Publications 1988–2009

This page contains a list of my older publications, with links to the PDF in most cases. The list is ordered in reverse chronological order. You can view a list of my patents on a separate page.

Authors annotated with ‡ were my students at the time the research was done, and authors annotated with * were students at the time the research was done.

Year ranges: 2010–present 1988–2009

2009

• Andrew W. Leung‡, Ian F. Adams‡, Ethan L. Miller, “Magellan: A Searchable Metadata Architecture for Large-Scale File Systems”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-07, November 2009.
• Yangwook Kang‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “Adding Aggressive Error Correction to a High-Performance Flash File System”, Proceedings of the 9th ACM & IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT ’09), Grenoble, France : ACM / IEEE, October 2009, pages 305–314.
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Aleatha Parker-Wood‡, Ethan L. Miller, “Copernicus: A Scalable, High-Performance Semantic File System”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-06, October 2009.
• Avani Wildani‡, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, and Darrell D. E. Long, “Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems”, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), London, UK: IEEE, September 2009, 11 pages. Preliminary version available as Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-03.
• Kevin Greenan‡, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas Schwarz, and Avani Wildani‡, “Building Flexible, Fault-Tolerant Flash-based Storage Systems”, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep 2009), Estoril, Portugal, June 2009.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “POTSHARDS—A Secure, Recoverable, Long-Term Archival Storage System”, ACM Transactions on Storage 5(2), June 2009, pages 5:1–5:35.
• Ian F. Adams‡, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Shankar Pasupathy, and Mark W. Storer, “Maximizing Efficiency By Trading Storage for Computation”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’09), San Diego, CA: USENIX, June 2009, 5 pages.
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Minglong Shao, Tim Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Ethan L. Miller, “Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems”, ;login: 34(3), USENIX Association, June 2009.
• Keren Jin‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “The Effectiveness of Deduplication on Virtual Machine Disk Images”, Proceedings of SYSTOR 2009: The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference, Haifa, Israel, May 2009, 12 pages.
• Avani Wildani‡, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, “Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-03, April 2009.
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Minglong Shao, Tim Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Ethan L. Miller, “Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems”, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’09), San Francisco, CA: USENIX, February 2009, pages 153– 166.

2008

• Kevin M. Greenan‡, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. Schwarz, S. J., and Jay J. Wylie, “A Spin-Up Saved is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage”, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep’08), San Diego, CA: USENIX, December 2008.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ian Adams‡, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “Logan: Automatic Management for Evolvable, Large-Scale, Archival Storage”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW08), held in conjunction with SC2008, Austin, TX, November 2008.
• Andrew W. Leung‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “Scalable Full-Text Search for Petascale File Systems”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW08), held in conjunction with SC2008, Austin, TX, November 2008.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin Greenan‡, Darrell D. E. Long, and Ethan L. Miller, “Secure Data Deduplication”, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2008), Alexandria, VA, October 2008.
• Mohammed G. Khatib*, Ethan L. Miller and Pieter H. Hartel, “Workload-Based Configuration of MEMS-Based Storage Devices for Mobile Systems”, Proceedings of the 8th ACM & IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT ’08), Atlanta, GA: ACM / IEEE, October 2008.
• Sasha Ames*, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, “Quasar: A Scalable Naming Language for Very Large File Collections”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-04, October 2008.
• Sasha Ames*, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, “QUASAR: Interaction with File Systems Using a Query and Naming Language”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-03, September 2008.
• Avishay Traeger, Erez Zadok, Ethan L. Miller, and Darrell D. E. Long, “Findings from the First Annual Storage and File Systems Benchmarking Workshop”, ;login: 33(5), USENIX Association, October 2008, pages 113–117.
• Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Thomas Schwarz, “Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures”, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2008), Baltimore, MD: IEEE, September 2008, 10 pages (CD-ROM).
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Minglong Shao, Tim Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, and Ethan L. Miller, “High-Performance Metadata Indexing and Search in Petascale Data Storage Systems”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 125 (2008) 012069, July 2008.
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Shankar Pasupathy, Garth Goodson, and Ethan L. Miller, “Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Enterprise Network File System Workloads”, Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ’08), Boston, MA: USENIX, June 2008, pages 213–226.
• Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Jay J. Wylie, “Reliability of flat XOR-based erasure codes on heterogeneous devices”, Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), Anchorage, AK: IEEE, June 2008, pages 147–156.
• Neerja Bhatnagar‡ , Kevin M. Greenan‡ , Rosie Wacha* , Ethan L. Miller, and Darrell D. E. Long, “Energy-Reliability Tradeoffs in Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008), Charlottesville, VA: ACM, June 2008.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “Pergamum: energy- efficient archival storage with disk instead of tape”, ;login: 33(3), USENIX Association, June 2008, pages 15–21.
• Andrew W. Leung‡, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller, “Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-01, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2008.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage”, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’08), San Jose, CA: USENIX, February 2008, pages 1–16.

2007

• Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, S. J., “Analysis and Construction of Galois Fields for Efficient Storage Reliability”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-09, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 2007.
• Jonathan Koren* , Yi Zhang, Sasha Ames‡ , Andrew W. Leung‡ , Carlos Maltzahn, and Ethan Miller, “Searching and Navigating Petabyte Scale File Systems Based on Facets”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Petascale Data Storage (PDSW07), held in conjunction with SC2007, Reno, NV, November 2007, pages 21–25.
• Andrew Leung‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Stephanie Jones‡, “Scalable Security for Petascale Parallel File Systems”, Proceedings of SC2007, Reno, NV: ACM, November 2007.
• Kevin M. Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, S.J., and Darrell D. E. Long, “Disaster Recovery Codes: Increasing Reliability with Large-Stripe Error Correction Codes”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Alexandria, VA, October 2007.
• Neerja Bhatnagar‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “A Secure and Reliable File System for Sensor Nodes”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007), held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Alexandria, VA, October 2007.
• Kevin Greenan‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “PRIMS: Making NVRAM Suitable for Extremely Reliable Storage”, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep’07), Edinburgh, UK: USENIX, June 2007, 4 pages.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Storage Without Encryption”, Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ’07), Santa Clara, CA: USENIX, June 2007, pages 143–156.
• Carlos Maltzahn, Nikhil Bobb* , Mark W. Storer‡ , Damian Eads‡ , Scott A. Brandt, and Ethan L. Miller, “Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata”, Distributed Data & Structures 7, Proceedings in Informatics 21, Carleton Scientific, 2007, pages 97–111. Extended version of the WDAS 2006 workshop paper.

2006

• Sage A. Weil*, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, and Carlos Maltzahn, “CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable And Decentralized Placement Of Replicated Data”, Proceedings of SC2006, Tampa, FL: ACM, November 2006, 12 pages (published on CD-ROM).
• Sage A. Weil*, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System”, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’06), Seattle, WA, November 2006, pages 307–320.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin M. Greenan‡, and Ethan L. Miller, “Long-Term Threats to Secure Archives”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), held in conjunction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), Virginia, October 2006, pages 9–16.
• Andrew Leung‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “Scalable Security for Large, High Performance Storage Systems”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2006), held in conjunction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2006), Virginia, October 2006, pages 29–40.
• Kevin M. Greenan‡ and Ethan L. Miller, “Reliability Mechanisms for File Systems Using Non-Volatile Memory as a Metadata Store”, Proceedings of the 6th ACM & IEEE Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT ’06), Seoul, Korea, October 2006, pages 178–187.
• Deepavali Bhagwat*, Kristal Pollack*, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris, and Thomas Schwarz, S. J., “Providing High Reliability in a Minimum Redundancy Archival Storage System”, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2006), Monterey, CA, September 2006, pages 413–421.
• Mark W. Storer‡, Kevin Greenan‡, Ethan L. Miller, and Kaladhar Voruganti, “POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Archival Storage Without Encryption”, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-06-03, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2006.
• Thomas J. E. Schwarz and Ethan L. Miller, “Store, Forget, and Check: Using Algebraic Signatures to Check Remotely Administered Storage”, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ’06), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006, 10 pages (published on CD-ROM).
• Sasha Ames‡, Nikhil Bobb*, Kevin M. Greenan‡, Owen S. Hofmann*, Mark W. Storer‡, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt, “LiFS: An Attribute-Rich File System for Storage Class Memories”, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2006), College Park, MD, May 2006, pages 63–76.
• Bo Hong*, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, and Ying Lin*, “Using MEMS-Based Storage in Computer Systems—MEMS Storage Device Modeling and Management”, ACM Transactions on Storage 2(2), May 2006, pages 139–160.
• Sage A. Weil*, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, and Carlos Maltzahn, “CRUSH: Controlled, Scalable And Decentralized Placement Of Replicated Data”, Technical Report SSRC-06-02, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2006.
• Sage A. Weil*, Feng Wang*, Qin Xin‡, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, and Carlos Maltzahn, “Ceph: a Scalable Object-Based Storage System”, Technical Report SSRC-06-01, Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2006.
• Nikhil Bobb* , Damian Eads‡ , Mark W. Storer‡ , Scott A. Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, and Ethan L. Miller, “Graffiti: A Framework for Testing Collaborative Distributed Metadata”, 7th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS 2006), Santa Clara, CA, January 2006.