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ISP Multihoming and Routing

A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control
A. Akella, J. Pang, A. Shaikh, S. Seshan, and B. Maggs, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies

A. Akella, S. Seshan, A. Shaikh, Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

A Measurement-Based Analysis of Multihoming

A. Akella, B. Maggs, S. Seshan, A. Shaikh, and R. Sitaraman, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Internet Measurement

On the Responsiveness of DNS-based Network Control
J. Pang, A. Akella, A. Shaikh, B. Krishnamurthy, and S. Seshan, Proc. of ACM Internet Measurement Conference, October 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf).

An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks

A. Akella, S. Seshan, and A. Shaikh, Proc. Internet Measurement Conference, October 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Short version appeared in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS (poster paper), June 2003. (postscript) (pdf)

Issues with Inferring Internet Topological Attributes

L. Amini, A. Shaikh, and H. Schulzrinne, Proc. SPIE ITCom 2002, Internet Performance and Control of Network Systems III, July 2002. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Toward Representative Internet Measurements

A. Akella, S. Seshan, A. Shaikh, New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (NYMAN '03), September 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Integrated Network Performance Diagnostics

S. Kandula, A. Shaikh, E. Nahum, New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (NYMAN '02), September 2002. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Online Games

An On Demand Platform for Online Games

A. Shaikh, S. Sahu, M. Rosu, M. Shea, and D. Saha, to appear in IBM Systems Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, January 2006. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Implementation of a Service Platform for Online Games

A. Shaikh, S. Sahu, M. Rosu, M. Shea, and D. Saha, Proc. of NetGames 2004 Workshop, August 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

A Service Platform for On-Line Distributed Games

D. Saha, S. Sahu, and A. Shaikh, Proc. of NetGames 2003 Workshop, May 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Content Distribution and Web Performance

Protecting Content Distribution Networks from Denial of Service Attacks

K. Lee, S. Chari, A. Shaikh, S. Sahu, P. Cheng, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), May 2005.

Effective Peering for Multi-provider Content Delivery Services

L. Amini, A. Shaikh, H. Schulzrinne, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

A Web Content Serving Utility

P. Gayek, R. Nesbitt, H. Pearthree, A. Shaikh, and B. Snitzer, IBM Systems Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, January 2004. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Modeling Redirection in Geographically Diverse Server Sets

L. Amini, A. Shaikh, and H. Schulzrinne, Proc. of 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), May 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf) Conference slides (pdf)

Improving Web Site Performance

A. Iyengar, E. Nahum, A. Shaikh, and R. Tewari, Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, M. Singh (ed.), CRC Press, 2004, in press.

Web Caching, Consistency, and Content Distribution

A. Iyengar, E. Nahum, A. Shaikh, and R. Tewari, Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, M. Singh (ed.), CRC Press, 2004, in press.

Using Mobility Support for Request Routing in IPv6 CDNs (R&D Synopsis)

A. Acharya and A. Shaikh, Proc. International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW '02), August 2002.
Extended version published as IBM Research Report RC 22450 (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Enhancing Web Performance

A. Iyengar, E. Nahum, A. Shaikh, and R. Tewari, Proc. of IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC '02), Communication Systems: The State of the Art, Invited paper, August 2002. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)
Also published as IBM Research Report RC 22427 (postscript) (pdf)

Protecting Content Distribution Networks from Denial-of-Service Attacks

K. Lee, S. Chari, A. Shaikh, S. Sahu, and P. Cheng, IBM Research Report RC 22566, September 2002. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

SRIRAM - A Scalable Resilient Autonomic Mesh

D. Verma, S. Sahu, S. Calo, A. Shaikh, A. Acharya, and I. Chang, IBM Systems Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, January 2003. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

MPLS-based Request Routing (R&D Synopsis)

A. Acharya, A. Shaikh, R. Tewari, and D. Verma, Proc. Int'l Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW '01), June 2001. (postscript) (pdf)
Extended version published as IBM Research Report RC 22275 (postscript) (pdf)

On the Effectiveness of DNS-based Server Selection

A. Shaikh, R. Tewari, M. Agrawal, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2001, April 2001. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf) Conference slides (postscript) (pdf)
Extended version published as IBM Research Report RC 21785, July 2000. (postscript) (pdf)

Local and Wide-Area Server Selection: Techniques and Challenges

A. Acharya, A. Shaikh, and R. Tewari, Proc. Open Signaling for ATM, the Internet, and Mobile Networks (OPENSIG 2000) Workshop, Invited talk, October 2000. (postscript) (pdf

Past publications

Load-sensitive and QoS Routing

Evaluating the Impact of Stale Link State on Quality-of-Service Routing

A. Shaikh, J. Rexford, and K. Shin, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 9, no. 2, April 2001, pp. 162-176. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Efficient Dynamic Routing in Wide-Area Networks

A. Shaikh, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, May 1999. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Load-Sensitive Routing of Long-Lived IP Flows

A. Shaikh, J. Rexford, and K. Shin, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM '99), September 1999, pp. 215-226. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)
Extended version published as UM Technical Report CSE-TR-392-99. (postscript) (pdf)

Evaluating the Overheads of Source-Directed Quality-of-Service Routing

A. Shaikh, J. Rexford, and K. Shin, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '98), October 1998, Austin, TX, pp. 42-51. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf) Conference Slides (postscript) (pdf)

Efficient Precomputation of Quality-of-Service Routes

A. Shaikh, J. Rexford, and K. Shin, Proc. Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '98), July 1998, Cambridge, England, pp. 15-27. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf) Workshop Slides (postscript) (pdf)

Performance Evaluation of Quality-of-Service Routing with Inaccurate Link-State Information

J. Rexford and A. Shaikh, Proc. OPENSIG Fall '97 Workshop, Invited talk, October 6-7 1997, Columbia University. (abstract) Workshop slides (postscript) (pdf)

Real-Time Middleware for Distributed Systems

Realizing Services for Guaranteed-QoS Communication on a Microkernel Operating System

A. Mehra, A. Shaikh, T. Abdelzaher, Z. Wang, and K. Shin, Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS '98), December 1998, Madrid, Spain, pp. 460-469. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)
Extended version published as UM Technical Report CSE-TR-375-98 (postscript) (pdf)

ARMADA Middleware and Communication Services

T. Abdelzaher, S. Dawson, W. Feng,  F. Jahanian, S. Johnson, A. Mehra, T. Mitton, A. Shaikh, K. Shin, Z. Wang, H. Zou, M. Bjorkland, and P. Marron, Real-Time Systems Journal, vol. 16, Issue 2/3, May 1999, pp. 127-153. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

ARMADA Middleware Suite

T. Abdelzaher, S. Dawson, W. Feng, S. Ghosh, F. Jahanian, S. Johnson, A. Mehra, T. Mitton, J. Norton, A. Shaikh, K. Shin, V. Vaidyan, Z. Wang, and H. Zou, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services, December 1997, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1-8. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

RTCAST: Lightweight Multicast for Real-Time Process Groups

T. Abdelzaher, A. Shaikh, F. Jahanian, and K. Shin, Proc. IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '96), June 1996, Brookline, MA, pp. 250-259. Winner of Best Student Paper Award. (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)
Extended version published as UM Technical Report CSE-TR-291-96 (postscript) (pdf)

Multicast Routing

Destination-Driven Routing for Low-Cost Multicast

A. Shaikh and K. Shin, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 15, no. 3, April 1997, pp. 373-381.  (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

Localized Multicast Routing

A. Shaikh, S. Lu, and K. Shin, Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'95), November 1995, Singapore, pp. 1352-1356.  (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)