More recent publications are listed on the Flux Research Group publications page.

Publications till 2012

  • Timothy Wood, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Enterprise-Ready Virtual Cloud Pools: Vision, Opportunities and Challenges, The Computer Journal 2012; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxs060

  • Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, Xu Chen, Mary F. Fernández, Boon Thau Loo and Jacobus E. Van der Merwe, TROPIC: Transactional Resource Orchestration Platform In the Cloud, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2012

  • Timothy Wood, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, PipeCloud: Using Causality to Overcome Speed-of-Light Delays in Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), October 2011

  • Arati Baliga, Xu Chen, Baris Coskun, Gustavo de los Reyes, Seungjoon Lee, Suhas Mathur, Jacobus E. Van der Merwe, VPMN – Virtual Private Mobile Network: Towards Mobility-as-a-Service, Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services June 28, 2011

  • Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao and Jacobus Van der Merwe, KnowOps: Towards an Embedded Knowledge Base for Network Management and Operations, Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE), March 2011

  • Timothy Wood, KK Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, CloudNet: Dynamic Pooling of Cloud Resources by Live WAN Migration of Virtual Machines, Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), March 2011

  • Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Maria Fernandez, Cloud Resource Orchestration: A Data-Centric Approach, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 2011

  • Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Declarative Configuration Management for Complex and Dynamic Networks, ACM CoNEXT, December 2010

  • Timothy Wood, Emmanuel Cecchet, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy, Jacobus van der Merwe, Arun Venkataramani, Disaster Recovery as a Cloud Service: Economic Benefits & Deployment Challenges, HotCloud, June 2010

  • Jacobus Van der Merwe, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Michael Fairchild, Ashley Flavel, Joe Houle, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, John Mulligan, Towards a Ubiquitous Cloud Computing Infrastructure, IEEE LANMAN, May 2010

  • Eric Keller, Jennifer Rexford and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Seamless BGP Migration with Router Grafting, NSDI, April 2010

  • X. Chen, Z. Mao and J. Van der Merwe, PACMAN: a Platform for Automated and Controlled network operations and configuration MANagement, ACM CoNEXT conference, December, 2009

  • Chia-Chi Lin, Matthew Caesar and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Towards Interactive Debugging for ISP Networks, Eighth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), October, 2009

  • Charles R. Kalmanek, Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Carsten Lund, Dan Pei, Joseph Seidel, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Jennifer Yates, Darkstar: Using Exploratory Data Mining to Raise the Bar on Network Reliability and Performance, 7th international workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), October, 2009

  • Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Z. Morley Mao and Jacobus Van der Merwe, DECOR: DEClaritive network management and OpeRation, The Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of TOmorrow (PRESTO), August 2009

  • Timothy Wood, Alexandre Gerber, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, The Case for Enterprise-Ready Virtual Private Clouds, Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud'09), June 2009

  • Xu Chen, Z. Morley Mao and Jacobus Van der Merwe, ShadowNet: A Platform for Rapid and Safe Network Evolution, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2009

  • Andrew J. Kalafut, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Minaxi Gupta, Communities of Interest for Internet Traffic Prioritization, IEEE Global Internet Symposium, April 2009

  • Zakaria Al-Qudah, Seungjoon Lee, Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merw, Anycast-Aware Transport for Content Delivery Networks, World Wide Web Conference, April, 2009

  • Yi Wang, Eric Keller, Brian Biskeborn, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Jennifer Rexford, Virtual Routers on the Move: Live Router Migration as a Network-Management Primitive, SIGCOMM, August 2008

  • Hussein Alzoubi, Seungjoon Lee, Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Anycast CDNs Revisited, 17th International World Wide Web Conference, April 2008

  • Fabio Soldo, Karim El Defrawy, Athina Markopoulou, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Filtering Sources of Unwanted Traffic, Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2008

  • Yi Wang, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Jennifer Rexford, VROOM: Virtual ROuters On the Move, Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), November 2007

  • K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Live Data Center Migration across WANs: A Robust Cooperative Context Aware Approach, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management, August 2007

  • Xu Chen, Z. Morley Mao and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Towards Automated Network Management: Network Operations using Dynamic Views, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management, August 2007

  • Patrick Verkaik, Dan Pei, Tom Scholl, Aman Shaikh, Alex Snoeren and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Wresting Control from BGP: Scalable Fine-grained Route Control, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2007

  • Rangarajan Vasudevan, Z. Morley Mao, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, MIDAS: An Impact Scale for DDoS attacks, 15th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), June 2007

  • Jacobus Van der Merwe and Charles Kalmanek, Network Programmability is the answer! What was the question again? Or, is there really a case for Newwork Programmability (Position Statement), Workshop on Programmable Routers for the Extensible Services of TOmorrow (PRESTO), May 2007

  • N.G. Duffield, K. Gopalan, M. Hines, A Shaikh, J.E. van der Merwe, Measurement Informed Route Selection, Extended Abstract, Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, April 5 - 6, 2007

  • Xiaota Liu, Gal Niv, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Prashant Shenoy and Jacobus van der Merwe, The Case for Semantic Aware Remote Replication, 2nd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS), October 2006

  • Dan Pei and Jacobus Van der Merwe, BGP Convergence in Virtual Private Networks, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2006

  • J. Van der Merwe, A. Cepleanu, K. D'Souza, B. Freeman, A. Greenberg, D. Knight, R. McMillan, D. Moloney, J. Mulligan, H. Nguyen, M. Nguyen, A. Ramarajan, S. Saad, M. Satterlee, T. Spencer, D. Toll and S. Zelingher, Dynamic Connectivity Management with an Intelligent Route Service Control Point, SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM), September, 2006

  • Mukesh Agrawal, Susan Bailey, Albert Greenberg, Jorge Pastor, Panagiotis Sebos, Srinivasan Seshan, Kobus van der Merwe and Jennifer Yates, RouterFarm: Towards a Dynamic, Manageable Network Edge, SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM), September, 2006

  • Z. Morley Mao, Vyas Sekar, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van der Merwe and Rangarajan Vasudevan, Analyzing Large DDoS Attacks using Multiple Data Sources, SIGCOMM Workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense (LSAD), September, 2006

  • Patrick Verkaik, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van der Merwe and Alex Snoeren, PRIMED: A Community-of-Interest-Based DDoS Mitigation System, SIGCOMM Workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense (LSAD), September, 2006

  • Rangarajan Vasudevan, Z. Morley Mao, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus van der Merwe, Reval: A tool for Real-time Evaluation of DDoS Mitigation Strategies, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2006

  • Vyas Sekar, Nick Duffield, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus van der Merwe and Hui Zhang, LADS: Large-scale Automated DDoS detection System, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2006

  • Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Bill Aiello and Charles Kalmanek, Enterprise Security: A Community of Interest Based Approach, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'06), February 2006

  • Matthew Caesar, Donald Caldwell, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh, and Jacobus van der Merwe, Design and implementation of a Routing Control Platform, Proc. Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), May 2005

  • William Aiello, Charles Kalmanek, Patrick McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Analysis of Communities of Interest in Data Networks, Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, PAM'05, March, 2005

  • Amy Reibman, Subhabrata Sen and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Analyzing the spatial quality of Internet streaming video, Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), January 2005

  • Amy Reibman, Subhabrata Sen and Jacobus Van der Merwe, Network monitoring for Video Quality over IP,Picture Coding Symposium, December 2004

  • Nick Feamster, Hari Balakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford, Aman Shaikh and Jacobus van der Merwe, The Case for Separating Routing from Routers, FDNA workshop, SIGCOMM'04, August 2004

  • Jacobus Van der Merwe, Paul Gausman, Chuck Cranor, Rustam Akhmarov, Design, Implementation and Operation of a large Enterprise Content Distribution Network , 8th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, Sept 2003

  • C. D. Cranor, R. Ethington, A. Sehgal, D. Shur, C. Sreenan and J.E. van der Merwe, Design and Implementation of a Distributed Content Management System , 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), June 2003

  • Z. Morley Mao, David Johnson, Oliver Spatscheck, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, and Jia Wang, Efficient and Robust Streaming Provisioning in VPNs , 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2003), May 2003

  • N.G. Duffield, Pawan Goyal, Albert Greenberg, Partho Mishra, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Jacobus E. van der Merwe Resource management with hoses: point-to-cloud services for virtual private networks , IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), October 2002, Volume 10, Issue 5

  • Jacobus van der Merwe, Subhabrata Sen, Charles Kalmanek Streaming Video Traffic : Characterization and Network Impact , 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW), August 2002

  • Charles D. Cranor, Matthew Green, Chuck Kalmanek, David Shur, Sandeep Sibal and Jacobus E. Van der Merwe Enhanced Streaming Services in a Content Distribution Network, IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2001, pp 66-75

  • C. Cranor, C. Kalmanek, D. Shur, S. Sibal, C. Sreenan and J van der Merwe NED: a Network-Enabled Digital Video Recorder, 11th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, March 18-20 2001, Boulder, Colorado

  • Jacobus van der Merwe, Ramon Caceres, Yang-hua Chu, and Cormac Sreenan mmdump - A Tool for Monitoring Internet Multimedia Traffic, SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, October, 2000, Vol 30, Number 5, pp48-59

  • J.E. van der Merwe, C.J. Sreenan, A.N. Donnelly, A. Basso and C.R. Kalmanek A Network Based Replay Portal - Service Scenarios, Architecture and Implementation, SmartNet 2000, Vienna, Austria, Sept, 2000.

  • A. Basso, C. D. Cranor, R. Gopalakrishnan, M. Green, C. Kalmanek, D. Shur, S. Sibal, C. Sreenan and J.E. van der Merwe PRISM, an IP-based architecture for broadband access to TV and other streaming m edia NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2000.

  • R. Caceres, N. Duffield, A. Feldmann, J. Friedmann, A. Greenberg, R. Greer, T. Johnson, C. Kalmanek, B. Krishnamurthy, D. Lavelle, P. Mishra, K.K. Ramakrishnan, J. Rexford, F. True, and J. van der Merwe Measurement and analysis of IP network usage and behavior IEEE Communications Magazine, May, 2000.

  • N.G. Duffield, Pawan Goyal, Albert Greenberg, Partho Mishra, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Jacobus E. van der Merwe A Flexible Model for Resource Management in Virtual Private Networks, SIGCOMM'99, Computer Communication Review, Vol 29, No 4, October 1999, pp. 95-108.

  • K.K. Ramakrishnan, Gisli Hjalmtysson and Jacobus E. Van der Merwe The Role of Signaling in Quality of Service Enabled Networks, IEEE Communications, 1999.

  • Sean Rooney, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Simon Crosby and Ian Leslie The Tempest, a Framework for Safe, Resource Assured, Programmable Networks, IEEE Communications, Vol 36, Number 10, October 1998, pp.42-53.

  • J.E. van der Merwe, S. Rooney, I.M. Leslie and S.A. Crosby The Tempest - A Practical Framework for Network Programmability, IEEE Network, Vol 12, Number 3, May/June 1998, pp.20-28.

  • J.E. van der Merwe and I.M. Leslie Service-Specific Control Architectures for ATM, JSAC, Vol 16, Number 3, April 1998, pp. 424-436.

  • J.E. van der Merwe and I.M. Leslie Switchlets and Dynamic Virtual ATM Networks, Integrated Network Management V, May 1997, pp. 355-368.