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Resources

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  • Papers Relating to Traces
  • Publications That Cite iotta.snia.org

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Tools and Documentation

Microsoft Event Tracing (1) (2)

Stonybrook University Dataseries Documentation Wiki

Storage Research List (Computer Storage Systems Research Discussion Forum)

Traces and Snapshots Public Archive

Re-Animator tracing and replay tool

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Storage Conferences

This is a non-exhaustive list of conferences relating to storage and data management. Note that some of these websites do not have stable domains, so please contact us if a link is broken.

ATC
The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Hosted every summer.

EuroSys
EuroSys is organized by EuroSys, the European Chapter of SIGOPS, sponsored by ACM SIGOPS. Hosted annually in mid-spring. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

FAST
The USENIX File and Storage Technologies (FAST) conference. Hosted annually in February.

HotStorage
The USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems. Hosted every summer directly before ATC.

ICDCS
The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). This conference does not have a stable URL so we have linked to a Google search.

ICS
The ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). Hosted every summer.

MSST
The International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST). Hosted every summer at the Santa Clara University School of Engineering in Santa Clara, CA.

NAS
The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage. Hosted annually.

NVMSA
The IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA). Hosted annually in the late summer. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

OSDI
The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Hosted annually.

SIGMETRICS
The ACM Special Interest Group for the computer systems performance evaluation community. Hosted annually in June.

SIGOPS
The ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems. Hosts a number of conferences annually.

SoCC
The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). Hosted annually. This conference does not have a stable URL, so we have linked to a Google search.

SOSP
The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Hosted annually.

Supercomputing
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. Hosted annually in late fall.

SYSTOR
The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR). Hosted annually in Haifa, Israel.

VLDB
The Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference. Hosted annually in late August.

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Storage Research Centers

Carnegie Mellon University
Parallel Data Lab (PDL)

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

University of Minnesota
Digital Technology Center (DTC)
Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC)

Storage Performance Council (SPC)

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Papers and Publications

Papers Relating to Traces

[Harter11] Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau.
A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications.
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2011.

[Ellard03b] Daniel Ellard, Margo Seltzer.
NFS Tricks and Benchmarking Traps.
Proceedings of the FREENIX Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas. June, 2003.

[Ellard03a] Daniel Ellard, Jonathan Ledlie, Pia Malkani, Margo Seltzer.
Passive NFS Tracing of Email and Research Workloads.
Proceedings of the Second Annual USENIX File and Storage Technologies Conference, pp. 203-216, San Francisco, CA. March, 2003.

[Roselli00] Drew Roselli, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas E. Anderson.
A Comparison of File System Workloads.
Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 44 - 54. San Diego, CA. June, 2000.

[Vogels99] Werner Vogels.
File system usage in Windows NT 4.0.
Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 93 - 109. Kiawah Island Resort, SC. December, 1999.

[Douceur99] John R. Douceur, William J. Bolosky.
A Large-Scale Study of File-System Contents.
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '99, pp. 59 - 70. Atlanta, GA. May, 1999.

[Kuenning97] Geoffrey H. Kuenning and Gerald J. Popek.
Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, St. Malo, France, October 5-8, 1997.

[Uysal97] Mustafa Uysal, Anurag Acharya, Joel Saltz.
Requirements of I/O Systems for Parallel Machines: An Application-driven Study.
Technical Report, CS-TR-3802, University of Maryland, College Park. May 1997.

[Mummert96] L. Mummert, M. Satyanarayanan.
Long Term Distributed File Reference Tracing: Implementation and Experience.
Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 705 - 736. June, 1996.

[Blackwell95] Trevor Blackwell, Jeffrey Harris, Margo Seltzer.
Heuristic Cleaning Algorithms in Log-Structured File Systems.
Proceedings of the 1995 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 277 - 288. New Orleans, LA. January, 1995.

[Griffioen94] Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton.
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach.
Proceedings of the Summer 1994 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 197 - 207. Boston, MA. June, 1994.

[Chiang93] Chi-ming Chiang, Matt W. Mutka.
Characteristics of User File Usage Patterns.
Systems and Software, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 257 - 268. December, 1993.

[Ruemmler93] Chris Ruemmler, John Wilkes.
UNIX Disk Access Patterns.
Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 405 - 420. San Diego, CA. January, 1993.

[Ramakrishnan92] K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prabuddha Biswas, Ramakrishna Karedla.
Analysis of File I/O Traces in Commercial Computing Environments.
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '92, pp. 78 - 90. Newport, RI. June, 1992.

[Roselli98] Drew Roselli, Thomas E. Anderson.
Characteristics of File System Workloads.
University of California Berkeley Computer Science Division Technical Report UCB//CSD-98-1029. 1992.

[Shirriff92] Ken Shirriff, John K. Ousterhout.
A Trace-Driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed System.
Proceedings of the Winter 1992 USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 315 - 332. San Francisco, CA. January, 1992.

[Miller91] Ethan L. Miller, Randy H. Katz.
Input/Output Behavior of Supercomputing Applications.
Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on Supercomputing, pp. 567 - 576. Albuquerque, NM. November, 1991.

[Baker91] M. Baker, J. Hartman, M. Kupfer, K. Shirriff, and J. Ousterhout.
Measurements of a Distributed File System.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium of Operating Systems Principles, pp. 198 - 212. October 1991.

[Bozman91] G.P. Bozman, H.H. Ghannad, E.D. Weinberger.
A trace-driven study of CMS file references.
IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 35, No. 5/6, pp. 815 - 828. September/November, 1991.

[Bennet91] J. Michael Bennet, Michael A. Bauer, David Kinchlea.
Characteristics of Files in NFS Environments.
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM Symposium on Small Systems, pp. 33 - 40. 1991.

[Biswas90] P. Biswas, K.K. Ramakrishnan.
File Access Characterization of VAX/VMS Environments.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 227 - 234. Paris, France. May, 1990.

[Floyd86] Rick Floyd.
Short-Term File Reference Patterns in a UNIX Environment.
University of Rochester Computer Science Technical Report #177. March, 1986.

[Ousterhout85] J. Ousterhout, H. Costa, D. Harrison, J. Kunze, M. Kupfer, J. Thompson.
A Trace-Driven Analysis of the UNIX 4.2BSD File System.
Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 15 - 24. Orcas Island, WA. December, 1985.

[Satyanarayanan81] M. Satyanarayanan.
A Study of File Sizes and Functional Lifetimes.
Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Operating System Principles, pp. 96 - 108. Pacific Grove, CA. December, 1981.

[Smith81] A. J. Smith.
Analysis of Long Term File Reference Patterns for Application to File Migration Algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol SE-7, No. 4, pp. 403 - 417. July, 1981.

Publications That Cite iotta.snia.org

The following publications cite iotta.snia.org as a source of trace data used in their research. They are organized in reverse chronological order. This list attempts to be comprehensive but is not complete; feel free to contact us to suggest additional entries.

[Wang et al., 2016]

Wei Wang, Tao Xie, and Abhinav Sharma. SWANS: An interdisk wear-leveling strategy for RAID-0 structured SSD arrays. ACM Transactions on Storage, 12(10):10:1–10:21, June 2016. (doi:10.1145/2756555)

[Wu et al., 2016]

Suzhen Wu, Yanping Lin, Bo Mao, and Hong Jiang. GCaR: Garbage collection aware cache management with improved performance for flash-based SSDs. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2016. ACM. (doi:10.1145/2925426.2926263)

[Altiparmak and Tosun, 2016]

Nihat Altiparmak and Ali Şaman Tosun. Multithreaded maximum flow based optimal replica selection algorithm for heterogeneous storage architectures. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(5):1543–1557, May 2016. (doi:10.1109/TC.2015.2451620)

[Chang et al., 2016a]

Y. M. Chang, P. H. Lin, Y. J. Lin, T. C. Kuo, Y. H. Chang, Y. C. Li, H. P. Li, and K. C. Wang. An efficient sudden-power-off-recovery design with guaranteed booting time for solid state drives. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Memory Workshop, pages 1–4, Paris, France, May 2016. IEEE. (doi:10.1109/IMW.2016.7493565)

[Chang et al., 2016b]

Yu-Ming Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo, Yung-Chun Li, and Hsiang-Pang Li. Disturbance relaxation for 3D flash memory. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(5):1467–1483, May 2016. (doi:10.1109/TC.2015.2451660)

[Patana-anake et al., 2016]

T. Patana-anake, V. Martin, N. Sandler, Cheng Wu, and H. S. Gunawi. Manylogs: Improved CMR/SMR disk bandwidth and faster durability with scattered logs. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, pages 1–16, Santa Clara, CA, May 2016. IEEE. (doi:10.1109/MSST.2016.7897075)

[Qu et al., 2016]

Xiaoyang Qu, Jiguang Wan, Jun Wang, Liqiong Liu, Dan Luo, and Changsheng Xie. GreenMatch: Renewable-aware workload scheduling for massive storage systems. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing, pages 403–412, Chicago, IL, May 2016. (doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2016.24)

[Yamaga et al., 2016]

Yusuke Yamaga, Chihiro Matsui, Shogo Hachiya, and Ken Takeuchi. Application optimized adaptive ECC with advanced LDPCs to resolve trade-off among reliability, performance, and cost of solid-state drives. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW), Paris, France, May 2016. (doi:10.1109/IMW.2016.7493568)

[Jung, 2016]

Myoungsoo Jung. Exploring design challenges in getting solid state drives closer to CPU. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(4):1103–1115, April 2016. (doi:10.1109/TC.2014.2366772)

[Luo et al., 2016]

Dan Luo, Jiguang Wan, Yifeng Zhu, Nannan Zhao, Feng Li, and Changsheng Xie. Design and implementation of a hybrid shingled write disk system. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(4):1017–1029, April 2016. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2015.2425402)

[Ou et al., 2016]

Jiaxin Ou, Jiwu Shu, and Youyou Lu. A high performance file system for non-volatile main memory. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, New York, NY, USA, April 2016. ACM. (doi:10.1145/2901318.2901324)

[Shahidi et al., 2016]

Narges Shahidi, Mohammad Arjomand, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. Kandemir, and Chita Das. Storage consolidation: Not always a panacea, but can we ease the pain? In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, pages 159–160, Uppsala, Sweden, April 2016. (doi:10.1109/ISPASS.2016.7482090)

[Yao et al., 2016]

Jie Yao, Hong Jiang, Qiang Cao, Lei Tian, and Changsheng Xie. Elastic-RAID: A new architecture for improved availability of parity-based RAIDs by elastic mirroring. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(4):1044–1056, April 2016. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2015.2432808)

[Clavijo, 2016]

Dulcardo A. Arteaga Clavijo. Flash Caching for Cloud Computing Systems. PhD thesis, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 2016.

[Di et al., 2016]

Yejia Di, Liang Shi, Kaijie Wu, and Chun Jason Xue. Exploiting process variation for retention induced refresh minimization on flash memory. In Proceedings of the 2016 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), pages 391–396, Dresden, Germany, March 2016.

[Arteaga et al., 2016]

Dulcardo Arteaga, Jorge Cabrera, Jing Xu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, and Ming Zhao. CloudCache: On-demand flash cache management for cloud computing. In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, pages 355–369, Santa Clara, CA, February 2016.

[Han et al., 2016]

Se Jun Han, Dong Hyun Kang, and Young Ik Eom. Dual write buffer algorithm for improving performance and lifetime of SSDs. Journal of KIISE, 43:177–185, February 2016.

[Huang and Chang, 2016]

Sheng-Min Huang and Li-Pin Chang. Exploiting page correlations for write buffering in page-mapping multichannel SSDs. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 15(1), February 2016. (doi:10.1145/2815622)

[Jung et al., 2016]

Myoungsoo Jung, Wonil Choi, Shuwen Gao, Ellis Herbert Wilson III, David Donofrio, John Shalf, and Mahmut Taylan Kandemir. NANDFlashSim: High-fidelity, microarchitecture-aware NAND flash memory simulation. ACM Transactions on Storage, 12(2), February 2016. (doi:10.1145/2700310)

[Kim et al., 2016]

Jin-Young Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Hyeokjun Seo, Ki-Whan Song, Sungroh Yoon, and Eui-Young Chung. NAND flash memory with multiple page sizes for high-performance storage devices. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 24(2):764–768, February 2016. (doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2409055)

[Kwon, 2016]

Se Jin Kwon. A cache-based flash translation layer for TLC-based multimedia storage devices. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 15(11):11:1–11:28, February 2016. (doi:10.1145/2820614)

[Margaglia et al., 2016]

Fabio Margaglia, Gala Yadgar, Eitan Yaakobi, Yue Li, Assaf Schuster, and André Brinkmann. The devil is in the details: Implementing flash page reuse with WOM codes. In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, pages 95–109, Santa Clara, CA, February 2016.

[Stefanovici et al., 2016]

Ioan Stefanovici, Bianca Schroeder, Greg O'Shea, and Eno Thereska. sRoute: Treating the storage stack like a network. In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, pages 197–212, Santa Clara, CA, February 2016. USENIX Association.

[Yang et al., 2016]

Ming-Chang Yang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Tei-Wei Kuo, and Po-Chun Huang. Capacity-independent address mapping for flash storage devices with explosively growing capacity. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(2):448–465, February 2016. (doi:10.1109/TC.2015.2428702)

[Zhang et al., 2016]

Xuebin Zhang, Jiangpeng Li, Hao Wang, Kai Zhao, and Tong Zhang. Reducing solid-state storage device write stress through opportunistic in-place delta compression. In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, pages 111–124, Santa Clara, CA, February 2016.

[Das et al., 2016]

Gautam Das, Hao H. Huang, Sandor Szalay, and Nan Zhang. Just-in-time analytics on large file systems. United States Patent 9,244,975, January 26 2016.

[Chang et al., 2016]

Li-Pin Chang, Yu-Syun Liu, and Wen-Huei Lin. Stable greedy: Adaptive garbage collection for durable page-mapping multichannel SSDs. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 15(1), January 2016. (doi:10.1145/2820613)

[Ragnarsson, 2016]

Petur Orri Ragnarsson. Enabling space elasticity in storage systems. Master's thesis, Reykjavik University, January 2016.

[Sun et al., 2016]

Chao Sun, Ayumi Soga, Chihiro Matsui, Asuka Arakawa, and Ken Takeuchi. LBA scrambler: A NAND flash aware data management scheme for high-performance solid-state drives. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 24(1):115–128, January 2016. (doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2396515)

[Tian et al., 2016]

Hong-Liang Tian, Yong Zhang, Xin-Hui Xu, Chao Li, and Chun-Xiao Xing. TrustedSSD: New foundation for big data security. Chinese Journal of Computers, 39(1), January 2016.

[Wang et al., 2016]

Wei-Lin Wang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Po-Chun Huang, Chia-Heng Tu, Hsin-Wen Wei, and Wei-Kuan Shih. Relay-based key management to support secure deletion for resource-constrained flash-memory storage devices. In Proceedings of the 21stAsia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pages 444–449, Macau, China, January 2016. ACM. (doi:10.1109/ASPDAC.2016.7428052)

[He and Du, 2015]

Weiping He and David H.C. Du. T-STL: Track-based shingled translation layer for autonomous SWD, 2015.

[Stefanovici et al., 2015]

Ioan Stefanovici, Eno Thereska, Greg O'Shea, Bianca Schroeder, Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Karagiannis, Antony Rowstron, and Tom Talpey. Software-defined caching. Technical Report CSRG-626, University of Toronto, 2015.

[Zhou et al., 2015]

Jian Zhou, Jun Wang, Fei Wu, Changsheng Xie, and Dexhi Han. On the cooling of energy efficient storage. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Boston, MA, 2015. IEEE. (doi:10.1109/NAS.2015.7255212)

[Baek and Park, 2015]

Sung Hoon Baek and Ki-Woong Park. Parity resynchronization using a block-level journaling for software RAID. Information Systems, 54:28–42, December 2015. (doi:10.1016/j.is.2015.05.004)

[He et al., 2015]

Dan He, Fang Wang, Dan Feng, Jingning Liu, Yunxiang Wu, Ying He, and Yang Hu. Parallel aware hybrid solid-state storage. In Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, pages 47–60. Springer International Publishing, December 2015. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27140-8_4)

[Luo et al., 2015]

Shengmei Luo, Guangyan Zhang, Chengwen Wu, Samee Khan, and Keqin Li. Boafft: Distributed deduplication for big data storage in the cloud. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, December 2015. (doi:10.1109/TCC.2015.2511752)

[Mandal, 2015]

Sonam Mandal. Design and implementation of an open-source deduplication platform for research. Technical Report FSL-15-03, Stony Brook University, December 2015.

[Oe et al., 2015]

Kazuichi Oe, Takeshi Nanri, and Koji Okamura. On-the-fly automated storage tiering with caching and both proactive and observational migration. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR), Sapporo, Japan, December 2015. IEEE. (doi:10.1109/CANDAR.2015.42)

[Oh et al., 2015]

Yongseok Oh, Eunjae Lee, Choulseeung Hyun, Jongmoo Choi, Donghee Lee, and Sam H. Noh. Enabling cost-effective flash based caching with an array of commodity SSDs. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference, pages 63–74, Vancouver, Canada, December 2015. (doi:10.1145/2814576.2814814)

[Tsao et al., 2015]

Che-Wei Tsao, Yuan-Hao Chang, Ming-Chang Yang, and Po-Chun Huang. Efficient victim block selection for flash storage devices. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(12):3444–3460, December 2015. (doi:10.1109/TC.2015.2409850)

[Wang and Xie, 2015]

Wei Wang and Tao Xie. PCFTL: A plane-centric flash translation layer utilizing copy-back operations. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(12):3420–3432, December 2015. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2014.2371022)

[Wilson et al., 2015]

Wang Yonghong Wilson, Lim Chun Teck, Kyawt Kyawt Khaing, and Yong Khai Leong. Design and development of enterprise storage systems with hybrid disks for future datacenters. Journal of Communications, 10(12):1012–1019, December 2015.

[Luo and Liu, 2015]

Tian Luo and Deng Liu. Hypervisor-based flash cache space management in a multi-VM environment. United States Patent 2015/9189410, November 17 2015.

[Basak and Bharde, 2015]

Jayanta Basak and Madhumita Bharde. Dynamic provisioning of storage workloads. In Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, pages 13–24, Washington, D.C., November 2015.

[Chamazcoti et al., 2015]

Saeideh Alinezhad Chamazcoti, Ziba Delavari, Seyed Ghassem Miremadi, and Hossein Asadi. On endurance and performance of erasure codes in SSD-based storage systems. Microelectronics Reliability, 55:2453–2467, November 2015. (doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2015.07.046)

[Jain et al., 2015]

Nitisha Jain, Nikolay Grozev, J. Lakshmi, and Rajkumar Buyya. PriDynSim a simulator for dynamic priority based I/O scheduling for cloud applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets, pages 8–15, Bangalore, India, November 2015. IEEE. (doi:10.1109/CCEM.2015.17)

[Park et al., 2015]

Hee Jung Park, Kyung Tae Kim, Man Yun Kim, and Hee Yong Youn. Enhanced hypervisor-based SSD cache with dynamic cache scanning and allocation for virtualized cloud system. International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, 3(4):224–233, November 2015. (doi:10.2991/ijndc.2015.3.4.3)

[Qasem, 2015]

Mais Ahmad Haj Qasem. Data mining approach for commercial data classification and migration in hybrid storage system. Master's thesis, University of Jordan, November 2015.

[Wu et al., 2015a]

Mengnan Wu, Yang Yang, Liangliang Dai, Xinxin Zhang, Hongbin Sun, Ruizhi Zhang, Jianxiao Wang, and Nanning Zheng. An experimental study on the potential use of ReRAM as SSD buffer. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on ASIC, Chengdu, China, November 2015. (doi:10.1109/ASICON.2015.7517039)