2026 Research Program
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, 9:00–10:30am)
- CT-QLC: A Production-Ready Firmware Solution for Tail Latency QoS in Charge-Trap QLC SSDs
- GoFair: Global-Oriented Fairness Framework for Shared NVMe SSDs
- Mitigating High-Density SSD Shortage via Overhead-Aware Lifetime Optimization
Session 1.2 — File systems: isolation & fault tolerance (June 4, 11:00am–12:30pm)
- SemFT: A Lightweight Semantic Fault Tolerance Framework for Encrypted File Systems in Cloud Storage
- ConFS: A Container-aware Userspace File System with Enhanced Isolation
- HZFS: Breaking the Dilemma of High Performance and Order-Preservation for ZNS-based Flash Storage
Session 1.3 — Data compression & deduplication (June 4, 2:00–3:30pm)
- When Compression Hurts: Storage-Level Pitfalls in Time-Series Database Engines
- hrzip: Efficient Lossless Compression for High-Resolution Astronomical Data
- FAD: A Fragmentation-Aware Data Layout Strategy for Deduplication-based SSDs
Session 2.1 — Emerging / non-traditional storage frontiers (June 5, 9:00–10:30am)
- APEX: Access Pattern Driven Far-memory Prefetching via Hardware-assisted Profiling
- D-CPCE: Collision-free DNA Payload Encoding with Uncompromised Logical Capacity
- Scout-and-Reduce: Budget-Aware Storage-Side Reduction for Memory-Safe GPU Analytics
Session 2.2 — Key-value stores (June 5, 11:00am–noon)
- ThermoKV: Decoupling Block-Body Read-Path Depth from Compaction History in Ethereum
- PulseDB: Fine-Grained DPU-Assisted Compaction Offloading for LSM-Based Key-Value Stores
Session 2.3 — Erasure coding & repair (June 5, 1:30–2:30pm)