Here are some papers that are somewhat related to Tahoe. This section is inspired by ​flud's ​Related Papers page, which is well worth reading.

​Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab (2005) -- practical lessons in DHT performance that theoreticians learned by deployment

​Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment