Arif Merchant

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1991-2023
Publications (10 Years): 17

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Published Literature

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Distributed Storage

Design Considerations

Top Venues

ACM Trans. Storage

Proc. VLDB Endow.

USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Publications

Tzu-Wei Yang, Seth Pollen, Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Homer Wolfmeister, Junaid Khalid
CacheSack: Theory and Experience of Google's Admission Optimization for Datacenter Flash Caches. ACM Trans. Storage 19 (2) (2023)
Saurabh Kadekodi, Shashwat Silas, David Clausen, Arif Merchant
Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs). ACM Trans. Storage 19 (4) (2023)
Saurabh Kadekodi, Shashwat Silas, David Clausen, Arif Merchant
Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs). FAST (2023)
HamidReza Zare, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Nader Alfares, Praneet Soni, Chetan Sharma, Arif Merchant
LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding. Proc. VLDB Endow. 15 (10) (2022)
Saurabh Kadekodi, Francisco Maturana, Sanjith Athlur, Arif Merchant, K. V. Rashmi, Gregory R. Ganger
Tiger: Disk-Adaptive Redundancy Without Placement Restrictions. OSDI (2022)
Tzu-Wei Yang, Seth Pollen, Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Homer Wolfmeister
CacheSack: Admission Optimization for Google Datacenter Flash Caches. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2022)
HamidReza Zare, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Chetan Sharma, Praneet Soni, Nader Alfares, Arif Merchant
LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding. CoRR (2021)
Arif Merchant, Hakim Weatherspoon
Introduction to the Special Issue on USENIX FAST 2019. ACM Trans. Storage 15 (4) (2020)
Bianca Schroeder, Arif Merchant, Raghav Lagisetty
Reliability of nand-Based SSDs: What Field Studies Tell Us. Proc. IEEE 105 (9) (2017)
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Autonomic Storage Management at Scale. ICPE (2017)
Alexandru Iosup, Xiaoyun Zhu, Arif Merchant, Eva Kalyvianaki, Martina Maggio, Simon Spinner, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Sara Bouchenak
Self-Awareness of Cloud Applications. CoRR (2016)
Bianca Schroeder, Raghav Lagisetty, Arif Merchant
Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected. FAST (2016)
Mischa Möstl, Johannes Schlatow, Rolf Ernst, Henry Hoffmann, Arif Merchant, Alexander Shraer
Self-aware systems for the internet-of-things. CODES+ISSS (2016)
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
Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications. OSDI (2016)
Hasan Alkhatib, Paolo Faraboschi, Eitan Frachtenberg, Hironori Kasahara, Danny B. Lange, Phillip A. Laplante, Arif Merchant, Dejan S. Milojicic, Karsten Schwan
What Will 2022 Look Like? The IEEE CS 2022 Report. Computer 48 (3) (2015)
Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
Automatic Reconfiguration of Distributed Storage. ICAC (2015)
Artyom Sharov, Alexander Shraer, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations. Proc. VLDB Endow. 8 (12) (2015)
Christoph Albrecht, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely, Muhammad Waliji, François Labelle, Nate Coehlo, Xudong Shi, Eric Schrock
Janus: Optimal Flash Provisioning for Cloud Storage Workloads. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2013)
Elizabeth Varki, Allen Hubbe, Arif Merchant
Improve Prefetch Performance by Splitting the Cache Replacement Queue. ICAIT (2012)
Nate Coehlo, Arif Merchant, Murray Stokely
Uncertainty in Aggregate Estimates from Sampled Distributed Traces. MAD (2012)
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman
Workload dependent IO scheduling for fairness and efficiency in shared storage systems. HiPC (2012)
Mohit Saxena, Mehul A. Shah, Stavros Harizopoulos, Michael M. Swift, Arif Merchant
Hathi: durable transactions for memory using flash. DaMoN (2012)
Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, Kang G. Shin
Maestro: quality-of-service in large disk arrays. ICAC (2011)
Swapnil Bhatia, Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant
Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate. MASCOTS (2010)
Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Kevin Smathers, Joseph Tucek, Mustafa Uysal, Jay J. Wylie
Efficient eventual consistency in Pahoehoe, an erasure-coded key-blob archive. DSN (2010)
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling. OSDI (2010)
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 7 (4) (2010)
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Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management. Commun. ACM 52 (4) (2009)
Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin
What does control theory bring to systems research? ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 43 (1) (2009)
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman
Efficient and adaptive proportional share I/O scheduling. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 37 (2) (2009)
Anna Povzner, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Charles B. Morrey III, Mustafa Uysal, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
Autograph: automatically extracting workflow file signatures. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 43 (1) (2009)
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27 (3) (2009)
Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant
Automated control of multiple virtualized resources. EuroSys (2009)
Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif Merchant
TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches. FAST (2008)
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair C. Veitch, Christos T. Karamanolis
Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. SOSP (2007)
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
-clock: distributed QoS in heterogeneous resource environments. PODC (2007)
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mustafa Uysal
Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems. DSN (2007)
Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kenneth Salem
Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. EuroSys (2007)
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
Altering document term vectors for classification: ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence. WWW (2007)
Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Peter J. Varman
pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems. SIGMETRICS (2007)
Ajay Gulati, Peter J. Varman, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal
Towards fairness and efficiency in storage systems. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 35 (3) (2007)
Yin Wang, Arif Merchant
Proportional-Share Scheduling for Distributed Storage Systems. FAST (2007)
Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Janet L. Wiener, Xiaoyun Zhu, Dirk Beyer
Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions. HotOS (2007)
Arif Merchant
Designing and managing storage systems: issues, techniques, and challenges. QEST (2006)
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, William H. Sanders
Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments. DSN (2006)
Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
Challenges in managing dependable data systems. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 33 (4) (2006)
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Ernesto Brau, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, Alex Zhang
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters. EuroSys (2006)
Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant
A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability. DSN (2004)
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer, Jeffrey S. Chase, Arif Merchant, Cipriano A. Santos, John Wilkes
Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (2004)
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 15 (6) (2004)
Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair C. Veitch, Arif Merchant, Susan Spence
FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components. ASPLOS (2004)
Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks. DSN (2004)
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu
An integrated performance model of disk arrays. MASCOTS (2003)
Svend Frølund, Arif Merchant, Yasushi Saito, Susan Spence, Alistair C. Veitch
FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring. HotOS (2003)
Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays. FAST (2003)
Christopher R. Lumb, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez
Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees. FAST (2003)
Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant
A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays. MASCOTS (2001)
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
Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 19 (4) (2001)
Elizabeth Borowsky, Richard A. Golding, P. Jacobson, Arif Merchant, L. Schreier, Mirjana Spasojevic, John Wilkes
Capacity planning with phased workloads. WOSP (1998)
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilkes
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering. SIGMETRICS (1998)
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
Analytic Modeling of Clustered RAID with Mapping Based on Nearly Random Permutation. IEEE Trans. Computers 45 (3) (1996)
Arif Merchant, Benjamin Melamed, Eugen Schenfeld, Bhaskar Sengupta
Analysis of a Control Mechanism for a Variable Speed Processor. IEEE Trans. Computers 45 (7) (1996)
Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning Schemes: Storage Cost vs. Obsolescence. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 8 (6) (1996)
Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 3 (5) (1995)
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
Analytic Modeling and Comparisons of Striping Strategies for Replicated Disk Arrays. IEEE Trans. Computers 44 (3) (1995)
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
An Analytical Model of Reconstruction Time in Mirrored Disks. Perform. Evaluation 20 (1-3) (1994)
Arif Merchant, Bhaskar Sengupta
Multiway Graph Partitioning with Applications to PCS Networks. INFOCOM (1994)
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for Replicated Disk Arrays. PDIS (1993)
Arif Merchant
Analytical Models of Combining Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS (1992)
Arif Merchant, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Ming-Syan Chen
Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning for Concurrency Transaction and Query Processing. SIGMETRICS (1992)
Arif Merchant, Philip S. Yu
Design and Modeling of Clustered RAID. FTCS (1992)
Arif Merchant
Settling Time Bounds for M/G/1 Queues. Queueing Syst. Theory Appl. 8 (1) (1991)
Arif Merchant
A Markov Chain Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks. SIGMETRICS (1991)