yingni Wang , Wenbo Wang , Shouqu Sun , Xianfei Wang , Bo Feng , Biyun Zhu , Xin Tong , Weikang Kong , Linyan Liu , Zhongjie Wu , Jinbo Wu , Qingchao Luo , Jiesheng Wu
21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'23 (CCF-A).
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When Database Meets New Storage Devices: Understanding and Exposing Performance Mismatches via Configurations
by Haochen He , Erci Xu , Shanshan Li , Zhouyang Jia , Si Zheng , Yue Yu , Jun Ma , Xiangke Liao
49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB'23 (CCF-A).
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Understanding and Detecting On-the-Fly Configuration Bugs
Distinguished Paper Award
by Teng Wang , Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Si Zheng , Yue Yu , Erci Xu , Shaoliang Peng , Xiangke Liao
45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'23 (CCF-A).
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2022
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NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow
by Ruiming Lu * , Erci Xu * , Yiming Zhang , Zhaosheng Zhu , Mengtian Wang , Zongpeng Zhu , Guangtao Xue , Minglu Li , Jiesheng Wu
2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'22 (CCF-A).
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imDedup: A Lossless Deduplication Scheme to Eliminate Fine-grained Redundancy among Images
by Cai Deng , Qi Chen , Xiangyu Zou , Erci Xu , Bo Tang , Wen Xia
38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE'22 (CCF-A).
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2021
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Challenges and Opportunities: an In-depth Empirical Study on Configuration Error Injection Testing
by Wang Li , Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Yuanliang Zhang , Teng Wang , Erci Xu , Ji Wang , Xiangke Liao
30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA'21 (CCF-A).
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Max: A Multicore-Accelerated File System for Flash Storage
by Xiaojian Liao , Youyou Lu , Erci Xu , Jiwu Shu
2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'21 (CCF-A).
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Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-network Cache Coherence
by Qing Wang , Youyou Lu , Erci Xu , Junru Li , Youmin Chen , Jiwu Shu
19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'21 (CCF-A).
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DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility Failures
by Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Tingting Yu , Zeng Chen , Erci Xu , Xiaodong Liu , Ji Wang , Xiangke Liao
43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'21(CCF-A).
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2020
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Write Dependency Disentanglement with HORAE
by Xiaojian Liao , Youyou Lu , Erci Xu , Jiwu Shu
14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'20 (CCF-A).
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CP-Detector: Using Configuration-related Performance Properties to Expose Performance Bugs
by Haochen He , Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Erci Xu , Tingting Yu , Yue Yu , Ji Wang , Xiangke Liao
35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE'20 (CCF-A).
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CoinPurse: A Device-Assisted File System with Dual Interfaces
by Zhe Yang , Youyou Lu , Erci Xu , Jiwu Shu
57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC'20 (CCF-A).
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2019
2018
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Understanding SSD Reliability in Large-Scale Cloud Systems
by Erci Xu , Mai Zheng , Feng Qin , Jiesheng Wu , Yikang Xu
3rd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems, PDSW-DISCS'18.
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