Amir H. Payberah Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Box 1263, SE-164 29 Kista, Sweden amir@sics.se - payberah@kth.se I'm a PhD student at the KTH University and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), currently working on peer-to-peer overlay networks under supervison of prof. Seif Haridi. I received my Master degree in distributed systems from KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in 2008, and in computer architecture from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2003. You can find my CV here.

Research Interests

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

Publications

Conferences

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


• GLive: The Gradient overlay as a market maker for mesh-based P2P live streaming [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, 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] [slides] [bibtex] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, 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, Seif Haridi, The 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2011.


• Sepidar: Incentivized Market-Based P2P Live Streaming on the Gradient Overlay Network [pdf] [slides] [bibtex] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, Fatemeh Rahimian, 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] [slides] [bibtex] [link]
  Amir H. Payberah, Jim Dowling, Fatemeh Rahimian, 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, Babak Sadeghian, The 10Th Annual Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2005.

Thesis

• Distributed Optimization of P2P Media Delivery Overlays (Licentiate thesis) [pdf] [slides] [bib]
  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] [slides] [bib]
  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, Vahid Kazempour, Ardalan Press, 2006, ISBN: 964-92399-8-7.


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

Teaching

• Lectures on P2P overlays given as a part of KTH MSc program on Distributed Computing, Peer-to-Peer and Grids, Stockholm, Sweden (2008 - 2010) [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).

Professional Activities

• Reviewer of the DAIS Conference, IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (2011).
• Reviewer of the P2P Conference, IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (2008 - 2011).
• Reviewer of the CCNC Conference, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (2010).
• Member of the FOSS Technical Committee, The National Farsi Linux Project (2005).

Download

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

Bookmarks

• You can find useful links here.

Friends

• Fatemeh Rahimian [page]
• Jim Dowling [page]
• Ali Ghodsi [page]
• Sarunas Girdzijauskas [page]
• Tallat Mahmood Shafaat [page]
• Ahmad Al-Shishtawy [page]
• Cosmin Arad [page]
• Alireza Zarghami [page]
• Soudeh Fazeli [page]
• Koosha Paridel [page]

My Weblogs

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

My Country - IRAN

• Iran is my great country [link]