Publications for Michael Rabinovich

Web and Internet

• Measurements and Performance

• H. Alzoubi, M. Rabinovich, and O. Spatscheck. Performance Implications of Unilateral Enabling of IPv6. The 14th Passive and Active Measurement Conf., 2013 (to appear).
  
• Z. Wen and M. Rabinovich. Dynamic Landmark Triangles: A Simple and Efficient Mechanism for Inter-Host Latency Estimation. Computer Communications, 55(8), pp. 1864-1879, Elsevier, 2011.
  An abstract of this work previously appeared in: Network Distance Estimation With Dynamic Landmark Triangles. (Poster) ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2008.
• M. Allman, L. Martin, M. Rabinovich, and K. Atchinson. On Community-Oriented Internet Measurement. The 9th Passive and Active Measurements Conf., April 2008.
• Z. Wen, S. Triukose, and M. Rabinovich. Facilitating Focused Internet Measurements. ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2007.
• M. Rabinovich, S. Triukose, Z. Wen, and L. Wang. DipZoom: The Internet Measurements Marketplace. The 9th IEEE Global Internet Symp., May 2006.
• L. Bent, M. Rabinovich, G. M. Voelker, and Z. Xiao. Towards Informed Web Content Delivery. The 9th Int. Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, pp. 232-248, October 2004.
• L. Bent, M. Rabinovich, G. M. Voelker, and Z. Xiao. Characterization of a Large Web Site Population with Implications for Content Delivery. The 13th Int. World Wide Web Conf., pp. 522--533, May 2004 (Best Student Paper Award - Congrats Leeann!)
• Z. M. Mao, C. Cranor, F. Douglis, M Rabinovich, O. Spatscheck, and J. Wang. A precise and efficient evaluation of the proximity between Web clients and their local DNS servers. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2002



• Utility and Cloud Computing

  • Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, and Michael Rabinovich. Agile Resource Management in a Virtualized Data Center. First Joint WOSP/SIPEW Int. Conf. on Performance Engineering, 2010.
  • Z. Al-Qudah, H. Alzoubi, M. Allman, M. Rabinovich, and V. Liberatore. Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform. The 18th Int. World Wide Web Conf., 2009.
  • H. Qian, E. Miller, W. Zhang, M. Rabinovich, and C. Wills. Agility in Virtualized Utility Computing. 2d Int. Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing, November 2007.
  • H. Alzoubi, M. Rabinovich, and O. Spatcheck. MyXDNS: A Request Routing DNS Server With Decoupled Server Selection. The 16th Int. World Wide Web Conf , May 2007.
  • C. Canali, M. Rabinovich, and Z. Xiao. Utility computing for Internet applications. An invited chapter in Xueyan Tang et al. (Eds.). "Web Content Delivery". Springer, 2005.
  • Michael Rabinovich, Zhen Xiao, and Amit Aggarwal. Computing on the Edge: A Platform for Replicating Internet Applications. The 8th Int. Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, September 2003.
  • P. Karbhari, M. Rabinovich, Z. Xiao, and F. Douglis ACDN: a Content Delivery Network for Applications. SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (Demo Track), , p. 619. 2002.



• Security, Identity, and Naming

  • Tom Callahan, Mark Allman, and Michael Rabinovich. Pssst, Over Here: Communicating Without Fixed Infrastructure IEEE Infocom Miniconference 2012. An extended version of this paper is available here.
  • Tom Callahan, Mark Allman, Michael Rabinovich, and Owen Bell. On Grappling with Meta-Information in the Internet ACM SIGCOMM Computer Comm. Review, 41(5), pp. 13-23, 2011.
  • T. Ouyang, S. Ray, M. Rabinovich, and M. Allman. Can Network Characteristics Detect Spam Effectively in a Stand-Alone Enterprise? The 12th Passive and Active Measurements Conf., 2011.
  • Z. Al-Qudah, M. Rabinovich, and M. Allman. Web Timeouts and Their Implications. The 11th Passive and Active Measurements Conf., 2010.
  • M. Rabinovich and O. Spatscheck. Evasive Internet: Reducing Internet Vulnerability Through Transient Addressing. The 13th IEEE Global Internet Symp., 2010.
  • S. Triukose, Z. Al-Qudah, and M. Rabinovich. Content Delivery Networks: Protection or Threat? The 14th European Symp. on Research in Computer Security, 2009.
  • T. Ouyang, M. Rabinovich. Weeding Spammers at the Root: A Precise Approach to Spam Reduction. The 11th IEEE Global Internet Symp., 2008.
  • Y. Jung, B. Krishnamurthy, and M. Rabinovich. Flash Crowds and Denial of Service Attacks: Characterization and Implications for CDNs and Web Sites. The 11th Int. World Wide Web Conf., May 2002

• Peer-to-Peer Systems

  • H. Qian, M. Rabinovich, and Z. Al-Qudah. Bringing Local DNS Servers Close to Their Clients. IEEE Globecom, December 2011.
  • Y.-F. Chen, Y. Huang, R. Jana, H. Jiang, M. Rabinovich, J. Rahe, B. Wei, and Z. Xiao. Towards Capacity and Profit Optimization of Video-on-Demand Services in a Peer-Assisted IPTV Platform. (Significantly extended and modified version of the NOSSDAV'2007 paper below). Multimedia Systems, Vol. 15, Nb 1. 2009.
  • Y.-F. Chen, Y. Huang, R. Jana, H. Jiang, M. Rabinovich, B. Wei, and Z. Xiao. When is P2P Technology Beneficial for IPTV Services? The 17th ACM Int. Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV), June 2007. Best paper award.
  • Y. Huang, Y.-F. Chen, R. Jana, H. Jiang, M. Rabinovich, A. Reibman, B. Wei, and Z. Xiao. Capacity Analysis of MediaGrid: a P2P IPTV Platform for Fiber to the Node (FTTN) Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications. Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2007.

• Content Delivery Networks and Hosting Services

  • H. Alzoubi, S. Lee, M. Rabnovich, O. Spatscheck, and J. Van der Merve. A Practical Architecture for an Anycast CDN. ACM Trans. on the Web (TWEB). 5(4), pp. 1--29, 2011.
    Preliminary version appeared as Anycast CDNs Revisited The 17th Int. World Wide Web Conf., 2008.
  • S. Triukose, Z. Wen, and M. Rabinovich. Measuring a Commercial Content Delivery Network. The 20th Int. World Wide Web Conf., 2011.
    An abstract of some aspects of this work appeared in Content Delivery Networks: How Big is Big Enough? (Poster) ACM SIGMETRICS, 2009.
  • Z. Al-Qudah, S. Lee, M. Rabinovich, O. Spatscheck, and J. Van der Merwe. Anycast-Aware Transport for Content Delivery Networks The 18th Int. World Wide Web Conf., 2009.
  • A. Biliris, C. Cranor, F. Douglis, M. Rabinovich, S. Sibal, O. Spatscheck, and W. Sturm. CDN Brokering. In 6th Int. Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop (WCW'01), June 2001. Also appeared in Computer Communications, Vol. 25(4), pp. 393-402, March 2002.
  • S. Gadde, J. Chase, and M. Rabinovich. Web Caching and Content Distribution: A View From the Interior. 5th Int. Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop (WCW'00), May 2000. Also appeared in Computer Communications, Vol. 24(2), pp. 222--231, February 2001.
  • M. Rabinovich and A. Aggarwal RaDaR: A scalable architecture for a global Web hosting service. The 8th Int. World Wide Web Conf , May 1999.
  • M. Rabinovich, I. Rabinovich, R. Rajaraman, and A. Aggarwal A dynamic object replication and migration protocol for an Internet hosting service. IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems , May 1999.
  • M. Rabinovich. Issues in Web Content Replication. Data Engineering Bulletin, Invited paper , Vol. 21 No. 4. December 1998.



• Protocols

• T. W. Cho, M. Rabinovich, K. K. Ramakrishnan, D. Srivastava, and Y. Zhang. Enabling Content Dissemination Using Efficient and Scalable Multicast. INFOCOM'2009 .
• T. Ouyang, S. Jin, and M. Rabinovich. Dynamic TCP Proxies: Coping with Disadvantaged Hosts in MANETs. The 3d IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN) 2009 .
• W. Fenner, M. Rabinovich, K. K. Ramakrishnan, D. Srivastava, and Y. Zhang. XTreeNet: Scalable Overlay Networks for XML Content Dissemination and Querying (Synopsis). The 10th Int. Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, September 2005.
• B. Krishnamurthy, R. Liston, and M. Rabinovich. DEW: DNS-Enhanced Web for Faster Content Delivery. The 12th Int. World Wide Web Conf., pp. 310--320, May 2003
• M. Rabinovich and H. Wang. DHTTP: An Efficient and Cache-Friendly Transfer Protocol for Web Traffic. INFOCOM'2001. ( Expanded version appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Networking in December, 2004).
• G. Banga, F. Douglis, and M. Rabinovich. Optimistic deltas for WWW latency reduction. USENIX Technical Conference, pp. 289-304, 1997.



• Client-Side Content Manipulation

  • M. Rabinovich, Z. Xiao, F. Douglis, and C. Kalmanek. Moving Edge-Side Includes to the Real Edge - the Clients USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems. 2003.
  • F. Douglis, S. Jain, J. Klensin, and M. Rabinovich. Click-once Hypertext: Now You See It, Now You Don't. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP'01), July 2001.
  • F. Douglis, A. Haro, and M. Rabinovich. HPP: HTML Macro-Preprocessing to Support Dynamic Document Caching. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems. pp. 83-94, December 1997.



• Web Caching

  • A. Feldmann, R. Caceres, F. Douglis, G. Glass, and M. Rabinovich. Performance of Web Proxy Caching in Heterogeneous Bandwidth Environments. INFOCOM'99 1999.
  • R. Caceres, F. Douglis, A. Feldmann, G. Glass, and M. Rabinovich. Web Proxy Caching: The Devil is in the Details. Workshop on Internet Server Performance. June 1998.
  • S. Gadde, J. Chase, and M. Rabinovich. A Taste of Crispy Squid. Workshop on Internet Server Performance. June 1998.
  • M. Rabinovich, J. Chase, and S. Gadde. Not All Hits Are Created Equal: Cooperative Proxy Caching Over a Wide-Area Network. 3rd International Web Caching Workshop (WCW'98). June 1998. Also appeared in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 30, pp. 2253--2259, November 1998.
  • S. Gadde, J. Chase, and M. Rabinovich. Directory Structures for Scalable Internet Caches. Technical Report CS-1997-18. Department of Computer Science, Duke University. November 1997.
  • S. Gadde, M. Rabinovich, and J. Chase. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Approach to Building Large Internet Caches. Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), May 1997.

Workflow Management

• J. Eder, E. Panagos, and M. Rabinovich. Time constraints in workflow systems. The 11th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'99) June 1999.
• J. Eder, E. Panagos, H. Pezewaunig, and M. Rabinovich. Time management in workflow systems. 3d Int. Conf. on Business Infomation Systems, pp. 265-280, Invited paper. April 1999.
• E. Panagos and M. Rabinovich. Reducing Escalation-Related Costs in WFMSs. NATO Summer School, Invited paper. August 1997
• E. Panagos and M. Rabinovich. Predictive Workflow Management. The 3d Workshop on the Next Generation Information Technology and Systems (NGITS-97), pp. 193-197, 1997.
• E. Panagos and M. Rabinovich. Escalations in workflow management systems. DART-96 Workshop (Databases: Active and Real Time), 1996.

Distributed Transactions

• H. V. Jagadish, I. S. Mumick, and M. Rabinovich. Asynchronous Version Advancement in a Distributed Three-version Database. IEEE Int Conf. on Data Engineering, pp. 424-435, February 1998.
• H. V. Jagadish, I. S. Mumick, and M. Rabinovich. Scalable Versioning in Distributed Databases with Commuting Updates. IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, pp. 520-531, 1997.
• M. Rabinovich, N. Gehani, and A. Kononov. Efficient update propagation in epidemic replicated databases. In Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology, pp. 207-222, 1996.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. Efficient support for partial write operations in replicated databases. In Proc. of the 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, pp. 43-53, 1994.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. Asynchronous epoch management in replicated databases. In Proc. of the 7th Int. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms, pp. 115-128, Springer-Verlag, 1993. See also an extended version with proofs.
• A. Kumar, M. Rabinovich, and R. Sinha. A performance study of general grid structures for replicated data. In Proc. of the 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 178-185, 1993. An extended version is available on-line.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. An efficient and highly available read-one write-all protocol for replicated data management. In Proc. of the 2d IEEE Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, 1993. See also an extended technical report.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. Improving fault-tolerance and supporting partial writes in structured coterie protocols for replicated objects. In Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conf. on Management of Data , 1992. See also an extended technical report.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. A fault-tolerant commit protocol for replicated databases. In Proc. of the 11th ACM Symp. on Principles of Database Systems, 1992.
• M. Rabinovich and E. D. Lazowska. The dynamic tree protocol: avoiding ``graceful degradation'' in the tree protocol for distributed mutual exclusion. In Proc. of the 11th IEEE Int'l Phoenix Conf. on Computers and Communications, 1992.
• E. W. Felten and M. Rabinovich. A centralized token-based algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion. Technical Report 92-02-02, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, February 1992.