Recent Publications

Cross-Phase Optimization in MapReduce
Benjamin Heintz, Chenyu Wang, Abhishek Chandra, and Jon B. Weissman.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, San Francisco, CA, to appear March 2013.

Sharing-aware Cloud-based Mobile Outsourcing
Chonglei Mei, Daniel Taylor, Chenyu Wang, Abhishek Chandra, Jon Weissman.
In Proceedings of The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Honolulu, HI, June 2012.

Optimizing MapReduce for Highly Distributed Environments
Benjamin Heintz, Abhishek Chandra and Ramesh K. Sitaraman.
Technical Report TR12-003, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, February 2012 (Updated July 2012).
Also appeared as a Poster at the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Hollywood, CA, October 2012.

Mobilizing the Cloud: Enabling Multi-User Mobile Outsourcing in the Cloud
Chonglei Mei, Daniel Taylor, Chenyu Wang, Abhishek Chandra, and Jon B. Weissman
Technical Report TR11-029, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, November 2011.

ViDeDup: An Application-Aware Framework for Video De-duplication
Atul Katiyar and Jon B. Weissman
HotStorage 2011: 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2011.

Early Experience with the Distributed Nebula Cloud
Pradeep Sundarrajan, Mathew Ryden, Rohit Nair, Abhishek Gupta, Abhishek Chandra and Jon B. Weissman
4th International Workshop of Data-Intensive Computing (DIDC with HPDC), 2011.

Passive Network Performance Estimation for Large-scale, Data-intensive Computing
Jinoh Kim, Abhishek Chandra and Jon B. Weissman
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 22(8), August 2011.

Dynamic Outsourcing Mobile Computation to the Cloud
Chonglei Mei, James Shimek, Chenyu Wang, Abhishek Chandra and Jon B. Weissman
Technical Report TR11-006, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, March 2011.

Exploring MapReduce Efficiency with Highly-Distributed Data
Mike Cardoa, Anshuman Nangia, Chenyu Wang, Ahishek Chandra and Jon B. Weissman
Second International Workshop on MapReduce and its Applications, 2011.

Nebulas: Using Distributed Voluntary Resources to Build Clouds
Abhishek Chandra and Jon B. Weissman
HotCloud 2009: Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, San Diego, CA, June 2009.

Using Proxies to Accelerate Cloud Applications
Jon B. Weissman and Siddharth Ramakrishnan
HotCloud 2009: Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, San Diego, CA, June 2009.