Ant Rowstron
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
I co-lead the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge.
I work in Networked Systems, or in otherwords at the junction of Networking, Systems and Distributed Systems. Currently my main focus is on the design of the next generation of large-scale data centres - in a project we call the CamCube Project (which was known as the BorgCube project until the lawyers got involved). We want to make the CamCube a simpler platform on which to run (distributed) services.
In the past I have worked on DHTs / overlays /P2P, wireless, application-level multicast, coordination languages, and even robotics.
I've been quite lucky in that odd things I worked on have passed over from research to the wider world in one way or another - for example the functionality of the Windows DRT API seems quite close to the KBR API used in Pastry, and even includes a leaf set..... and LiveStation licensed some of our p2p work on content streaming.
Full publication list
Recent publications:
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H. Abu-Libdeh, P. Costa, A. Rowstron, G. O'Shea and A. Donnelly. "Symbiotic routing in future data centers" . Proceedings ACM Sigcomm, Aug 2010. [ pdf ]
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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. [ pdf ]
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T. Zhan, G. O'Shea and A. Rowstron, "Feasibility of Content Dissemination between Devices in Moving Vehicles " Proceedings of CoNext, December 2009. [ pdf ]
Selected publications:
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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 ]
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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 ]
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D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly, R. Mortier and 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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D. Narayanan, A. Donnelly and A. Rowstron. "Write Off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage" Proceedings of 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Feb. 2008 [ pdf ] (invited to submit to ACM TOS)
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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, Pisa, Italy, September 2006. [ ps | pdf ]
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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. [ ps | pdf ]
A. Rowstron and P.
Druschel, "Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location and
routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems",
Middleware'2001, Germany, November 2001.
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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.
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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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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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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. Ganesh, A. Rowstron, and D. 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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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.
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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 ]
Professional activities:
I have been involved or am on the Program Committee or related for the following workshops and conferences:
Sigcomm 2010, NSDI 2010, Middleware 2010, MobiHeld 2010, IPTPS 2010, Middleware 2009, PerCom 2009, Workshop co-chair Sigcomm 2009, Middleware 2008, FAST 2008, Middleware 2007, INFOCOM 2007, ACM SIGCOMM 2006, EUROSYS 2006, IPTPS 2006, MobiShare 2006 (co-chair), DSN 2006, INFOCOM 2006, WORLDS 2005, P2P Economics workshop 2005, Euro-par 2005 (Track vice-chair), ICDCS 2005 (Track chair), IEEE INFOCOM 2005, SIGOPS EW 2004, ACM SIGCOMM 2004, WDDDM 2004, Coordination 2004, ACM SIGCOMM 2003, ACM PODC 2003, IEEE OpenArch 2003, WWW 2003, SecCo 2003, IPTPS'02 (co-chair), International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing 2002, WETICE'02, ESAW'01, WETICE'01, ESAW'00
News
10 May 2010 We have got our first major CamCube paper accepted: Symbiotic routing in future data centers, accepted for SIGCOMM 2010.
2 May 2010 I have been elected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and am now entitled to use FBCS after my name!
22 January 2010 We renamed the BorgCube project to The CamCube Project due to a legal issue with the name BorgCube.
1 December 2009 Our broadside paper will appear in CoNext in a couple of weeks. [ pdf ]
25 August 2009 Just returned from attending Sigcomm in Barcelona.
22 June 2009 Had a great day on the Aston Martin test track testing some in-car wireless technology!
