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Overview

Eddie Kohler is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broader field of Computer Science, with work spanning several specialized subfields, including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Hardware and Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research interests focus on several key topics:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Network Packet Processing and Optimization
  • Algorithms and Data Compression

Among recent publications, the following papers stand out:

  • Opportunities for optimism in contended main-memory multicore transactions, 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Opportunities for optimism in contended main-memory multicore transactions, 2022, The VLDB Journal
  • ShadowServe: Interference-Free KV Cache Fetching for Distributed Prefix Caching, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Kohler has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • The VLDB Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Kohler's research activity, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Yihe Huang
  • William Qian
  • Barbara Liskov
  • Liuba Shrira
  • Xingyu Xiang

Best Publications

  • The click modular router

    Eddie Kohler;Robert Morris;Benjie Chen;John Jannotti

  • Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

    S. Floyd;M. Handley;E. Kohler

  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar

    Nickolai Zeldovich;Silas Boyd-Wickizer;Eddie Kohler;David Mazières

  • A dynamic operating system for sensor nodes

    Chih-Chieh Han;Ram Kumar;Roy Shea;Eddie Kohler

  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar

    Nickolai Zeldovich;Silas Boyd-Wickizer;Eddie Kohler;David Mazières

  • Information flow control for standard OS abstractions

    Maxwell Krohn;Alexander Yip;Micah Brodsky;Natan Cliffer

  • Sympathy for the Sensor Network Debugger

    Nithya Ramanathan;Kevin Chang;Rahul Kapur;Lewis Girod

  • The Click modular router

    Robert Morris;Eddie Kohler;John Jannotti;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases

    Stephen Tu;Wenting Zheng;Eddie Kohler;Barbara Liskov

  • Cache craftiness for fast multicore key-value storage

    Yandong Mao;Eddie Kohler;Robert Tappan Morris

  • Sensor network data fault types

    Kevin Ni;Nithya Ramanathan;Mohamed Nabil Hajj Chehade;Laura Balzano

  • Labels and event processes in the asbestos operating system

    Petros Efstathopoulos;Maxwell Krohn;Steve VanDeBogart;Cliff Frey

  • The Tenet architecture for tiered sensor networks

    Omprakash Gnawali;Ki-Young Jang;Jeongyeup Paek;Marcos Vieira

  • Clustering and sharing incentives in BitTorrent systems

    Arnaud Legout;Nikitas Liogkas;Eddie Kohler;Lixia Zhang

  • Internet research needs better models

    Sally Floyd;Eddie Kohler

  • Designing DCCP: congestion control without reliability

    Eddie Kohler;Mark Handley;Sally Floyd

  • XORP: an open platform for network research

    Mark Handley;Orion Hodson;Eddie Kohler

  • Designing extensible IP router software

    Mark Handley;Eddie Kohler;Atanu Ghosh;Orion Hodson

  • Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)

    Sally Floyd;Eddie Kohler;Jitendra Padhye

  • RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)

    E Kohler;M Handley;F Floyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd International Computer Science Institute
Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
David Mazières
David Mazières Stanford University
Mark Handley
Mark Handley University College London
Lixia Zhang
Lixia Zhang University of California, Los Angeles

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