Arif Merchant - RankMe

84 papers A* 16A 18B 5C 1Misc 2Journal 28Unranked 12

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	A	`conf`	TCO-driven Storage Provisioning for Exascale Data Centers. EuroSys Timothy Kim, Saurabh Kadekodi, Arif Merchant, Prashant Nema, Jai Menon, K. V. Rashmi, Gregory R. Ganger
2025	—	`conf`	A Bring-Your-Own-Model Approach for ML-Driven Storage Placement in Warehouse-Scale Computers. MLSys Chenxi Yang, Yan Li, Martin Maas, Mustafa Uysal, Ubaid Ullah Hafeez, Arif Merchant, Richard McDougall
2025	J	`jnl`	A Practical Cross-Layer Approach for ML-Driven Storage Placement in Warehouse-Scale Computers. CoRR Chenxi Yang, Yan Li, Martin Maas, Mustafa Uysal, Ubaid Ullah Hafeez, Arif Merchant, Richard McDougall
2025	A*	`conf`	Okapi: Decoupling Data Striping and Redundancy Grouping in Cluster File Systems. OSDI Sanjith Athlur, Timothy Kim, Saurabh Kadekodi, Francisco Maturana, Xavier Ramos, Arif Merchant, K. V. Rashmi, Gregory R. Ganger
2024	B	`conf`	Enhancing Trust and Safety in Digital Payments: An LLM-Powered Approach. IEEE Big Data Devendra Dahiphale, Naveen Madiraju, Justin Lin, Rutvik Karve, Monu Agrawal, Anant Modwal, Ramanan Balakrishnan, Shanay Shah, Govind Kaushal, Priya Mandawat, Prakash Hariramani, Arif Merchant
2024	J	`jnl`	Enhancing Trust and Safety in Digital Payments: An LLM-Powered Approach. CoRR Devendra Dahiphale, Naveen Madiraju, Justin Lin, Rutvik Karve, Monu Agrawal, Anant Modwal, Ramanan Balakrishnan, Shanay Shah, Govind Kaushal, Priya Mandawat, Prakash Hariramani, Arif Merchant
2024	A*	`conf`	Morph: Efficient File-Lifetime Redundancy Management for Cluster File Systems. SOSP Timothy Kim, Sanjith Athlur, Saurabh Kadekodi, Francisco Maturana, Dax Delvira, Arif Merchant, Gregory R. Ganger, K. V. Rashmi
2023	J	`jnl`	CacheSack: Theory and Experience of Google's Admission Optimization for Datacenter Flash Caches. ACM Trans. Storage Tzu-Wei Yang, Seth Pollen, Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Homer Wolfmeister, Junaid Khalid
2023	A	`conf`	Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs). FAST Saurabh Kadekodi, Shashwat Silas, David Clausen, Arif Merchant
2023	J	`jnl`	Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs). ACM Trans. Storage Saurabh Kadekodi, Shashwat Silas, David Clausen, Arif Merchant
2022	—	`conf`	CacheSack: Admission Optimization for Google Datacenter Flash Caches. USENIX ATC Tzu-Wei Yang, Seth Pollen, Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Homer Wolfmeister
2022	J	`jnl`	LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding. Proc. VLDB Endow. HamidReza Zare, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Nader Alfares, Praneet Soni, Chetan Sharma, Arif Merchant
2022	A*	`conf`	Tiger: Disk-Adaptive Redundancy Without Placement Restrictions. OSDI Saurabh Kadekodi, Francisco Maturana, Sanjith Athlur, Arif Merchant, K. V. Rashmi, Gregory R. Ganger
2021	J	`jnl`	LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding. CoRR HamidReza Zare, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Chetan Sharma, Praneet Soni, Nader Alfares, Arif Merchant
2020	J	`jnl`	Introduction to the Special Issue on USENIX FAST 2019. ACM Trans. Storage Arif Merchant, Hakim Weatherspoon
2019	A	`ed.`	17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2019, Boston, MA, February 25-28, 2019. FAST Arif Merchant, Hakim Weatherspoon
2017	B	`conf`	Autonomic Storage Management at Scale. ICPE Arif Merchant
2017	J	`jnl`	Reliability of nand-Based SSDs: What Field Studies Tell Us. Proc. IEEE Bianca Schroeder, Arif Merchant, Raghav Lagisetty
2017	—	`ch.`	Self-awareness of Cloud Applications. Self-Aware Computing Systems Alexandru Iosup, Xiaoyun Zhu, Arif Merchant, Eva Kalyvianaki, Martina Maggio, Simon Spinner, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Sara Bouchenak
2016	A	`conf`	Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected. FAST Bianca Schroeder, Raghav Lagisetty, Arif Merchant
2016	J	`jnl`	Self-Awareness of Cloud Applications. CoRR Alexandru Iosup, Xiaoyun Zhu, Arif Merchant, Eva Kalyvianaki, Martina Maggio, Simon Spinner, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Sara Bouchenak
2016	Misc	`conf`	Self-aware systems for the internet-of-things. CODES+ISSS Mischa Möstl, Johannes Schlatow, Rolf Ernst, Henry Hoffmann, Arif Merchant, Alexander Shraer
2016	A*	`conf`	Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications. OSDI Atul Adya, Daniel Myers, Jon Howell, Jeremy Elson, Colin Meek, Vishesh Khemani, Stefan Fulger, Pan Gu, Lakshminath Bhuvanagiri, Jason Hunter, Roberto Peon, Larry Kai, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Kfir Lev-Ari
2015	—	`conf`	Automatic Reconfiguration of Distributed Storage. ICAC Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
2015	J	`jnl`	Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations. Proc. VLDB Endow. Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
2015	J	`jnl`	What Will 2022 Look Like? The IEEE CS 2022 Report. Computer Hasan Alkhatib, Paolo Faraboschi, Eitan Frachtenberg, Hironori Kasahara, Danny B. Lange, Phillip A. Laplante, Arif Merchant, Dejan S. Milojicic, Karsten Schwan
2013	—	`conf`	Janus: Optimal Flash Provisioning for Cloud Storage Workloads. USENIX ATC Christoph Albrecht, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely, Muhammad Waliji, François Labelle, Nate Coehlo, Xudong Shi, Eric Schrock
2012	C	`conf`	Hathi: durable transactions for memory using flash. DaMoN Mohit Saxena, Mehul A. Shah, Stavros Harizopoulos, Michael M. Swift, Arif Merchant
2012	—	`conf`	Improve Prefetch Performance by Splitting the Cache Replacement Queue. ICAIT Elizabeth Varki, Allen Hubbe, Arif Merchant
2012	—	`conf`	Uncertainty in Aggregate Estimates from Sampled Distributed Traces. MAD Nate Coehlo, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
2012	Misc	`conf`	Workload dependent IO scheduling for fairness and efficiency in shared storage systems. HiPC Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman
2011	—	`conf`	Maestro: quality-of-service in large disk arrays. ICAC Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, Kang G. Shin
2011	A*	`ed.`	SIGMETRICS 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, San Jose, CA, USA, 07-11 June 2011 (Co-located with FCRC 2011) SIGMETRICS Arif Merchant, Kimberly Keeton, Dan Rubenstein
2010	J	`jnl`	Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
2010	A	`conf`	Efficient eventual consistency in Pahoehoe, an erasure-coded key-blob archive. DSN Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Kevin Smathers, Joseph A. Tucek, Mustafa Uysal, Jay J. Wylie
2010	B	`conf`	Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate. MASCOTS Swapnil Bhatia, Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant
2010	A*	`conf`	mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling. OSDI Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
2009	J	`jnl`	Autograph: automatically extracting workflow file signatures. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Anna Povzner, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Charles B. Morrey III, Mustafa Uysal, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
2009	A	`conf`	Automated control of multiple virtualized resources. EuroSys Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant
2009	J	`jnl`	Efficient and adaptive proportional share I/O scheduling. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman
2009	J	`jnl`	Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
2009	J	`jnl`	Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management. Commun. ACM Arif Merchant
2009	J	`jnl`	What does control theory bring to systems research? ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin
2008	A	`conf`	TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches. FAST Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif Merchant
2007	A	`conf`	Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. EuroSys Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kenneth Salem
2007	A*	`conf`	Altering document term vectors for classification: ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence. WWW Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
2007	A	`conf`	Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions. HotOS Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Janet L. Wiener, Xiaoyun Zhu, Dirk Beyer
2007	A	`conf`	Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems. DSN Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mustafa Uysal
2007	A	`conf`	Proportional-Share Scheduling for Distributed Storage Systems. FAST Yin Wang, Arif Merchant
2007	A*	`conf`	Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. SOSP Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
2007	J	`jnl`	Towards fairness and efficiency in storage systems. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. Ajay Gulati, Peter J. Varman, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
2007	A*	`conf`	pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems. SIGMETRICS Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
2006	J	`jnl`	Challenges in managing dependable data systems. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
2006	—	`conf`	Designing and managing storage systems: issues, techniques, and challenges. QEST Arif Merchant
2006	A	`conf`	Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments. DSN Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
2006	A	`conf`	On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters. EuroSys Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Ernesto Brau, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Alex Zhang
2004	A	`conf`	A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks. DSN Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
2004	A	`conf`	A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability. DSN Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
2004	A*	`conf`	FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components. ASPLOS Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair C. Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence
2004	J	`jnl`	Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
2004	—	`conf`	Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Jeffrey S. Chase, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, John Wilkes
2004	A*	`ed.`	Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2004, June 10-14, 2004, New York, NY, USA SIGMETRICS Edward G. Coffman Jr., Zhen Liu, Arif Merchant
2003	B	`conf`	An integrated performance model of disk arrays. MASCOTS Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
2003	A	`conf`	FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring. HotOS Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
2003	A	`conf`	Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees. FAST Christopher R. Lumb, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
2003	A	`conf`	Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays. FAST Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
2001	B	`conf`	A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays. MASCOTS Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant
2001	J	`jnl`	Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. Guillermo A. Alvarez, Elizabeth Borowsky, Susie Go, Theodore H. Romer, Ralph A. Becker-Szendy, Richard A. Golding, Arif Merchant, Mirjana Spasojevic, Alistair C. Veitch, John Wilkes
1998	A*	`conf`	An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering. SIGMETRICS Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilkes
1998	—	`conf`	Capacity planning with phased workloads. WOSP Elizabeth Borowsky, Richard A. Golding, P. Jacobson, Arif Merchant, L. Schreier, Mirjana Spasojevic, John Wilkes
1996	J	`jnl`	Analysis of a Control Mechanism for a Variable Speed Processor. IEEE Trans. Computers Arif Merchant, Benjamin Melamed, Eugen Schenfeld, Bhaskar Sengupta
1996	J	`jnl`	Analytic Modeling of Clustered RAID with Mapping Based on Nearly Random Permutation. IEEE Trans. Computers Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
1996	J	`jnl`	Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning Schemes: Storage Cost vs. Obsolescence. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
1995	J	`jnl`	Analytic Modeling and Comparisons of Striping Strategies for Replicated Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Computers Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
1995	J	`jnl`	Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
1994	J	`jnl`	An Analytical Model of Reconstruction Time in Mirrored Disks. Perform. Evaluation Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
1994	A*	`conf`	Multiway Graph Partitioning with Applications to PCS Networks. INFOCOM Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
1993	—	`conf`	Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for Replicated Disk Arrays. PDIS Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
1992	A*	`conf`	Analytical Models of Combining Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS Arif Merchant
1992	—	`conf`	Design and Modeling of Clustered RAID. FTCS Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
1992	A*	`conf`	Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning for Concurrency Transaction and Query Processing. SIGMETRICS Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
1991	A*	`conf`	A Markov Chain Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS Arif Merchant
1991	—	`—`	Analytical models for the performance analysis of Banyan networks. Arif Merchant
1991	J	`jnl`	Settling Time Bounds for M/G/1 Queues. Queueing Syst. Theory Appl. Arif Merchant