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Technical Perspective: Can We Uncover Private Backbone Infrastructures?
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Technical Perspective: Can We Uncover Private Backbone Infrastructures?

In "A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers," Salamatian et al. assemble techniques from the two broad strategies developed...

A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers
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A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers

We present a new empirical approach for elucidating connectivity in privately owned and operated backbone networks.

Technical Perspective: Opening the Door to SSD Algorithmics
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Technical Perspective: Opening the Door to SSD Algorithmics

The authors of "Offline and Online Algorithms for SSD Management" propose a more accurate theoretical model of flash-based SSDs that views each page as containing...

Offline and Online Algorithms for SSD Management
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Offline and Online Algorithms for SSD Management

We explore the problem of reducing high internal overhead of flash media which is referred to as write amplification from an algorithmic perspective, considering...

Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act

FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value...

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the...

Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks
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Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks

"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network...

Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs
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Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs

We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.

Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
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Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats

The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat...

Hummingbird
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Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites

In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.

Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
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Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning

"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification...

Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
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Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web

In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long...
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