Arif Merchant
Google Publications
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Poster Paper: Automatic Reconfiguration of Distributed Storage
Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
The 12th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, IEEE (2015), pp. 133-134
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Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations
Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB Endowment (2015), pp. 1490-1501
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Janus: Optimal Flash Provisioning for Cloud Storage Workloads
Christoph Albrecht, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely, Muhammad Waliji, Francois Labelle, Nathan Coehlo, Xudong Shi, Eric Schrock
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, Advanced Computing System Association, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA (2013), pp. 91-102
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Hathi: durable transactions for memory using flash
Mohit Saxena, Mehul A. Shah, Stavros Harizopoulos, Michael M. Swift, Arif Merchant
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 33-38
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Projecting Disk Usage Based on Historical Trends in a Cloud Environment
Murray Stokely, Amaan Mehrabian, Christoph Albrecht, Francois Labelle, Arif Merchant
ScienceCloud 2012 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing, ACM, pp. 63-70
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Uncertainty in Aggregate Estimates from Sampled Distributed Traces
Nate Coehlo, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
2012 Workshop on Managing Systems Automatically and Dynamically, USENIX
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Maestro: Quality-of-Service in Large Disk Arrays
Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, Kang Shin
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Autonomic computing (ICAC), ACM, New York, NY, USA (2011), pp. 245-254
Previous Publications
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Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
IEEE Trans. Dependable Sec. Comput., vol. 7 (2010), pp. 366-380
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Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate
Swapnil Bhatia, Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant
MASCOTS (2010), pp. 89-98
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mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
OSDI (2010), pp. 437-450
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Autograph: automatically extracting workflow file signatures
Anna Povzner, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Charles B. Morrey III, Mustafa Uysal, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
Operating Systems Review, vol. 43 (2009), pp. 76-83
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Automated control of multiple virtualized resources
Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant
EuroSys (2009), pp. 13-26
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Efficient and adaptive proportional share I/O scheduling
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 37 (2009), pp. 79-80
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Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., vol. 27 (2009)
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Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management
Commun. ACM, vol. 52 (2009), pp. 90
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What does control theory bring to systems research?
Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin
Operating Systems Review, vol. 43 (2009), pp. 62-69
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TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches
Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif Merchant
FAST (2008), pp. 81-96
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Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments
Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kenneth Salem
EuroSys (2007), pp. 289-302
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Altering document term vectors for classification: ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
WWW (2007), pp. 1225-1226
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Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions
Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Janet L. Wiener, Xiaoyun Zhu, Dirk Beyer
HotOS (2007)
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Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mustafa Uysal
DSN (2007), pp. 677-686
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Proportional-Share Scheduling for Distributed Storage Systems
Yin Wang, Arif Merchant
FAST (2007), pp. 47-60
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Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
SOSP (2007), pp. 159-174
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Towards fairness and efficiency in storage systems
Ajay Gulati, Peter J. Varman, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 35 (2007), pp. 56-58
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d-clock: distributed QoS in heterogeneous resource environments
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
PODC (2007), pp. 330-331
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pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
SIGMETRICS (2007), pp. 13-24
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Challenges in managing dependable data systems
Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 33 (2006), pp. 4-10
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Designing and managing storage systems: issues, techniques, and challenges
QEST (2006), pp. 265-268
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Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
DSN (2006), pp. 371-382
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On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Ernesto Brau, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Alex Zhang
EuroSys (2006), pp. 235-248
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A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks
Svend Fr{\o}lund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
DSN (2004), pp. 125-134
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A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability
Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
DSN (2004), pp. 877-886
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FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components
Yasushi Saito, Svend Fr{\o}lund, Alistair C. Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence
ASPLOS (2004), pp. 48-58
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Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., vol. 15 (2004), pp. 559-574
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Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability
Kimberly Keeton, Jeffrey S. Chase, Dirk Beyer, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, John Wilkes
ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (2004), pp. 4
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An integrated performance model of disk arrays
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
MASCOTS (2003), pp. 296-305
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FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring
Svend Fr{\o}lund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
HotOS (2003), pp. 169-174
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Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees
Christopher R. Lumb, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
FAST (2003)
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Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays
Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
FAST (2003)
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A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays
Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant
MASCOTS (2001), pp. 183-192
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Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems
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
ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., vol. 19 (2001), pp. 483-518
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An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilkes
SIGMETRICS (1998), pp. 182-191
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Capacity planning with phased workloads
Elizabeth Borowsky, Richard A. Golding, P. Jacobson, Arif Merchant, L. Schreier, Mirjana Spasojevic, John Wilkes
WOSP (1998), pp. 199-207
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Analysis of a Control Mechanism for a Variable Speed Processor
Arif Merchant, Benjamin Melamed, Eugen Schenfeld, Bhaskar Sengupta
IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 45 (1996), pp. 793-801
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Analytic Modeling of Clustered RAID with Mapping Based on Nearly Random Permutation
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 45 (1996), pp. 367-373
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Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning Schemes: Storage Cost vs. Obsolescence
Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., vol. 8 (1996), pp. 985-1001
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Analytic Modeling and Comparisons of Striping Strategies for Replicated Disk Arrays
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 44 (1995), pp. 419-433
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Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks
Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 3 (1995), pp. 521-526
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An Analytical Model of Reconstruction Time in Mirrored Disks
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
Perform. Eval., vol. 20 (1994), pp. 115-129
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Multiway Graph Partitioning with Applications to PCS Networks
Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
INFOCOM (1994), pp. 593-600
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Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for Replicated Disk Arrays
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
PDIS (1993), pp. 148-157
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Analytical Models of Combining Banyan Networks
SIGMETRICS (1992), pp. 205-212
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Design and Modeling of Clustered RAID
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
FTCS (1992), pp. 140-149
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Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning for Concurrency Transaction and Query Processing
Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
SIGMETRICS (1992), pp. 103-114
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A Markov Chain Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks
SIGMETRICS (1991), pp. 60-67
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Settling Time Bounds for M/G/1 Queues
Queueing Systems, vol. 8 (1991), pp. 105-110






