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Fabián E. Bustamante

Fabián E. Bustamante

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Computer Science

D-Index
31
Citations
5424
World Ranking
13480
National Ranking
5391

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Fabián E. Bustamante is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields of study, including computer science and engineering, with a significant focus on computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, and artificial intelligence. Additional subfields featured in their work are biomedical engineering and sociology and political science.

The key topics covered in Bustamante's research include:

  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Green IT and Sustainability
  • IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security
  • Data Quality and Management
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks

Bustamante has contributed to a number of publications, frequently appearing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review.

Recent papers include:

  • "Workshop on Overcoming Measurement Barriers to Internet Research (WOMBIR 2021) final report," 2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • "Each at its Own Pace: Third-Party Dependency and Centralization Around the World," 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • "A Hop Away from Everywhere: A View of the Intercontinental Long-haul Infrastructure," 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • "Energy-Proportional Data Center Network Architecture Through OS, Switch and Laser Co-design," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Back in control -- An extensible middle-box on your phone," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Bustamante regularly collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Esteban Carisimo, Diego Perino, Andra Lutu, Rashna Kumar, and Mia Weaver.

Recognition for their contributions includes the award of ACM Senior Member status in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Taming the torrent: a practical approach to reducing cross-isp traffic in peer-to-peer systems

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • An integrated mobility and traffic model for vehicular wireless networks

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Drafting behind Akamai: inferring network conditions based on CDN redirections

    Ao-Jan Su;David R. Choffnes;Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)

    Ao-Jan Su;David R. Choffnes;Aleksandar Kuzmanovic;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Friendships that last: peer lifespan and its role in P2P protocols

    Fabian E. Bustamante;Yi Qiao

  • Digital dynamic telepathology--the Virtual Microscope.

    Asmara Afework;Michael D. Beynon;Fabian E. Bustamante;Soon Cho

  • Where the sidewalk ends: extending the internet as graph using traceroutes from P2P users

    Kai Chen;David R. Choffnes;Rahul Potharaju;Yan Chen

  • Wayback: a user-level versioning file system for linux

    Brian Cornell;Peter A. Dinda;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Modeling and taming parallel TCP on the wide area network

    Dong Lu;Yi Qiao;P.A. Dinda;F.E. Bustamante

  • Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge

    Mario A. Sánchez;John S. Otto;Zachary S. Bischof;David R. Choffnes

  • Efficient Wire Formats for High Performance Computing

    Fabian E. Bustamante;Greg Eisenhauer;Karsten Schwan;Patrick Widener

  • Crowdsourcing service-level network event monitoring

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante;Zihui Ge

  • Modeling Driver Behavior in a Connected Environment: Integrated Microscopic Simulation of Traffic and Mobile Wireless Telecommunication Systems:

    Alireza Talebpour;Alireza Talebpour;Hani S. Mahmassani;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Event services for high performance computing

    G. Eisenhauer;F.E. Bustamante;K. Schwan

  • Content delivery and the natural evolution of DNS: remote dns trends, performance issues and alternative solutions

    John S. Otto;Mario A. Sánchez;John P. Rula;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Down the Block and Around the Corner The Impact of Radio Propagation on Inter-vehicle Wireless Communication

    John S. Otto;Fabian E. Bustamante;Randall A. Berry

  • Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network

    Dong Lu;Yi Qiao;P.A. Dinda;F.E. Bustamante

  • On blind mice and the elephant: understanding the network impact of a large distributed system

    John S. Otto;Mario A. Sánchez;David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Structured and unstructured overlays under the microscope: a measurement-based view of two P2P systems that people use

    Yi Qiao;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Resilient peer-to-peer multicast without the cost

    Stefan Birrer;Fabian E. Bustamante

  • Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)

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  • Taming the Torrent.

    David R. Choffnes;Fabián E. Bustamante

Frequent Co-Authors

David Choffnes
David Choffnes Northeastern University
Karsten Schwan
Karsten Schwan Georgia Institute of Technology
Peter A. Dinda
Peter A. Dinda Northwestern University
Walter Willinger
Walter Willinger NIKSUN, Inc.
Balachander Krishnamurthy
Balachander Krishnamurthy AT&T (United States)
Yan Chen
Yan Chen Northwestern University
Roger Guimerà
Roger Guimerà Rovira i Virgili University
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Dan Pei
Dan Pei Tsinghua University
Hani S. Mahmassani
Hani S. Mahmassani Northwestern University

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