FIFO queues are all you need for cache eviction

J Yang, Y Zhang, Z Qiu, Y Yue, R Vinayak - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As a cache eviction algorithm, FIFO has a lot of attractive properties, such as simplicity,
speed, scalability, and flash-friendliness. The most prominent criticism of FIFO is its low …

{SIEVE} is Simpler than {LRU}: an Efficient {Turn-Key} Eviction Algorithm for Web Caches

Y Zhang, J Yang, Y Yue, Y Vigfusson… - 21st USENIX Symposium …, 2024 - usenix.org
Caching is an indispensable technique for low-cost and fast data serving. The eviction
algorithm, at the heart of a cache, has been primarily designed to maximize efficiency …

A survey on the state-of-the-art CDN architectures and future directions

W Ali, C Fang, A Khan - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract A Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of a distributed infrastructure of proxy
servers designed to deliver digital content to end users effectively. CDNs have gained …

Seer: Enabling {Future-Aware} Online Caching in Networked Systems

J Lei, V Shrivastav - 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems …, 2024 - usenix.org
State-intensive network and distributed applications rely heavily on online caching heuristics
for high performance. However, there remains a fundamental performance gap between …

Revisiting Cache Freshness for Emerging Real-Time Applications

Z Mao, R Iyer, S Shenker, I Stoica - … of the 23rd ACM Workshop on Hot …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Caching is widely used in industry to improve application performance by reducing data-
access latency and taking the load off the backend infrastructure. TTLs have become the de …

Frozenhot cache: Rethinking cache management for modern hardware

Z Qiu, J Yang, J Zhang, C Li, X Ma, Q Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Caching is crucial for accelerating data access, employed as a ubiquitous design in modern
systems at many parts of computer systems. With increasing core count, and shrinking …

Reducing Cross-Cloud/Region Costs with the Auto-Configuring MACARON Cache

H Park, Z Qiu, GR Ganger, G Amvrosiadis - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
An increasing demand for cross-cloud and cross-region data access is bringing forth
challenges related to high data transfer costs and latency. In response, we introduce …

Beyond Belady to Attain a Seemingly Unattainable Byte Miss Ratio for Content Delivery Networks

P Wang, H Jiang, Y Liu, Z Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reducing the byte miss ratio (BMR) in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches can help
providers save on the cost of paying for traffic. When evicting objects or files of different sizes …

Using a random forest to predict quantized reuse distance in an SSD write buffer

H Cha, IK Kim, T Kim - Computing, 2024 - Springer
Efficient management of the write buffer in solid-state drives (SSDs) can be achieved by
predicting future I/O request patterns using machine learning techniques. However, the …

Optimizing File Systems on Heterogeneous Memory by Integrating {DRAM} Cache with Virtual Memory Management

Y Liu, Y Ren, M Liu, H Li, H Guo, X Miao, X Hu… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2024 - usenix.org
This paper revisits the usage of DRAM cache in DRAM-PM heterogeneous memory file
systems. With a comprehensive analysis of existing file systems with cache-based and DAX …