Bio

Cheriton's research includes the areas of high-performance distributed systems, and high-speed computer communication with a particular interest in protocol design. He leads the Distributed Systems Group in the TRIAD project, focused on understanding and solving problems with the Internet architecture. He has also been teaching and writing about object-oriented programming, building on his experience with OOP in systems building.

Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Communication

Honors & Awards

  • SigComm'03 Award, Association for Computing Machinery (2003)

Professional Education

  • PhD, Waterloo (1978)

Contact

  • Academic
    CHERITON@CS.STANFORD.EDU
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Communication Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council
    • GATES BLDG 4A-439
    • Stanford,  California  94305-9040 
    (650) 725-7411 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 9040

Links

2023-24 Courses

All Publications

  • Efficient Correction of Anomalies in Snapshot Isolation Transactions ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION Litz, H., Dias, R. J., Cheriton, D. R. 2014; 11 (4)

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2693260

    View details for Web of Science ID 000348232000031

  • Scalable Network-Layer Defense Against Internet Bandwidth-Flooding Attacks IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING Argyraki, K., Cheriton, D. R. 2009; 17 (4): 1284-1297

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TNET.2008.2007431

    View details for Web of Science ID 000269155300021

  • Active Internet Traffic Filtering: Real-time response to denial-of-service attacks 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Argyraki, K., Cheriton, D. R. USENIX ASSOC. 2005: 135–148

    View details for Web of Science ID 000229734000010

  • Feedback based routing 1st HotNets Workshop Zhu, D. P., Gritter, M., Cheriton, D. R. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2003: 71–76

    View details for Web of Science ID 000183263400012

  • TCP-SMO: Extending TCP to support medium-scale multicast applications 21st Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE-Computer-and-Communications-Societies Liang, S., Cheriton, D. IEEE. 2002: 1356–1365

    View details for Web of Science ID 000178147300143

  • An architecture for content routing support in the Internet 3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS 01) Gritter, M., Cheriton, D. R. USENIX ASSOC. 2001: 37–48

    View details for Web of Science ID 000168728100004

  • IP multicast channels: Express support for large-scale single-source applications ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM 99) Holbrook, H. W., Cheriton, D. R. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1999: 65–78

    View details for Web of Science ID 000083442200006

  • Borrowed-Virtual-Time (BVT) scheduling: supporting latency-sensitive threads in a general-purpose scheduler 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '99) DUDA, K. J., Cheriton, D. R. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 1999: 261–276

    View details for Web of Science ID 000085736200018

  • Scalable web caching of frequently updated objects using reliable multicast 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS 99) Li, D., Cheriton, D. R. USENIX ASSOC. 1999: 1–12

    View details for Web of Science ID 000084986000001

  • OTERS (on-tree efficient recovery using subcasting): A reliable multicast protocol 6th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 98) Li, D., Cheriton, D. R. I E E E, COMPUTER SOC PRESS. 1998: 237–245

    View details for Web of Science ID 000076806600025

  • Optimized memory-based messaging: Leveraging the memory system for high-performance communication COMPUTING SYSTEMS Cheriton, D. R., Kutter, R. A. 1996; 9 (3): 179-215

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996VV07300002

  • The synergy between non-blocking synchronization and operating system structure 2nd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 96) Greenwald, M., CHERITON, D. USENIX ASSOC. 1996: 123–136

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996BG88Q00011

  • Specializing object-oriented RPC for functionality and performance 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ZELESKO, M. J., Cheriton, D. R. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1996: 175–187

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996BF78X00021

  • Using projection aggregations to support scalability in distributed simulation 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Singhal, S. K., Cheriton, D. R. IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 1996: 196–206

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996BF78X00023

  • EXPLOITING POSITION HISTORY FOR EFFICIENT REMOTE RENDERING IN NETWORKED VIRTUAL-REALITY PRESENCE-TELEOPERATORS AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Singhal, S. K., Cheriton, D. R. 1995; 4 (2): 169-193

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995QX73000007

  • CHIRON PARALLEL PROGRAM PERFORMANCE VISUALIZATION SYSTEM COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN GOOSEN, H. A., Karlin, A. R., CHERITON, D., Polzin, D. 1994; 26 (12): 899-906

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994QE06300007

  • A CACHING MODEL OF OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL FUNCTIONALITY 1st USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) Cheriton, D. R., DUDA, K. J. USENIX ASSOC. 1994: 179–193

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994BC18M00015

  • RESTRUCTURING A PARALLEL SIMULATION TO IMPROVE CACHE BEHAVIOR IN A SHARED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR - THE VALUE OF DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION 7th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 93) Cheriton, D. R., GOOSEN, H. A., Holbrook, H., Machanick, P. SOC COMPUTER SIMULATION INT. 1993: 159–162

    View details for Web of Science ID A1993BA34K00021

  • APPLICATION-CONTROLLED PHYSICAL MEMORY USING EXTERNAL PAGE-CACHE MANAGEMENT SIGPLAN NOTICES HARTY, K., Cheriton, D. R. 1992; 27 (9): 187-197

    View details for Web of Science ID A1992JT83700016

  • OPERATING-SYSTEMS - A VISION OF THE YEAR 2000 COMPUTER Boykin, J., CHERITON, D. 1991; 24 (9): 108-110

    View details for Web of Science ID A1991GD91300020

  • PARADIGM - A HIGHLY SCALABLE SHARED-MEMORY MULTICOMPUTER ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER Cheriton, D. R., GOOSEN, H. A., Boyle, P. D. 1991; 24 (2): 33-46

    View details for Web of Science ID A1991EW58400005

  • BLAZENET - A PACKET-SWITCHED WIDE-AREA NETWORK WITH PHOTONIC DATA PATH IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS Haas, Z., Cheriton, D. R. 1990; 38 (6): 818-829

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990DP89400013

  • MULTICAST ROUTING IN DATAGRAM INTERNETWORKS AND EXTENDED LANS ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS DEERING, S. E., Cheriton, D. R. 1990; 8 (2): 85-110

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990DG91600001

  • VMTP AS THE TRANSPORT LAYER FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE Cheriton, D. R., Williamson, C. L. 1989; 27 (6): 37-44

    View details for Web of Science ID A1989U840200004

  • DECENTRALIZING A GLOBAL NAMING SERVICE FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND FAULT TOLERANCE ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Cheriton, D. R., MANN, T. P. 1989; 7 (2): 147-183

    View details for Web of Science ID A1989U462500002

  • THE V-DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Cheriton, D. R. 1988; 31 (3): 314-333

    View details for Web of Science ID A1988M466900015

  • UIO - A UNIFORM I/O SYSTEM INTERFACE FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Cheriton, D. R. 1987; 5 (1): 12-46

    View details for Web of Science ID A1987G036000002

  • REQUEST-RESPONSE AND MULTICAST INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION IN THE V-KERNEL LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Cheriton, D. R. 1987; 248: 296-312

    View details for Web of Science ID A1987H494400018

  • FILE ACCESS PERFORMANCE OF DISKLESS WORKSTATIONS ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Lazowska, E. D., Zahorjan, J., Cheriton, D. R., Zwaenepoel, W. 1986; 4 (3): 238-268

    View details for Web of Science ID A1986E028800003

  • DISTRIBUTED PROCESS GROUPS IN THE V-KERNEL ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Cheriton, D. R., Zwaenepoel, W. 1985; 3 (2): 77-107

    View details for Web of Science ID A1985AJM7200001

  • AMAZE - A MULTIPLAYER COMPUTER GAME IEEE SOFTWARE BERGLUND, E. J., Cheriton, D. R. 1985; 2 (3): 30-39

    View details for Web of Science ID A1985AHW6400004

  • THE V-KERNEL - A SOFTWARE BASE FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IEEE SOFTWARE Cheriton, D. R. 1984; 1 (2): 19-?

    View details for Web of Science ID A1984TG49500002