Publications

Journal and Magazine papers

[J19] H. Ren, A. Mousavi, A. Pacaci, S. R. Chowdhury, J. Mohoney, I. F. Ilyas, Y. Li, and T. Rekatsinas. Fact Ranking over Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs with Reasoning Embedding Models. IEEE Data Engineering Bulleting, 47(2): 126-139, June 2023 (invited).

[J18] S. S. Johari, S. Taeb, N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. DRL-Assisted Reoptimization of Network Slice Embedding on EON-enabled Transport Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(1): 800-814, March 2023.

[J17] A. Anthony, S. R. Chowdhury, T. Bai, R. Boutaba, and J. Francois. Non-intrusive and Workflow-aware Virtual Network Function Scheduling in User-space. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 10(3): 1975-1990, July-Sept. 2022. (PDF)

[J16] N. Shahriar, M. Zulfiqar, S. R. Chowdhury, S. Taeb, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Disruption Minimized Bandwidth Scaling in EON-enabled Transport Network Slices. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on Latest Advances in Optical Networks for 5G Communications and Beyond, 39(9): 2734-2747, September 2021.

[J15] A. Laraba, J. Francois, S. R. Chowdhury, I. Chrisment, and R. Boutaba. Mitigating TCP Protocol Misuse with Programmable Data Planes. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 18(1): 760-774, March 2021. (PDF)

[J14] N. Shahriar, S. Taeb, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Zulfiqar, M. Tornatore, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Reliable Slicing of 5G Transport Networks with Bandwidth Squeezing and Multi-path Provisioning. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 17(3): 1418-1431, September 2020. (PDF, .bib)

[J13] S. R. Chowdhury, A. Anthony, H. Bian, T. Bai, and R. Boutaba. A Disaggregated Packet Processing Architecture for Network Function Virtualization. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 38(6): 1075-1088, June 2020. (PDF, .bib)

[J12] N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, M. M. A. Khan, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and Z. Feng. Virtual Network Embedding with Guaranteed Connectivity under Multiple Substrate Link Failures. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 68(2): 1025 - 1043, February 2020. (PDF, .bib)

[J11] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. ESSO: An Energy Smart Service Function Chain Orchestrator. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - Special Issue on Latest Developments for the Management of Softwarized Networks, 16(4): 1345 - 1359, December 2019. (PDF, .bib)

[J10] S. R. Chowdhury, M. A. Salahuddin, N. Limam, and R. Boutaba. Re-architecting NFV Ecosystem with Microservices: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges. IEEE Network, 33(3): 168-176, May 2019. (PDF, .bib)

[J9] S. R. Chowdhury, S. Ayoubi, R. Ahmed, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 15(3): 1132 - 1145, September 2018. (PDF, .bib)

[J8] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, A. Khan., S. Fathi, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. Virtual Network Survivability through Joint Spare Capacity Allocation and Embedding. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 36(3): 502-518, March 2018. (PDF, .bib)

[J7] N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Khan., R. Boutaba, and J. Mitra Generalized Recovery from Node Failure in Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 14(2): 261-274, June 2017. (PDF, .bib)

[J6] S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, M. M. A. Khan., N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and Z. Feng. Dedicated Protection for Survivable Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(4): 913-926, December 2016. (PDF, .bib, CPLEX Code, Heuristic Code)

[J5] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and O. Duarte. Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(4): 725-739, December 2016. (PDF, .bib, Code)

[J4] R. Ahmed, M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Rabbani, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. αRoute: Routing on Names. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(5): 3070-3083, January 2016. (PDF, .bib)

[J3] S. R. Chowdhury, A. R. Roy, M. Shaikh, and K. Daudjee. A Taxonomy of Decentralized Online Social Networks. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer 8(3): 367-383, May 2015. (PDF, .bib)

[J2] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. A Survey of naming and routing in Information Centric Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 50(12): 44-53, December 2012. (PDF, .bib)

[J1] S. R. Chowdhury , M. M. Hasan, S. Iqbal, and M. S. Rahman. Computing a Longest Common Palindromic Subsequence. Fundamenta Informaticae, IOS Press 129(4): 329-340, 2014. (PDF, .bib)

Conference and Workshop papers

[C34] J. Mohoney, A. Pacaci, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Mousavi, I. F. Ilyas, U. F. Minhas, J. Pound, T. Rekatsinas. High-Throughput Vector Similarity Search in Knowledge Graphs. To appear in ACM SIGMOD 2023, June 18-23, 2023, Seattle, WA, USA.

[C33] S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. Resource Management in Softwarized Networks. In proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022 (Dissertation digest), pp. 1-6. [Best Dissertation Award]

[C32] A. Laraba, J. Francois, I. Chrisment, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. Detecting Multi-Step Attacks: A Modular Approach for Programmable Data Plane. In proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2022, pp. 1-9. (Acceptance Rate: 25.1%)

[C31] S. Taeb, N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Reoptimizing Network Slice Embedding on EON-enabled Transport Networks. In proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2021, pp. 292-300. (Acceptance Rate: 19.3%)

[C30] R. Boutaba, N. Shahriar, M. A. Salahuddin, S. R. Chowdhury, N. Saha, and A. James. AI-driven Closed-loop Automation in 5G and beyond Mobile Networks. In proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM FlexNets Workshop 2021 (invited), pp. 1-6.

[C29] S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, and J. Francois. LINT: Accuracy-adaptive and Lightweight In-band Network Telemetry. In proceedings of IFIP/IEEE IM 2021, pp. 349-357. (Acceptance Rate: 24.1%) (PDF)

[C28] A. Laraba, J. Francois, I. Chrisment, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. Defeating Protocol Abuse with P4: an Application to Explicit Congestion Notification. In proceedings of IFIP Networking 2020 Conference, pp. 431-439. (Acceptance Rate: 27.5%) (PDF)

[C27] N. Shahriar, S. Taeb, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Zulfiqar, M. Tornatore, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Reliable Slicing of 5G Transport Networks with Dedicated Protection. In proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2019, pp. 1-9. (Acceptance Rate: 16.5%) [Best Paper Award] (PDF, .bib)

[C26] S. Taeb, N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Virtual Network Embedding with Path-based Latency Guarantees in Elastic Optical Networks. In proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2019, pp. 1-12. (Acceptance Rate: 19.3%) (PDF, .bib)

[C25] B. Henry, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Lahmadi, R. Azais, J. Francois, and R. Boutaba. SPONGE: Software-Defined Traffic Engineering to Absorb Influx of Network Traffic. In proceedings of IEEE LCN 2019, pp. 193-201. (Acceptance Rate: 28.9%) (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C24] S. R. Chowdhury, A. Anthony, H. Bian, T. Bai, and R. Boutaba. μNF: A Disaggregated Packet Processing Architecture. In proceedings of IEEE NetSoft 2019, pp. 342-350. (Acceptance Rate: 24.7%) [Best Paper Award] (PDF, .bib, Slides, Source code)

[C23] N. Shahriar, S. Taeb, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Achieving a Fully-Flexible Virtual Network Embedding in Elastic Optical Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2019, pp. 1756-1764. (Acceptance Rate: 19.6%) (PDF, .bib)

[C22] A. Anthony, S. R. Chowdhury, T. Bai, R. Boutaba, and J. Francois. UNiS: A User-space Non-intrusive Workflow-aware Virtual Network Function Scheduler. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2018, pp. 152-160. (Acceptance Rate: 15.9%) (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C21] S. Ayoubi, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. Breaking Service Function Chains with Khaleesi. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2018, pp. 64-72. (Acceptance Rate: 24.4%) (PDF, .bib, Slides, Heuristic Code, CPLEX Code)

[C20] S. R. Chowdhury, S. Ayoubi, R. Ahmed, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. MULE: Multi-Layer Virtual Network Embedding. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2017, pp. 1-9. (Acceptance Rate: 17.6%) [Best Paper Award] (PDF, .bib, Slides, Heuristic Code, CPLEX Code)

[C19] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Sharmin, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. Availability in P2P based Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE NSySS 2017, pp. 1-9. (PDF, .bib)

[C18] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, A. Khan., R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. Joint Backup Capacity Allocation and Embedding for Survivable Virtual Networks. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2017, pp. 1-9. (Acceptance Rate: 28.6%) (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C17] S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, N. Shahriar, A. Khan., R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. ReViNE: Reallocation of Virtual Network Embedding to Eliminate Substrate Bottlenecks. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE IM 2017, pp. 116-124 (Acceptance Rate: 28.6%) (PDF, .bib, Slides, Heuristic Code, CPLEX Code)

[C16] N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, A. Khan., S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, and J. Mitra. ReNoVatE: Recovery from Node Failure in Virtual Network Embedding. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2016, pp. 19-27 (Acceptance Rate: 15.5%) (PDF, .bib)

[C15] A. R. Roy, S. R. Chowdhury, M. F. Bari, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. Emulating an Infrastructure with EASE. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2016 (Mini-Conference), pp. 167-173 (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C14] N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, M. M. A. Khan, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and Z. Feng. Connectivity-aware Virtual Network Embedding. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2016, pp. 46 - 54 (Acceptance Rate: 29%) (PDF, .bib)

[C13] L. Dolberg, J. François, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and T. Engel. A Generic Framework to Support Application-Level Flow Management in Software-Defined Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE NetSoft 2016, pp. 121-125 (PDF, .bib)

[C12] S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, M. M. A. Khan, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and F. Zeng. Protecting Virtual Networks with DRONE. In Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2016, pp. 78-86 (Acceptance Rate: 25.3%) (PDF, .bib, Slides, Heuristic Code, CPLEX Code)

[C11] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. nf.io: A File System Abstraction for NFV Orchestration. In Proceedings of IEEE NFV-SDN Conference 2015, pp. 135-141 (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C10] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. On Orchestrating Virtual Network Functions. In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE/IFIP CNSM 2015 (Mini conference), pp. 50-56 (PDF, .bib, Code)

[C9] R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Pokluda, M. F. Bari, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. pWeb: A Personal Interface to the World Wide Web. In proceedings of IFIP Networking Conference, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 25%) (PDF, .bib)

[C8] S. R. Chowdhury, C. Adam, F. Wu, J. Rofrano, and R. Boutaba. Managing the File Sytem from the Kernel. In proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 28.9%) (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C7] S. R. Chowdhury, M. F. Bari, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. PayLess: A Low Cost Network Monitoring Framework for Software Defined Networks. In proceedings of IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 28.9%) (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C6] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. PolicyCop: An Autonomic QoS Policy Enforcement Framework for Software Defined Networks. In proceedings of IEEE SDN4FNS 2013, pp. 1-7 (PDF, .bib)

[C5] M. F. Bari, A. R. Roy, S. R. Chowdhury, Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks. In proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP CNSM 2013, pp. 18-25 (Acceptance Rate: 18.1%) [Runner-up for best paper award] (PDF, .bib)

[C4] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Sharmin, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. Ensuring β-availability in P2P Social Networks. In Proceedings of HotPOST 2013 (ICDCS 2013 Workshops), pp. 150-155 (Acceptance Rate: 40%) [Best Paper Runner-up] (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C3] R. Ahmed, M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Rabbani, R. Boutaba, and B. Mathieu. αRoute: A Name Based Routing Scheme for Information Centric Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2013, pp. 90-94 (PDF, .bib, Slides)

[C2] S. R. Chowdhury, S. Iqbal, M. M. Hasan, and M. S. Rahman. Computing a Longest Common Palindromic Subsequence. In Proceedings of IWOCA 2012, LNCS 7643:219-223 (PDF, .bib)

[C1] S. Iqbal, S. R. Chowdhury, C. S. Hyder, A. V. Vasilakos, and C. Wang. Vehicular Communication: Protocol Design, Testbed Implementation and Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of IWCMC VehiComm Workshop 2009, pp. 410-415 (PDF, .bib)

Book Chapter(s)

[B1] L. Dolberg, J. François, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and T. Engel. Network Configuration and Flow Scheduling for Big Data Applications. In Networking for Big Data. S. Yu, X. Lin, J. Misic, and X. Shen (editors). pp. 121-138, CRC Press, 2015 (PDF, .bib)

Extended abstracts

[E2] N. Shahriar, M. Zulfiqar, S. R. Chowdhury, S. Taeb, M. Tornatore, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Disruption-minimized Re-adaptation of Virtual Links in Elastic Optical Networks. Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) (Poster), San Diego, CA, USA, Mar 8 - 12, 2020. (PDF, .bib)

[E1] M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. nf.io: A File System Abstraction for NFV Orchestration. ACM SIGCOMM 2015 (Demo), London, UK, Aug 17 - 21, 2015. (PDF, .bib)

Patents

[P8] S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, J. Mitra, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, and S. Ayoubi. Multi-layer Virtual Network Embedding. US Patent No. 10,951,317. Issued: March 16, 2021.

[P7] N. Shahriar, A. Khan., R. Ahmed, J. Mitra, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. System and Method for Joint Embedding and Backup Provisioning in Virtual Networks. US Patent No. 10,873,502. Issued: December 22, 2020.

[P6] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, S. Taeb, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Method and system for reliability-aware embedding of a virtual network onto an elastic optical network. US Patent No. 10,841,183. Issued: November 17, 2020.

[P5] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, M. Zulfiqar, J. Mitra and M. Hemmati. System andmethod for elastic optical networks. US Patent Application No. 16/813,679. Filed: March 09, 2020.

[P4] N. Shahriar, J. Mitra, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, and R. Boutaba. Methods and Systems for Failure Recovery in a Virtual Network Environment. US Patent No. 10,505,840. Issued: December 10, 2019.

[P3] N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and M. Hemmati. Method and system for latency-aware embedding of a virtual network onto a substrate optical network. US Patent Application No. 16/600,103. Filed: October 18, 2019.

[P2] R. Ahmed, J. Mitra, S. R. Chowdhury, N. Shahriar, and R. Boutaba. Dedicated Protection for Virtual Network Embedding. US Patent No. 10,313,195. Issued: June 04, 2019.

[P1] R. Ahmed, J. Mitra, S. R. Chowdhury, N. Shahriar, and R. Boutaba. Connectivity-aware virtual network embedding. U.S. Patent No. 9,813,287. Issued: November 07, 2017.