Ming Liu

Understanding and Profiling NVMe-over-TCP Using ntprof.
Yuyuan Kang, and Ming Liu.
The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025 (PDF)

Building an Elastic Block Storage over EBOFs Using Shadow Views.
Sheng Jiang, and Ming Liu.
The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025 (PDF)

Building Massive MIMO Baseband Processing on a Single-Node Supercomputer.
Xincheng Xie, Wentao Hou, Zerui Guo, and Ming Liu.
The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025 (PDF)

White-Boxing RDMA with Packet-Granular Software Control.
Chenxingyu Zhao, Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2025 (PDF)

RpcNIC: Enabling Efficient Datacenter RPC Offloading on PCIe-attached SmartNICs.
Jie Zhang, Hongjing Huang, Xuzheng Chen, Xiang Li, Jieru Zhao, Ming Liu, and Zeke Wang.
The 31st IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025 (PDF)

Demystifying Datapath Accelerator Enhanced Off-path SmartNIC.
Xuzheng Chen, Jie Zhang, Ting Fu, Yifan Shen, Shu Ma, Kun Qian, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yin Zhang, Ming Liu, and Zeke Wang.
The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2024 (PDF)

Rethink Energy-Efficient Storage Stack for Exascale Computing in the Hardware-Accelerated I/O Era.
Ming Liu.
DOE Energy-Efficient Computing for Science Workshop (EECS), 2024 (PDF)

eZNS: Elastic Zoned Namespace for Enhanced Performance Isolation and Device Utilization.
Jaehong Min, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2024 (PDF)

Understanding Routable PCIe Performance for Composable Infrastructures.
Wentao Hou, Jie Zhang, Zeke Wang, and Ming Liu.
The 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2024 (PDF)

LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs.
Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, and Ming Liu.
The 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2023 (PDF)

LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs.
Zerui Guo, Hua Zhang, Chenxingyu Zhao, Yuebin Bai, Michael Swift, and Ming Liu.
ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2023 (PDF)

Fabric-Centric Computing.
Ming Liu.
The 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), 2023 (PDF)

eZNS: An Elastic Zoned Namespace for Commodity ZNS SSDs
Jaehong Min, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2023. (PDF)

A Generic Service to Provide In-network Aggregation for Key-value Streams
Yongchao He, Wenfei Wu, Yanfang Le, Ming Liu, and ChonLam Lao.
The 28th ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023. (PDF) ASPLOS Distinguished Paper Award.

Xenic: SmartNIC-Accelerated Distributed Transactions.
Henry N. Schuh, Weihao Liang, Ming Liu, Jacob Nelson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
The 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2021 (PDF)

Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions.
Yiming Qiu, Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Srinivas Narayana, and Ang Chen.
The 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2021 (PDF)

Gimbal: Enabling Multi-tenant Storage Disaggregation on SmartNIC JBOFs.
Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, Tapan Chugh, Chenxingyu Zhao, Andrew Wei, In Hwan Doh, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2021 (PDF)

Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading.
Yiming Qiu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, and Ang Chen.
The 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2020 (PDF)

Fine-Grained Replicated State Machines for a Cluster Storage System.
Ming Liu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Rishi Bhardwaj, Karan Gupta, Chinmay Kamat, Huapeng Yuan, Aditya Jaltade, Roger Liao, Pavan Konka, and Anoop Jawahar.
The 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2020 (PDF)

Programmable Calendar Queues for Packet Scheduling.
Naveen Kr. Sharma, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, Pravein Govindan, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Anirudh Sivaraman.
The 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2020 (PDF)

Offloading Distributed Applications onto SmartNICs using iPipe.
Ming Liu, Tianyi Cui, Henry Schuh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Simon Peter, and Karan Gupta.
ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2019 (PDF)

E3: Energy-Efficienct Microservices on SmartNIC-Accelerated Servers.
Ming Liu, Simon Peter, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana.
The 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2019 (PDF)

Floem: A Programming System for NIC-Accelerated Network Applications.
Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Ming Liu, Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter, Rastislav Bodik, and Thomas Anderson.
The 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2018. (PDF)

Approximating Fair Queueing on Reconfigurable Switches
Naveen Kr. Sharma, Ming Liu, Kishore Atreya, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
The 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2018 (PDF)

Motivating In-Network Aggregation for Distributed Deep Neural Network Training
Liang Luo, Ming Liu, Jacob Nelson, Luis Ceze, Amar Phanishayee, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the Stack (ACAS), 2017 (PDF)

IncBricks: Toward In-Network Computation with an In-Network Cache
Ming Liu, Liang Luo, Jacob Nelson, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Kishore Atreya.
The 22nd ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2017. (PDF) IEEE Micro Top Picks (Honorable Mention) in 2018.