Wee Teck Ng

Network Management Paper

• Wee Teck Ng, Pankaj Risbood, Swarup Acharya, Edward Lafontaine, "Revenue Recovery in Operational SONET/SDH Networks", Proceedings of the 2006 OFC/NFOEC Conference, Anaheim, California, June 5-10 March 2006. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in IM 05 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, June 15-19 May 2005.

Storage Papers

• Eran Gabber, Jeff Fellin, Michael Flaster, Fengrui Gu, Bruce Hillyer, Wee Teck Ng, Banu Özden, and Elizabeth Shriver, "StarFish: highly-available block storage", Proceedings of the FREENIX track of the 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 9-14, 2003, pp. 151-163. Best paper award.
• Wee Teck Ng, Bruce K. Hillyer, Elizabeth Shriver, Eran Gabber, Banu Özden, "Obtaining High Performance for Storage Outsourcing", Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2002), Monterey, California, January 28-29, 2002, pp. 145-158. An earlier version of this paper appeared as a poster paper in Sigmetrics 2001. The full tech report is here.
• Brian White, Wee Teck Ng, Bruce K. Hillyer, "Performance Comparison of IDE and SCSI disks", Tech Report, Jan 2001. ,

Rio Papers

• Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen, "The Design and Verification of the Rio File Cache", IEEE Transaction on Computers, 50(5):1-16, (2001). This is the journal version of my thesis. Note IEEE copyright policy before downloading.
• Wee Teck Ng, "Design and Implementation of Reliable Main Memory", July 1999. This is my Ph.D. thesis.
• Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen, "The Systematic Improvement of Fault Tolerance in the Rio File Cache", Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS) , June 1999. William C. Carter Award.
• T.J. Teorey, W.T. Ng, "Dependability and Performance Measures for the Database Practitioner", IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(3):499-503, (1998).
  
• Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen, "Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases", VLDB Journal 7(3): 194-204 (1998). This is an enhanced version of our VLDB paper.
• Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen, "Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases", Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 1997. Best Paper Award.
• Peter M. Chen, Wee Teck Ng, Subhachandra Chandra, Christopher Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, David Lowell, "The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes", Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1996.
• Wee Teck Ng, Christopher M. Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, Peter M. Chen, "Comparing Disk and Memory's Resistance to Operating System Crashes", Proceedings of the 1996 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, October 1996.
• Peter M. Chen, Wee Teck Ng, Christopher Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, "The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes", University of Michigan CSE-TR-286-96, March 1996. This is a earlier tech report version of the ASPLOS paper. The major difference is that the ASPLOS version uses the new protection scheme that forces all addresses through the TLB, whereas the tech report version uses code-patching and consequently gets worse performance.