CS 7934 — Computer Systems Seminar, Fall 2023

Fridays, 2:00–3:30 PM, 3485 MEB

Instructor: Eric Eide

Schedule

Week Date Topic(s) Facilitator(s) Paper(s)
1 8/25 — Eide organizational meeting
2 9/1 security-related defects Eide Silent Bugs Matter: A Study of Compiler-Introduced Security Bugs. Jianhao Xu et al. In USENIX Security ’23, Aug. 2023.
3 9/8 transmitter localization Mitchell Learning-based Techniques for Transmitter Localization: A Case Study on Model Robustness. Frost Mitchell et al. In IEEE SECON ’23, Sep. 2023.
4 9/15 scalable service mesh Johnson ServiceRouter: Hyperscale and Minimal Cost Service Mesh at Meta. Harshit Saokar et al. In OSDI ’23, Jul. 2023.
5 9/22 greybox compiler fuzzing Karimov GrayC: Greybox Fuzzing of Compilers and Analysers for C. Karine Even-Mendoza et al. In ISSTA ’23, Jul. 2023.
6 9/29 unikernels Eide Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. Simon Kuenzer et al. In EuroSys ’21, Apr. 2021.
7 10/6 5G core networks Nawazish L25GC: A Low Latency 5G Core Network Based on High-Performance NFV Platforms. Vivek Jain et al. In SIGCOMM ’22, Aug. 2022.
8 10/13 — — no meeting — University fall break
9 10/20 memory models Wong AtoMig: Automatically Migrating Millions Lines of Code from TSO to WMM. Martin Beck et al. In ASPLOS ’23, Jan. 2023.
10 10/27 parallel programming Jolly Beyond Static Parallel Loops: Supporting Dynamic Task Parallelism on Manycore Architectures with Software-Managed Scratchpad Memories. Lin Cheng et al. In ASPLOS ’23, Mar. 2023.
11 11/3 5G RAN monitoring and control Kamath Taking 5G RAN Analytics and Control to a New Level. Xenofon Foukas et al. In MobiCom ’23, Oct. 2023.
12 11/10 ML in edge environments Belianovich Pocket: ML Serving from the Edge. Misun Park et al. In EuroSys ’23, May 2023.
13 11/17 mobile core systems Webb CoreKube: An Efficient, Autoscaling and Resilient Mobile Core System. Jon Larrea et al. In MobiCom ’23, Oct. 2023.
14 11/24 — — no meeting — Thanksgiving break
15 12/1 WASI testing Stanley Randomized Testing of the WebAssembly System Interface. Ethan Stanley. Honors Thesis proposal, Nov. 2023.
16 12/8 fault localization Kuppili The Case for an Internet Primitive for Fault Localization. William Sussman et al. In HotNets ’22, Nov. 2022.

Overview

The fall 2023 offering of CS 7934 will cover a variety of systems topics, with an eye toward two goals.

The first is to increase participants' familiarity with recent and important results in the area of computer systems research. Attendees will read and discuss papers from recent and imminent top-tier systems conferences: e.g., SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM, FAST, systems-related security conferences, and so on. Attendees will typically discuss one paper each week. Papers will be selected for their relevance to participants' research or upcoming Utah visitors. There is no preset “focus topic” for fall 2023. One can anticipate, however, that the semester will include discussions about operating systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, datacenters, networking, and security.

The second is to be a venue for student presentations. Every student participating in the seminar will be required to lead at least one meeting during the semester. This may be a “formal” research presentation—ideally of a student's current work—or it may be an analysis of the research papers chosen for a seminar meeting.

CS 7934 is often called “the CSL seminar.” The name CSL is historic.

Mailing list

To get on the class mailing list, use Mailman to subscribe to csl-sem.

Syllabus

The course syllabus contains important information for students, including the course's policies on grading and cheating.

Credit

Students may enroll for one (1) credit.

Those taking the course for credit must read all of the assigned papers, submit a short summary of each assigned paper prior to class (PDF, LaTeX), participate in each discussion, and facilitate at least one seminar meeting during the semester. Refer to the syllabus for further information.

Potential Papers

Upcoming and recent conference proceedings are good sources of papers for discussion. Below are links to some relevant conference series.

Past CSL Seminars

Semester Focus Topic(s)
Spring 2023 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2022 no focus topic chosen; many wireless networking papers
Spring 2022 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2021 no focus topic chosen
Spring 2021 no focus topic chosen; many OS design papers
Fall 2020 no focus topic chosen
Spring 2020 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2019 no focus topic chosen
Spring 2019 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2018 no focus topic chosen
Spring 2018 no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’17 papers
Fall 2017 no focus topic chosen
Spring 2017 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2016 no focus topic chosen; many SIGCOMM ’16 papers
Spring 2016 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2015 no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers
Spring 2015 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2014 no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’14 papers
Spring 2014 no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers
Fall 2013 no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’13 papers
Spring 2013 reversible and “time-traveling” debugging
Fall 2012 modern networking and network management; peer-review process
Spring 2012 systems approaches to dynamic problem detection and repair
Fall 2011 datacenter architectures and issues
Spring 2011 malicious software, i.e., malware
Fall 2010 systems approaches to security
Spring 2010 testbed-like infrastructures for cloud computing and scientific computing
Fall 2009 no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’09 papers
Fall 2008 no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’08 papers
Summer 2008 no focus topic chosen; informal biweekly meetings
Spring 2008 no focus topic chosen
Fall 2007 no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’07 papers
Fall 2006 no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’06 papers
Fall 2005 no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’05 papers
Spring 2005 no focus topic chosen; many NSDI ’05 papers

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