[Planetlab-users] Re: recent papers

[Emin Gun Sirer]

To follow up on Larry's message about services & systems deployed
on PlanetLab:

We have been working on a next-generation domain name service, built
around a peer-to-peer architecture, and deployed on PlanetLab. The
system is called CoDoNs and offers high lookup performance,
low-latency updates, and is robust against denial-of-service
attacks. It's backwards-compatible with legacy DNS, so it can serve as
a safety net in case DNS is attacked, as it was in November 2002.

The following papers describe the system in more detail:

  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer. CoDoNS: A Low Latency
  and Failure-Resilient DNS based on Proactive Peer-to-Peer Caching. 
  To appear in SIGCOMM, August 2004.  

  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer. Beehive: O(1) Lookup
  Performance for Power-Law Query Distributions in Peer-to-Peer
  Overlays. In Proceedings of Networked System Design and
  Implementation, March 2004.  

  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gun Sirer. Proactive Caching for
  Better than Single-Hop Lookup Performance. Cornell University,
  Computer Science Department Tech Report TR2004-1931, February 2004.  

The project website is here:
    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/

Gun & Rama.