Selected Publications

Ibrahim Matta

Journal/Newsletter Publications

• I. Matta and L. Guo. QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm. Journal of Communications and Networks  - Special Issue

on QoS in IP Networks, June 2000.
 
• Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. On the Origin of Power Laws in Internet Topologies. To appear in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, April 2000.

• I. Matta, A. Bestavros, and M. Krunz. Load Profiling Based Routing for Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. European Transactions on Telecommunications - Special Issue on Architectures, Protocols and Quality of Service for the Internet of the Future, no. 2, March-April 1999.

 
• I. Matta and A.U. Shankar. Fast Time-Dependent Evaluation of Multi-Service Networks. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special Issue on Modeling of Wired and Wireless ATM, Vol. 29, Nos. 17 & 18, February 1998, pp. 1999-2020.

 
• M. Krunz, W. Zhao and I. Matta. Scheduling and Bandwidth Allocation for the Distribution of Archived Video in VOD Systems. Journal of Telecommunication Systems - Special Issue on Multimedia, Vol. 9, Nos. 3& 4, September 1998.

• I. Matta and A. U. Shankar. Type-of-Service Routing in Datagram Delivery Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on the Internet, vol. 13, no. 8, 1411-1425 (1995). Preliminary version appeared in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM '94, 992-999 (1994).

• A. U. Shankar, C. Alaettinoglu, K. Dussa-Zieger, and I. Matta. Transient and Steady-State Performance of Routing Protocols: Distance-Vector versus Link-State. Journal of Internetworking: Research & Experience, vol. 6, 59-87 (1995). Preliminary version appeared in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE, 181-192 (1992).

 
• C. Alaettinoglu, A. U. Shankar, K. Dussa-Zieger, and I. Matta. Design and Implementation of MaRS: A Routing Testbed.Journal of Internetworking: Research & Experience, vol. 5, no.1, 17-41 (1994).

 
• A. U. Shankar, C. Alaettinoglu, K. Dussa-Zieger, and I. Matta. Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols under Dynamic and Static File Transfer Connections.ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 22, no. 5, 39-52 (1992).

 

Conference Publications

• I. Matta and A. Bestavros. QoS Controllers for the Internet. NSF Workshop on Information Technology, March 12-14, 2000, Cairo, Egypt.

Presentation slides and powerpoint.
 
• J. Yoon, A. Bestavros, and I. Matta. SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast. Proc. RTAS'2000, June 2000.

Presentation slides and powerpoint.

• J. Yoon, A. Bestavros, and I. Matta. Adaptive Reliable Multicast. To appear in Proc. ICC '2000, June 2000.

 
• K. Ratnam, I. Matta, and S. Rangarajan. A Fully Distributed Location Management Scheme for Large PCS. To appear in Proc. IEEE ISCC'2000.

 
• K. Ratnam, I. Matta, and S. Rangarajan. Analysis of Caching-based Location Management in Personal Communication Networks. To appear in Proc. IEEE ICNP '99, Toronto, Canada.

 
• I. Matta. On Network Resourse Management for End-to-End QoS. Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences.  1999.

 
• I. Matta and L. Guo. On Routing Real-Time Multicast Connections. Proc. Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '99).

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing. Proc. 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '99).

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm. Proc. Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '99).

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. On State Aggregation for Scalable QoS Routing. Proc. IEEE ATM '98 Workshop, Fairfax, VA, May 1998.

 
• I. Matta and M. Eltoweissy. A Scalable QoS Routing Architecture for Real-Time CSCW Applications. Proc. Fourth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '98), Denver, Colorado, June 1998.

• K. Ratnam and I. Matta. WTCP: An Efficient Mechanism for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links. Proc. Third IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '98), Athens, Greece, June 1998.

 
• K. Ratnam and I. Matta. Effect of Local Retransmission at Wireless Access Points on the Round Trip Time Estimation of TCP. Proc. IEEE 31st Annual Simulation Symposium '98, Boston, MA, April 1998.

• I. Matta, M. Eltoweissy and K. Lieberherr. From CSCW Applications to Multicast Routing: An Integrated QoS Architecture. Proc. IEEE ICC'98, Atlanta, GA, June 1998.

• I. Matta and A. Bestavros. A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'98, San Francisco, CA, March 1998.

• A. Bestavros and I. Matta. Load Profiling for Efficient Route Selection in Multi-Class Networks. Proc. IEEE ICNP'97, 183-190 (1997).

 
• M. Eltoweissy and I. Matta. A Framework for Computer Supported Generative Learning. Proc. ESCCC'97 (Eastern Small College Computing Conference), 197-206 (1997).

 
• M. Eltoweissy and I. Matta. Computer Supported Generative Learning. To appear in Proc. ICTE'98 (International Conference on Technology and Education), Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 
• I. Matta and M. Krunz. Packing and Least-Loaded Based Routing in Multi-Rate Loss Networks. Proc. IEEE ICC '97, 827-831 (1997).

 
• I. Matta and A. U. Shankar. Dynamic Routing of Real-Time Virtual Circuits. Proc. IEEE ICNP '96, 132-139 (1996).

 
• I. Matta and D. Ryan. Optimal Transmission of Data Over Multi-Hop Networks. Proc. IEEE ICCCN '96(poster), 273 (1996).

 
• I. Matta and A. U. Shankar. Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems. Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '95, 126-135 (1995). Extended versionsubmitted for journal publication.

 
• C. Alaettinoglu, I. Matta, and A. U. Shankar. A Scalable Virtual Circuit Routing Scheme for ATM Networks. Proc. IEEE ICCCN '95, 630-637 (1995).

 
• I. Matta and A. U. Shankar. An Iterative Approach to Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Integrated Services Networks. Proc. IEEE ICNP '94, 40-47 (1994).

• I. Matta and A. U. Shankar. On the Interaction between Gateway Scheduling and Routing. Proc. IEEE MASCOTS '94, 84-88 (1994).

 
• I. Matta and K. Ahmed. End-to-End Flow Control for Tandem Packet Radio Networks. Proc. IEEE ICCCN '93, 362-366 (1993).

 

Technical Reports

(all BU-CS-TR-* can be found here)

• I. Matta and L. Guo. Differentiated Predictive Fair Service for TCP Flows. BU-CS-TR-2000-012. May 17, 2000. Submitted for publication.

 
• Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. On the Origin of Power Laws in Internet Topologies. BU-CS-TR-2000-0004. January 21, 2000.

 
• Alberto Medina and Ibrahim Matta. BRITE: A Flexible Generator of Internet Topologies. BU-CS-TR-2000-005. January 21, 2000.

 
• J. Yoon, A.  Bestavros, and I. Matta. SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast, BU-CS-TR-1999-018. December 10, 1999.

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing.  BU-CS-TR-1999-013 (revises NU-CCS-98-09). October 1999.

 
• J. Yoon, A. Bestavros, and I. Matta. Adaptive Reliable Multicast. BU-CS-99-012, September 1999.

 
• K. Ratnam, I. Matta, and S. Rangarajan. A Fully Distributed Location Management Scheme for Large PCS. BU-CS-99-010. August 1999.

 
• K. Ratnam, I. Matta, and S. Rangarajan. Analysis of Caching-based Location Management in Personal Communication Networks. NU-CCS-99-02, May 1999.

 
• I. Matta and L. Guo. On Routing Real-Time Multicast Connections. NU-CCS-98-14, December 1998.

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing. NU-CCS-98-09, October 1998.

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm. NU-CCS-98-05, August 1998.

 
• L. Guo and I. Matta. On State Aggregation for Scalable QoS Routing. NU-CCS-98-02, February 1998.

• K. Ratnam and I. Matta. Effect of Local Retransmission at Wireless Access Points on the Round Trip Time Estimation of TCP. NU-CCS-98-01, January 1998.

 
• I. Matta and A. Bestavros. Evaluation of a Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. NU-CCS-97-10, BU-CS-97-013 (1997).

 
• K. Ratnam and I. Matta. WTCP: An Efficient Transmission Control Protocol for Networks with Wireless Links. NU-CCS-97-11 (1997).

 
• A. Bestavros and I. Matta. Load Profiling for Efficient Route Selection in Multi-Class Networks. BU-CS-97-009, NU-CCS-97-08 (1997).

 
• I. Matta, M. Eltoweissy and K. Lieberherr. From CSCW Applications to Multicast Routing: An Integrated QoS Architecture. NU-CCS-97-09 (1997). Revised extended abstract (NU-CCS-97-16). Submitted for publication.

• I. Matta and M. Krunz. Packing and Least-Loaded Based Routing in Multi-Rate Loss Networks. NU-CCS-96-12 (1996).

 
• M. Eltoweissy and I. Matta. Computer Supported Generative Learning. NU-CCS-96-15 (1996).

 

MaRS

• C. Alaettinouglu, K. Dussa-Zieger, I. Matta, A.U. Shankar, and O. Gudmundsson. Introducing MaRS, a Routing Testbed. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 95-96 (1992).

 
• C. Alaettinouglu, K. Dussa-Zieger, I. Matta, A.U. Shankar, and O. Gudmundsson. MaRS (Maryland Routing Simulator) -User Manual. UMCP CSD CS-TR-2687 (1991).

 
• C. Alaettinouglu, K. Dussa-Zieger, I. Matta, A.U. Shankar, and O. Gudmundsson. MaRS (Maryland Routing Simulator) -Programmer Manual. UMCP CSD CS-TR-2723 (1991).