My graduate research centered on Distributed Hash Tables, which was quite a hot field for a time. The graph below shows citations of one of our first Chord papers by year:
I'm no longer actively pursuing research into DHTs, but am happy to answer questions about the work or the various bits of code that we produced.
| 2006 | ||
| Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed Storage Systems | Byung-Gon Chun, Frank Dabek, Andreas Haeberlen, Emil Sit, Hakim Weatherspoon, Frans Kaashoek, John Kubiatowicz, Robert Morris | NSDI |
| 2005 | ||
| A Distributed Hash Table | Frank Dabek | PhD. Thesis (MIT) |
| 2004 | ||
| Vivaldi: A Decentralized Network Coordinate System | Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris | SIGCOMM |
| UsenetDHT: a Low Overhead Usenet Server | Emil Sit, Frank Dabek, James Robertson | IPTPS |
| Designing a DHT for Low Latency and High Throughput | Frank Dabek, Jinyang Li, Emil Sit, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris | NSDI |
| 2003 | ||
| Bankable Postage for Network Services(pdf) | Martin Abadi, Andrew Birrell, Michael Burrows, Frank Dabek, Ted Wobber | ASIAN |
| Practical Distributed Network Coordinates | Russ Cox, Frank Dabek, Frans Kaashoek, Jinyang Li, Robert Morris | HotNets |
| Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs | Nickolai Zeldovich, Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, Robert Morris, David Mazieres, Frans Kaashoek | USENIX |
| Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays | Frank Dabek, Ben Zhao, Peter Druschel, John Kubiatowicz, and Ion Stoica | IPTPS |
| Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications | Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Liben-Nowell, David Karger, Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, and Hari Balakrishnan | Transactions on Networking |
| 2002 | ||
| Event-driven programming for robust software | Frank Dabek, Nickolai Zeldovich, Frans Kaashoek, David Mazieres, and Robert Morris | SIGOPS European Workshop |
| 2001 | ||
| Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS | Frank Dabek, Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, and Ion Stoica< | SOSP |
| Building Peer-to-Peer Systems With Chord, a Distributed Lookup Service | Frank Dabek, Emma Brunskill, Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, Ion Stoica, and Hari Balakrishnan | HotOS |