Mort’s Papers

Copies will eventually be available here. In the meantime, please contact me if you find any of these difficult to obtain.

Sharing airtime with Shair avoids wasting time and money
Pan Hui, Richard Mortier, Kuang Xu, Jon Crowcroft, Victor O.K. Li
To appear HotMobile 2009, Santa Cruz, USA, February 2009.

Address and traffic dynamics in a large enterprise network
Thomas Karagiannis, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of 16th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2008, pp.102--107, September 2008.

Weighted spectral distribution
Damien Fay, Hamed Haddadi, Steve Uhlig, Andrew W. Moore, Richard Mortier, Almerima Jamakovic
Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-729, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, September 2008.

Network Exception Handlers: Host-Network Control in Enterprise Networks
Thomas Karagiannis, Richard Mortier, Antony Rowstron
ACM SIGCOMM, August 2008.

Beyond Node Degree: Evaluating AS Topology Models
Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Almerima Jamakovic, Olaf Maennel, Andrew W. Moore, Richard Mortier, Miguel Rio, Steve Uhlig
Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-725, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, July 2008.

Address and traffic dynamics in a large enterprise network
Richard Mortier, Thomas Karagiannis, Peter Key
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-98, July 2008.

CT-NOR: Representing and reasoning about events in continuous time
Aleksander Simma, Moises Goldszmidt, John MacCormick, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier
International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

Tuning Topology Generators Using Spectral Distributions
Hamed Haddadi, Damien Fay, Steve Uhlig, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Almerima Jamakovic, Miguel Rio
SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, June 2008. Darmstadt, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5119.

Network Topologies: Inference, Modelling, Generation
Hamed Haddadi, Gianluca Iannaccone, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Miguel Rio
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 10(2) Q2 2008.

Constellation: Automated discovery of service and host dependencies in networked systems
Paul Barham, Richard Black, Moises Goldszmidt, Rebecca Isaacs, John MacCormick, Richard Mortier, Aleksandr Simma
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-67, April 2008.

Modeling Internet Topology Dynamics
Hamed Haddadi, Steve Uhlig, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Miguel Rio,
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CRR) 38(2):65--68, April 2008

Delay-aware querying with Seaweed
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Richard Mortier, Antony Rowstron
The VLDB Journal, 17(2):315--331, March 2008.

End-to-End Network Topology Generation
Hamed Haddadi, Andrew Moore, Richard Mortier, Miguel Rio, Gianluca Iannaccone
Extended abstract, ACM SIGCOMM, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.

Cost-aware view materialization for highly distributed datasets
J. Cappos, A. Donnelly, R. Mortier, D. Narayanan, A. Rowstron>
University of Arizona Tech Report 07-05, 2007.

Discovering Dependencies for Network Management
Paramvir Bahl, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Ranveer Chandra, Moises Goldszmidt, Rebecca Isaacs, Srikanth Kandula, Lun Li, John MacCormick, David Maltz, Richard Mortier, Mike Wawrzoniak, Ming Zhang
Proceedings of ACM HOTNETS-V, November 2006.

Autonomic Network Management: Some pragmatic considerations
Richard Mortier, Emre Kiciman
SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM), September 2006

Delay-aware querying with Seaweed
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Richard Mortier, Antony Rowstron
Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2006.

Learning Communication Patterns in Singularity
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Tim Harris
SIGMETRICS Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques in Systems (SYSML), June 2006.

Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous End System Monitors
Evan Cooke, Richard Mortier, Austin Donnelly, Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs
USENIX 2006 Annual Technical Conference, June 2006.

The Dark Oracle: Perspective-Aware Unused and Unreachable Address Discovery
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Farnam Jahanian, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'06), May 2006.

Seaweed: distributed scalable ad hoc querying
Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Antony Rowstron
Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NETDB'06), April 2006.

Anemone: using end-systems as a rich network management platform
Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Mining Network Data workshop (MINENET'05), August 2005.

Anemone: using end-systems as a rich network management platform
Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MS-TR-2005-62, May 2005. Longer version of MINENET'05 paper (above).

Using Magpie for request extraction and workload modelling
Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of ACM Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'04), December 2004.

Request extraction in Magpie: events, schemas, and temporal joins
Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham, James Bulpin, Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan
Proceedings of ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (SIGOPS EW'04), September 2004, pp.92--97.

Virtual Private Machines: User-Centric Performance
David Bartholomew Stewart, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (SIGOPS EW'04), September 2004, pp.36--40.

Incentive Based Inter-domain Routeing
Richard Mortier, Ian Pratt
Proceedings of Internet Charging and QoS Technology Workshop (ICQT'03), September 2003, pp.308--317.

Plutarch: An Argument for Network Pluralism
Jon Crowcroft, Steve Hand, Richard Mortier, Timothy Roscoe, Andrew Warfield
Proceedings of SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture (FDNA'03), August 2003, pp.258--266.

QoS's Downfall: At the bottom or not at all!
Jon Crowcroft, Steve Hand, Richard Mortier, Timothy Roscoe, Andrew Warfield
Proceedings of SIGCOMM Workshop on Revisiting IP QoS (RIPQOS'03), August 2003, pp.190--114.

Magpie: On-Line Modelling and Performance Aware Systems
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dushyanth Narayanan
Proceedings of ACM HotOS-IX, May 2003.

Predicate Routing: Enabling Controlled Networking
Timothy Roscoe, Steven Hand, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Paul Jardetzky
ACM CCR 33(1):65--70, January 2003 (Proceedings of ACM HOTNETS-I, July 2002). Also available as Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-02-012, July 2002.

Analysis of Link Failures in an IP Backbone
Gianluca Iannacone, Chen-nee Chuah, Richard Mortier, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot
Proceedings of ACM/USENIX IMW-2, pp.237--242, November 2002 (short paper). Also available as Sprint ATL Technical Report TR02-ATL-051025.

Routing Loops: Detection and Analysis of their Impact on Loss and Delay
Urs Hengartner, Sue Moon, Richard Mortier, Christophe Diot
Proceedings of ACM/USENIX IMW-2, pp.107--112, November 2002 (short paper). Also available as Sprint ATL Technical Report TR02-ATL051001, May 2002.

Multi-Timescale Internet Traffic Engineering
Richard Mortier
IEEE Communications Magazine, 40(10):125--131, October 2002.

Python Routeing Toolkit
Richard Mortier
`Software Tools for Networking' column, IEEE Network, 16(5):3--3, September 2002.

Techniques for Lightweight Concealment and Authentication in IP Networks
Paul Barham, Steven Hand, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Jardetzky, Richard Mortier, Timothy Roscoe
Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-02-009, July 2002.

InfoSpect: Using a Logic Language for System Health Monitoring in Distributed Systems
Timothy Roscoe, Richard Mortier, Paul Jardetzky, Steven Hand
Proceedings of ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, September 2002. Also available as Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-02-007, June 2002.

Internet Traffic Engineering
Richard Mortier
Ph.D. dissertation, submitted October 2001, successfully examined March 2002. Available as CUCL Technical Report 532.

Elastic Network Control: An Alternative to Active Networks
Herbert Bos, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Ian Leslie
KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks Special Issue: Programmable Routers and Switches, 3(2):153--163, June 2001.

Switchlets and Resource-Assured MPLS Networks
Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Keir Fraser
CUCL Technical Report 510, May 2000.

Implicit Admission Control
Richard Mortier, Ian Pratt, Christopher Clark, Simon Crosby
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue: QoS in the Internet, 18(12):2629--2639, December 2000.

INCA: Support for IN Using the Tempest
Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM99, December 1999.

An Economic Approach to Adaptive Resource Management
Neil Stratford, Richard Mortier
Proceedings of ACM HotOS-VII, March 1999.

QoS User Agent Software
Neil Stratford, Richard Mortier
ESPRIT LTR 21917 (Pegasus II) Deliverable 4.3.3, 1999.