Sean's Research Page

Projects

• Foundation - Preserving personal digital artifacts
• UIA - The Unmanaged Internet Architecture
• OpenDHT - Turn on, put in, get out
• Bamboo - A robust, open-source distributed hash table
• OceanStore - Global-scale persistent storage
• IRIS - Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems
• PIER - P2P Information Exchange and Retrieval

Conferences

• USENIX 2008
• NetDB 2006
• WORLDS 2005
• WWW 2004

Publications

• LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses. Sean Rhea, Eric Wang, Edmund Wong, Ethan Atkins, and Nat Storer. Proceedings of SIGMOD, May 2017.


• Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation. Sean Rhea, Russ Cox, and Alex Pesterev. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2008. (Related talk: [PowerPoint]) (Related poster from SOSP'07: [PDF])


• Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices. Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris. Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06), November 2006. (Related talk: [OpenOffice], [PDF]) (Demo video: [AVI], requires VLC or MPlayer)


• User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices. Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '06), February 2006.


• Finally, a Use for Componentized Transport Protocols. Tyson Condie, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Petros Maniatis, Sean Rhea, and Timothy Roscoe. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-IV), November 2005.


• Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab. Sean Rhea, Byung-Gon Chun, John Kubiatowicz, and Scott Shenker. Proceedings of USENIX WORLDS 2005, December 2005. Awarded best paper! (Related talk: [PPT], [PDF])


• Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs. Michael J. Freedman, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sean Rhea, and Ion Stoica. Proceedings of USENIX WORLDS 2005, December 2005. (Related talk by Michael J. Freedman: [PPT], [PDF])


• OpenDHT: A Public DHT Service. Sean Rhea. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, August 2005.


• OpenDHT: A Public DHT Service and Its Uses. Sean Rhea, Brighten Godfrey, Brad Karp, John Kubiatowicz, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, and Harlan Yu. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005, August 2005. (Related talk: [PPT], [PDF])


• Handling Churn in a DHT. Sean Rhea, Dennis Geels, Timothy Roscoe, and John Kubiatowicz. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2004. Awarded best paper!
  (Earlier technical report.) (Related talk: [PPT], [PDF])


• Spurring Adoption of DHTs with OpenHash, a Public DHT Service. Brad Karp, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Sean Rhea, and Scott Shenker. Proceedings of the 3nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '04), February 2004.


• Tapestry: A Resilient Global-scale Overlay for Service Deployment. Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Jeremy Stribling, Sean C. Rhea, Anthony D. Joseph, and John D. Kubiatowicz. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol 22, No 1, January 2004, pp. 41-53.


• Value-Based Web Caching. Sean Rhea, Kevin Liang, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '03), May 2003.


• Pond: the OceanStore Prototype. Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz. Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), March 2003. Awarded best student paper! (Related talk: [PPT], [PDF])


• Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays Need Application-Driven Benchmarks. Sean Rhea, Timothy Roscoe, and John Kubiatowicz. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), February 2003. (The original version of this paper contains an incorrect interpretation of the results for the find_owner benchmark. The version linked above is in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science and contains updated data and analysis.)


• Probabilistic Location and Routing. Sean C. Rhea and John Kubiatowicz. Appears in Proceedings of the 21st Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM '02), June 2002.


• Maintenance-Free Global Data Storage. Sean Rhea, Chris Wells, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ben Zhao, Hakim Weatherspoon, and John Kubiatowicz. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 5, No 5, September/October 2001, pp 40-49.


• OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage. John Kubiatowicz, et. al. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '00), November 2000.

Press

• The Meraki Backend. Wireless Field Day 4. February 15, 2013.


• Doing time. Lynne Shallcross. ASEE Prism, Vol. 15, No. 1. September 2005.


• Tutoring gives CS graduate students a view inside prison walls. Carol Menaker. Forefront, Winter 2005. (Published by the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.)


• CS Ph.D. student may make peer-to-peer storage and backup a reality. Angela Privin. UC Berkeley Engineering News, Vol 73, No 12F, November 10, 2003.