Refereed Publications

Lockr: Better Privacy for Social Networks
Amin Tootoonchian, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, and Alec Wolman.
To appear in Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Rome, Italy, December 2009.

BlueMonarch: A System for Evaluating Bluetooth Applications in the Wild
Timothy J. Smith, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Krakow, Poland, June 2009.

Bunker: A Privacy-Oriented Platform for Network Tracing
Andrew G. Miklas, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, and Angela Demke Brown.
In Proceedings of the Sixth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, April 2009.

Enabling New Mobile Applications with Location Proofs
Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Santa Cruz, CA, February 2009.

An Architecture for Extensible Wireless LANs
Rohan Murty, Alec Wolman, Jitendra Padhye, and Matt Welsh.
In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VII), Calgary, Canada, October 2008.

SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware
Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon), Seattle, WA, August 2008.

Lockr: Social Access Control for Web 2.0
Amin Tootoonchian, Kiran K. Gollu, Stefan Saroiu, Yashar Ganjali, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Seattle, WA, August 2008.

Designing High Performance Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks
Rohan Murty, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill.
In Proceedings of the Fifth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

iTrustPage: A User-Assisted Anti-Phishing Tool
Troy Ronda, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Glasgow, Scotland, April 2008.

Tamper Resistant Network Tracing
Andrew G. Miklas, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, and Angela Demke Brown.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VI), Atlanta, GA, November 2007.

Wireless Wakeups Revisited: Energy Management for VoIP over Wi-Fi Smartphones
Yuvraj Agarwal, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Paramvir Bahl, Kevin Chin, and Rajesh Gupta.
In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007.

A Location-Based Management System for Enterprise Wireless LANs
Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill.
In Proceedings of the Fourth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Cambridge, MA, April 2007.

Beacon-Stuffing: Wi-Fi Without Associations
Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Tucson, AZ, February 2007.

Enhancing the Security of Corporate Wi-Fi Networks Using DAIR
Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.

DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-IV), College Park, MD, November 2005.

FUSE: Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification
John Dunagan, Nicholas J.A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Dejan Kostic, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, CA, December 2004.

Reconsidering Wireless Systems with Multiple Radios
Paramvir Bahl, Atul Adya, Jitendra Padhye, and Alec Wolman.
In ACM Sigcomm Computer Communications Review, October 2004.

A Multi-Radio Unification Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
Atul Adya, Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, Alec Wolman, and Lidong Zhou.
In Proceedings of IEEE Broadnets 2004, San Jose, CA, October 2004.

An Evaluation of Scalable Application-level Multicast Built Using Peer-to-peer Overlays
Miguel Castro, Michael B. Jones, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antony Rowstron, Marvin Theimer, Helen Wang, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2003, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.

SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties
Nicholas J.A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Fourth USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Seattle, WA, March 2003. (Best Paper)

Efficient Recovery From Organizational Disconnects in SkipNet
Nicholas J.A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), Berkeley, CA, February 2003.

Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming-Media Workload
Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Henry M. Levy.
In Proceedings of the Third USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), San Francisco, CA, March 2001. (Best Paper)

On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching
Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Anna Karlin, and Henry M. Levy.
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Kiawah Island, SC, December 1999.

Organization-Based Analysis of Web-Object Sharing and Caching
Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Molly Brown, Tashana Landray,Denise Pinnel, Anna Karlin, and Henry Levy.
In Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), Boulder, CO, October 1999.

Instrumentation and Optimization of Win32/Intel Executables Using Etch
Ted Romer, Geoff Voelker, Dennis Lee, Alec Wolman, Wayne Wong, Hank Levy, Brian Bershad, and Brad Chen.
In Proceedings of the First USENIX Windows NT Workshop, Seattle, WA, August 1997.

The Structure and Performance of Interpreters
Theodore H. Romer, Dennis Lee, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Alec Wolman, Wayne A. Wong, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy.
In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Cambridge, MA, October 1996.

Latency Analysis of TCP on an ATM Network
Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Chandramohan A. Thekkath.
In Proceedings of the Winter 1994 USENIX Conference, San Francisco, CA, January 1994.

X Through the Firewall, and Other Application Relays
G. Winfield Treese and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Summer 1993 USENIX Conference, Cincinnati, OH, June 1993.

Replicating the Procedure Call Abstraction
Rivka Ladin, Murray Mazer, and Alec Wolman.
In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the Management of Replicated Data, Monterey, CA, November 1992.

Dissertation

Sharing and Caching Characteristics of Internet Content
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, October 2002.

Other (Tech Reports & Non-Refereed Publications)

PRS: A Reusable Abstraction for Scaling Out Middle Tiers in the Datacenter
Atul Adya, John Dunagan, and Alec Wolman.
MS-TR-2008-122, September 2008.

Designing High-Performance Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks
Rohan Murty, Jitendra Padhye, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill.
USENIX ;login:, 33(4), August 2008.

Subscriber/Volunteer Trees: Polite, Efficient Overlay Multicast Trees
John Dunagan, Nicholas J.A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, Alec Wolman
MS-TR-2004-131, December 2004.

A Multi-Radio Unification Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
Atul Adya, Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, Alec Wolman, Lidong Zhou
MSR-TR-2003-44, July 2003.

SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties
Nicholas J.A. Harvey, John Dunagan, Michael B. Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer, Alec Wolman
MSR-TR-2002-92, December 2002.

Unexpected Complexity: Experiences Tuning and Extending CAN
Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, Helen J. Wang, Alec Wolman
MSR-TR-2002-118, December 2002.

Professional Activities

Program Committees:
8th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2010) co-chair
2nd International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2010) 
7th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2009)
2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2009) co-chair
2nd IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2008)
5th Annual IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008)
6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-VI)
4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2007)
5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007)
7th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2006)
2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2006)
15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006)
10th IEEE International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2005)
6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2005)
25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005)
13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004)
3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2004)

Journals:
Area Editor, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 2005 - 2009.