Jonathan Stanton

High performance group communications for distributed applications

Ph.D, 2002, Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

M.S.E., 1998, Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

B.A., 1995, Mathematics, Cornell University

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the George Washington University. I am also a member of the Center for Networking and Distributed Systems at the Johns Hopkins University. My main research focus is high performance group communications for distributed applications. I am the architect of the Spread Group Messaging Toolkit which provides wide area, high performance reliable multicast messaging with membership, strong failure and ordering semantics, and a professional quality implementation.

Selected Publications

1. Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik, Robust Contributory Key Agreement in Secure Spread , IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.



2. Baruch Awerbuch, Jonathan Stanton , Scalable Decentralized Control for Sensor Networks via Distributed Lattices , The Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, April 22-23, 2003.



3. Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik , Scaling Secure Group Communications: Beyond Peer-to-Peer , Proceedings of DISCEX 3, Washington DC. April 22-24, 2003.



4. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Michal Miskin-Amir, Ciprian Tutu, and Jonathan Stanton, Practical Wide-Area Database Replication , Published as Johns Hopkins University, Center for Networking and Distributed Systems (CNDS) Technical report CNDS-2002-1.



5. Yair Amir, Baruch Awerbuch, Claudiu Danilov, Jonathan Stanton, Flow Control for Many-to-Many Multicast: A Cost-Benefit Approach , The proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming, New York, New York, June 28-29, 2002.



6. Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Jonathan Stanton, Framework for Authentication and Access Control of Client-Server Group Communication Systems , Published in the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, London UK, 7-9 November 2001, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2233 (LNCS 2233).



7. Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik, Exploring Robustness in Group Key Agreement , Published in Proceedings of the 21th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, April 16-19, 2001, pp 399-408. Nominated for Best Paper Award.



8. Yair Amir, Yan Gu, Theo Schlossnagle and Jonathan Stanton, Practical Cluster Applications of Group Communication , Published in International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (FTCS-3 0, DCCA-8), New York, New York, June 25-28, 2000.



9. Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, and Jonathan Stanton, A Low Latency,Loss Tolerant Architecture and Protocol for Wide Area Group Communication , Published in International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (FTCS-30, DCCA-8), New York, New York, June 25-28, 2000.