The accepted papers for the 2026 Research Track of MSST are listed below, alongside their tentative session times. Each talk has 30 minutes (including Q&A), and all times are local to Santa Clara, CA.

Session 1.1 — SSD performance, QoS & endurance (June 4, 9am-10:30am)

• “CT-QLC: A Production-Ready Firmware Solution for Tail Latency QoS in Charge-Trap QLC SSDs” by Yu Chen, Maojun Yuan, Huguang Chen, Jianxiong Zhao, Jie Yang, Zhiyuan Leng, Zhigang Liu, Caiqiang Chen, Xiaobing Wang, Feng Zhu and Shu Li
• “GoFair: Global-Oriented Fairness Framework for Shared NVMe SSDs” by Jiakun Li, Yulai Xie, Dan Feng and Heyu Zhang
• “Mitigating High-Density SSD Shortage via Overhead-Aware Lifetime Optimization” by Darong Yang, Yanqi Pan, Hao Huang, Wen Xia, Cai Deng and Haijun Zhang 

Session 1.2 — File systems: isolation & fault tolerance (June 4, 11am-12:30pm)

• “SemFT: A Lightweight Semantic Fault Tolerance Framework for Encrypted File Systems in Cloud Storage” by Hui An, Chunhua Xiao, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiaxuan Long, Yajie Li and Lin Wu
• “ConFS: A Container-aware Userspace File System with Enhanced Isolation” by Zirui Wang, Ying Wang and Dejun Jiang

• “HZFS: Breaking the Dilemma of High Performance and Order-Preservation for ZNS-based Flash Storage” by Zili Ye, Nan Zhang, Yanqi Pan and Wen Xia 

Session 1.3 — Data compression & deduplication (June 4, 2pm-3:30pm)

• “When Compression Hurts: Storage-Level Pitfalls in Time-Series Database Engines” by Fuming Fu
•  “hrzip: Efficient Lossless Compression for High-Resolution Astronomical Data” by Jian Lin, Kai Wu, Heshan Wang, Suzhen Wu, Yujun Su, Kai Zhang and Bo Mao
• “FAD: A Fragmentation-Aware Data Layout Strategy for Deduplication-based SSDs” by Haodong Lin, Wenyan You, Zhehua Zhang, Suzhen Wu, Weichun Wang, Wei Wang, Yinhui Yu and Bo Mao

Session 2.1 — Emerging / non-traditional storage frontiers (June 5, 9am-10:30am)

•  “APEX: Access Pattern Driven Far-memory Prefetching via Hardware-assisted Profiling” by Jinjiang Wang, Xiao Zhang, Wendi Cheng, Shujie Han, Xiaoling Shu and Xuqi Luo
• “D-CPCE: Collision-free DNA Payload Encoding with Uncompromised Logical Capacity” by Xingyu Wang, Yunfei Gu, Chentao Wu, Jiabin Wang, Fei Wang, Jie Li, Guangtao Xue, Minyi Guo, Xuefei Chen, Ziwei Zhao, Zhijie Huang and Chunhai Fan
• “Scout-and-Reduce: Budget-Aware Storage-Side Reduction for Memory-Safe GPU Analytics” by Soon Hwang, Jungki Noh, Woosuk Chung and Youngjae Kim

Session 2.2 — Key-value stores (June 5, 11am-noon)

• “ThermoKV Decoupling Block-Body Read-Path Depth from Compaction History in Ethereum” by Nannan Zhao, Hao Wang, Jiameng Zhang, Zhonghua Wang, Houtang Wang, Fan Yang, Shruti Dongare, Shujie Han, Zhijie Huang, Xiao Zhang and Xiaonan Zhao
• “PulseDB: Fine-Grained DPU-Assisted Compaction Offloading for LSM-Based Key-Value Stores” by Lihan Ou, Yifei Chen, Yikun Wu, Yu Zhang, Yinchao Ji, Bo Mao and Suzhen Wu

Session 2.3 — Erasure coding & repair (June 5, 1:30pm-2:30pm)

• “LightMSR: A Lightweight Wide-Stripe MSR Code with Matrix-Based Design for Efficient Repair” by Qinhong Ma, Jingwen Guo, Yifei Chen, Suzhen Wu, Wei Wang, Zhanhong Lu, Weichun Wang and Bo Mao
• “Manifest-Driven Repair Contracts for LRC in Content-Addressed Storage” by Yiwei Gan, Zhijie Huang, Xiao Zhang, Shujie Han, Chentao Wu, Nannan Zhao and Yuantao Wen