Accepted Papers

Summer Deadline

From Measurement to Emissions: Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Traffic Flows
Sawsan El-Zahr, Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford)
Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible Blockchains
Yicheng Huo (Zhejiang University); Yufeng Hu (City University of Hong Kong); Yajin Zhou (Zhejiang University); Ting Yu (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence); Lei Wu (Zhejiang University); Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
Yuqian Huo, Daniel Leeds, Jason Z. Ludmir, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel (Rice University)
Better than Optimal: Improving Adaptive Stochastic Quantization Using Shared Randomness
Ran Ben Basat (University College London and Broadcom); Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Broadcom); Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University); Shay Vargaftik (Broadcom)
Learning with Episodic Hypothesis Testing in General Games: A Framework for Equilibrium Selection
Ruifan Yang (Cornell University); Manxi Wu (University of California Berkeley)
Exploring the 5G Digital Divide in the Non-Contiguous US: LEO Satellites to the Rescue?
Sizhe Wang, Moinak Ghoshal, Yufei Feng, Imran Khan, Phuc Dinh (Northeastern University); Omar Basit (Purdue University); Zhekun Yu (Northeastern University); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University)
Sequential Fair Allocation With Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes An Exponentially Long Way
Chido Onyeze (Cornell University); Sean R. Sinclair (Northwestern University); Chamsi Hssaine (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business); Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)
Optimizing Storage Overhead of User Behavior Log for ML-embedded Mobile Apps
Chen Gong, Yan Zhuang, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yiliu Chen, Sheng Wang (ByteDance); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Benchmarking and Characterization of Large Language Model Inference on Apple Silicon
Afsara Benazir, Felix Xiaozhu Lin (University of Virginia)
ScaleQsim: Highly Scalable Quantum Circuit Simulation Framework for Exascale HPC Systems
Changjong Kim, Ehan Sohn, Seunghwan Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology); Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Houjun Tang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Yongseok Son (Chung-Ang University); Sunggon Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
Three Birds with One Stone: Improving Performance, Convergence, and System Throughput with NEST
Yuqian Huo, David Quiroga, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Tirthak Patel (Rice University)
Pittacus: Optimizing LLM Serving on Cloud Data Centers with Forecast Aware Auto-Scaling
Shashwat Jaiswal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Kunal Jain (Microsoft); Yogesh Simmhan (Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore); Anjaly Parayil (Microsoft Research); Ankur Mallick, Rujia Wang, Renee St. Amant, Chetan Bansal (Microsoft); Victor Rühle (Microsoft Research); Anoop Kulkarni, Steve Kofsky (Microsoft); Saravan Rajmohan (Microsoft 365)
Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for LLM Inference: Theory and Practice
Agrim Bari, Parikshit Hegde, Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin)
Enabling Reliable Network Management with Large Language Models
Yajie Zhou (University of Maryland); Kevin Hsieh, Sathiya Kumaran Mani (Microsoft Research); Srikanth Kandula (Amazon Web Services); Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster’s Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University); Saidu Sokoto (City St George’s, University of London); Leonhard Balduf (TU Darmstadt); Michał Król (City St George’s, University of London); Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
Heterogeneous Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandit on Stochastic Block Models
Mengfan Xu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Liren Shan (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago); Fatemeh Ghaffari, Xuchuang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Xutong Liu (Carnegie Mellon University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
A Tale of Two Traffics: Optimizing Tail Latency in the Light-Tailed M/G/k
George Yu, Amit Harlev, Reevu Adakroy, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
The Impact of IP Version on Household Internet Speed: A Comparative Study
Amanda Hsu (Georgia Institute of Technology); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago); Paul Pearce, Frank Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Outperforming Multiserver SRPT at All Loads
Izzy Grosof, Daniela Hurtado Lange (Northwestern University)
ObliQ: Solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problems on Real Photonic Quantum Machines
Aditya Ranjan, Daniel Silver (Northeastern University); Tirthak Patel (Rice University); Bhargav Chickmagalurnanjun, Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University)
Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance
Burak Öz (Technical University of Munich); Christof Ferreira Torres (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon); Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots); Jonas Gebele, Filip Rezabek, Florian Matthes (Technical University of Munich)
Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks); Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich); Dennis Trautwein (University of Göttingen); Oliver Gasser (IPinfo)
μ-VF: Enabling Virtualization of Embedded FPGAs
Vincenzo Bucaria, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino (University of Messina); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)

Fall Deadline

Online Smoothed Demand Management
Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Towards Scalable Storage Architectures for GPU Clusters Running Large Language Models
Ali Sedaghatgoo (Sharif University of Technology); Reza Salkhordeh (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz); Andre Brinkmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz); Hossein Asadi (Sharif University of Technology)
Sumeru: Towards Understanding and Achieving Cache-Optimal Inbound Network I/O
Minhu Wang (Tsinghua University); Mingwei Xu (Quan Cheng Laboratory); Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University)
A Comprehensive Study of Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms over 1.5 Years (May 2024 - Oct 2025)
Saeed Fadaei (University of Surrey); Aravindh Raman (Cisco ThousandEyes); Prince Bhardwaj Pawankumar Sharma (University of Surrey); Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey, UK)
Higher-Order Approximations of Sojourn Times in M/G/1 Queues via Stein's Method
Bihan Chatterjee, Siva Theja Maguluri, Debankur Mukherjee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Cache Your Prompt When It's Green - Carbon-aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving
Yuyang Tian, Desen Sun (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo)
Shiny Objects: Object-Centric Characterization of Chromium
Saket Upadhyay, Ashish Venkat (University of Virginia)
A Fine-Grained and Efficient Reliability Analysis Framework for Noisy Quantum Circuits
Jindi Wu (DePaul University); Tianjie Hu, Qun Li (William & Mary)
Empirical Gittins for data-driven M/G/1 scheduling with arbitrary job size distributions
Shefali Ramakrishna, Amit Harlev, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
Nash Equilibria in Uniform Price Auctions: Theory, Computation, and Market Insights
Yifan Feng (National University of Singapore); Negin Golrezaei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Qinzhen Li (National University of Singapore)
Dynamic SLA-aware Network Slice Monitoring
Niloy Saha, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo); Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)
A Variegated Look at Direct-to-Cell Satellites in the Wild
Wei Liu, Jingyi Lan, Yuanjie Li, Bowen Sun, Yekai Dong, Yufeng Wang, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Guiding the Recommender: Information-Aware Auto-Bidding for Content Promotion
Yumou Liu, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jiang Rong, Yao Hu (Xiaohongshu); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Robustness of the 2-Choices Dynamics to Node Failures
Luke Meredith, Arpan Mukhopadhyay (University of Warwick)
The Multiserver-Job Stochastic Recurrence Equation for Cloud Computing Performance Evaluation
Francois Baccelli (INRIA); Diletta Olliaro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute); Marin Andrea (University Ca' Foscari of Venice)
Mapping the Landscape of LLM Deployment in the Wild: Prevalence, Patterns, and Perils
Xinyi Hou, Jiahao Han, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Stochastic Network Utility Maximization in Strategic Queueing Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Quang Minh Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Randall Berry (Northwestern University); Eytan Modiano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Green Bin Packing
Jackson Bibbens, Cooper Sigrist (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bo Sun (University of Ottawa); Shahin Kamali (York University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Offline Local Search for Online Stochastic Bandits
Gerdus Benade (Boston University); Rathish Das (University of Houston); Thomas Lavastida (University of Texas at Dallas)
CAPSULE: A Storage Prefetcher Harnessing Spatio-Temporal Locality for Cloud-Scale Workloads
Agung Rahmat Ramadhan, Seehwan Yoo, Jongmoo Choi (Dankook University)
Janus: A Dual-Mask Attention Transformer for Log-based Anomaly Detection in Cellular Networks
Umakant Kulkarni (Purdue University/Dept. of Computer Science); Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University)
Characterizing Performance-Energy Trade-offs of Large Language Models in Multi-Request Workflows
Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath, Israat Haque (Dalhousie University)
On Abnormal Execution Timing of Conditional Jump Instructions
Annika Wilde (Ruhr University Bochum); Samira Briongos, Claudio Soriente (NEC Laboratories Europe); Ghassan Karame (Ruhr University Bochum)
Prediction-Specific Design of Learning-Augmented Algorithms
Sizhe Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Tongxin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Experimental Study on System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs
Yonggon Park, Hyunuk Cho (POSTECH); Onur Mutlu (ETH Zurich); Sungjin Lee (POSTECH); Jisung Park (POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology))

Winter Deadline

A Minimal-Assumption Analysis of Q-Learning with Time-Varying Policies
Phalguni Nanda, Zaiwei Chen (Purdue University)
A Unified Framework for Online Combinatorial Allocation of Reusable Resources under Endogenous Deterioration
Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)
ACALSim: A Scalable Parallel Simulation Framework for High-Performance System Design Space Exploration
Wei-Fen Lin (Taiwan High-Performance Computing Education Association); Jen-Chien Chang, Yen-Po Chen (National Cheng Kung University); Zi-Yi Tai (Taiwan High-Performance Computing Education Association); Yu-Chen Chang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University); Chia-Pao Chiang, Yu-Yang Lee, Yu-Chieh Wang (National Cheng Kung University)
Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networking
Mohammad Zangooei (University of Waterloo); Jannis Weil, Amr Rizk (Leibniz University Hannover); Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)
Are We Ready to Enable Satellite Autonomy Through on Board Image Registration?
Claudio Di Salvo (Politecnico di Milano); Emanuele Del Sozzo (MIT); Giuseppe Sorrentino (Politecnico di Milano); Eleonora D'Arnese (University of Edinburgh); Paolo Panicucci, Davide Conficconi (Politecnico di Milano)
Assessing Resilience in Authoritative DNS Infrastructure Supporting Government Services
Agung Septiadi, Minzhao Lyu, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales)
Can Multipath TCP Congestion Control do better without adhering to its First Design Principle?
Xuan Wang (The University of Texas at Arlington); Hao Che (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington); Zhijun Wang (University of Texas at Arlington); Hong Jiang (UT Arlington)
CAP: Detecting Network Device Misconfigurations with Context-Aware Prompting of LLMs
Xi Jiang (University of Chicago); Aaron Gember-Jacobson (Colgate University); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
cPMEM: A Design of Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory with Compute Express Link for Data Center Applications
Gaocong Liu, Mengting Lu, Kun Wang, Feng Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Shu Li (Alibaba Group)
cuPTW: Leveraging Idle Compute Units for Massively Parallel GPU Page Table Walks
Zihang Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Tianao Ge (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University); Hongyuan Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology); Jiayi Huang (HKUST(GZ))
d-HNSW: A High-performance Vector Search Engine on Disaggregated Memory
Fei Fang, Yi Liu, Chen Qian (University of California Santa Cruz)
ECCentric: An Empirical Analysis of Quantum Error Correction Codes
Aleksandra Świerkowska, Jannik Pflieger, Emmanouil Giortamis, Pramod Bhatotia (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Efficiency-Reward Trade-Off in Queues with Dynamic Arrivals
Tianze Qu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Sushil Mahavir Varma (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
EviDex: Provenance-Weighted Evidence-Path Indexing for Fresh and Auditable Retrieval under Continuous Updates
Rui Li, Shuang Cao, Ruihua Liu, Alexandre Duprey (Hill Research)
Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
Sen Yang (Yale University, IC3); Burak Öz (Flashbots); Fei Wu (King's College London); Fan Zhang (Yale University, IC3)
HealthServe: A Public Health-Aware Inference Framework
Sicheng Zhou, Rohan Basu Roy (University of Utah)
Horizon: Understanding and Predicting Global Starlink Performance
Cristian Benghe, Vlad Graure, Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan (TU Delft)
Information Design for Prosocial Behavior
Alexandre Reiffers (IMT Atlantique); Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science)
Learning to Allocate Reusable Resources under Stochastic Rewards and Durations
Ativ Joshi, Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)
LPGSim: A Lightweight Parallel GPU Simulator Maximizing Speed with Trustworthy Simulation
Hyunwoo Nam, Jay Hwan Lee, Yeonsoo Kim, Mengzhao Zhang (Yonsei University); Jeonggeun Kim (Kyungpook National University); Bernd Burgstaller (Yonsei University)
MATER: Mutually Aware Framework for Teleoperated-robot with Extended Reality
Ziliang Zhang, Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside); Hyoseung Kim (UC Riverside)
Minos: Systematically Classifying Performance and Power Characteristics of GPU Workloads on HPC Clusters
Rutwik Jain, Yiwei Jiang (University of Wisconsin Madison); Matthew D. Sinclair (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Shivaram Venkataraman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Optimizing Dropout in LLM Training: Performance Comparison of Fusion and Overlap
Haiyue Ma (Princeton University); Jian Liu, Ronny Krashinsky (NVIDIA)
PEMI: Transparent Performance Enhancements for QUIC
Jie Zhang (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Ziyi Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Chenxiang Sun (Tsinghua University); Yuming Hu (University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities); Xiaohui Xie, Zeqi Lai, Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)
Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK cache replacement algorithm
Yirong Wang, Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University); Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp)
RELL-STC: An Efficient SpMM Extension of Sparse Tensor Core with Re-structured ELLPACK and Gustavson Dataflow
Jianfeng Cui (National University of Defense Technology); Bo Yuan (College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology); Zekun Jiang (National University of Defense Technology); Sheng Liu (National University of Defense Technology,China); Kai Lu (National University of Defense Techonology)
SemanticDFL: Similarity-Aware Pull-based Personalized Decentralized Federated Learning
Javad Dogani (IMDEA Networks Institute); Mostafa Khastkhodaei, Farshad Khunjush (Shiraz University); Nikolaos Laoutaris (IMDEA Networks Institute)
The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences
Yiyue Cao, Mingzhe Zheng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University); Siguang Li, Xuechao Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
The Price of Strategic Information: Degree-Based Bounds on Inefficiency in Distributed Learning Games
Tuan Ngoc Do, Hai Duc Nguyen, Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Hiep Quang Dao, Anh Duc-Duy Nguyen, Luong Cong Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
UniCache: Unifying Prefix Cache Eviction for Heterogeneous LLM Serving Workloads
Bei Ouyang (Rice University); Yifan Qiao (UC Berkeley); Jiarong Xing (Rice University)
Wasserstein‑p Central Limit Theorem Rates: From Local Dependence to Markov Chains
Yixuan Zhang, Qiaomin Xie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
WISP: Waste- and Interference-Suppressed Distributed Speculative LLM Serving at the Edge via Dynamic Drafting and SLO-Aware Batching
Xiangchen Li, Jiakun Fan (Virginia Tech); Qingyuan Wang (University College Dublin); Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens); Saeid Ghafouri (Queen's University Belfast); Hans Vandierendonck (Queens University Belfast); Deepu John (University College Dublin); Bo Ji, Ali R. Butt, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech)