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Utility Computing

• "SHARP: An Architecture for Secure Resource Peering," Yun Fu, Jeff Chase, Brent Chun, Stephen Schwab, Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 2003. [PDF]
• "Bootstrapping a Distributed Computational Economy with Peer-to-Peer Bartering," Brent N. Chun, Yun Fu, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003. [PDF]
• "Model-Based Resource Provisioning in a Web Service Utility ," Ronald Doyle, Jeffrey Chase, Omer Asad, Wei Jen, Amin Vahdat.  Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems USITS 2003, March 2003.[PDF]
• "Back to the Future: Dependable Computing = Dependable Services," Jeff Chase, Amin Vahdat, and John Wilkes.  Proceedings of the 10th European SIGOPS Workshop, September 2002. [PDF]
• "Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting Systems," Yun Fu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW), August 2002. [PDF]
• "Opus: an Overlay Peer Utility Service," Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeffrey Chase, and Amin Vahdat,  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH), June 2002. [PDF]
• "Dynamically Provisioning Distributed Systems to Meet Target Levels of Performance, Availability, and Data Quality," Amin Vahdat.  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo), June 2002. [PDF]
• "Self-Organizing Subsets: From Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Needs," Amin Vahdat, Jeffrey Chase, Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostic, and Adolfo Rodriguez. Proceedings of the First International Peer to Peer Symposium (IPTPS), March 2002. [PDF]
• "OPUS: Overlay Utility Service", Rebecca Braynard, Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeff Chase and Amin Vahdat, poster at 18th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), Banff, Canada, October 2001. [PDF].
• "Managing Energy and Server Resources in Hosting Centers." Jeff Chase, Darrell Anderson, Prachi Thakar, Amin Vahdat, and Ron Doyle. Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2001. [Postscript], [PDF].
• "Server Switching: Yesterday and Tomorrow," Jeff Chase. Second IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP `01), July 2001. [Postscript, PDF]

Networking

• "Bullet: High Bandwidth Data Dissemination Using an Overlay Mesh," Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie Albrecht, Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 2003. [PDF]
• "Toward Scaling Network Emulation using Topology Partitioning," Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becker, Jeff Chase, and Amin Vahdat,  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), October 2003. [PDF]
• "Using Random Subsets to Build Scalable Network Services," Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie Albrecht, Abhijeet Bhirud, and Amin Vahdat.  Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems USITS 2003, March 2003.[PDF]
• "Anypoint: Extensible Transport Switching on the Edge," Ken Yocum, Darrell Anderson, Jeff Chase, and Amin Vahdat.  Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems USITS 2003, March 2003.[PDF]
• "Scalability and Accuracy in a Large-Scale Network Emulator," Amin Vahdat, Ken Yocum, Kevin Walsh, Priya Mahadevan, Dejan Kostic, Jeff Chase, and David Becker.  Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, December 2002. [PDF]
• "EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring," Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, and Amin Vahdat,  Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2002. [PDF]
• "Coarse-Grained Network Simulation for Wide-Area Distributed Systems," Syam Gadde, Jeff Chase, Amin Vahdat.  Proceedings of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, January 2002. [PDF]
• "Position Summary: Anypoint Communication Protocol," Ken Yocum, Darrell Anderson, Jeff Chase, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the Eight IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), May 2001. [PDF]
• "Epidemic Routing for Partially-Connected Ad Hoc Networks," Amin Vahdat and David Becker, Duke Technical Report CS-2000-06, July 2000.  Also submitted for publication. [PDF]
• "Detour: A Case for Informed Internet Routing and Transport,'' Stefan Savage, Thomas Anderson, Amit Aggarwal, David Becker, Neal Cardwell, Andy Collins, Eric Hoffman, John Snell, Amin Vahdat, Geoff Voelker, and John Zahorjan. IEEE Micro, volume 19, no. 1, January 1999. [PDF].

Content Replication and Consistency

• "Design and Evaluation of a Conit-based Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services," Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), vol.20, no. 3, August 2002.
• "Minimal Cost Replication for Availability", Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the ACM Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), July 2002. [PDF]
• "The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services," Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2001. [PDF]
• "Combining Generality and Practicality in a Conit-Based Continuous Consistency Model for Wide-Area Replication." Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), April 2001. [Postscript], [PDF]. A longer version available as Technical Report CS-2000-09. [Postscript], [PDF].
• "Design and Evaluation of a Continuous Consistency Model for Replicated Services," Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, October 2000. [Postscript], [PDF].
• "Efficient Numerical Bounding for Replicated Network Services," Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases, September 2000. [Postscript], [PDF]. A longer version available as Technical Report CS-2000-08. [Postscript], [PDF].
• "Building Replicated Internet Services Using TACT: Tunable Availability/Consistency Tradeoffs," Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on Advanced issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2000), June 2000. [Presentation Slides]
• "Toward Automatic State Management for Replicated Dynamic Web Services," Geoff Berry, Jeff Chase, Geoff Cohen, Landon Cox, and Amin Vahdat. 1999 Netstore Symposium, Seattle WA, October 1999. [Postscript], [PDF]
• "Automatic Program Transformation with JOIE," Geoff Cohen, Jeff Chase, and David Kaminsky.  Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Symposium, June 1998.

Network Storage

• "Fstress: A Flexible Network File Service Benchmark," Darrell Anderson and Jeff Chase. Technical Report CS-2002-01, May 2002. [Postscript, PDF]
• "Distributed Computing with Load-Managed Active Storage," Rajiv Wickremisinghe, Jeff Vitter, and Jeff Chase. In IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), July 2002.
• "Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System," Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, Margo Seltzer, Jeff Chase, Richard Kisley, Andrew Gallatin, Rajiv Wickremisinghe, and Eran Gabber. In USENIX Technical Conference, June 2002. [PDF]
• "Interposed Request Routing for Scalable Network Storage,"  Darrell Anderson, Jeff Chase, and Amin Vahdat. In the Fourth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI2000), October 2000. [Postscript], [PDF], [HTML]
• "Failure-Atomic File Access in an Interposed Network Storage System," Darrell Anderson and Jeff Chase. Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Pittsburgh PA, August 2000. [Postscript], [PDF]
• "Network I/O with Trapeze," Jeff Chase, Darrell Anderson, Andrew Gallatin, Alvin Lebeck, and Ken Yocum. 1999 Hot Interconnects Symposium, August 1999. [Postscript], [PDF]
• "Cheating the I/O Bottleneck: Network Storage with Trapeze/Myrinet," Darrell Anderson, Jeff Chase, Syam Gadde, Andrew Gallatin, Ken Yocum, and Mike Feeley. Proceedings of the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference, New Orleans, June 1998. [Postscript],[PDF]

Web Caching

• "The Trickle-Down Effect: Web Caching and Server Request Distribution," Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Syam Gadde and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of WCW'01 (Sixth International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution), June 2001. [PDF]
• "Web Caching and Content Distribution: A View From the Interior," Syam Gadde, Jeff Chase, and Michael Rabinovich. Proceedings of The 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, May 2000. 
• "Not All Hits Are Created Equal: Cooperative Proxy Caching Over a Wide-Area Network," Michael Rabinovich, Jeff Chase, and Syam Gadde. Third International WWW Caching Workshop, June 1998. [Postscript] 
• "A Taste of Crispy Squid,"  Syam Gadde, Jeff Chase, Michael Rabinovich. Workshop on Internet Server Performance (WISP98). June 1998. [Html] [Postscript]
• "Directory Structures for Scalable Internet Caches," Syam Gadde, Jeff Chase, Michael Rabinovich. Technical Report CS-1997-18. Department of Computer Science, Duke University. November 1997. [Html] [Postscript]
• "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Approach to Building Large Internet Caches," Syam Gadde, Michael Rabinovich, and Jeff Chase. The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI), 93-98. May 1997. [Html] [Postscript]

Dynamic Content Adaptation

• "Managing the Storage and Battery Resources in an Image Capture Device (Digital Camera) using Dynamic Transcoding," Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat. In the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'00), August 2000. [PDF]
• "Differentiated Multimedia Web Services Using Quality Aware Transcoding," Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, In INFOCOM 2000 - Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer And Communications Societies, March 2000. [PDF]
• "Differentiated Quality of Service Through Quality Aware Transformation of Web Content," Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat. Refereed poster in 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), December 1999. [PDF]
• "JPEG Compression Metric as a Quality Aware Image Transcoding," Surendar Chandra and Carla Schlatter Ellis. In Second Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '99), October 1999. [PDF]
• "Multimedia Web Services for Mobile Clients Using Quality Aware Transcoding," Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis, and Amin Vahdat. In the Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WOWMOM'99), August 1999. [Postscript]

WebOS

• "Active Names: Flexible Location and Transport of Wide-Area Resources,'' Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas Anderson, and Amit Aggarwal. Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, October 1999. [Postscript], [PDF].
• "Toward Wide-Area Resource Allocation," Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 1999.
• "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 Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 1998. [Postscript].
• "Transparent Result Caching,'' Amin Vahdat and Thomas Anderson. Proceedings of the 1998 USENIX Technical Conference, June 1998. [Postscript]. 
• "The CRISIS Wide Area Security Architecture,'' Eshwar Belani, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and Michael Dahlin. Proceedings of the 1998 USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998. [Postscript].