Sameh Elnikety's Publications

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Database Replication for Dynamic Web Servers

One-Copy Serializability with Snapshot Isolation under the Hood.
Mihaela A. Bornea, Orion Hodson, Sameh Elnikety, Alan Fekete.
ICDE 2011, Hannover, Germany, April 11-16, 2011.
[ Paper | Slides ]
Strongly consistent replication for a bargain.
Konstantinos Krikellas, Sameh Elnikety, Zografoula Vagena, Orion Hodson.
ICDE 2010, Long Beach, CA, March 1-6, 2010.
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Predicting Replicated Database Scalability from Standalone Database Profiling.
Sameh Elnikety, Steven Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecchet, and Willy Zwaenepoel.
EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2009.
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Tashkent+: Memory-Aware Load Balancing and Update Filtering in Replicated Databases.
Sameh Elnikety, Steven Dropsho, and Willy Zwaenepoel.
EuroSys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007.
Best Paper Award
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Tashkent: Uniting Durability with Transaction Ordering for High-Performance Scalable Database Replication.
Sameh Elnikety, Steven Dropsho, and Fernando Pedone.
EuroSys 2006, Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
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Database Replication Using Generalized Snapshot Isolation.
Sameh Elnikety, Fernando Pedone, and Willy Zwaenepoel.
SRDS 2005: 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Orlando, FL, USA, October 2005.
[ Paper | Slides ]
     An extended version appears in this technical report
     Generalized Snapshot Isolation and a Prefix-Consistent Implementation.
     EPFL Technical Report IC/2004/21, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2004.
     [ Technical Report ]

Enterprise Storage Systems

Migrating Enterprise Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs.
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly, Sameh Elnikety, Antony Rowstron.
EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2009.
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Everest: Scaling down Peak Loads through I/O Off-loading.
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska, Sameh Elnikety, and Antony Rowstron.
OSDI 2008, San Diego, CA, USA, December 2008.
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System Support for Dynamic Web Servers

Tians Scheduling: Using Partial Processing in Best-Effort Applications.
Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, Hongyang Sun.
ICDCS 2011, Minneapolis, MN, June 20-24, 2011.
DynaServer: Dynamic Content Delivery for E-commerce.
Sameh Elnikety.
ECOOP 2004 Ph.D. Workshop, the 18th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (Doctoral Symposium), Oslo, Norway, June 2004.
[ Extended Abstract ]
A Method for Transparent Admission Control and Request Scheduling in E-commerce Web Sites.
Sameh Elnikety, Erich Nahum, John Tracey and Willy Zwaenepoel.
WWW 2004: The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York City, NY, USA, May 17-22, 2004.
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Performance Comparison of Middleware Architectures for Generating Dynamic Web Content.
Emmanuel Cecchet, Anupam Chanda, Sameh Elnikety, Julie Marguerite and Willy Zwaenepoel.
Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003.
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Admission Control for E-Commerce Web Sites.
Sameh Elnikety, Erich Nahum, John Tracey, and Willy Zwaenepoel.
Self Manage 2004: The First Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Self-Managing Systems (Extended Abstract),San Diego, California, USA, June 2003.
[ Extended Abstract ]
Using Performance Reflection in Systems Software.
Alan Cox, Sameh Elnikety, Rob Fowler and Willy Zwaenepoel.
HotOS IX: Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating, Lihue, Hawaii, USA, May 2003.
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Admission Control and Request Scheduling for Dynamic Content Web Servers.
Sameh Elnikety.
M.S. thesis, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 2003.
[ Thesis ]
Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks.
C. Amza, E. Cecchet, A. Chanda, Alan L. Cox, S. Elnikety, R. Gil, J. Marguerite, K. Rajamani and W. Zwaenepoel.
WWC-5: The 5th Annual IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization, Austin, Texas, USA, November 2002.
[ Paper | Slides | Software ]
     An extended version appears in this technical report
     Bottleneck Characterization of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks.
     Rice University Computer Science Technical Report TR02-388, 2002.
     [ Technical Report]
     Early version of this work was presented at:
     IBM 3rd CAS Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, February 2002.

P2P Secure Cooperative Data Backup

A Cooperative Internet Backup Scheme.
Mark Lillibridge, Sameh Elnikety , Andrew Birrell, Mike Burrows, and Michael Isard.
USENIX 2003: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 2003.
[ Paper ]
     A shorter (and interesting) early version appears in this report.
     Cooperative Backup System.
     Sameh Elnikety, Mark Lillibridge, Mike Burrows and Willy Zwaenepoel.
     WiPs paper in USENIX FAST 2002 , Monterey, California, USA, January 2002.
     [ Extended Abstract ]

Real-time Disk Scheduling for Continuous Media Servers

A Deadline Driven Disk Scheduling Algorithm for Continuous Media Servers.
Sameh M. Elnikety , Walid G. Aref, Mohamed S. Abougabal.
Alexandria University Technical Report, Alexandria, Egypt, 2000.
[ Technical Report ]
A Real-time Disk Scheduling Algorithm for Multimedia Storage Servers.
Sameh M. Elnikety.
MSc thesis, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, 1999.
[ Thesis ]

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