Center for Networked Systems

2007

• Usher: An Extensible Framework for Managing Clusters of Virtual Machines
  Marvin McNett, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, and Geoffrey M. Voelker. Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), Dallas, TX, November 2007.
  
  
• Remote Control: Distributed Application Configuration, Management, and Visualization with Plush
  Jeannie Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikolay Topilski, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), Dallas, TX, November 2007.
  
  
• Orbis: Rescaling Degree Correlations to Generate Annotated Internet Topologies
  Priya Mahadevan, Calvin Hubble, Bradley Huffaker, Dimitri Krioukov, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.
  
  
• Mace: Language Support for Building Distributed Systems
  Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ryan Braud, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2007.
  
  
• Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code
  Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Cambridge, MA, April 2007. (Best paper).
  
  
• A Performance Analysis of Indirect Routing
  Joshua Opos, Sriram Ramabhadran, Andrew Terry, Joe Pasquale, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 2007.
  
  
• Declarative Resource Naming for Macroprogramming Wireless Networks of Embedded Systems
  Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Rajesh Gupta, and Amin Vahdat. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4240/2006:192-199, January 2007.
  
  

2006

• Glavlit: Preventing Exfiltration at Wire Speed
  Nabil Schear, Carmelo Kintana, Qing Zhang, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-V), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
  
  
• Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen
  Diwaker Gupta, Ludmila Cherkasova, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006.
  
  
• Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance with Virtual Machines
  Ludmila Cherkasova, Diwaker Gupta, Eygene Ryabinkin, Roman Kurakin, Vladimir Dobretsov, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS), Seattle, WA, December 2006.
  
  
• Systematic Topology Analysis and Generation Using Degree Correlations
  Priya Mahadevan, Dmitri Krioukov, Kevin Fall, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
  
  
• Realistic and Responsive Network Traffic Generation
  Kashi Vishwanath and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
  
  
• Loose Synchronization for Large-Scale Networked Systems
  Jeannie Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2006, pages 301-314.
  
  
• Service Placement in Shared Wide-Area Platforms
  David Oppenheimer, Brent Chun, David Patterson, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2006, pages 273-288.
  
  
• Distributed Network Querying with Bounded Approximate Caching
  Badrish Chandramouli, Jun Yang, and Amin Vahdat. 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), June 2006.
  
  
• WAP5: Black-box Performance Debugging for Wide-Area Systems
  Patrick Reynolds, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Marcos K. Aguilera, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2006.
  
  
• To Infinity and Beyond: Time-Warped Network Emulation
  Diwaker Gupta, Kenneth Yocum<, Marvin McNett, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Geoffrey M. Voelker. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, May 2006.
  

• Pip: Detecting the Unexpected in Distributed Systems
  Patrick Reynolds, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Mehul A. Shah, Charles Killian, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, May 2006.
  
  
• MobiNet: A Scalable Emulation Infrastructure for Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks
  Priya Mahadevan, Adolfo Rodriguez, David Becker, and Amin Vahdat. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), April 2006.
  
  
• The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services
  Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Vol. 24, No. 2 pp. 70-113, February 2006.
  
  
• PlanetLab Application Management Using Plush
  Jeannie Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 33-40, January 2006.
  
  
• Experiences With Resource Allocators for Large-Scale Multiuser Testbeds
  Robert Ricci, David Oppenheimer, Jay Lepreau, and Amin Vahdat. ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR) Vol 40, No. 1, pp. 41-48, January 2006.
  
  
• The Internet AS-Level Topology: Three Data Sources and One Definiteve Metric
  Priya Mahadevan, Dmitri Krioukov, Marina Fomenkov, Brad Huffaker, Xenofontas Dimitripoulos, K.C. Claffy, and Amin Vahdat. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR), January 2006.
  
  

2005

• Addressing Strategic Behavior in a Deployed Microeconomic Resource Allocator
  Chaki Ng, Philip Buonadonna, Brent N. Chun, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, pp. 99-104, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
  
  
• Brief Announcement: The Overlay Network Content Distribution Problem
  Chip Killian, Michael Vrable, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Joseph Pasquale. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), p. 98, Las Vegas, NV, July 2005.
  
  
• MobiNet: A Scalable Emulation Infrastructure for Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks
  Priya Mahadevan, Adolfo Rodriguez, David Becker, and Amin Vahdat. International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling, June 2005.
  
  
• Design and Implementation Tradeoffs for Wide-Area Resource Discovery
  David Oppenheimer, Jeannie Albrecht, David Patterson, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Compuuting (HPDC), Research Triangle Park, NC, July 2005.
  
  
• Why Markets Could (But Don't Currently) Solve Resource Allocation Problems in Systems
  Jeffrey Shneidman, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Alvin AuYoung, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Brent N. Chun. Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-X), pp. 37-42, Santa Fe, NM, June 2005.
  
  
• Mirage: A Microeconomic Resource Allocation System for Sensornet Testbeds
  Brent N. Chun, Philip Buonadonna, Alvin AuYoung, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Jeffrey Shneidman, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), Sydney, Australia, May 2005.
  
  
• Maintaining High Bandwidth under Dynamic Network Conditions
  Dejan Kostic, Ryan Braud, Charles Killian, Erik VandeKieft, James W. Anderson, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 2005.
  
  
• Designing Incentives for Peer-to-Peer Routing
  Alberto Blanc, Yi-Kai Liu, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom Conference, Miami, FL, March 2005.
  
  
• Consistent and Automatic Replica Regeneration
  Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat.   ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-37, February 2005.
  
  
• MediaGuard: a Model-based Framework for Building Streaming Media Services
  Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Multi-Media Computing and Networking (MMCN), San Jose, CA, January 2005.
  
  

2004

• Distributed Resource Discovery on PlanetLab with SWORD
  David Oppenheimer, Jeannie Albrecht, David Patterson, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM/USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS), San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
  
  
• Resource Allocation in Federated Distributed Computing Infrastructures
  Alvin AuYoung, Brent N. Chun, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the on Demand IT InfraStructure, Boston, MA, October 2004.
  
  
• Routing in an Internet-Scale Network Emulator
  Jay Chen, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi V. Vishwanath, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pp. 275-283, Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.
  
  
• The Lonely NATed Node
  Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, September 2004.
  
  
• MACEDON: Methodology for Automatically Creating, Evaluating, and Designing Overlay Networks
  Adolfo Rodriguez, Charles Killian, Sooraj Bhat, Dejan Kostić, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
  
  
• Consistent and Automatic Service Regeneration
  Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
  
  
• Scalability in Adaptive Multi-Metric Overlays
  Adolfo Rodriguez, Dejan Kostić, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.