Michael B. Greenwald

Research Computer Scientist
Bell Laboratories
Computer Sciences Research Center 
Michael B. Greenwald
Bell Laboratories
600-700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2c-424
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA

Phone: 908-582-5872
Fax:   908-582-5857

<<lastname>@research.bell-labs.com>
Old:
My webpage at the University of Pennsylvania,
where I was in the Distributed Systems Laboratory
as a faculty member in the Department of Computer and Information Science.

Even older:
my home page as a member of the
Distributed Systems Group, in the CS Dept. at Stanford University.
Some connections to projects outside of the Labs that I am affiliated with: DOS Prevention (ContessaNS), Harmony, cing (Network Tomography/Measurement), GK (Summarizing large sets of streaming data), AHBHA (pronounced "Abba") (Adaptive Hop-by-hop Aggregate congestion control),
(This list is almost always incomplete).
Some tabled projects:
Canon (consistent security in heterogeneous distributed systems), POSSE, TRANSMIT, Strongman, ABIDE

Recent Publications

  • M. Greenwald, S. Khanna, K. Kunal, B.C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt, "Agreeing to Agree: Conflict Resolution for Optimistically Replicated Data", in Proceedings of 20th Int'l Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '06), Stockholm, Sweden, September 18--20, 2006. PDF (Longer version available as Technical Report MS-CIS-06-10, University of Pennsylvania, August 2006.).

  • N. Foster, M. Greenwald, Christian Kirkegaard, B.C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt, "Exploiting Schemas in Data Synchronization", to appear in Journal of Computer and System Sciences 2006 PDF

  • J.N. Foster, M. Greenwald, J.T. Moore, B.C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt, "Combinators for Bi-Directional Tree Transformations: A Linguistic Approach to the View Update Problem", to appear in the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 2006 PDF

  • K. Anagnostakis, M. Greenwald, S.Ioannidis, and A.Keromytis, "Robust Reactions to Potential Day-Zero Worms through Cooperation and Validation", in Proceedings of ISC 2006: The 9th Information Security Conference, August 30 -- September 2, 2006 Samos, Greece, LNCS 4176 (Springer), pp. 427--442 PDF

  • Micah Sherr, M. Greenwald, C. Gunter, S. Khanna, and S.Venkatesh, "Mitigating DoS Attack through Selective Bin Verification", in Proceedings of 1st IEEE ICNP Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec '05), pp. 7-12, Boston, MA, November 6, 2005.PDF

  • N. Foster, M. Greenwald, Christian Kirkegaard, B.C. Pierce, A. Schmitt, "Exploiting Schemas in Data Synchronization", in Proceedings of 10th Intl Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2005), pp. 42-57, Springer, LNCS 3774, ISSN 0302-9743, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005 PDF

  • G. Agha, C. Gunter, M.B. Greenwald, S. Khanna, J. Meseguer, K. Sen, and P. Thati. "Formal Modeling and Analysis of DoS Using Probabilistic Rewrite Theories," in Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS'05) (LICS'05 Affiliated) pp. 91-102, Chicago, IL, June 30-July 1, 2005

  • J. N. Foster, M.B. Greenwald, C. Kirkegaard, B.C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt. "Schema-Directed Data Synchronization". Technical Report MS-CIS-05-02, University of Pennsylvania, March 2005. (Supersedes MS-CIS-03-42.) PDF

  • K. G. Anagnostakis, M. B. Greenwald, S. Ioannidis, D. Li, and J. M. Smith, ``Flexible Network Monitoring with FLAME'', Computer Networks Vol. 50, No. 14, 5 October 2006, pages 2548-2563 (Elsevier Science)

  • N. Foster, M. B. Greenwald, J. T. Moore, B. C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt, ``Combinators for Bi-directional Tree Transformations: A linguistic approach to the View Update Problem'', Proceedings of POPL 2005, pp. 233-246, Long Beach, CA, January 12-14, 2005. This paper (PDF) is based on a tech report, University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-04-15, July, 2004. The full version of the report is 75 pages: PDF, but some readers may prefer a quick overview, presented in a short version of the tech report: PDF.

  • M. B. Greenwald and S. Khanna, ``Power-Conserving Computation of Order-Statistics over Sensor Networks'', in the 23rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2004), pp. 275-285, Paris, France, June 13--18, 2004. Postscript, PDF, Slides

  • K. Anagnostakis and M.B. Greenwald, "A Hybrid Direct-Indirect Estimator of Network Internal Delays", Short paper, in Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2004, pp. 426-427, New York, NY, June 12-16, 2004

  • K. Anagnostakis and M.B. Greenwald, "Exchange-based Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing", in The 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2004), pp. 524-533, Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004 gzip'd Postscript, gzip'd PDF

  • K. G. Anagnostakis and M. B. Greenwald, ``A Hybrid Approach to Estimating per-link Network Queuing Delays'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, CIS TR MS-CIS-02-31, December, 2003, (supersedes earlier version of October, 2002). PDF, Postscript

  • A. Keromytis, K. G. Anagnostakis, S. Ioannidis, M. Greenwald, and J. M. Smith, "Managing Access Control in Large Scale Heterogeneous Networks", in Proceedings of the NATO Consultation, Command and Control (C3) Interoperable Networks for Secure Communication (INSC '03) Symposium, The Hague, Netherlands, November 4-6, 2003, PDF,

  • K. Anagnostakis, M.B. Greenwald, S. Ioannidis, A.D. Keromytis, and D. Li, "A Cooperative Immunization System for an Untrusting Internet", in Proceedings of ICON 2003: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Networks, September 28 - October 1, 2003 Sydney, NSW, Australia gzip'd Postscript, gzip'd PDF

  • M. B. Greenwald, J. T. Moore, B. C. Pierce, and A. Schmitt, ``A Language for Bi-Directional Tree Transformations'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-03-08, August, 2003. Full version: gzipped PDF, gzip'd Postscript. Short version (workshop): PDF.

  • A. D. Keromytis, S. Ioannidis, M. Greenwald, and J. M. Smith, ``The STRONGMAN Architecture'', in The Third DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (DISCEX III), pp. 178-188, IEEE Press. Washington, D.C. April 22-24, 2003 (gzip'd Postscript)

  • K.G. Anagnostakis, M. B. Greenwald, and R.S. Ryger, ``cing: Measuring Network-Internal Delays using only Existing Infrastructure'', in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Joint Conference of IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Infocom 2003), San Francisco, CA, April 1-3, 2003. gzip'd Postscript, gzip'd PDF. (Long version (CIS-TR-02-21): gzip'd Postscript, PDF.)

  • M.B. Greenwald, C. A. Gunter, B. Knutsson, A. Scedrov, J. M. Smith, and S. Zdancewic, "Computer Security is Not a Science (but it should be)", in the Large-Scale Network Security Workshop, Landsdowne, VA, March 13-14, 2003. PDF.

  • K. Anagnostakis, M. Greenwald, S. Ioannidis, and S. Miltchev, ``Open Packet Monitoring on FLAME: Safety, Performance,and Applications'', in Proceedings of IFIP (IWAN 2002) Fourth Annual International Working Conference on Active Networks, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2546, pp. 120-131, Zurich, Switzerland, December 4-6, 2002. gzip'd Postscript, gzip'd PDF

  • K.G.Anagnostakis, M. B. Greenwald, and R. S. Ryger, ``On the Sensitivity of Network Simulation to Topology'', Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE/ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2002), pp. 117-126, Fort Worth, Texas, October 12-16, 2002. gzip'd Postscript, PDF, Powerpoint slides. An earlier draft is available as University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-02-15, May 2002 (gzip'd Postscript).

  • K.G. Anagnostakis and M.B. Greenwald, ``Direct Measurement Versus Indirect Inference for Determining Network-Internal Delays'', (Best Student Paper Award Performance 2002), Rome, Italy. Performance Evaluation, Elsevier Science, vol. 49/1-4, September, 2002, pp. 165-176, gzip'd PDF file, gzip'd Postscript of final draft.

  • M. Greenwald, ``Two-Handed Emulation: How to build Non-Blocking implementations of Complex Data-Structures using DCAS'', Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing,, pp. 260--269, Monterey, CA, July 21-24, 2002.gzip'd Postscript, . PDF.

  • M. Greenwald, ``Brief Announcement: How to wait when you are not going to block'', Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing,, pp. 256, Monterey, CA, July 21--24, 2002, gzip'd Postscript.

  • M. Greenwald, ``Quantitative Modeling of Contention in Distributed Algorithms'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-02-10, April 2002.

  • K. Anagnostakis, S. Ioannidis, S. Miltchev, J. Ioannidis, M. Greenwald, and J.M. Smith, ``Safety and Performance in an Open Packet Monitoring Architecture'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-02-07, April 2002.gzip'd Postscript.

  • K. G. Anagnostakis, S. Ioannidis, S. Miltchev, J. Ioannidis, M. Greenwald, and J. M. Smith, ``Efficient Packet Monitoring for Network Management'', in Proceedings of the 8th IFIP/IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2002), pp. 423-436, April, 2002. gzip'd Postscript, gzip'd PDF.

  • K.G. Anagnostakis and M. B. Greenwald, ``On the Feasibility of Network Delay Tomography without Infrastructure Support'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-01-35, December 2001.gzip'd Postscript.

  • R. Alur, M. Greenwald. ``Coherency of Shared Memory in Ad-hoc Networks'', University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-01-29, September 2001.gzip'd Postscript.

  • M. Greenwald, S. Khanna. ``Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries'', Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data, pp. 58--66, Santa Barbara, CA, May 21--24, 2001. Compressed PDF, Compressed Postscript, Slides.

  • A. D. Keromytis, S. Ioannidis, M. Greenwald, and J. M. Smith, ``Scalable Security Mechanisms for the Internet", University of Pennsylvania CIS Dept. Technical Report, MS-CIS-01-05, January 2001.gzip'd Postscript.

  • J. Shi, N. Badler, M. Greenwald. ``Joining a Real-Time Simulation: Parallel Finite-State Machines and Hierarchical Action Level Methods for Mitigating Lag Time'', Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, May 16-18, 2000. Word format

  • M. Greenwald. Non-blocking Synchronization and System Design. Ph.D. Thesis (postscript), (or pdf), July 1999. Also available as Stanford University Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-99-1624 by http or ftp).

  • J. Stone, M. Greenwald, C. Partridge, and J. Hughes. Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct. 1998, vol 6, no. 3, pp. 529-543, compressed PostScript, PDF.

  • M. Greenwald and D.R. Cheriton. The Synergy Between Non-blocking Synchronization and Operating System Structure, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation. USENIX, Seattle, October, 1996, pp 123-136. compressed PostScript, compressed PDF, Hypertext, slides, or abstract.

  • M. Greenwald. Practical Algorithms for Self Scaling Histograms or Better than Average Data Collection, Proceedings of Performance '96 IFIP, Lausanne, October, 1996, and in Performance Evaluation Volumes 27&28, October 1996, North-Holland, pp 19-40. slides or abstract. (Copyright is held by Elsevier Science B.V. ; copies may be obtained by ordering publication number 0166-5316(96)00043-0).
    A slightly earlier, and slightly more extended, draft is available as a Postscript file.

  • M.B. Greenwald, S.K. Singhal, J.R. Stone, and D.R. Cheriton. Designing an Academic Firewall. In OnTheInternet, Vol. 2, No 3, May/June 1996, pp 24-33.

  • M.B. Greenwald, S.K. Singhal, J.R. Stone, and D.R. Cheriton. Designing an Academic Firewall: Policy, Practice, and Experience With SURF. In Proceedings of the 1996 Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, February 1996. pp 79-92. Internet Society / IEEE Computer Society. compressed PostScript, PDF, Hypertext, or abstract. Also available as Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-95-1558. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University (December 1995).

    Selected past publications and talks

    Teaching

    See my UPenn webpage.

    Theses supervised


    Thomas Langan, ``Enforcement of Cooperative Security Policies on a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment'', Masters thesis, August 2002.
    Marcus Haebler, ``Implementing Secure Connections between Security Domains with Varying Degrees of Trust'', Masters thesis, December, 2001.
    Jianping Shi, ``Techniques for Mitigating Lag-time when Joining Interest Groups in Real-Time Simulations'', Ph.D. Thesis, December 2000. (co-supervised with N. Badler). Kostas Anagnostakis "Exchange mechanisms and cooperative distributed system design", Ph.D. Thesis, 2005, Postscript, PDF.

    Current Ph.D. students

    Peifang Zheng
    Kostas Anagnostakis
    Peng Li
    Class library of histograms from Performance paper.

    Samoil Samak and I worked on a VNC Viewer for Windows CE, while experimenting with using a palmtop as an alternative to a tablet, for input. An old, unsupported, beta version of Samoil's implementation is still available for historical purposes.

    Here is my version of ttcp (The original ttcp is described by Mike Muus, one of its authors). My version includes timestamps and sequence numbers per udp packet for measuring individual packet latencies and patterns of loss, upper bounds on the transmission rates, independent control of transmission and reception to allow testing across firewalls.

    Bibliography of references on non-blocking synchronization. This is incomplete and not always formatted correctly. Please view it as "in progress". I'm updating it and correcting problems incrementally.

    An older bibliography maintained by John Valois contains bibtex references on concurrent objects, lock-free data structures, mutual exclusion, wait-free synchronization, efficient spinlocks, and other related topics. It might also be of interest.

    My thesis on "Non-Blocking Synchronization and System Design" may be of interest if you are really interested in details. (Also available as a Stanford Technical Report STAN-CS-TR-99-1624 by http or ftp).

    Education

    C.V. (usually out of date!)

    Alona Rivka Bach (b. 4/93)
    and
    Yaron Bryce Greenwald (b. 12/94), in November 1998.

    Click here for older pictures of Alona and Yaron and Meka.
    Click here for pictures of the extended family (the Bach cousins when there were only 11 of them).
    Meka Tamir Greenwald at 2 weeks old (b. 2/15/98) with his siblings. ("Meka" is pronounced "Mee-kuh") His Hebrew name is Tamir Avraham Greenwald. 
    Michael B. Greenwald
Bell Laboratories
600-700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2c-424
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA

Phone: 908-582-5872
Fax:   908-582-5857

<<lastname>@research.bell-labs.com>