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Timothy Roscoe

Timothy Roscoe

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Computer Science

D-Index
45
Citations
14873
World Ranking
7013
National Ranking
135

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to operating systems and networking research.

Overview

Timothy Roscoe is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, conducting research primarily in computer science. Their work spans multiple subfields including computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, computational theory and mathematics, information systems, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research include advanced database systems and queries, advanced data storage technologies, parallel computing and optimization techniques, cloud computing and resource management, embedded systems design techniques, formal methods in verification, and real-time systems scheduling.

Recent publications by Timothy Roscoe include:

  • Shared arrangements (2020), published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Tackling Hardware/Software co-design from a database perspective (2020), published in Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Declarative Power Sequencing (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • Secure Memory Management on Modern Hardware (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ECI: a Customizable Cache Coherency Stack for Hybrid FPGA-CPU Architectures (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Timothy Roscoe frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including David Cock, Daniel Schwyn, Michael Giardino, Gustavo Alonso, and Frank McSherry.

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

In 2013, Timothy Roscoe was recognized as an ACM Fellow for contributions to operating systems and networking research.

Best Publications

  • PlanetLab: an overlay testbed for broad-coverage services

    Brent Chun;David Culler;Timothy Roscoe;Andy Bavier

  • Handling churn in a DHT

    Sean Rhea;Dennis Geels;Timothy Roscoe;John Kubiatowicz

  • The multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems

    Andrew Baumann;Paul Barham;Pierre-Evariste Dagand;Tim Harris

  • A blueprint for introducing disruptive technology into the Internet

    Larry Peterson;Tom Anderson;David Culler;Timothy Roscoe

  • Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane

    Simon Peter;Jialin Li;Irene Zhang;Dan R. K. Ports

  • Operating system support for planetary-scale network services

    Andy Bavier;Mic Bowman;Brent Chun;David Culler

  • The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications

    I.M. Leslie;D. McAuley;R. Black;T. Roscoe

  • Resource overbooking and application profiling in shared hosting platforms

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Prashant Shenoy;Timothy Roscoe

  • Implementing declarative overlays

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Petros Maniatis

  • Preventing Internet denial-of-service with capabilities

    Tom Anderson;Timothy Roscoe;David Wetherall

  • Declarative networking: language, execution and optimization

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Minos Garofalakis

  • R-OSGi: distributed applications through software modularization

    Jan S. Rellermeyer;Gustavo Alonso;Timothy Roscoe

  • The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor

    Ryan Huebsch;Brent N. Chun;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Boon Thau Loo

  • Plutarch: an argument for network pluralism

    Jon Crowcroft;Steven Hand;Richard Mortier;Timothy Roscoe

  • Declarative Networking

    Boon Thau Loo;Tyson Condie;Minos Garofalakis

  • Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

    Kimberly Keeton;Timothy Roscoe

  • The design principles of PlanetLab

    Larry Peterson;Timothy Roscoe

  • Friday: global comprehension for distributed replay

    Dennis Geels;Gautam Altekar;Petros Maniatis;Timothy Roscoe

  • Sophia: an Information Plane for networked systems

    Mike Wawrzoniak;Larry Peterson;Timothy Roscoe

  • Embracing diversity in the Barrelfish manycore operating system

    Adrian Schüpbach;Simon Peter;Andrew Baumann;Timothy Roscoe

Frequent Co-Authors

Petros Maniatis
Petros Maniatis Google (United States)
Gustavo Alonso
Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Paul Barham
Paul Barham Google (United States)
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Boon Thau Loo
Boon Thau Loo University of Pennsylvania
Steven Hand
Steven Hand Google (United States)
Larry L. Peterson
Larry L. Peterson Princeton University
Tim Harris
Tim Harris Oracle (United States)
Dejan Milojicic
Dejan Milojicic Hewlett-Packard (United States)

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