Here are some papers that are somewhat related to Tahoe.  This section is inspired by [http://flud.org flud]'s [http://flud.org/wiki/index.php/RelatedPapers Related Papers] page, which is well worth reading.

[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rhea05fixing.html Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab (2005)] -- practical lessons in DHT performance that theoreticians learned by deployment

[http://srhea.net/papers/ntr-worlds05.pdf Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs] -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment