HSSL Papers by Year

[By Project]

2007

A. Batsakis and R. Burns. NFS-CD: Write-Enabled Cooperative Caching in NFS. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Accepted 2007.
G. Atenies, R. Burns, R. Curtmola, J. Herring, L. Kissner, Z. Peterson, and D. Song. Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores. To appear at Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, 2007. (Longer version available as Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores. Cryptology ePrint Archive. Report 2007/202.)
E. Perlman, R. Burns, Y. Li, and C. Meneveau. Data Exploration of Turbulence Simulations using a Database Cluster. To appear at Supercomputing (SC07), ACM, IEEE, 2007.
M. Bolitho, M. Kazdhan, R. Burns, and H. Hoppe. Multilevel Streaming for Out-of-Core Surface Reconstruction. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, ACM, 2007.
X. Wang, R. Burns, and A. Terzis. Throughput-Optimized, Global-Scale Join Processing in Scientific Federations. Workshop On Networking Meets Databases (NetDB) , USENIX, 2007.
X. Wang, T. Malik, R. Burns, S. Papadomanolakis, and A. Ailamaki. A Workload-Driven Unit of Cache Replacement for Mid-Tier Database Caching. Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), IEEE, 2007.
Z. Peterson, R. Burns, G. Areniese, and S. Bono. Design and Implementation of Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System. File and Storage Technology (FAST), USENIX, 2007.
A. Batsakis, R. Burns, T. Talpey, A. Kanevsky, and J. Lentini. Enhancing the Linux Memory Architecture to Support File Systems over Heterogeneous Devices. Position paper at Linux File Systems and IO Workshop, USENIX, 2007.
T. Malik, R. Burns, N. Chawla. An Argument for a Black-Box Approach to Query-Result-Size Estimation. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), ACM, 2007.

2006

T. Malik, R. Burns, N. Chawla, and A. Szalay. Estimating Query Result Sizes for Proxy Caching in Scientific Database Federations . Supercomputing, (SC), ACM, IEEE, 2006.
R. Burns, A. Terzis, and M. Franklin. Design Tools for Sensor-Based Science. IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets), 2006.
C. Wu and R. Burns. Improving I/O Performance of Clustered Storage Systems by Adaptive Request Distribution. International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2006.
Z. N. J. Peterson and R. Burns. Building Regulatory-Compliant Storage Systems. Refereed project highlight. Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o), 2006.
B. Ball, R. Burns, B. Cucker, D. DiToro, T. Gross, M. Kemp, L, Murray, M. Piasecki, and I. Zaslavsky. Conceptual Design of a Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory (CBEO). Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H21F-1427, 2006.
S. Ozer, A. Szalay, J. Gray, A. Terzis, R. Musaloiu-E., K. Szlavecz, J. Cogan, and R. Burns. Data Analysis Tools for Sensor-Based Science. Demonstration paper. Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), ACM, 2006
R. Burns et al. Using Databases to Storage the Space-Time Histories of Turbulent Flows. Refereed presentation. Microsoft eScience Workshop, 2006.

2005

Z. N. J. Peterson, R. Burns, J. Herring, A. Stubblefield and A. Rubin. Secure Deletion for a Versioning File System. USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2005.
R. Burns, Z. Peterson, G. Ateniese and S. Bono. Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System. ACM CCS Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS), 2005.
A. Batsakis and R. Burns. Cluster Delegation: High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant Data Sharing in NFS. International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, (HPDC), 2005.
Z. N. J. Peterson and R. Burns. Ext3cow: A Time-Shifting File System for Regulatory Compliance. ACM Transactions on Storage, 1(2), 190-212, 2005.
T. Malik, R. Burns, and A. Chaudhary. Bypass Caching: Making Scientific Databases Good Network Citizens. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2005.
C. Wu and R. Burns. Adaptive and Tunable Randomization for Load Management in Shared-Disk Clusters. ACM Transactions on Storage, 1(1), 108-131, 2005.

2004

R. Burns. Fastpath Optimizations for Cluster Recovery in Shared-Disk Systems. Supercomputing (SC04), 2004.
Z. N. J. Peterson, R. Burns and A. Stubblefield. Limiting Liability in a Federally Compliant File System. PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Data in Medical, Financial, and Content-Distribution Systems, Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment (PORTIA), 2004. [Slides]
R. Burns, L. Stockmeyer, and D. Long. In-Place Reconstruction of Version Differences. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(1), 973-984, 2004.
C. Wu and R. Burns. Achieving Performance Consistency in Heterogeneous Clusters. High-Performance Distributed Computing Symposium (HPDC), 2004. [Slides]
K. Szlavecz, A. Szalay, A. Terzis, R. Musaloiu-E., S. Small, J. Cogan. R. Burns, J. Gray, S. Ozer. Building and end-to-end system for soil monitoring. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract H32B-02, 2004.

2003

A. Batsakis and R. Burns. NFSv4 as the Building Block for Fault Tolerant Applications. Workshop on NFS Extensions on Parallel Storage (NEPS), CITI, Univ. of Michigan, 2003.
Z.N.J. Peterson and R. Burns Ext3cow: The Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Metadata for a Time-Shifting File System. Technical Report HSSL-2003-03, Hopkins Storage Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
C. Wu and R. Burns. Handling Heterogeneity in Shared-Disk File Systems. Supercomputing (SC'03), 2003. [Slides]
D. Rasch and R. Burns. In-Place Rsync: File Synchronization for Mobile and Wireless Devices. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Freenix Track, 2003.
G. Whittle, J.-F. Paris, A. Amer, D. Long, and R. Burns. Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictions. IEEE Mass Storage Conference, 2003.

2002

M. Ajtai, R. Burns, R. Fagin, D. Long, and L. Stockmeyer. Compactly Encoding Unstructured Inputs with Differential Compression. Journal of the ACM, 39(3), 318-367, 2002.
A. Amer, D. Long, and R. Burns. Group-Based Management of Distributed File Caches. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS), 2002.
A. Amer, D. Long, J.-F. Paris, and R. Burns. File Access Prediction with Adjustable Accuracy. International Performance, Computing and Communication Conference) (IPCCC), 2002.
R. Burns, D. Long and L. Stockmeyer. Experimentally Evaluating In-Place Delta Reconstruction. IEEE Mass Storage Conference, 2002.

2001

R. Burns, R. Rees, and D. Long. Efficiently Distributing Data in a Web Server Farm. IEEE Internet Computing, 5(4), 56-65, 2001.
R. Burns, R. Rees, L. Stockmeyer, and D. Long. Scalable Session Locking for a Distributed File System. Cluster Computing Journal, 4(4), 295-306, 2001.