Program at a Glance - SIGMETRICS 2026

7:30 am	REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:30am
8:00 am
8:30 am	Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:30am-9:00am
9:00 am	Causal Survival AnalysisPendleton90 min9:00am-10:30am	Efficient Large Language Model Inference2210 A90 min9:00am-10:30am

9:30 am

10:00 am

10:30 am	Coffee break: Idea Hub -- 30 min10:30am-11:00am
11:00 am	Causal Survival AnalysisPendleton90 min11:00am-12:30pm	Efficient Large Language Model Inference2210 A90 min11:00am-12:30pm

11:30 am

12:00 pm

12:30 pm	LunchRogel Ballroom1 hr12:30pm-1:30pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm	Controlled Generation for Large Foundation Models1.5 hrs1:30-3pm	Structure Exploiting Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Systems1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

3:00 pm	Break 30 min3:00 - 3:30pm
3:30 pm	Mentoring WorkshopPendleton2 hours3:30pm-5:30pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm	TPC dinnerRogel Ballroom5:30pm-7:30pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm

Talk Sessions

Session Details

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June 9, 2026

Tuesday

Session 1A: Online learning

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

Learning to Allocate Reusable Resources under Stochastic Rewards and Durations
Ativ Joshi, Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)
Offline Local Search for Online Stochastic Bandits
Gerdus Benade (Boston University); Rathish Das (University of Houston); Thomas Lavastida (University of Texas at Dallas)
Heterogeneous Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandit on Stochastic Block Models
Mengfan Xu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Liren Shan (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago); Fatemeh Ghaffari, Xuchuang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Xutong Liu (Carnegie Mellon University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
A Unified Framework for Online Combinatorial Allocation of Reusable Resources under Endogenous Deterioration
Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)

Session 1B: Blockchain 1

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
Sen Yang (Yale University, IC3); Burak Öz (Flashbots); Fei Wu (King's College London); Fan Zhang (Yale University, IC3)
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster’s Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University); Saidu Sokoto (City St George’s, University of London); Leonhard Balduf (TU Darmstadt); Michał Król (City St George’s, University of London); Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance
Burak Öz (Technical University of Munich); Christof Ferreira Torres (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon); Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots); Jonas Gebele, Filip Rezabek, Florian Matthes (Technical University of Munich)
Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks); Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich); Dennis Trautwein (University of Göttingen); Oliver Gasser (IPinfo)

Session 1C: LLM benchmarking and caching

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

Benchmarking and Characterization of Large Language Model Inference on Apple Silicon
Afsara Benazir, Felix Xiaozhu Lin (University of Virginia)
WISP: Waste- and Interference-Suppressed Distributed Speculative LLM Serving at the Edge via Dynamic Drafting and SLO-Aware Batching
Xiangchen Li, Jiakun Fan (Virginia Tech); Qingyuan Wang (University College Dublin); Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens); Saeid Ghafouri (Queen’s University Belfast); Hans Vandierendonck (Queens University Belfast); Deepu John (University College Dublin); Bo Ji, Ali R. Butt, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech)
UniCache: Unifying Prefix Cache Eviction for Heterogeneous LLM Serving Workloads
Bei Ouyang (Rice University); Yifan Qiao (UC Berkeley); Jiarong Xing (Rice University)
Mapping the Landscape of LLM Deployment in the Wild: Prevalence, Patterns, and Perils
Xinyi Hou, Jiahao Han, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

Session 2A: Distributed learning

Pendleton · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

SemanticDFL: Similarity-Aware Pull-based Personalized Decentralized Federated Learning
Javad Dogani (IMDEA Networks Institute); Mostafa Khastkhodaei, Farshad Khunjush (Shiraz University); Nikolaos Laoutaris (IMDEA Networks Institute)
Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networking
Mohammad Zangooei (University of Waterloo); Jannis Weil, Amr Rizk (Leibniz University Hannover); Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)

Session 2B: Caching

2210ABC · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK cache replacement algorithm
Yirong Wang, Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University); Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp)
EviDex: Provenance-Weighted Evidence-Path Indexing for Fresh and Auditable Retrieval under Continuous Updates
Rui Li, Shuang Cao, Ruihua Liu, Alexandre Duprey (Hill Research)

Session 2C: Networking 1 : congestion control

Pond (1st flr) · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

Can Multipath TCP Congestion Control do better without adhering to its First Design Principle?
Xuan Wang (The University of Texas at Arlington); Hao Che (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington); Zhijun Wang (University of Texas at Arlington); Hong Jiang (UT Arlington)
PEMI: Transparent Performance Enhancements for QUIC
Jie Zhang (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Ziyi Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Chenxiang Sun (Tsinghua University); Yuming Hu (University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities); Xiaohui Xie, Zeqi Lai, Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)

June 10, 2026

Wednesday

Session 3A: Queueing and Scheduling

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Higher-Order Approximations of Sojourn Times in M/G/1 Queues via Stein’s Method
Bihan Chatterjee, Siva Theja Maguluri, Debankur Mukherjee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Empirical Gittins for data-driven M/G/1 scheduling with arbitrary job size distributions
Shefali Ramakrishna, Amit Harlev, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
A Tale of Two Traffics: Optimizing Tail Latency in the Light-Tailed M/G/k
George Yu, Amit Harlev, Reevu Adakroy, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
Outperforming Multiserver SRPT at All Loads
Izzy Grosof, Daniela Hurtado Lange (Northwestern University)

Session 3B: Storage & memory

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Optimizing Storage Overhead of User Behavior Log for ML-embedded Mobile Apps
Chen Gong, Yan Zhuang, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yiliu Chen, Sheng Wang (ByteDance); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Experimental Study on System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs
Yonggon Park, Hyunuk Cho (POSTECH); Onur Mutlu (ETH Zurich); Sungjin Lee (POSTECH); Jisung Park (POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology))
cPMEM: A Design of Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory with Compute Express Link for Data Center Applications
Gaocong Liu, Mengting Lu, Kun Wang, Feng Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Shu Li (Alibaba Group)
CAPSULE: A Storage Prefetcher Harnessing Spatio-Temporal Locality for Cloud-Scale Workloads
Agung Rahmat Ramadhan, Seehwan Yoo, Jongmoo Choi (Dankook University)

Session 3C: Learning-augmented and sequential learning

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Sequential Fair Allocation With Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes An Exponentially Long WayBest Paper Award Finalist
Chido Onyeze (Cornell University); Sean R. Sinclair (Northwestern University); Chamsi Hssaine (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business); Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)
Prediction-Specific Design of Learning-Augmented Algorithms
Sizhe Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Tongxin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Online Smoothed Demand Management
Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Green Bin Packing
Jackson Bibbens, Cooper Sigrist (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bo Sun (University of Ottawa); Shahin Kamali (York University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Session 3D: Substainability

Location TBD · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Characterizing Performance–Energy Trade-offs of Large Language Models in Multi-Request WorkflowsVirtual talk
Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath, Israat Haque (Dalhousie University)
Cache Your Prompt When It’s Green — Carbon-aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving
Yuyang Tian, Desen Sun (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo)
From Measurement to Emissions: Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Traffic FlowsBest Paper Award Finalist
Sawsan El-Zahr, Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford)
HealthServe: A Public Health-Aware Inference Framework
Sicheng Zhou, Rohan Basu Roy (University of Utah)

Session 4A: Game theory

Pendleton · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

Learning with Episodic Hypothesis Testing in General Games: A Framework for Equilibrium Selection
Ruifan Yang (Cornell University); Manxi Wu (University of California Berkeley)
Information Design for Prosocial Behavior
Alexandre Reiffers (IMT Atlantique); Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science)
The Price of Strategic Information: Degree-Based Bounds on Inefficiency in Distributed Learning Games
Tuan Ngoc Do, Hai Duc Nguyen, Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Hiep Quang Dao, Anh Duc-Duy Nguyen, Luong Cong Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Nash Equilibria in Uniform Price Auctions: Theory, Computation, and Market Insights
Yifan Feng (National University of Singapore); Negin Golrezaei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Qinzhen Li (National University of Singapore)
Guiding the Recommender: Information-Aware Auto-Bidding for Content Promotion
Yumou Liu, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jiang Rong, Yao Hu (Xiaohongshu); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Session 4B: HPC & GPU computing

2210ABC · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

Minos: Systematically Classifying Performance and Power Characteristics of GPU Workloads on HPC Clusters
Rutwik Jain, Yiwei Jiang (University of Wisconsin Madison); Matthew D. Sinclair (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Shivaram Venkataraman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
LPGSim: A Lightweight Parallel GPU Simulator Maximizing Speed with Trustworthy Simulation
Hyunwoo Nam, Jay Hwan Lee, Yeonsoo Kim, Mengzhao Zhang (Yonsei University); Jeonggeun Kim (Kyungpook National University); Bernd Burgstaller (Yonsei University)
Towards Scalable Storage Architectures for GPU Clusters Running Large Language Models
Ali Sedaghatgoo (Sharif University of Technology); Reza Salkhordeh (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz); André Brinkmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz); Hossein Asadi (Sharif University of Technology)
cuPTW: Leveraging Idle Compute Units for Massively Parallel GPU Page Table Walks
Zihang Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Tianao Ge (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University); Hongyuan Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology); Jiayi Huang (HKUST(GZ))
RELL-STC: An Efficient SpMM Extension of Sparse Tensor Core with Re-structured ELLPACK and Gustavson Dataflow
Jianfeng Cui (National University of Defense Technology); Bo Yuan (College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology); Zekun Jiang (National University of Defense Technology); Sheng Liu (National University of Defense Technology,China); Kai Lu (National University of Defense Techonology)

Session 4C: Networking 2

Pond (1st flr) · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

MATER: Mutually Aware Framework for Teleoperated-robot with Extended Reality
Ziliang Zhang, Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside); Hyoseung Kim (UC Riverside)
Assessing Resilience in Authoritative DNS Infrastructure Supporting Government Services
Agung Septiadi, Minzhao Lyu, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales)
CAP: Detecting Network Device Misconfigurations with Context-Aware Prompting of LLMs
Xi Jiang (University of Chicago); Aaron Gember-Jacobson (Colgate University); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
Janus: A Dual-Mask Attention Transformer for Log-based Anomaly Detection in Cellular Networks
Umakant Kulkarni (Purdue University/Dept. of Computer Science); Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University)
Dynamic SLA-aware Network Slice Monitoring
Niloy Saha, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo); Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)

June 11, 2026

Thursday

Session 5A: Queueing

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Stochastic Network Utility Maximization in Strategic Queueing Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Quang Minh Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Randall Berry (Northwestern University); Eytan Modiano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Multiserver-Job Stochastic Recurrence Equation for Cloud Computing Performance Evaluation
François Baccelli (INRIA); Diletta Olliaro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute); Marin Andrea (University Ca' Foscari of Venice)
Efficiency-Reward Trade-Off in Queues with Dynamic Arrivals
Tianze Qu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Sushil Mahavir Varma (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Robustness of the 2-Choices Dynamics to Node Failures
Luke Meredith, Arpan Mukhopadhyay (University of Warwick)

Session 5B: Quantum systems 1

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

ScaleQsim: Highly Scalable Quantum Circuit Simulation Framework for Exascale HPC Systems
Changjong Kim, Ehan Sohn, Seunghwan Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology); Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Houjun Tang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Yongseok Son (Chung-Ang University); Sunggon Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
Yuqian Huo, Daniel Leeds, Jason Z. Ludmir, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel (Rice University)
ObliQ: Solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problems on Real Photonic Quantum Machines
Aditya Ranjan, Daniel Silver (Northeastern University); Tirthak Patel (Rice University); Bhargav Chickmagalurnanjun, Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University)
A Fine-Grained and Efficient Reliability Analysis Framework for Noisy Quantum Circuits
Jindi Wu (DePaul University); Tianjie Hu, Qun Li (William & Mary)

Session 5C: Networking 3: satellite

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

Horizon: Understanding and Predicting Global Starlink Performance
Cristian Benghe, Vlad Graure, Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan (TU Delft)
Exploring the 5G Digital Divide in the Non-Contiguous US: LEO Satellites to the Rescue?
Sizhe Wang, Moinak Ghoshal, Yufei Feng, Imran Khan, Phuc Dinh (Northeastern University); Omar Basit (Purdue University); Zhekun Yu (Northeastern University); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University)
A Comprehensive Study of Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms over 1.5 Years (May 2024 – Oct 2025)
Saeed Fadaei (University of Surrey); Aravindh Raman (Cisco ThousandEyes); Prince Bhardwaj Pawankumar Sharma (University of Surrey); Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey, UK)
A Variegated Look at Direct-to-Cell Satellites in the Wild
Wei Liu, Jingyi Lan, Yuanjie Li, Bowen Sun, Yekai Dong, Yufeng Wang, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)

Session 5D: Measurement