PhD students

MSc students work

BSc students work

PhD

• Krijn Doekemeijer (since 2022, co-supervised with Bala Chandrasekaran)
• Zebin Ren (since 2022)
• Matthijs Jansen (since 2020, co-supervised with Alexandru Iosup)
• Sacheendra Talluri (since 2019, 50%, co-supervised with Alexandru Iosup)

MSc students

These are the research project works (XM_405088 or XM_0129 or XM_0130) that are directly supervised by me.

2024

• [MSc, thesis] Sudarsan Sivakumar, Performance Characterization Study of NVMe Storage Over TCP, 2024, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Brynjar Ingimarsson, Exploring the Performance of the io_uring Kernel I/O Interface, 2024, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, survey] Sudarsan Sivakumar, A survey on flash storage disaggregation: performance and quality of service considerations, 2024, [PDF].

2023

• [MSc, survey] Brynjar Ingimarsson, Fairness, Isolation, Predictability and Performance Management in NVMe Devices: A Survey, 2023, [PDF].

• [MSc, thesis] Edgardo J. Reinoso Campos, Edgeless: Design and Implementation of Serverless Computing at the Edge for Performance in Precision Agriculture, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Antonios Sklavos, Exploring the Performance of Kubernetes-Deployed Containers, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Peter-Jan Gootzen (joint work at IBM Research Lab, Zurich and Yorktown labs with Jonas Pefferle and Radu Stoica), DPFS++: Cloudifying the DPU-Powered File System Virtualization Framework, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Niels de Waal, FrogFishDB - A Timeseries Database for in-order timeseries using the TimeTree data structure on flash SSDs, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, survey] Antonios Sklavos, Exploring the Performance-Isolation Trade-off for Isolation Mechanisms, 2023, with Matthijs S. Jansen, [PDF].

• [MSc, thesis] Wiebe van Breukelen, PMicroProfile: A Micro-Architecture Aware Persistent Memory Profiling Framework, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, survey] Edgardo J. Reinoso Campos, Serverless Computing at the Edge in Precise Agriculture, 2023, with Matthijs S. Jansen, [PDF].

• [MSc, thesis] Nick-Andian Tehrany (MSc thesis, TU Delft, with Alexandru Iosup), msF2FS: Design and Implementation of an NVMe ZNS SSD Optimized F2FS File System, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, research-project] Peter-Jan Gootzen, DPFS: A DPU-powered File System Virtualization Framework (joint work at IBM Research Lab, Zurich and Yorktown labs with Jonas Pefferle and Radu Stoica), [PDF], [code].

2022

• [MSc, survey] Wiebe van Breukelen, Persistent Memory File Systems: A Survey, 2022, [PDF].
• [MSc, survey] Niels de Waal, Literature Study: Timeseries Databases, 2022, [PDF].
• [MSc, research-project] Peter-Jan Gootzen, Software-defined filesystem storage using DPUs (joint work at IBM Research Lab, Zurich with Jonas Pefferle).
• [MSc, research-project] Maximilian Barger, Performance & Latency Evaluation of NVMe SSDs using SPDK and io_uring, 2022. [PDF].
• [MSc, research-project] Felix Goosens, Edge Continuum Framework on an ARM Raspberry Pi Cluster, 2022, [PDF], [code].
• [MSc, thesis] Krijn Doekemeijer, TropoDB: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Optimised KV-Store for NVMe Zoned Namespace Devices, 2022, [PDF], [code].
• [MSc, thesis] Corne Lukken, OpenCSD: Log-Structured Filesystem Enabled Computational Storage Device Platform, 2022, [PDF], [code].
• [MSc, survey] Krijn Doekemeijer, Key-Value Stores on Flash Storage Devices: A Survey, 2022, [PDF].
• [MSc, research-project] Nick-Andian Tehrany, Understanding NVMe Zoned Namespace (ZNS) Flash SSD Storage Devices, 2022, [PDF], [code].

2021

• [MSc, thesis] Berk Aydasgil, Performance Scaling and End-to-end Performance Evaluation of U-net Architecture for Biomedical Image Segmentation, 2021, [PDF], [no-code].

• [MSc, survey] Berk Aydasgil, Benchmarking Directions in Deep Learning: A Systematic Literature Review, 2021, [PDF].

• [MSc, survey] Corne Lukken, Past, Present and Future of Computational Storage: A Survey, 2021, [PDF].

• [MSc, research-project] Peter-Jan Gootzen, Bento File System and the Art of Repeated Research, 2021, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, research-project] Tom Ebergen, Emulating Edge Networks: An Evaluation of Latency and Bandwidth within Fogify, 2021, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, research-project] Corne Lukken, BPF Computational Storage Device for ZNS in QEMU, 2021, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, research-project] Niels de Waal, io_uring: A quantitative examination, 2021, [PDF].

• [MSc, thesis] Ioannis Argyroulis, Efficient State Machine Replication With RDMA RPCs in Java, 2021, [PDF], [code].

2020

• [MSc, thesis] Jonas Theis, Healthor: Heterogeneity-aware Flow Control in DLTs to Increase Performance and Decentralization, 2020, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Giulia Frascaria, e2BPF: an Evaluation of In-Kernel Data Processing with eBPF, 2020, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, thesis] Thomas de Zeeuw, Stored : A Distributed Immutable Blob Store in Rust, 2020, [PDF], [code].

• [MSc, survey] John Argyroulis, Recent Advancements In Distributed System Communications, 2020, [PDF].

• [MSc, survey] Atrestis Karalis, Distributed Systems: Bug Free Edition Survey, 2020, [PDF].

• [MSc, survey] Thomas de Zeeuw, Literature Survey of use of non-traditional languages in distributed systems, 2020, [PDF].

2019

• [MSc, survey] Giulia Frascaria, The Impact of Non-Volatile Memory on Modern Computer Systems, 2019, [PDF].

Before

• [MSc, thesis] Lukas Drescher (at ETH Zurich), Microsecond-level Scheduling for Apache Spark, 2018.
• [MSc, thesis] Clemens Lutz (at ETH Zurich), Carafe: High-Performance, In-Memory Graph Processing with RDMA, 2014.

BSc students

2024

• [Bsc thesis] Darko Vujica, Exploring Redis Persistence Modes: Introducing AOFUring, an io_uring AOF Extension, 2024, [PDF], [code].

• [Bsc thesis] Simon Bezemer, Design and Implementation of a Balanced and Distributed Sorting System, 2024, [PDF], [code].

• [Bsc thesis] Vincent Nikolas Kohm, Optimizing Metadata Handling with vkFS: A Hybrid Key-Value Store File System leveraging RocksDB, 2024, [PDF], [code].

2023

• [thesis] Daniel Berzak, Embedded Domain Specific Language: A Streamlined Approach for Framework Abstraction, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [thesis] Alex Birnberg, In-Kernel File Caching with eBPF for Improving File Transfer Throughput Over the Network, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [thesis] Julian Restrepo Mejia, SUNS: a Small-sized User-level Network Stack, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [thesis] Cristiano Milanese, Safe Device Drivers: a new character device for loading localities, 2023, [PDF], [code].

• [thesis] Quardell Verbond, BasicLinkFS & BasicBtreeFS: The design and analysis of a simple and optimized filesystem, 2023, [PDF], [code].

2022

• [thesis] Alessandro Balducci, Memcached over RDMA, 2022, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Vadim Isakov, Compatible RDMA Sockets in Supercomputer Environments, 2022, [PDF], [code].

  2021

• [thesis] Tim Roos, Understanding and evaluating the differences in performance and wear of EXT4 and F2FS on modern flash storage device, 2021, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Louk Onkenhout, PERK: a pretty efficient distributed key-value store using RDMA, 2021, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Jens Troost, Scalability of RDMA transport types in a Key-Value store application, 2021, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Jake Massoth, MessageFirst: a reliable API for message-oriented network workloads, 2021, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Richard Eric van Leeuwen, NetReproBench: Network Benchmarking Distributed Systems, 2021, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] George Sim, Building A “Cluster-wide” Distributed procfs File System, 2021, [PDF], [code].

2020

• [thesis] Nick-Andian Tehrany, Evaluating Performance Characteristics of the PMDK Persistent Memory Software Stack, [PDF], [code]. Won the Amsterdam Data Science thesis award https://amsterdamdatascience.nl/news/winners-of-the-inaugural-ads-thesis-awards-announced/.
• [thesis] De Vos Meeker, Analysing the Kafka Producer and Benchmarking its Performance, 2020, [PDF], [code].
• [thesis] Reeve Lorena, A Comparison of MQTT Brokers from a Network Throughput Perspective, 2020, [PDF], [no-code].
• [thesis] Ioana Pavaloiu, Can 2020’s middleware infrastructure support 1M concurrent messages? MQTT: A Broker System Scalability Laboratory Study, 2020, [PDF], [no-code].
• [thesis] Adrian Solheim Almenningen, DwarFS - a Minuscule, Written-from-Scratch File System, 2020, [PDF], [code].

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