Umesh Maheshwari

Refereed Publications

• TDB: A Database System for Digital Rights Management.
  R. Vingralek, U. Maheshwari, and B. Shapiro.
  Proc. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2002.

• How to Build a Trusted Database System on Untrusted Storage.
  U. Maheshwari, R. Vingralek, and B. Shapiro.
  Proc. USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2000.
  Slides presented at conference.

• Collecting Distributed Garbage Cycles by Back Tracing.
  U. Maheshwari and B. Liskov.
  Proc. Principles of Distributed Computing, 1997.

• Partitioned Garbage Collection of a Large Object Store.
  U. Maheshwari and B. Liskov.
  Proc. SIGMOD'97.

• Fragment Reconstruction: Providing Global Cache Coherence in a Transactional Storage System.
  A. Adya, M. Castro, B. Liskov, U. Maheshwari, and L. Shrira.
  Proc. ICDCS'97.

• Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor.
  B. Liskov, A. Adya, M. Castro, M. Day, S. Ghemawat, R. Gruber, U. Maheshwari, A. Myers, and L. Shrira.
  Proc. SIGMOD'96.

• Collecting Cyclic Distributed Garbage by Controlled Migration.
  U. Maheshwari and B. Liskov.
  Proc. Principles of Distributed Computing, 1995; awarded best student paper.

  Later appeared in Distributed Computing, 10(2), Springer-Verlag, 1997.
  A two-page abstract is also available.

• Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Transactions.
  A. Adya, B. Liskov, R. Gruber, and U. Maheshwari.
  Proc. SIGMOD'95.

• Fault-Tolerant Distributed Garbage Collection in a Client-Server, Object Database.
  U. Maheshwari and B. Liskov.
  Proc. Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, 1994.

• The Language-Independent Interface of the Thor Persistent Object System
  B. Liskov, M. Day, S. Ghemawat, R. Gruber, U. Maheshwari, A. Myers, L. Shrira.
  Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems (Bukhres and Elmagarmid, eds.) Prentice-Hall, 1994.

• References to Remote Mobile Objects in Thor
  M. Day, B. Liskov, U. Maheshwari, A. Myers.
  ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 2(1-4), March 1994.

Other Publications

• Garbage Collection in a Large, Distributed, Object Store.
  U. Maheshwari
  Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-727 (Ph.D. Thesis)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1997.

• Hula: An Efficient Protocol for Reliable Delivery of Messages.
  U. Maheshwari
  Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-720
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1997.

• Partitioned Garbage Collection of a Large Object Store.
  U. Maheshwari and B. Liskov.
  Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-699, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  (This report contains an obsolete proposal. See our SIGMOD'97 paper with the same title.)

• Charge-based Proportional Share Scheduling (A deterministic alternative to lottery scheduling.)
  U. Maheshwari
  Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-529, MIT, January 1995.

• Extensible Operating Systems.
  U. Maheshwari
  Area Exam Report, November 1994.

• Whiteboards.
  (Project during summer internship at DEC, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, 1993.)
  U. Maheshwari
  Proc. MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing, August 1995.

• Principles of Computer Systems: Lecture Notes for 6.826, Fall 1992
  B. Lampson, W. Weihl, and U. Maheshwari.
  Research Seminar Series MIT/LCS/RSS 22, MIT, July 1993.

• Distribute Garbage Collection in a Client-Server, Transactional, Persistent Object System.
  U. Maheshwari
  Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-574 (Master's Thesis)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 1993.

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