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Marcos K. Aguilera

Marcos K. Aguilera

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Computer Science

D-Index
52
Citations
10317
World Ranking
5106
National Ranking
2358

Overview

Marcos K. Aguilera is affiliated with VMware in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on systems and architecture. Their work spans multiple subfields including computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, and information systems, with interdisciplinary contributions reaching into cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum, prominently featuring advanced data storage technologies and parallel computing and optimization techniques. Other significant areas of their work include distributed systems and fault tolerance, cloud computing and resource management, real-time systems scheduling, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and age of information optimization.

Marcos K. Aguilera has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues. The most common platforms for their research dissemination include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Storage
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

The scientist's recent notable publications include:

  • "DINOMO" (2022) in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Memory disaggregation: why now and what are the challenges" (2023) in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • "Microsecond Consensus for Microsecond Applications" (2020) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Frugal Byzantine Computing" (2021) in Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "uBFT: Microsecond-scale BFT using Disaggregated Memory [Extended Version]" (2022) in arXiv (Cornell University)

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Rachid Guerraoui, Athanasios Xygkis, Igor Zablotchi, Naama Ben-David, and Sekwon Lee.

Marcos K. Aguilera's body of work predominantly resides within the overarching field of computer science, underpinning advancements in distributed system technologies, network communications, and hardware design innovations.

Best Publications

  • Matching events in a content-based subscription system

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Robert E. Strom;Daniel C. Sturman;Mark Astley

  • Performance debugging for distributed systems of black boxes

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Jeffrey C. Mogul;Janet L. Wiener;Patrick Reynolds

  • On the quality of service of failure detectors

    Wei Chen;Sam Toueg;M.K. Aguilera

  • Transactional storage for geo-replicated systems

    Yair Sovran;Russell Power;Marcos K. Aguilera;Jinyang Li

  • Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Arif Merchant;Mehul Shah;Alistair Veitch

  • Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage

    Douglas B. Terry;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Ramakrishna Kotla;Mahesh Balakrishnan

  • Heartbeat: A Timeout-Free Failure Detector for Quiescent Reliable Communication

    Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera;Wei Chen;Sam Toueg

  • Failure detection and consensus in the crash-recovery model

    Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera;Wei Chen;Sam Toueg

  • A practical scalable distributed B-tree

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Wojciech Golab;Mehul A. Shah

  • Distributed Computing and Networking

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Haifeng Yu;Nitin H. Vaidya;Vikram Srinivasan

  • Using erasure codes efficiently for storage in a distributed system

    M.K. Aguilera;R. Janakiraman;L. Xu

  • Stable Leader Election

    Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera;Carole Delporte-Gallet;Hugues Fauconnier;Sam Toueg

  • Communication-efficient leader election and consensus with limited link synchrony

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Carole Delporte-Gallet;Hugues Fauconnier;Sam Toueg

  • Transaction chains: achieving serializability with low latency in geo-distributed storage systems

    Yang Zhang;Russell Power;Siyuan Zhou;Yair Sovran

  • On implementing omega with weak reliability and synchrony assumptions

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Carole Delporte-Gallet;Hugues Fauconnier;Sam Toueg

  • WAP5: black-box performance debugging for wide-area systems

    Patrick Reynolds;Janet L. Wiener;Jeffrey C. Mogul;Marcos K. Aguilera

  • CONSISTENCY METHOD AND CONSISTENCY SYSTEM

    Reuter James M;Veitch Alistair;Aguilera Marcos K

  • Using the heartbeat failure detector for quiescent reliable communication and consensus in partitionable networks

    Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera;Wei Chen;Sam Toueg

  • Snapshots in distributed storage systems

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Alistair Veitch;Susan Spence

  • Can far memory improve job throughput

    Emmanuel Amaro;Christopher Branner-Augmon;Zhihong Luo;Amy Ousterhout

  • Partial synchrony based on set timeliness

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Carole Delporte-Gallet;Hugues Fauconnier;Sam Toueg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sam Toueg
Sam Toueg University of Toronto
Arif Merchant
Arif Merchant Google (United States)
Alistair Veitch
Alistair Veitch Google (United States)
Mahesh Balakrishnan
Mahesh Balakrishnan Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Rachid Guerraoui
Rachid Guerraoui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dahlia Malkhi
Dahlia Malkhi Diem Association
Kimberly Keeton
Kimberly Keeton Google (United States)
Jeffrey C. Mogul
Jeffrey C. Mogul Google (United States)
Mark Lillibridge
Mark Lillibridge Meta Platforms, Inc.
Svend Frolund
Svend Frolund project44

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