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USENIX Test of Time Awards
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
USENIX Security '24
Privacy in Pharmacogenetics: An End-to-End Case Study of Personalized Warfarin Dosing
Published in the Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2014
NSDI '24
Header Space Analysis: Static Checking For Networks
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
Published in the Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February 2012
2023
FAST '23
A Study of Practical Deduplication
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
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
Published in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2003
2022
FAST '22
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
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
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
Published in the 1988 Winter USENIX Technical Conference Proceedings, February 1988
Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time
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
Published in the Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
2021
FAST '21
A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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)
Published in the Proceedings of the Sixth USENIX Security Symposium, July 1996
2018
FAST '18
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
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
Published in the Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2006
2017
FAST '17
SnapMirror: File-System-Based Asynchronous Mirroring for Disaster Recovery
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
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
Published in the Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2001
2016
FAST '16
Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction
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
Published in the Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2006
USENIX Security '16
Preventing Privilege Escalation
Published in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2003
2015
FAST '15
Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002
NSDI '15
Live Migration of Virtual Machines
Published in the Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005
Design and Implementation of a Routing Control Platform
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
Published in the Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Security Symposium, August 1999
2014
FAST '14
ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, March 2003
NSDI '14
Operating System Support for Planetary-Scale Network Services
Published in the Proceedings of the First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2004
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
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
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
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
Published in the Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 2002