The USENIX Test of Time Awards recognize papers that have had a lasting impact on their fields. To qualify, a paper must have been presented at its respective conference at least 10 years ago. Steering committees and past program chairs from USENIX conferences determine the award winners. FAST, NSDI, and the USENIX Security Symposium encourage nominations from the community for these awards. Please check the upcoming symposium's webpage for information about how to submit a nomination.
2024
NSDI '24
Header Space Analysis: Static Checking For Networks
Peyman Kazemian, George Varghese, and Nick McKeown
Published in the Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2012
FAST '24
SFS: Random Write Considered Harmful in Solid State Drives
Changwoo Min, Kangnyeon Kim, Hyunjin Cho, Sang-Won Lee, and Young Ik Eom
Published in the Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2012
2023
FAST '23
A Study of Practical Deduplication
Dutch T. Meyer and William J. Bolosky
Published in the Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2011
NSDI '23
Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web
Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Wetherall
Published in the Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2012
USENIX Security '23
Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical
David Brumley and Dan Boneh
Published in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2003
2022
FAST '22
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Published in the Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2008
NSDI '22
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP
Damon Wischik, Costin Raiciu, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark Handley
Published in the Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2011
USENIX Security '22
Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems
Jennifer G. Steiner, Clifford Neuman, and Jeffrey I. Schiller
Published in the 1988 Winter USENIX Technical Conference Proceedings, February 1988
Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time
Vern Paxon
Published in the Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998
Mining Your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices
Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
Published in the Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
2021
FAST '21
A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
Nitin Agrawal, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch
Published in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2007
NSDI '21
Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center
Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konwinski, Matei Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica
Published in the Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2011
2020
FAST '20
Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System
Benjamin Zhu, Kai Li, Hugo Patterson
Published in the Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2008
NSDI '20
Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks
Mohammad Al-Fares, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Barath Raghavan, Nelson Huang, and Amin Vahdat
Published in the Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2010
2019
FAST '19
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, and Luiz André Barroso
Published in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2007
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson
Published in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2007
NSDI '19
Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors
Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Ji Fang, He Liu, Yusheng Ye, Shen Wang, Yongguang Zhang, Haitao Wu, Wei Wang, and Geoffrey M. Voelker
Published in the Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009
USENIX Security '19
A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications (Confining the Wily Hacker)
Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, Randi Thomas, and Eric Brewer
Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth USENIX Security Symposium, July 1996
2018
FAST '18
Designing for Disasters
Kimberly Keeton, Cipriano Santos, Dirk Beyer, Jeffrey Chase, and John Wilkes
Published in the Proceedings of the Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, March 2004
NSDI '18
Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
Brendan Cully, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Dutch Meyer, Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson, and Andrew Warfield
Published in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, April 2008
USENIX Security '18
Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture
Stephen McCamant and Greg Morrisett
Published in the Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2006
2017
FAST '17
SnapMirror: File-System-Based Asynchronous Mirroring for Disaster Recovery
Hugo Patterson, Stephen Manley, Mike Federwisch, Dave Hitz,Steve Kleiman, and Shane Owara
Published in the Proceedings of the FAST 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002
NSDI '17
X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework
Rodrigo Fonseca, George Porter, Randy H. Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica
Published in the Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, April 2007
USENIX Security '17
Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity
David Moore, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage
Published in the Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2001
2016
FAST '16
Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction
Peter Corbett, Bob English, Atul Goel, Tomislav Grcanac, Steven Kleiman, James Leong, and Sunitha Sankar
Published in the Proceedings of the Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, March 2004
NSDI '16
Pip: Detecting the Unexpected in Distributed Systems
Patrick Reynolds, Charles Killian, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Mehul A. Shah, and Amin Vahdat
Published in the Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2006
USENIX Security '16
Preventing Privilege Escalation
Niels Provos, Markus Friedl, and Peter Honeyman
Published in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2003
2015
FAST '15
Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration
Eric Anderson, Michael Hobbs, Kimberly Keeton, Susan Spence, Mustafa Uysal, and Alistair Veitch
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002
NSDI '15
Live Migration of Virtual Machines
Christopher Clark, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Jacob Gorm Hansen, Eric Jul, Christian Limpach, Ian Pratt, and Andrew Warfield
Published in the Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005
Design and Implementation of a Routing Control Platform
Matthew Caesar, Donald Caldwell, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, and Jacobus van der Merwe
Published in the Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005
USENIX Security '15
Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0
Alma Whitten and J. D. Tygar
Published in the Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Security Symposium, August 1999
2014
FAST '14
ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache
Nimrod Megiddo and Dharmendra S. Modha
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, March 2003
NSDI '14
Operating System Support for Planetary-Scale Network Services
Andy Bavier, Mic Bowman, Brent Chun, David Culler, Scott Karlin, Steve Muir, Larry Peterson, Timothy Roscoe, Tammo Spalink, and Mike Wawrzoniak
Published in the Proceedings of the First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2004
Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks
Philip Levis, Neil Patel, David Culler, and Scott Shenker
Published in the Proceedings of the First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2004
USENIX Security '14
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul Syverson
Published in the Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2004
2013
FAST '13
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters
Frank Schmuck and Roger Haskin
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002
USENIX Security '13
StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks
Crispin Cowan, Calton Pu, Dave Maier, Jonathan Walpole, Peat Bakke, Steve Beattie, Aaron Grier, Perry Wagle, Qian Zhang, and Heather Hinton
For the invention of stack canaries and their application as a practical method to mitigate stack smashing attacks.
Published in the Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998
2012
FAST '12
Venti: A New Approach to Archival Storage
Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002
