Publications

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Conference and Workshop Proceedings

• Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment (PDF)
  Sajib Kundu, Raju Rangaswami, Kaushik Dutta, and Ming Zhao
  Proceedings of the IEEE High-Performance Computer Architecture, January, 2010.

• BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems (PDF)
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam Burnett, Jason Liptak, Raju Rangaswami, and Vagelis Hristidis
  Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February, 2009.

• Anatomy of a Real-time Intrusion Prevention System (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami, Joseph Marrero, Igor Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith, Mandy Barsilai, Silviu Necula, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Tao Li, and Krista Merrill
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June, 2008.

• Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-time Network Simulation (PDF)
  Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, June, 2008.

• A Modeling Approach for Estimating Execution Time of Long-running Scientific Applications (PDF)
S. Masoud Sadjadi, Shu Shimizu, Javier Figueroa, Raju Rangaswami, Javier Delgado, Hector Duran, and Xabriel Collazo
Proceedings of the High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS, April, 2008

• EXCES: EXternal Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems (PDF)
Luis Useche, Jorge Guerra, Medha Bhadkamkar, Mauricio Alarcon, and Raju Rangaswami
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February, 2008.

• The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions (PDF)
Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricardo Koller, and Raju Rangaswami
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED), held in conjunction with IEEE HPCA, February, 2008.

• Transparent Grid Enablement of Weather Research and Forecasting. (PDF)
S. Masoud Sadjadi, Liana Fong, Rosa M. Badia, Javier Figueroa, Javier Delgado, Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica, Khalid Saleem, Raju Rangaswami, Shu Shimizu, Hector A. Duran Limon, Pat Welsh, Sandeep Pattnaik, Anthony Praino, David Villegas, Selim Kalayci, Gargi Dasgupta, Onyeka Ezenwoye, Juan Carlos Martinez, Ivan Rodero, Shuyi Chen, Javier Muñoz, Diego Lopez, Julita Corbalan, Hugh Willoughby, Michael McFail, Christine Lisetti, and Malek Adjouadi
Proceedings of the Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications, held in conjunction with Mardi Gras Conference, January, 2008.

• Beyond Lazy XML Parsing (PDF)
Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami
Proceedings of International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), September 2007.

• STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Clustered Storage Environments (PDF)
Kaushik Dutta and Raju Rangaswami
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), May 2007.

• Automatic Generation of User-Centric Multimedia Communication Services (PDF)
Raju Rangaswami, Masoud Sadjadi, Nagarajan Prabakar, and Yi Deng
Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), April 2007.

• A User-Centric Network Communication Broker for Multimedia Collaborative Computing (PDF)
  
Chi Zhang, S. Masoud Sadjadi,  Weixiang Sun, Raju Rangaswami, and Yi Deng
International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom), November 2006.

• A Communication Virtual Machine (PDF)
  Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi,  Peter Clarke,  Chi Zhang,  Vagelis Hristidis,  Raju Rangaswami, and Nagarajan Prabakar
  International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), September 2006.

• Storing Trees on Disk Drives (PDF)
Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami
Proceedings of the File and Storage Technologies WiP, December 2005.

• Thwarting Virtual Bottlenecks in Multi-Bitrate Streaming Servers (PDF)
  
Bin Liu, Raju Rangaswami, and Zoran Dimitrijevic
Proceedings of the Real-Time Systems Symposium WiP, December 2005.

• Architectural Support for Preemptive RAID Schedulers (PDF)
  
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, and Edward Chang
USENIX FAST WiP/Poster, San Francisco, March, 2004.
 

• The SfinX Video Surveillance System (PDF)
  
 Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Kyle Kakligian, Edward Chang, and Yuan-Fang Wang
 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, June 2004.
 

• Quality of Service Support for Real-time Storage Systems (PDF)
  Zoran Dimitrijevic and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of International IPSI-2003 Conference, Sv. Stefan, Montenegro, October 2003.
  

• Design and Implementation of Semi-preemptible IO (PDF)
  Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, and Edward Chang
  USENIX File and Storage Technologies, San Francisco, March 2003. 
   
•  MEMS-based Disk Buffer for Streaming Media Servers (PDF)
   Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Edward Chang  and Klaus E. Schauser
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Bangalore, March 2003.
   
•  Virtual IO: Preemptible Disk Access (PDF)
   Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami,  and Edward Chang
   ACM Multimedia (short paper), Juan Les Pins, December 2002.
   
•  The xTREAM Multimedia System (PDF)
   Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami,  and Edward Chang
   IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lusanne, Aug 2002.
  

• Data Placement for Multiuser Interactive Digital VCR (PS)
  
Raju Rangaswami, Edward Chang, Chen Li, and Milton Chen
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Tokyo, August 2001.


•  Spoofers and Sniffers: Serious Security Threats
 Raju Rangaswami, Himyanshu Anand, and Indranil Sengupta
 National Communications Conference, India, January 1999.

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Journal Publications

• Platform-independent modeling and prediction of application resource usage characteristics (PDF)
  
Shuichi Shimizu, Raju Rangaswami, Hector A. Duran-Limon, and Manuel Corona-Perez
The Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, 82(12):2117-2127, December 2009.

• A User-Centric Network Communication Broker for Multimedia Collaborative Computing (PDF)
  
Chi Zhang, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Weixiang Sun, Raju Rangaswami, and Yi Deng
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer/ACM SIGMM), to appear.

• Storing Semi-structured Data on Disk Drives (PDF)
  
Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami.
ACM Transactions on Storage, 5(2), May 2009.

• Real-time Network Simulation Support for Scalable Routing Experiments (PDF)
  
Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami
The International Journal of Simulation Process Modeling, Inderscience Publishers, 5(2), 2009.

• 2LP - A Double Lazy XML Parser (PDF)
  
Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami.
Elsevier Information Systems Journal, 34:145-163, 2009.

• The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions (PDF)
  
Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricardo Koller, and Raju Rangaswami.
ACM Operating Systems Review, 42(6), October, 2008.

• CVM - A Communication Virtual Machine (PDF)
  
Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Peter J. Clarke, Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami, and Yingbo Wang
The Elsevier Special Issue of the Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 81, no. 10, October 2008.

• Workload-based Generation of Administrator Hints for Optimizing Database Storage Utilization (PDF)
  
Kaushik Dutta, Raju Rangaswami, and Sajib Kundu
ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 3, no. 4, February, 2008.

• Building MEMS-based Storage Systems for Streaming Media (PDF)
  
Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Edward Chang, and Klaus Schauser
ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 3, no. 2, June 2007. 

• Stream Combination: Adaptive IO Scheduling for Streaming Servers (PDF)
  
Bin Liu, Raju Rangaswami, and Zoran Dimitrijevic
ACM SigBED Review, January 2006, volume(3) no.(1). 

• Systems Support for Preemptive Disk Scheduling (PDF)
  
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, and Edward Chang
IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 1314-1326, October 2005.

• Fine-grained Device Management in an Interactive Media Server (PDF)
  
Raju Rangaswami, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Edward Chang, and Shueng-Han Gary Chan
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2003 pp:558-569. 

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Technical Reports

• Anatomy of a Real-time Intrusion Prevention System (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami, Joseph Marrero, Igor Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith, Mandy Barsilai, Silviu Necula, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Tao Li, and Krista Merrill
  Florida International University Technical Report TR-2007-12-01, December 2007.

• Feasibility, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Self-Optimizing Storage Systems (PDF)
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Sam Burnett, Jason Liptak, Raju Rangaswami, and Vagelis Hristidis
  Florida International University Technical Report TR-2007-01-01, January 2007.

• A Case for Self-Optimizing File Systems (PDF)
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Sam Burnett, Jason Liptak, Raju Rangaswami, and Vagelis Hristidis
  Florida International University Technical Report TR-2006-09-03, September 2006.

• STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Data Center Environments (PDF)
  Kaushik Dutta and Raju Rangaswami
  Florida International University Technical Report TR-2006-09-02, September 2006.

• Efficient Native Storage Systems for Semi-structured Data (PDF)
  Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami
  Florida International University Technical Report TR-2006-09-01, September 2006.

• Efficient Native XML Storage (PDF)
  
Medha Bhadkamkar, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami
Florida International University Technical Report TR-2005-04-01, April 2005.

• Real-time Storage Systems for Multimedia (PDF)  
Raju Rangaswami
Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2004.
 

• Diskbench: User-level Disk Feature Extraction Tool (PDF)
  
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, David Watson, and Anurag Acharya.
UCSB Technical Report TR-2004-18, 2004.

• User Level SCSI Disk Feature Extraction (PS.gz)
  
Zoran Dimitrijevic, Raju Rangaswami, Edward Chang, David Watson, and Anurag Acharya
UCSB Technical Report, July 2001

•  Managing Media Data for Enabling Interactive DTV
 Raju Rangaswami, Edward Chang and Gary Chan
 UCSB Technical Report, November 2000.

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