Journal Publications

  • Chen Tian, Ali Munir, Alex X. Liu, Jie Yang, "OpenFunction: An Extensible Data Plane Abstraction Protocol for Platform-independent Software-Defined Middleboxes". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2018.

  • Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed Muhammad Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Alex X. Liu, Fahad Dogar, "PASE: Synthesizing Existing Transport Strategies for Datacenter Networks". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2017.

  • Wenxin Li, Deke Guo, Alex X. Liu, Keqiu Li, Heng Qi, Song Guo, Ali Munir, Xiaoyi Tao, "CoMan: Managing Bandwidth Across Computing Frameworks in Multiplexed Datacenters". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2017.


Conference Publications

  • Ali Munir, Zhiyun Qian, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Franck Le, "Multipath TCP Traffic Diversion Attacks and Countermeasures", in Proc. of IEEE ICNP 2017, Toronto, Canada.

  • Chen Tian, Ali Munir, Alex X. Liu, Yingtong Liu, Yanzhao Li, Jiajun Sun, Fan Zhang, Gong Zhang, "Multi-Tenant Multi-Objective Bandwidth Allocation in Datacenters Using Stacked Congestion Control", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  • Ali Munir, Ting He, Ramya Raghavendra, Franck Le, Alex X. Liu, "Network Scheduling Aware Task Placement in Datacenters", in Proc. of ACM CoNEXT 2016, Los Angeles, USA.

  • Ali Munir, Ghufran Baig, Syed Irteza, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Alex Liu, and Fahad Dogar, "Friends, not Foes - Synthesizing Existing Transport Strategies for Data Center Networks", in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, Illinois, August, 2014

  • Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Saad Qaisar, "On Achieving Low Latency in Data Centers", IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013

  • Ali Munir, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Zartash A. Uzmi, Aisha Mushtaq, Saad N. Ismail, M. Safdar Iqbal, and Basma Khan, "Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 2013

  • Ali Munir and Saad Qaisar, "Coded rate control protocol (C-RCP) for lossy channels", in Proc. of CISS 2010, Princeton University, USA

  • Ali Munir,Savera Tanwir,S.M. Hasan Zaidi,"Holding Time Aware Multicast Requests Provisioning Algorithm for Dynamic Optical Circuit Switched (DOCS) Networks", in Proc. of IEEE FIT 2009, Abottabad, Pakistan (Acceptance Rate: 16%)

  • Ali Munir,Savera Tanwir,S.M. Hasan Zaidi,"Holding Time Aware Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Emerging Bandwidth on Demand Multicast Applications", in Proc. of IEEE HONET 2009, EGYPT.

  • Ali Munir, Savera Tanwir,S.M. Hasan Zaidi,"Requests Provisioning Algorithms for Dynamic Optical Circuit Switched (DOCS) Networks: A Survey", in Proc. of IEEE INMIC 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.


Patents

  • Alex X. Liu, Ali Munir, ``Automatic Signature Generation on the Fly for Zero-day Attack Traffic'', U.S. Patent Application Submitted.

  • Puneet Sharma, Ali Munir, ``Libere: An intent-computing framework for edge-2-core infrastructure'', U.S. Patent Filed.

  • Ramya Raghavendra, Ting He, Franck Le, Ali Munir, ``Network State and Scheduling-aware Task Scheduling'', U.S. Patent No. 20,170,286,180. 5 Oct. 2017.