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Mahesh Balakrishnan 0001
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- affiliation: Confluent
- affiliation (former): Facebook, Inc.
- affiliation (former): Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- affiliation (former): VMware Research
- affiliation (former): Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
- affiliation (PhD 2009): Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Other persons with the same name
- Mahesh Balakrishnan 0002 — Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
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2020 – today
- 2024
- [j12]Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Taming Consensus in the Wild (with the Shared Log Abstraction). ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 58(1): 1-6 (2024) - 2023
- [e1]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Manya Ghobadi:
20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, April 17-19, 2023. USENIX Association 2023 [contents] - 2022
- [j11]Audrey Cheng, Xiao Shi, Aaron N. Kabcenell
, Shilpa Lawande, Hamza Qadeer, Jason Chan, Harrison Tin, Ryan Zhao, Peter Bailis, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Nathan Bronson, Natacha Crooks
, Ion Stoica:
TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Networking Workloads. Proc. VLDB Endow. 15(9): 1965-1977 (2022) - [j10]Zhihan Guo, Xinyu Zeng
, Kan Wu, Wuh-Chwen Hwang, Ziwei Ren, Xiangyao Yu, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Philip A. Bernstein:
Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation. Proc. VLDB Endow. 16(2): 379-392 (2022) - 2021
- [c43]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Chen Shen, Ahmed Jafri, Suyog Mapara, David Geraghty, Jason Flinn, Vidhya Venkat, Ivailo Nedelchev, Santosh Ghosh, Mihir Dharamshi, Jingming Liu, Filip Gruszczynski, Jun Li, Rounak Tibrewal, Ali Zaveri, Rajeev Nagar, Ahmed Yossef, Francois Richard, Yee Jiun Song:
Log-structured Protocols in Delos. SOSP 2021: 538-552 - 2020
- [c42]Ennan Zhai, Ang Chen, Ruzica Piskac, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Bingchuan Tian, Bo Song, Haoliang Zhang:
Check before You Change: Preventing Correlated Failures in Service Updates. NSDI 2020: 575-589 - [c41]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Jason Flinn, Chen Shen, Mihir Dharamshi, Ahmed Jafri, Xiao Shi, Santosh Ghosh, Hazem Hassan, Aaryaman Sagar, Rhed Shi, Jingming Liu, Filip Gruszczynski, Xianan Zhang, Huy Hoang, Ahmed Yossef, Francois Richard, Yee Jiun Song:
Virtual Consensus in Delos. OSDI 2020: 617-632
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c40]Ji-Yong Shin
, Jieung Kim, Wolf Honoré
, Hernán Vanzetto, Srihari Radhakrishnan, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhong Shao
:
WormSpace: A Modular Foundation for Simple, Verifiable Distributed Systems. SoCC 2019: 299-311 - 2018
- [j9]Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera:
How to implement any concurrent data structure. Commun. ACM 61(12): 97-105 (2018) - [c39]Joshua Lockerman, Jose M. Faleiro, Juno Kim, Soham Sankaran, Daniel J. Abadi
, James Aspnes, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan:
The FuzzyLog: A Partially Ordered Shared Log. OSDI 2018: 357-372 - 2017
- [j8]Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera:
How to implement any concurrent data structure for modern servers. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 51(1): 24-32 (2017) - [j7]Ji-Yong Shin
, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon:
Isotope: ACID Transactions for Block Storage. ACM Trans. Storage 13(1): 4:1-4:25 (2017) - [c38]Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera:
Black-box Concurrent Data Structures for NUMA Architectures. ASPLOS 2017: 207-221 - [c37]Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera:
Brief Announcement: Black-Box Concurrent Data Structures for NUMA Architectures. DISC 2017: 45:1-45:3 - 2016
- [c36]Ji-Yong Shin
, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Jakub Szefer, Hakim Weatherspoon:
Towards Weakly Consistent Local Storage Systems. SoCC 2016: 294-306 - [c35]Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon:
Isotope: Transactional Isolation for Block Storage. FAST 2016: 23-37 - [c34]Sumedh Guha, Wen Wang, Shafeeq Ibraheem, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Jakub Szefer:
Design and implementation of open-source SATA III core for Stratix V FPGAs. FPT 2016: 237-240 - [c33]Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Petur Orri Ragnarsson, Juncheng Yang, Ymir Vigfusson, Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Enabling Space Elasticity in Storage Systems. SYSTOR 2016: 6:1-6:11 - 2014
- [j6]Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry, Ted Wobber:
Contrail: Decentralized and Privacy-Preserving Social Networks on Smartphones. IEEE Internet Comput. 18(5): 44-51 (2014) - [c32]Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Petur Orri Ragnarsson, Ymir Vigfusson, Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Harmonium: Elastic Cloud Storage via File Motifs. HotCloud 2014 - 2013
- [j5]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, John D. Davis, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Michael Wei, Ted Wobber:
CORFU: A distributed shared log. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 31(4): 10 (2013) - [c31]Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon:
Gecko: contention-oblivious disk arrays for cloud storage. FAST 2013: 285-298 - [c30]Surabhi Gaur, Melody Moh, Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Hiding behind the clouds: Efficient, privacy-preserving queries via cloud proxies. GLOBECOM Workshops 2013: 488-493 - [c29]Douglas B. Terry, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ramakrishna Kotla, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera, Hussam Abu-Libdeh:
Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage. SOSP 2013: 309-324 - [c28]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Ted Wobber, Ming Wu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Michael Wei, John D. Davis, Sriram Rao, Tao Zou, Aviad Zuck:
Tango: distributed data structures over a shared log. SOSP 2013: 325-340 - [c27]Michael Wei, John D. Davis, Ted Wobber, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi:
Beyond block I/O: implementing a distributed shared log in hardware. SYSTOR 2013: 21:1-21:11 - 2012
- [j4]Dahlia Malkhi, Mahesh Balakrishnan, John D. Davis, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber:
From paxos to CORFU: a flash-speed shared log. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 46(1): 47-51 (2012) - [c26]Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon:
Gecko: A Contention-Oblivious Design for Cloud Storage. HotStorage 2012 - [c25]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Michael Wei, John D. Davis:
CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters. NSDI 2012: 1-14 - 2011
- [j3]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Kenneth P. Birman
, Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh:
Maelstrom: transparent error correction for communication between data centers. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 19(3): 617-629 (2011) - [c24]Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry, Ted Wobber:
Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones. Middleware 2011: 41-60 - [c23]Nguyen Tran, Marcos K. Aguilera, Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Online Migration for Geo-distributed Storage Systems. USENIX ATC 2011 - [c22]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber:
DISC 2011 Invited Lecture by Dahlia Malkhi: Going beyond Paxos. DISC 2011: 208-210 - 2010
- [j2]Asim Kadav, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Dahlia Malkhi:
Differential RAID: rethinking RAID for SSD reliability. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 44(1): 55-59 (2010) - [j1]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Asim Kadav, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Dahlia Malkhi:
Differential RAID: Rethinking RAID for SSD reliability. ACM Trans. Storage 6(2): 4:1-4:22 (2010) - [c21]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Asim Kadav, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Dahlia Malkhi:
Differential RAID: rethinking RAID for SSD reliability. EuroSys 2010: 15-26 - [c20]Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman
, Robert Burgess, Gregory V. Chockler
, Haoyuan Li, Yoav Tock:
Dr. multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability. EuroSys 2010: 349-362 - [c19]Gokul Soundararajan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ted Wobber:
Extending SSD Lifetimes with Disk-Based Write Caches. FAST 2010: 101-114 - [c18]Birjodh Tiwana, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera, Hitesh Ballani, Zhuoqing Morley Mao:
Location, location, location!: modeling data proximity in the cloud. HotNets 2010: 15 - [c17]Vijayan Prabhakaran, Mahesh Balakrishnan, John D. Davis, Ted Wobber:
Depletable Storage Systems. HotStorage 2010 - [c16]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Philip A. Bernstein, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Colin W. Reid:
Brief Announcement: Flash-Log - A High Throughput Log. DISC 2010: 401-403
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [b1]Mahesh Balakrishnan:
Reliable Communication for Datacenters. Cornell University, USA, 2009 - [c15]Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman:
Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance. FAST 2009: 211-224 - [c14]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Iqbal Mohomed, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian:
Where's that phone?: geolocating IP addresses on 3G networks. Internet Measurement Conference 2009: 294-300 - [c13]Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella:
On the treeness of internet latency and bandwidth. SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009: 61-72 - 2008
- [c12]Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman
, Robbert van Renesse:
Tempest: Soft state replication in the service tier. DSN 2008: 227-236 - [c11]Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Yoav Tock:
Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability. HotNets 2008: 61-66 - [c10]Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman
, Yoav Tock:
Dr. Multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability. LADIS 2008: 10:1-10:12 - [c9]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset:
Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks. NSDI 2008: 263-278 - 2007
- [c8]Ken Birman
, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee:
Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications. COMSWARE 2007 - [c7]Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman:
Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems. HotOS 2007 - [c6]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Kenneth P. Birman, Amar Phanishayee, Stefan Pleisch:
Ricochet: Lateral Error Correction for Time-Critical Multicast. NSDI 2007 - [c5]Ittai Abraham, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Fabian Kuhn, Dahlia Malkhi, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Kunal Talwar:
Reconstructing approximate tree metrics. PODC 2007: 43-52 - 2006
- [c4]Stefan Pleisch, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse:
MISTRAL: : efficient flooding in mobile ad-hoc networks. MobiHoc 2006: 1-12 - [c3]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman
, Amar Phanishayee:
PLATO: Predictive Latency-Aware Total Ordering. SRDS 2006: 175-188 - 2005
- [c2]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Maya Haridasan, Prakash Linga, Hongzhou Liu, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Sean C. Rhea, Manpreet Singh, Vidhyashankar Venkatraman, Vivek Vishnumurthy, Kevin Walsh, Bernard Wong, Ming Zhong:
Workshop Report. IPTPS 2005: 1-12 - [c1]Mahesh Balakrishnan, Stefan Pleisch, Ken Birman
:
Slingshot: Time-Critical Multicast for Clustered Applications. NCA 2005: 205-214
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