The Weatherspoon Group

Cloud & Data Center Networks

   Data Center Network Measurements

• 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.


• 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).


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.

   Wireless Data Center Network

• 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.


• 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

   Software Packet Processors

• 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.

Superclouds

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


• 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.


• 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.

Cloud Storage

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


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


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


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.