The Weatherspoon Group

• Comosum: An Extensible, Reconfigurable, and Fault-Tolerant IoT Platform for Digital Agriculture, Gloire Rubambiza, Shiang Chin, Mueed Ur, Jose Martinez, Hakim Weatherspoon, To Appear in USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2023).


• EdgeRDV: A Framework for Edge Workload Management at Scale, Gloire Rubambiza, Braulio Dumba, Andrew J Anderson, Hakim Weatherspoon, To Appear in IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications.


• Towards Cloud-Native, Machine Learning Based Detection of Crop Disease with Imaging Spectroscopy, Gloire Rubambiza, Fernando Romero Galvan, Ryan Pavlick, Hakim Weatherspoon, Kaitlin M. Gold, Appears in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.


• Extending Optimal Oblivious Reconfigurable Networks to all N, Tegan Wilson, Daniel Amir, Vishal Shrivastav, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robert Kleinberg, Appears in In SIAM Symposium on Algorithmic Principles of Computer Systems (APOCS).


• Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture, Gloire Rubambiza, Phoebe Sengers, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).


• Optimal oblivious reconfigurable networks, Daniel Amir, Tegan Wilson, Vishal Shrivastav, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robert Kleinberg, and Rachit Agarwal, Appears in In Proceedings of the 54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2022).


• Paradoxes in Creating the Future of Farm Work: Anticipating Social Impact through the Lens of Early Adopters, Gloire Rubambiza, Phoebe Sengers, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Automation Experience at the Workplace Workshop at the ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference (CHI 2021).


• Shoal: a network architecture for disaggregated racks, Vishal Shrivastav, Asaf Valadarsky, Hitesh Ballani, Paolo Costa, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Rachit Agarwal, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2019).


• X-containers: Breaking down barriers to improve performance and isolation of cloud-native containers, Zhiming Shen, Zhen Sun, Gur-Eyal Sela, Eugene Bagdasaryan, Christina Delimitrou, Robbert Van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).


• Packet Clustering Introduced by Routers: Modeling, Analysis, and Experiments, Chiun Lin Lim, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ao Tang, Appears in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS).


• Vegvisir: A Partition-Tolerant Blockchain for the Internet-of-Things, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Jiang, W., Stephen Wicker, S., Danny Adams, D., Ma, E., Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in In the Proceedings of the IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2018).

Journal Papers

• Supercloud: Applying Internet Design Principles to Interconnecting Clouds, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Zhiming Shen, and Weijia Song, To Appear in IEEE Internet Computing.


• Supercloud: A Library Cloud for Exploiting Cloud Diversity , Zhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Eyal Sela, Weijia Song, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Robbert van Renesse, Appears in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS).


• Isotope: ACID Transactions for Block Storage, Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Vol 13, No 1, Article 4, 25 pages, February 2017.


• Supercloud: Opportunities and Challenges, Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.


• On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Datacenters, Ji-Yong Shin, E. Gun Sirer, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Darko Kirovski, Appears in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.


• Integrated Approach to Data Center Power Management, Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Appears in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 62, No 6, June 2013, pp 1086-1096.


• Plug into the Supercloud, Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 17, No 2, March/April 2013, pp 28-34.


• Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Communication between Data Centers, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Appears in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), June 2011.


• Summary of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS workshop on large-scale distributed systems and middleware (LADIS 2009), Hakim Weatherspoon, Doug Terry, Gregory Chockler, Appears in ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), Vol 43, No 4, December 2009, pp 3-4.


• GOSSIP: Gossiping Over Storage Systems Is Practical, Hakim Weatherspoon, Hugo Miranda, Konrad Iwanicki, Ali Ghodsi, Yann Busnel, Appears in ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), Vol 41, No 5, October 2007, pp 75-81.


• Exploiting the Synergy Between Gossiping and Structured Overlays, Ali Ghodsi, Seif Haridi, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), Vol 41, No 5, October 2007, pp 61-66.


• Maintenance-Free Global Data Storage, Sean Rhea, Chris Wells, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ben Zhao, Hakim Weatherspoon, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 5, No 5, September/October 2001, pp 40-49.

Referred Papers

• P4FPGA: A Rapid Prototyping Framework for P4, Han Wang, Robert Soulé, Huynh Tu Dang, Ki Suh Lee, Vishal Shrivastav, Nate Foster, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium of Software-defined networking Research (SOSR), April 2017.


• Whippersnapper: A P4 Language Benchmark Suite, Huynh Tu Dang, Han Wang, Theo Jepsen, Gordon Brebner, Changhoon Kim, Jennifer Rexford, Robert Soulé, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium of Software-defined networking Research (SOSR), April 2017.


• Follow the Sun through the Clouds: Application Migration for Geographically Shifting Workloads , Zhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Eyal Sela, Ben Rainero, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), October 2016.


• Towards Weakly Consistent Local Storage Systems, Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Jakub Szefer and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), October 2016.


• Globally Synchronized Time via Datacenter Networks, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Vishal Shrivastav and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), August 2016.


• Smart Spot Instances for the Supercloud, Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud), April 2016.


• Economics of a Supercloud, Ian Kash, Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud), April 2016.


• Isotope: Transactional Isolation for Block Storage, Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST).


• Timing is Everything: Accurate, Minimum Overhead, Available Bandwidth Estimation in High-speed Wired Networks, Han Wang, Ki Suh Lee, Erluo Li, Chiun Lin Lim, Ao Tang, and Hakim Weatherspoon, To Appear in Proceedings of The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).


• Software Defining System Devices with the "Banana" Double-Split Driver Model, Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoon and Hakim Weatherspoon, To Appear in the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud).


• PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the Idles?, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2014.


• Packet clustering introduced by routers: Modeling, analysis and experiments, Chiun Lin Lim, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Ao Tang, Appears in the 48th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2014.


• SoNIC: Precise Realtime Software Access and Control of Wired Networks, Ki Suh Lee, Han Wang and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2013.


• Gecko: Contention-Oblivious Disk Arrays for Cloud Storage, Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), February 2013.


• Fmeter: Extracting Indexable Low-level System Signatures by Counting Kernel Function Calls, Tudor Marin, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ki Suh Lee, and Abhishek Sagar, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Conference on Middleware, December 2012.


• On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Datacenters, Ji-Yong Shin, E. Gun Sirer, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Darko Kirovski, Appears in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), October 2012.
  Best Paper Award


• NetBump: User-extensible Active Queue Management with Bumps on the Wire, Mohammad Al-Fares, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, Sambit Das, Hakim Weatherspoon, Balaji Prabhakar, and Amin Vahdat, Appears in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), October 2012.


• NetSlices: Scalable Multi-Core Packet Processing in User-Space, Tudor Marian, Ki Suh Lee, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), October 2012.


• Gecko: A Contention-Oblivious Design for Cloud Storage, Ji Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (Hot Storage), June 2012.


• The Xen-Blanket: Virtualize Once, Run Everywhere, Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the ACM EuroSys conference, April 2012.


• Beyond Power Proportionality: Designing Power Lean Cloud Storage, Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ken Birman, Appears in Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), August 2011.


• Unshackle the Cloud!, Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohamed Eldehiry, Hani Jamjoom, Hai Huang, and Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), June 2011.


• Instrumentation for exact packet timings in networks, Danial A. Freedman, Tudor Marian, Jennifer H. Lee, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Xu, Appears in Proceedings of the 2011 Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 2011.


• Overdriver: Handling Memory Overload in an Oversubscribed Cloud, Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, Yew-Huey Liu, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), March 2011.


• Exact Temporal Characterization of 10 Gbps Optical Wide-area Network, Daniel A. Freedman, Tudor Marian, Jennifer H. Lee, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Xu, Appears in proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC 2010), November, 2010.


• RACS: A Case for Cloud Storage Diversity, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Lonnie Princehouse, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), June 2010.


• Empirical Characterization of Uncongested Lambda Networks and 10GbE Commodity Endpoints, Tudor Marian, Daniel A. Freedman, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2010.


• Cloudifying Source Code Repositories: How Much Does it Cost?, Michael Siegenthaler, Hakim Weatherspoon, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS'09), October 2009.


• Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance, Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Appears in Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), February 2009.


• Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset, Appears in Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '08), April 2008.


• Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems, Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Appears in Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS '07), May 2007.


• Antiquity: Exploiting a Secure Log for Wide-Area Distributed Storage, Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick Eaton, Byung-Gon Chun, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys '07), March 2007.


• Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed Storage Systems, Byung-Gon Chun, Frank Dabek, Andreas Haeberlen, Emil Sit, Hakim Weatherspoon, M. Frans Kaashoek, John Kubiatowicz, and Robert Morris, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '06), May 2006.


• Proactive replication for data durability, Emil Sit, Andreas Haeberlen, Frank Dabek, Byung-Gon Chun, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robert Morris, M. Frans Kaashoek, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '06), February 2006.


• ChunkCast: An Anycast Service for Large Content Distribution, Byung-Gon Chun, Peter Wu, Hakim Weatherspoon, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '06), February 2006.


• Efficiently Binding Data to Owners in Distributed Content-Addressable Storage Systems, Patrick Eaton, Hakim Weatherspoon, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE Security in Storage Workshop (IEEE SISW 2005), December 2005.


• Pond: the OceanStore Prototype, Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), March 2003.


• Introspective Failure Analysis: Avoiding Correlated Failures in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Hakim Weatherspoon, Tal Moscovitz, and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of International Workshop on Reliable Peer-to-Peer Distributed Systems, Oct 2002.


• Efficient Heartbeats and Repair of Softstate in Decentralized Object Location and Routing Systems, Hakim Weatherspoon and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the SIGOPS European Workshop 2002, Sep 2002.


• Naming and Integrity: Self-Verifying Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Wells and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo 2002), June 2002.


• Erasure Coding vs. Replication: A Quantitative Comparison, Hakim Weatherspoon and John Kubiatowicz, Appears in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2002), March 2002.


• OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage, John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Westley Weimer, Chris Wells, and Ben Zhao, Appears in Proceedings of the Ninth international Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2000), November 2000.

Technical Report

• VirtualWires for Live Migrating Virtual Networks across Clouds, Dan Williams, Zhefu Jiang, Hani Jamjoom, Hakim Weatherspoon, Technical Report, IBM, May 2013.


• On the Feasibility of Completely Wireless Data Centers, Ji-Yong Shin, Emin Gun Sirer, Hakim Weatherspoon, and Darko Kirovski, Technical Report, Cornell University, May 2011.

Thesis

• Towards A Programmable Dataplane, Han Wang, PhD Thesis


• Towards Precise Network Measurements, Ki Suh Lee, PhD Thesis


• Isolation in Cloud Storage, Ji-Yong Shin, PhD Thesis


• Towards Superclouds, Daniel Williams, PhD Thesis


• Data Center Energy Management, Lakshmi Ganesh, PhD Thesis


• Operating Systems Abstractions for Software Packet Processing in Datacenters, Tudor Marian, PhD Thesis


• Design and Evaluation of Distributed Wide-Area On-line Archival Storage Systems, Hakim Weatherspoon, PhD Thesis