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My research interests are in distributed systems, with an emphasis of bridging theoretical foundations and practical systems. Here is a partial list of research projects I have been working on in the last several years: Boxwood, COCA, Eclipse, Kinesis, Nocturnal, and Vigilante.

Selected Publications:

Manuel Costa, Jon Crowcroft, Miguel Castro, Antony Rowstron, Lidong Zhou, Lintao Zhang and Paul Barham. Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom. October 23-26, 2005.

John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou: Boxwood: Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI 2004), December 6-8, 2004, San Francisco, California, USA. USENIX Association. Pages 105-120. (Slides)

Lidong Zhou, Fred B. Schneider, and Robbert van Renesse. APSS: Proactive Secret Sharing in Asynchronous Systems. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol. 8, No. 3, (August 2005), Pages 259-286. (PDF)

Fred B. Schneider and Lidong Zhou. Implementing Trustworthy Services Using Replicated State Machines. IEEE Security & Privacy. Volume 3, Number 5. September/October, 2005. Pages 34-43. (PDF)

Lidong Zhou, Fred B. Schneider, and Robbert van Renesse. COCA: A Secure Distributed On-line Certification Authority. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4 (November 2002), 329--368.

Dahlia Malkhi, Florin Oprea, and Lidong Zhou. Omega Meets Paxos: Leader Election and Stability without Eventual Timely Links. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2005), Cracow, Poland, September 2005. (Full version, MSR TR 2005-93),

Lidong Zhou and Zygmunt J. Haas. Securing Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Networks Special Issue on Network Security. November/December, 1999.

A more complete publication list can be found here.