Publications

2021

• Argus: Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications with Annotated Causal Tracing   [Best Paper Award]
  Lingmei Weng, Peng Huang, Jason Nieh, Junfeng Yang
  ATC 2021 BibTeX Slides Software
• Understanding and Dealing with Hard Faults in Persistent Memory Systems
  Brian Choi, Randal Burns, Peng Huang
  EuroSys 2021 BibTeX Slides Software TechReport

2020

• Automated Reasoning and Detection of Specious Configuration in Large Systems with Symbolic Execution
  Yigong Hu, Gongqi Huang, Peng Huang
  OSDI 2020 BibTeX Slides Software TechReport
• Predictive and Adaptive Failure Mitigation to Avert Production Cloud VM Interruptions
  Sebastien Levy, Randolph Yao, Youjiang Wu, Yingnong Dang, Peng Huang, Zheng Mu, Pu Zhao, Tarun Ramani, Naga Govindaraju, Xukun Li, Qingwei Lin, Gil Lapid Shafriri, Murali Chintalapati
  OSDI 2020 BibTeX TechReport
• Understanding, Detecting and Localizing Partial Failures in Large System Software   [Best Paper Award]
  Chang Lou, Peng Huang, Scott Smith
  NSDI 2020 BibTeX Slides
  
  Press: The Morning Paper
• Gandalf: An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure
  Ze Li, Qian Cheng, Ken Hsieh, Yingnong Dang, Peng Huang, Pankaj Singh, Xinsheng Yang, Qingwei Lin, Youjiang Wu, Sebastien Levy, Murali Chintalapati
  NSDI 2020 BibTeX
  
  Press: The Morning Paper
• Scaling Performance Issue Detection and Diagnosis in Cloud Infrastructures
  Yigong Hu, Ze Li, Peng Huang, Suhas Pinnamaneni, Francis David, Yingnong Dang, Murali Chintalapati
  AAAI-20 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence BibTeX

2019

• Comprehensive and Efficient Runtime Checking in System Software through Watchdogs
  Chang Lou, Peng Huang, Scott Smith
  HotOS 2019 BibTeX Slides
• URSA: Hybrid Block Storage for Cloud-Scale Virtual Disks
  Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, Yongqiang Xiong
  EuroSys 2019 BibTeX
• A Case for Lease-Based, Utilitarian Resource Management on Mobile Devices   [Best Paper Award]
  Yigong Hu, Suyi Liu, Peng Huang
  ASPLOS 2019 BibTeX Slides Software
  
  Press: The Morning Paper
• AIOps: Real-World Challenges and Research Innovations
  Yingnong Dang, Qingwei Lin, Peng Huang
  ICSE 2019 Technical Briefings BibTeX

2018

• Capturing and Enhancing In Situ System Observability for Failure Detection
  Peng Huang, Chuanxiong Guo, Jacob R. Lorch, Lidong Zhou, Yingnong Dang
  OSDI 2018 BibTeX Slides Software
  
  Press: The Morning Paper, CSDN
• End-to-End Automated Exploit Generation for Validating the Security of Processor Designs   [Best Paper Candidate]
  Rui Zhang, Calvin Deutschbein, Peng Huang, Cynthia Sturton
  MICRO 2018 BibTeX
• TerseCades: Efficient Data Compression in Stream Processing
  Gennady Pekhimenko, Chuanxiong Guo, Myeongjae Jeon, Peng Huang, Lidong Zhou
  USENIX ATC 2018 BibTeX

2017

• Gray Failure: The Achilles’ Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems
  Peng Huang, Chuanxiong Guo, Lidong Zhou, Jacob R. Lorch, Yingnong Dang, Murali Chintalapati, Randolph Yao
  HotOS 2017 BibTeX Slides
  
  Press: The morning paper, ZDNet, StorageMojo, Hacker News

2016

• Early Detection of Configuration Errors to Reduce Failure Damage   [Best Paper Award]
  Tianyin Xu, Xinxin Jin, Peng Huang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shan Lu, Long Jin, Shankar Pasupathy
  OSDI 2016 BibTeX
• DefDroid: Towards a More Defensive Mobile OS Against Disruptive App Behavior
  Peng Huang, Tianyin Xu, Xinxin Jin, Yuanyuan Zhou
  MobiSys 2016 BibTeX Slides Video Website
• Saving Mobile App Developers from Network Disruptions
  Xinxin Jin, Peng Huang, Tianyin Xu, Yuanyuan Zhou
  EuroSys 2016 BibTeX

2015

• ConfValley: A Systematic Configuration Validation Framework for Cloud Services
  Peng Huang, Bill Bolosky, Abhishek Singh, Yuanyuan Zhou
  EuroSys 2015 BibTeX Slides
• Experience in Building a Comparative Performance Analysis Engine for a Commercial System
  Peng Huang, Craig Schechter, Vincent Chen, Steven Hill, Dongcai Shen, Yuanyuan Zhou, Lawrence K. Saul
  UC San Diego Technical Report CS2015-1014
  BibTeX

2014

• Why Does a Cloud-Scale Service Fail Despite Fault-Tolerance?
  Peng Huang, Xinxin Jin, Bill Bolosky, Yuanyuan Zhou
  OSDI 2014 *: Retracted for confidentiality reasons
• Performance Regression Testing Target Prioritization via Performance Risk Analysis
  Peng Huang, Xiao Ma, Dongcai Shen, Yuanyuan Zhou
  ICSE 2014 BibTeX Slides Software

2013

• Do Not Blame Users for Misconfigurations
  Tianyin Xu, Jiaqi Zhang, Peng Huang, Jing Zheng, Tianwei Sheng, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy
  SOSP 2013 BibTeX
• eDoctor: Automatically Diagnosing Abnormal Battery Drain Issues on Smartphones
  Xiao Ma, Peng Huang, Xinxin Jin, Pei Wang, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey M. Voelker
  NSDI 2013 BibTeX
• Understanding Latent Interactions in Online Social Networks
  Jing Jiang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Wenpeng Sha, Peng Huang, Yafei Dai, Ben Y. Zhao
  TWEB 7(4), Oct. 2013 BibTeX

2012

• Be Conservative: Enhancing Failure Diagnosis with Proactive Logging
  Ding Yuan, Soyeon Park, Peng Huang, Yang Liu, Michael M. Lee, Xiaoming Tang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Stefan Savage
  OSDI 2012 BibTeX Dataset

2010

• Understanding Latent Interactions in Online Social Networks
  Jing Jiang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Peng Huang, Wenpeng Sha, Yafei Dai, Ben Y. Zhao
  IMC 2010 BibTeX
• A Multiple User Sharing Behaviors Based Approach for Fake File Detection in P2P Environments
  Jing Jiang, Yongjun Li, Qinyuan Feng, Peng Huang, Yafei Dai
  SCIS 53(11), Nov. 2010 BibTeX