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2016

Evolve or Die: High-Availability Design Principles Drawn from Google's Network Infrastructure, Ramesh Govindan, Ina Minei, Mahesh Kallahalla, Bikash Koley, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2016.

Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data Centers, Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2016.

2015

Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network, Arjun Singh, Joon Ong, Amit Agarwal, Glen Anderson, Ashby Armistead, Roy Bannon, Seb Boving, Gaurav Desai, Bob Felderman, Paulie Germano, Anand Kanagala, Jeff Provost, Jason Simmons, Eiichi Tanda, Jim Wanderer, Urs Hölzle, Stephen Stuart, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2015.

TIMELY: RTT-based Congestion Control for the Datacenter, Radhika Mittal, Terry Lam, Nandita Dukkipati, Emily Blem, Hassan Wassel, Monia Ghobadi, Amin Vahdat, Yaogong Wang, David Wetherall, David Zats, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2015.

Condor: Better Topologies through Declarative Design, Brandon Schlinker, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Sean Smith, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Amin Vahdat, Minlan Yu, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Michael Rubin, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2015.

BwE: Flexible, Hierarchical Bandwidth Allocation for WAN Distributed Computing, Alok Kumar, Sushant Jain, Uday Naik, Nikhil Kasinadhuni, Enrique Cauich Zermeno, C. Stephen Gunn, Jing Ai, Björn Carlin, Mihai Amarandei-Stavila, Mathieu Robin, Aspi Siganporia, Stephen Stuart, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2015.

2014

Cutting the Cord: A Robust Wireless Facilities Network for Data Centers, Yibo Zhu, Xia Zhou, Zengbin Zhang, Lin Zhou, Amin Vahdat, Ben Y. Zhao, and Haitao Zheng, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), September 2014.

DREAM: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Software-defined Measurement, Masoud Moshref, Minlan Yu, Ramesh Govindan, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, August 2014.

Gestalt: Fast, Unified Fault Localization for Networked Systems, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research, Amin Vahdat, and George Varghese, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2014.

WCMP: Weighted Cost Multipathing for Improved Fairness in Data Centers, Junlan Zhou, Malveeka Tewari, Min Zhu, Abdul Kabbani, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM European Conference in Computer Systems (EuroSys), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2014.

SENIC: A Scalable NIC for End-Host Rate Limiting, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Yilong Geng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Abdul Kabbani, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Seattle, WA, April 2014.

Libra: Divide and Conquer to Verify Formading Tables in Huge Networks, Hongyi Zeng, Shidong Zhang, Fei Ye, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Mickey Ju, Junda Liu, Nick McKeown, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Seattle, WA, April 2014.

2013

Aspen Trees: Balancing Data Center Fault Tolerance, Scalability and Cost, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Amin Vahdat, and Keith Marzullo, Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2013.

FasTrak: Enabling Express Lanes in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2013.

Dahu: Commodity Switches for Direct Connect Data Center Networks, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Malveeka Tewari, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), San Jose, California, October 2013.

A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George C. Papen, and Amin Vahdat, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 25(16):1589-1592, 2013.

B4: Experience with a Globally Deployed Software Defined WAN, Sushant Jain, Alok Kumar, Subhasree Mandal, Joon Ong, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Subbaiah Venkata, Jim Wanderer, Junlan Zhou, Min Zhu, Jonathan Zolla, Urs Hölzle, Stephen Stuart, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2013.

Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center, George Porter, Richard Strong, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Tajana Rosing, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2013.

Optical/Electrical Hybrid Switching for Datacenter Communications, Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Amin Vahdat, and George Papen, Proceedings of the 18th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2013) / Photonics in Switching 2013 (PS2013), Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.

NicPic: Scalable and Accurate End-Host Rate Limiting, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Abdul Kabbani, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud-V), San Jose, CA, June 2013.

A 10 us Hybrid Optical-Circuit/Electrical-Packet Network for Data Centers, Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, Amin Vahdat, George Porter, and George C. Papen, Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC, Anaheim, CA, March 2013.

Scalability vs. Fault Tolerance in Aspen Trees, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Keith Marzullo, and Amin Vahdat, Microsoft Research technical report MSR-TR-2013-21, February 2013.

TritonSort: A balanced and energy-efficient large-scale sorting system, Alexander Rasmussen, George Porter, Michael Conley, Harsha Madhyastha, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Alexander Pucher, and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 31(1), February 2013.

2012

Hunting Mice with Microsecond Circuit Switches, Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-XI), Redmond, WA, October 2012.

Chronos: Predictable Low Latency for Data Center Applications, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, Malveeka Tewari, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), San Jose, CA, October 2012.

Themis: An I/O-Efficient MapReduce, Alexander Rasmussen, Michael Conley, Rishi Kapoor, Vinh The Lam, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), San Jose, CA, October 2012.

xOMB: Extensible Open Middleboxes with Commodity Servers, James William Anderson, Ryan Braud, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Austin, Texas, October 2012.

NetBump: User-extensible Active Queue Management with Bumps on the Wire, Mohammad Al-Fares, Rishi Kapoor, George Porter, Sambit Das, Hakim Weatherspoon, Balaji Prabhakar, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Austin, Texas, October 2012.

A Demonstration of Ultra-low Latency Data Center Optical Circuit Switching (Demo session), Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2012.

Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling: Flexible Wireless Links for Data Centers, Xia Zhou, Zengbin Zhang, Yibo Li, Saipriya Kumar, Amin Vahdat, Ben Y. Zhao, and Haitao Zheng, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2012.

NetShare and Stochastic NetShare: Predictable Bandwidth Allocation for Data Centers, Vinh The Lam, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Amin Vahdat, George Varghese, and Rang Pan, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 42(3), July 2012.

scc: Cluster Storage Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics and SLAs, Harsha V. Madhyastha, John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, USENIX ;login: 37(3), June 2012.

Practical TDMA for Datacenter Ethernet, Bhanu Vattikonda, George Porter, Amin Vahdat, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the ACM European Conference in Computer Systems (EuroSys), Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.

Less is More: Trading a little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center, Mohammad Alizadeh, Abdul Kabbani, Tom Edsall, Balaji Prabhakar, Amin Vahdat, and Masato Yasuda, Proceedings of the 9th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, April 2012.

scc: Cluster Storage Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics and SLAs, Harsha V. Madhyastha, John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2012.

2011

Distributed Application Configuration, Management, and Visualization with Plush, Jeannie Albrecht, Ryan Braud, Darren Dao, Nikolay Topilski, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 11(2), Dec 2011.

ALIAS: Scalable, Decentralized Label Assignment for Data Centers, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Malveeka Tewari, Ying Zhang, Keith Marzullo, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.

Switching the Optical Divide: Fundamental Challenges for Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Networks, Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz, Malveeka Tewari, Guohui Wang, George Porter, T. S. Eugene Ng, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Michael A. Kozuch, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.

DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi V. Vishwanath, Marvin McNett, Amin Vahdat, Ken Yocum, Alex C. Snoeren, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 29(2):4:1-4:48, May 2011.

The Emerging Optical Data Center, Amin Vahdat, Hong Liu, Xiaoxue Zhao, and Chris Johnson, Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC, Los Angeles, CA, March 2011.

Hardware Requirements for Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Networks, Nathan Farrington, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Hong Liu, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of OFC/NFOEC, Los Angeles, CA, March 2011.

TritonSort: A Balanced Large-Scale Sorting System, Alexander Rasmussen, George Porter, Michael Conley, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Alexander Pucher, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 8th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, March 2011.

2010

Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center, Amin Vahdat, Mohammad Al-Fares, Nathan Farrington, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, George Porter, and Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, IEEE MICRO 30(4):29-41, August 2010.

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines, Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 53(10):85-93, October 2010.

Hyperbolic Geometry of Complex Networks, Dmitri Krioukov, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Maksim Kitsak, Amin Vahdat, and Marian Boguna, Physical Review E 82(3), September 2010.

Helios: A Hybrid Electrical/Optical Switch Architecture for Modular Data Centers, Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Hamid Bazzaz, Vikram Subramanya, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, New Delhi, India, August 2010.

Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks, Mohammad Al-Fares, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Barath Raghavan, Nelson Huang, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 7th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, April 2010.

Operator and Radio Resource Sharing in Multi-Carrier Environments, Pongsakorn Teeraparpwong, Per Johansson, Harsha V. Madhyastha, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'10), April 2010.

Neon: System Support for Derived Data Management, Qing Zhang, John McCullough, Justin Ma, Nabil Schear, Michael Vrable, Amin Vahdat, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2010, pages 63-74.

Greedy Forwarding in Dynamic Scale-Free Networks Embedded in Hyperbolic Metric Spaces, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, Marian Boguna, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2010.

2009

Evaluating the Impact of Inaccurate Information in Utility-Based Scheduling, Alvin AuYoung, Amin Vahdat, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, Portland, OR, November 2009.

Two Auction-Based Resource Allocation Environments: Design and Experience, Alvin AuYoung, Phil Buonadonna, Brent N. Chun, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Jeff Shneidman, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, In Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing. Rajkumar Buyya and Kris Bubendorfer, editor. Wiley, 2009.

Curvature and Temperature of Complex Networks, Dmitri Krioukov, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Amin Vahdat, and Marián Boguñá, Physical Review E 80(3):035101, September 2009.

Graph Annotations in Modeling Complex Network Topologies, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, Dmitri Krioukov, Amin Vahdat, and George Riley, Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 19(4), September 2009.

PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Andreas Pamboris, Nathan Farrington, Nelson Huang, Pardis Miri, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Vikram Subramanya, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.

Data Center Switch Architecture in the Age of Merchant Silicon, Nathan Farrington, Erik Rubow, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Hot Interconnects, August 2009.

GrassRoots: Socially-Driven Web Sites for the Masses, Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, and George Varghese, Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.

Realistic and Responsive Network Traffic Generation, Kashi Vishwanath and Amin Vahdat, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 17(3):712-725, June 2009.

Greedy Forwarding in Scale-Free Networks Embedded in Hyperbolic Metric Spaces, Dmitri Krioukov, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Marian Boguna, and Amin Vahdat, 11th ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis, June 2009.

Difference Engine, Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, USENIX ;login: 34(2):24-31, April 2009.

Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Cathy Marshall, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, April 2009.

Live Debugging of Distributed Systems, Darren Dao, Jeannie Albrecht, Charles Killian, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the International Conference on Compiler Construction, March 2009.

2008

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines, Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 8th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, December 2008, pages 309-322. (Award paper).

Design and Implementation Tradeoffs for Wide-Area Resource Discovery, Jeannie Albrecht, David Oppenheimer, David Patterson, and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 8(4), Sep 2008.

A Scalable, Commodity, Data Center Network Architecture, Mohammad Al-Fares, Alex Loukissas, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Seattle, WA, August 2008.

Flexible Resource Allocation and Composition Across GSM/3G Networks and WLANs, Mohammad Al-Fares, Martin Johnsson, Per Johansson, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch), August 2008.

Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter?, Kashi Vishwanath and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Improving Scalability and Fault Tolerance in an Application Management Infrastructure, Nick Topilski, Jeannie Albrecht, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LASCO), Boston, MA, June 2008.

DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model, Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Vishwanath, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

High Bandwidth Data Dissemination for Large-scale Distrbuted Systems, Dejan Kostić, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, Ryan Braud, Charles Killian, Jeannie Albrecht, James W. Anderson, Adolfo Rodriguez, and Erik VandeKieft, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 26(1), February 2008.

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, USENIX ;login: 33(1), February 2008.

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.

Comparison of the Three CPU Schedulers in Xen, Diwaker Gupta, Lucy Cherkasova, and Amin Vahdat, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER) 35(2):42-51, September 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.

Modeling and Generating Realistic Streaming Media Server Workloads , Wenting Tang, Yun Fu, and Amin Vahdat, Computer Networks 51(1):336-356, January 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

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.

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.

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, pages 87-100.

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, 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 24(2):70-113, February 2006.

PlanetLab Application Management Using Plush, Jeannie Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 40(1):33-40, January 2006.

Experiences With Resource Allocators for Large-Scale Multiuser Testbeds, Robert Ricci, David Oppenheimer, Jay Lepreau, and Amin Vahdat, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 40(1):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, kc claffy, and Amin Vahdat, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 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, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005, pages 99-104.

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), Las Vegas, NV, July 2005, page 98.

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), Santa Fe, NM, June 2005, pages 37-42.

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.

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, pages 19-28.

Maintaining High Bandwidth under Dynamic Network Conditions, Dejan Kostić, 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, pages 193-208.

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 1(1):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), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004, pages 275-283.

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.

2003

Workload and Failure Characterization on a Large-Scale Federated Testbed, Brent Chun and Amin Vahdat, Intel Research Berkeley technical report IRB-TR-03-040, November 2003.

Measuring and Characterizing End-to-End Internet Service Performance, Lucy Cherkasova, Yun Fu, Wenting Tang, and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 3(4), November 2003.

Bullet: High Bandwidth Data Dissemination Using an Overlay Mesh, Dejan Kostić, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie Albrecht, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bolton Landing, NY, October 2003.

SHARP: An Architecture for Secure Resource Peering, Yun Fu, Jeffrey S. Chase, Brent Chun, Stephen Schwab, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bolton Landing, NY, October 2003.

Toward Scaling Network Emulation using Topology Partitioning, Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becker, Jeff Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Orlando, FL, October 2003.

Bootstrapping a Distributed Computational Economy with Peer-to-Peer Bartering, Brent N. Chun, Yun Fu, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley, CA, June 2003.

MediSyn: A Synthetic Streaming Media Service Workload Generator, Wenting Tang, Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Monterey, CA, June 2003.

Efficient Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching, Patrick Reynolds and Amin Vahdat, Proceeding of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003.

Currentcy: A Unifying Abstraction for Expressing Energy Management Policies, Heng Zeng, Carla S. Ellis, Alvin R. Lebeck, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2003.

Anypoint: Extensible Transport Switching on the Edge, Ken Yocum, Darrell Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Seattle, WA, March 2003.

Model-Based Resource Provisioning in a Web Service Utility, Ron Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer Asad, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Seattle, WA, March 2003.

Using Random Subsets to Build Scalable Network Services, Dejan Kostić, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie Albrecht, Abhijeet Bhirud, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Seattle, WA, March 2003.

2002

Scalability and Accuracy in a Large-Scale Network Emulator, Amin Vahdat, Ken Yocum, Kesvin Walsh, Priya Mahadevan, Dejan Kostić, Jeffrey Chase, and David Becker, Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Boston, MA, December 2002.

ECOSystem: Managing Energy as a First Class Operating System Resource, Heng Zeng, Xiaobo Fan, Carla S. Ellis, Alvin Lebeck, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), San Jose, CA, October 2002.

Back to the Future: Dependable Computing through Dynamic Provisioning of Service Utilities, Jeffrey S. Chase, Amin Vahdat, and John Wilkes, Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Saint Emilion, France, September 2002.

Design and Evaluation of a Conit-based Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 20(3):239-282, August 2002.

Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting System, Yun Fu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 7th International Web Caching Workshop (WCW), Boulder, CO, August 2002.

Minimal Cost Replication for Availability, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Monterey, CA, July 2002.

Dynamically Provisioning Distributed Systems to Meet Target Levels of Performance, Availability, and Data Quality, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo), Bertinoro, Italy, June 2002.

Opus: An Overlay Peer Utility Service, Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostić, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH), New York, NY, June 2002.

Application-specific Network Management for Energy-aware Streaming of Popular Multimedia Formats, Surendar Chandra and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 2002.

EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance, Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 2002. (Best student paper).

Self-organizing Subsets: From Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Needs, Amin Vahdat, Jeffrey S. Chase, Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostić, Patrick Reynolds, and Adolfo Rodriguez, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Peer To Peer Systems (IPTPS), Cambridge, MA, March 2002.

Interposed Request Routing for Scalable Network Storage, Darrell Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 20(1):25-48, February 2002.

Coarse-Grained Network Simulation for Wide-Area Distributed Systems, Syam Gadde, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, Phoenix, AZ, January 2002.

2001

Managing Energy and Server Resources in Hosting Centers, Jeffrey S. Chase, Darrell Anderson, Prachi Thakar, Amin Vahdat, and Ronald Doyle, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Banff, Canada, October 2001.

The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Banff, Canada, October 2001.

Exploring the Benefits of a Continuous Consistency Model for Wireless Web Portals, Jagadeeswaran Rajendiran, Jaidev Patwardhan, Vijay Abhijit, Rahul Lakhotia, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications, San Jose, CA, July 2001.

Scalable and Self-Organizing (Meta) Data Dissemination for Ubiquitous Computing, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications, San Jose, CA, July 2001.

The Trickle-Down Effect: Web Caching and Server Request Distribution, Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Syam Gadde, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 6th International Web Caching Workshop (WCW), Boston, MA, June 2001.

Position Summary: Anypoint Communication Protocol, Ken Yocum, Darrell Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Schloss Elmau, Germany, May 2001.

A Chat Room Assignment for Teaching Network Security, William Mitchener and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 32nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, NC, February 2001.

Transcoding Characteristics of Web Images, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani, Carla S. Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Multi-Media Computing and Networking (MMCN), San Jose, CA, January 2001.

Combining Generality and Practicality in a Conit-Based Continuous Consistency Model for Wide-Area Replication, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Phoenix, AZ, April 2001.

2000

Application-Level Differentiated Multimedia Web Services Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla S. Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication 18(12):2544-2564, December 2000.

Design and Evaluation of a Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 4th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, October 2000.

Interposed Request Routing for Scalable Network Storage, Darrell Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 4th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, October 2000. (Award paper).

Every Joule is Precious: The Case for Revisiting Operating System Design for Energy Efficiency, Amin Vahdat, Alvin Lebeck, and Carla S. Ellis, Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Kolding, Denmark, September 2000.

Efficient Numerical Bounding for Replicated Network Services, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Cairo, Egypt, September 2000.

Managing the Storage and Battery Resources in an Image Capture Device (Digital Camera) using Dynamic Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla S. Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), Boston, MA, August 2000.

Epidemic Routing for Partially Connected Ad Hoc Networks, Amin Vahdat and David Becker, Duke University technical report , July 2000.

Building Replicated Internet Services Using TACT: Tunable Availability/Consistency Tradeoffs, Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Advanced issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS), Milpitas, CA, June 2000.

Differentiated Multimedia Web Services Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla S. Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.

1999

Toward Automatic State Management for Dynamic Web Services, Geoff C. Berry, Jeffrey S. Chase, Geoff A. Cohen, Landon P. Cox, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 1999 Network Storage Symposium (Netstore), Seattle, WA, October 1999.

Active Names: Flexible Location and Transport of Wide-Area Resources, Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas Anderson, and Amit Aggarwal, Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Boulder, CO, October 1999.

Multimedia Web Services for Mobile Clients Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla S. Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), Seattle, WA, August 1999.

Toward Wide-Area Resource Allocation, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Las Vegas, NV, June 1999.

Detour: a Case for Informed Internet Routing and Transport, Stefan Savage, Tom Anderson, Amit Aggarwal, David Becker, Neal Cardwell, Andy Collins, Eric Hoffman, John Snell, Amin Vahdat, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and John Zahorjan, IEEE Micro 19(1):50-59, January 1999.

1998

WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide-Area Applications, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, Michael Dahlin, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham, and Chad Yoshikawa, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Systems, July 1998.

Transparent Result Caching, Amin Vahdat and Thomas Anderson, Proceedings of the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1998.

The CRISIS Wide Area Security Architecture, Eshwar Belani, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and Michael Dahlin, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, January 1998.

GLUnix: A Global Layer Unix for a Network of Workstations, Douglas Ghormley, David Petrou, Steven Rodrigues, Amin Vahdat, and Thomas Anderson, 28(9), July 1998.

1997

Effects of Communication Latency, Overhead, and Bandwidth in a Cluster Architecture, Richard P. Martin, Amin M. Vahdat, David E. Culler, and Thomas E. Anderson, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Denver, CO, June 1997.

Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services, Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and David Culler, Proceedings of the USENIX Technical Conference, January 1997.

1996

WebFS: A Global Cache Coherent File System, Amin Vahdat, Paul Eastham, and Thomas Anderson, University of California Berkeley technical report , December 1996.

1995

The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workload on a Network of Workstations, Remzi Arpaci, Andrea Dusseau, Amin Vahdat, Lok Liu, Thomas Anderson, and David Patterson, Proceedings of Performance/SIGMETRICS, May 1995.

1994

Efficient, Portable, and Robust Extension of Operating System Functionality, Amin M. Vahdat, Douglas P. Ghormley, and Thomas E. Anderson, U.C. Berkeley technical report CSD-94-842, December 1994.

1993

The Design of a Metaobject Protocol Controlling the Behavior of a Scheme Interpreter, Amin Vahdat, Xerox PARC technical report , March 1993.

Tools for the Development of Application-Specific Virtual Memory Management, Keith Krueger, David Loftesness, Amin Vahdat, and Thomas Anderson, Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), October 1993.

Metaobject Protocols --- Why We Want Them and What Else They Can Do, Gregor Kiczales, Michael Ashley, Luis Rodriguez, Amin Vahdat, and Daniel G. Bobrow, In Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective. Andreas Paepcke, editor. MIT Press, 1993.