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Matthew Lentz

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708
308 Research Drive, Room D314, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


MCCS: A Service-based Approach to Collective Communication for Multi-Tenant Cloud

Conference ACM SIGCOMM 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference · August 4, 2024 Performance of collective communication is critical for distributed systems. Using libraries to implement collective communication algorithms is not a good fit for a multi-tenant cloud environment because the tenant is not aware of the underlying physical ... Full text Cite

DrSec: Flexible Distributed Representations for Efficient Endpoint Security

Conference 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) · May 19, 2024 Full text Cite

Dissecting Overheads of Service Mesh Sidecars

Conference SoCC 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing · October 30, 2023 Service meshes play a central role in the modern application ecosystem by providing an easy and flexible way to connect microservices of a distributed application. However, because of how they interpose on application traffic, they can substantially increa ... Full text Cite

Serving and Optimizing Machine Learning Workflows on Heterogeneous Infrastructures

Journal Article Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · November 1, 2022 With the advent of ubiquitous deployment of smart devices and the Internet of Things, data sources for machine learning inference have increasingly moved to the edge of the network. Existing machine learning inference platforms typically assume a homogeneo ... Full text Cite

Listening to bluetooth beacons for epidemic risk mitigation.

Journal Article Scientific reports · April 2022 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic let to efforts to develop and deploy digital contact tracing systems to expedite contact tracing and risk notification. Unfortunately, the success of these systems has been limited, partly owing to poor interoperability with m ... Full text Cite

Poirot: Private contact summary aggregation: Poster abstract

Conference SenSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems · November 16, 2020 Physical distancing between individuals is key to preventing the spread of a disease such as COVID-19. On the one hand, having access to information about physical interactions is critical for decision makers; on the other, this information is sensitive an ... Full text Cite

PanCast: Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation

Journal Article arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08069 · 2020 Open Access Cite

enClosure: Group Communication via Encounter Closures

Conference Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services · 2019 Cite

Secloak: ARM TrustZone-based Mobile Peripheral Control

Conference Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services · 2018 Cite

Dynamic Frequency Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Journal Article IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 2016 Cite

Drowsy Power Management

Conference Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles · 2015 Cite

Encore: Private, Context-based Communication for Mobile Social Apps

Conference Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services · 2014 Cite

SDDR: Light-Weight, Secure Mobile Encounters

Conference 23rd $$USENIX$$ Security Symposium ($$USENIX$$ Security 14) · 2014 Cite

Brave New World: Privacy Risks for Mobile Users

Conference Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom workshop on Security and privacy in mobile environments · 2014 Cite

D-mystifying the D-root Address Change

Conference Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference · 2013 Cite