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Overview

Miguel Castro is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a specialized focus on several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions in frequent venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Entertainment Computing, arXiv (Cornell University), Computer Networks, and Expert Systems with Applications.

Miguel Castro has contributed to a variety of research topics reflecting their interdisciplinary approach. These topics include:

  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Digital Games and Media

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Miguel Castro highlight the scope of their work in networking, optimization, and digital media. Some of these publications include:

  • An improved multi-objective genetic algorithm with heuristic initialization for service placement and load distribution in edge computing, 2021, Computer Networks
  • Application of Meta-Heuristics in 5G Network Slicing: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2022, Sensors
  • Managing and controlling digital role-playing game elements: A current state of affairs, 2024, Entertainment Computing
  • A random access channel resources allocation approach to control machine-to-machine communication congestion over LTE-advanced networks, 2023, International Journal of Communication Systems
  • Harnessing generative grammars and genetic algorithms for immersive 2D maps, 2023, Entertainment Computing

Their frequent collaborators include Torsten Hoefler, Daniele De Sensi, Salvatore Di Girolamo, Shigang Li, and Marco Heddes, each having co-authored multiple publications with Castro. This network of collaborators underlines a consistent engagement with researchers specializing in distributed computing, networking, and complex systems.

Best Publications

  • Practical Byzantine fault tolerance

    Miguel Castro;Barbara Liskov

  • Practical byzantine fault tolerance and proactive recovery

    Miguel Castro;Barbara Liskov

  • Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure

    M. Castro;P. Druschel;A.-M. Kermarrec;A.I.T. Rowstron

  • SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

  • Farsite: federated, available, and reliable storage for an incompletely trusted environment

    Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Miguel Castro;Gerald Cermak

  • Secure routing for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Ayalvadi Ganesh;Antony Rowstron

  • Vigilante: end-to-end containment of internet worms

    Manuel Costa;Jon Crowcroft;Miguel Castro;Antony Rowstron

  • SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure

    Antony I. T. Rowstron;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel

  • FaRM: fast remote memory

    Aleksandar Dragojević;Dushyanth Narayanan;Orion Hodson;Miguel Castro

  • Virtual ring routing: network routing inspired by DHTs

    Matthew Caesar;Miguel Castro;Edmund B. Nightingale;Greg O'Shea

  • Securing software by enforcing data-flow integrity

    Miguel Castro;Manuel Costa;Tim Harris

  • PIC: practical Internet coordinates for distance estimation

    M. Costa;M. Castro;R. Rowstron;P. Key

  • Preventing Memory Error Exploits with WIT

    P. Akritidis;C. Cadar;C. Raiciu;M. Costa

  • An evaluation of scalable application-level multicast built using peer-to-peer overlays

    M. Castro;M. B. Jones;A.-M. Kermarrec;A. Rowstron

  • SplitStream: High-Bandwidth Content Distribution in Cooperative Environments

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

  • Containment of worms

    Manuel Costa;Miguel Castro;Antony Rowstron;Jon Crowcroft

  • No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance

    Aleksandar Dragojević;Dushyanth Narayanan;Edmund B. Nightingale;Matthew Renzelmann

  • Baggy bounds checking: an efficient and backwards-compatible defense against out-of-bounds errors

    Periklis Akritidis;Manuel Costa;Miguel Castro;Steven Hand

  • Exploiting network proximity in peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Y. Charlie Hu;Antony Rowstron

  • Topology-aware routing in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Y. Charlie Hu;Antony Rowstron

Frequent Co-Authors

Antony Rowstron
Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)
Peter Druschel
Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Atul Adya
Atul Adya Google (United States)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge
Paul Barham
Paul Barham Google (United States)
Lidong Zhou
Lidong Zhou Microsoft (United States)
Nuno Neves
Nuno Neves University of Lisbon
François Varret
François Varret Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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