General area: Experimental software systems including operating systems, distributed computing, and databases. Topics: Replication, dynamic content web servers, storage systems, and middleware technologies.
Database Replication Using Generalized Snapshot Isolation. Sameh Elnikety, Fernando Pedone and Willy Zwaenepoel. SRDS 2005: 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Orlando, FL, USA, October 2005.
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An extended version appears in this technical report Generalized Snapshot Isolation and a Prefix-Consistent Implementation. EPFL Technical Report IC/2004/21, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2004.
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DynaServer: Dynamic Content Delivery for E-commerce. Sameh Elnikety. ECOOP 2004 Ph.D. Workshop, the 18th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (Doctoral Symposium), Oslo, Norway, June 2004.
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A Method for Transparent Admission Control and Request Scheduling in E-commerce Web Sites. Sameh Elnikety, Erich Nahum, John Tracey and Willy Zwaenepoel. WWW 2004: The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York City, NY, USA, May 2004.
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Performance Comparison of Middleware Architectures for Generating Dynamic Web Content.
Emmanuel Cecchet, Anupam Chanda, Sameh Elnikety, Julie Marguerite and Willy Zwaenepoel. Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003.
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Admission Control for E-Commerce Web Sites. Sameh Elnikety, Erich Nahum, John Tracey, and Willy Zwaenepoel. Self Manage 2004: The First Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Self-Managing Systems (Extended Abstract),San Diego, California, USA, June 2003.
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Using Performance Reflection in Systems Software.
Alan Cox, Sameh Elnikety, Rob Fowler and Willy Zwaenepoel. HotOS IX: Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating, Lihue, Hawaii, USA, May 2003.
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Admission Control and Request Scheduling for Dynamic Content Web Servers. Sameh Elnikety. M.S. thesis, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 2003.
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Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks.
C. Amza, E. Cecchet, A. Chanda, Alan L. Cox, S. Elnikety, R. Gil, J. Marguerite, K. Rajamani and W. Zwaenepoel. WWC-5: The 5th Annual IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization, Austin, Texas, USA, November 2002.
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An extended version appears in this technical report Bottleneck Characterization of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks. Rice University Computer Science Technical Report TR02-388, 2002.
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Early version of this work was presented at:
IBM 3rd CAS Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, February 2002.
P2P Secure Cooperative Data Backup
A Cooperative Internet Backup Scheme.
Mark Lillibridge, Sameh Elnikety , Andrew Birrell, Mike Burrows, and Michael Isard. USENIX 2003: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 2003.
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A shorter (and interesting) early version appears in this report. Cooperative Backup System. Sameh Elnikety, Mark Lillibridge, Mike Burrows and Willy Zwaenepoel. WiPs paper in USENIX FAST 2002 , Monterey, California, USA, January 2002.
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Real-time Disk Scheduling for Continuous Media Servers
A Deadline Driven Disk Scheduling Algorithm for Continuous Media Servers. Sameh M. Elnikety , Walid G. Aref, Mohamed S. Abougabal.
Alexandria University Technical Report, Alexandria, Egypt, 2000.
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A Real-time Disk Scheduling Algorithm for Multimedia Storage Servers. Sameh M. Elnikety. MSc thesis, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 1999.
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