Research
Distributed Computing, Distributed Computation
Edge Computing
Rag LLM
Systems for ML (SYSML)
Real Time
Data Consistency
Fault Tolerance, Fault Tolerant
Stream Data Processing
Consistent Data
Complex Services
Cloud Services
Sensor Network, Sensor Networks
C Implementation
Computing Problems
Critical Services
File System
Scalable Solutions
Wide Area Monitoring
Preliminary Version
Data Exchange Infrastructure
Large Objects
Smart Devices
Growing Impact
Cloud Computing
Cloud Storage
Computational Needs
Brief Overview
Differential Privacy
Dynamic Data
Infrastructure Management
Integrative Approach, Integrated Approach, Integrative Approaches
Smart Grids, Smart Grid
Operating System, Operating Systems
Web Services
Programming Languages
Empirical Characterization
Flexible Infrastructure
Distributed Data
Distribution System, Distribution Systems, Distributed Systems, Distributed System
Office Automation
New Generation
Self Management
Dynamic Groups
Size Estimation
Mobile Platforms
Communication Protocol
Data Flow
Programming Techniques
Service Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architectures
Middleware
Multicast Networks
Remote Location
Electric Power
Services Architecture
Shelf Software
High Availability
Aggregation
Information
Large Systems
Membership
Object Oriented Programming
Platform Support
Software Engineering
Theory
Data Mining
Large Data
Critical Systems
Integrated Commercial
Large Scale Systems
Software Reliability
Wide Perspective
Probabilistic Modeling
Self Configuration
System Monitoring
Building Reliable
Conservative Approach
Design
Buffer Management
Collaborative Infrastructure
Fighting Fire
Robust Communication
Robust News
Critical Computing
Ad Hoc Networks
Large Scale Networks
Local Agents
Security Protocol, Security Protocols
Technology Requirements
Ultra Scalable
Ensemble Projects
Group Service
Large Groups
Next Generation Internet
Simulation Models, Simulation Model, Simulation Modeling
Technology Challenges
Group Approach
Real Experience
Mobile Computing
Group Oriented
Integrating Security
Light Weight
Communication Support
Computer Science, Computational Science
Position Statement
Reliable Communication
Replicated Data
Data Management
Medical Environments
New System
Programming Environment
List of Publications (242)
In 2024
242
Yang, Y., Merlina, A., Song, W., Yuan, T., Birman, K., & Vitenberg, R. (2024). Compass: A Decentralized Scheduler for Latency-Sensitive ML Workflows. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.17652.
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Verifying a C implementation of Derecho's coordination mechanism using VST and Coq. Ramana Nagasamudram, Lennart Beringer, Ken Birman, Mae Milano and David A. Naumann. 16th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM), Mountainview CA, June 2024.
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Gupta, A., Hao, Y., Yang, Y., Yuan, T., Wieland, M., Basran, P. S., & Birman, K. (2024). Digital Twin-Driven Teat Localization and Shape Identification for Dairy Cow (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 38 (21), 23510-23511. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i21.30450
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In 2023
239
Low-Latency ML Inference by Grouping Correlated Data Objects and Computation. Garrett, Thiago, Weijia Song, Roman Vitenberg, and Ken Birman. arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11488 (2023).
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Cascade: A Platform for Delay-Sensitive Edge Intelligence . Weijia Song, Thiago Garrett, Alicia Yang, Mingzhao Liu, Edward Tremel, Lorenzo Rosa, Andrea Merlina, Roman Vitenberg, Ken Birman. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17329 (November 2023).
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237
Yifan Wang, Weijia Song, Yuting Yang, Charif Mahmoudi, Shashank Shekhar, Kenneth P. Birman. Dash: A Low Code Development Platform for AI Applications in Industry. 2023 IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). Columbia University, USA. October 12-14, 2023.
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236
Ken Birman, Sagar Jha, Mae Milano, Lorenzo Rosa, Weijia Song, Edward Tremel. Monotonicity and Opportunistically- Batched Actions in Derecho . 25th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems in Jersy City, New Jersey, October 2-4, 2023.
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In 2022
235
Pengze Li , Lichen Pan , Xinzhe Yang , Weijia Song , Zhen Xiao , Ken Birman . Stabilizer: Geo-Replication with User-defined Consistency IEEE ICDCS 2022 in Bologna, Italy July 10th - July 13th, 2022
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234
Spindle: Techniques for Optimizing Atomic Multicast on RDMA. Sagar Jha, Lorenzo Rosa, and Ken Birman. In 2022 IEEE 42st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022. Previously available as: arXiv:2110.00886 (October 2021).
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233
Cascade: An Edge Computing Platform for Real-time Machine Intelligence (Invited paper). Weijia Song, Yuting (Alicia) Yang, Thompson Liu, Andrea Merlina, Thiago Garrett, Roman Vitenberg, Lorenzo Rosa, Aahil Awatramani, Zheng Wang, Ken Birman. In ApPLIED 2022, Sorrento Italy.
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In 2021
232
Lorenzo Rosa, Weijia Song, Luca Foschini, Antonio Corradi, Ken Birman . DerechoDDS: Strongly Consistent Data Distribution for Mission-Critical Applications COM 2019 - 2019 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) , November, 2021.
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231
DerechoDDS: Efficiently leveraging RDMA for fast and consistent data distribution. Lorenzo Rosa, Sagar Jha, Ken Birman. 6th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety (CARS 2021), Munich Germany, Sept. 2021.
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In 2020
230
Reliable, Efficient Recovery for Complex Services with Replicated Subsystems. Edward Tremel, Sagar Jha, Weijia Song, David Chu, Ken Birman. IEEE DSN '20, Seville, Spain 2020.
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In 2019
229
Cloud-Hosted Intelligence for Real-time IoT Applications. Ken Birman, Bharath Hariharan, Christopher De Sa. 2019. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 53, 1 (July 2019), 7-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3352020.3352023
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228
Derecho: Fast State Machine Replication for Cloud Services. Sagar Jha, Jonathan Behrens, Theo Gkountouvas, Matthew Milano, Weijia Song, Edward Tremel, Robbert Van Renesse, Sydney Zink, and Kenneth P. Birman. 2019.ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 36, 2, Article 4 (April 2019), 49 pages. DOI: ttps://doi.org/10.1145/3302258
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227
GridCloud: Infrastructure for Cloud-based Wide Area Monitoring of Bulk Electric Power Grids. Dave Anderson, Theo Gkountouvas, Ming Meng, Ken Birman, Anjan Bose, Carl Hauser, Eugene Litvinov, Xiaochuan Luo, Frankie Zhang. DOI 10.1109/TSG.2018.2791021, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 10 (2), March 2019, 2170 - 2179. Actual date of publication: Jan 8, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2018.2791021.
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226
Building Smart Memories and Cloud Services with Derecho. Sagar Jha, Jonathan Behrens, Theo Gkountouvas, Matthew Milano, Weija Song, Edward Tremel, Sydney Zink, Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse. September 2017. This technical report was a preliminary version of Derecho: Fast State Machine Replication for Cloud Services. Sagar Jha, Jonathan Behrens, Theo Gkountouvas, Matthew Milano, Weijia Song, Edward Tremel, Sydney Zink, Kenneth P. Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. 2019. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 1, 1, Article 1 (January 2019), 50 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3302258
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In 2018
225
Anonymous, Fault-Tolerant Distributed Queries for Smart Devices. Edward Tremel, Ken Birman, Robert Kleinberg, and Ma rk Jelasity. ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst. (TCPS) 3, 2, Article 16 (October 2018), 29 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3204411
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224
RDMC: A Reliable Multicast for Large Objects. Jonathan Behrens, Sagar Jha, Ken Birman, Edward Tremel. IEEE DSN '18, Luxembourg, June 2018.
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223
Cloud-based Data Exchange Infrastructure for Wide Area Monitoring of Bulk Electric Power Grids. D. Anderson, S. Sahasrabuddhe, A. Bose, C. Hauser, T. Gkountouvas, W. Song, Y. Liao, K. Birman, E. Litvinov, X. Luo, F. Zhang, A. Darvishi, G. Stefopoulos, A. Ettlinger. To appear in, Proceedings of the 2018 Annual CIGRE Symposium, Paris, France, pp 1-10, August 26 - 31, 2018.
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222
A Cloud-Hosted Synchrophasor Data Sharing Platform. Eugene Litvinov, Xiaochuan Luo, Qiang Zhang, Ken Birman, Theodoros Gkountouvas, Dave Anderson, Carl Hauser, Anjan Bose. Chapter in Power System Grid Operation Using Synchrophasor Technology , pp. 477-498. Sarma Nuthalapati (editor), Springer-Verlag Series on Power Electronics and Power Systems. June 2018. ISBN: 978-3319893778
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In 2016
221
Treating Software-Defined Networks Like Disk Arrays. Z Teo, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Network Software and Virtualization (Netsoft 2016). Seoul, June 6 2016.
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220
Experience with 3 SDN Controllers in an Enterprise Setting . Zhiyuan Teo, Ken Birman, Robbert Van Renesse. IEEE DSN Workshop on Dependability Issues in SDN and IFV (DISN), June 28, 2016.
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219
The Freeze-Frame File System. Weijia Song, Theo Gkountouvas, Qi Chen, Zhen Xiao, Ken Birman. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOCC 2016). Santa Clara, CA, October 05 - 07, 2016.
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In 2015
218
Reflections on the History of Operating Systems Research in Fault Tolerance. Ken Birman. Essay accompanying ACM History Day talk, Monterey CA, November 2015. In SOSP History Day 2015 (SOSP '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 32 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2830903.2830908
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217
Cache Serializability: Reducing Inconsistency in Edge Transactions. Ittay Eyal; Ken Birman; Robbert van Renesse, "Cache Serializability: Reducing Inconsistency in Edge Transactions," Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE 35th International Conference on, June 29 2015-July 2 2015.
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216
Building a Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Grid. Ken Birman, Ma rk Jelasity, Robert Kleinberg, Edward Tremel. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 49, 1 (January 2015), 131-136. DOI=10.1145/2723872.2723891 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2723872.2723891
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In 2014
215
Characterizing Load Imbalance in Real-World Networked Caches. Qi Huang, Helga Gudmundsdottir, Ymir Vigfusson, Daniel Freedman, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. HotNets 2014: Thirteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. Los Angeles, CA. Oct 2014.
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214
A Private Framework for Distributed Computation. Edward Tremel, Ken Birman, Robert Kleinberg, Mark Jelasity. The 8th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, LADIS 2014. Cambridge, UK. October 2014.
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213
Controlled Transactional Consistency for Web Caching. Ittay Eyal, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. Preliminary Technical Report. October 2014.
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212
Software Defined Networks and Gossip Protocols. Robert Soule, Ken Birman, Nate Foster. The 8th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, LADIS 2014. Cambridge, UK. October 2014.
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211
Mission-Critical Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Power Applications . Thoshitha Gamage, David Anderson, David Bakken, Kenneth Birman, Anjan Bose, Carl Hauser, Ketan Maheshwri, and Robbert van Renesse. In Smart Grids: Clouds, Communications, Open Source, and Automation . Editors David Bakken and Kris Iniewski. CRC Press. ISBN 9781482206111. 2014.
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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.
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209
MiCA: A Compositional Architecture for Gossip Protocols . Lonnie Princehouse, Rakesh Chenchu, Zhefu Jiang, Kenneth P. Birman, Nate Foster, and Robert Soule. European Conference on Object Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2014, in Sweden in July 2014.
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208
The Performance of Paxos in the Cloud. Parisa Jalili Marandi, Samuel Benz, Fernando Pedonea, and Kenneth P. Birman. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS '14). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 41-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2014.15
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Distributional Differential Privacy for Large-Scale Smart Metering. Ma rk Jelasity, Kenneth P. Birman. 2nd ACM Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop (IH&MMsec). pp 141 - 146. Salzburg, Austria. 2014
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206
A Brief Overview of the NEBULA Future Internet Architecture. Tom Anderson, Ken Birman, Robert Broberg, Matthew Caesar, Douglas Comer, Chase Cotton, Michael J. Freedman, Andreas Haeberlen, Zachary G. Ives, Arvind Krishnamurthy, William Lehr, Boon Thau Loo, David Mazires, Antonio Nicolosi, Jonathan M. Smith, Ion Stoica, Robbert van Renesse, Michael Walfish, Hakim Weatherspoon and Christopher S. Yoo. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 44, 3 (July 2014), 81-86. DOI=10.1145/2656877.2656889 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2656877.2656889
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In 2013
205
Evaluating Cloud Computing Techniques for Smart Power Grid Design Using Parallel Scripting . Ketan Maheshwari, Ken Birman, Justin M. Wozniakz, Devin Van Zandty. Proceedings of IEEE/ACM CCGrid. 2013
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204
Toward a reliable, secure and fault tolerant smart grid state estimation in the cloud . Ketan Maheshwari, Marcus Lim, Lydia Wan, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. Proceedings of IEEE/PES ISGT. pp 1-6. February 2013
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203
Integrated Approach To Data Center Power Management. Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman. IEEE Transactions on Computers. Volume 62, Issue 6, pp 1086-1096. June 2013.
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202
Application-Driven TCP Recovery . Robert Surton, Ken Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. June 24 - 27th, 2013. Budapest.
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201
Hosting Dynamic Data in the Cloud with Isis2 and the Ida DHT. Ken Birman and Heesung Sohn. ACM Workshop on Timely Results in Operating Systems (TRIOS), at SOSP. Pittsburgh. November, 2013.
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Ordering Transactions with Prediction in Distributed Object Stores. Ittay Eyal, Ken Birman, Idit Keidar (Technion) and Robbert van Renesse. Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems (LADIS), at SOSP. November, 2013, Pittsburgh.
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199
Compositional Gossip Protocols for Infrastructure Management. Lonnie Princehouse, Ken Birman, Nate Foster . Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems (LADIS), at SOSP. Pittsburgh. November, 2013,
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198
An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching. Qi Huang, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Wyatt Lloyd, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry Li. The 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP, 2013). November1- 4, 2013, Pittsburgh.
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In 2012
197
Overcoming CAP with Consistent Soft-State Replication. Kenneth P. Birman, Daniel A. Freedman, Qi Huang and Patrick Dowell. IEEE Computer Magazine (special issue on "The Growing Impact of the CAP Theorem"). Volume 45. pp. 50-58. February 2012.
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196
Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services . ( Texts in Computer Science). Kenneth P. Birman. Springer. 2012.
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195
Live Network Streaming with Utilities and Cost . Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Daniel A. Freedman, Qi Huang, Kristjan Jonsson, Gunnar Sigurbjornsson. LADIS'12, July 16-18, 2012, Madeira, Portugal
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In 2011
194
Routers for the Cloud. Can the Internet Achieve 5-Nines Availability? Andrei Agapi, Ken Birman, Robert Broberg, Chase Cotton, Thilo Kielmann, Martin Millnert, Rick Payne, Robert Surton, and Robbert VanRenesse. IEEE Internet Computing. Volume 15. Issue 5. pp.72 - 77. September, October 2011.
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193
Beyond Power Proportionality: Designing Power-Lean Cloud Storage . Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ken Birman. IEEE (NCA 2011)August 25 - 27, 2011. Cambridge MA.
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192
Running Smart Grid Control Software on Cloud Computing Architectures . Kenneth P. Birman, Lakshmi Ganesh, and Robbert van Renesse. Workshop on Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid, Cornell University, April 19-20, 2011. Ithaca, NY.
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191
Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Communication Between Data Centers . Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh. ACM Transactions on Networking. Volume 19, No 3. June 2011.
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190
Instrumentation for exact packet timings in networks . Daniel A. Freedman, Tudor Marian, Jennifer H. Lee, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Xu. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC '11). Binjiang, Hangzhou, China. May 10-12, 2011.
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In 2010
189
Virtually Synchronous Methodology for Dynamic Service Replication . Ken Birman, Dahlia Malkhi, Robbert van Renesse. Submitted for publication. November 18, 2010. Also available as Microsoft Research TechReport MSR-2010-151.
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188
Man-in-the-Middle TCP Recovery . Robert Surton, Ken Birman, Robert Broberg, Tudor Marian, Robbert van Renesse. Submitted for publication. Sept, 2010.
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187
Exact Temporal Characterization of 10 Gbps Optical Wide-area Network. Daniel A. Freedman, Tudor Marian, Jennifer H. Lee, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Chris Xu. 10th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC 2010). Melbourne, Australia. November 1-3, 2010.
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186
Kevlar: A Flexible Infrastructure for Wide-area Collaborative Applications . Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, and Bo Peng. ACM/IFIP/Usenix 11th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2010), Bangalore, India, Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2010.
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Empirical Characterization of Uncongested Optical Lambda Networks and 10GbE Commodity Endpoints . Tudor Marian, Daniel A. Freedman, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon. Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010) IEEE International Conference. June 28 - July 1, 2010. pp: 575-584.
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Enabling Tactical Edge Mashups with Live Objects . Daniel Freedman, Ken Birman, Krzys Ostrowski, Mark Linderman, Robert Hillman, Albert Frantz Proceedings of the 15th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS '10), Information Sharing and Collaboration Processes and Behaviors Track. Santa Monica, CA, USA. June 22-24, 2010. Best paper in track; Best paper in conference.
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Sources of Instability in Data Center Multicast . Dmitry Basin, Ken Birman, Idit Keidar, Ymir Vigfusson. ACM Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Zurich, Aug. 2010. LADIS 2010 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware.
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Dr. Multicast: Rx for Data Center Communication Scalability. Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robert Burgess, Haoyuan Li, Gregory Chockler, Yoav Tock Eurosys, April 2010 (Paris, France). ACM SIGOPS 2010, pp. 349-362.
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: A Patchwork of Multicast Regions. Qi Huang, Ken Birman, Ymir Vigfusson, Haoyuan Li. 4th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event0Based Systems (DEBS2010). Cambridge, United Kingdom. July 2010.
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Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications. Kenneth P. Birman. Springer. 2010.
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Self-Replicating Objects for Multicore Platform . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Chuck Sakoda, and Ken Birman. 24th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2010).LNCS Volume 6183/2010, 452-477 .
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History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model. Ken Birman. Appears in Replication:Theory and Practice. B. Charron-Bost, F. Pedone, A. Schiper (Eds) Springer Verlag, 2010. Replication, LNCS 5959, pp. 91-120, 2010.
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Code-Partitioning Gossip. Lonnie Princehouse and Ken Birman. 5th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 09). Big Sky, MT. 11 October 2009. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Volume 43 Issue 4, January 2010.
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Storing and Accessing Live Mashup Content in the Cloud. Krzysztof Ostrowski and Ken Birman. 3rd ACM SIGOPS International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2009). Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2010.
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In 2009
175
GO: Platform Support For Gossip Applications. Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak P. Nataraj. IEEE P2P 2009. Seattle, WA. September 9 - 11. pp: 222-231.
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174
Programming Live Distributed Objects with Distributed Data Flows . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, and Danny Dolev. Technical Report, March 2009.
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173
Implementing Reliable Event Streams in Large Systems via Distributed Data Flows and Recursive Delegation . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, DannyDolev, and Chuck Sakoda. 3rd ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2009). Nashville, TN, USA. July 6-9, 2009.
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WS-OBJECTS: Extending Service-Oriented Architecture with Hierarchical Composition of Client-Side Asynchronous Event-Processing Logic . Krzysztof Ostrowski and Ken Birman. 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009). Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 9-10, 2009. pp: 25-34.
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Live Distributed Objects for Service Oriented Collaboration. Ken Birman, Jared Cantwell, Daniel Freedman, Qi Huang, Petko Nikolov, Krzysztof Ostrowski. Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (Intetain '09), Demo Track. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 22, 2009.
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Slicing Distributed Systems. Vincent Gramoli, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Robbert van Renesse. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Autonomic Network Computing. Volume 58, Issue 11, pp 1444-1455. June 2009.
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Towards A Cloud Computing Research Agenda. Ken Birman, Gregory Chockler, Robbert van Renesse. ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column. Volume 40, Issue 2, pp 68-80. June 2009.
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Edge Mashups for Service-Oriented Collaboration . Ken Birman, Jared Cantwell, Daniel Freedman, Qi Huang, Petko Nikolov, and Krzysztof Ostrowski. IEEE Computer. Volume 42, No 5, pp 90-94. May 2009
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Building Collaboration Applications That Mix Web Services Hosted Content with P2P Protocols. Ken Birman, Jared Cantwell, Daniel Freedman, Qi Huang, Petko Nikolov, Krzysztof Ostrowski. In the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS). Los Angeles, CA. July 6-10, 2009.
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166
Sharing Private Information Across Distributed Databases. Siegenthaler, M. and Birman, K. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA09), Boston, MA, 9-11 July 2009.
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Privacy Enforcement for Distributed Healthcare Queries. Siegenthaler, M. and Birman, K. PervasiveHealth 2009, London, UK, 1-3 April 2009.
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Adaptive Gravitational Gossip: A Gossip-Based Communication Protocol with User-Selectable Rates. Kenneth Hopkinson, Kate Jenkins, Kenneth Birman, James Thorp, Gregory Toussaint, and Manu Parashar. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Volume 20, No. 12 , pp 1830 - 1843. February 2009.
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FWP: Featherweight User-Mode Processes with Fast Reflexes . Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakrishnan (Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley), Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. Technical Report. 2009.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance. Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan (MSR), and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09). San Francisco, CA. February 24-27, 2009.
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The Monoculture Risk Put into Context . Fred B. Schneider and Ken Birman. IEEE Security & Privacy. Volume 7, No. 1, pp 14-17. January/February 2009.
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Program Committee Overload in Systems . Ken Birman and Fred B. Schneider. Comm. of the ACM, Volume 52, No. 5, pp 34-37. February 2009
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In 2008
159
SOLO: Self Organizing Live Objects . Qi Huang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ken Birman. Technical Report. December 2008.
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158
Ajil: Distributed Rate-limiting for Multicast Networks. Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, and Mahesh Balakrishnan (Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley). Technical Report. December 2008.
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Using Live Distributed Objects for Office Automation. Jong Hoon Ahnn, Ken Birman, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Robbert van Renesse. In proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference. Leuven, Belgium. December 2008.
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Dr. Multicast: Rx for Data Center Communication Scalability. Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, and Yoav Tock. Cornell University Technical Report (TR 1813\11587). November 2008.
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Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability. Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Yoav Tock. HotNets VII: Seventh ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. October 6-7, 2008. Calgary, Canada.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Shadowing Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance. Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, and Ken Birman. Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS). September 15-17, 2008. Yorktown, NY.
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153
Sliver: A Fast Distributed Slicing Algorithm (Brief Announcement). Vincent Gramoli, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Robbert van Renesse. Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC). Toronto, Canada. August 2008.
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152
QuickSilver Scalable Multicast (QSM). Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2008). Cambridge, MA. July 2008.
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Programming with Live Distributed Objects. Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, and Jong Hoon Ahnn. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008). Cyprus. July 2008. J. Vitek, Ed. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5142. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 463-489.
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150
Supporting Scalability and Adaptability via ADAptive Middleware And Network Transports (ADAMANT) Joe Hoffert, Douglas Schmidt, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman. OMG Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. July 2008, Washington DC.
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149
SENSTRAC: Scalable Querying of SENSor Networks from Mobile Platforms Using TRACking-Style Queries. Stefan Pleisch and Ken Birman. International Journal of Sensor Networks. Volume 3 , Issue 4, pp 266-280. June 2008.
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148
Tempest: Soft State Replication in the Service Tier. Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-DCCS 2008), June 2008, Anchorage, AL.
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147
Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset. USENIX Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI 08). April 2008.
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In 2007
146
Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems . Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakrishnan and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). San Diego, CA. May 7-9, 2007.
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145
Ricochet: Lateral Error Correction for Time-Critical Multicast. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Amar Phanishayee, and Stefan Pleisch. In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI 07). Cambridge, MA. April 2007.
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144
Active and Passive Techniques for Group Size Estimation in Large-Scale and Dynamic Distributed Systems. Dionysios Kostoulas, Dimitrios Psaltoulis, Indranil Gupta, Kenneth P. Birman, Al Demers. Journal of Systems and Software. Volume 80, Issue 10, pp 1639-1658. October 2007.
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143
Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications . Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee. In Proceedings of the Second IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Communication System software and Middleware (COMSWARE). Bangalore, India. January 7-12, 2007.
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142
Extensible Architecture for High-Performance, Scalable, Reliable Publish-Subscribe Eventing and Notification . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, and Danny Dolev. International Journal of Web Services Research. Volume 4, No. 4, pp 18-58. October-December 2007.
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141
Sliver: A Fast Distributed Slicing Algorithm. Vincent Gramoli, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Robbert van Renesse. Technical Report. December 2007.
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140
Declarative Reliable Multi-Party Protocols Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Cornell University Technical Report (TR2007-2088). April, 2007.
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139
Implementing High-Performance Multicast in a Managed Environment Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Cornell University Technical Report (TR2007-2088). April, 2007.
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138
The promise, and limitations, of gossip protocols. K.P. Birman. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 41, 5 (October 2007), 8-13. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1317379.1317382
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137
Exploiting Gossip for Self-Management in Scalable Event Notification Systems. Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Marin Bertier, Danny Dolev, Robbert Van Renesse. Distributed Event Processing Systems and Architecture Workshop (DEPSA). June 2007.
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136
Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, and Danny Dolev. IEEE Internet Computing, volume 11, issue 6, pages 72-78. November-December 2007
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In 2006
135
Scalable Publish-Subscribe in a Managed Framework. Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman. Cornell Technical Report (TR2007-2086). October, 2006.
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134
The QuickSilver Properties Framework . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Abstract, presented at the OSDI'06 poster session, Seattle, WA, November 2006.
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133
A Scalable Services Architecture . Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006). Leeds, UK. October 2006.
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132
Properties Framework and Typed Endpoints for Scalable Group Communication . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Cornell University Technical Report TR2006-2062 (July, 2006).
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131
Scalable Group Communication System for Scalable Trust . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman. In Proceedings of The First ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (ACM STC 2006). Fairfax, VA. November 3, 2006.
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130
PLATO:Predictive Latency-Aware Total Ordering. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, and Amar Phanishayee. In Proceedings of the SRDS 2006: 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Leeds, UK. October 2006.
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129
Cognitive Adaptive Radio Teams . Richard Lau, Stephanie Demers, Yibei Ling, Bruce Siegell, Einar Vollset, Ken Birman, Robbert vanRenesse, Howie Shrobe, Jonathan Bachrach, Lester Foster. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, (IWWAN 2006). New York, NY. June 2006.
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128
Network-Aware Adaptation Techniques for Mobile File Systems. Benjamin Atkin, Ken Birman. In Proceedings of the The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06). Cambridge, MA. June 2006.
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127
QuickSilver Scalable Multicast. Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, and Amar Phanishayee. Cornell University Technical Report TR2006-2063 (April, 2006).
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126
Reliable Multicast for Time-Critical Systems. Mahesh Balakrishnan and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Applied Software Reliability (WASR 2006), Philadelphia, PA. June 2006.
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125
How the Hidden Hand Shapes the Market for Software Reliability. Ken Birman, Coimbatore Chandersekaran, Danny Dolev, and Robbert van Renesse. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Applied Software Reliability, Philadelphia, PA. June 2006.
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124
Extensible Web Services Architecture for Notification in Large-Scale Systems . Krzysztof Ostrowski and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006). Chicago, IL, September 2006.
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123
The Untrustworthy Services Revolution. Ken Birman. IEEE Computer (ISSN 0018-9162). Volume 39, No. 2, pp 98-100. February 2006.
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122
Navigating in the Storm: Using Astrolabe to Adaptively Configure Web Services and Their Clients . Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, and Werner Vogels. Cluster Computing Special Issue: Autonomic Computing. (ISSN 1386-7857 (Paper) 1573-7543 (Online)). Volume 9, No. 2, pp 127-139. April 2006.
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121
Mistral: Efficient Flooding in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. S. Pleisch, M. Balakrishnan, K. Birman, and R. van Renesse. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2006). Florence, Italy May 2006.
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120
Autonomic Computing - A System-Wide Perspective. Robbert van Renesse and Kenneth P. Birman. "Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications". pp 35-48. ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, CRC press. January 2006.
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119
SENSTRAC: Scalable Querying of SENSor Networks from Mobile Platforms Using TRACking-Style Queries. Stefan Pleisch and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of The Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems. Vancouver, Canada. October, 2006.
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118
EPOCHS: Integrated Off the Shelf Software For Agent-Based Electric Power And Communication Simulation . Hopkinson, K.M.; Giovanini, R.; Wang, X.; Birman, K.P.; Coury, D.V.;Thorp, J.S. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, later published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Volume 21, No. 2, pp 548 - 558. February 2006.
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117
EPOCHS: Integrated Commercial Off the Shelf Software For Agent-Based Electric Power And Communication Simulation Hopkinson, K.M.; Giovanini, R.; Wang, X.; Birman, K.P.; Coury, D.V.;Thorp, J.S. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, later published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol 21, No. 2 (Feb 2006, pp 548 - 558).
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In 2005
116
The Power of Indirection: Achieving Multicast Scalability by Mapping Groups to Regional Underlays . Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, and Amar Phanishayee. Cornell University Technical Report TR2006-2064 (November, 2005).
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114
Slingshot: Time-Critical Multicast for Clustered Applications. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Stefan Pleisch, Ken Birman. IEEE Network Computing and Applications 2005 (NCA 05). Boston, MA
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113
Decentralized Schemes for Size Estimation in Large and Dynamic Groups . Dionysios Kostoulas, Dimitrios Psaltoulis, Indranil Gupta, Ken Birman, Al Demers. IEEE Network Computing and Applications 2005 (NCA 05). October, 2005, Boston, MA.
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112
Reliable Distributed Systems Technologies, Web Services, and Applications . Birman, Kenneth P. 2005, XXXVI, 668 p. 145 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 0-387-21509-3
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111
Building network-centric military applications over service oriented architectures. Kenneth Birman, Robert Hillman, Stefan Pleisch. SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2005. March 29-31, 2005. Orlando, Florida.
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110
Overcoming Communications Challenges in Software for Monitoring and Controlling Power Systems. Kenneth P. Birman, Jie Chen, Kenneth M. Hopkinson, Robert J. Thomas, James S. Thorp, Robbert van Renesse, and Werner Vogels. Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 9, No. 5. May 2005.
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In 2004
109
Bringing Autonomic, Self-Regenerative Technology into Large Data Centers . Kenneth Birman. New Developments in Software Development Workshop, (NDIST 04), Dec. 7-10, 2004, St. John, US Virgin Islands.
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107
Like it or not, Web Services are Distributed Objects! K.P. Birman, Communications of the ACM, December 2004, Vol.47, No.12, pg 60-62.
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106
Practical algorithms for Size estimation in Large and Dynamic groups . D. Psaltoulis, D. Kostoulas, I. Gupta, K. Birman, A. Demers. February 2004.
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105
Adding High Availability and Autonomic Behavior to Web Services. Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Werner Vogels. In the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004). May 23 - 28, 2004. Edinburgh, Scotland.
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In 2003
103
A Churn-Resistant Peer-to-Peer Web Caching System . Prakash Linga, Indranil Gupta, Ken Birman. ACM Workshop on Survivable and Self-Regenerative Systems, October 2003.
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102
Navigating in the Storm: Using Astrolabe for Distributed Self-Configuration, Monitoring and Adaptation Ken Birman , Robbert van Renesse, Werner Vogels. 5th Annual International Active Middleware Workshop (AMS 2003), Seattle , WA June 2003.
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101
Heterogeneity-Aware Peer-to-Peer Multicast. Robbert van Renesse, Ken Birman, Adrian Bozdog, Dan Dumitriu, Manpreet Singh and Werner Vogels. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2003). October 2003. Sorrento, Italy
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100
Kelips: Building an Efficient and Stable P2P DHT Through Increased Memory and Background Overhead. Indranil Gupta, Ken Birman, Prakash Linga, Al Demers and Robbert van Renesse. 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03); February 20-21, 2003. Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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99
Evaluation of an Adaptive Transport Protocol. Benjamin Atkin and Kenneth P. Birman. ACM INFOCOM 2003, April 1-3 2003, San Francisco.
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98
Astrolabe: A Robust and Scalable Technology for Distributed System Monitoring, Management, and Data Mining . Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth Birman and Werner Vogels. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 2003, Vol.21, No. 2, pp 164-206
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In 2002
97
The Power of Epidemics: Robust Communication for Large-Scale Distributed Systems . Werner Vogels, Robbert van Renesse and Ken Birman. In Proceedings of HotNets-I '02: First Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, special issue of the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Princeton, NJ. October 2002.
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96
Fighting fire with fire: using randomized gossip to combat stochastic scalability limits . Indranil Gupta, Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse. In Special Issue Journal Quality and Reliability Engineering International: Secure, Reliable Computer and Network Systems (ed. Nong Ye), vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 165-184, May/June 2002
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95
The Surprising Power of Epidemic Communication. Kenneth Birman. Proceedings, Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo 2002). Bertinoro, Italy (June 2002). Springer-Verlag.
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94
Holistic Operations in Large-Scale Sensor Network Systems: a Probabilistic Peer-to-Peer Approach. Indranil Gupta & Kenneth Birman. In Proceedings, International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo). June 2002. pp. 1-4.
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93
Scalable Management and Data Mining Using Astrolabe . van Renesse, Robbert, Birman, Kenneth P., Dumitriu, Dan and Vogel, Werner. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS). Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 2002.
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92
A Collaborative Infrastructure for Scalable and Robust News Delivery. Werner Vogels, Chris Re, Robbert van Renesse and Ken Birman. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Resource Sharing in Massively Distributed Systems (RESH'02), Vienna, Austria, July 2002.
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91
Scalable Data Fusion Using Astrolabe . Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse and Werner Vogels. In proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Fusion 2002 (IF 2002), July 2002.
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90
Optimizing Buffer Management for Reliable Multicast . Zhen Xiao, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth Birman. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '02), June 2002.
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89
An Agent-based Current Differential Relay for use with a Utility Intranet . D.V. Coury, J.S. Thorp, K.M. Hopkinson, K.P. Birman. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, January 22, 2002, Vol. 17, No 1, pp 47-53.
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88
Using AVL Trees for Fault-Tolerant Group Key Management . Ohad Rodeh, Kenneth P. Birman, Danny Dolev. International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Vol. 1, No 2, pp 84-99, February 2002; Published online: October 26, 2001.
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In 2001
87
The Architecture and Performance of the Security Protocols in the Ensemble Group Communication System . Ohad Rodeh, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Journal of ACM Transactions on Information Systems and Security (TISSEC). Vol. 4, No 3, pp 289-319, Aug 2001
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86
Scalable Fault-tolerant Aggregation in Large Process Groups . Indranil Gupta, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '01) Gothenberg, Sweden, July 2001.
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85
Technology Requirements for Virtual Overlay Networks . Ken Birman. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Special issue on Information Assurance, Vol. 31, No 4, pp 319-327, July 2001.
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84
Spinglass: Secure and Scalable Communications Tools for Mission-Critical Computing. Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse and Werner Vogels. International Survivability Conference and Exposition. DARPA DISCEX-2001, Anaheim, California, June 2001.
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83
A Gossip Protocol for Subgroup Multicast . Kate Jenkins, Ken Hopkins and Ken Birman. International Workshop on Applied Reliable Group Communication (WARGC 2001), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.
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82
Providing Efficient, Robust Error Recovery Through Randomization . Zhen Xiao and Ken Birman. International Workshop on Applied Reliable Group Communication (WARGC 2001), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.
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81
Anonymous Gossip: Improving Multicast Reliability in Ad-Hoc Networks . Ranveer Chandra, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Ken Birman. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.
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80
A Randomized Error Recovery Algorithm for Reliable Multicast . Zhen Xiao and Ken Birman. IEEE Infocom 2001, April 2001, Alaska.
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79
Improving the Protection of EHV Teed Feeders Using Local Agents . Coury, D.V.; Thorp, J.S.; Hopkinson, K.M. & Birman, K.P. IEEE Seventh International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection, 9 - 12 April 2001, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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78
Using Epidemic Techniques for Building Ultra-Scalable Reliable Communications Systems . Werner Vogels, Robbert van Renesse, and Ken Birman. Workshop on New visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications, Vienna, VA, March 2001.
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In 2000
77
A Probabilistically Correct Leader Election Protocol for Large Groups . Indranil Gupta, Robbert Van Renesse, Ken Birman, DISC 2000, Toledo, Spain, October 4-6, 2000.
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76
Next Generation Internet: Unsafe at Any Speed? Ken Birman. IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Infrastructure Protection, Vol. 33, No 8, pp 54-88, August 2000.
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75
Throughput Stability of Reliable Multicast Protocols . Oznur Ozkasap, Ken Birman. ADVIS' 2000, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, October 25-27, 2000.
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74
A Dynamic Light-Weight Group Service . Luis Rodrigues, Katherine Guo, Paulo Verissimo, and Kenneth P. Birman. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 60, 1449-1479 (2000).
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73
A Simulation Model for an Epidemic Multicast Protocol . Oznur Ozkasap and Ken Birman. BAS2000 Conference (5th Computer Networks Symposium), Bilkent University, Ankark, Turkey, June 15-16, 2000.
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72
Technology Challenges for Virtual Overlay Networks . Ken Birman. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Information Assurance and Security Workshop, June 6-7, 2000, West Point, New York.
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71
A Study of Group Rekeying . Ohad Rodeh, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev. Cornell University, Computer Science TR2000-1791, March 2000.
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70
Agent Technology Applied to Adaptive Relay Settings for Multi-Terminal Lines . D.V. Coury, J.S. Thorp, K.M. Hopkinson, K.P. Birman, 2000 IEEE PES Summer Meeting, 16 - 20 of July 2000, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Optimized Group Rekey for Group Communication Systems . Ohad Rodeh, Ken Birman, and Danny Dolev, Network and Distributed System Security 2000, February 2000, San Diego, California. (Extended version available as Cornell University, Computer Science TR99-1764.)
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68
The Horus and Ensemble Projects: Accomplishments and Limitations . Ken Birman, Robert Constable, Mark Hayden, Christopher Kreitz, Ohad Rodeh, Robbert van Renesse, Werner Vogels. Proc. of the DARPA Information Survivability Conference & Exposition (DISCEX '00), January 25-27 2000 in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
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In 1999
67
Building Reliable, High-Performance Communication Systems from Components . Xiaoming Liu, Christoph Kreitz, Robbert van Renesse, Jason Hickey, Mark Hayden, Ken Birman, and Robert Constable. In Proc. of the 17 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Kiawah Island Resort, SC, December 1999.
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66
Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols . Ozkasap, Oznur, van Renesse, Robbert, Birman, Kenneth and Xiao, Zhen Lecture notes in Computer Science 1736, Springer Verlag, pp 159-169. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Networked Group Commun ication.(NGC99) Pisa, Italy. (November 1999).
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65
A Review of Experiences with Reliable Multicast . K. P. Birman Software Practice and Experience Vol. 29, No. 9, pp, 741-774, July 1999.
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64
Casually Ordered Multicast: The Conservative Approach . Michael Kalantar and Ken Birman. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '99), July 1999.
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63
Bimodal Multicast . Kenneth P. Birman, Mark Hayden, Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, Mihai Budiu and Yaron Minsky. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp 41-88, May, 1999.
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In 1998
62
Six Misconceptions about Reliable Distributed Computing. K. Birman, W. Vogels, R. van Renesse. Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGOPS European Workshop. Sintra, Portugal, September 1998.
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61
Building Adaptive Systems Using Ensemble. Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Mark Hayden, Alexey Vaysburd, and David Karr. Software--Practice and Experience. Vol28, No. 9, pp, 963-979, August 1998.
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60
The Maestro Approach to Building Reliable Interoperable Distributed Applications with Multiple Execution Styles . Alexey Vaysburd and Ken Birman. Theory and Practice of Object Systems. 1998. 4:2.
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59
The Design and Architecture of the Microsoft Cluster Service -- A Practical Approach to High-Availability and Scalability . K. Birman, W. Vogels, D. Dumitriu, R. Gamache, R. Short, J. Vert, M. Massa, J. Barrera, J. Gray. Proc. of the 28th symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Munich, Germany, June 1998.
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Reliable Multicast Goes Mainstream . Kenneth P. Birman IEEE TCOS Spring 1998 Bulletin, Vol. 10, No 1, pp. 12-26, Feb 1998
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57
Middleware Support for Distributed Multimedia and Collaborative Computing . K. Birman, R. Friedman, M. Hayden, I. Rhee. ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference, 1998.
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In 1997
56
GSGC: An Efficient Gossip-Style Garbage Collection Scheme for Scalable Reliable Multicast . Katherine Guo, Mark Hayden, Werner Vogels, Robbert van Renesse, and Ken Birman. Technical Report Department of Computer Science Cornell University CS-TR-97-1656, December 1997.
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55
Hierarchical Message Stability Tracking Protocols . Katherine Guo, Werner Vogels, Robbert van Renesse, and Ken Birman. Technical Report Department of Computer Science Cornell University, CS-TR-971647, September 1997.
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Moving the Ensemble Groupware System to Windows NT and Wolfpack . K. Birman, W. Vogels, K. Guo, M. Hayden, T. Hickey, R. Friedman, S. Maffeis, R. van Renesse, A. Vaysburd. Proc. of USENIX Windows NT Workshop, Seattle, WA. August 11-13, 1997.
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In 1996
53
Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications . Ken Birman. (book) Manning Publications and Prentice Hall. Dec 1996.
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52
A transparent light-weight group service . L. Rodrigues, K. Guo, A. Sargento, R. van Renesse, B. Glade, P. Verissimo and K.P. Birman. In Proc. of the 16 IEEE Symp. On Reliable Distributed Systems. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, Ontario. . October 1996.
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Software for Reliable Networks . K. Birman and R. van Renesse. Scientific American, May 1996, 274(5): 64-69.
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Horus: A Flexible Group Communications System . R. van Renesse, S. Maffeis, and K. Birman. Communications of the ACM. 39(4):76-83. Apr 1996.
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In 1995
49
The Design and Implementation of a Private Message Service for Mobile Computers . D. Cooper and K. Birman. WINET: Journal of Wireless Network; Issue - Recent Advances in Wireless Networking Technology, 1(3), 297-309, Oct 1995.
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David A. Cooper and Kenneth P. Birman. 1995. The design and implementation of a private message service for mobile computers. Wirel. Netw. 1, 3 (August 1995), 297-309. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01200848
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A Framework for Protocol Composition in Horus . Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Roy Friedman, Mark Hayden, Mark and David A. Karr. Proc. of the 14th ACM Conf. on Principles of Distributed Computing. 80-89. August 1995.
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Theory and Practice in Distributed Systems: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 5 - 9, 1994. Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Kenneth P. Birman, Friedemann Mattern and Andre Schiper (Eds.) Springer. 1995.
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45
Reliability Through Consistency . Bradford Glade. K. Birman. IEEE Software (Special Issue on Safety and Reliability), May 1995.
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44
Preserving Privacy in Network of Mobile Computers . Cooper and Birman. Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy. Oakland, CA.
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In 1994
43
A Group Communication Approach for Mobile Computing . K. Birman & K. Cho. Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. Santa Cruz, California, Dec 8-9, 1994.
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A Security Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Systems . M. Reiter, K. Birman and R. van Renesse. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 12 (4):340-371, Nov 1994.
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A Response to Cheriton and Skeen's Criticism of Causal and Totally Ordered Communication . K. Birman. Operating Systems Review, Jan 1994, Vol. 28, No. 1.
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Fault-Tolerant Programming using Process Groups . Distributed Open Systems, R. van Renesse and K. Birman. Jan 1994, 96-112
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Reliable Distributed Computing with the Isis Toolkit . Kenneth P. Birman and Robbert Van Renesse. IEEE Computer Society Press. Los Alamitos, Ca. 1994.
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Light-Weight Process Groups in the ISIS System . B. Glade, R. Cooper, R. van Renesse and K. Birman. Distributed Systems Engineering. Mar 1994. 1:29-36.
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How to Securely Replicate Services . M. Reiter and K. Birman. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, May 1994, 16(3): 986-1009.
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Integrating Runtime Consistency Models for Distributed Systems. Kenneth Birman. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Nov 1994, 23:158-176. Currently Technical Report 91-1240 at Cornell University.
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In 1993
35
Lightweight process groups in the Isis system . Brad B. Glade, Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert C.B. Cooper and Robbert van Renesse. Distributed Systems Engineering Journal. July 1993.
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The Process Group Approach to Reliable Distributed Computing . Kenneth Birman. Communications of the ACM, Dec 1993, 36(12):37-53.
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In 1992
33
The Cost of Order in Asynchronous Systems . K. Birman, A. Ricciardi and P. Stephenson. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1992.
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Reliable Multicast between Microkernels . K. Birman, R. van Renesse, R. Cooper, B. Glade and P. Stephenson. Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Micro-Kernels and Other Kernel Architectures, Seattle, Washington, Apr 27-28, 1992, 269-283.
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Lightweight process groups. Brad B. Glade, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert C. Cooper, and Robbert van Renesse. In Proc. of the Open Forum '92 Technical Conf. pp. 323-336, Utrecht, The Netherlands. November 1992.
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Reliable multicast between microkernels . Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Robert Cooper, Brad Glade and Patrick Stephenson. In Proc. of the USENIX workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures. pp. 269-284, Seattle, WA. April 1992.
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Integrating Security in a Group Oriented Distributed System . K. Birman, M. Reiter and L. Gong. 1992 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 4-6, 1992, 18-32.
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In 1991
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Lightweight Causal and Atomic Group Multicast . K. Birman, A. Schiper and P. Stephenson. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Aug 1991, (3):272-314.
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Tools for Distributed Application Managemen t. K. Marzullo, M. Wood, K. Birman and R. Cooper. IEEE Computer, Aug. 1991, 24(8):42-51.
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The ISIS Project: Real Experience with a Fault Tolerant Programming System. K. Birman and R. Cooper. Operating Systems Review, Apr 1991, 103-107,
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In 1990
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Communication Support for Reliable Distributed Computing Lecture Notes in Computer Science. K. Birman and T. Joseph. 124-137, (1990)
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The ISIS Project: Real Experience with a Fault Tolerant Programming System . K. Birman, R. Cooper. ACM/SIGOPS European Workshop on Fault-Tolerance Techniques in Operating Systems, Bologna, Italy, 1990.
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In 1989
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A Brief Overview of The ISIS Distributed Programming Toolkit and The Meta Distributed Operating System . K. Birman and K. Marzullo. 1989 Workshop on Operating Systems for Mission Critical Computing, for the Institute for Defense Analyses, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Sep 1989.
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Supporting Large Scale Applications on Networks of Workstations . K. Birman and R. Cooper. Second Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems, Asilomar, California, Sep 1989.
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In 1987
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Reliable communication in presence of failures . Kenneth P..Birman, Thomas.A.Joseph. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, Feb. 1987
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Protocols in Large Workstation Networks: A Position Statement . K. Birman and A. Gopal. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov 1987.
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Fault-Tolerant Process Groups - A Tool for Building Effective Distributed Software . K. Birman and T. A. Joseph. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov 1987.
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RNFS - A Highly Available Network File Service . K. Birman with S. Armstrong et. al. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1987.
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Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems . K. Birman and T. Joseph. 11 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec 1987,
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In 1986
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Low Cost Management of Replicated Data in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. T. Joseph and K. Birman. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 4, 1 Feb.1986.
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Communication Support for Reliable Distributed Computing . Ken Birman and T. Joseph. Proc. Asilomar Workshop on Fault Tolerant Distributed Computing, March 1986,
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In 1985
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Replication and Fault-Tolerance in the ISIS System . K. Birman. 10th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec 1985, 79-86.
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In 1984
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Implementing Fault-Tolerant Distributed Objects . K. Birman, T. Joseph, T. Raeuchle, and A. El Abbadi. 4 Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Systems and Database Systems, Silver Springs, Maryland, Oct 1984, SE-11, 6, 502-508,
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A Programming Environment for Multichannel Signal Processing . K. Birman. Proc. Computers in Cardiology, Utah, Sep 1984, 189-200.
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MDB-1: A New System for Data Management in Medical Environments . K. Birman, G. Joskowicz, et. Al. Proc. Computers in Cardiology, Utah, Sep 1984, 309-312,
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In 1981
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The Relationship Between Signal Representation and Learning in ECG Analysis . K. Birman. Proc. Computers in Cardiology, Oct 1981, 355-358.
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Unspecified
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Ricochet: Low-Latency Multicast for Scalable Time-Critical Services . Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Amar Phanishayee, and Stefan Pleisch. Cornell University Technical Report.
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Scalable, Self-Organizing Technology for Sensor Networks. Kenneth P. Birman, Saikat Guha, Rohan Murty. Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking , Bulent Yeler, ed. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. New York, NY, Pg. 1-15.
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Building Scalable Solutions to Distributed Computing Problems using Probabilistic Components . Kenneth P. Birman and Indranil Gupta. Cornell Technical Report.
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MFS: an Adaptive Distributed File System for Mobile Hosts. Benjamin Atkin and Kenneth P. Birman. Cornell University Technical Report
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Virtual Synchrony. The Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing . K. Birman. Joseph Urban and Partha Dasgupta, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Scalability of Two Reliable Multicast Protocols . Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, and Kenneth P. Birman. TR99-1748, Cornell University.
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Building Reliable Adaptive Distributed Objects with the Maestro Tools . Alexey Vaysburd and Ken Birman. Workshop on Dependable Distributed Object Systems, OOPSLA'97
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Group Communication Technology to Implement a Reliable and Scalable Distributed IN Coprocessor . K. Birman & R. Friedman. TINA '96, (Sept).
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