Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. Efficient Server Selection and Quick Content Transfer Architecture for Cloud Datacenter Networks.
Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. Fast Content Routing and Scalable Content Index Management System.
Debessay Fesehaye. Weighted String Similarity Metric Algorithms And Their Applications To Data Classification.
Published Thesis Works :
Debessay Fesehaye. Efficient Cross-layer Routing & Congestion Control Architectures for Distributed Systems, PhD Dissertation. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL, USA. August 2013. PhD Thesis and PhD Defence Slides.
Debessay Fesehaye. Analytic Models of TCP/IP Performance, MSc Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, SA. [PDF] or MSc Thesis.
Published/Accepted Papers (Full Papers): (a) General Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing:
Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. SCDA: SLA-aware Cloud Datacenter Architecture for Efficient Content Storage and Retrieval.7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2014). Alaska, USA. June 2014. (Longer Version Available [Technical Report)]) and IEEE Cloud 2014 Slides.
Debessay Fesehaye and Jun Wei. SNC: Scalable Named Data Networking (NDN)-Based Conferencing Architecture. 11th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC2014) - Special Session on Information Centric Networking. Las Vegas, USA. January 2014.
Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. Hincent: Quick Content Distribution With Priorities and High Incentives. 10th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC2013), Las Vegas, USA. January 2013. [PDF Paper] (Longer version available at [Technical Report] )
(b) Big Data Mining and Machine Learning:
Debessay Fesehaye, Lenin Singaravelu, et al. Group Clustering Using Inter-Group Dissimilarities. IEEE the 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. June 2017.
Debessay Fesehaye, Lenin Singaravelu, et al. Performance Analysis of Large Scale Distributed Systems by Ranking Dominant Features. VMware Innovation Series: R&D Innovation Offsite (RADIO-2017). San Francisco, CA, USA. May 2017 and The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017), Austin, TX, Dec 2017.
Debessay Fesehaye and Armand Prieditis. Efficient String Similarity Algorithms and Their Applications to Data Mining & Analysis. Neustar Tech Summit. San Francisco, USA. June 2014.
(c) Mobile And Sensor Networks:
Debessay Fesehaye, Yunlong Gao, Klara Nahrstedt and Guijun Wang. Impact of Cloudlets on Interactive Mobile Cloud Applications. 16th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC). Beijing, China. September 2012. [PDF Paper] .
Debessay Fesehaye, Klara Nahrstedt and Guijun Wang. Analytical Models of Short-Message Reliability in Mobile Wireless Networks. 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2011). Miami Beach, FL, USA. October 2011. [PDF Paper] and [PDF Slides] .
Pete Barany, Debessay Fesehaye and Rohit Kapoor. On the Performance of TCP/IP in 3GPP LTE (4G). Qualcomm Technical Conference (QTec). San Diego, USA. Summer 2010.
Qing Cao, Debessay Fesehaye, Nam Pham, Yusuf Sarwar, and Tarek Abdelzaher. Virtual Battery: An Energy Reserve Abstraction for Embedded Sensor Networks. 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2008). Barcelona, Spain. November 2008.
(d) TCP/IP (Internet Traffic) Modeling and Analysis:
Debessay Fesehaye and Sabine Wittevrongel. An analytical model of TCP Performance. 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2006). Phoenix, Arizona, USA. April 2006. IEEE Xplore .
Debessay Fesehaye and Sabine Wittevrongel. Convergence of the fixed point algorithm of analytical models of reliable Internet protocols (TCP). International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, University of Reading, UK, May 2006. LNCS.
Debessay Fesehaye. Emulating TCP (A Reliable Internet Protocol) Using a Fixed Point Algorithm. 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). Tampa, Florida, USA. November 2006. IEEE Xplore .
Debessay Fesehaye and A. E. Krzesinski. A queueing network model of TCP performance. Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. White River, South Africa. ACM.
Patents:
US Patent Granted (US 9094326 B2):SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORK. By Qualcomm. Inventor: Debessay Fesehaye. Co-Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Gerardo Giaretta, David William Craig, Julien H. Laganier, Gavin Bernard Horn. November 2011. PDF of Patent.
US Patent Granted (US 10089411 B2): METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTING STRING SIMILARITY METRIC. By Neustar. Inventor: Debessay Fesehaye. October 2018. PDF of Patent.
US Patent Granted (US 10706079 B2): Group Clustering Using Inter-Group Dissimilarities . By VMware. Inventors: Debessay Fesehaye., et al. January 2018. PDF of Patent.
US Patent Application: PathTree: An Efficient path tree algorithm for matching, grouping and recommending computer security rules. By VMware. Inventors: Debessay (Debish) Fesehaye et al. August 2020.
Open Source Project:
Open Source Project On String Similarity:New String Similarity Metrics and Efficient Algorithms to Calculate Them. By Neustar Inc. Author: Debish (Debessay) Fesehaye. October 2014. String Similarity Open Source Code.
Published Work (Extended Abstracts):
Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. SCDA: SLA-aware cloud datacenter architecture for efficient content storage and retrieval. ACM HPDC 2013. NY City, NY, USA. June 2013.
Debessay Fesehaye, Rahul Malik and Klara Nahrstedt. EDFS: a semi-centralized Efficient Distributed File System . IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2009. Champaign, IL, USA. December 2009. [PDF Slides] [GreenEDFS]
Debessay Fesehaye. A Fast Congestion control Protocol (FCP) for Networks (the Internet). 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education. Tel Aviv, Israel. October 2006. IEEE Xplore . (Longer and recent version available at [Technical Report] )
Debessay Fesehaye. An Efficient Queue Management (EQM) Technique for Networks. 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Dublin, Ireland. October 2006. LNCS .
Debessay Fesehaye. A video QoS analysis using a fixed point algorithm. 3rd EuroNGI Workshop on New Trends in Modeling, Quantitative Methods and Measurements. Politechnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. June 2006. 3rd EuroNGI Workshop .
Technical Reports (With initial versions of research works to be published):
Debessay Fesehaye, Pengye Xia, P. Brighten Godfrey, Klara Nahrstedt and Steven S. Lumetta. Finishing Flows Faster with A Quick congestion Control Protocol (QCP). January 2013. [Technical Report] . Shorter earlier version published as FCP at ITRE'06 (IEEE conference), Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Debessay Fesehaye, Shameem Ahmed, Thadpong Pongthawornkamol, Klara Nahrstedt and Guijun Wang. Reliability Trade-off Analysis of Deadline-Sensitive Wireless Messaging Systems. March 2011. Techinical Report
Debessay Fesehaye and Klara Nahrstedt. PAS: A Packet Accounting System to Limit the Effects of DoS & DDoS . August 2010. [ PDF Slides]
Debessay Fesehaye, Klara Nahrstedt and Matthew Caesar. A Network Congestion control Protocol (NCP) . July 2010. Technical Report
Debessay Fesehaye, Rahul Malik and Klara Nahrstedt. A Scalable Distributed File System for Cloud Computing . March 2010. Technical Report
Debessay Fesehaye, Indranil Gupta and Klara Nahrstedt. A Cross-layer Routing and Congestion Control for Distributed Systems. November 2008. Technical Report
Some Short Versions and Presentations of Some of the Above Publications
Debessay Fesehaye and A. E. Krzesinski. A fast and accurate analytical model of TCP performance . In Proceedings of the Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) , Central Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal, SA. Septmber 2005.
Debessay Fesehaye A Simple Network (Internet) Control Protocol (SNCP). Networks: Computation, Communication and Applications (NCCA'06) Workshop, University of Oxford, UK, September 2006.
Debessay Fesehaye. Control Protocols for the Internet . In the proceedings of the 3rd EuroNGI Workshop on New Trends in Modeling, Quantitative Methods and Measurements, June 22-23, 2006, Politechnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.