Mahesh Balakrishnan

According to our database, Mahesh Balakrishnan authored at least 54 papers between 2005 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of three.
• Erdős number of three.

2024

Taming Consensus in the Wild (with the Shared Log Abstraction).

Mahesh Balakrishnan

ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., June, 2024

2022

Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation.

Zhihan Guo, Xinyu Zeng, Kan Wu, Wuh-Chwen Hwang, Ziwei Ren, Xiangyao Yu, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Philip A. Bernstein

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022

TAOBench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Social Networking Workloads.

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

Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022

2021

Log-structured Protocols in Delos.

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

Proceedings of the SOSP '21: ACM SIGOPS 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2021

2020

Virtual Consensus in Delos.

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

Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2020

Check before You Change: Preventing Correlated Failures in Service Updates.

Ennan Zhai, Ang Chen, Ruzica Piskac, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Bingchuan Tian, Bo Song, Haoliang Zhang

Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2020

2019

WormSpace: A Modular Foundation for Simple, Verifiable Distributed Systems.

Ji-Yong Shin, Jieung Kim, Wolf Honoré, Hernán Vanzetto, Srihari Radhakrishnan, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhong Shao

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2019, 2019

2018

How to implement any concurrent data structure.

Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera

Commun. ACM, 2018

The FuzzyLog: A Partially Ordered Shared Log.

Joshua Lockerman, Jose M. Faleiro, Juno Kim, Soham Sankaran, Daniel J. Abadi, James Aspnes, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2018

2017

Isotope: ACID Transactions for Block Storage.

Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon

ACM Trans. Storage, 2017

How to implement any concurrent data structure for modern servers.

Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera

ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2017

Brief Announcement: Black-Box Concurrent Data Structures for NUMA Architectures.

Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera

Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing, 2017

Black-box Concurrent Data Structures for NUMA Architectures.

Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2017

2016

Enabling Space Elasticity in Storage Systems.

Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Petur Orri Ragnarsson, Juncheng Yang, Ymir Vigfusson, Mahesh Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the 9th ACM International on Systems and Storage Conference, 2016

Design and implementation of open-source SATA III core for Stratix V FPGAs.

Sumedh Guha, Wen Wang, Shafeeq Ibraheem, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Jakub Szefer

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, 2016

Isotope: Transactional Isolation for Block Storage.

Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon

Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2016

Towards Weakly Consistent Local Storage Systems.

Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Jakub Szefer, Hakim Weatherspoon

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2016

2014

Contrail: Decentralized and Privacy-Preserving Social Networks on Smartphones.

Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry, Ted Wobber

IEEE Internet Comput., 2014

Harmonium: Elastic Cloud Storage via File Motifs.

Helgi Sigurbjarnarson, Petur Orri Ragnarsson, Ymir Vigfusson, Mahesh Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, 2014

2013

CORFU: A distributed shared log.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, John D. Davis, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Michael Wei, Ted Wobber

ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., 2013

Beyond block I/O: implementing a distributed shared log in hardware.

Michael Wei, John D. Davis, Ted Wobber, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi

Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference, 2013

Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage.

Douglas B. Terry, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ramakrishna Kotla, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera, Hussam Abu-Libdeh

Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2013

Tango: distributed data structures over a shared log.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Ted Wobber, Ming Wu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Michael Wei, John D. Davis, Sriram Rao, Tao Zou, Aviad Zuck

Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2013

Hiding behind the clouds: Efficient, privacy-preserving queries via cloud proxies.

Surabhi Gaur, Melody Moh, Mahesh Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the Workshops Proceedings of the Global Communications Conference, 2013

Gecko: contention-oblivious disk arrays for cloud storage.

Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon

Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2013

2012

From paxos to CORFU: a flash-speed shared log.

Dahlia Malkhi, Mahesh Balakrishnan, John D. Davis, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber

ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2012

CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Michael Wei, John D. Davis

Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2012

Gecko: A Contention-Oblivious Design for Cloud Storage.

Ji-Yong Shin, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon

Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2012

2011

Maelstrom: transparent error correction for communication between data centers.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Kenneth P. Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh

IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2011

DISC 2011 Invited Lecture by Dahlia Malkhi: Going beyond Paxos.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber

Proceedings of the Distributed Computing - 25th International Symposium, 2011

Online Migration for Geo-distributed Storage Systems.

Nguyen Tran, Marcos K. Aguilera, Mahesh Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2011

Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones.

Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry, Ted Wobber

Proceedings of the Middleware 2011, 2011

2010

Differential RAID: rethinking RAID for SSD reliability.

Asim Kadav, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Dahlia Malkhi

ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2010

Brief Announcement: Flash-Log - A High Throughput Log.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Philip A. Bernstein, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Colin W. Reid

Proceedings of the Distributed Computing, 24th International Symposium, 2010

Depletable Storage Systems.

Vijayan Prabhakaran, Mahesh Balakrishnan, John D. Davis, Ted Wobber

Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2010

Location, location, location!: modeling data proximity in the cloud.

Birjodh Tiwana, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera, Hitesh Ballani, Zhuoqing Morley Mao

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. HotNets 2010, Monterey, CA, USA - October 20, 2010

Extending SSD Lifetimes with Disk-Based Write Caches.

Gokul Soundararajan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ted Wobber

Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2010

Dr. multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability.

Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robert Burgess, Gregory V. Chockler, Haoyuan Li, Yoav Tock

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, 2010

2009

Reliable Communication for Datacenters.

Mahesh Balakrishnan

PhD thesis, 2009

On the treeness of internet latency and bandwidth.

Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2009

Where's that phone?: geolocating IP addresses on 3G networks.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Iqbal Mohomed, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian

Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2009, Chicago, 2009

Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance.

Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman

Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2009

2008

Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hakim Weatherspoon, Einar Vollset

Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, 2008

Dr. Multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability.

Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Yoav Tock

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, 2008

Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability.

Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Yoav Tock

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2008

Tempest: Soft state replication in the service tier.

Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse

Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2008

2007

Reconstructing approximate tree metrics.

Ittai Abraham, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Fabian Kuhn, Dahlia Malkhi, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Kunal Talwar

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 2007

Ricochet: Lateral Error Correction for Time-Critical Multicast.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Kenneth P. Birman, Amar Phanishayee, Stefan Pleisch

Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2007), 2007

Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems.

Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman

Proceedings of HotOS'07: 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2007

Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications.

Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudor Marian, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Amar Phanishayee

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE 2007), 2007

2006

PLATO: Predictive Latency-Aware Total Ordering.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Amar Phanishayee

Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006), 2006

MISTRAL: : efficient flooding in mobile ad-hoc networks.

Stefan Pleisch, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Interational Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2006

2005

Slingshot: Time-Critical Multicast for Clustered Applications.

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Stefan Pleisch, Ken Birman

Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2005), 2005

Workshop Report.

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

Proceedings of the Peer-to-Peer Systems IV, 4th International Workshop, 2005