PhD Dissertation

Using Similarity in Content and Access Patterns to Improve Space Efficiency and Performance in Storage Systems [slides]

Conference Papers

1. Fantastic SSD Internals and How to Learn and Use Them
   Nanqinqin Li, Mingzhe Hao, Huaicheng Li, Xing Lin, Tim Emami, and Haryadi S. Gunawi
   SYSTOR 2022: The 15th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

2. IODA: A Host/Device Co-Design for Strong Predictability Contract on Modern Flash Storage [bibtex]
   Huaicheng Li, Martin L. Putra, Ronald Shi, Xing Lin, Gregory R. Ganger, and Haryadi S. Gunawi
   SOSP 21: The 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principle

3. SEFEE: Lightweight Storage Error Forecasting in Large Scale Enterprise Storage Systems
   Amirhesam Yazdi, Xing Lin, Lei Yang, Feng Yan
   SC 2020: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

4. SS-CDC: A Two-stage Parallel Content-Defined Chunking for Deduplicating Backup Storage [slides :: bibtex]
   Fan Ni, Xing Lin, Song Jiang
   SYSTOR 2019: The 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

5. Fail-Slow at Scale: Evidence of Hardware Performance Faults in Large Production Systems [bibtex]
   Haryadi S. Gunawi and many other collaborators
   FAST 18: The 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb. 2018

6. Metadata Considered Harmful … to Deduplication [slides :: bibtex]
   Xing Lin, Fred Douglis, Jim Li, Xudong Li, Robert Ricci, Stephen Smaldone, and Grant Wallace
   HotStorage 15: The 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, July 2015

7. POTASSIUM: Penetration Testing as a Service [bibtex]
   Richard Li, Dallin Abendroth, Xing Lin, Yuankai Guo, Hyun-wook Baek, Eric Eide, Robert Ricci, Jacobus Van der Merwe
   SOCC 15: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, August 2015

8. Using Deduplicating Storage for Efficient Disk Image Deployment
   [slides :: bibtex]
   Xing Lin, Mike Hibler, Eric Eide, and Robert Ricci
   TridentCom 15: The 10th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities, June 2015

9. Migratory Compression: Coarse-grained Data Reordering to Improve Compressibility [slides :: video :: bibtex]
   Xing Lin, Guanlin Lu, Fred Douglis, Philip Shilane, and Grant Wallace
   FAST 14: The 12th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb. 2014

10. Towards Fair Sharing of Block Storage in a Multi-tenant Cloud
    [slides :: video :: bibtex]
    Xing Lin, Yun Mao, Feifei Li, Robert Ricci
    HotCloud 12: The 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, June 2012

11. Refining the Utility Metric for Utility-Based Cache Partitioning
    [slides :: bibtex]
    Xing Lin, and Rajeev Balasubramonian
    WDDD 11: The 9th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking, in conjunction with the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-38), June 2011

Journal papers

1. Fail-Slow at Scale: Evidence of Hardware Performance Faults in Large Production Systems [bibtex]
   Haryadi S. Gunawi and many other collaborators
   ACM Transactions on Storage, Volume 14 Issue 3, October 2018, Article No. 23

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