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2027

  1. FAST'27 CCF-A 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    Kratos: A Robust and Comprehensive Pipeline for Detecting Various Patterns of Disk Fail-Slow Behaviors at Scale

    Ruidan Li#, Erci Xu#, Xikang Song, Kiran Srinivasan, Haryadi S. Gunawi

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2026

  1. ATC'26 CCF-A The 2026 ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference

    Lean: Saving OSS Network Cost by Application-Infrastructure Coordination

    Qiankun Yue, Kun Qian, Jiashi Lu, Xue Li, Qingchao Luo, Weibin Yan, Zhihong Li, Jianyao Sun, Junping Liang, Yuyao Chen, Liefeng Rong, Jing Zhang, Ensheng Xu, Boyu Ying, Fanghu Zheng, Guangren Chai, Erci Xu, Yuanchao Su, Dennis Cai

  2. SOSP'26 CCF-A 32nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

    A Few GPUs, A Whole Lotta Scale: Faithful LLM Training Emulation with CrystalLLM

    Shaoke Xi*, ChonLam Lao*, Boyi Jia*, Jiaqi Gao*#, Zhipeng Zhang, Jiamin Cao, Brian Sutioso, Erci Xu#, Minlan Yu, Kui Ren, Yong Li, Zhengping Qian, Ennan Zhai, Jingren Zhou

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  3. SOSP'26 CCF-A 32nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

    Batched in Back: Characterizing and Optimizing Offline LLM Inference in Production with ACDC

    Leping Yang, Xue Li#, Kun Qian, Erci Xu#, Mingzhen Han, Haoran Zhu, Tao He, Zuolong Yin, Ennan Zhai, Wenyuan Yu, Jingren Zhou, Guangtao Xue

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  4. HPDC'26 CCF-A 35th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing

    A High-Performance Persistent Transactional Memory System via Cooperative Concurrency Control

    Hao Hu, Xinrui Zheng, Yizou Chen, Xiangyu Zou, Erci Xu, Hongpeng Wang, Wen Xia

  5. ISCA'26 CCF-A 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

    Don't Surrender to Low QPS/$: Fast and Cost-Efficient ANNS with TridentANN

    Yuchen Huang, Baiteng Ma, Erci Xu, Chuliang Weng

  6. OSDI'26 CCF-A 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    Break on Through to the Other Side: Pooling Memory Elastically with RamRyder

    Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu#, Dongjoo Seo, Adam Manzanares, Steven Swanson

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  7. OSDI'26 CCF-A 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    The Clustering Strikes Back: Building Cost-Effective and High-Performance ANNS at Scale with Helmsman

    Yuchen Huang, Baiteng Ma, Yiping Sun, Yang Shi, Xiao Chen, Xiaocheng Zhong, Zhiyong Wang, Yao Hu, Erci Xu#, Chuliang Weng

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  8. OSDI'26 CCF-A 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    StriaTrace: Efficient Tracing and Diagnosis for Online LLM Inference

    Haonan Wu, Yanqing Chen, Kun Qian, Xue Li, Jingbo Xu, Erci Xu#, Ennan Zhai, Wenyuan Yu, Guangtao Xue, Jingren Zhou

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  9. OSDI'26 CCF-A 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    All Along the Watchtower: Achieving the Trinity of Observability in Cloud with DiTing

    Zhenyu Ren, Shuzhi Feng, Erci Xu#, Changsheng Niu, Haoyu Mao, Beibei Wang, Chong Gao, Zhenshan Zhang, Xinrui Yu, Jiangwei Huang, Jiesheng Wu, Hong Tang

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  10. NSDI'26 CCF-A 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

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

    Chaolei Hu, Kun Qian, Erci Xu#, Yifan Shen, Haoran Zhang, Xue Li, Yuesheng Gu, Lingjun Zhu, Fengyuan Ren#, Ennan Zhai

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  11. Eurosys'26 CCF-A 21st ACM European Conference on Computer Systems

    Scheduling Cloud Block Storage Proactively and Reactively with Omar

    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

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  12. ToS'26 ACM Transactions on Storage 22(4): 1-31

    Deduplication can Make File Systems Faster

    Yanqi Pan, Wen Xia, Erci Xu, Hao Huang, Xiangyu Zou, Shiyi Li

    Paper
  13. FAST'26 CCF-A 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    How Soon is Now? Preloading Images for Virtual Disks with ThinkAhead

    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

    Paper PDF Code Dataset Slides Video
  14. FAST'26 CCF-A 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    MlsDisk: Trusted Block Storage for TEEs Based on Layered Secure Logging

    Erci Xu, Xinyi Yu, Lujia Yin, Xinyuan Luo, Shaowei Song, Qingsong Chen, Shoumeng Yan, Jiwu Shu, Hongliang Tian, Yiming Zhang#

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  15. FAST'26 CCF-A 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    "Range as a Key" is the Key! Fast and Compact Cloud Block Store Index with RASK

    Haoru Zhao, Mingkai Dong#, Erci Xu#, Zhongyu Wang, Haibo Chen

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  16. FAST'26 CCF-A 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    Here, There and Everywhere: The Past, the Present and the Future of Local Storage in Cloud

    Erik Riedel Best Paper Award

    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

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2025

  1. SOSP'25 CCF-A 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

    Sleeping with One Eye Open: Fast, Sustainable Storage with Sandman

    Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu#, Anisa Su, Jim Harris, Adam Manzanares, Steven Swanson

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  2. HotStorage'25 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

    CableCache: In-Network Request Deduplication for Key-Value Stores

    Jiawei Huang, Junru Li, Qing Wang, Lijie Wen, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu

    Paper
  3. Eurosys'25 CCF-A 20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems

    Hey Hey, My My, Skewness Is Here to Stay: Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Block Store Traffic

    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

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  4. FAST'25 CCF-A 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    Don't Maintain Twice, It's Alright: Merged Metadata Management in Deduplication File System with GogetaFS

    Distinguished Artifacts Award

    Yanqi Pan, Wen Xia#, Erci Xu#, Hao Huang, Xiangyu Zou, Shiyi Li

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  5. FAST'25 CCF-A 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    AtomicDisk: A Secure Virtual Disk for TEEs against Eviction Attacks

    Hongliang Tian, Xinyi Yu, Shaowei Song, Qingsong Chen, Zhihao Zhang, Shiyu Wang, Weijie Liu, Erci Xu, Shoumeng Yan, Yiming Zhang

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  6. ToS'25 ACM Transactions on Storage 21(2): 10:1-10:29

    Evolving the Cloud Block Store with Performance, Elasticity, Availability, and Hardware Offloading

    Invited

    Erci Xu, Weidong Zhang, Qiuping Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Yuesheng Gu, Zhenwei Lu, Tao Ouyang, Guanqun Dong, Wenwen Peng, Zhe Xu, Shuo Zhang, Dong Wu, Yilei Peng, Tianyun Wang, Haoran 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

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  7. TACO'25 ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 22(1): 27:1-27:25

    MasterPlan: A Reinforcement Learning Based Scheduler for Archive Storage

    Xinqi Chen, Erci Xu#, Dengyao Mo, Ruiming Lu, Haonan Wu, Dian Ding, Guangtao Xue

    Paper PDF Code

2024

  1. OSDI'24 CCF-A 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    Ransom Access Memories: Achieving Practical Ransomware Protection in Cloud with DeftPunk

    Zhongyu Wang, Yaheng Song, Erci Xu#, Haonan Wu, Guangxun Tong, Haoran Li, Jincheng Liu, Lijun Ding, Rong Liu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu

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  2. Eurosys'24 CCF-A 19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems

    CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud

    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

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  3. FAST'24 CCF-A 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    What's the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store

    Best Paper Award

    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

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2023

  1. VLDB'23 CCF-A 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

    When Database Meets New Storage Devices: Understanding and Exposing Performance Mismatches via Configurations

    Haochen He, Erci Xu, Shanshan Li, Zhouyang Jia, Si Zheng, Yue Yu, Jun Ma, Xiangke Liao

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  2. ICSE'23 CCF-A 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

    Understanding and Detecting On-the-Fly Configuration Bugs

    Distinguished Paper Award

    Teng Wang, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Si Zheng, Yue Yu, Erci Xu, Shaoliang Peng, Xiangke Liao

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  3. SIGMETRICS'23 CCF-B 2023 ACM SIGMETRICS

    DiffForward: On Balancing Forwarding Traffic for Modern Cloud Block Services via Differentiated Forwarding

    Wenzhe Zhu, Yongkun Li, Erci Xu, Fei Li, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui

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  4. ATC'23 CCF-A 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

    Deploying User-space TCP at Cloud Scale with LUNA

    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

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  5. ToS'23 ACM Transactions on Storage 19(4): 33:1-33:28

    From Missteps to Milestones: A Journey to Practical Fail-Slow Detection

    Invited

    Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang, Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu

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  6. FAST'23 CCF-A 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems

    Best Paper Award

    Ruiming Lu*, Erci Xu*, Yiming Zhang, Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu

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  7. FAST'23 CCF-A 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    SMRSTORE: A Storage Engine for Cloud Object Storage on HM-SMR Drives

    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

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2022

  1. ATC'22 CCF-A 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

    NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow

    Ruiming Lu*, Erci Xu*, Yiming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu

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  2. ICDE'22 CCF-A 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

    imDedup: A Lossless Deduplication Scheme to Eliminate Fine-grained Redundancy among Images

    Cai Deng, Qi Chen, Xiangyu Zou, Erci Xu, Bo Tang, Wen Xia

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2021

  1. ICSE'21 CCF-A 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering

    DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility Failures

    Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Tingting Yu, Zeng Chen, Erci Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao

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  2. ISSTA'21 CCF-A 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

    Challenges and Opportunities: an In-depth Empirical Study on Configuration Error Injection Testing

    Wang Li, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Yuanliang Zhang, Teng Wang, Erci Xu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao

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  3. ATC'21 CCF-A 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

    Max: A Multicore-Accelerated File System for Flash Storage

    Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu

    PDF Code Slides Video
  4. FAST'21 CCF-A 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

    Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-network Cache Coherence

    Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu

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2020

  1. DAC'20 CCF-A 57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference

    CoinPurse: A Device-Assisted File System with Dual Interfaces

    Zhe Yang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu

    PDF
  2. OSDI'20 CCF-A 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    Write Dependency Disentanglement with HORAE

    Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu

    PDF Slides Video
  3. ASE'20 CCF-A 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

    CP-Detector: Using Configuration-related Performance Properties to Expose Performance Bugs

    Haochen He, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Erci Xu, Tingting Yu, Yue Yu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao

    PDF Code

2019

  1. ATC'19 CCF-A 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

    Lessons and Actions: What We Learned from 10K SSD-Related Storage System Failures

    CCF Storage Distinguished Paper Award

    Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Yikang Xu, Jiesheng Wu

    PDF Slides Video

2018

  1. PDSW-DISCS'18 3rd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems

    Understanding SSD Reliability in Large-Scale Cloud Systems

    Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Jiesheng Wu, Yikang Xu

    PDF

2016

  1. HotStorage'16 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

    Neutrino: Revisiting Memory Caching for Iterative Data Analytics

    Erci Xu, Mohit Saxena, Lawrence Chiu

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