Computing in the Cloud:
Science of Cloud-Scale Computing
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Publications
Journal Papers
Integrated Approach to Data Center Power Management. Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Tudor Marian, and Ken Birman. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 62, No 6, pp 1086-1096. June 2013.
Plug into the Supercloud. Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, and Hakim Weatherspoon. In IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 17, No 2, pp 28-34. March-April 2013.
Conference Papers
The Performance of Paxos in the Cloud. Parisa Jalili Marandi, Samuel Benz, Fernando Pedone, and Ken Birman. The 33rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). Nara, Japan. October 2014.
MiCA: A Compositional Architecture for Gossip Protocols. Lonnie Princehouse, Rakesh Chenchu, Zhefu Jiang, Kenneth P. Birman, Nate Foster, and Robert Soulé. The 28th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP). Uppsala, Sweden. July 2014.
The Energy Efficiency of Database Replication Protocols. Nicolas Schiper, Fernando Pedone, and Robbert van Renesse. The 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). Atlanta, GA. June 2014.
Developing Correctly Replicated Databases Using Formal Tools. Nicolas Schiper, Vincent Rahli, Robbert van Renesse, Mark Bickford, and Robert Constable. The 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). Atlanta, GA. June 2014.
IronStack: performance, stability and security for power grid data networks. Zhiyuan Teo, Vera Kutsenko, Ken Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthiness of Smart Grids (ToSG). Atlanta, GA. June 2014 (in conjunction with DSN).
Software Defining System Devices with the "Banana" Double-Split Driver Model. Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, and Hakim Weatherspoon. The 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud). Philadelphia, PA. June 2014.
PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the Idles? Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang and Hakim Weatherspoon. The 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). Seattle, WA. April 2014.
Sprinkler — Reliable Broadcast for Geographically Dispersed Datacenters. Haoyan Geng and Robbert van Renesse. The ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference. Beijing, China. December 2013.
An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching. Qi Huang, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Wyatt Lloyd, Sanjeev Kumar, and Harry C. Li. The 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Farmington, PA. November 2013.
Hosting Dynamic Data in the Cloud with Isis2 and the Ida DHT. Ken Birman and Heesung Sohn. The ACM SIGOPS Conference on Timely Results in Operating Systems (TRIOS), at SOSP. Farmington, PA. November 2013.
Ordering Transactions with Prediction in Distributed Object Stores. Ittay Eyal, Ken Birman, Idit Keidar, and Robbert van Renesse. The 7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), at SOSP. Farmington, PA. November 2013.
Leveraging Sharding in the Design of Scalable Replication Protocols. Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Robbert van Renesse, and Ymir Vigfusson. The 4th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). Santa Clara, CA. October 2013.
Application-Driven TCP Recovery. Robert Surton, Ken Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. The 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). Budapest, Hungary. June 2013.
SoNIC: Precise Realtime Software Access and Control of Wired Networks. Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang and Hakim Weatherspoon. The 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). Lombard, IL. April 2013.
Secure Abstraction with Code Capabilities. Robbert van Renesse, Håvard Johansen, Nihar Naigaonkar, and Dag Johansen. The 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP). Belfast, Northern Ireland. February 2013.
Gecko: Contention-Oblivious Disk Arrays for Cloud Storage. Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, and Hakim Weatherspoon. The 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). San Jose, CA. February 2013.
Byzantine Chain Replication. Robbert van Renesse, Chi Ho, and Nicolas Schiper. The 16th International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems (OPODIS). Rome, Italy. December 2012.
A Diversified and Correct-by-Construction Broadcast Service. Vincent Rahli, Nicolas Schiper, Robbert van Renesse, Mark Bickford and Robert L. Constable. The 2nd International Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRiPE). Austin, TX. October 2012.
ShadowDB: A Replicated Database on a Synthesized Consensus Core. Nicolas Schiper, Vincent Rahli, Robbert van Renesse, Mark Bickford, and Robert L. Constable. The 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep). Hollywood, CA. October, 2012.
Computing in the Cloud: Science of Cloud-Scale Computing
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 1047540. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.