Publications (Journals, Conferences, and Workshops)

• Phillipa Gill, Zongpeng Li, Anirban Mahanti, Jingxiang Luo, and Carey Williamson, Network Information Flow in Network of Queues, Proc. of 16th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Baltimore, MD, USA, September 8-10, 2008.


• Nadim Parvez, Carey Williamson, Anirban Mahanti, and Niklas Carlsson, Analysis of BitTorrent-like Protocols for On-Demand Stored Media Streaming, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS, Annapolis, USA, June 2008. (Acceptance rate: 36/201 = 18%)


• Ashwin Rao, Arzad Kherani, and Anirban Mahanti, Performance Evaluation of 802.11 Broadcasts For a Single Cell Network with Unsaturated Nodes, Proc. of IFIP/TC6 Networking, Singapore, May 2008.


• Naimul Basher, Aniket Mahanti, Anirban Mahanti, Carey Williamson, and Martin Arlitt, A Comparative Analysis of Web and Peer-to-Peer Traffic, Proc. of the 17th World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, Beijing, China, April 2008. (Acceptance rate: 97/880 ~ 11%)


• Niklas Carlsson, Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, and Zongpeng Li, Optimized Periodic Broadcast of Non-Linear Media, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, to appear. (Accepted December 2007)


• Phillipa Gill, Liqi Shi, Anirban Mahanti, Zongpeng Li, and Derek Eager, Scalable On-demand Media Streaming for Heterogeneous Clients, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), to appear. (Accepted November 2007)


• Phillipa Gill, Martin Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, and Anirban Mahanti, The Flattening Internet Topology: Natural Evolution, Unsightly Barnacles or Contrived Collapse?, Proc. of Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference, Cleveland, USA, April 2008. Best paper award (Acceptance rate: 23/71 = 32%)


• Phillipa Gill, Martin Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, and Anirban Mahanti, Characterizing User Sessions on YouTube, Proc. of SPIE/ACM MMCN, San Jose, USA, January 2008. (Acceptance rate: 24/57=42%)


• Phillipa Gill, Martin Arlitt, Zongpeng Li, and Anirban Mahanti, YouTube Traffic Characterization: A View From the Edge, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM IMC, San Deigo, USA, October 2007. (acceptance rate: 21/86 ~ 24%)


• Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Ira Cohen, and Carey Williamson, Offline/Realtime Traffic Classification Using Semi-Supervised Learning, Proc. of the IFIP WG 7.3 2007 International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluation (Performance 2007), Cologne, Germany, October 2007. One of four papers nominated for the best paper award (acceptance rate: 24/103 ~ 23%)


• Aniket Mahanti, Carey Williamson, Martin Arlitt, and Anirban Mahanti, Comparing Wired-side and Wireless-side WLAN Monitoring Techniques: A Case Study, Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN), Dublin, Ireland, October 2007. (acceptance rate ~ 33%)


• Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Ira Cohen, and Carey Williamson, Semi-Supervised Network Traffic Classification, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer System, San Deigo, USA, June 2007. (Accepted as an extended abstract; 171 submitted, 29 accepted as full papers and 19 accepted as extended abstracts; overall acceptance rate ~ 28%).


• Jeffrey Erman, Aanirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Byte Me: A Case for Byte Accuracy in Traffic Classification, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet), San Deigo, USA, June 2007. (Acceptance rate ~50%)


• Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, and Carey Williamson, Identifying and Discriminating Between Web and Peer-to-Peer traffic in the Network Core, Proc. of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Banff, Canada, May 2007. (Acceptance rate: 111/755 ~ 14.7%)


• Sean D. Boyden, Anirban Mahanti, and Carey Williamson, TCP Vegas Performance with Streaming Media, Proc. of the 26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), New Orleans, USA, April 2007 (Acceptance rate ~ 37%).


• Phillipa Sessini, Matei Leventer, and Anirban Mahanti, Video to Go: The Effects of Mobility on Streaming Media in a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Network, Proc. of the 14th ACM/SPIE Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN), San Jose, USA, January 2007. (Acceptance rate ~ 30%)


• Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, and Martin Arlitt, Internet Traffic Identification using Machine Learning, Proc. of 49th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, USA, November 2006. (Acceptance rate ~ 40%)


• Liqi Shi, Phillipa Sessini, Anirban Mahanti, Zongpeng Li, and Derek Eager, Scalable Streaming for Heterogeneous Clients, Proc. of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006. (Acceptance rate ~ 16%)


• Jeffrey Erman, Martin Arlitt, and Anirban Mahanti, Traffic Classification Using Clustering Algorithms, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet), Pisa, Italy, September 2006. (Acceptance rate ~ 47%; this paper has been cited ~ 6 times according to Google scholar)


• Zongpeng Li and Anirban Mahanti, A Progressive Flow Auction Approach For Low-Cost On-Demand P2P Media Streaming, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), Waterloo, Canada, August 2006. (Acceptance rate ~ unknown)


• Phillipa Sessini and Anirban Mahanti, Observations on Round-Trip Times of TCP Connections, Proc. of the SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Calgary, Canada, July 2006. (Acceptance rate ~ 61%)


• Naimul Basher and Anirban Mahanti, A Simulation Study of Proxy Caching Algorithms and Strategies for Interactive Streaming Media, Proc. of the SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Calgary, Canada, July 2006.


• Nadim Parvez, Anirban Mahanti, and Carey Williamson, "TCP NewReno: Slow-but-Steady or Impatient?, Proc. of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. (Acceptance rate: 982/2517 ~ 39%)


• Sean Boyden, Anirban Mahanti, and Carey Williamson, "Characterizing the Behaviour of RealVideo Streams", Proc. of the SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Philadelphia, PA, July 2005, pp. 783-791. (Acceptance rate ~ 55%)


• Aniket Mahanti, Anirban Mahanti, and Carey Williamson, "Locality Characteristics of Web Streams Revisited", Proc. of the SCS SPECTS, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005, pp. 795-803.


• Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, and Mary Vernon, "Improving Multirate Congestion Control Using a TCP Vegas Throughput Model", Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 113-136.


• Anirban Mahanti and Derek Eager, "Adaptive Data Parallel Computing on Workstation Clusters", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 64, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 1241-1255.


• Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, Mary Vernon, and David Sundaram-Stukel, "Scalable On-demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 195-209. Extended version of the paper that appeared in ACM SIGCOMM 2001, see below. This paper has been cited ~ 74 times according to Google Scholar.


• Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, and Carey Williamson, "Temporal Locality and its Impact on Web Proxy Cache Performance", Performance Evaluation Journal (Special Issue on Internet Performance Modelling), Vol. 42, No. 2/3, September 2000, pp. 187-203. This paper has been cited ~ 45 times according to Google Scholar.


• Anirban Mahanti, Carey Williamson, and Derek Eager, "Workload Characterization of a Web Proxy Caching Hierarchy", IEEE Network (Special Issue on Web Performance), Vol. 14, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 16-23. This paper has been cited ~ 79 times according to Google Scholar.


• Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, Mary Vernon, and David Sundaram-Stukel, "Scalable On-demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf. on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (SIGCOMM 2001), San Diego, CA, August 2001, pp. 97-108.
  (Acceptance Rate ~ 11%; One of three papers selected for fast-tracked publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking).


• Anirban Mahanti, Abhinav Garg, and P. Jana, "Polynomial Interpolation on Orthogonal Multiprocessors", Proc. of AMSE Modelling and Simulation Conference, Melbourne, Australia, October 1997, pp. 11-20. (Acceptance rate ~ unknown)

Dissertations

• Anirban Mahanti, "Scalable Reliable On-demand Media Streaming Protocols", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, March 2004.
  Supervisor: Professor Derek Eager


• Anirban Mahanti, "Web Proxy Workload Characterisation and Modelling", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, September 1999. (Cited ~ 21 times according to Google scholar)
  Co-supervisors: Professor Derek Eager and Professor Carey Williamson

Technical Reports

• Anirban Mahanti and Carey Williamson, "Web Proxy Workload Characterization", Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, February 1999. (Manuscript 30 pages; cited ~ 19 times according to Google Scholar)