Arif Merchant

Mohit Saxena, Mehul A. Shah, Stavros Harizopoulos, Michael M. Swift, Arif Merchant: Hathi: durable transactions for memory using flash. DaMoN 2012: 33-38

Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman: Workload dependent IO scheduling for fairness and efficiency in shared storage systems. HiPC 2012: 1-10

Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, Kang G. Shin: Maestro: quality-of-service in large disk arrays. ICAC 2011: 245-254

Arif Merchant, Kimberly Keeton, Dan Rubenstein (Eds.): SIGMETRICS 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, San Jose, CA, USA, 07-11 June 2011 (Co-located with FCRC 2011). ACM 2011, isbn 978-1-4503-0814-4

Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders: Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments. IEEE Trans. Dependable Sec. Comput. 7(4): 366-380 (2010)

Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Kevin Smathers, Joseph Tucek, Mustafa Uysal, Jay J. Wylie: Efficient eventual consistency in Pahoehoe, an erasure-coded key-blob archive. DSN 2010: 181-190

Swapnil Bhatia, Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant: Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate. MASCOTS 2010: 89-98

Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman: mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling. OSDI 2010: 437-450

Arif Merchant: Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management. Commun. ACM 52(4): 90 (2009)

Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman: Efficient and adaptive proportional share I/O scheduling. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 37(2): 79-80 (2009)

Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin: What does control theory bring to systems research? Operating Systems Review 43(1): 62-69 (2009)

Anna Povzner, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Charles B. Morrey III, Mustafa Uysal, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera: Autograph: automatically extracting workflow file signatures. Operating Systems Review 43(1): 76-83 (2009)

Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis: Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27(3) (2009)

Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant: Automated control of multiple virtualized resources. EuroSys 2009: 13-26

Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif Merchant: TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches. FAST 2008: 81-96

Ajay Gulati, Peter J. Varman, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal: Towards fairness and efficiency in storage systems. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 35(3): 56-58 (2007)

Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mustafa Uysal: Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems. DSN 2007: 677-686

Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kenneth Salem: Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. EuroSys 2007: 289-302

Yin Wang, Arif Merchant: Proportional-Share Scheduling for Distributed Storage Systems. FAST 2007: 47-60

Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Janet L. Wiener, Xiaoyun Zhu, Dirk Beyer: Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions. HotOS 2007

Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman: d-clock: distributed QoS in heterogeneous resource environments. PODC 2007: 330-331

Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman: pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems. SIGMETRICS 2007: 13-24

Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis: Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. SOSP 2007: 159-174

Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal: Altering document term vectors for classification: ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence. WWW 2007: 1225-1226

Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant: Challenges in managing dependable data systems. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 33(4): 4-10 (2006)

Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders: Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments. DSN 2006: 371-382

Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Ernesto Brau, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Alex Zhang: On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters. EuroSys 2006: 235-248

Arif Merchant: Designing and managing storage systems: issues, techniques, and challenges. QEST 2006: 265-268

Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu: Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 15(6): 559-574 (2004)

Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair C. Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence: FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components. ASPLOS 2004: 48-58

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch: A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks. DSN 2004: 125-134

Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant: A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability. DSN 2004: 877-886

Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Jeffrey S. Chase, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, John Wilkes: Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop 2004: 4

Edward G. Coffman Jr., Zhen Liu, Arif Merchant (Eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2004, June 10-14, 2004, New York, NY, USA. ACM 2004, isbn 1-58113-873-3

Christopher R. Lumb, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez: Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees. FAST 2003

Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez: Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays. FAST 2003

Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch: FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring. HotOS 2003: 169-174

Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu: An integrated performance model of disk arrays. MASCOTS 2003: 296-305

Guillermo A. Alvarez, Elizabeth Borowsky, Susie Go, Theodore H. Romer, Ralph A. Becker-Szendy, Richard A. Golding, Arif Merchant, Mirjana Spasojevic, Alistair C. Veitch, John Wilkes: Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 19(4): 483-518 (2001)

Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant: A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays. MASCOTS 2001: 183-192

Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilkes: An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering. SIGMETRICS 1998: 182-191

Elizabeth Borowsky, Richard A. Golding, P. Jacobson, Arif Merchant, L. Schreier, Mirjana Spasojevic, John Wilkes: Capacity planning with phased workloads. WOSP 1998: 199-207

Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu: Analytic Modeling of Clustered RAID with Mapping Based on Nearly Random Permutation. IEEE Trans. Computers 45(3): 367-373 (1996)

Arif Merchant, Benjamin Melamed, Eugen Schenfeld, Bhaskar Sengupta: Analysis of a Control Mechanism for a Variable Speed Processor. IEEE Trans. Computers 45(7): 793-801 (1996)

Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen: Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning Schemes: Storage Cost vs. Obsolescence. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 8(6): 985-1001 (1996)

Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu: Analytic Modeling and Comparisons of Striping Strategies for Replicated Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Computers 44(3): 419-433 (1995)

Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta: Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 3(5): 521-526 (1995)

Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu: An Analytical Model of Reconstruction Time in Mirrored Disks. Perform. Eval. 20(1-3): 115-129 (1994)

Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta: Multiway Graph Partitioning with Applications to PCS Networks. INFOCOM 1994: 593-600

Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu: Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for Replicated Disk Arrays. PDIS 1993: 148-157

Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu: Design and Modeling of Clustered RAID. FTCS 1992: 140-149

Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen: Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning for Concurrency Transaction and Query Processing. SIGMETRICS 1992: 103-114

Arif Merchant: Analytical Models of Combining Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS 1992: 205-212

Arif Merchant: Settling Time Bounds for M/G/1 Queues. Queueing Syst. 8(1): 105-110 (1991)

Arif Merchant: A Markov Chain Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS 1991: 60-67