Data deduplication, KV stores, SSD-based storage systems, File systems, Computer architecture.
[Granted US Patent] Lin, Xing, and Fan Ni. "Methods for optimized variable-size deduplication using two stage content-defined chunking and devices thereof." U.S. Patent No. 10,866,928. 15 Dec. 2020.
[SoCC 2019] Fan Ni and Song Jiang, "RapidCDC: Leveraging Duplicate Locality to Accelerate Chunking in CDC-based Deduplication Systems", in Proceedings of 2019 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM SoCC'19), Santa Cruz, CA, November, 2019.[code]
[HPCC-2019] Fan Ni, Xingbo Wu, Weijun Li, Lei Wang, and Song Jiang, “Leveraging SSD's Flexible Address Mapping to Accelerate Data Copy Operations”, in Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; (HPCC-2019), Zhangjiajie, China, August, 2019.
[ICS 2019] Fan Ni, Song Jiang, Hong Jiang, Xingbo Wu, and Jian Huang, “SDC: A Software Defined Cache Supporting Flexible Key-value-style Data Caching”, in Proceedings of the 33th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'19), Phoenix, AZ, June, 2019.
[SYSTOR 2019] Fan Ni, Xing Lin, and Song Jiang, “SS-CDC: A Two-stage Parallel Content-Defined Chunking for Deduplicating Backup Storage", in Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR'19), Haifa, Israel, June, 2019.[code]
[EuroSys 2019] Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, and Song Jiang, "Wormhole: A Fast Ordered Index for In-memory Data Management", in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'19), Dresden, Germany, March, 2019. [Source Code]
[IFIP Performance 2018] Fan Ni, Xingbo Wu, Weijun Li, Lei Wang, and Song Jiang. "WOJ: Enabling Write-Once Full-data Journaling in SSDs by using weak-hashing-based deduplication." Performance Evaluation (IFIP Performance 2018).
[IPCCC 2018] Fan Ni, Xingbo Wu, Weijun Li, and Song Jiang. “ThinDedup: An I/O Deduplication Scheme that Minimizes Efficiency Loss due to Metadata Writes”, in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'18), Orlando, Florida, November 2018. (Best Paper Candidate)
[SoCC 2017] Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, Song Jiang. Search Lookaside Buffer: Efficient Caching for Index Data Structures [SoCC'17] ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017
[SYSTOR 2017] Chunyi Liu, Fan Ni, Xingbo Wu, Xiao Zhang, Song Jiang. Freewrite: Creating (Almost) Zero-Cost Writes to SSD in Applications [SYSTOR'17] The 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
[NAS 2017] Fan Ni, Chunyi Liu, Yang Wang, Chengzhong Xu, Xiao Zhang, Song Jiang. A Hash-based Space-efficient Page-level FTL for Large-capacity SSDs [NAS'17] 12th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS)
[APSys 2016] Xingbo Wu, Fan Ni, Li Zhang, Yandong Wang, Yufei Ren, Michel Hack, Zili Shao, Song Jiang. NVMcached: An NVM-based Key-Value Cache [APSys'16] 7th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems.