Dwight Makaroff's Publications

Internet of Things Network Performance/Security

• Kale Yuzik and Dwight Makaroff, "Blockchain-based security for Heterogeneous IoT Systems," IBM CASCON 2020, pages 63-72, Toronto, Canada (held virtually), November 2020. pdf
• Tonghao Chen, Derek Eager, and Dwight Makaroff, "Efficient Image Transmission Using LoRa Technology In Agricultural Monitoring IoT Systems," 12th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2019), pp. 1-8, Atlanta, GA, July 2019. pdf

Distributed Video Encoding

• Kai Langen*, Ketan Mayer-Patel and Dwight Makaroff, "Chroma Prediction for Low-Complexity Distributed Video Encoding," 2020 Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications, pages 16-24, Valencia, Spain (Held virtually), October 2020. pdf

Caching in Information Centric-Networking

• Alireza Montazeri and Dwight Makaroff, "Optimal Cache Budget Distribution for Hierarchical ICN Networks," 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops (ICIN 2019), pp. 336-343, Paris, France, February 2019. pdf
• Alireza Montazeri, Nichloas Beaton and Dwight Makaroff, "LRU-2 vs. 2-LRU: An Analytical Study," IEEE Local Computer Networks 2018, pp. 1-8, Chicago, IL, October 2018. pdf
• Alireza Montazeri and Dwight Makaroff, "Geographically-Distinct Request Patterns for Caching in Information-Centric Networks", IEEE Local Computer Networks 2017, pp. 579-582, Singapore, October 2017 (poster). pdf

Wearable Computing

• Babatunde Olabenjo and Dwight Makaroff, "Information Leakage in Wearable Applications", 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, SpaCCS 2019, pp. 211 - 224, Atlanta, GA, July 2019. pdf
• Harini Kolamunni, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Diego Perino, Dwight Makaroff and Aruna Seneviratne, "Seamless Resource Sharing in Wearable Networks by Application Function Virtualization," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 18, Issue 6, pp. 1393-1496, June 2019. pdf
• Harini Kolamunni, Jagmohan Chauhan, Yining Hu, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Diego Perino, Dwight Makaroff and Aruna Seneviratne, "Are Wearables Ready for Secure and Direct Internet Communication?," ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 21, Issue 3, pp. 5-10, 2017, ACM Press, New York, NY. pdf
• Harini Kolamunna, Jagmohan Chauhan, Diego Perino, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Dwight Makaroff, and Aruna Seneviratne, "Are Wearables Ready for HTTPS? On the Potential of Direct Secure Communication on Wearables," 42nd IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN 2017), pages 321-329, Singapore, Singapore, October 2017. pdf
• Harini Kolamunna, Yining Hu, Diego Perino, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Dwight Makaroff, Xinlong Guan, and Aruna Seneviratne, "AFV: enabling application function virtualization and scheduling in wearable networks," 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '16), pp. 981-991, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2016. pdf

Performance of Scalable Data Processing Frameworks

• Noah Orensa, Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff, "A unified extensible architecture for efficient distributed analytics”, IBM CASCON 2021, pages 123-132, Toronto, Canada (held virtually), November 2021.
• Owolabi Adekoya, Habib Sabiu, Derek Eager, Winfried Grassmann and Dwight Makaroff, "A Case Study of Spark Resource Configuration and Management for Image Processing Applications", IBM CASCON 2018, pp. 18-29, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 2018. pdf
• Jagmohan Chauhan, Dwight Makaroff and Winfried Grassmann, "Simulation and Performance Evaluation of the Hadoop Capacity Scheduler," CASCON 2014, pp. 163-177, Toronto, ON, Canada, November 2014. ( pdf).
• 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, pp. 58-65, Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012 ( pdf).
• Jagmohan Chauhan, Dwight Makaroff and Winfried Grassmann, "The Impact of Capacity Scheduler Configuration Settings on MapReduce Jobs," IEEE Cloud and Green Computing 2012), pp. 667-674, Xiangtan, Hunan, China, November 2012 (pdf).

Network Performance of Games

• Chad Hansen, Nigel Jurgens, Dwight Makaroff, Dave Callele and Philip Dueck, "Network performance measurement framework for real-time multiplayer mobile games," Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), pp. 1-2, Denver, CO, December 2013. ( pdf).

Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

• Khadija Rasul, Dwight Makaroff and Kevin Stanley, "Hybrid Community-Based Forwarding: A Complete Energy Efficient Algorithm for Pocket Switched Networks," The 9th IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements (In conjunction with IEEE LCN 2015) , pages 166-174, Clearwater Beach, FL, October 2015. ( pdf).
• Khadija Rasul, Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Dwight Makaroff and Kevin Stanley, "Community-Based Forwarding for Low-Capacity Pocket Switched Networks," ACM Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2014), pages 249-257, Montreal, QC, Canada, September 2014. ( 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 and Media Request Analysis

• Shaiful Alam Chowdhury and Dwight Makaroff, "Category-based User Interaction with Online User-Generated Videos: Workload Characterization," CASCON 2014 - Emerging Technologies Track, 4 pages -Short Paper, pp. 367-370, Toronto, ON, Canada, November 2014 (pdf).
• Shaiful Alam Chowdhury and Dwight Makaroff, "Category-Based YouTube Request Pattern Characterization," Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2013 Selected Papers), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 189, pages 154-169, Springer Verlag, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44300-2_10 (pdf).
• Shaiful Alam Chowdhury and Dwight Makaroff, "Popularity Growth Patterns of YouTube Videos - A Category-based Study," 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, pages 233-242, Aachen, Germany, May 2013 (pdf). Nominated for Best Student Paper.
• 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, pp. 244-251, 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

Data Compression

• Spencer Clark, Dwight Makaroff and Kevin Stanley, "Developing and Evaluating a Lossless Compression Scheme for Scientific Data from a Nanosatellite", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp 1-4, Regina, Canada, May 2013. 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. pdf

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.