Ant Rowstron

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Antony "Ant" Rowstron (* 1971 ) is a British computer scientist.

Rowstron received his master's degree in computer science from the University of York in 1993 and received his doctorate there in 1997. He then conducted research at Cambridge University and was a consultant to the Olivetti and Oracle research laboratories in Cambridge. From 1999 he was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

He is Principal Researcher and Assistant Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where he heads the Systems and Networks department.

With Peter Druschel and Miguel Castro , he worked on the Pastry technology for overlay networks with peer-to-peer , used in the group communication software Scribe (used by Microsoft in customer relationship management , for example ) and in SplitStream (distribution of Streaming content), as well as in the programming interface DRT API (Distributed Router Table) and the PNRP API of Windows. The corresponding essays are among the highly cited works. Distributed hash tables (DHT) are also related to this .

He also works on storage-intensive data center applications for cloud computing ( rack scale computers).

Rowstron also dealt with routing protocols in radio networks and robot soccer.

In 2016 he received the Mark Weiser Award . In 2010 he became a Fellow of the British Computer Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • with P. Druschel: Pastry: Scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems, Proceedings of the 18th IFIP / ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware), 2001
  • with P. Druschel: Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 35, 2001, pp. 188-201
  • with M. Castro, AM Kermarrec, P. Druschel: SCRIBE: The design of a large-scale event notification infrastructure, Networked group communication 2233, 2001, pp. 30-43
  • with P. Druschel, AM Kermarrec, M. Castro: SCRIBE: A large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 20, 2002, pp. 1489-1499
  • with P. Druschel, A. Ganesh, M. Castro, DS Wallach: Secure routing for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 36, 2002, pp. 299-314
  • with P. Druschel, AM Kermarrec, A. Nandi, M. Castro, A. Singh: SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 37, 2003, pp. 298-313
  • with J. Crowcroft, M. Castro, L. Zhou, L. Zhang, P. Barham: Vigilante: End-to-end containment of internet worms, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 39, 2005, pp. 133-147

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pastry , website Rowstron
personal data
SURNAME Rowstron, Ant
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowstron, Antony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971