Azer Bestavros: Publications


		Azer Bestavros Professor	Department of Computer Science College of Arts & Sciences Boston University
		Office: 111 Cummington Street, MCS-276, Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617.353.9726 / Fax: 617.353.6457 / Email: best @bu.edu

Comprehensive List of Publications

The following is a comprehensive list of all publications, with anchors to electronic copies thereof, whenever available. Please note that in many instances, the same work may appear in multiple venues. In particular, most technical reports are longer/earlier versions of papers published in conference proceedings or journals. If you are looking for a specific publication or citation, you may want to try the publication database search page.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS

Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (To Appear), 2008.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Yuting Zhang. Adversarial Exploits of End-Systems Adaptation Dynamics. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 67:318-328, 2007.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Distributed Selfish Caching. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2007.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Mistreatment-Resilient Distributed Caching. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 51(11), August 2007.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Exogenous-Loss Aware Traffic Management in Overlay Networks: Toward Global Fairness. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 50(13):2331-2348, 2006.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-world Characteristics of Internet Topologies and Multicast Scaling. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 50(5), April 2006.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3976 - 0331, 2006.
Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, and Shudong Jin. A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(1), February 2006.
Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Khaled Harfoush. Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(10), October 2005.
Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. M2RC: Multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease Multipath Routing Control for Wireless Sensor Networks. ACM SIGBED Review, Special Issue on the Best of SenSys 2004, 2(1), January 2005.
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 34(3), July 2004.
Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, and Arun Iyengar. Network-Aware Partial Caching For Internet Streaming Media. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 9(4), October 2003.
Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Spectrum of TCP-friendly Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(3), June 2003.
Stanislav Rost, John Byers, and Azer Bestavros. The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular Content. International Journal on Computer Communications, 25(4):403-412, March 2002.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. GISMO: Generator of Streaming Media Objects and Workloads. Performance Evaluation Review, 29(3), 2001.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. GreedyDual* Web Caching Algorithm: Exploiting the Two Sources of Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams. International Journal on Computer Communications, 24(2):174-183, February 2001.
Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, and Mark Crovella. Changes in Web Client Access Patterns: Characteristics and Caching Implications. World Wide Web Journal, Special Issue on Characterization and Performance Evaluation, 2(1999):15-28, August 1999. Baltzer Science Publishers.
Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, and Marwan Krunz. Load profiling based routing for guaranteed bandwidth flows. European Transactions on Telecommunications - Special Issue on Architectures, Protocols and Quality of Service for the Internet of the Future, 10(2), March/April 1999.
Azer Bestavros. Engineering Real-Time Robotics Software Systems Using Cleopatra. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 5(4):349-367, October 1998. IOS Press.
Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis, and Euthimios Panagos. Speculative Versus Optimistic Concurrency Control: An Experimental Evaluation. International Journal of Computers and Applications, Acta Press, 20(3):97-106, 1998.
Azer Bestavros. Load Profiling in Distributed Real-Time Systems. Journal of Information Sciences, 101(1/2):1-27, June 1997. North-Holland.
Azer Bestavros. Speculative Service in Large-scale Distributed Information Systems. International Journal on Computer Applications, 4(1):1-9, April 1997. ISCA Press.
Azer Bestavros. World Wide Web Traffic Reduction and Load Balancing Through Server-Based Caching. IEEE Concurreny: Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Technology, 5(1):56-67, Jan-Mar 1997. IEEE Press.
Mark Crovella and Azer Bestavros. Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(6):835-846, December 1997.
Azer Bestavros. The validation and implementation of real-time robotics systems using cleopatra object-oriented physically-correct specifications. ACM SIGPLAN Object-Oriented Programming and Systems (OOPS) Messenger, 7(1):36-43, January 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Spyridon Braoudakis. Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control for Real-Time Databases. Information Systems Journal: Special Issue on Real-Time Database Systems, 21(1):75-101, March 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Carlos Cunha. Server-initiated Document Dissemination for the WWW. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 19:3-11, September 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Speculative Concurrency Control for Multidatabases with Real-Time Interoperable Subsystems. Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2(4), October 1995. John Wiley and Sons, Co.
Azer Bestavros. An Algorithm for Self-Diagnosis in Distributed Systems. International Journal of Mini and Microcomputers, 13(2):77-88, 1991. ACTA Press, Anaheim, Calgary, Zurich.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Jorge Londono and Azer Bestavros. netEmbed: A Network Resource Mapping Service for Distributed Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM IPDPS High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop, Miami, Florida, April 2008.
Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, and Abraham Matta. An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors. In DCOSS'08: The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Santorini, Greece, June 2008. (Best Paper Award).
Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Abraham Matta. Amorphous Placement and Informed Diffusion for Timely Field Monitoring by Autonomous, Resource-Constrained, Mobile Sensors. In SECON'08: The IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, San Francisco, CA, June 2008.
Michael Ocean and Azer Bestavros. Wireless and physical security via embedded sensor networks. In Proceedings of WiSec'08: The ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security, Alexandria, Virginia, March 2008. (Best Paper Award).
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pietro Michiardi, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mema Roussopoulos. Swarming on optimized graphs for n-way broadcast. In Proceedings of Infocom'08: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008.
Fernando Duarte, Bernardo Mattos, Azer Bestavros, Virgilio Almeida, and Jussara Almeida. Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere. In Proceedings of ICWSM'07: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Boulder, Colorado, March 2007.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs. In Proceedings of Infocom'07: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Implications of Selfish Neighbor Selection in Overlay Networks. In Proceedings of Infocom'07: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, and Azer Bestavros. Distributed Placement of Service Facilities in Large-Scale Networks. In Proceedings of Infocom'07: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Zervas, Azer Bestavros, and George Kollios. The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing. In Proceedings of Infocom'07: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
Jorge Londono and Azer Bestavros. netEmbed: A Service for Embedding Distributed Applications (Extended Abstract and Demo). In Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, California, November 2007.
Sowmya Manjanatha, Azer Bestavros, and Mark Gaynor. Rule-based decision support for sensor networks using snbench. In Proceedings of the Workshop on High Confidence Medical Device Software and Systems (HCMDSS'07), Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2007.
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study. In Proceedings of PAM'07: Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 2007.
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of Globecom'07: The IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Washington, DC, November 2007.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks. In Proceedings of ICC'2006: The IEEE International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
Feifei Li, Ching Chang, George Kollios, and Azer Bestavros. Characterizing and Exploiting Reference Locality in Data Stream Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE ICDE'06: The International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
Nikolaos Laoutaris and Georgios Smaragdakis and Azer Bestavros and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups: Causes and Implications. In Proceedings of Infocom'06: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Michael Ocean, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. snBench: Programming and virtualization framework for distributed multitasking sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual execution environments (VEE 2006), pages 89 -- 99, New York, NY, USA, June 2006. ACM Press.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2006, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2006.
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions. In Proceedings of ICNP'05: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Boston, MA, November 2005.
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Michael Ocean. SNBENCH: A Development and Run-Time Platform for Rapid Deployment of Sensor Network Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (Basenets 2005), Boston, MA, October 2005.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Yuting Zhang. Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Internet End-Systems. In Proceedings of Infocom'05: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. dPAM: A Distributed Prefetching Protocol for Scalable Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Systems. In Proceedings of Infocom'05: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta, and Richard West. Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Chicago, Illinois, June 2005.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. A Typed Model for Encoding-Based Protocol Interoperability. In Proceedings of ICNP'04: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang, and Sean Chen. itmBench: Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'04), Austin, Texas, November 2004.
Vijay Erramilli, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. On the Interaction between Data Aggregation and Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2004), Santa Clara, CA, October 2004.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Bandwidth Stealing via Link-targeted RoQ Attacks. In Proceedings of CCN'04: IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 2004.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources. In Proceedings of ICNP'04: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Routing Tradeoffs inside a d-dimensional Torus with applicability to CAN. In Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference New Technologies for the Information Society (ICENCO'04), Cairo, Egypt, December 2004.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, Gali Diamant, and Yuting Zhang. Providing Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels. In Proceedings of ISCC'04: IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.
Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. M2RC: Multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease Multipath Routing Control for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys '04), Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004. Short Paper.
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. DIP: Density Inference Protocol for wireless sensor networks and its application to density-unbiased statistics. In Proceedings of SANPA'04: Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications, Boston, MA, August 2004.
Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Performance Evaluation of Distributed Prefetching for Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Networks. In Proceedings of WCW'04: The 9th International Workshop on Web Caching And Content Distribution, Beijing, China, October 2004.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heteregeneous wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of SANPA'04: Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications, Boston, MA, August 2004.
Azer Bestavros and Shudong Jin. OSMOSIS: Scalable Delivery of Real-Time Streaming Media in Ad-Hoc Overlay Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS'03 Workshop on Data Distribution in Real-Time Systems, Providence, RI, May 2003.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Systematic Verification of Safety Properties of Arbitrary Network Protocol Compositions Using CHAIN. In Proceedings of ICNP'03: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments. In Proceedings of Infocom'03: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, San Fransisco, CA, May 2003.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-world Characteristics of Internet Topologies and Multicast Scaling. In Proceedings of Mascots'2003: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Orlando, FL, October 2003.
Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Khaled Harfoush. Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. In Proceedings of Infocom'02: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, New York, NY, June 2002.
Adam Bradley and Azer Bestavros. Basis Token Consistency: Extending and Evaluating a Novel Web Consistency Algorithm. In Proceedings of WC3: The International Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency, New York, June 2002.
Adam Bradley and Azer Bestavros. Basis Token Consistency: Supporting Strong Web Cache Consistency. In Proceedings of the 2002 Globecom Global Internet Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Safe Composition of Web Communication Protocols for Extensible Edge Services. In Proceedings of the 7th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, Boulder, CO, August 2002.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. PeriScope: An Active Measurement API. In Proceedings of PAM'2002: The IEEE Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, March 2002.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Cache and Relay Streaming Media Delivery for Asynchronous Clients. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, Boston, MA, October 2002.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Scalability of Multicast Delivery for Non-sequential Streaming Access. In Proceedings of Sigmetrics'2002: The ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2002.
Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, and Arun Iyengar. Accelerating Internet Streaming Media Delivery using Network-Aware Partial Caching. In Proceedings of ICDCS'2002: The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2002.
Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, and Shudong Jin. A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload. In Proceedings of the ACM/Usenix Internet Measurment Workshop (IMW'02), Marseille, France, November 2002.
Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mark Crovella. On the marginal utility of network topology measurements. In Proceedings of the 2001 Sigcomm Internet Measurement Workshop, October 2001.
Azer Bestavros and Sumit Mehrotra. DNS-based Internet Client Clustering and Characterization. In Proceedings of WWC'01: The 4th IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization, Austin, TX, December 2001.
Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. TCP-friendly SIMD Congestion Control and Its Convergence Behavior. In Proceedings of ICNP'01: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Riverside, CA, November 2001.
Stanislav Rost, John Byers, and Azer Bestavros. The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular Content. In Proceedings of the 6th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, Boston, MA, June 2001.
Luis Aversa and Azer Bestavros. Load Balancing a Cluster of Web Servers Using Distributed Packet Rewriting. In Proceedings of IPCCC'2000: The IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference, Phoenix, AZ, February 2000.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Robust Identification of Shared Losses Using End-to-End Unicast Probes. In Proceedings of ICNP'00: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Osaka, Japan, October 2000.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. GreedyDual* Web Caching Algorithm: Exploiting the Two Sources of Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams. In Proceedings of the 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2000.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Popularity-Aware GreedyDual-Size Web Proxy Caching Algorithms. In Proceedings of ICDCS'2000: The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taiwan, May 2000.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Sources and Characteristics of Web Temporal Locality. In Proceedings of Mascots'2000: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, San Fransisco, CA, August 2000.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams: Sources, Characteristics, and Caching Implications (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of Sigmetrics'2000: The ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000.
Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros. QoS Controllers for the Internet. In Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Information Technology, Cairo, Egypt, March 2000.
Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Adaptive Reliable Multicast. In Proceedings of ICC'2000: The IEEE International Conference on Communications, New Orleans, June 2000.
Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast. In Proceedings of RTAS'2000: The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2000.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Design and Implementation of Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling in KURT Linux. In Proceedings of RTSS'99: The 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Phoenix, AZ, December 1999.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Multiplexing VBR Traffic Flows with Guaranteed Application-level QoS Using Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling. In Proceedings of IC3N'99: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Boston, MA, October 1999.
P. Basu, A. Narayanan, W. Ke, T.D.C. Little, and A. Bestavros. Optimal Scheduling of Secondary Content for Aggregation in Video-on-Demand Systems. In Proceedings of IC3N'99: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Boston, MA, October 1999.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. Preserving Bandwidth Using A Lazy Packet Discard Policy in ATM Networks. In Proceedings of SPIE'99 Performance and Control of Network Systems III, Boston, MA, September 1999.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling. In Proceedings of RTSS'98: The 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Madrid, Spain, December 1998.
Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. In Proceedings of Infocom'98: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, San Fransisco, CA, April 1998.
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, and David Martin. Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Web Server Architectures. In Proceedings of ICNP'98: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Austin, TX, October 1998.
Subrata Das, Azer Bestavros, Alper Caglayan, and Paul Gonsalves. Increasing agent autonomy by learning from events. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on The Practical Applications of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 241-260, London, UK, March 1998.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-tolerant Broadcast Disks in Real-time Database Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE ICDE'97: The International Conference on Data Engineering, Birmingham, England, April 1997.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks. In Proceedings of RTDB'97: The Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases, Burlington, VT, September 1997.
Azer Bestavros. Load Profiling: A Methodology for Scheduling Real-Time Tasks in a Distributed System. In Proceedings of ICDCS'97: The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. Exploiting Redundancy For Timeliness in TCP Boston. In Proceedings of RTAS'97: The IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. Implementation and Performance Evaluation of TCP Boston. In Proceedings of ICC'97: The IEEE International Conference on Communications, Montreal, Canada, June 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. TCP Boston: A Fragmentation-tolerant TCP Protocol for ATM Networks. In Proceedings of Infocom'97: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Kobe, Japan, April 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. Load Profiling for Efficient Route Selection in Multi-Class Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP'97: The International Conference on Network Protocols, Atlanta, GA, October 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. Admission Control for Soft-Deadline Scheduling in ACCORD. In Proceedings of RTAS'97: The IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 1997.
Sue Nagy and Azer Bestavros. Concurrency Admission Control for Hard-Deadline Transactions in ACCORD. In Proceedings of RTDB'97: The Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases, Burlington, VT, September 1997.
Virgilio Almeida, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, and Adriana de Oliveira. Characterizing Reference Locality in the Web. In Proceedings of PDIS'96: The IEEE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, pages 92-107, Miami Beach, Florida, December 1996.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Timely and Fault-Tolerant Data Access from Broadcast Disks: A Pinwheel-Based Approach. In Proceedings of DART'96: ACM CIKM Workshop on Databases: Active & Real-Time, Rockville, Maryland, November 1996.
Azer Bestavros. AIDA-based real-time fault-tolerant broadcast disks. In Proceedings of RTAS'96: The 1996 IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Middleware Support for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Large-scale Distributed Information Systems. In SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop, Montreal, Canada, June 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Speculative Data Dissemination and Service to Reduce Server Load, Network Traffic and Service Time for Distributed Information Systems. In Proceedings of ICDE'96: The 1996 International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 180-189, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. An Admission Control Paradigm for Value-cognizant Real-Time Databases. In Proceedings of AAAI'96: The Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation in Intelligent Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. Value-cognizant Admission Control for RTDB Systems. In Proceedings of RTSS'96: The 16th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium, Washington, DC, December 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. Value-cognizant Admission Control Strategies for Real-Time Database Management Systems. In Proceedings of RTDB'96: The 1996 Workshop on Real-Time Databases, Newport Beach, California, March 1996.
Mark Crovella and Azer Bestavros. Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes. In Proceedings of SIGMETRICS'96: The ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1996. Also, in Performance evaluation review, May 1996, 24(1):160-169.
Azer Bestavros. Demand-based data-dissemination in Distributed Multimedia Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM/IASTED/ISMM International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications, Stanford, CA, August 1995.
Azer Bestavros. Demand-based document dissemination to reduce traffic and balance load in distributed information systems. In Proceedings of SPDP'95: The 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pages 338-345, San Anotonio, Texas, October 1995.
Azer Bestavros. Preserving the Causal and Structural Properties of Real-Time Systems using Object Oriented Specification in Cleopatra. In OORTS'95: The 1995 IEEE Workshop on Object Oriented Real-Time Systems, San Antonio, Texas, October 1995.
Azer Bestavros. Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of CIKM'95: The 4th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1995.
Azer Bestavros and Spyridon Braoudakis. Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control. In Proceedings of VLDB'95: The International Conference on Very Large Databases, pages 122-133, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1995.
Azer Bestavros, Robert Carter, Mark Crovella, Carlos Cunha, Abdelsalam Heddaya, and Sulaiman Mirdad. Application Level Document Caching in the Internet. In IEEE SDNE'96: The Second International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, Whistler, British Columbia, June 1995.
Hariharane Ramasamy, Azer Bestavros, and Temple Smith. An Extended Genetic Algorithm. In ACS Symposium on using Genetic Algorithms in Computer-Aided Chemistry, Anaheim, CA, April 1995.
Azer Bestavros. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: Towards Physically-Correct Specifications of Embedded Real-Time Systems. In Proceedings of COMPASS'94: The Ninth Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Assurance, Gaithersburg, MD, June 1994.
Azer Bestavros. CLEOPATRA: Physically-Correct Specifications of Embedded Real-Time Programs. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Language, Compiler and Tool Support for Real-Time Systems, Orlando, FL, June 1994.
Azer Bestavros. Multi-version Speculative Concurrency Control with Delayed Commit. In Proceedings of the 1994 International Symposium on Computers and their Applications, Long Beach, CA, March 1994.
Azer Bestavros and Spyridon Braoudakis. Timeliness via Speculation for Real-Time Databases. In Proceedings of RTSS'94: The 14th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1994.
Azer Bestavros and Paul Dell. Object-Oriented Laboratory Instrument Scheduling and Monitoring System: Database Issues. In OOPSLA '94 Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information Systems, October 1994.
Azer Bestavros. AIDA: A Bandwidth Allocation Strategy for Distributed Time-Critical Systems. In Proceedings of the First IEEE IPPS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Newport Beach, CA, April 1993.
Azer Bestavros. AIDA-based Communication for Distributed Real-Time Applications. In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Network Management and Control Workshop, Tarrytown, NY, September 1993.
Azer Bestavros and Spyridon Braoudakis. SCC-nS: A family of Speculative Concurrency Control Algorithms for Real-Time Databases. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Responsive Computer Systems, Lincoln, NH, September 1993.
Azer Bestavros and Dimitrios Spartiotis. Probabilistic Job Scheduling for Distributed Real-time Applications. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications, pages 97-102, New York, NY, May 1993.
Azer Bestavros. On the Specification and Verification of Real-Time Systems: A Position Statement. In IEEE RTOS'92: The 1992 IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating System and Software, Pitsburgh, PA, May 1992.
Azer Bestavros. IDA-based Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. In Proceedings of PDIS'91: The IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, pages 2-9, Miami Beach, Florida, December 1991.
Azer Bestavros. Planning for embedded systems: A real-time prospective. In Proceedings of AIRTC-91: The 3rd IFAC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control, Napa/Sonoma Region, CA, September 1991.
Azer Bestavros. Specification and verification or real-time embedded systems using the Time-constrained Reactive Automata. In Proceedings of RTSS'91: The 12th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, pages 244-253, San Antonio, Texas, December 1991.
Azer Bestavros and Thomas Cheatham. Efficient Execution of Homogeneous Tasks with Unequal Run Times on the Connection Machine. In Proceedings of ICPP'91, The 1991 International Conference on Parallel Processing, volume 3, pages 304-305, Chicago, Illinois, August 1991.
Azer Bestavros. An Algorithm for self diagnosis in distributed systems. In Proceedings of the 1990 Operations Research Society of America and The Institute for Management Systems (TIMS/ORSA) national joint meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1990.
Azer Bestavros. Distributed self diagnosis for loosely-coupled computer networks. In Proceedings of PDCS'90: The ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems, New York, New York, October 1990.
Azer Bestavros. IOTA-based real-time executable specification using ESPRIT. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Rochester Forth Conference on Embedded Systems, pages 46-50, Rochester, NY, June 1990.
Azer Bestavros. Parallel Bin Packing Simulation. In Proceedings of PDCS'90: The ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems, New York, New York, October 1990.
Azer Bestavros. SETH: A VLSI chip for the real-time information dispersal and retrieval for security and fault-tolerance. In Proceedings of ICPP'90, The 1990 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 457-464, Chicago, Illinois, August 1990.
Azer Bestavros. The IOTA: A model for Real-time Parallel Computation. In Proceedings of TAU'90: The 1990 ACM International Workshop on Timing issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems, Vancouver, Canada, August 1990.
Azer Bestavros, Thomas Cheatham, and Dan Stefanescu. Parallel Bin Packing Using First-Fit and K-Delayed Best-Fit Heuristics. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, December 1990.
Azer Bestavros, James Clark, and Nicola Ferrier. Management of Sensori-Motor Activity in Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Cincinati, Ohio, May 1990. IEEE Computer Society Press.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Azer Bestavros and Michael Rabinovich, editors. Web Caching and Content Delivery. Elsevier, 2001. (330 pages).
Azer Bestavros and Frank Mueller, editors. Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Amsterdam, 1998. (265 pages).
Azer Bestavros and Victor Wolfe, editors. Real-Time Database and Information Systems Research: Research Advances. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1997. (446 pages).
Azer Bestavros, editor. ACM SIGMOD Record: Special Issue on Real-Time Databases 25(1). ACM Press, March 1996.
Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son, editors. Real-Time Database Systems: Issues and Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1996. (368 pages).
Azer Bestavros. Time-constrained Reactive Automata: A Novel Development Methodology for Embedded Real-Time Systems. PhD thesis, Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences (Department of Computer Science), Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1991.
Azer Bestavros. Self Diagnosis in Distributed Fault Tolerant Computing Systems. Master's thesis, Alexandria University, School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Alexandria, Egypt, April 1987.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Azer Bestavros and Michael Ocean. Programming and Virtualization of Distributed Multitasking Sensor Networks. In Insup Lee, Joseph Leung, and Sang Son, editors, Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems, chapter 23. CRC Press, 2007.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Generating Internet Streaming Media Objects and Workloads. In Xueyan Tang, Jianliang Xu, and Samuel T. Chanson, editors, Web Content Delivery. Springer, 2005.
Mark E. Crovella, Murad S. Taqqu, and Azer Bestavros. Heavy-Tailed Probability Distributions in the World Wide Web. In A Practical Guide To Heavy Tails, chapter 1, pages 3-26. Chapman & Hall, New York, 1998.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks. In Azer Bestavros and Victor Fay-Wolfe, editors, Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances, chapter 1, pages 3-22. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. Admission Control and Overload Management for Real-Time Databases. In Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son, editors, Real-Time Database Systems: Issues and Applications, chapter 12, pages 193-212. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. Concurrency Admission Control in ACCORD. In Azer Bestavros and Victor Fay-Wolfe, editors, Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances, chapter 15, pages 261-286. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1997.
Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son. Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research. In Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son, editors, Real-Time Database Systems: Issues and Applications, chapter 1, pages 1-15. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1997.
Azer Bestavros. An Adaptive Information Dispersal Algorithm for Time-critical Reliable Communication. In Ivan Frisch, Manu Malek, and Shivendra Panwar, editors, Network Management and Control, Volume II, chapter 6, pages 423-438. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, 1994.
Azer Bestavros. Speculative Algorithms For Concurrency Control in Responsive Databases. In Miroslaw Malek, editor, Responsive Computer Systems: Steps toward fault-tolerant Real-Time systems, chapter 8, pages 143-166. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 1994.

REVIEWS AND EDITORIALS

Azer Bestavros. Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research. ACM SIGMOD Record, 25(1):3-8, March 1996. (Research Topic Review).
Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son. Real-Time Databases: Issues and Applications. ACM SIGMOD Record, 25(3), September 1996. (Workshop Review).
Azer Bestavros, Richard Gerber, and Steve Masticola. Language, Compiler, and Tool Support for Real-Time Systems. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, December 1994. (Workshop Review).
Azer Bestavros and Ahmed Belal. MasterMind: A Game of Diagnostic Strategies. Bulletin of the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, December 1986.

TUTORIALS AND PANELS

Azer Bestavros. Caching Architectures for Scalable Streaming Media Delivery. ACM Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency, Columbia University, NY, June 2002.
Azer Bestavros and Mark Crovella. Tutorial on Performance Characteristics of WWW Information Systems. ACM Sigmetrics'98: Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Wisconsin, June 1998.
Azer Bestavros. On the Platform for Privacy Preferences Standard. Panelist at the Inaugural Meeting of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group on P3 Internet Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1997.
Azer Bestavros. Real-Time Database Technology and the Internet. Panelist at the 1997 International Workshop on Real-Time Databases, Burlington, Vermont, September 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Mark Crovella. Tutorial on Performance Characteristics of WWW Information Systems. ACM Sigmetrics'97: Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Seattle, WA, June 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Stanley Sclaroff. Research Infrastructure for Parallel and Distributed Systems at Boston University: Real-Time, Multimedia, and High-Performance Networking and Computing. Invited presentation at NSF Infrastructure'97: A Workshop for the Principal Investigators of NSF/CISE Infrastructure Awards, Lexington, Kentucky, May 1997.
Azer Bestavros. Concepts of Real-Time Computing and Communications. Mariner Tutorial Series, November 9 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Tutorial on Middleware Services for the World Wide Web. IEEE Engineering Solutions Conference, Boston, MA, September 11 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Introducing computer science to non-concentrators. SUNY/NSF Curricula and Pedagogy for Introductory Computer Science: An Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshop, Geneseo, NY, June 12 1995.
Azer Bestavros. Parallel Computing: Models, Languages, and Architectures. Wellesley/NSF Forum for Parallel Curricula, March 1995.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2008-003, CS Department, Boston University, February 10 2008.
Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Detour-Based Mobility Coordination in DTNs. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2008-004, CS Department, Boston University, February 10 2008.
Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Amorphous Placement and Informed Diffusion for Efficient Field Monitoring by Autonomusly Mobile Sensors. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-008, CS Department, Boston University, June 6 2007.
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-002, CS Department, Boston University, March 26 2007.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mema Roussopoulos. EGOIST: Overlay Routing using Selfish Neighbor Selection. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-013, CS Department, Boston University, October 9 2007.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mema Roussopoulos. Improving the Performance of Overlay Routing and P2P File Sharing using Selfish Neighbor Selection. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-006, CS Department, Boston University, May 15 2007.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pietro Michiardi, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mema Roussopoulos. Swarming on optimized graphs for n-way broadcast. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-009, CS Department, Boston University, July 5 2007.
Fernando Duarte, Bernardo Mattos, Azer Bestavros, Virgilio Almeida, and Jussara Almeida. Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-033, CS Department, Boston University, December 15 2006.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-002, CS Department, Boston University, February 6 2006.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Implications of Selfish Neighbor Selection in Overlay Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-019, CS Department, Boston University, July 14 2006.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Distributed Selfish Caching. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-003, CS Department, Boston University, February 7 2006.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, and Azer Bestavros. Distributed Placement of Service Facilities in Large-Scale Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-018, CS Department, Boston University, July 14 2006.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgos Zervas, Azer Bestavros, and George Kollios. The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-017, CS Department, Boston University, July 14 2006.
Jorge Londono and Azer Bestavros. netEmbed: A Network Resource Mapping Service for Distributed Applications. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-032, CS Department, Boston University, December 15 2006.
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. On the Interaction between TCP and the Wireless Channel in CDMA2000 Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-009, CS Department, Boston University, June 6 2006.
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-030, CS Department, Boston University, October 25 2006.
Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Amorphous Placement and Retrieval of Sensory Data in Sparse Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-005, CS Department, Boston University, April 4 2006.
Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Query Processing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-028, CS Department, Boston University, October 15 2006.
Michael Ocean, Assaf Kfoury, and Azer Bestavros. Integrating Sensor-Network Research and Development into a Software Engineering Curriculum. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-016, CS Department, Boston University, July 14 2006.
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2005-014, CS Department, Boston University, May 1 2005.
Yarom Gabay, Assaf Kfoury, Likai Liu, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, and Ibrahim Matta. Type Systems for a Network Specification Language With Multiple-Choice Let. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2005-034, CS Department, Boston University, December 28 2005.
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups: Causes and Implications. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2005-026, CS Department, Boston University, July 7 2005.
Likai Liu, Assaf Kfoury, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Yarom Gabay, and Ibrahim Matta. Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems: TRAFFIC The Language and Its Type Checking. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2005-015, CS Department, Boston University, May 12 2005.
Likai Liu, Assaf Kfoury, Azer Bestavros, Yarom Gabay, Adam Bradley, and Ibrahim Matta. Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems: A Compositional Analysis Approach. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2005-033, CS Department, Boston University, December 28 2005.
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-021, CS Department, Boston University, May 14 2004.
Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Azer Bestavros. StaXML: Static Typing of XML Document Fragments for Imperative Web Scripting Languages. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-007, CS Department, Boston University, February 13 2004.
Ching Chang, Feifei Li Li, Azer Bestavros, and George Kollios. GreedyDual-Join: Locality-Aware Buffer Management for Approximate Join Processing Over Data Streams. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-028, CS Department, Boston University, July 1 2004.
Vijay Erramilli, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. On the Interaction between Data Aggregation and Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-024, CS Department, Boston University, June 18 2004.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-005, CS Department, Boston University, January 30 2004.
Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. M2RC: Multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease Multipath Routing Control for Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-029, CS Department, Boston University, July 14 2004.
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. DIP: Density Inference Protocol for wireless sensor networks and its application to density-unbiased statistics. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-023, CS Department, Boston University, May 31 2004.
Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. dPAM: A Distributed Prefetching Protocol for Scalable Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Systems. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-026, CS Department, Boston University, July 1 2004.
Georgios Smaragdakis, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-022, CS Department, Boston University, May 31 2004.
Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta, and Richard West. Friendly Virtual Machine: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-030, CS Department, Boston University, July 19 2004.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Systematic Verification of Safety Properties of Arbitrary Network Protocol Compositions Using CHAIN. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2003-012, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2003.
Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang, and Sean Chen. itmBench: Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2003-032, CS Department, Boston University, December 16 2003.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Efficiency and Fairness of Transmission Control Loops: A Case for Exogenous Losses. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2003-013, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2003.
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, Gali Diamant, and Yuting Zhang. Providing Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2003-028, CS Department, Boston University, December 2 2003.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Safe Composition of Web Communication Protocols for Extensible Edge Services. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-017, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2002.
Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Validating Arbitrarily Large Network Protocol Compositions with Finite Computation. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-030, Boston University, Computer Science Department, November 2002.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. PeriScope: An Active Measurement API. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-005, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 2002.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Cache and Relay Streaming Media Delivery for Asynchronous Clients. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-024, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2002.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-World Internet Topologies: Possible Causes and Implications on Scalability of End-System Multicast. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-004, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 2002.
Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, and Shudong Jin. A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2002-014, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2002.
Azer Bestavros and Sumit Mehrotra. DNS-based Internet Client Clustering and Characterization. Technical Report BUCS-2001-012, Boston University, Computer Science Department, Boston, MA 02215, June 2001.
Azer Bestavros and Michael Rabinovich. Proceedings of the Sixth International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop (WCW'01). Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-017, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 2001.
Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Khaled Harfoush. Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-010, Boston University, Computer Science Department, June 2001.
Adam Bradley and Azer Bestavros. Basis Token Consistency: A Practical Mechanism for Strong Web Cache Consistency. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-024, Boston University, Computer Science Department, October 2001.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-016, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 2001.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. GISMO: A Generator of Internet Streaming Media Objects and Workloads. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-020, Boston University, Computer Science Department, October 2001.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Scalability of Multicast Delivery for Non-sequential Streaming Access. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-025, Boston University, Computer Science Department, October 2001.
Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, and Arun Iyengar. Accelerating Internet Streaming Media Delivery using Network-Aware Partial Caching. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2001-023, Boston University, Computer Science Department, October 2001.
Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Spectrum of TCP-friendly Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms. Technical Report BUCS-2002-027, Boston University, Computer Science Department, Boston, MA 02215, July 2001.
Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Spectrum of TCP-friendly Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms. Technical Report BUCS-2001-015, Boston University, Computer Science Department, Boston, MA 02215, July 2001.
Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. TCP-friendly SIMD Congestion Control and Its Convergence Behavior. Technical Report BUCS-2001-006, Boston University, Computer Science Department, Boston, MA 02215, May 2001.
Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Mark Crovella. On the Marginal Utility of Deploying Measurement Infrastructure. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-018, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 2000.
Enrique Duvos and Azer Bestavros. An Infrastructure for the Dynamic Distribution of Web Applications and Services. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-027, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 2000.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Robust Identification of Shared Losses Using End-to-End Unicast Probes. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-013, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 2000.
Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Unicast-based Characterization of Network Loss Topologies. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-016, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 2000.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. GreedyDual* Web Caching Algorithm: Exploiting the Two Sources of Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-011, Boston University, Computer Science Department, April 2000.
Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros. QoS Controllers for the Internet. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-008, Boston University, Computer Science Department, March 2000.
Stanislav Rost, John Byers, and Azer Bestavros. The Cyclone Server Architecture: Streamlining Delivery of Popular Content. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2000-025, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 2000.
Luis Aversa and Azer Bestavros. Load Balancing a Cluster of Web Servers using Distributed Packet Rewriting. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-001, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 1999.
Prithwish Basu, Ashok Narayanan, Wang Ke, Tom Little, and Azer Bestavros. Optimal Scheduling of Secondary Content for Aggregation in Video-on-Demand Systems. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-008, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1999. This report is cross listed as BU ECE Department Technical Report: TR-12-16-98.
Azer Bestavros, John Byers, Mark Crovella, Paul Barford, Ibrahim Matta, and Michael Mitzenmacher. BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement Instrumentation and Characterization. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-019, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 1999.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Popularity-Aware GreedyDual-Size Web Proxy Caching Algorithms. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-009, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1999.
Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams: Sources, Characteristics, and Caching Implications. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-009, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1999.
Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Adaptive Reliable Multicast. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-012, Boston University, Computer Science Department, September 1999.
Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1999-018, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 1999.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. An Omniscient Scheduling Oracle for Systems with Harmonic Periods. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-014, Boston University, Computer Science Department, September 1998.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Design and Implementation of SRMS in Kurt Linux. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-013, Boston University, Computer Science Department, September 1998.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Multiplexing VBR Traffic Flows with Guaranteed Application-level QoS Using Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-011, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1998.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Slack Stealing Job Admission Control Scheduling. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-009, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1998.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-010, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1998.
Alia Atlas and Azer Bestavros. The Statistical Rate Monotonic Scheduling Workbench. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-012, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1998.
Paul Barford, Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, and Mark Crovella. Changes in Web Client Access Patterns: Characteristics and Caching Implications. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-023, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 1998.
Azer Bestavros and Olivier Hartmann. Aggregating Congestion Information Over Sequences of TCP Connections. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-001, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 1998.
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, and David Martin. Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-003, Boston University, Computer Science Department, February 1998.
Gitae Kim and Azer Bestavros. Preserving Bandwidth Through A Lazy Packet Discard Policy in ATM Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1998-005, Boston University, Computer Science Department, February 1998.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-007, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1997.
Azer Bestavros. Discovering Spatial Locality in World Wide Web Access Patterns using Data Mining of Document Clusters in Server Logs. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-016, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1997.
Azer Bestavros. Proceedings of the 18th Real-Time Systems Symposium WIP Session. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-021, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. Exploiting Redundancy for Timeliness in TCP Boston. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-001, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 1997.
Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta. Load Profiling for Efficient Route Selection in Multi-Class Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-009, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1997. Also NU-CCS-97-08 at Northeastern University.
Azer Bestavros, Naomi Katagai, and Jorge Londono. Admission Control and Scheduling for High Performance World Wide Web Servers. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-015, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1997.
Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros. Evaluation of a Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-013, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 1997. Also NU-CCS-97-10 at Northeastern University.
Sue Nagy and Azer Bestavros. Concurrency Admission Control Management in ACCORD. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1997-010, Boston University, Computer Science Department, May 1997.
Virgilio Almeida, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, and Adriana de Oliveira. Characterizing Reference Locality in the World Wide Web. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-011, Boston University, Computer Science Department, June 1996.
Sanjoy Baruah and Azer Bestavros. Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-tolerant Broadcast Disks in Real-time Database Systems. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-023, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-003, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 1996.
Azer Bestavros. AIDA-based Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Broadcast Disks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-001, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, January 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Load Profiling in Distributed Real-Time Systems: One Size Doesn't Fit All. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-017, Boston University, Computer Science Department, August 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Proceedings of the 17th Real-Time Systems Symposium WIP Session. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-027, Boston University, Computer Science Department, December 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Gitae Kim. TCP Boston: A Fragmentation-tolerant TCP Protocol for ATM Networks. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-014, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 1996.
Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy. An Admission Control Paradigm for Real-Time Databases. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-002, Boston University, Computer Science Department, January 1996.
Azer Bestavros, Marina Chen, Mark Crovella, Abdelsalam Heddaya, Stan Sclaroff, and James Cowie. Responsive Web Computing: Resource Management, Protocol Techniques, and Applications (A research statement). Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-008, Boston University, Computer Science Department, March 1996.
Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Sang Son. RTDB'96: The First International Workshop on Real-Time Database Systems (Workshop Report). Technical Report BUCS-TR-1996-013, Boston University, Computer Science Department, July 1996.
Azer Bestavros. Demand-based Document Dissemination for the World Wide Web. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1995-003, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, February 1995.
Azer Bestavros. Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the World Wide Web. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1995-006, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, April 1995.
Azer Bestavros and Carlos Cunha. A Prefetching Protocol Using Client Speculation for the World Wide Web. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1995-011, Boston University, CS Dept, Boston, MA 02215, April 1995.
Azer Bestavros and Yueh-Lin Liu. Simulation of Hardware Dynamic Scheduling on the DLX Architecture. Technical Report BUCS-TR-1995-013, Boston University, CS Dept, Bost