Content Distribution
Ahsan Habib and Stuart Goose "CommunityPVR: A Service to Deliver the Long Tail for On-Demand TV,” IEEE Multimedia, 2009 (to appear)
Ahsan Habib and Stuart Goose "On the Feasibility of Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand System," (under review)
Ahsan Habib and Stuart Goose "On Modeling the Long-Tail for On-Demand Streaming by CommunityPVR," (under review)
Network Security
Ahsan Habib, "Monitoring and Controlling QoS Network Domains: An Edge-to-Edge Approach," Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University, Aug 2003. Abstract
Ahsan Habib, Sonia Fahmy, Bharat Bhargava, "Monitoring and Controlling QoS Network Domains," ACM/Wiley International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 15, Issue 1, Pages 11-29, Jan-Feb 2005.
Ahsan Habib, Maleq Khan, Bharat Bhargava, "Edge-to-Edge Measurement-based Distributed Network Monitoring," Computer Networks, Vol. 44, Issue 2, Pages 211-233, Feb 2004
Ahsan Habib, Sonia Fahmy, Srinivas R. Avasarala, Venkatesh Prabhakar, Bharat Bhargava, "On Detecting Service Violations and Bandwidth Theft in QoS Network Domains," Computer Communications, Vol. 26 Issue 8, Pages 861-871, May 20 2003.
Ahsan Habib, Mohamed Hefeeda, Bharat Bhargava, Detecting Service Violations and DoS Attacks," in Proc. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '03), San Diego, CA, Pages 177-189, Feb 2003.
Media Security
Ahsan Habib, Dongyan Xu, Mikhail Atallah, Bharat Bhargava, John Chuang "A Tree-based Forward Digest Protocol to Verify Data Integrity in Distributed Media Streaming," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), , Volume 17 , Issue 7, July 2005
Ahsan Habib, Dongyan Xu, Mikhail Atallah, Bharat Bhargava, John Chuang "Verifying Data Integrity in Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming," ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '05), Pages 1-12, Jan., 2005. (Acceptance 16% for full papers, 24% overall)
Network Economics
Ahsan Habib, John Chuang "Service Differentiated Peer Selection: An Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol 8 No 3, pp. 610-621, June 2006
Ahsan Habib, John Chuang "Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming," International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) pp. 171-180, June, 2004. (Acceptance 15.6% for full papers, 19.5% overall)
Mohamed Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, Bharat Bhargava, "Cost-Profit Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Architecture," CERIAS TR 2002-37, Purdue University, October 2002
Multihoming
Ahsan Habib and John Chuang “Improving Application QoS with Residential Multihoming”, Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 12, Pages 3323-3337, Aug 2007.
Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. "On the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming" IWQoS, June 2007.
Ahsan Habib, Nicolas Christin, and John Chuang. "Taking Advantage of Multihoming with Session Layer Striping," In Proceedings of the 9th Global Internet Symposium (Global Internet 2006) . Barcelona, Spain. April 2006.
Ahsan Habib and John Chuang "MMS: A Multihome-aware Media Streaming System," ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '06), Jan 2006.
Ahsan Habib, John Chuang "Multihoming Multimedia Streaming", IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN '05), April 2005. (Acceptance 30%)
Ahsan Habib, John Chuang "A Measurement-based Analysis of Residential Multihoming," IEEE INFOCOM (Poster paper), March 2005.
Ahsan Habib, John Chuang "On the Effectiveness of Residential Multihoming", Technical Report, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, TR-SIMS-HC-1104, Oct 2004.
Multimedia and P2P Streaming
Mohamed Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, Dongyan Xu, Bharat Bhargava, and Boyan Botev, "CollectCast: A Peer-to-Peer Service for Media Streaming," ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol 11 No 1, Pages 68-81, Nov 2005
Bharat Bhargava, Shengi-Yi Wang, Maleq Khan, Ahsan Habib, "Multimedia Data Transmission and Control using Active Networks ," Computer Communications, Vol 28, Issue 6, Pages 623-639, April 2005.
Mohamed Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, Boyan Botev, Dongyan Xu, Bharat Bhargava, "PROMISE: Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming using CollectCast," ACM Multimedia '03, Pages 45-54, Nov. 2003. (Acceptance 17%)
Mohamed Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, Dongyan Xu, Bharat Bhargava, "CollectCast: A Tomography-Based Network Service for Peer-to-Peer Streaming," Poster, ACM SIGCOMM '03, Aug. 2003. (Acceptance 29%)
Differentiated Services
Ahsan Habib, Bharat Bhargava, "Network Tomography-based Unresponsive Flow Control," in Proc. 9th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS '03), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Pages 258- 264, May 2003
Ahsan Habib, Bharat Bhargava, Sonia Fahmy, "A Round Trip Time and Timeout Aware Traffic Conditioner for Differentiated Services Networks," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '02), pp. 981-985, April 2002.
Ahsan Habib, Sonia Fahmy, Bharat Bhargava, "Design and Evaluation of an Adaptive Traffic Conditioner for Differentiated Services Networks ", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (IC3N '01), Arizona, pp. 90-95, Oct. 2001.
Ahsan Habib, Bharat Bhargava, "Unresponsive Flow Detection and Control in Differentiated Services Networks ", in Proc. IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS '01), Anaheim CA, Aug 2001.
WWW
Florian Pestoni, Joel Wolf, Ahsan Habib, Amy Mueller, "KARC: Radio Research", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Web Delivering of Music (WeDelMusic '01), Florence, Italy, Nov 2001
Ahsan Habib, Marc Abrams, "Analysis of Sources of Latency in Downloading Web Pages ", in Proc. of WebNet Conference on the WWW and Internet (WebNet '00) San Antonio USA, Nov 2000"Technical Report TR-99-4, Computer Science Dept., Virginia Tech, July 1999
Ahsan Habib, Marc Abrams, "Analysis of Bottlenecks in International Internet Links ", in Proc. International Conference of Computers and Information Technology (ICCITT '00) Dhaka, Bangladesh. Jan 2001.
Ahsan Habib, Ghaleb Abdulla, Edward A. Fox: "Web Traffic Characterization with Time Zones: Seeking outside events that affect the traffic to a distance learning Server" , in Proc. International Symposium on Audio Video Image and Intelligent Applications (ISAVIIA '98), Baden Baden, Germany , August 17-21 1998.
Ahsan Habib, Marc Abrams, " Analysis of Unnecessary Retransmissions in TCP ", Technical Report TR-99-3, Computer Science Dept., Virginia Tech, April 1999
Selected Talks and Presentations
On the Effectiveness of Residential Multihoming, Poster, 100x100 Project Retreat, Pittsburgh, Dec 9, 2004
On the Effectiveness of Residential Multihoming,SIMS Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Nov 10, 2004
Incentive mechanism for Peer-to-Peer media streaming, Seminar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, (invited) June 10, 2004
Incentive mechanism for Peer-to-Peer media streaming, International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS '04), Montreal, Canada, June 8, 2004
DoS Attacks: Detection and Prevention, Guest lecture, IS250:Computer-based Communications Networks and Systems, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 20, 2003
Monitoring and Controlling QoS Network Domains: An Edge-to-Edge Approach," Ph.D. Defense, Purdue University, May 5, 2003
Flow Enforcer Design for Network Element, Summer intern presentation at Sunlabs, Sun MicroSystems, Aug. 2002
On Monitoring QoS Networks Domains to Detect Service Violations and DoS Attacks, Poster session at CERIAS symposium, Purdue University, Apr. 2002
Secure Mobile Systems, Poster session at CERIAS symposium, Purdue University, Apr. 2001
KARC: Radio Research, Poster with Amy Mueller and Florian Pestoni at Alamaden Research Center, IBM, Aug. 2000
Traffic conditioner design for differentiated services networks, Network systems seminar, Purdue University, Mar. 2000