Ant Rowstron
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Full List of publications:
2012
Paolo Costa, Austin Donnelly, Ant Rowstron, Greg O'Shea. "Camdoop:
Exploiting In-network Aggregation for Big Data Applications".
Proceedings NSDI, April, 2012
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2011
Hitesh Ballani, Paolo Costa, Thomas Karagiannis, and Ant Rowstron. "The
Price Is Right: Towards Location-independent Costs in Datacenters".
Proceedings HotNets, Nov. 2011 [
pdf ]
H. Ballani, P. Costa, T. Karagiannis and A. Rowstron. "Towards
Predictable Datacenter Networks ". Proceedings ACM Sigcomm, Aug
2011. [
pdf ]
C. Wilson, H. Ballani, T. Karagiannis and A. Rowstron. "Better Never
than Late: Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks". Proceedings
ACM Sigcomm, Aug 2011. [
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2010
H. Abu-Libdeh, P. Costa, A. Rowstron, G. O'Shea and A. Donnelly.
"Symbiotic routing in future data centers" . Proceedings ACM
Sigcomm, Aug 2010. [
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T. Karagiannis, C. Gkantsidis, D. Narayanan and A. Rowstron.
"Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail Services" .
Proceedings ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, June 2010. [
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2009
P. Costa, T. Zhan, A. Rowstron, G. O'Shea and S. Schubert.
"Why should we integrate services, servers, and networking in a Data
Center?" Proceedings of WREN, August 2009. [
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D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, E. Thereska, S. Elnikety and A. Rowstron. "Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs" Proceedings of EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2009. [ pdf]
T. Zhan, G. O'Shea and A. Rowstron, "Feasibility of Content Dissemination between Devices in Moving Vehicles " Proceedings of CoNext, Dec 2009. [ pdf ]
2008
D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, E. Thereska, S. Elnikety and A. Rowstron. "Everest: Scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading " Proceedings of OSDI 2008, San Francisco, USA Dec. 2008 [ pdf ]
D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, A. Rowstron. "Write Off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage" Proceedings of 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb. 2008. [ pdf ] (forwarded to ACM TOS)T. Karagiannis, R. Mortier and A. Rowstron. "Network exception handlers: host-network control in enterprise networks" Proceedings of Sigcomm 2008, Seattle, USA Aug. 2008 [ pdf ]
N. Vratonjic, P. Gupta, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, and A. Rowstron.
"Enabling DVD-like Features in P2P Video-on-demand Systems." In Proc.
of the SIGCOMM Peer-to-Peer Streaming and IP-TV
Workshop, 2007. [
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2006
D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, R. Mortier, A. Rowstron. "Delay Aware
Querying with Seaweed" Proceedings of 32nd International Conference
on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2006), September 2006 [
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Special Issue: Best of VLDB 2006)
R. Mortier, D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, and A. Rowstron, "Seaweed:
Distributed Scalable Ad Hoc Querying", NetDB'06, Atlanta, GA, USA,
April 2006. [
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M. Caesar, M. Castro, E. Nightingale, G. O'Shea and A. Rowstron,
"Virtual Ring Routing: Network routing inspired by DHTs", Sigcomm
2006, Italy, September 2006. [
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M. Castro, G. O'Shea and A. Rowstron, "Zero Servers With Zero Broadcasts", MobiShare 2006, LA, USA, September 2006 [ pdf ]
Landon P. Cox, Miguel Castro, and Antony Rowstron, "POS: Practical
Order Statistics for Wireless Sensor Networks", 26th IEEE ICDCS,
Portugal, July 2006
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2005
M. Costa, J. Crowcroft, M. Castro, A. Rowstron, L. Zhou, L. Zhang,
and P. Barham, "Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet
Worms", SOSP'05, Brighton, UK, October 2005. [
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M. Castro, M. Costa, and A. Rowstron, "Debunking some myths about
structured and unstructured overlays", NSDI'05, Boston, MA, USA, May
2005. [
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L. Zhuang, F. Zhou, B. Y. Zhao and A. Rowstron, "Cashmere: Resilient Anonymous Routing", NSDI'05, Boston, MA, USA, May 2005. [ ps | pdf ]
2004
M. Costa, J. Crowcroft, M. Castro and A. Rowstron, "Can we contain
Internet worms?", HotNets III, San Diego, California, USA,
November 2004. [
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A. Singh, M. Castro, P. Druschel and A. Rowstron, "Defending against
Eclipse attacks on overlay networks",
SIGOPS European Workshop,
Leuven, Belgium, Sept. 2004. [
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M. Costa, M. Castro, A. Rowstron, and P. Key, "PIC: Practical
Internet Coordinates for Distance Estimation", ICDCS, Tokyo,
Japan, March 2004. [
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Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa and Antony Rowstron, "Performance and
Dependability of structured peer-to-peer overlays",
DSN-2004,
Florence, Italy, (June 2004) (Also available as MSR-TR-2003-94
(December 2003) [
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2003
M. Castro, M. Costa and A. Rowstron, "Should we build Gnutella on a
structured overlay?" HotNets-II, Cambridge, MA, USA, November
2003. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, A-M. Kermarrec, A. Nandi, A. Rowstron and A.
Singh, "SplitStream: High-bandwidth multicast in a cooperative
environment", SOSP'03, Lake Bolton, New York, October, 2003.
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M. Castro, M. B. Jones, A-M. Kermarrec, A. Rowstron, M. Theimer, H.
Wang and A. Wolman, "An Evaluation of Scalable Application-level
Multicast Built Using Peer-to-peer overlays", Infocom 2003,
San Francisco, CA, April, 2003. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, A-M. Kermarrec, A. Nandi, A. Rowstron and A.
Singh, "SplitStream: High-bandwidth content distribution in a
cooperative environment", IPTPS'03, Berkeley, CA, February,
2003. [
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R. Mahajan, M. Castro and A. Rowstron, "Controlling the Cost of
Reliability in Peer-to-peer Overlays", IPTPS'03, Berkeley,
CA, Feb.
2003.
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A. Rowstron. Using mobile code to provide fault tolerance in tuple
space based coordination languages. Science of Computer
Programming, Vol. 46, Number 1-2, pages 137-162, Jan. 2003.
2002
Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Ayalvadi Ganesh, Antony Rowstron, and
Dan S. Wallach, "Security for structured peer-to-peer overlay
networks". In Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'02), Boston,
MA, December 2002. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, A-M. Kermarrec and A. Rowstron,
"SCRIBE: A large-scale and decentralised application-level multicast
infrastructure", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
(JSAC), Vol. 20, No, 8, October 2002. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, A-M. Kermarrec and A. Rowstron, "One ring to
rule them all: Service discover and binding in structured
peer-to-peer overlay networks", SIGOPS European Workshop,
France, September, 2002. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, Y. C. Hu and A. Rowstron, "Topology-aware
routing in structure peer-to-peer overlay network", International
Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo),
Bertinoro, Italy, June, 2002. [
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available as Technical report below)
S. Iyer, A. Rowstron and P. Druschel, "SQUIRREL: A decentralized, peer-to-peer web cache", 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2002), Monterey, CA, USA, July 2002. [ pdf.zip | ps.zip | pdf | ps ]
N. Busi, A. Rowstron and G. Zavattaro. State- and Event-based
Reactive Programming in Shared Dataspace, Coordination'02,
York, UK, April, 2002.
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2001
A. Rowstron, A-M. Kermarrec, P. Druschel and M. Castro, "SCRIBE: The design of a large-scale event notification infrastructure", NGC2001, UCL, London, November 2001. [ pdf.zip | ps.zip | pdf | ps ]
A. Rowstron and P. Druschel, "Storage management and caching in
PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility",
18th SOSP'01, Banff, Canada, October 2001. [
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A. Rowstron and P. Druschel, "Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems", Middleware'2001, Germany, November 2001. [ pdf.zip | ps.zip | pdf | ps ]
P. Druschel and A. Rowstron, "PAST: A large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility", HotOS VIII, Schoss Elmau, Germany, May 2001. [ pdf.zip | ps.zip | pdf | ps ]N. D. Lawrence, A. I. T. Rowstron, C. M. Bishop and M. J. Taylor. Optimising Synchronisation Times for Mobile Devices. NIPS, 2001. [.pdf]
A. Rowstron, N. Lawrence and C. Bishop. Probabilistic modelling of replica divergence, HotOS VIII, Schoss Elmau, Germany, May 2001. [.ps.gz]
A-M Kermarrec, A. Rowstron, M. Shapiro and P. Druschel. The IceCube approach to the reconciliation of divergent replicas, 20th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2001), 2001. [.pdf]
2000
M. Shapiro, A. Rowstron and A. Kermarrec. Application-independent reconciliation for nomadic applications. SIGOPS European Workshop "Beyond the PC: New Challenges for Operating Systems", pages 1-6, ISBN 87-7834-404-2, Kolding, Denmark, Sept. 2000. [.ps ]
A. Rowstron. Run-time Systems for Coordination. Coordination of
Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications. Eds. A.
Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klusch and R. Tolksdorf. Springer, pages
78-96, Aug. 2000 [contact me]
R. De Nicola, R. Pugliese and A. Rowstron. Proving the correctness
of optimising destructive and non-destructive reads over tuple
spaces. Coordination Languages and Models Coordination'00,
eds. A. Porto and G-C. Roman, pages 66-80, Springer-Verlag LNCS
1906, September, 2000.
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R. Tolksdorf and A. Rowstron. Evaluating fault tolerance methods for
large-scale Linda-like Systems. Proceedings of the 2000
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications, Vol. 2, pages 793-800, Las Vegas, USA, June, 2000.
[contact me]
A.Rowstron. Optimising the Linda in primitive: Understanding tuple-space run-times. Proceedings 2000 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, eds. J. Carroll, E. Damiani, H. Haddad and D. Oppenheim, Italy, pages 227-232, ACM press, 2000. [.ps.gz] Addendum to paper [.ps.gz]
A. Rowstron. Using agent wills to provide fault-tolerance in distributed shared memory systems. 8th EUROMICRO Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Rhodes, Greece, January, pages 317-324, IEEE Press, 2000. [.ps.gz]
T. Edmonds, A. Rowstron and A. Hopper. Using Time Encoded Terrain
Maps for Cooperation Planning. Journal of Advanced Robotics, The
Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 13, No. 8, pages 779-791, 2000.
[request]
1999
A. Rowstron and S. Wray. Run-Time System for WCL. Internet Programming Languages eds. H. Bal, B. Belkhouche and L. Cardelli, pages 78-96, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1968, 1999. [.ps.gz]
A. Rowstron. Mobile Co-ordination: Providing fault tolerance in
tuple space based co-ordination languages.. Coordination
Languages and Models (Coordination'99) eds. P.Ciancarini and P.
Wolf, pages 196-210, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1594, 1999.
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A. Rowstron, B. Bradshaw, D. Crosby, T. Edmonds, S. Hodges,
A.Hopper, S. Lloyd, J. Wang and S. Wray. CURF: Experiences in
Paris. RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, eds. M. Asada
and H. Kitano, pages 422-428, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1604, 1999.
[request]
1998
A. Rowstron. WCL: A co-ordination language for geographically distributed agents. World Wide Web Journal , Volume 1, Issue 3, pages 167-179, 1998. [.ps.gz]
A. Rowstron and A. Wood. Solving the Linda multiple rd problem using
the copy-collect primitive. Science of Computer Programming,
pages 335-358, Volume 31, Numbers 2-3, ISSN 0167-6423, July 1998.
Published by Elsevier.
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A. Rowstron and S. Wray. A Run-Time System for the Web Co-ordination
Language. Presented at the IEEE Workshop on Internet Programming
Languages, Chicago 1998. [Extend appears in LNCS 1968].
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A. Rowstron, B. Bradshaw, D. Crosby, T. Edmonds, S. Hodges, A.
Hopper, S. Lloyd, J. Wang and S. Wray. CURF: Cambridge University
Robot Football Team. RoboCup-98 Proceedings Pages 503-510,
1998.[request]
S. Hodges, D. Crosby, A. Rowstron, B. Bradshaw, T. Edmonds, A.
Hopper, S. Lloyd and J. Wang. Building and integrating a goalkeeper
robot for the small-size RoboCup competition. Proceedings of the
RoboCup Workshop, PRICAI Pages 145-154, 1998.[request]
1997
A. Rowstron. Using asynchronous tuple space access primitives
(BONITA primitives) for process co-ordination. Coordination
Languages and Models (Coordination'97), editors D. Garlan and D.
Le Metayer, pages 426-429. Published by Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1282,
1997.
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A. Rowstron, S.Li and R. Stefanova. C2AS: A System Supporting
Distributed Web Applications Composed of Collaborating Agents.
Proceedings 6th Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure
for Collaborative Enterprises, pages 127-132, 1997. Published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-7967-0.
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A. Rowstron and A. Wood. BONITA: A set of tuple space primitives for
distributed coordination. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, editors H.
El-Rewini and Y. Patt, Volume I, pages 379-388, 1997. Published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-7734-1.
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1996
A. Rowstron and A. Wood. An efficient distributed tuple space
implementation for networks of workstations Euro-Par'96,
editors L. Bouge, P. Fraigniaud, A. Mignotte and Y. Robert, pages
510-513. Published by Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1123, 1996.
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Rowstron and A. Wood. Solving the Linda multiple rd problem
Coordination Languages and Models, Proceedings of Coordination '96,
editors Paolo Ciancarini and Chris Hankin, pages 357-367. Published
by Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1061, 1996.
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1995
A. Rowstron, A. Douglas and A. Wood. A Distributed Linda-like Kernel
for PVM. EuroPVM'95, editors, J. Dongarra, M. Gengler,
B. Tourancheau, X. Vigouroux, pages 107-112, 1995. Published by
Hermes, ISBN:2-86601-497-9. [request]
A. Rowstron and A. Wood. Implementing Mathematical Morphology in
ISETL-LINDA. IEE 5th International Conference on Image Processing
and its applications, pages 847-851, 1995.[request]
Thesis
A. Rowstron Bulk Primitives in Linda run-time systems DPhil Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of York, 1996/1997. [.ps.gz]
Technical reports
M. Castro, M. Costa and A. Rowstron, "Performance and Dependability
of structured peer-to-peer overlays", Technical report
MSR-TR-2003-94,Dec
2003. [
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M. Castro, P. Druschel, Y. C. Hu and A. Rowstron, "Proximity neighbor selection in tree-based structured peer-to-peer overlays", Technical report MSR-TR-2003-52, 2003 [ pdf | ps ]
M. Castro, P. Druschel, Y. C. Hu and A. Rowstron, "Exploiting
network proximity in peer-to-peer overlay networks", Technical
report MSR-TR-2002-82, 2002. [
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A. Rowstron. Using the BONITA primitives: A case study. Computer
Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Technical Report 422, 1997.
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A. Rowstron and A. Wood. An Efficient Distributed Tuple Space Implementation for Networks of Heterogeneous Workstations. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Technical Report YCS-270, 1996. [.ps.gz]
A. Rowstron, A. Douglas and A. Wood. Copy-collect: A new primitive for Linda. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Technical Report YCS-268, 1996.[.ps.gz]
Recent papers:
Paolo Costa, Austin Donnelly,
Ant Rowstron, Greg O'Shea. "Camdoop: Exploiting In-network
Aggregation for Big Data Applications". Procedings NSDI, April, 2012
[ pdf ]
Vinod
Kone, Haitao Zheng, Ant Rowstron, Greg O'Shea and Ben Y. Zhao.
"Measurement-based Design of Roadside Content Delivery Systems". To
Appear: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2012
Hitesh Ballani, Paolo Costa, Thomas Karagiannis, and Ant Rowstron. "The
Price Is Right: Towards Location-independent Costs in Datacenters".
Proceedings HotNets, Nov. 2011
[
pdf ]
H. Ballani, P. Costa, T. Karagiannis and A. Rowstron. "Towards Predictable Datacenter Networks ". Proceedings ACM Sigcomm, Aug 2011. [ pdf ]
C. Wilson, H. Ballani, T. Karagiannis and A. Rowstron. "Better Never than Late: Meeting Deadlines in Datacenter Networks". Proceedings ACM Sigcomm, Aug 2011. [ pdf ]