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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Arif Merchant is affiliated with Google in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work focuses extensively on areas including Computer Networks and Communications as well as Information Systems, with notable contributions to topics such as Caching and Content Delivery, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, and Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance. Additional research interests include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

Their recent publications include:

  • Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs), 2023, ACM Transactions on Storage
  • LEGOStore, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • CacheSack: Theory and Experience of Google's Admission Optimization for Datacenter Flash Caches, 2023, ACM Transactions on Storage
  • LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

These papers have appeared in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Storage, and the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. Merchant has published multiple times in arXiv and ACM Transactions on Storage, reflecting sustained contributions to these outlets.

Frequent collaborators in Merchant's research include Hamidreza Zare, Viveck R. Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Nader Alfares, and Praneet Soni.

Merchant was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments

    Pradeep Padala;Kang G. Shin;Xiaoyun Zhu;Mustafa Uysal

  • Automated control of multiple virtualized resources

    Pradeep Padala;Kai-Yuan Hou;Kang G. Shin;Xiaoyun Zhu

  • Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Arif Merchant;Mehul Shah;Alistair Veitch

  • Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems

    Guillermo A. Alvarez;Elizabeth Borowsky;Susie Go;Theodore H. Romer

  • Façade: virtual storage devices with performance guarantees

    Christopher R. Lumb;Arif Merchant;Guillermo A. Alvarez

  • FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components

    Yasushi Saito;Svend Frølund;Alistair Veitch;Arif Merchant

  • mClock: handling throughput variability for hypervisor IO scheduling

    Ajay Gulati;Arif Merchant;Peter J. Varman

  • Flash reliability in production: the expected and the unexpected

    Bianca Schroeder;Raghav Lagisetty;Arif Merchant

  • Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks

    Arif Merchant;Bhaskar Sengupta

  • An analytic behavior model for disk drives with readahead caches and request reordering

    Elizabeth Shriver;Arif Merchant;John Wilkes

  • pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems

    Ajay Gulati;Arif Merchant;Peter J. Varman

  • A modular, analytical throughput model for modern disk arrays

    M. Uysal;G.A. Alvarez;A. Merchant

  • Issues and challenges in the performance analysis of real disk arrays

    E. Varki;A. Merchant;J. Xu;X. Qiu

  • What does control theory bring to systems research

    Xiaoyun Zhu;Mustafa Uysal;Zhikui Wang;Sharad Singhal

  • Proportional-share scheduling for distributed storage systems

    Yin Wang;Arif Merchant

  • Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs

    Arif Merchant;Mahesh Kallahalla;Ram Swaminathan

  • Read, write, and recovery operations for replicated data

    Svend Frolund;Arif Merchant;Yasusuhi Saito;Susan Spence

  • A framework for evaluating storage system dependability

    K. Keeton;A. Merchant

  • Analytic modeling of clustered RAID with mapping based on nearly random permutation

    A. Merchant;P.S. Yu

  • Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems

    Marcos K. Aguilera;Arif Merchant;Mehul Shah;Alistair Veitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair Veitch
Alistair Veitch Google (United States)
Kimberly Keeton
Kimberly Keeton Google (United States)
Svend Frolund
Svend Frolund project44
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Google (United States)
Sharad Singhal
Sharad Singhal Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Zhikui Wang
Zhikui Wang Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Kang G. Shin
Kang G. Shin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey S. Chase
Jeffrey S. Chase Duke University

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