Publications & Presentations

Current Year (2008/2009) Publications

James Skarie, Biplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja, and Mohamed Mokbel, "SCRAP: A Statistical Approach for Creating a Compact Representational Query Workload Based on Performance Bottlenecks," IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), September, 2007 — (PDF 1.7 MB).

Biplob K. Debnath, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and David J. Lilja, "Exploiting the Impact of Database System Configuration Parameters: A Design of Experiments Approach," Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Special Issue on Testing and Tuning of Database Systems, Vol. 31, No. 1, March, 2008, pp. 3–10 — (PDF 94 KB).

Biplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja, and Mohamed Mokbel, "SARD: A Statistical Approach for Ranking Database Tuning Parameters," International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April, 2008 — (PDF 115 KB).

Guest/Visitor Presentations

Henry Newman, widely know HPC storage expert and the CTO of Instrumental, Inc., "What's Important and Wrong with the Data Path for Petascale Storage Systems?," January 2008 — (PDF 120 KB).

Thomas M. Ruwart, HPC storage systems expert, University of Minnesota, Digital Technology Center, "Storage on the Lunatic Fringe" — (PDF 1.1 MB).

Mike Mesnier, Research Engineer, Intel, CMU, "Object-based Storage 101" — (PDF 1.8 MB).

Tom Ruwart, Chief Scientist Atrato, "Commodity Reliability and Practices or Building Reliable Systems with CRAP, " October, 2007 — (1.43 MB).

Previous Publications

2006/2007

–Aravindan Raghuveer, Steven Schlosser, and Sami Iren, "Enabling database-aware storage with OSD," 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies

–Xianbo Zhang, David H.C. Du, Jim Hughes, and Ravi Kavuri, "ITStorage: A High Performance Internet Tape Storage," DTC Research Report 2007/24, June 2007 PDF 247KB

–Girish Moodalbail, Nagapramod Mandagere, Aravindan Raghuveer, Sunil Subramanya, and David H.C. Du, "Backup Aware Object based Storage," DTC Research Report 2007/25, June 2007 PDF 222KB

–Dingshan He, Nagapramod Mandagere, and David H.C. Du, "Design and Implementation of a Network Aware Object-based Tape Device," 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST Sept 2007) — DTC Research Report 2007/26, June 2007 PDF 318KB)

–Nagapramod Mandagere, Jim Diehl, and David H.C. Du, "GreenStor: Application-aided Energy-efficient Storage," 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST Sept 2007) — DTC Research Report 2007/27, June 2007 — PDF 361KB

–Aravindan Raghuveer, Yingfei Dong, David H.C. Du, "On Providing Reliability Guarantees in Live Video Streaming with Collaborative Clients," In Proceedings of Fourteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference [MMCN] 2007 — PDF 351KB

–Xianbo Zhang, David Du, Jim Hughes, Ravi Kavuri, "HPTFS: A High Performance Tape File System," Submitted to 14th NASA Goddard — 23rd IEEE (MSST2006) Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies May 15–18, 2006, College Park, MD — (DTC Research Report 2006/11 PDF 317KB)

–David Du, Dingshan He, Changjin Hong, Jaehoon Jeong, Vishal Kher, Yongdae Kim, Yingping Lu, Aravindan Raghuveer, Sarah Sharafkandi, "Experiences in Building an Object-Based Storage System based on the OSD T-10 Standard," Submitted to 14th NASA Goddard — 23rd IEEE (MSST2006) Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies May 15–18, 2006, College Park, MD — (DTC Research Report 2006/12 PDF 267KB)

–Dingshan He, Xianbo Zhang and David H.C. Du, Gary Grider, "Coordinating Parallel Hierarchical Storage Management in Object-base Cluster File Systems," Submitted to 14th NASA Goddard — 23rd IEEE (MSST2006) Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies May 15–18, 2006, College Park, MD — (DTC Research Report 2006/13 PDF 957KB)

–Vishal Kher, Eric Seppanen, Cory Leach, and Yongdae Kim, "SGFS: Secure, Efficient and Policy-based Global File Sharing," Submitted to 14th NASA Goddard — 23rd IEEE (MSST2006) Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies May 15–18, 2006, College Park, MD — (DTC Research Report 2006/8 PDF 234KB)

2004/2005

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni, David H. C. Du, and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Dynamic Data Re-allocation in Network-Attached Storage Systems", Submitted to 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA.

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Resource Management and Knapsack Formulation in Distributed Multimedia Networks", Submitted to 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA.

–Aravindan Raghuveer, NamOh Kang, David H.C.Du, "Techniques for efficient streaming of layered video in heterogenous client environments", In Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2005. PDF 146KB

–Changjin Hong, Ahmed H. Tewfik, and David H.C. Du, Handling Updates Of A Biological Sequence Based On Hidden Markov Models, EUSIPCO 2005.

–P. Wang, Y. Kim, V. Kher, and T. Kwon. Strengthening Password-based Authentication Protocols Against Online Dictionary Attacks. To Appear in Proceedings of the Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2005. (DTC Research Report 2005/5 PDF 195KB)

–Tom Ruwart, Yingping Lu, Performance Impact of External Vibration on Consumer-Grade and Enterprise-Class Disk Drives, IEEE MSST 2005. (DTC Research Report 2005/8 PDF 1.32MB)

–Yingping Lu, David H.C. Du, and Thomas Ruwart, QoS Provisioning Framework for OSD-based Storage, IEEE MSST 2005. (DTC Research Report 2005/7 PDF 88KB)

–Kevin KleinOsowski, Tom Ruwart, and David J. Lilja, Communicating Quality of Service Requirements to an Object-Based Storage Device, IEEE MSST 2005. (DTC Research Report 2005/9 PDF 1.53MB)

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni, Changjin Hong, David H.C. Du, and Ahmed H. Tewfik, A Novel Update Propagation Module for the Data Provenance Problem: A Contemplating Vision on Realizing Data Provenance from Models to Storage, IEEE MSST 2005.

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Replica Placement with Update Latency Guarantees", 2004 IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) 2004, Rome, Italy.

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Resource Management and Quality Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia Networks", 2005 Tenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), Spain.

–Darin England and Jon B. Weissman, "A New Metric for Robustness with Application to Job Scheduling" to appear in the Fourteenth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2005.

–Jon B. Weissman, Seonho Kim, and Darin England, "A Framework for Dynamic Service Adaptation in the Grid," Proceedings of the IPDPS NSF Next Generation Software Workshop Denver, Colorado, April 2005.

–Rahuk Trivedi, Abhishek Chandra, and Jon B. Weissman, "Platform-of-Platforms: A Modular Integrated Resource Framework for Large-Scale Services" to appear in the 2nd Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2005 (poster paper).

–Darin England and Jon B. Weissman, "A Resource Leasing Policy for On-demand Computing" invited to the International Journal for High Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA), 2005.

–Jon B. Weissman, Seonho Kim, and Darin England, "Supporting the Dynamic Grid Service Lifecycle" to appear in IEEE/ACM CCGrid International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005.

–Periodic Broadcast with Dynamic Server Selection, Proc. of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2004) (Ewa Kusmierek and David Du); also revised for Multimedia Tools and Applications. (DTC Research Report 2004/5 PDF 217KB)

–Optimal Bandwidth Scheduling for VOD Service on Broadband cable Networks, revised for IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (Y. Dong, Z.L. Zhang and David Du)

–Streaming Video Delivery over Internet with Adaptive End-to-End QoS, appeared in the special issue on Adaptive Multimedia Computing of Journal of Systems and Software, 2004 (Ewa Kusmierek and David Du)

–Design A Progressive Video Caching Policy for Video Proxy Servers, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, June 2004, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 599-610 (W.H. Ma and David Du)

–Frame Selection Dynamic Caching Adjustment in Video Proxy Servers, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 22, 2004, pp.49-68 (W.H. Ma and David Du)

–Proxy-Assisted Period Broadcast Architecture for Large-Scale Video Steaming, to appear in Journal of Internet Technology, Special issue on Real-time media delivery over the Internet, Oct. 2004 (Ewa Kusmierek, David Du and Y.F. Dong)

–Abed Elhamid Lawabni and Ahmed H. Tewfik, "Congestion Relief in Wireless LANs", 2004 IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) 2004, Rome, Italy.

–Yingping Lu, Farrukh Noman, and David H.C. Du, "Simulation Study of iSCSI-based Storage System", IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Apr. 2004. (DTC Research Report 2005/6 PDF 79KB)

–Dingshan He, David H.C. Du, "An Efficient Data Sharing Scheme for iSCSI-Based File Systems", IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, Apr. 2004. (DTC Research Report 2004/6 PDF 375KB)

–Ewa Kusmierek, Yingping Lu, and David H.C. Du, "Periodic Broadcast with Dynamic Server Selection", Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2004) of IASTED, Aug. 2004