Azer Bestavros

Pietro Michiardi, Damiano Carra, Francesco Albanese, Azer Bestavros: Peer-assisted content distribution on a budget. Computer Networks 56(7): 2038-2048 (2012)

Dóra Erdös, Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros: The Filter-Placement Problem and its Application to Minimizing Information Multiplicity. PVLDB 5(5): 418-429 (2012)

Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros: MORPHOSYS: Efficient Colocation of QoS-Constrained Workloads in the Cloud. CCGRID 2012: 90-97

Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Azer Bestavros, Jonathan Appavoo: CloudPack - Exploiting Workload Flexibility through Rational Pricing. Middleware 2012: 374-393

Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros: AngelCast: cloud-based peer-assisted live streaming using optimized multi-tree construction. MMSys 2012: 191-202

Vatche Ishakian, Dóra Erdös, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros: A Framework for the Evaluation and Management of Network Centrality. SDM 2012: 427-438

Dóra Erdös, Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros: The Filter-Placement Problem and its Application to Minimizing Information Multiplicity. CoRR abs/1201.6565 (2012)

Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: An information-theoretic framework for field monitoring using autonomously mobile sensors. Ad Hoc Networks 9(6): 1049-1058 (2011)

Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros, Nikolaos Laoutaris: Trade & Cap: A customer-managed, market-based system for trading bandwidth allowances at a shared link. Computer Networks 55(17): 3959-3974 (2011)

Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Vassilis Lekakis, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Mema Roussopoulos: Selfish Overlay Network Creation and Maintenance. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 19(6): 1624-1637 (2011)

Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros: Angels in the Cloud: A Peer-Assisted Bulk-Synchronous Content Distribution Service. IEEE CLOUD 2011: 97-104

Nate Soule, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury, Andrei Lapets: Safe Compositional Equation-based Modeling of Constrained Flow Networks. EOOLT 2011: 35-44

Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: Formal Verification of SLA Transformations. SERVICES 2011: 540-547

Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: A Domain-Specific Language for . DSL 2011: 24-47

Benyuan Liu, Azer Bestavros, Jie Wang, Ding-Zhu Du: Wireless Network Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking 2010 (2010)

Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pietro Michiardi, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Mema Roussopoulos: Distributed Network Formation for n-Way Broadcast Applications. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 21(10): 1427-1441 (2010)

Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros, Nikolaos Laoutaris: A Trading System for Fairly Scheduling Fixed-Sized Delay Tolerant Jobs at a Shared Link. GLOBECOM 2010: 1-5

Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury, Andrei Lapets, Michael J. Ocean: Safe compositional network sketches: formal framework. HSCC 2010: 231-241

Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Preferential field coverage through detour-based mobility coordination. Med-Hoc-Net 2010: 1-8

Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros: Colocation as a Service: Strategic and Operational Services for Cloud Colocation. NCA 2010: 76-83

Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: A Type-Theoretic Framework for Efficient and Safe Colocation of Periodic Real-Time Systems. RTCSA 2010: 143-152

Michael Atighetchi, Jonathan Webb, Partha Pratim Pal, Joseph P. Loyall, Azer Bestavros, Michael J. Mayhew: Dynamic cross domain information sharing: a concept paper on flexible adaptive policy management. SafeConfig 2010: 83-88

Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers: Measuring capacity bandwidth of targeted path segments. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 17(1): 80-92 (2009)

Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Assessment of Vulnerability of Content Adaptation Mechanisms to RoQ Attacks. ICN 2009: 445-450

Michael J. Ocean, Assaf J. Kfoury, Azer Bestavros: A formal type-centric framework for verification and resource allocation in pervasive Sense-and-Respond systems. MOMPES 2009: 31-41

Christine Bassem, Azer Bestavros: CSR: Constrained Selfish Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks. WASA 2009: 179-189

Benyuan Liu, Azer Bestavros, Ding-Zhu Du, Jie Wang (Eds.): Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, 4th International Conference, WASA 2009, Boston, MA, USA, August 16-18, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5682, Springer 2009, isbn 978-3-642-03416-9

Georgios Smaragdakis, Vassilis Lekakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Mema Roussopoulos: EGOIST: overlay routing using selfish neighbor selection. CoNEXT 2008: 6

Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors. DCOSS 2008: 332-345

Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, Nikolaos Laoutaris, John W. Byers, Pietro Michiardi, Mema Roussopoulos: Swarming on Optimized Graphs for n-Way Broadcast. INFOCOM 2008: 141-145

Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros: NETEMBED: A network resource mapping service for distributed applications. IPDPS 2008: 1-8

Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Amorphous Placement and Informed Diffusion for Timely Field Monitoring by Autonomous, Resource-Constrained, Mobile Sensors. SECON 2008: 469-477

Michael J. Ocean, Azer Bestavros: Wireless and physical security via embedded sensor networks. WISEC 2008: 131-139

Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Ioannis Stavrakakis: Mistreatment-resilient distributed caching. Computer Networks 51(11): 2917-2937 (2007)

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuting Zhang: Adversarial exploits of end-systems adaptation dynamics. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 67(3): 318-335 (2007)

Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Ioannis Stavrakakis: Distributed Selfish Caching. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 18(10): 1361-1376 (2007)

Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks. GLOBECOM 2007: 817-822

Fernando Duarte, Bernardo Mattos, Azer Bestavros, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Jussara M. Almeida: Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere. ICWSM 2007

Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers: Implications of Selfish Neighbor Selection in Overlay Networks. INFOCOM 2007: 490-498

Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Zervas, Azer Bestavros, George Kollios: The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing. INFOCOM 2007: 848-856

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuting Zhang: Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs. INFOCOM 2007: 857-865

Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, Azer Bestavros: Distributed Placement of Service Facilities in Large-Scale Networks. INFOCOM 2007: 2144-2152

Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros: netEmbed: a service for embedding distributed applications. Middleware (Demos and Posters) 2007: 1

Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study. PAM 2007: 94-104

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: Small-world characteristics of Internet topologies and implications on multicast scaling. Computer Networks 50(5): 648-666 (2006)

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Exogenous-loss aware traffic management in overlay networks: Toward global fairness. Computer Networks 50(13): 2331-2348 (2006)

Eveline Veloso, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr., Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin: A hierarchical characterization of a live streaming media workload. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 14(1): 133-146 (2006)

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks. ICC 2006: 2316-2321

Feifei Li, Ching Chang, George Kollios, Azer Bestavros: Characterizing and Exploiting Reference Locality in Data Stream Applications. ICDE 2006: 81

Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, Ioannis Stavrakakis: Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups: Causes and Implications. INFOCOM 2006

Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Ioannis Stavrakakis: A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups. Networking 2006: 331-343

Michael J. Ocean, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: snBench: programming and virtualization framework for distributed multitasking sensor networks. VEE 2006: 89-99

Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: M²RC: multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease multipath routing control for wireless sensor networks. SIGBED Review 2(1): 13-18 (2005)

Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Khaled Harfoush: Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 16(11): 1053-1065 (2005)

Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, Ibrahim Matta: Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions. ICNP 2005: 289-300

Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: dPAM: a distributed prefetching protocol for scalable asynchronous multicast in P2P systems. INFOCOM 2005: 1139-1150

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuting Zhang: Reduction of quality (RoQ) attacks on Internet end-systems. INFOCOM 2005: 1362-1372

Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta, Richard West: Friendly virtual machines: leveraging a feedback-control model for application adaptation. VEE 2005: 2-12

Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, Ibrahim Matta: Safe compositional specification of networking systems. Computer Communication Review 34(3): 21-34 (2004)

Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: A Typed Model for Encoding-Based Protocol Interoperability. ICNP 2004: 72-83

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources. ICNP 2004: 184-195

Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, G. Diamant, Yuting Zhang: Providing soft bandwidth guarantees using elastic TCP-based tunnels. ISCC 2004: 760-765

Vijay Erramilli, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: On the interaction between data aggregation and topology control in wireless sensor networks. SECON 2004: 557-565

Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: M²RC - multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease multipath routing control for wireless sensor networks. SenSys 2004: 287-288

Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Performance Evaluation of Distributed Prefetching for Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Networks. WCW 2004: 154-168

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, Arun Iyengar: Network-aware partial caching for Internet streaming media. Multimedia Syst. 9(4): 386-396 (2003)

Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: A spectrum of TCP-friendly window-based congestion control algorithms. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 11(3): 341-355 (2003)

Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin: OSMOSIS: Scalable Delivery of Real-Time Streaming Media in Ad-Hoc Overlay Networks. ICDCS Workshops 2003: 214-219

Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, Assaf J. Kfoury: Systematic Verification of Safety Properties of Arbitrary Network Protocol Compositions Using CHAIN. ICNP 2003: 234-

Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers: Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments. INFOCOM 2003

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: Small-World Characteristics of the Internet and Multicast Scaling. MASCOTS 2003: 260-268

Stanislav Rost, John W. Byers, Azer Bestavros: The Cyclone Server Architecture: streamlining delivery of popular content. Computer Communications 25(4): 403-412 (2002)

Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros: Basis token consistency: supporting strong Web cache consistency. GLOBECOM 2002: 2225-2229

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, Arun Iyengar: Accelerating Internet Streaming Media Delivery using Network-Aware Partial Caching. ICDCS 2002: 153-160

Eveline Veloso, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr., Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin: A hierarchical characterization of a live streaming media workload. Internet Measurement Workshop 2002: 117-130

Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Khaled Harfoush: Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. INFOCOM 2002

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: A Buffer-and-Relay Approach to Streaming Media Delivery for Asynchronous Clients. Networked Group Communication 2002: 37-44

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: Scalability of multicast delivery for non-sequential streaming access. SIGMETRICS 2002: 97-107

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: GreedyDual* Web caching algorithm: exploiting the two sources of temporal locality in Web request streams. Computer Communications 24(2): 174-183 (2001)

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: GISMO: a Generator of Internet Streaming Media Objects and workloads. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 29(3): 2-10 (2001)

Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: TCP-Friendly SIMD Congestion Control and Its Convergence Behavior. ICNP 2001: 156-164

Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers, Mark Crovella: On the marginal utility of network topology measurements. Internet Measurement Workshop 2001: 5-17

Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Adaptive Reliable Multicast. ICC (3) 2000: 1542-1546

Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin: Popularity-Aware Greedy Dual-Size Web Proxy Caching Algorithms. ICDCS 2000: 254-261

Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, John W. Byers: Robust Identification of Shared Losses Using End-to-End Unicast Probes. ICNP 2000: 22-

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: Sources and Characteristics of Web Temporal Locality. MASCOTS 2000: 28-35

Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 2000: 101-110

Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros: Temporal locality in Web request streams: sources, characteristics, and caching implications (poster). SIGMETRICS 2000: 110-111

Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Marwan Krunz: Load Profiling Based Routing for Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. European Transactions on Telecommunications 10(2): 165-181 (1999)

Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Mark Crovella: Changes in Web Client Access Patterns: Characteristics and Caching Implications. World Wide Web 2(1-2): 15-28 (1999)

Alia Atlas, Azer Bestavros: Design and Implementation of Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling in KURT Linux. RTSS 1999: 272-276

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin: Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures. ICNP 1998: 290-297

Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros: A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. INFOCOM 1998: 1014-1021

Alia Atlas, Azer Bestavros: Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling. RTSS 1998: 123-132

Frank Mueller, Azer Bestavros (Eds.): Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop LCTES'98, Montreal, Canada, June 1998, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1474, Springer 1998, isbn 3-540-65075-X

Azer Bestavros: Load Profiling in Distributed Real-Time Systems. Inf. Sci. 101(1-2): 1-27 (1997)

Mark Crovella, Azer Bestavros: Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 5(6): 835-846 (1997)

Azer Bestavros, Gitae Kim: Implementation and Performance Evaluation of TCP Boston: A Fragmentation-Tolerant TCP Protocol for ATM Networks. ICC (2) 1997: 1049-1053

Azer Bestavros: Load Profiling In Distributed Real-Time Systems. ICDCS 1997: 0-

Sanjoy K. Baruah, Azer Bestavros: Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-Tolerant Broadcast Disks in Real-time Database Systems. ICDE 1997: 543-551

Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta: Load Profiling for Efficient Route Selection in Multi-Class Networks. ICNP 1997: 183-190

Azer Bestavros, Gitae Kim: TCP Boston: A Fragmentation-Tolerant TCP Protocol for ATM Networks. INFOCOM 1997: 1210-1217

Sue Nagy, Azer Bestavros: Admission Control for Soft-Transactions in ACCORD. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1997: 160-165

Azer Bestavros, Gitae Kim: Exploiting Redundancy for Timeliness in TCP Boston. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1997: 184-

Sanjoy K. Baruah, Azer Bestavros: Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks. RTDB 1997: 3-22

Sue Nagy, Azer Bestavros: Concurrency Admission Control for RT Databases. RTDB 1997: 261-

Azer Bestavros, Carlos Cunha: Server-Initated Document Dissemination for the WWW. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 19(3): 3-11 (1996)

Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis: Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control for Real-Time Databases. Inf. Syst. 21(1): 75-101 (1996)

Azer Bestavros: The validation and implementation of real-time robotics systems using Cleopatra object-oriented physically-correct specifications. OOPS Messenger 7(1): 36-43 (1996)

Azer Bestavros: Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research. SIGMOD Record 25(1): 3-7 (1996)

Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, Sang Hyuk Son: Report on First International Workshop on Real-Time Database Systems. SIGMOD Record 25(3): 50-52 (1996)

Azer Bestavros: Speculative Data Dissemination and Service to Reduce Server Load, Network Traffic and Service Time in Distributed Information Systems. ICDE 1996: 180-187

Virgilio Almeida, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Adriana de Oliveira: Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW. PDIS 1996: 92-103

Azer Bestavros: AIDA-based real-time fault-tolerant broadcast disks. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1996: 49-58

Azer Bestavros, Sue Nagy: Value-cognizant Admission Control Strategies for Real-Time DBMS. RTDB 1996: 50-57

Azer Bestavros, Sue Nagy: Value-cognizant admission control for RTDB systems. RTSS 1996: 230-239

Mark Crovella, Azer Bestavros: Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Causes. SIGMETRICS 1996: 160-169

Azer Bestavros: Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the WWW. CIKM 1995: 403-410

Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis: Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control. VLDB 1995: 122-133

Azer Bestavros, Richard Gerber, Stephen P. Masticola: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Language, Compiler, and Tool Support for Real-Time Systems, 1994 (Summary of the Workshop). SIGPLAN Notices 29(12): 11-17 (1994)

Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis: Timeliness via Speculation for Real-Time Databases. RTSS 1994: 36-45

Azer Bestavros, Thomas Cheatham: Efficient Execution of Homogeneous Tasks with Unequal Run Times on the Connection Machine. ICPP (3) 1991: 304-305

Azer Bestavros: IDA-based Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. PDIS 1991: 2-9

Azer Bestavros: Specification and Verification of Real-Time Embedded Systems Using Time-Constrained Reactive Automata. RTSS 1991: 244-253

Azer Bestavros: SETH: A VLSI Chip for the Real-Time Information Dispersal and Retrieval for Security and Fault-Tolerance. ICPP (1) 1990: 457-464

Azer Bestavros, Thomas Cheatham, Dan C. Stefanescu: Parallel bin packing using first fit and k-delayed best-fit heuristics. SPDP 1990: 501-504