Ming Liu

Understanding Routable PCIe Performance for Composable Infrastructures.
Wentao Hou, Jie Zhang, Zeke Wang, and Ming Liu.
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.
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.
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.
Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023. (PDF) ASPLOS Distinguished Paper Award.

Dremel: Adaptive Configuration Tuning of RocksDB KV-Store
Chenxingyu Zhao, Tapan Chugh, Jaehong Min, Ming Liu, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
ACM SIGMETRICS/International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2022 (PDF)

Xenic: SmartNIC-Accelerated Distributed Transactions.
Henry N. Schuh, Weihao Liang, Ming Liu, Jacob Nelson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2018 (PDF)

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