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Refereed Journal Articles:
    Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven?  
    Ruben Cuevas, Michal Kryczka, Angel Cuevas, Sebastian Kaune, Carmen Guerrero, Reza Rejaie
    In submission (Dec 2010)

    Montra: A Large-Scale DHT Traffic Monitor  
    PDF
    Ghulam Memon, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo, Daniel Stutzbach
    Elsevier Computer Networks, Special Issue on Measurement-based Optimization of P2P Networking and Applications (to appear)

    Incorporating Contribution-Awareness into Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming Services  
    PDF
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, July 2010



  • Sizing up Online Social Networks   
    PDF   
    Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Walter Willinger
    IEEE Network Special Issue on Online Social Networks, Volume 24, Number 5, September/October 2010



  • ISP-Friendly P2P Streaming   
    DOC   
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Invited article in IEEE MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE E-Letter , October 2009



  • Characterization of P2P Systems  
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Book Chapter, Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Shen, X.; Yu, H.; Buford, J.; Akon, M. (Eds.), Springer, March 2009, ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3



  • PRIME: Peer-to-Peer Receiver-drIven MEsh-based Streaming  
    PDF   
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 17, Number 4, August 2009



  • On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks  
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 16, Number 6, 2008



  • Lookup Performance over a Widely-Deployed DHT  
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    In submission



  • Characterizing Unstructured Overlay Topologies in Modern P2P File-Sharing Systems  
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Subhabrata Sen
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 16, Number 2, April 2008


  • A Historic Open Reviewing at Global Internet'07   
    PDF   
    Michalis Faloutsos, Reza Rejaie, Anirban Banerjee
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 37, Number 3, July 2007


  • Characterizing Files in the Modern Gnutella Network  
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Shanyu Zhao, Reza Rejaie
    ACM/SPIE Multimedia Systems Journal , Volume 1, Issue 13, pp. 35-50, March 2007



  • Anyone Can Broadcast Video Over the Internet  
    HTML   
    Reza Rejaie
    Communications of the ACM, special issue on Entertainment Networking , Volume 49, Number 11, pp. 55-57, November 2006



  • Adaptive Receiver-Driven Streaming from Multiple Senders  
    PDF   
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    ACM/SPIE Multimedia Systems Journal, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 550-567, Springer-Verlag, April 2006



  • Layered Quality Adaptation for Internet Video Streaming  
    Postscript   
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Deborah Estrin
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications(JSAC), Special issue on Internet QoS, pp. 2530-2543, Winter 2000



  • Improving Simulation for Network Research  
    Postscript   
    Sandeep Bajaj, Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, Padma Haldar, Mark Handley, Ahmed Helmy, John Heidemann, Polly Huang, Satish Kumar, Steven McCanne, Reza Rejaie, Puneet Sharma, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu, Daniel Zapalla
    IEEE Computer , Volume 33, pp. 59-67, May 2000



  • MITRA: A Continuous Media Server   
    HTML   
    S. Ghandeharizadeh, R. Zimmermann, W. Shi, R. Rejaie, D. Ierardi, and T. Li,
    Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 79-108, July 1997)
    Also appeared as a book chapter, Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century,
    (Editor Borko Furht, Kluwer Academic Publishers
    , Boston, December 1997, ISBN: 0-7923-8074-6)


Refereed Conference & Workshop Papers:


  • Eyeball ASes: From Geography to Connectivity
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Amir H. Rasti, Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Accepted to ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia, November 2010 [acceptance rate 22%]



  • On the Design of Scalable Peer-to-Peer Video Caching
    PDF   
    Alex Bikfalvi, Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Jaime Garcia-Reinoso
    In submission, Feb 2010



  • Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven?
    PDF   
    Ruben Cuevas, Michal Kryczka, Angel Cuevas, Sebastian Kaune, Carmen Guerrero, Reza Rejaie
    Accepted to ACM CoNext, November 2010 [acceptance rate 19%] This paper was selected for fast-track publication by IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking



  • Tsunami: Identifying New Class of Botnets  
    PDF   
    Ghulam Memon, Jun Li, Reza Rejaie
    In submission



  • Characterizing the Global Impact of P2P Overlays on the AS-Level Underlay
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of Passive & Active Measurement Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, April 2010 [acceptance rate 29%]



  • ISP-Friendly Live P2P Streaming
    PDF   
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Volker Hilt, Ivica Rimac, Markus Hofmann
    In submission
    Technical Report CIS-TR-2009-02, University of Oregon, August 2009


  • Research on Online Social Networks: Time to Face the Real Challenges
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Walter Willinger, Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Mauro Maggioni
    Accepted to The 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics), Seattle, Washington, June 2009


  • Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow: On the Migration of MySpace Users
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Accepted to ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 [acceptance rate 33%]


  • Beyond Friendship Graphs: A Study of User Interactions in Flickr
    PDF Powerpoint   
    Masoud Valafar, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Accepted to ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 [acceptance rate 33%]


  • Overlay Monitoring and Repair in Swarm-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Accepted to NOSSDAV, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2009 [acceptance rate 31%]


  • Respondent-driven Sampling for Characterizing Unstructured Overlays
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Amir H. Rasti, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Walter Willinger. Daniel Stutzbach
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-conference , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 [acceptance rate including INFOCOM 26.6%]


  • Large-Scale Monitoring of DHT Traffic
    PDF    HTML    Powerpoint
    Ghulam Memon, Reza Rejaie, yang Guo, Daniel Stutzbach
    Proceedings of International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), Boston, MA, April 2009 [acceptance rate 20%]


  • Dissecting the performance of Live Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming
    PDF   
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    In submission
    Technical Report CIS-TR-2007-01, University of Oregon, July 2007


  • Understanding Peer-Level Performance in BitTorrent: A Measurement Study  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), one of the Chairs Recommended Papers, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2007 [acceptance rate 29%]


  • Examining Graph Properties of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Topology  
    PDF   
    Chao Xie, Sijie Guo, Reza Rejaie, Yi Pan
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 35%]



  • Mesh or Multiple-Tree: A Comparative Study of Live P2P Streaming Approaches  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie, Yang Guo
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1424-1432, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 17%]



  • PRIME: Peer-to-Peer Receiver-drIven MEsh-based Streaming  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1415-1423, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 [acceptance rate 17%]



  • Issues in Offering Live P2P Streaming Service to Residential Users   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Yang Guo, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 757-762, Las Vegas, January 2007



  • On Unbiased Sampling for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference
    , pp. 27-40, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006 [acceptance rate 22%]



  • Understanding Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference
    , pp. 189-202, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2006 [acceptance rate 22%]



  • Understanding Mesh-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp 56-61, Newport, Rhode Island, May 2006 [acceptance rate 31% of 74]



  • Sampling Techniques for Large, Dynamics Graphs  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Subhabrata Sen, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 36% of 63]



  • On the Long-term Evolution of the Two-tier Gnutella Overlay  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Amir H. Rasti, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, pp. 1-6, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 36% of 63]



  • Improving Lookup Performance over a Widely-Deployed DHT  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1-12, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006 [acceptance rate 18%]



  • Characterizing Files in the Modern Gnutella Network: A Measurement Study  
    PDF    Powerpoint   
    Shanyu Zhao, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking, pp. 1-13, San Jose, January 2006 [acceptance rate 25%]



  • Characterizing Unstructured Overlay Topologies in Modern P2P File-Sharing Systems  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Subhabrata Sen
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 49-62, Berkeley, October 2005 [acceptance rate 27% of 82]



  • The Scalability of Swarming Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery  
    PDF    Presentation
    Daniel Stutzbach, Daniel Zappala, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of Networking , pp. 15-26, Waterloo Ontario Canada, May 2005 [acceptance rate 25% of 430]



  • Capturing Accurate Snapshots of the Gnutella Network  
    PDF    Presentation
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, pp. 127-132, Miami, FL, March 2005 [acceptance rate 32% of 67]



  • Adaptive Multi-Source Streaming in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Vikash Agarwal, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking , pp. 13-25, San Jose, CA, January 2005 [acceptance rate 16%]



  • A Framework for Architecting Peer-to-Peer Receiver-driven Overlays   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Shad Stafford
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 42-47, Cork, Ireland, June 2004 [acceptance rate 25% of 95]



  • PALS: Peer-to-Peer Adaptive Layered Streaming   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Antonio Ortega
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 153-161, Monterey, California, June 2003 [acceptance rate 30% of 60]



  • On Integration of Congestion Control with Internet Streaming Applications  
    PDF   
    Reza Rejaie
    Packet Video Workshop , Nantes, France, April 2003



  • Design Issues for Layered Quality-Adaptive Internet Video Playback  
    PDF   
    Reza Rejaie, Amy R. Reibman
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Communications, pp. 433-451, Taormina, Italy, September 2001



  • Mocha: A Quality Adaptive Multimedia Proxy Cache for Internet Streaming  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Jussi Kangasharju
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 3-10, Port Jefferson, New York, June 2001 [acceptance rate 33% of 60]



  • Architectural Considerations for Playback of Quality Adaptive Video over the Internet  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON'2000), pp. 204-209, Singapore, September 2000



  • On Design of Internet Multimedia Streaming Applications: An Architectural Perspective  
    Postscript    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 327-330, New York, August 2000.



  • Multimedia Proxy Caching Mechanism for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM , pp. 980-989, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000 [acceptance rate 26% of 735]



  • Quality Adaptation for Congestion Controlled Video Playback over the Internet  
    Postscript   
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99 , pp. 189-200, Cambridge, MA, September 1999 [acceptance rate 12% of 190]



  • Proxy Caching Mechanism for Multimedia Playback Streams in the Internet  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley, Haobo Yu, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of the 4th International Web Caching Workshop , pp. 100-111, San Diego, CA, March 1999 [acceptance rate 50% of 38]



  • RAP: An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime Streams in the Internet   
    PDF   
    Reza Rejaie, Mark Handely, Deborah Estrin
    Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1337-1345, New York, NY, March 1999 [acceptance rate 30% of 600]
    This paper is one of the top ten most cited articles in computer science published in 1999 according to CiteSeer



Refereed Extended Abstract and Posters:


  • Understanding the Effect of P2P Overlay On the AS-Level Underlay  
    Paper    Poster
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Proceedings of CoNEXT Conference, Student Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 2007



  • Peer-to-Peer Receiver-driven Mesh-based Streaming  
    PDF    Powerpoint
    Nazanin Magharei, Amir H. Rasti, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Poster Session , August 2005



  • Characterizing the Two-Tier Gnutella Topology   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    D. Stutzbach, R. Rejaie
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, Poster Session, pp. 402-403, Alberta Canada, June 2005



  • Evaluating the Accuracy of Captured Snapshots by Peer-to-Peer Crawlers   
    PDF    Powerpoint
    D. Stutzbach, R. Rejaie
    Proceedings of the Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Extended abstract, pp. 353-357, Boston, MA, March 2005



Technical Reports:


  • Characterizing the Global Impact of the P2P Overlay on the AS-level Underlay   
    PDF   
    Amir H. Rasti, Reza Rejaie, Walter Willinger
    Technical Report CIS-TR-10-01, University of Oregon, January 2010



  • Evaluating Sampling Techniques for Large Dynamic Graphs   
    PDF   
    Amir H. Rasti, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Reza Rejaie, Nick Duffield, Walter Willinger, Daniel Stutzbach
    Technical Report CIS-TR-08-01, University of Oregon, September 2008



  • Towards a Better Understanding of Churn in Peer-to-Peer Networks   
    PDF   
    Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
    Technical Report CIS-TR-04-06, University of Oregon, November 2004



  • Proxy Caching for Quality Adaptive Multimedia Streams in the Internet: A Performance Perspective  
    Postscript   
    Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu
    Technical Report, February 2000



  • An End-to-End Architecture for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet  
    Posctscript    Powerpoint
    Reza Rejaie
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Science Department, USC, September 1999