Publications

Book Chapters

Tarek Abdelzaher, Mohammad Khan, Hieu Le, Hossein Ahmadi, and Jiawei Han, ``Data Mining for Diagnostic Debugging in Sensor Networks: Preliminary Evidence and Lessons Learned," Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer, 2009.
Marco Caccamo, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Real-time Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Handbook of Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Chapter 22, CRC Press, 2007.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Chengdu Huang, ``End System Quality of Service,'' The Handbook of Computer Networks, John Wiley and Sons, December 2007.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Chengdu Huang, ``Security and Web Quality of Service,'' The Handbook of Information Security, John Wiley and Sons, December 2005.
Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Sang Son, Brian Blum, Tian He, Anthony Wood, and Chanyang Lu, ``Real-Time Communication and Programming Abstractions for Sensor Networks,'' Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems, CRC Press, July 2004.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, ``Web Quality of Service,'' The Internet Encyclopedia, John Wiley and Sons, December 2003.

Papers by Area

Color coding of publications is by venue:

black: journal, blue: conference, green: workshop.

Sensor and Wireless Networks

Nathanael Thompson, Samual Nelson, Mehedi Bakht, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets, "Retiring Replicants: Congestion Control for Intermittently-Connected Networks," IEEE Infocom, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
Yong Yang, Lu Su, Yan Gao, Tarek Abdelzaher, "SolarCode: Utilizing Erasure Codes for Reliable Data Delivery in Solar-powered Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Infocom (miniconference), San Diego, CA, March 2010.
Lili Wang, Yong Yang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu K. Le, Jie Liu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and Michael Ward, "AdaptSens: An Adaptive Data Collection and Storage Service for Solar-Powered Sensor Networks," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Washington, DC, December 2009.
Hossein Ahmadi and Tarek Abdelzaher, "An Adaptive-reliability Cyber-physical Transport Protocol for Spatio-temporal Data," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Washington, DC, December 2009.
Lu Su, Bolin Ding, Yong Yang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Guohong Cao, "oCast: Optimal Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Princeton, NJ, October 2009.
Gang Zhou, Yafeng Wu, Ting Yan, Tian He, Chengdu Huang, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "A Multi-Frequency MAC Specially Designed for Wireless Sensor Network Applications," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Accepted in 2009.
Shuo Guo, Tian He, Mohamed F. Mokbel, John A. Stankovic and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Accepted in 2009.
Md Yusuf S. Uddin, David Nicol, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets, "A Post-disaster Mobility Model for Delay-tolerant Networking," in Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Austin, Texas, December 2009. (Invited)
Qing Cao, Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, "End-User Diagnosis of Communication Path Problems in Sensor Network Systems," In proc. 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Vienna, Austria, September 2009.
Md Yusuf Uddin, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets, "A Low-energy, Multi-copy Inter-contact Routing Protocol for Disaster Response Networks," Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Rome, Italy, June 2009.
Tian He, Pascal A. Vicaire, Ting Yan, Liqian Luo, Lin Gu, Gang Zhou, Radu Stoleru, Qing Cao, John A. Stankovic and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Experiences and Evaluation of Real-Time Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks," accepted to ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, 2009.
Liqian Luo, Qing Cao, Chengdu Huang, Lili Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Michael Ward, "Design, Implementation and Evaluation of EnviroMic: A Storage-Centric Audio Sensor Network," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 5, No. 3, May 2009
Mohammad Khan, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han and Hossein Ahmadi, "Finding Symbolic Bug Patterns in Sensor Networks," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009
Dong Kun Noh, Lili Wang, Yang Yong, Hieu Le and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Minimum Variance Energy Allocation for a Solar-Powered Sensor System," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009
Yong Yang, Lili Wang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu Khac Le, and Tarek Abdelzaher ``SolarStore: Enhancing Data Reliability in Solar-powered Storage-centric Sensor Networks," Mobisys, Krakow, Poland, June 2009.
P. Vicaire, T. He, T. Yan, Q. Cao, G. Zhou, L. Gu, L. Luo, R. Stoleru, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, "Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 2009
Qing Cao, Debessay Kassa, Nam Pham, Yusuf Sarwar, and Tarek Abdelzaher ``Virtual Battery: An Energy Reserve Abstraction for Embedded Sensor Networks,'' IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, December 2008.
Wenbo He, Hoang Nguyen, Xue Liu, Klara Nahrstedt, and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``iPDA: An Integrity-Protecting Private Data Aggregation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Diego, CA, November 2008.
Raghu Ganti, Nam Pham, Yu-En Tsai, Tarek Abdelzaher ``PoolView: Stream Privacy for Grassroots Participatory Sensing," Sensys, Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jack Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse, Liqian Luo ``Declarative Tracepoints: A Programmable and Application Independent Debugging System for Wireless Sensor Networks," Sensys, Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
Mohammad Khan, Hieu Khac Le, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han ``DustMiner: Troubleshooting Interactive Complexity Bugs in Sensor Networks," Sensys, Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
Shuo Guo, Tian He, Mohamed F. Mokbel, John A. Stankovic and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems," in Proc. 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Atlanta, GA, September 2008 (Best paper award)
Nam Pham and Tarek Abdelzaher "Robust Dynamic Human Activity Recognition based on Relative Energy Allocation," (short paper) DCoSS Santorini, Greece, June 2008.
Mohammad Khan, Tarek Abdelzaher and Kamal Gupta, "Towards Diagnostic Simulation in Sensor Networks," DCoSS Santorini, Greece, June 2008.
Praveen Jayachandran, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Bandwidth Allocation for Elastic Real-Time Flows in Multihop Wireless Networks Based on Network Utility Maximization," ICDCS, Beijing, China, June 2008.
Cigdem Sengul, Albert F. Harris III, Mehedi Bakht, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets, "Improving Energy Conservation Using Bulk Transmission over High-Power Radios in Sensor Networks," ICDCS, Beijing, China, June 2008.
Hieu Khac Le, Dan Henriksson, Tarek Abdelzaher, "A Practical Multi-Channel Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," IPSN, St. Loius, MO, April 2008.
Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Tian He "LiteOS, A Unix-like Operating System and Programming Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks," IPSN, St. Loius, MO, April 2008.
I-Hong Hou, Yu-En Tsai, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Indranil Gupta. "AdapCode: Adaptive Network Coding for Code Updates in Wireless Sensor Networks," INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.
Vibha Prasad et al., "ANDES: an ANalysis-based DEsign tool for wireless Sensor networks," RTSS, Tuscon, AZ, December 2007.
Maifi Khan, Tarek Abdelzaher, Liqian Luo, "SNTS: Sensor Network Troubleshooting Suite," DCoSS, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007.
Dan Henriksson, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and Raghu K. Ganti, "A Caching-Based Approach to Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks," 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2007 (Invited)
Tarek Abdelzaher, Yaw Anokwa, Péter Boda, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Leonidas Guibas, Aman Kansal, Sam Madden, Jim Reich, "Mobiscopes for Human Spaces," IEEE Pervasive, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 20-29, April 2007 (Invited)
Liqian Luo, Qing Cao, Chengdu Huang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John A. Stankovic, Michael Ward, ``The EnviroMic: Towards Cooperative Storage and Retrieval in Audio Sensor Networks,'' ICDCS, Toronto, Canada, June 2007
Wenbo He, Xue Liu, Hoang Nguyen, Klara Nahrstedt, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``PDA: Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Infocom, Anchorage, AL, May 2007.
Liqian Luo, Chengdu Huang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jack Stankovic, ``EnviroStore: A Cooperative Storage System for Disconnected Operation in Sensor Networks,'' Infocom, Anchorage, AL, May 2007.
Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He, Robin Kravets, ``Cluster-Based Forwarding for Reliable End-to-end Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Infocom, Anchorage, AL, May 2007.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Qing Cao, Raghu Ganti, Maifi Khan, Jin Heo, Chengdu Huang, Praveen Jayachandran, Hieu Khac Le, Liqian Luo, Yu-En Tsai, ``Towards a Layered Architecture for Object-Based Execution in Wide-Area Deeply Embedded Computing,'' 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing, Santorini Island, Greece, May 2007. (Invited)
Hieu Khac Le, Dan Henriksson, and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``A Control Theory Approach to Throughput Optimization in MultiChannel Collection Sensor Networks,'' Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
Tian He, Brian M. Blum, Qing Cao, John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, ``Robust and timely communication over highly dynamic sensor networks,'' Journal of Real-time Systems, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 261-289, December 2007.
Qing Cao, Tian He, Tarek Abdelzaher, "uCast: Unified Connectionless Multicast for Energy Efficient Content Distribution in Sensor Networks," Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vil. 18, No. 2, pp. 240-250, February 2007.
Qing Cao and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Scalable Logical Coordinates Framework for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 557-593, November 2006.
R. Ganti, P. Jayachandran, H. Luo, and T. Abdelzaher, "Datalink Streaming in Wireless Sensor Networks," 4th International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Boulder, CO, November, 2006.
L. Luo, T. Abdelzaher, T. He, and J. A. Stankovic, "EnviroSuite: An Environmentally Immersive Programming Framework for Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Vol. 5, No. 3, August 2006.
Octav Chipara, Zhimin He, Guoliang Xing, Qin Chen, Xiaorui Wang, Chenyang Lu, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Real-time Power-Aware Routing in Sensor Networks," New Haven, CT, June 2006.
William Conner, Tarek Abdelzaher, Klara Nahrstedt, "Using Data Aggregation to Prevent Traffic Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks," DCoSS, San Francisco, CA, June 2006.
Raghu Ganti, Praveen Jayachandran, Tarek Abdelzaher, "SATIRE: A Software Architecture for Smart AtTIRE," Mobisys, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.
Tian He, Pascal A. Vicaire, Ting Yan, Liqian Luo, Lin Gu, Gang Zhou, Radu Stoleru, Qing Cao, John A. Stankovic and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Achieving Real-Time Target Tracking using Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE RTAS, San Jose, CA, April 2006.
Gang Zhou, Chengdu Huang, Ting Yan, Tian He, John A. Stankovic, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher "MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks," INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Tian He, Pascal Vicaire, Ting Yan, Qing Cao, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, John A. Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Achieving Long-Term Surveillance in VigilNet," INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Liqian Luo, Tian He, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, "Achieving Repeatability of Asynchronous Events in Wireless Sensor Networks with EnviroLog," INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Qing Cao, Tian He, Lei Fang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Sang Son, "Efficiency Centric Communication Model for Wireless Sensor Networks," INFOCOM, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
Tian He, Sudha Krishnamurthy, Liqian Luo, Ting Yan, Lin Gu, Radu Stoleru, Gang Zhou, Qing Cao, Pascal Vicaire, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Jonathan Hui, Bruce Krogh, "VigilNet: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy-Efficient Surveillance," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-38, February 2006.
L. Gu, D. Jia, P. Vicaire, T. Yan, L. Luo, A. Tirumala, Q. Cao, J. A. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, and B. Krogh, "Lightweight Detection and Classification for Wireless Sensor Networks in Realistic Environments", SenSys, San Diego, CA, November 2005.
Shashi Prabh and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Energy-Conserving Data Cache Placement in Sensor Networks,'' ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2005.
Tian He, Liqian Luo, Ting Yan, Lin Gu, Qing Cao, Gang Zhou, Radu Stoleru, Pascal Vicaire, Qiuhua Cao, John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "An Overview of the VigilNet Architecture," 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Hong Kong, August 2005. Invited.
Qing Cao, Ting Yan, Tarek Abdelzaher and John Stankovic, "Analysis of Target Detection Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2005.
Liqian Lu, Tian He, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, "Design and Comparison of Lightweight Group Management Strategies in EnviroSuite," International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2005.
Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He, John Stankovic, "Towards Optimal Sleep Scheduling in Sensor Networks for Rare-Event Detection," International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'05), Los Angeles, CA, April 2005.
Tian He, John A. Stankovic, Chenyang Lu, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "A Spatiotemporal Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 995-1006, October 2005.
Hyung Seok Kim, Tarek Abdelzaher, Wook Hyun Kwon "Dynamic Delay-constrained Minimum-Energy Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 679-706, August 2005.
Tian He, Chengdu Huang, Brian Blum, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Range-Free Localization and its Impact on Large-scale Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2005.
Gang Zhou, Tian He, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, "RID: Radio Interference Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005.
Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher, "A Scalable Logical Coordinates Framework for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He, John Stankovic, "Feedback Control of Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks," 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004.
Tian He, Sudha Krishnamurthy, John A. Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, Liqian Luo, Radu Stoleru, Ting Yan, Lin Gu, Jonathan Hui, Bruce Krogh, "An Energy-Efficient Surveillance System for Sensor Networks," MobiSys, Boston, MA, June 2004.
Tian He, Brian M. Blum, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzaher "AIDA: Adaptive Application Independent Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher et al., "EnviroTrack: Towards an Environmental Computing Paradigm for Distributed Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.
Hyung Seok Kim, Tarek Abdelzaher, Wook Hyun Kwon, "Minimum-Energy Asynchronous Dissemination to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM SenSys, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2003.
Tian He, Chengdu Huang, Brian Blum, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Range-Free Localization Schemes for Large Scale Sensor Networks," The 9th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), San Diego, CA, September 2003.
John A. Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lui Sha, Jennifer Hou, "Real-Time Coomunication and Coordination in Embedded Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 91, No. 7, July 2003.
Tian He, John Stankovic, Chenyang Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher "SPEED: A Stateless Protocol for Real-Time Communication in Sensor Networks," International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003.
Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, Sang Son, Brian Blum, Tian He, Anthony Wood, Chanyang Lu, "A Communication Architecture and Programming Abstractions for Real-Time Embedded Sensor Networks," Workshop on Data Distribution for Real-Time Systems (in conjunction with ICDCS 2003), Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003. Invited Paper
Sagnik Bhattacharya, Hyung Kim, Shashi Prabh, Tarek Abdelzaher "Energy-Conserving Data Placement and Asynchronous Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks," The First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), San Francisco, CA, May 2003.
Brian Blum, Prashant Nagaraddi, Anthony Wood, Tarek Abdelzaher, Sang Son, John Stankovic, "An Entity Maintenance and Connection Service for Sensor Networks," The First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), San Francisco, CA, May 2003.
Chenyang Lu, Brian Blum, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, and Tian He, "RAP: A Real-Time Communication Architecture for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks," Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, San Jose, CA, September 2002.

Aperiodic Schedulability Analysis

Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Flow-based Mode Changes: Towards Virtual Uniprocessor Models for Efficient Reduction-based Schedulability Analysis of Distributed Systems," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Washington DC, December 2009.
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher, "End-to-End Delay Analysis of Distributed Systems with Cycles in the Task Graph," Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Dublin, Ireland, July 2009.
Xue Liu and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Non-utilization Bounds: On Bounding New Load Metrics for Schedulability Analysis," invited to ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems, 2009.
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher ``Delay Composition Algebra: A Reduction-based Schedulability Algebra for Distributed Real-Time Systems," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, December 2008.
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher ``Transforming Distributed Acyclic Systems into Equivalent Uniprocessors Under Preemptive and Non-Preemptive Scheduling,'' ECRTS Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008.
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher ``Delay Composition in Preemptive and Non-preemptive Real-Time Pipelines,'' Journal of Real-Time Systems, Volume 40 Number 3, 2008.
Shashi Prabh and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``On Scheduling and Real-Time Capacity of Hexagonal Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Pisa, Italy, July 2007
Praveen Jayachandran and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``A Delay Composition Theorem for Real-Time Pipelines,'' Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Pisa, Italy, July 2007
Chengdu Huang, Tarek Abdelzaher and Xue Liu, ``On Dominating Set Allocation Policies in Real-Time Wide-Area Distributed Systems,'' Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Pisa, Italy, July 2007
Tian He, John A. Stankovic, Michael Marley, Chenyang Lu, Yin Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Sang Son, and Gang Tao. ``Feedback Control-based Dynamic Resource Management in Distributed Real-Time Systems.'' Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, Special Issue on Dynamic Resource Management in Distributed Real-Time Systems, Vol. 80, No. 7, pp. 997-1004, July 2007.
Xue Liu and Tarek Abdelzaher, "On Non-utilization Bounds for Arbitrary Fixed-priority Policies," IEEE RTAS, San Jose, CA, April 2006.
William Hawkins and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Towards Feasible Region Calculus: An End-to-end Schedulability Analysis of Real-Time Multistage Execution," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Miami, Florida, December 2005.
Lui Sha, Tarek Abdelzaher, Karl-Eric Arzen, Anton Cervin, Theodore Baker, Alan Burns, Giorgio Buttazzo, Marco Caccamo, John Lehoczky, Aloysius K. Mok, "Real Time Scheduling Theory: A Historical Perspective," Journal of Real-time Systems (invited paper), December 2004.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Shashi Prabh, Raghu Kiran, "On Real-time Capacity Limits of Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Gautam Thaker, Patrick Lardieri, "A Feasible Region for Meeting Aperiodic End-to-end Deadlines in Resource Pipelines," IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Vivek Sharma, Chenyang Lu, ``A Utilization Bound for Aperiodic Tasks and Priority Driven Scheduling,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 53, No. 3, March 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher and Vivek Sharma, ``A Synthetic Utilization Bound for Aperiodic Tasks with Resource Requirements,'' 5th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Porto, Portugal, July 2003.
Bjorn Andresson, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Jan Jonsson, ``Partitioned Aperiodic Scheduling on Multiprocessors,'' International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symbosium, Nice, France, April 2003
Bjorn Andresson, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Jan Jonsson, ``Global Priority-Driven Aperiodic Scheduling on Multiprocessors,'' International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symbosium, Nice, France, April 2003
Tarek Abdelzaher, Bjorn Anderson, Jan Jonsson, Vivek Sharma and Minh Nguyen, ``The Aperiodic Multiprocessor Utilization Bound for Liquid Tasks,'' Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, San Jose, CA, September 2002.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, ``Schedulability Analysis and Utilization Bounds for Highly Scalable Real-Time Services,'' IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, TaiPei, Taiwan, June 2001.

Software Performance Management and Feedback-Contol

Tarek Abdelzaher, Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Chenyang Lu, Sharad Singhal, Xiaoyun Zhu, "Recent Advances in the Application of Control Theory to Network and Service Management," 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management Tutorial, New York, NY, June 2009.
Jin Heo and Tarek Abdelzaher, "AdaptGuard: Guarding Adaptive Systems from Instability," IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Barcelona, Spain, June 2009.
Jin Heo, Praveen Jayachandran, Insik Shin, Dong Wang, and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``OptiTuner: An Automatic Distributed Performance Optimization Service and a Server Farm Application," Fourth International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID), San Francisco, California, April 2009. Invited Paper
Tarek Abdelzaher, Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Chenyang Lu, and Xiaoyun Zhu, "Introduction to Control Theory and its Application to Computing Systems," SIGMETRICS Tutorial, Annapolis, MD, June 2008.
Jin Heo, Dan Henriksson, Xue Liu, and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Integrating Adaptive Components: An Emerging Challenge in Performance-Adaptive Systems and a Server Farm Case-Study" RTSS, Tuscon, AZ, December 2007.
Nicolas Christin, Jorg Liebeherr, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Enhancing Class-Based Service Architectures with Adaptive Rate Allocation and Dropping Mechanisms,'' IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 15, No. 3, 669-682, June 2007.
Tibor Horvath, Tarek Abdelzaher, Kevin Skadron, and Xue Liu, ``Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Multi-tier Web Servers with End-to-end Delay Control,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 444-458, April 2007
Chenyang Lu, Ying Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stankovic, Sang H. Son, ``Feedback Control Architecture and Design Methodology for Service Delay Guarantees in Web Servers,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17, No. 7, September 2006.
Jin Heo, Xue Liu, Lui Sha, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Autonomous Delay Regulation for Multi-Threaded Internet Servers," International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Calgary, Canada, July 2006.
Gang Zhou, Chengdu Huang, Sang Son, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jack Stankovic, "Load Balancing in Bounded-Latency Content Distribution," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Miami, Florida, December 2005.
Chengdu Huang and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Bounded-Latency Content Distribution: Feasibility and Evaluation,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 54, No. 11, November 2005.
Chengdu Huang, Seejo Sebastine, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Real-Time Active Content Distribution Service,'' Journal of Real-time Systems, Vol. 30, No. 1-2, May 2005.
Ronghua Zhang, Sujay Parekh, Yixin Diao, Maheswaran Surendra, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, ``Control of Weighted Fair Queueing: Modeling, Implementation, and Experiences,'' 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May 2005.
Chengdu Huang, Seejo Sebastine and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``An Architecture for On-Demand Active Web Content Replication,'' 16th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Catania, Italy, July 2004.
Dan Henriksson, Ying Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Improved Prediction for Web Server Delay Control,'' 16th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Catania, Italy, July 2004.
Chengdu Huang and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Towards Content Distribution Networks with Latency Guarantees,'' IWQoS, Montreal, Canada, June, 2004.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Ying Lu, Ronghua Zhang, Dan Henriksson, ``Practical Application of Control Theory to Web Services,'' Invited paper, American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004.
Ying Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Avneesh Saxena, ``Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Differentiated Caching Services,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 440-452, May 2004.
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, ``Efficient TCP Connection Failover in Server Clusters,'' Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
Vivek Sharma, Arun Thomas, Tarek Abdelzaher, Kevin Skadron, ``Power-aware QoS Management in Web Servers,'' Real-Time Systems Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, December 2003. Best Student Paper Award.
Ying Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Chenyang Lu, Lui Sha, Xue Liu, ``Feedback Control with Queueing-Theoretic Prediction for Relative Delay Guarantees in Web Servers,'' Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Toronto, Canada, May 2003.
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and John A. Stankovic, ``Kernel Support for Open QoS-Aware Computing,'' Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Toronto, Canada, May 2003.
Ying Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Gang Tao, ``Direct Adaptive Control of a Web Cache System,'' American Control Conference Denver, CO, June 2003.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stankovic, Chenyang Lu, Ronghua Zhang, and Ying Lu, ``Feedback Performance Control in Software Services,'' IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol 23, No. 3, June 2003.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, Nina Bhatti, ``User-Level QoS-Adaptive Resource Management in Server End-Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 5, May 2003.
Lui Sha, Xue Liu, Ying Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``Queuing Model Based Network Server Performance Control,'' Real-Time Systems Symposium, Austin, TX, December 2002.
Ying Lu, Gang Tao, and Tarek Abdelzaher, ``LDU Parametrized Discrete Time Multivariable MRAC and Application to a Web Cache System,'' IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002.
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stankovic, ``ControlWare: A Middleware Architecture for Feedback Control of Software Performance,'' International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, July 2002.
Kyoung-Don Kang, Sang Son, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``A QoS-Sensitive Approach for Timeliness and Freshness Guarantees in Real-Time Databases,'' Euromicro, Vienna, Austria, June 2002.
Nicolas Christin, Jorg Liebeherr, Tarek Abdelzaher, ``A Quantitative Assured Forwarding Service,'' IEEE INFOCOM, New York, NY, June 2002.
Ying Lu, Chanyang Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Gang Tao, ``An Adaptive Control Framework for QoS Guarantees and its Application to Differentiated Caching Services,'' IWQoS, Miami Beach, FL, May 2002.
Sivakumar Velusamy, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Dharmesh Parikh, Tarek Abdelzaher, Kevin Skadron, ``Adaptive Cache Decay using Feedback Control,''2nd Annual Workshop on Memory Performance Issues Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002.
Kevin Skadron, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Mircea Stan, ``Control-Theoretic Techniques and Thermal RC Modeling for Accurate and Localized Dynamic Thermal Mangement,'' International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Cambridge, MA, February 2002.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, Nina Bhatti, ``Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , Vol. 13, No. 1, Jan 2002.
Seejo Sebastine, Kyoung-Don Kang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Sang H. Son, ``A Scalable Web-Based Real-Time Information Distribution Service for Industrial Applications,'' The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Denver, Colorado, December 2001.
John Stankovic, Tian He, Tarek Abdelzaher, Mike Marley, Gang Tao, Sang Son, ``Feedback Control Scheduling in Distributed Systems,'' IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, London, UK, December 2001.
Chenyang Lu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jack Stankovic, Sang Son, ``A Feedback Control Approach for Guaranteeing Relative Delays in Web Servers,'' IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, TaiPei, Taiwan, June 2001.
Ying Lu, Avneesh Saxena, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, ``Differentiated Caching Services; A Control-Theoretical Approach,'' International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Chenyang Lu, ``Modeling and Performance Control of Internet Servers,'' Invited Paper, 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 2000.
Chenyang Lu, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Gang Tao, Sang H. Son and Michael Marley, ``Performance Specifications and Metrics for Adaptive Real-Time Systems,'' IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Orlando, Florida, December 2000.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, ``An Automoated Profiling Subsystem for QoS-Aware Services,'' IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Washington D.C., June 2000.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Kang G. Shin, ``QoS Provisioning with qContracts in Web and Multimedia Servers,'' IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Pheonix, Arizona, December 1999.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Nina Bhatti, ``Adaptive Content Delivery for Web Server QoS,'' International Workshop on Quality of Service, London, UK, June 1999.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Nina Bhatti, ``Web Content Adaptation to Improve Server Overload Behavior,'' International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 1999.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, ``End-host Architecture for QoS-Adaptive Communication,'' IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Denver, Colorado, June 1998.

QoS-Sensitive Communication

Kang Shin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Seungjae Han, John Reumann, and Emmanuel Abram-Profeta, ``Multimedia-Friendly Server and Communication Design,'' IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1999.
A. Mehra, A. Shaikh, T. Abdelzaher, Z. Wang, and K. Shin, ``Realizing Services for Guaranteed-QoS Communication on a Microkernel Operating System,'' IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Madrid, Spain, December 1998.
Tarek Abdelzaher, Anees Shaikh, Farnam Jahanian, and Kang Shin, ``RTCast: Lightweight Multicast for Real-Time Process Groups,'' IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Boston, MA, June 10-12, 1996. Winner of the 1996 RTAS Best Student Paper Award (Earlier version appears in Tech Report CSE-TR-291-96, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, March, 1996.

OS and Middleware Solutions for QoS Management

Ella M. Atkins, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, and Edmund H. Durfee, ``Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution,'' Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, March 2001. (Earlier version appeared in Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '99), Seattle, Washington, May 1-5, 1999.)
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ella M. Atkins, and Kang Shin, ``QoS Negotiation in Real-Time Systems and its Application to Automated Flight Control'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, No. 11, November 2000. (Earlier version appeared in IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 9-11, 1997. 1997 RTAS Best Student Paper Award Nominee)
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, ``QoS Adaptation in Real-Time Systems,'' Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, August 1999.
Abdelzaher, Bjorklund, Dawson, Feng, Jahanian, Johnson, Marron, Mehra, Mitton, Shaikh, Shin, Wang, Zou, ``ADMADA Middleware and Communication Services,'' Journal of Real-Time Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 1999.
Abdelzaher, Dawson, Feng, Jahanian, Johnson, Mehra, Mitton, Shaikh, Shin, Wang, Zou, ``ARMADA Middleware Suite,'' IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services, San Francisco, California, December 1997.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and M. A. Sheirah, "New Hard Real-Time Kernel for Embedded Computing Systems," Proceedings of the 7th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Antalya, Turkey, 1994, pp. 1193-1196
M.A. Sheirah, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Embedded Real Time Systems," in proc. Symposium on New Horizons in Computers and Information Systems, Cairo, Jan 26-28, 1993.

Real-Time Scheduling Theory

Tarek F. Abdelzaher and Kang G. Shin, ``Period-Based Partitioning and Assignment for Large Real-Time Applications,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 49, No. 1, January 2000.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, ``Optimal Combined Task and Message Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, November, 1999. (Earlier version published in IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Italy, Pisa, Dec. 5-7, 1995.)
D.T. Peng, K.G. Shin, T.F. Abdelzaher, ``Assignment and Scheduling of Communicating Periodic Tasks in Distributed Real-Time Systems'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 12, December 1997.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, ``Comment on 'A Pre-Run-Time Scheduling Algorithm for Hard Real-Time Systems,''' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 9, September, 1997.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, A.M. Salem, S.A. Hammad and M.A. Sheirah ``A Priority-Based Scheduler for Dynamic Real-Time Tasks with Simple Resourse Requirements'' Proceedings of 3rd IASTED International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, December, 1994.

Industrial Control Systems

Tarek F. Abdelzaher, S.A. Hammad, A.Z. Badr and M.A. Sheirah "Experimental Validation for Modeling and Identification of a Pilot Industrial Process" in Proc 3rd IASTED International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, December, 1994.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Multiprocessor-Based Distributed Control System", M.Sc. thesis, Dec. 1993.
M.A. Sheirah et. al., "Design and Manufacturing of Prototypes for Universal Microprocessor Industrial Controller," Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Tech. Report No. 3, June 1993.
M.A. Sheirah, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Embedded Real Time Systems," in proc. Symposium on New Horizons in Computers and Information Systems, Cairo, Jan 26-28, 1993.
M.A. Sheirah et. al., "Design and Manufacturing of Prototypes for Universal Microprocessor Industrial Controller," Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Tech. Report No. 2, May 1992.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, M.A. Sheirah, "Identification Algorithm for Multicapacity Systems with Dead Time," Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, May 5-7, 1992.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, M.A. Sheirah, "Generalized PID Tuning Method," Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, May 5-7, 1992.
M.A. Sheirah et. al., "Design and Manufacturing of Prototypes for Universal Microprocessor Industrial Controller," Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Tech. Report No. 1, July 1991.