Publications

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2025

  1. NSDI
    Understanding and Profiling NVMe-over-TCP Using ntprof
    Yuyuan Kang, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’25), Apr 2025
  2. NSDI
    Building an Elastic Block Storage over EBOFs Using Shadow Views
    Sheng Jiang, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’25), Apr 2025
  3. NSDI
    Building Massive MIMO Baseband Processing on a Single-Node Supercomputer
    Xincheng Xie, Wentao Hou, Zerui Guo, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’25), Apr 2025
  4. NSDI
    White-Boxing RDMA with Packet-Granular Software Control
    Chenxingyu Zhao, Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’25), Apr 2025
  5. HPCA
    RpcNIC: Enabling Efficient Datacenter RPC Offloading on PCIe-attached SmartNICs
    Jie Zhang, Hongjing Huang, Xuzheng Chen, Xiang Li, Jieru Zhao, Ming Liu, and Zeke Wang
    In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’31) , Mar 2025

2024

  1. ICNP
    Demystifying Datapath Accelerator Enhanced Off-path SmartNIC
    Xuzheng Chen, Jie Zhang, Ting Fu, Yifan Shen, Shu Ma, Kun Qian, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yin Zhang, Ming Liu, and Zeke Wang
    In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’24), Oct 2024
  2. EECS
    Rethink Energy-Efficient Storage Stack for Exascale Computing in the Hardware-Accelerated I/O Era
    Ming Liu
    In DOE Energy-Efficient Computing for Science Workshop (EECS’24), Sep 2024
  3. TOS
    eZNS: Elastic Zoned Namespace for Enhanced Performance Isolation and Device Utilization
    Jaehong Min, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS’24), Jun 2024
  4. NSDI
    Understanding Routable PCIe Performance for Composable Infrastructures
    Wentao Hou, Jie Zhang, Zeke Wang, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’24), Apr 2024

2023

  1. MICRO
    LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs
    Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’23), Oct 2023
  2. SIGCOMM
    LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs
    Zerui Guo, Hua Zhang, Chenxingyu Zhao, Yuebin Bai, Michael Swift, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (SIGCOMM’23), Sep 2023
  3. OSDI
    eZNS: An Elastic Zoned Namespace for Commodity $ZNS SSDs
    Jaehong Min, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Proceedings of 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’23), Jul 2023
  4. HotOS
    Fabric-Centric Computing
    Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS’23), Jun 2023
  5. ASPLOS
    A Generic Service to Provide In-Network Aggregation for Key-Value Streams
    Yongchao He, Wenfei Wu, Yanfang Le, Ming Liu, and ChonLam Lao
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’23), Mar 2023

2022

  1. SIGMETRICS
    Dremel: Adaptive Configuration Tuning of RocksDB KV-Store
    Chenxingyu Zhao, Tapan Chugh, Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS’22), Mar 2022

2021

  1. SOSP
    Xenic: SmartNIC-Accelerated Distributed Transactions
    Henry N Schuh, Weihao Liang, Ming Liu, Jacob Nelson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’21), Oct 2021
  2. SOSP
    Automated Smartnic Offloading Insights for Network Functions
    Yiming Qiu, Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Srinivas Narayana, and Ang Chen
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’21), Oct 2021
  3. SIGCOMM
    Gimbal: Enabling Multi-Tenant Storage Disaggregation on SmartNIC JBOFs
    Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, Tapan Chugh, Chenxingyu Zhao, Andrew Wei, In Hwan Doh, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM’21), Aug 2021

2020

  1. HotNets
    Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading
    Yiming Qiu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, and Ang Chen
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets’20), Nov 2020
  2. NSDI
    Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System
    Ming Liu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Harsha V Madhyastha, Rishi Bhardwaj, Karan Gupta, Chinmay Kamat, Huapeng Yuan, Aditya Jaltade, Roger Liao, Pavan Konka, and  others
    In Proceedings of 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’20), Feb 2020
  3. NSDI
    Programmable Calendar Queues for High-Speed Packet Scheduling
    Naveen Kr Sharma, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, Pravein G Kannan, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    In Proceedings of 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’20), Feb 2020

2019

  1. SIGCOMM
    Offloading Distributed Applications onto Smartnics using iPipe
    Ming Liu, Tianyi Cui, Henry Schuh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Simon Peter, and Karan Gupta
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM’19), Aug 2019
  2. ATC
    E3: Energy-Efficient Microservices on SmartNIC-Accelerated Servers
    Ming Liu, Simon Peter, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana
    In Proceedings of 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC’19), Jul 2019

2018

  1. OSDI
    Floem: A Programming System for {NIC-Accelerated} Network Applications
    Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Ming Liu, Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter, Rastislav Bodik, and Thomas Anderson
    In Proceedings of 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI’18), Oct 2018
  2. NSDI
    Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches
    Naveen Kr Sharma, Ming Liu, Kishore Atreya, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Proceedings of 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI’18), Apr 2018

2017

  1. ACAS
    Motivating In-Network Aggregation for Distributed Deep Neural Network Training
    Liang Luo, Ming Liu, Jacob Nelson, Luis Ceze, Amar Phanishayee, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
    In Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the Stack (ACAS’17), Mar 2017
  2. ASPLOS
    Incbricks: Toward In-Network Computation with an In-Network Cache
    Ming Liu, Liang Luo, Jacob Nelson, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Kishore Atreya
    In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS ’17), Apr 2017

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