Don't be a blockhead: zoned namespaces make work on conventional SSDs obsolete

T Stavrinos, DS Berger, E Katz-Bassett… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Research on flash devices almost exclusively focuses on conventional SSDs, which expose
a block interface. Industry, however, has standardized and is adopting Zoned Namespaces …

How iot re-using threatens your sensitive data: Exploring the user-data disposal in used iot devices

P Liu, S Ji, L Fu, K Lu, X Zhang, J Qin… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid technology evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) and increasing user needs,
IoT device re-using becomes more and more common nowadays. For instance, more than …

[PDF][PDF] A light-weight compaction tree to reduce I/O amplification toward efficient key-value stores

T Yao, J Wan, P Huang, X He, Q Gui… - Proc. 33rd Int. Conf …, 2017 - msstconference.org
Log-Structure merge tree (LSM-tree) has been one of the mainstream indexes in key-value
systems supporting a variety of write-intensive Internet applications in today's data centers …

Efficient SSD caching by avoiding unnecessary writes using machine learning

H Wang, X Yi, P Huang, B Cheng, K Zhou - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
SSD has been playing a significantly important role in caching systems due to its high
performance-to-cost ratio. Since cache space is much smaller than that of the backend …

Building efficient key-value stores via a lightweight compaction tree

T Yao, J Wan, P Huang, X He, F Wu, C Xie - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Log-Structure Merge tree (LSM-tree) has been one of the mainstream indexes in key-value
systems supporting a variety of write-intensive Internet applications in today's data centers …

[PDF][PDF] Laldpc: Latency-aware ldpc for read performance improvement of solid state drives

Y Du, D Zou, Q Li, L Shi, H Jin, CJ Xue - Proc. MSST, 2017 - msstconference.org
High-density Solid State Drives (SSDs) have to use Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC)
codes to store data reliably. Current LDPC implementations apply multiple read-retry steps …

Demystifying cache policies for photo stores at scale: A tencent case study

K Zhou, S Sun, H Wang, P Huang, X He, R Lan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Photo service providers are facing critical challenges of dealing with the huge amount of
photo storage, typically in a magnitude of billions of photos, while ensuring national-wide or …

Efficient SSD cache for cloud block storage via leveraging block reuse distances

K Zhou, Y Zhang, P Huang, H Wang, Y Ji… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are popularly used for caching in large scale cloud storage
systems nowadays. Traditionally, most cache algorithms make replacement upon each miss …

Extremely-Compressed SSDs with I/O Behavior Prediction

X Yao, Q Li, K Lin, X Gan, J Zhang, C Gao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As the data volume continues to grow exponentially, there is an increasing demand for large
storage system capacity. Data compression techniques effectively reduce the volume of …

Improving cache performance for large-scale photo stores via heuristic prefetching scheme

K Zhou, S Sun, H Wang, P Huang, X He… - … on Parallel and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photo service providers are facing critical challenges of dealing with the huge amount of
photo storage, typically in a magnitude of billions of photos, while ensuring national-wide or …