Dwight Makaroff's Publications

Performance of Scalable Data Processing Frameworks

• Jagmohan Chauhan, Shaiful Alam Chowdhury and Dwight Makaroff, "Performance Evaluation of Yahoo! S4: A First Look," Seventh International Conference On P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, 8 pages (to appear), Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012 ( pdf).
• Jagmohan Chauhan, Dwight Makaroff and Winfried Grassmann, "The Impact of Capacity Scheduler Configuration Settings on MapReduce Jobs," The 2012 International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce (co-located with IEEE Cloud and Grid Computing 2012) , 8 pages, Xiangtan, Hunan, China, November 2012 (pdf).

Web-based Application Performance Monitoring

• Anthony J. Arkles and Dwight J. Makaroff, "MT-WAVE: Profiling Multi-tier Web Applications," Second ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2011), pp. 247-258, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 2011. pdf

Incentive-Based Media Caching Systems

• Shaiful Alam Chowdhury and Dwight Makaroff, "Characterizing Videos and Users in YouTube: A Survey," Seventh International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, 8 pages, (to appear), Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012 (pdf).
• Jeremy Guebert, Dwight Makaroff and Ketan Mayer Patel, "Request Generation for a Peer-based PVR," 20th SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2010), pp. 99-104, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2010. pdf

Network Issues in Collaboration

• Jeff Dyck, Carl Gutwin and Dwight Makaroff, "Adaptive Forward Error Correction for Real-time Groupware," GROUP '12, pp 121-130, Sanibel Island, FL, October 2012.

Intrusion Detection in Community Wireless Mesh Networks

• Dwight Makaroff, Paul Smith, Nicholas J. P. Race and David Hutchison, "Intrusion Detection Systems for Community Wireless Mesh Networks," 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking (MeshTech), pp. 610-616, Atlanta, GA, September 2008. pdf

Sensor Network Performance

• Jie Feng, Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff, "Coverage Preserving Aggregation Protocols for Dense Sensor Networks," 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, pp. 440-447, Denver, Colorado, October 2010. pdf
• Jie Feng, Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff, "Aggregation Protocols for High Rate, Low Delay Data Collection in Sensor Networks," IFIP Networking, pp. 26-39, Aachen, Germany, May 2009. pdf
• Jie Feng, Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff, "Asynchronous Data Aggregation for Real-time Monitoring in Sensor Networks," IFIP Networking, Atlanta, GA, pp. 73-84, May 2007. pdf

Operating Systems Performance

• Jagmohan Chauhan and Dwight Makaroff and Tony Arkles, “VM Clock Synchronization Measurements," 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) , Orlando, FL, pp. 1-2, November 2011. (pdf)
• Dylan Griffiths and Dwight Makaroff, "Hybrid vs. Monolithic OS Kernels: A Benchmark Comparison," CASCON 2006 , Toronto, ON, pp. 349-352, October 2006. (pdf)
  

Teaching Undergraduate Computer Science

• David Callele and Dwight Makaroff, "On Teaching to the Masses and the Masters: Competing Requirements for Undergraduate Education," Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (WCCCE), Calgary, AB, Canada, 9 pages, May 2006. (pdf)
• David Callele and Dwight Makaroff, "Teaching Requirements Engineering to an Unsuspecting Audience," Proceedings of the 37th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, pp. 433-437, March 2006. pdf

E-commerce and Database Workload Characterization

• Fujian Liu, Dwight Makaroff and Said Elnaffar, "Classifying E-commerce Wokloads under Dynamic Caching," IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2005, Waikaloa, HI, pp. 2819-2826, October 2005. (pdf.)
• Fujian Liu, Yanping Zhao, Wenguang Wang and Dwight Makaroff, " Database Server Workload Characterization in an E-commerce Environment," MASCOTS 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands, pp. 475-483, October 2004.(pdf)
• Qing Wang, D.J. Makaroff and Keith Edwards, "Characterizing Customer Groups for an E-commerce Website," Proc. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACMEC 2004), New York, NY, pp. 218-227, May 2004. (pdf)
• Qing Wang, D.J. Makaroff, Keith Edwards and Ryan Thompson, "Workload Characterization for an E-commerce Web Site," Proc. CASCON 2003, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 313-327, October 2003 ( pdf)

Media Caching/Streaming/Proxies

• Jagmohan Chauhan and Dwight Makaroff, “Performance Evaluation of Video-On-Demand in Virtualized Environments: The Client Perspective”, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (with HPDC 2012), Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 29-36, June 2012. (pdf)
• Justice Daka and Dwight Makaroff, "Mixed Reliability Video Streaming," IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia 2008 (WoWMoM), Newport Beach, CA, pp 1-8, June 2008. ( pdf)
• Fujian Liu and D.J. Makaroff, "A Comparison of Continuous Media Stream Proxy Caching Policies," 7th IASTED International Conference on INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS - IMSA 2003, Honolulu, HI, pp. 164-169, August 2003. ( pdf)

Continuous Media File Server Publications

• D. Makaroff, J. Coutu and F. Liu, "Disk Performance and VBR Admission Control for Media Servers," The Eleventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS '2005, Banff, Canada, pp. 224-227, September 2005. (pdf)
• D. Makaroff and N. Hutchinson, Development and evolution of a heterogeneous continuous media server: a case study. Journal of Software Evolution and Maintenance, Volume 17, No. 2, pp. 143-167, April 2005.
• D. Makaroff, G. Neufeld and N. Hutchinson, Performance Evaluation for VBR Continuous Media File Server Admission Control (pdf), Software Practise and Experience, Volume 34, No. 12, pp. 1187-1210, October 2004.
• D. Makaroff, G. Neufeld and N. Hutchinson, Design and Implementation of a VBR Continuous Media File Server IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 13-28, January 2001.
• D. Makaroff, G. Neufeld and N. Hutchinson, Network Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control for a Continuous Media File Server , 6th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS 99), Toulouse France, pp. 337-350, October 12-15, 1999.
• J. W. Wong, K. A. Lyons, D. Evans, R. J. Velthuys, G. v. Bochmann, E. Dubois, N. D. Georganas, G. Neufeld, M. T. Oszu, J. Brinskelle, A. Hafid, N. Hutchinson, P. Iglinski, L. Lamont, D. Makaroff and D. Szafron, Enabling technology for distributed multimedia applications, IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 36, no. 4, 1997.
• D. Makaroff, G. Neufeld and N. Hutchinson, An Evaluation of VBR Disk Admission Algorithms for Continuous Media File Servers, ACM Multimedia '97, Seattle, WA, pp. 143-154, November 1997.
• J. W. Wong, D. Evans, N. Georganas, J. Brinskelle, G. Neufeld, and D. Makaroff, An MBone-based Distance Education System, International Conference on Computer Communication 97, Cannes, France, pp. 101-106, November, 1997.
• G. Neufeld, D. Makaroff and N. Hutchinson, Server Based Flow Control in a Distributed Continuous Media File Server, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Zushi, Japan, pp. 29-35, April 1996.
• G. Neufeld, D. Makaroff and N. Hutchinson, Design of a Variable Bit-Rate Continuous Media Server for an ATM Network, IS&T/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, CA, pp. 370-380, January 1996.
• Dwight J. Makaroff and Raymond T. Ng. Schemes For Implementing Buffer Sharing in Continuous-Media Systems, Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 6. pp. 445-464, 1995.
• G. Neufeld, D. Makaroff and N. Hutchinson. Design of a Variable Bit-Rate Continuous Media File Server, 5th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Durham, NH, pp. 375-378, May 1995.

Disk Caching

• D. Makaroff and D. Eager. Disk Caching in Distributed Systems, 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Paris, France, pp. 212-219, June 1990.