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Journal / Magazine

  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Raouf Boutaba, A Survey of Network Virtualization, Computer Networks, vol. 54, no.5, pp. 862-876, Elsevier, Apr. 2o10. [LINK]
  • N. M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Raouf Boutaba, Network Virtualization: State of the Art and Research Challenges, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 20 – 26, IEEE ComSoc, Jul. 2009. [PDF] (Acceptance Rate: 14.8%)
  • Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, N. M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Md. Mostofa Akbar, Admission Control Algorithm for Multimedia Server: A Hybrid Approach, International Journal of Computers and Applications, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 414 – 419, ACTA Press, Dec. 2007. [LINK]

Conference / Workshop

  • Mosharaf Chowdhury, Fady Samuel, Raouf Boutaba, PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains, to appear in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architecture (VISA), 8 pages, New Delhi, India, Sep. 2010. [PDF]
  • Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets, to appear in Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 6 pages, Boston, MA, USA, Jun. 2010. [PDF] (Acceptance Rate: 24%)
  • Nabeel Farooq Butt, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Raouf Boutaba, Topology-Awareness and Reoptimization Mechanism for Virtual Network Embedding, to appear in Proceedings of the 9th IFIP NETWORKING Conference, pp. 27-39, Chennai, India, May 2010. [PDF] (Acceptance Rate: 24%)
  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Fida-E Zaheer, Raouf Boutaba, iMark: An Identity Management Framework for Network Virtualization Environment, in Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), pp. 335-342, New York, NY, USA, Jun. 2009. [PDF] (Acceptance Rate: 32%)
  • N. M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Raouf Boutaba, Virtual Network Embedding with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping, in Proceedings of  the 28th Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), pp. 783-791, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. [PDF] (Acceptance Rate: 19.65%)
  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Md. Mostofa Akbar, M. Kaykobad, DiskTrie: An Efficient Data Structure Using Flash Memory for Mobile Devices, in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), pp. 76 – 87, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 2007. [PDF]

Poster

  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Fida-E Zaheer, Identity Management and Resource Allocation in the Network Virtualization Environment, University of Waterloo 2009 Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC’2009), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Apr. 2009. [PDF]
  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, M. Kaykobad, DiskTrie: An External Memory Implementation of Trie, SIGCSE 2007 Student Research Competition, Convington, Kentucky, USA. Mar. 2007. (Couldn’t attend due to visa issues)

Technical Report

  • Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael Franklin, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica, Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets, UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB/EECS-2010-53, May. 2010. [PDF] (Replaced by the HotCloud paper)
  • N.M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Raouf Boutaba, A Survey of Network Virtualization, University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2008-25, Oct. 2008. [PDF] (Superseded by the ComNet article)

Theses

  • Identity Management and Resource Allocation in the Network Virtualization Environment, Master’s Thesis, University of Waterloo, Jan. 2009. [PDF]
  • A Study of the Hybrid Admission Control Algorithm for Multimedia Server, Bachelor’s Thesis, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Nov. 2006. [PDF]

Talks

Conference/Workshop/Seminar

  • Virtual Network Embedding with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping, The 28th Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM – 2009), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Apr. 22, 2009. [PDF][PPS]
  • DiskTrie: An Efficient Data Structure Using Flash Memory for Mobile Devices, The First Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM) – 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Feb. 12, 2007. [PDF][PPS]

Others

  • A Spark in the cloud: Iterative and interactive cluster computing, Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Jul. 22, 2010. [PDF][PPS]
  • CLayer: Packet classification with explicit Coordination, Google GRAD CS Forum, Mountainview, CA, United States. Jan. 22, 2010. [PDF] [PPS]
  • Identity Management and Resource Allocation in the Network Virtualization Environment, Master’s Thesis Oral Presentation, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Jan. 21, 2009. [PDF][PPS]
  • An Overview of Network Virtualization, CS854 Winter’09 Introductory Talk, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Jan. 14, 2009. [PDF][PPS]
  • Network Virtualization: Present and Future, University of Waterloo Network Virtualization Project Meeting, Waterloo, Canada. May 21, 2008. [PDF][PPS]
  • An Introduction to Network Virtualization, University of Waterloo Network Virtualization Project Meeting, Waterloo, Canada. May 14, 2008. [PDF][PPS]