{"id":51,"date":"2016-06-29T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:50:56","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial,arial,helvetica;\" face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Research Interests: <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Management and economics of virtualized distributed systems<\/li>\n<li><span align=\"justify\" face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Transport and\u00a0routing\u00a0protocols\u00a0for the Internet and wireless\u00a0networks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span align=\"justify\" face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Feedback-based control design and analysis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span align=\"justify\" face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Architectures for protocol design and large-scale traffic management<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span align=\"justify\" face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Modeling and performance evaluation. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Current and recent projects involve application management over edge-cloud cyberinfrastructures (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heecma\/\">HEECMA<\/a> website), clean-slate network architectures (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/csr.bu.edu\/rina\/\">RINA<\/a> website), reliable petabyte-scale file transfer (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.public.asu.edu\/~syrotiuk\/mled.html\">MLED<\/a> website),\u00a0 virtual network embedding, configurable protocol design, stability and compositional analysis, data management, and green networking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Profiles on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=_mj1-BQAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dblp.org\/pers\/hd\/m\/Matta:Ibrahim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DBLP<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/profiles\/abraham-matta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mendeley<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Ibrahim_Matta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ResearchGate<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">ORCID id:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4528-0344\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4528-0344\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Selected Recent Publications:\u00a0<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">(More are listed <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/research-all\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 8\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p align=\"justify\">[Transport Network Design &amp; Management]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Prateek Jain, Arash Sarabi, Abraham Matta, and Violet R. Syrotiuk. Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2025, Stony Brook, New York, June 2025. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3727111\">DOI<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Arash Sarabi, Ibrahim Matta, and Violet Syrotiuk. MLED: A Layered Architecture for Reducing Undetected Error Probability in File Transfer. IEEE Communications Letters, Accepted August 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1xalR-qv2E5XfVcfaCvR10lm7RYKpertt\/view?usp=sharing\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Yuefeng Wang and Ibrahim Matta. Multi-Layer Virtual Transport Network Management.\u00a0<\/span><em>Journal of Computer Communications<\/em><span>, August 2018. [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.comcom.2018.08.011\">Link<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Yuefeng Wang and Ibrahim Matta. Multi-Layer Virtual Transport Network Design.\u00a0<\/span><em>Journal of Network and Systems Management<\/em><span>, pages 1&#8211;35, November 2017. [<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2Fs10922-017-9442-z.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Distributed Learning]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Zongshun Zhang and Ibrahim Matta. Rethinking Inference Placement for Deep Learning across Edge and Cloud Platforms: A Multi-Objective Optimization Perspective and Future Directions. arXiv October 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.22909\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.22909<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Zongshun Zhang and Ibrahim Matta. SERFLOW: A Cross-Service Cost Optimization Framework for SLO-aware Dynamic ML Inference. arXiv October 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.27182\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.27182<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Zongshun Zhang, Rohan Kumar, Jason Li, Lisa Korver, Anthony Byrne, Gianluca Stringhini, Ibrahim Matta, and Ayse Coskun. PraxiPaaS: A Decomposable Machine Learning System for Efficient Container Package Discovery. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2024. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10749782\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Zongshun Zhang, Andrea Pinto, Valeria Turina, Favio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. Privacy and Efficiency of Communications in Federated Split Learning. arXiv January 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.01824v2\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.01824v2<\/a>. Accepted May 15, 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Big Data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">Valeria Turina, Zongshun Zhang, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. Federated or Split? A Performance and Privacy Analysis of Hybrid Split and Federated Learning Architectures. In IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD), September 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Ngag9PeSCMWRoaciIChmYJSvEOyMYgH_\/view?usp=sharing\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Valeria Turina, Zongshun Zhang, Flavio Esposito, and Ibrahim Matta. Poster: Combining Split and Federated Architectures for Efficiency and Privacy in Deep Learning. In <em>Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2020)<\/em>, Barcelona, Spain, December 2020. [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/154kCdjyk2Lc5xZQHY8g9YVzQ-QQKZPJO\/view?usp=sharing\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[Configuring &amp; Placing Serverless and Streaming Functions]<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 8\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yuanli Wang, Lei Huang, Zikun Wang, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Ibrahim Matta. CAPSys: Contention-aware Task Placement for Data Stream Processing. In EuroSys 2025, March 2025. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3689031.3696085\">DOI<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Mina Morcos and Ibrahim Matta. A Throughput Optimizing Scheduler for Multi-Cloud Serverless Computing. In <\/span><span>Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom)<\/span><span>, Napoli, Italy, December 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Nabeel Akhtar, Ali Raza, Vatche Ishakian, and Ibrahim Matta. COSE: Configuring Serverless Functions using Statistical Learning. In <\/span><span>Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)<\/span><span>, Beijing, China, April 2020. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9155363\">Link<\/a>] Extended journal paper accepted in <\/span><i>IEEE Transactions on Network and Service <\/i><i>Management, February 2023. <\/i>[<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10063937\">TNSM<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Ali Raza, Zongshun Zhang, Nabeel Akhtar, Vatche Ishakian, and Ibrahim Matta. LIBRA: An Economical Hybrid Approach for Cloud Applications with Strict SLAs. In <\/span><span>Proceedings of the <\/span><span>9<\/span><span>th <\/span><span>IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)<\/span><span>, October 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1w3lySZCC7GU0WK9Bk9gDReXsMxiQJAc5\/view?usp=sharing\">PDF<\/a>] <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span>Ali Raza, Ibrahim Matta, Nabeel Akhtar, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Vatche Isahagian. Function-as-a-Service: From an Application Developer\u2019s Perspective. <\/span><span>Journal of Systems Research (JSYS)<\/span><span>, Accepted August 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1uIyWhhuh6b0B_QxLVPhMKssugT1wlRJD\/view?usp=sharing\">PDF<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/jsys.org\/read\/\">JSys<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Management &amp; Economics of Layered Services]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Maryam Ghasemi, Ibrahim Matta, and Flavio Esposito. The Effect of (Non-)Competing Brokers on the Quality and Price of Differentiated Internet Services.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Computer Networks<\/em>, June 2019. [<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.comnet.2019.06.012\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Joint Computation Placement &amp; Traffic Steering]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Matta, Ali Raza, Leonardo Goratti, Torsten Braun, and Flavio Esposito. Virtual Function Placement and Traffic Steering over 5G Multi-Technology Networks. The 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), June 2018. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/NFV-5G-2018.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] An extended version will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management in 2021. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9316983\">Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Autonomic Communications]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span>Zhongliang Zhao, Eryk Schiller, Eirini Kalogeiton, Torsten Braun, Burkhard Stiller, Mevlut Turker Garip, Joshua Joy, Mario Gerla, Nabeel Akhtar, and Ibrahim Matta. Autonomic Communications in Software-driven Networks.\u00a0<\/span><em>IEEE JSAC special issue on Emerging Technologies in Software-driven Communication<\/em><span>, 35(11):2431&#8211;2445, November 2017. [<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=8063402&amp;source=authoralert\">PDF<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Virtual Network Embedding]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Flavio Esposito, Donato Di Paola, and Ibrahim Matta. A General Distributed Approach to Slice Embedding with Guarantees. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Brooklyn, New York, May 2013. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/VNembedding-Networking2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] A survey paper on the subject was published in ACM Computing Surveys [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/techreports\/pdf\/2011-025-slice-embedding.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]. A journal version (accepted November 2014) will appear in the IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/ToN-CAD.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]. A policy-based architecture for virtual network embedding will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (accepted January 2016) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/TPDS2016-VINEA.pdf\">PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">[Principled Protocol Design] <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">John Day, Ibrahim Matta, and Karim Mattar. &#8220;Networking is IPC&#8221;: A Guiding Principle to a Better Internet. In Proceedings of ReArch&#8217;08 &#8211; Re-Architecting the Internet, Madrid, SPAIN, December 2008. Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2008.<\/span> <span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/IPC-arch-rearch08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/span> <span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Follow-up work can be found on <\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> the <a href=\"http:\/\/csr.bu.edu\/rina\/\">RINA<\/a> website. A recent white paper titled &#8220;Toward a Dynamic, Recursive SDN\/SDX&#8221; was presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flux.utah.edu\/beyond-internet-workshops\/sdi-whitepapers\/Matta,Ibrahim-BU_submission.pdf\"> 2016 NSF workshop on SDI\/SDX<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Green Network Design]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Luca Chiaraviglio, and Ibrahim Matta. GreenCoop: Cooperative Green Routing with Energy-efficient Servers. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking, University of Passau, Germany, April 2010. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/greencoop-e-energy10.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] Follow-up work appears in Technical Report BUCS-2010-008: &#8220;A Green Distributed Cooperation for Network and Content Management,&#8221; March 31, 2010. [long version: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/techreports\/pdf\/2010-008-distgreencoop.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] [shorter slightly revised version: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/GCN-Info11.pdf\">PDF<\/a>, just accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2011 Green Communications and Networking Workshop]. BU-CS is a collaborating institution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fp7-trend.eu\/\">EU TREND project<\/a> of the Network of Excellence on Energy Efficient Networking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Energy-aware Transport]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, Alberto Medina, Craig Partridge, and Jason Redi.\u00a0JTP: An Energy-conscious Transport Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Networks. In\u00a0Proceedings of\u00a0\u00a0CoNEXT Conference,\u00a0New York, NY, December 2007. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/jtp-final-camera-conext07.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/y2008\/0049620.html\">Patent Application<\/a>] Patent awarded 4\/12\/2011.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">[Mobile Data Management]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta.\u00a0An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors.\u00a0Ad Hoc Networks: Special Issue on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2010. [<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.adhoc.2010.07.016\">PDF<\/a>] See also our Med-Hoc-Net 2010 paper [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/paper-med-hoc-net10.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (Best Paper Award), our DCOSS 2008 paper [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/dcoss2008.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (Best Paper Award, Applications Track), and our SECON 2008 paper [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/apr-secon2008.pdf\">PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Safe Policy Routing]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sam Epstein, Karim Mattar, and Ibrahim Matta. Principles of Safe Policy Routing Dynamics. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP&#8217;09), Princeton, NJ, October 2009. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/dpr-icnp09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] Extended version appears in Technical Report BUCS-2009-013 with the same title, April 21, 2009. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/techreports\/pdf\/2009-013-safe-routing.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Resilient Protocol Design]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta.\u00a0Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP&#8217;04), Berlin, Germany, October 2004. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/icnp04.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] Follow-up work can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/csr.bu.edu\/roq\/\">RoQ<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Resilient Distributed Caching]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Distributed Selfish Caching.\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(10), October 2007. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/tpds07.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] See <a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/gsmaragd\/research\/DSC\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Safe Network Service Composition]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta.\u00a0Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP&#8217;05), Boston, MA, November 2005. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/icnp05.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] See <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ibenchbu\/home\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Friendly High-speed Transport]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros.\u00a0A Spectrum of TCP-friendly Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms.\u00a0IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(3), June 2003. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/techreports\/pdf\/2002-027-spectrum-tcp-friendly.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] See <a href=\"http:\/\/csr.bu.edu\/simd\/\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Friendly Adaptive Virtualization]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta, and Richard West.\u00a0Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 2005 ACM\/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Chicago, Illinois, June 2005. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/vee05.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Cross-layer Measurement]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros.\u00a0TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, 2007. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Papers\/pam07.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/research-all\/\">more &gt;&gt;<\/a> <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Selected Older Publications: <\/span><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Liang<\/span> <span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Guo and Ibrahim Matta. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/icnp01-war.pdf\">The War between Mice and Elephants<\/a>. In Proceedings of ICNP&#8217;2001: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Riverside, CA, November 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Alberto Medina, Anukool Lakhina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/mascots01-brite-user.pdf\">BRITE: An Approach to Universal Topology Generation<\/a>. In Proceedings of MASCOTS\u00a0&#8217;01: The International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Liang Guo, Mark Crovella, and Ibrahim Matta. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/mascots01-tcp-pss.pdf\">How does TCP Generate Pseudo-Self-Similarity?<\/a>. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0MASCOTS\u00a0&#8217;01, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Selma Yilmaz and Ibrahim Matta. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/yilmaz01classbased.pdf\">On Class-Based Isolation of UDP, Short-Lived and Long-Lived TCP Flows<\/a>. In Proceedings of MASCOTS\u00a0&#8217;01: The International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Ibrahim Matta and Liang Guo. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/matta00differentiated.pdf\">Differentiated Predictive Fair Service for TCP Flows<\/a>. In Proceedings of ICNP&#8217;2000: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Osaka, Japan, October 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Ibrahim Matta and Liang Guo. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/jcn00.pdf\">QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm<\/a>. Journal of Communications and Networks &#8211; Special Issue on QoS in IP Networks, 2(2):168-176, June 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> <\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/yoon00somecast.pdf\">SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast<\/a>. In Proceedings of RTAS&#8217;2000: The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/ccr00.pdf\">On the Origin of Power Laws in Internet Topologies<\/a>. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(2), April 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> <\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Karu Ratnam, Ibrahim Matta, and Sampath Rangarajan. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/ratnam99analysis.pdf\">Analysis of Caching-based Location Management in Personal Communication Networks<\/a>. In Proceedings of ICNP\u00a0&#8217;99: The 7th International Conference on Network Protocols, Toronto, Canada, November 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/infocom98.pdf\">A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows<\/a>. In Proceedings of Infocom&#8217;98: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> <\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Ibrahim Matta and A.\u00a0Udaya Shankar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/fast-time-dependent-evaluation.pdf\">Fast Time-Dependent Evaluation of Integrated Services Networks<\/a>. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems &#8211; Special Issue on Modeling of Wired and Wireless ATM, 29(17-18):1999-2020, February 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> <\/span><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\">Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Ibrahim Matta, and A.\u00a0Udaya Shankar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/alaettinoglu95scalable.pdf\">A Scalable Virtual Circuit Routing Scheme for ATM Networks<\/a>. In Proceedings of ICCCN\u00a0&#8217;95: The International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, pages 630-637, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"> Ibrahim Matta and A.\u00a0Udaya Shankar. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/matta\/Papers\/matta95ziteration.pdf\">Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems<\/a>. 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