NSDI Best Paper Award winners by year
USENIX · Paper award · usually May · next expected May 2027
Winners
Attack of the Bubbles: Straggler-Resilient Pipeline Parallelism for Large Model TrainingTianyuan Wu, Lunxi Cao, Hanfeng Lu et al.2026Source ↗
HyperEdge: An Edge CDN Infrastructure for Cost Efficient Video StreamingDehui Wei, Jiao Zhang, Haozhe Li et al.2026Source ↗
OSCAR: O(1)-Step Convergence and Readily-deployable Congestion ControlZhaochen Zhang, Feiyang Xue, Rui Ning et al.2026Source ↗
About this award
Top paper awards of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation; NSDI 26 presented them as Outstanding Paper awards.
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (May); it changes when USENIX announces one.
3 papers named in the 2026 edition.
Now tracked: Top paper awards of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.