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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 06/04/2026

Good news everyone… NINeS will return in 2027. We will announce more details shortly, but papers will be due on August 6, 2026 (AoE). Please send us papers describing your exciting new ideas in networking and systems!

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 23/01/2026

You can now read the papers that were accepted at NINeS. Find them at nines-conference.org/accepted.

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

High-performance userspace networking rarely works for cloud VMs due to specialized NIC dependencies and rigid designs. In “Enabling Fast Networking in the Public Cloud” (ACM ASPLOS 2026), we introduce Machnet, evaluated on Azure, EC2, and Google Cloud. Have a go: github.com/microsoft/ma...

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GitHub - microsoft/machnet: Machnet provides applications like databases and finance an easy way to access low-latency DPDK-based messaging on public cloud VMs. 750K RPS on Azure at 61 us P99.9.

Machnet provides applications like databases and finance an easy way to access low-latency DPDK-based messaging on public cloud VMs. 750K RPS on Azure at 61 us P99.9. - microsoft/machnet

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 02/01/2026

Contribute a recorded talk to NINeS! We are soliciting per-recorded videos that are up to 15-minutes long. Find details about topics at nines-conference.org/cft. We are excited to see what you come up with!

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NINeS 2026: Call for Talks

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"Mako: Readily Deployable Congestion Control Achieving O(1)-step Convergence" got accepted at USENIX NSDI'26! We show that delay and delay gradient can rival INT, enabling to reach the target speed in constant time, independent of network conditions, without requiring specialized network features.

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Defending against Traffic Analysis Attacks with Flexible In-Network Obfuscation" got accepted at USENIX NSDI'26! In the paper we show that by using a combination of packets' fragmentation and generation of small TTL packets is possible to protect traffic against ML based classification techniques.

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 23/09/2025

There are only 8 days to October, and the NINeS deadline! Submit your finest ideas.

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apanda @apanda.me · 16/09/2025

Interesting (and scary) to see a blog post (thenewstack.io/research-ebpf-not-al…) about a new paper (led by @fshahinfar1.bsky.social, along with @gianniantichi.bsky.social and Sebastiano) explainging that the new shiny technology is not a panacea.

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 02/09/2025

We are getting closer to the NINeS deadline (October 1). Watch Scott talk about why you should submit your work to NINeS!

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Have you wondered about challenges in designing and running a datacenter that count up to 512K GPUs? "Astral: A Datacenter Infrastructure for Large Language Model Training at Scale" will be presented at ACM SIGCOMM! Work in collaboration with Nanjing University, Harvard University and Tencent!

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 16/07/2025

This week, we hear @natefoster.bsky.social's response to Why Nines? A cat is involved in producing the video, but like many good producers does not appear in the video.

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Here is a good reason to submit your paper to CoNEXT 2026: I will be the PC chair :)

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 08/07/2025

Next up @apanda talks about Why Nines? No cats this time because they were all busy working on their NINeS papers.

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 02/07/2025

Watch @gianniantichi.bsky.social (and Ludo) answer the question Why NINeS?

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apanda @apanda.me · 30/06/2025

📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org #NINeS

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NINeS 2026

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Ben Pfaff @benpfaff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Here's the #nsdi25 Time of Time Award certificate!

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

GigaFlow featured in University of Michigan news! Streamlining cloud traffic with a Gigaflow Cache: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/stre... (full paper available in ACM ASPLOS proceedings)

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Streamlining cloud traffic with a Gigaflow Cache

Gigaflow improves virtual switches for programmable SmartNICs, delivering a 51% higher hit rate and 90% lower misses.

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control won the best student paper award at ACM EuroSys 2025! We propose a solution that extend existing congestion control algorithms for virtual priority transmission! This wasn't possible without the star student Zhaochen and all the co-authors!

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Paul Chaignon @pchaigno.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢 Call for Papers 📢 The CFP for the 2025 eBPF workshop is out! 📅 Deadline: May 8th 🔗 More info: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... Don't miss the chance to share your work with the eBPF 🐝community!

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📢Call for Papers 📢 The CFP for the 2025 eBPF workshop is out! 📅 Deadline: May 8th 🔗 More info: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... Don't miss the chance to share your work with the eBPF 🐝community!

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ACM SIGCOMM 2025

ACM SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). ACM SIGCOMM 2025, the 39th edition of the conference series, will be held in Coimbra, P...

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The eBPF workshop will run this year associated to ACM SIGCOMM again! We (Sebastiano Miano, Srinivas Narayana, @aurojit.bsky.social, @pchaigno.bsky.social, Eugenio Moro, myself and TPC members) are looking forward to read your exciting papers! More info soon!

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Recently, I have been busy exploring eBPF Arena — a new API that enables eBPF programs to allocate memory pages; similar functionality as mmap and munmap . I've written a blog post about it that I like to share with you: fshahinfar1.github.io/blog/04_ebpf...

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eBPF Arena: A Tutorial

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Paul Chaignon @pchaigno.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The report from this summer's Dagstuhl seminar on Programmable Host Networking has been published: doi.org/10.4230/DagR...! #ebpf #DPDK #DPU

A picture of the Dagstuhl castle, titled "Schloss Dagstuhl - Where Computer Scientists Meet".

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apanda @apanda.me · 16/12/2024

Less than a month to the HotOS 2025 deadline (January 15). Submit your “hottest” systems ideas (by which I of course mean most interesting and fun ideas), and come hangout in Banff for two days in May. More details in the CFP at sigops.org/s/conference....

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HotOS XX: The 20th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

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Mo𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 Malekzadeh @mo-malekzadeh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

To PhD & MSc students Research Internship — Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK! Three topics for summer 2025: (1) Wearable Intelligence for MedTech (2) Sensory Wearables for MedTech (3) Wearable Systems for MedTech Apply: 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/fahimk...

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Fahim Kawsar on LinkedIn: #wearables #medtech #healthtech #edgeai #mobilesystems #iot

The moment has arrived once again—a call to future rockstars! If you’re someone who loves to imagine, tinker, build, and even break things in the name of…

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