Rebecca Isaacs

I am a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge working in the Systems and Performance Group . My current research interests are performance analysis of distributed systems (see the Magpie project), and network monitoring and management (see the Anemone project).

Publications by Year

• Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Tim Harris. Learning communication patterns in Singularity June 2006 SIGMETRICS Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques in Systems (SysML)
• Evan Cooke, Richard Mortier, Austin Donnelly, Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs. Reclaiming network-wide visibility using ubiquitous end system monitors June 2006 USENIX 2006 Annual Technical Conference
• Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham. Anemone: using end-systems as a rich network management platform August 2005 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet'05) 203--204
• Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham. Anemone: using end-systems as a rich network management platform May 2005 Microsoft Research MSR-TR-2005-62
• Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham, James Bulpin, Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan. Request extraction in Magpie: events, schemas and temporal joins September 2004 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop 92--97
• Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier. Using Magpie for request extraction and workload modelling December 2004 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'04) 259--272
• Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan. Magpie: online modelling and performance-aware systems May 2003 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX) 85--90
• Timothy Roscoe, Steve Hand, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Paul Jardetzky. Predicate routing: enabling controlled networking January 2003 Computer Communication Review 1 65--70 33
• Simon Crosby, Sean Rooney, Rebecca Isaacs, Herbert Bos. A perspective on how ATM lost control November 2002 Computer Communication Review 5 25--28 32
• Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham. Performance analysis in loosely-coupled distributed systems October 2002 7th Cabernet Radicals Workshop
• Rebecca Isaacs. Dynamic provisioning of resource-assured and programmable virtual private networks July 2001 Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 516
• Herbert Bos, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Ian Leslie. Elastic network control: an alternative to active networks June 2001 Journal of Communications and Networks 2 153--163 3
• Rebecca Isaacs, Ian Leslie. Support for resource-assured and dynamic virtual private networks March 2001 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 3 460--472 19
• Rebecca Isaacs. Lightweight, dynamic and programmable virtual private networks March 2000 IEEE Third Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OpenArch) 3--12
• Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier. INCA: Support for IN using the Tempest December 1999 Global Telecommunications Conference (GlobeCom'99) 812--816

Other activities

• The Cambridge Systems Colloquium, October 2005
• Program committees: NSDI 2006, HotNets-V 2006, HotOS XI 2007
• EuroSys White Paper "Fostering systems research in Europe", April 2006