Public Health for the Internet (phi): Towards A New Grand Challenge for Information Management

Summary: Proposes Public Health for the Internet (PHI) as a new database grand challenge: enable collectives of hosts to jointly monitor and improve network health via peer-to-peer sharing of network-condition data. Highlights unique data-management issues: large-scale, real-time, privacy-preserving, provenance-aware, cross-domain collection, sharing and analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 92
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,623 | 13.40%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
2. Tyson Condie (University of California Berkeley)
3. Minos Garofalakis (Intel)
4. Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)
5. Petros Maniatis (Intel)
6. Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich; Intel)
7. Nina A. Taft (Intel)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hellerstein_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{Public Health for the Internet (phi): Towards A New Grand Challenge for Information Management}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Condie, Tyson and Garofalakis, Minos and Loo, Boon Thau and Maniatis, Petros and Roscoe, Timothy and Taft, Nina A.},
        year = {2007}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
408	MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.00019008806
1,045	Sketching Streams Through the Net: Distributed Approximate Query Tracking	2005	VLDB	0.00012440928
1,433	Communication-Efficient Distributed Monitoring of Thresholded Counts	2006	SIGMOD	0.0001080304
1,780	The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2005	CIDR	9.7745226e-05
7,375	Compact Histograms for Hierarchical Identifiers	2006	VLDB	5.6299286e-05

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