Amir H. Payberah Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Box 1263, SE-164 29 Kista, Sweden amir@sics.se - payberah@kth.se I am a senior researcher in the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). I got my PhD from KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in June 2013. My research focuses on large-scale distributed systems, P2P overlays, gossip-based algorithms, cloud computing, P2P and hybrid P2P-Cloud content distribution, distributed NAT traversal, and scalable publish/subscribe systems. I also do some teaching, mainly for distributed computing, and P2P systems, e.g., P2P content distribution networks, DHT, gossip-based algorithms, and NoSQL databases.

Research Interests

• Distributed Systems and Algorithms
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Gossip and Epidemic Algorithms
• Cloud Computing
• Metaheuristics and Combinatorial Optimization
• Distributed Optimization

Publications

Journals

• Distributed Optimization of P2P Live Streaming Overlays [pdf] [bibtex] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, Fatemeh Rahimian and Seif Haridi, Springer Computing, Special Issue on Extreme Distributed Systems: From Large Scale to Complexity (Computing), June 2012.

Conferences

• Lightweight Gossip-based Distribution Estimation [pdf] [bibtex]
  Amir H. Payberah, Hanna Kavalionak, Alberto Montresor, Jim Dowling, and Seif Haridi, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.


• CLive: Cloud-Assisted P2P Live Streaming [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Hanna Kavalionak, Vimalkumar Kumaresan, Alberto Montresor, and Seif Haridi, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), Tarragona, Spain, September 2012.


• Shuffling with a Croupier: Nat-Aware Peer-Sampling [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Jim Dowling and Amir H. Payberah, The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China, June 2012. (acceptance rate: 71/515 = 14%)


• Subscription Awareness Meets Rendezvous Routing [pdf] [bibtex]
  Fatemeh Rahimian, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Amir H. Payberah and Seif Haridi, The 4th IARIA International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS), Barcelona, Spain, September 2012.


• GLive: The Gradient overlay as a market maker for mesh-based P2P live streaming [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling and Seif Haridi, The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 2011.


• Gozar: NAT-friendly Peer Sampling with One-Hop Distributed NAT Traversal [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling and Seif Haridi, The 11th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2011.


• Vitis: A Gossip-based Hybrid Overlay for Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe [pdf] [bibtex] [link]
  Fatemeh Rahimian, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Amir H. Payberah and Seif Haridi, The 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2011. (acceptance rate: 112/571 = 19%)


• Converging an Overlay Network to a Gradient Topology [pdf] [bibtex]
  Hakan Terelius, Guodong Shi, Jim Dowling, Amir H. Payberah, Ather Gattami and Karl Henrik Johansson, The 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), Orlando, Florida, USA, December 2011.


• Sepidar: Incentivized Market-Based P2P Live Streaming on the Gradient Overlay Network [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, Fatemeh Rahimian and Seif Haridi, The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Taichung, Taiwan, December 2010.


• gradienTv: Market-based P2P Live Media Streaming on the Gradient Overlay [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, Fatemeh Rahimian and Seif Haridi, The 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2010.


• Auditing Intrusion Detection System with Mobile Agents [pdf] (Persian)
  Amir H. Payberah and Babak Sadeghian, The 10Th Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2005.

Thesis

• Live Streaming in P2P and Hybrid P2P-Cloud Environments for the Open Internet (PhD thesis) [pdf] [bibtex] [slides] [video]
  Amir H. Payberah, Supervisors: Prof. Seif Haridi and Dr. Jim Dowling, Oponent: Prof. Anwitaman Datta, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013.


• Distributed Optimization of P2P Media Delivery Overlays (Licentiate thesis) [pdf] [bibtex] [slides]
  Amir H. Payberah, Supervisors: Prof. Seif Haridi and Dr. Jim Dowling, Oponent: Prof. Alberto Montresor, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011.


• ForestCast for Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming (Master thesis) [pdf] [bibtex] [slides]
  Amir H. Payberah and Fatemeh Rahimian, Supervisors: Prof. Seif Haridi and Dr. Ali Ghodsi, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.


• Auditing Intrusion Detection System using Mobile Agents (Master thesis - Persian) [pdf]
  Amir H. Payberah, Supervisor: Dr. Babak Sadeghian, Oponents: Dr. Hossein Pedrame and Dr. Rasoul Jalili, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

Books

• Linux Device Driver Programming [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Hamed Janzadeh and Vahid Kazempour, Ardalan Press, 2006, ISBN: 964-92399-8-7.


• Linux Process Programming and Management [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Malihe Sarikhani and Azar Nazari, Ardalan Press, 2006, ISBN: 964-92399-9-5.

Professional Activities

Journals

• Reviewer of TPDS, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• Reviewer of PPNA, Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.
• Reviewer of IJECE, Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Conferences

• PC member of DAIS, IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (2013).
• Reviewer of ACM SIGMOD, (2013).
• Reviewer of P2P, IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (2008 - 2011).
• Reviewer of DAIS, IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (2011).
• Reviewer of CCNC, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (2010).

Teaching

• Lectures on P2P overlays given as a part of KTH MSc program on Distributed Computing, Peer-to-Peer and Grids, Stockholm, Sweden (2008 - 2012) [slides]
• Lecture on DHT given as a part of KTH MSc program on Network Algorithms, Stockholm, Sweden (2008 - 2009) [slides]
• GNU/Linux System Programming, Iran Network Information Center (NIC), Tehran, Iran (2006)
• Operating System Lab (GNU/Linux Architecture and Programming), Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran (2001 - 2006) [slides]
• Video Lectures on GNU/Linux, Iran, Winter 2005 [videos]
• Operating System, Azad University, Karaj, Iran (2004)
• Linux Device Driver, MetNet Co., Tehran, Iran (2004) [slides]
• Java Programming, MetNet Co., Tehran, Iran (2004)

Projects

• PeerTV: Designing a flexible and efficient infrastructure for live streaming over Internet (SICS, 2008 - 2010).
• SICSIM: A discrete-event, flow-level simulator for simulating Peer-to-Peer overlays (SICS, 2008).
• BalticGrid: Integrating Tycoon and gLite Grid systems (PDC, 2007).
• Farsi Linux: Creating two Farsi GNU/Linux distributions, Learnux and Karamad (DPI, 2005).
• Embedded GNU/Linux: Creating embedded GNU/Linux distributions for Set-Top-Boxes and Thin Clients (Gata, 2004).

Download

• You can find slides of lectures and other documents here.

My Photos

• My Flickr photostream: [photos]

My Weblogs

• My active weblogs: [be hamin sadegi], [learnux]
• Old weblogs: [jouibar], [p2p computing]

My Country - IRAN

• Iran is my great country [link]