Some Recent Papers available for download for Krishna Kant

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  1. K. Kant, ``Flow control issues in ATM signaling link deployment'' , Proc. of 15th International Teletraffic Congress, Washington DC, pp 1219-1228, June 1997.
  2. K. Kant and L. Ong, ``Signaling in emerging telecommunications and data networks'' , (Invited Article), Proceedings of IEEE, Oct 1997, pp1612-1621.  (Abstract only; full paper available from IEEE digital library).
  3. K. Kant, “ A unified global congestion control scheme for broadband signaling networks ”, Accepted (but unpublished) in ATM 1997.
  4. K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Server Capacity Planning for Web Traffic Workload'' , IEEE trans. on knowledge and data engineering, Oct 1999, pp 731-747.
  5. K. Kant, ``On Aggregate Traffic Generation with Multifractal Properties'' , Proceedings of GLOBECOM99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp 1179-1183. (The link points to expanded version of the paper)
  6. K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Performance Impact of Uncached File Accesses in SPECweb99'' , Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct 1999. (Published by Kluver).
  7. P. Mohapatra, H. Thantry and K. Kant, “Characterization of bus transactions for SPECweb96 benchmark” , Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct 1999. (Published by Kluver).
  8. K. Kant and C.R.M. Sundaram, ``A Server Performance Model for Static Web Workloads'' , Proceedings of International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2000), April 2000.
  9. K. Kant, R. Iyer and P. Mohapatra, ``Architectural Impact of Secure Socket Layer on Internet Servers'' , International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2000), Sept 2000, pp 7-14.
  10. V. Tewari, R. Iyer, and K. Kant, “Overload Control Mechanisms for Web Servers”, Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networks, Nagoya, Japan, Nov 2000, pp 225-244
  11. K. Kant, ``Invalidation and Writeback Model for a Symmetric Multiprocessor System'' , Submitted for publication.
  12. K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “ Scalable Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges ”, PAWS-2000 proceedings, Aug 2000.
  13. U. Vallemselty, P. Mohapatra, R. Iyer and K. Kant, "Improving Cache Performance of Network Intensive Workloads" , Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aug 2001.
  14. K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Current Research Trends in Internet Servers” , PAWS-2001 proceedings (Performance Evaluation Reviews, Vol. 29, no 2), Sept 2001, pp 5-7.
  15. K. Kant, V. Tewari, and R. Iyer, “Geist: A generator of e-commerce and internet server traffic” ,  Proc. of ISPASS 2001 , Nov 2001, pp 49-56.
  16. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “ Compressibility Characteristics of Address/Data transfers in Commercial Workloads ”, CAECW (Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Cambridge, MA, Feb 2002.
  17. K. Kant, V. Tewari and R. Iyer, “ Performance Issues in Peer to peer file sharing ”, Tutorial presented at Tools 2002 conference, London, UK, April 2002.
  18. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A performance model for peer to peer file-sharing services” ,  Accepted for WWW-11 poster session (May 2002).
  19. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A framework for classifying peer-to-peer Technologies” , 2nd IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 21-26, 2002, Berlin, Germany.
  20. K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “Modeling traffic nonstationarity in e-commerce servers” , Proc. of SPECTS 2002, San Deigo, CA, July 2002, pp 949-956.
  21. K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “ Transactional Characterization of Front-end e-commerce Traffic ”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2002.
  22. K. Kant, “ An Evaluation of Memory Compression Alternatives ”, Proc. of CAECW  (Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Feb 2003, Anaheim, CA.
  23. K. Kant, “ An Analytic Model for Peer to Peer File Sharing Networks ”, Proc. of International Communications Conference, May 2003, Anchorage, AL.
  24. U. Vallemsetty, K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “ Characterization of E-commerce Traffic ”, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, No 3, 2003, pp167-192.
  25. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “ Building scalable ad-hoc collaboration networks ”, a tutorial presented at GLOBECOM, Dec 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  26. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “ Modeling and simulation of ad-hoc/P2P file-sharing networks ”, Proc. of  Tools 2003 (tool presentation).
  27. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “ Design and Performance of Compressed Interconnects ”, Proc. Of ICCD 2003, Oct 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  28. K. Kant, “ TCP offload performance for front-end servers ”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2003, Dec 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  29. K. Kant and N. Jani, “ SCTP performance in Data Center Environments ”, Proc. of SPECTS, July 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
  30. K. Kant and A. Sahoo, “ Clustered DBMS Scalability under Unified Ethernet Fabric ”, Proc. of ICPP, May 2005, Oslo, Norway
  31. K. Kant, A. Sahoo and N. Jani, “ DCLUE: A Distributed Cluster Emulator ”, to appear in IEICE Transactions, Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, 2006. Also appears in Proc. of 2005 Opnetwork, Washington DC, Aug 2005.
  32. K. Kant and R. Ramanujan, “ Transport Layer Enhancements for Unified Ethernet in Data Centers”, Intel IDF presentation, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2005.
  33. K. Kant, “ Application Centric Autonomic BW Control in Utility Computing ”, in Sixth IEEE/ACM workshop on Grid Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov 2005.
  34. L. Luan, K.  Kant, P. Mohapatra and C.N. Chuah, “ DoX: Domain name cross checking: An antidote for DNS cache poisoning ”, Proc. of Intl conference on communications (ICC) , Istanbul , June 2006.
  35. A. Sahoo, K.  Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “ Characterization of BGP recovery time under massive internet failures ”, Proc. of Intl conference on communications (ICC) , Istanbul , May 2006.
  36. A. Sahoo, K.  Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “ Improving BGP convergence delay for large scale failures ”, Proc. of dependable systems and networks (DSN), June 2006.
  37. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “ Speculative Route Invalidation to Improve Performance of BGP under Large Scale Failures ”, International conference on computers and communications networks (ICCCN), Washington DC, Oct 2006
  38. K.  Kant, “ Virtual Link: An Enabler of Enterprise Utility Computing ”, Proc. of International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), Sorrento, Italy, Dec 2006.
  39. L. Luan, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, C. Nee, “ A proxy view of quality of domain name service ”, Proc. of INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2007.
  40. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “ Improving Packet Delivery Performance of BGP During Large-Scale Failures ", Proc. of GLOBECOM 2007, Nov 2007, Washington DC.
  41. N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, D. Cheung, " Characterization of Ultra Wide Band Communications in Data Center Environments ",  Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband (ICUWB), Singapore, Sept 2007, (a poster version also appeared in Proc. of IFIP Networking 2007.)
  42. K. Kant, “ Towards a Virtualized Data Center Transport Protocol ”, Proc. of 2008 INFOCOM workshop on High Speed Networks, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008,
  43. K. Kant, `` LMPOWER -- A Comprehensive Link-Memory Power Management Simulator'' , Unpublished report, Intel Corp, May 2008.
  44. N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, " Localization of Servers in a Data Center Using Ultra wideband Radios ", Proc. of IFIP Networking 2008, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008.
  45. K. Kant and J. Alexander, “ Proactive vs. Reactive Idle Power Control ”, Proc. of Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC), Portland, OR, Aug 2008.
  46. K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “ Enabling Location Based Services in Data Centers via Wireless USB Radios ”, accepted for IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband, Hanover, Germany, Sept 2008.
  47. K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “ Localization and Location Based Services in Data Centers ", IEEE Network magazine, Nov 2008.
  48. K. Kant, “ Power Control of High Speed Network Interconnects in Data Centers ”, Proc. of 2009 INFOCOM High speed networks symposium, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, April 2009
  49. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “ BGP Convergence Delay under Large-Scale Failures: Characterization and Solutions ”, Computer Communications, Vol 32, No 7, May 2009, pp1207-1218.
  50. K. Kant, “ Challenges in Distributed Energy Adaptive Computing ”, Proc. of ACM HotMetrics, Seattle, WA, June 2009
  51. K. Kant, " Data Center Evolution: A Tutorial on State of the Art, Issues, and Challenges ", Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Dec 2009.
  52. C. Deccio, C. C. Chen, J. Sedayao, K. Kant , and P. Mohapatra, " , and P. Mohapatra, " Quality of Name. Resolution in Domain Name System ," Proc. of IEEE ICNP 2009, Princeton, NJ, Oct 2009.  
  53. C. Deccio, J. Sedayao, K. Kant , and P. Mohapatra, " , and P. Mohapatra, " Measuring Availability in the Domain Name System ”, Proceedings of INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, April 2010.
  54. K. Kant, “ Distributed Energy Adaptive Computing ”, Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010.
  55. K. Kant, "Supply and Demand Coordination in Energy Adaptive Computing", Invited paper for ICCCN, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug 2010.
  56. K. Kant, “ Multistate Power Management of Communication Links ”, Proc. of COMSNET 2010, Bangalore, India, Jan 2011
  57. C. Deccio, J. Sedayao, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, " A Case for Comprehensive DNSSEC Monitoring and Analysis Tools ",  Proceedings of SATIN (Securing and Trusting Internet Names) 2011, Teddington, UK, April 2011

58.  C. Deccio, J. Sedayao, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Quality of Name Resolution in the Domain Name System”, to appear in Elsevier Computer Networks Journal.

  1. K. Kant, M. Murugan and D. Du, “ Willow: A Control System for Energy and Thermal Adaptive Computing ”, Proc. of IPDPS 2011, Anchorage, AL, May 2011.
  2. K. Kant, “ A Control Scheme for Batching DRAM Requests to Improve Power Efciency ”, Proc. of ACM Sigmetrics 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011 (accepted as a poster)
  3. M. Le, K. Kant and S. Jajodia, " Cooperative Data Access in Multi-cloud Environments ", Proc. of Database Security Symposium (DBSec), Richmond, VA, July 2011
  4. C. Deccio, J. Sedayao, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, Quality of Name Resolution in the Domain Name System , Proc. of ICCCN 2011,  Maui, Hawaii, Aug 2011
  5. K. Kant and M. Le, "Security Considerations in Data Center Configuration Management", Proc. of SafeConfig 2011, Nov 2011, Washington, DC.
  6. K. Kant, Energy Adaptive Computing -- A New Paradigm for Sustainable Computing, Invited chapter in Handbook of Energy Aware and Green Computing, Eds. S. Ranka & I. Ahmed, Jan 2012.
  7. K. Kant, Configuration Management Security in Data Center Environments, Invited chapter in Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty for Cyberthreats, Eds. S. Jajodia, A. Ghosh, V. Swarup, C. Wang, X. Wang, Dec 2011. 
  8. K. Kant and C. Deccio, “Security and Robustness in the Internet Infrastructure”, in Handbook on securing cyber-physical systems, Morgan Kaufman, 2011,  S. Das, K. Kant, N. Zhang (eds.), Feb 2012.
  9. K. Kant, M. Murugan, D. Du, “Enhancing Data Center Sustainability Through Energy Adaptive Computing”, to appear in ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.
  10. M. Murugan, D. Du, and K. Kant, "On the Energy Efficiency of High End Computing Systems", to appear in Journal of Sustainable and Green Computing.
  11. M. Raj, K. Kant and S.K. Das, "An Analysis of Energy Adaption Mechanism in BitTorrent Protocol", submitted for publication.
  12. J. Gim, Y. Won, T. Hwang and K. Kant, "SmartCon: Smart Context Switching for Fast Block Devices", submitted for publication.