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Journal Papers
- [1]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza and
Yashar Ganjali.
Delayed Installation and Expedited Eviction: An Alternative
Approach to Reduce Flow Table Occupancy in SDN Switches.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 26(4):1547–1561, August 2018.
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(doi:10.1109/TNET.2018.2841397)
- [2]
- S. Shirali-Shahreza and
Y. Ganjali.
Protecting Home User Devices with an SDN-Based Firewall.
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 64(1):92–100, February
2018.
(doi:10.1109/TCE.2018.2811261)
- [3]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza and
Yashar Ganjali.
ReWiFlow: Restricted Wildcard OpenFlow Rules.
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 45(5):29–35, 2015.
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- [4]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza and
Yashar Ganjali.
Traffic statistics collection with FleXam.
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 44(4):117–118, August
2014.
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(doi:10.1145/2740070.2631441)
- [5]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Amin
Tootoonchian, and Yashar Ganjali.
On scalability of software-defined networking.
IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(2):136 –141, February 2013.
(doi:10.1109/MCOM.2013.6461198)
- [6]
- Daniel J. Blumenthal, John
Barton, Neda Beheshti, John E. Bowers,
Emily Burmeister, Larry A. Coldren,
Matt Dummer, Garry Epps,
Alexander Fang, Yashar Ganjali,
John Garcia, Brian Koch, Vikrant
Lal, Erica Lively, John Mack,
Milan Masanović, Nick McKeown,
Kim Nguyen, Steven C. Nicholes,
Hyundai Park, Biljana Stamenic,
Anna Tauke-Pedretti, Henrik Poulsen, and
Matt Sysak.
Integrated Photonics for Low-Power Packet Networking.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics,
17:458–471, March 2011.
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(doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2077673)
- [7]
- Neda Beheshti, Emily
Burmeister, Yashar Ganjali, John E. Bowers,
Daniel J. Blumenthal, and Nick McKeown.
Optical Packet Buffers for Backbone Internet Routers.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(5):1599–1609, 2010.
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(doi:10.1109/TNET.2010.2048924)
- [8]
- Athina Markopoulou, Gianluca
Iannaccone, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Chen-Nee
Chuah, Yashar Ganjali, and Christophe Diot.
Characterization of Failures in an Operational IP Backbone Network.
Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on, 16(4):749–762, 2008.
(doi:10.1109/TNET.2007.902727)
- [9]
- Yashar Ganjali and Nick
McKeown.
Update on Buffer Sizing in Internet Routers.
ACM/SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 36(5):67–70, October
2006.
- [10]
- Yashar Ganjali, Abtin
Keshavarzian, and Devavrat Shah.
Cell switching versus packet switching in input-queued switches.
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 13(4):782–789, August 2005.
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(doi:10.1109/TNET.2005.852884)
- [11]
- Mihaela Enachescu, Yashar
Ganjali, Ashish Goel, Nick McKeown, and
Tim Roughgarden.
Part III: Routers with Very Small Buffers.
ACM/SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 35(3):83–90, July
2005.
- [12]
- Therese Biedl, Timothy Chan,
Yashar Ganjali, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, and
David R. Wood.
Balanced Vertex Ordering of Graphs.
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 148(1):27–48, April 2005.
- [13]
- Yashar Ganjali and
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi.
Characterizing Networks Supporting Multi-dimensional Linear Interval
Routing Schemes.
Theoretical Computer Science, 326(1-3):103–116, October
2004.
- [14]
- Yashar Ganjali.
Optimum Multi-dimensional Interval Routing Schemes on Networks with
Dynamic Cost Links.
Computing and Informatics, 22(1):1–18, 2003.
- [15]
- MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and
Yashar Ganjali.
A Note on Consecutive Ones Submatrix Problem.
Information Processing Letters, 83(3):163–166, August 2002.
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- [16]
- Yashar Ganjali, Mohammad
Ghebleh, Hossein Hajiabolhasan, Mahdi
Mirzazadeh, and Bashir S. Sadjad.
Uniquely 2-list colorable graphs.
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 119(3):217–225, July 2002.
Conference and Workshop Papers
- [1]
- Soudeh Ghorbani, Zibin Yang,
P. Brighten Godfrey, Yashar Ganjali, and
Amin Firoozshahian.
DRILL: Micro Load Balancing for Low-latency Data Center
Networks.
In Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest
Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), SIGCOMM '17, pages
225–238, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/3098822.3098839)
- [2]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh and
Yashar Ganjali.
Beehive: Simple Distributed Programming in Software-Defined
Networks.
In Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, SOSR '16,
pages 4:1–4:12, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2016. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2890955.2890958)
- [3]
- Soudeh Ghorbani, Brighten
Godfrey, Yashar Ganjali, and Amin
Firoozshahian.
Micro Load Balancing in Data Centers with DRILL.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in
Networks, HotNets-XIV, pages 17:1–17:7, New York, NY, USA,
2015. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2834050.2834107)
- [4]
- Milad Eftekhar, Nick Koudas,
and Yashar Ganjali.
Reaching a desired set of users via different paths: an online advertising
technique on micro-blogging platforms.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT), March 2015.
- [5]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh and
Yashar Ganjali.
Turning the Tortoise to the Hare: An Alternative Perspective on
Event Handling in SDN.
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software-Defined
Ecosystems (BigSystem), Vancouver, Canada, 2014.
- [6]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh and
Yashar Ganjali.
Beehive: Towards a Simple Abstraction for Scalable Software-Defined
Networking.
In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in
Networks, pages 17–23, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2014. ACM.
- [7]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Gerald
Penn, Yashar Ganjali, and Ravin Balakrishnan.
Do You Want to Talk to Your Router? Probably Not!
In Proceedings of Designing Speech and Language Interactions
Workshop at 2014 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
(CHI 2014), page 4, Toronto, April 2014.
- [8]
- Milad Eftekhar, Yashar
Ganjali, and Nick Koudas.
Information Cascade at Group Scale.
In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD '13, pages
401–409, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2487575.2487683)
- [9]
- Milad Eftekhar, Nick Koudas,
and Yashar Ganjali.
Bursty Subgraphs in Social Networks.
In Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Web
Search and Data Mining, pages 213–222, New York, NY, USA, 2013.
ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2433396.2433423)
- [10]
- Monia Ghobadi and Y. Ganjali.
TCP Pacing in Data Center Networks.
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on High-Performance
Interconnects (HOTI), pages 25–32, 2013.
(doi:10.1109/HOTI.2013.18)
- [11]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza and
Yashar Ganjali.
FleXam: Flexible Sampling Extension for Monitoring and Security
Applications in Openflow.
In Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot
Topics in Software Defined Networking, pages 167–168, New
York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2491185.2491215)
- [12]
- S. Shirali-Shahreza and
Y. Ganjali.
Efficient Implementation of Security Applications in OpenFlow
Controller with FleXam.
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on High-Performance
Interconnects (HOTI), pages 49–54, August 2013.
(doi:10.1109/HOTI.2013.17)
- [13]
- S. Shirali-Shahreza and
Y. Ganjali.
Empowering Software Defined Network controller with packet-level
information.
In In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Traffic
Identification and Classification for Advanced Network Services and
Scenarios (TRICANS), pages 1335–1339, June 2013.
(doi:10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649444)
- [14]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, and Yashar Ganjali.
Smarter Home Networks with Simple Gateways.
In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communications, Turin, Italy, April 2013.
- [15]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza,
Gerald Penn, Ravin Balakrishnan, and
Yashar Ganjali.
SeeSay and HearSay CAPTCHA for mobile interaction.
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, pages 2147–2156. ACM, April 2013.
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- [16]
- Monia Ghobadi, Soheil Hassas
Yeganeh, and Yashar Ganjali.
Rethinking end-to-end congestion control in software-defined networks.
In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in
Networks, pages 61–66, Redmond, WA, USA, 2012. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2390231.2390242)
- [17]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh and
Yashar Ganjali.
Kandoo: a framework for efficient and scalable offloading of control
applications.
In Proceedings of the first workshop on Hot topics in Software
Defined Networks, pages 19–24, Helsinki, Finland, 2012. ACM.
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(doi:10.1145/2342441.2342446)
- [18]
- M. Ghobadi, G. Salmon,
Y. Ganjali, M. Labrecque, and
J.G. Steffan.
Caliper: Precise and Responsive Traffic Generator.
In 2012 IEEE 20th Annual Symposium on High-Performance
Interconnects (HOTI), pages 25 –32, August 2012.
(doi:10.1109/HOTI.2012.16)
- [19]
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Milad
Eftekhar, Yashar Ganjali, Ram Keralapura, and
Antonio Nucci.
CUTE: Traffic Classification Using TErms.
In 2012 21st International Conference on Computer Communications
and Networks (ICCCN), pages 1 –9, August 2012.
(doi:10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289207)
- [20]
- S. Ghorbani and Y. Ganjali.
Will you be my friend? privacy implications of accepting friendships in online
social networks.
In 2012 International Conference on Information Society
(i-Society), pages 340 –345, June 2012.
- [21]
- Soudeh Ghorbani and Yashar
Ganjali.
Would you be my friend? Privacy in online social networks.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Information Society (i-Society 2012), London, UK, June
2012.
- [22]
- Amin Tootoonchian, Sergey
Gorbunov, Martin Casado, Robert Sherwood, and
Yashar Ganjali.
On Controller Performance in Software-Defined Networks.
In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in
Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and
Services (HotICE), San Jose, CA, April 2012.
- [23]
- Hossein Kaffash Bokharaei,
Yashar Ganjali, Ram Keralapura, and
Antonio Nucci.
Telephony Network Characterization for Spammer Identification.
In IFIP Performance 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011.
- [24]
- Hossein Kaffash Bokharaei,
Alireza Sahraei, Yashar Ganjali,
Ram Keralapura, and Antonio Nucci.
You can {SPIT} but you can't hide: Spammer Identification in
Telephony Networks.
In 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer
Communications. Proceedings, Shanghahi, China, 2011.
- [25]
- Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Yashar
Ganjali, and Ravin Balakrishnan.
Verifying Human Users in Speech-Based Interactions.
In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International
Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, 2011.
- [26]
- Phillipa Gill, Yashar
Ganjali, Bernard Wong, and David Lie.
Dude, where is that IP? Circumventing Measurement-Based IP
Geolocation.
In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium,
Washington, DC, USA, August 2010.
- [27]
- Hamed Tabatabaei and Yashar
Ganjali.
Preserving Pacing in Real Networks - An Experimental Study Using
NetFPGA.
In Proceedings of the 2nd North American NetFPGA Developers
Workshop, Stanford, CA, USA, August 2010.
- [28]
- Amin Tootoonchian and Yashar
Ganjali.
HyperFlow: A Distributed Control Plane for OpenFlow.
In Internet Network Management Workshop/Workshop on Research on
Enterprise Networking, San Jose, CA, USA, April 2010.
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- [29]
- Amin Tootoonchian, Monia
Ghobadi, and Yashar Ganjali.
Traffic Matrix Estimation Using OpenFlow.
In Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Zurich,
Switzerland, April 2010.
- [30]
- V. Havary-Nassab,
A. Koulakezian, and Y. Ganjali.
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks with Tiny Buffers.
In INFOCOM Workshops 2009, IEEE, pages 1–6, 2009.
- [31]
- Amin Tootoonchian, Stefan
Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, and Alec Wolman.
Lockr: Better Privacy for Social Networks.
In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on emerging
Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Rome, Italy,
December 2009.
- [32]
- H. Rastegarfar, M. Ghobadi,
and Y. Ganjali.
Emulation of Optical PIFO Buffers.
In IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM
2009, pages 1–6. IEEE, November 2009.
(doi:10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5426009)
- [33]
- Geoffrey Salmon, Martin
Labrecque, Monia Ghobadi, Yashar Ganjali, and
Greg Steffan.
NetFPGA-based Precise Traffic Generation.
In Proceedings of NetFPGA Developers Workshop, Stanford,
Califronia, USA, August 2009.
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- [34]
- Geoffrey Salmon, Martin
Labrecque, Monia Ghobadi, Yashar Ganjali, and
Greg Steffan.
NetThreads: Programming NetFPGA with Threaded Software.
In Proceedings of NetFPGA Developers Workshop, Stanford,
California, USA, August 2009.
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- [35]
- Neda Beheshti, Yashar
Ganjali, Monia Ghobadi, Jad Naous,
Nick McKeown, and Geoff Salmon.
Performing Time-Sensitive Network Experiments.
In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for
networking and communications systems (ANCS), pages 127–128, San
Jose, CA, 2008.
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- [36]
- Neda Beheshti, Yashar
Ganjali, Monia Ghobadi, Nick McKeown, and
Geoff Salmon.
Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing.
In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC),
pages 197–210 (Best paper), Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008.
- [37]
- Amin Tootoonchian, Kiran
Gollu, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, and
Alec Wolman.
Lockr: Social Access Control for Web 2.0.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social
Networks (WOSN), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2008.
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- [38]
- Neda Beheshti, Yashar
Ganjali, Ashish Goel, and Nick McKeown.
Obtaining High Throughput in Networks with Tiny Buffers.
In Proceedings of 16th International Workshop on Quality of
Service (IWQoS), Enschede, Netherlands, June 2008.
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- [39]
- Mei Wang and Yashar Ganjali.
The Effects of Fairness in Buffer Sizing.
In NETWORKING 2007. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless
Networks, Next Generation Internet, pages 867–878, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA, 2007.
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- [40]
- Neda Beheshti, Jad Naus,
Yashar Ganjali, and Nick McKeown.
Experimenting with buffer sizes in routers.
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for
networking and communications systems (ANCS), pages 41–42, Orlando,
Florida, USA, December 2007.
- [41]
- Neda Beheshti and Yashar
Ganjali.
Packet Scheduling in Optical FIFO Buffers.
In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM High-Speed Networks
Workshop, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
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- [42]
- Mingjie Lin and Yashar
Ganjali.
Power-Efficient Rate Scheduling in Wireless Links Using
Computational Geometric Algorithms.
In Proceedings of the International Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Vancouver, Canada, July
2006.
- [43]
- Mihaela Enachescu, Yashar
Ganjali, Ashish Goel, Nick McKeown, and
Tim Roughgarden.
Routers with Very Small Buffers.
In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM'06, Barcelona, Spain, April
2006.
- [44]
- Neda Beheshti, Yashar
Ganjali, Ramesh Rajaduray, Daniel Blumenthal,
and Nick McKeown.
Buffer Sizing in All-optical Packet Switches.
In Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and
Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
(OFC/NFOEC), Anaheim, CA, March 2006.
- [45]
- Y. Ganjali and N. McKeown.
Routing in a highly dynamic topology.
In Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2005. IEEE
SECON 2005. 2005 Second Annual IEEE Communications Society
Conference on, pages 164–175, 2005.
- [46]
- Nandita Dukkipati, Yashar
Ganjali, and Rui Zhang-Shen.
Typical versus Worst Case Design in Networking.
In Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in
Networks (HotNets-IV), College Park, Maryland, November 2005.
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- [47]
- Y. Ganjali and
A. Keshavarzian.
Load balancing in ad hoc networks: single-path routing vs. multi-path routing.
In INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint Conference of the
IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, volume 2, pages
1120–1125 vol.2, 2004.
(doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1356998)
- [48]
- Yashar Ganjali, Abtin
Keshavarzian, and Devavrat Shah.
Input Queued Switches: Cell Switching vs. Packet Switching.
In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM'03, page Best paper runner
up, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2003.
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- [49]
- Alan J. King, Mehmet Begen,
Monica Cojocaru, Ellen Fowler,
Yashar Ganjali, Judy Lai, Tijin
Lee, Carmeliza Navasca, and Daniel Ryan.
Web Hosting Service Level Agreements.
In Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Institute for Mathematical
Sciences 2001 Industrial Problem Solving Workshop,
University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.
- [50]
- Yashar Ganjali.
Characterization of Networks Supporting Multi-dimensional Linear
Interval Routing Schemes.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Structural
Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO'01), pages
163–178, Barcelona, Spain, June 2001.
- [51]
- Yashar Ganjali and Mohammad
Ghodsi.
An Approximate Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Weighted
Triangulated Irregular Networks.
In Proceedings of 4th CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'98),
Tehran, Iran, January 1999.
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