Publications

Conference Proceedings

“A Trading System for Fairly Scheduling Fixed-Sized Delay-Tolerant Jobs at a Shared Link”
Jorge Londono, Azer Bestavros, and Nikolaos Laoutaris
In Proceedings of Globecom’10: The IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, FL, December 2010.

“Trade and Cap: A Customer-Managed, Market-Based System for Trading Bandwidth Allowances at a Shared Link”
Jorge Londono, Azer Bestavros, and Nikolaos Laoutaris.
In Proceedings of NetEcon’10: The USENIX/ACM OSDI Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, Vancouver, Canada, October 2010.

“A Type-Theoretic Framework for Efficient and Safe Colocation of Periodic Real-time Systems”
Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), August 2010.

“Colocation as a Service: Strategic and Operational Services for Cloud Colocation”
Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Jorge Londoño, and Azer Bestavros
9th IEEE international Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), July 2010.

“Colocation Games and Their Application to Distributed Resource Management”
Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros, and Shang-Hua Teng
HotCloud’09, San Diego, CA. 2009

“NetEmbed: A Network Resource Mapping Service for Distributed Applications”
Jorge Londoño and Azer Bestavros
In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM IPDPS High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop (HPGC08), Miami, Florida. April 2008

Technical Reports

“MORPHOSYS: Efficient Colocation of QoS-Constrained Workloads in the Cloud”
Vatche Ishakian and Azer Bestavros
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2011-002, CS Department, Boston University, January 25, 2011. (under submission)

“Cloud-based Content Distribution on a Budget”
Francesco Albanese, Damiano Carra, Pietro Michiardi, and Azer Bestavros
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2010-022, CS Department, Boston University, August 12 2010. (under submission)

“Angels In the Cloud — A Peer-Assisted Bulk-Synchronous Content Distribution Service.”
Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, and Azer Bestavros
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2010-024, CS Department, Boston University, August 12 2010. (under submission)

“Embedding Games: Distributed Resource Management with Selfish Users”
Londono, Jorge (PhD Thesis)
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2010-020, CS Department, Boston University,July 20, 2010.

“Colocation as a Service: Strategic and Operational Services for Cloud Colocation”
Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Jorge Londoño, and Azer Bestavros
Tech Report 2010-03. Computer Science Department, Boston University. March 1, 2010.

“Trade and Cap: A Customer-Managed, Market-Based System for Trading Bandwidth Allowances at a Shared Link”
Jorge Londono, Azer Bestavros, and Nikolaos Laoutaris.
Tech Report 2009-025. Computer Science Department, Boston University. July 29, 2009.

“Angels — In-Network Support for Minimum Distribution Time in P2P Overlays”
Raymond Sweha, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers
Tech Report 2009-003. Computer Science Department, Boston University. February 10, 2009.

“Colocation Games and Their Application to Distributed Resource Management”
Jorge Londoño, Azer Bestavros, and Shang-Hua Teng
Tech Report 2009-002. Computer Science Department, Boston University. February 7, 2009.

“NetEmbed: A Network Resource Mapping Service for Distributed Applications”
Jorge Londoño and Azer Bestavros
Tech Report 2006-032. Computer Science Department, Boston University. December 15, 2006.

Posters

“A Type-Theoretic Framework for Efficient and Safe Colocation of Periodic Real-time Systems”
Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Poster Presented at Research and Science Day, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 2010. (Award winning poster, Center for Information and Systems Engineering)

“Angels In The Cloud: An On-Demand Peer-Assisted Content Distribution Cloud Service”
Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian and Azer Bestavros. Poster Presented at Research and Science Day, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 2010. (Award winning poster, Applied Science)