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Though my recent work is in energy systems, my past papers are generally in the area of tetherless computing, simulation, ATM networking, traffic management, congestion control and flow control. I have also dabbled in pricing, fuzzy systems, low-bitrate video encoding and telepresence. 

Energy systems

Vision

• S. Keshav and C. Rosenberg, On Load Elasticity, in IEEE Comsoc MMTC-E letter, #8, Vol. 7 Nov. 2012.

• S. Keshav and C. Rosenberg, How Internet Concepts and Technologies Can Help Green and Smarten the Electrical Grid, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Green Networking Workshop, August 2010. Also in CCR Jan 2011.

Electric Vehicles

• T. Carpenter, S. Keshav, and J.W. Wong, Sizing Finite Population Vehicle Pools, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume PP issue 99, Jan 2014.

• T. Carpenter, A. R. Curtis, and S. Keshav, The Return On Investment For Taxi Companies Transitioning To Electric Vehicles, Transportation, June 2013.

• H. Zarkoob, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg, Optimal Contracts For Providing Load-Side Frequency Regulation Service Using Fleets of Electric Vehicles, To Appear, J. Power Sources.

• O. Ardakanian, C. Rosenberg, and S. Keshav, Distributed Control of Electric Vehicle Charging, Proc. ACM e-Energy 2013, May 2013.

• O. Ardakanian, C. Rosenberg, and S. Keshav, Real Time Distributed Congestion Control for Electrical Vehicle Charging (invited paper), Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS Greenmetrics Workshop, June 2012; also in Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 40 Issue 3, December 2012.

• T. Carpenter, A. R. Curtis, and S. Keshav, The Return On Investment for Taxi Companies Transitioning to Electric Vehicles, University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2011-20, August 2011.

Distribution network

• K Kogan, S. Nikolenko, S. Keshav, and A. Lopez-Ortiz, Efficient Demand Assignment in Multi-Connected Microgrids, Extended Abstract, Proc. SustainIT, October 2013.

• S. Alamdari, T. Biedl, T. M. Chan, E. Grant, K.R. Jampani, S. Keshav, A. Lubiw and V. Pathak, Smart-grid Electricity Allocation via Strip Packing with Slicing, Proc. WADS 2013, August 2013.

• K. Kogan, S. Nikolenko, S. Keshav, and A. Lopez-Ortiz, Efficient Demand Assignment in Multi-Connected Microgrids, Proc. e-Energy 2013, May 2013. (Poster)

• S. Alamdari, T. Biedl, T. M. Chan, E. Grant, K.R. Jampani, S. Keshav, A. Lubiw and V. Pathak. Smart-grid Electricity Allocation via Strip Packing with Slicing, Proc. EuroCG, March 2013.

• O. Ardakanian, C. Rosenberg, and S. Keshav, On the Impact of Storage in Residential Power Distribution Systems, Proc. Greenmetrics Workshop, June 2012; also in Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 40 Issue 3, December 2012.

• O. Ardakanian, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg,On the Use of Teletraffic Theory in Power Distribution Systems, Proc. e-Energy, May 2012.

Demand Response

• A. Adepetu, E. Rezaei, D. Lizotte, and S. Keshav, Critiquing Time-Of-Use Pricing in Ontario, Proc. IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium 2013, Vancouver, October 2013.

• S. Keshav and C. Rosenberg, On Load Elasticity, in IEEE Comsoc MMTC-E letter, #8, Vol. 7 Nov. 2012.

• P. Srikantha, S. Keshav, C. Rosenberg, Distributed Control for Reducing Carbon Footprint in the Residential Sector, IEEE SmartGridComm, November 2012.

• S. Singla, S. Keshav, Demand Response through a Temperature Setpoint Market in Ontario, IEEE SmartGridComm, November 2012.

• S. Keshav and C. Rosenberg, Direct Adaptive Control of Electricity Demand, CS Technical Report CS-2010-17, September 2010.

Data centers

• R.P. Singh, T. Brecht, and S. Keshav, IP address multiplexing for VEEs, ACM SIGCOMM CCR April 2014.

• X.Gao, A.R. Curtis, B. Wong, and S. Keshav, Itââ<82>¬â<84>¢s Not Easy Being Green, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, to appear August 2012.

• A. R. Curtis, S. Keshav, and A. LÃ<83>³pez-Ortiz, Reducing Waste in Data Center Network Upgrades, University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2010-08, April 2010.

Smart Generation

• Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, S. Keshav, and Catherine Rosenberg, An EROI-Based Analysis of Renewable Energy Farms with Storage, Proc. ACM e-Energy 2014, June 2014.

• S. Singla, Y. Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, and S. Keshav, Battery Provisioning and Scheduling For a Hybrid Battery-Diesel Generator System, ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), December 2013.

• Y. Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg, Firming Solar Power, Extended Abstract/Poster, Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2013.

Smart Homes and Buildings

• O. Ardakanian, N. Koochakzadeh, R. P. Singh, L. Golab, S. Keshav, Computing Electricity Consumption Profiles from Household Smart Meter Data, 3rd Workshop on Energy Data Management, 2014

• P.X. Gao and S. Keshav, Optimal Personal Comfort Management Using SPOT+, Proc. BuildSys Workshop, 2013. Best Student Paper Award.

• S. Singla, Y. Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, and S. Keshav, Near-Optimal Scheduling for a Hybrid Battery-Diesel Generator for Off-Grid Locations, Proc. GreenMetrics Workshop, June 2013.

• P. X. Gao and S. Keshav, Personalized Smart Thermal Control System, Proc. ACM e-Energy 2013, May 2013.

• R.P. Singh, S. Keshav, and T. Brecht, A Cloud-Based Consumer-Centric Architecture for Energy Data Analytics, Proc. ACM e-Energy 2013, May 2013.

• P. Srikantha, C. Rosenberg, and S. Keshav, An Analysis of Peak Demand Reductions due to Elasticity of Domestic Appliances, Proc. e-Energy, May 2012.

• T. Carpenter, S. Singla, P. Azimzadeh, and S. Keshav, The Impact of Electricity Pricing Schemes on Storage Integration In Ontario, Proc. e-Energy, May 2012.

• O. Ardakanian, S. Keshav, and C. Rosenberg, Markovian Models for Home Electricity Consumptionââ<82>¬â<80>¹, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Green Networking Workshop 2011.

• O. Ardakanian, S. Keshav, Using Decision Making to Improve Energy Efficiency of Buildings, ICAPS-10 POMDP Practitioners Workshop, May 2010.

Tetherless Computing

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Bus and Kiosk Networks

• S. Guo, M. Derakhshani, M.H. Falaki, U. Ismail, R. Luk, E.A. Oliver, S. Ur Rahman, A. Seth, M.A. Zaharia, S. Keshav, Design and implementation of the KioskNet system, Computer Networks, In Press, Available online 10 August 2010, ISSN 1389-1286, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2010.08.001.

• S. Keshav, Design Principles for Robust Opportunistic Communication, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR 2010), June 2010.

• S. Guo and S. Keshav, Fair and Efficient Scheduling in Data Ferrying Networks, Proc. CoNEXT 2007, December 2007.

• S. Guo, M.H. Falaki, E.A. Oliver, S. Ur Rahman, A. Seth, M.A. Zaharia, and S. Keshav Very Low-Cost Internet Access Using KioskNet, ACM Computer Communication Review, October 2007.

• D. Hadaller, S. Keshav, T. Brecht, S. Agarwal, Vehicular Opportunistic Communication Under the Microscope, Proc. Mobisys 2007, Puerto Rico, June 2007.

• A. Seth, D. Kroeker, M. Zaharia, S. Guo, S. Keshav,Low-cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using Mechanical Backhaul,Proc. MOBICOM 2006, September 2006.

• S. Guo, M. Ghaderi, A. Seth, S.Keshav,Opportunistic Scheduling in Ferry-Based Networks,Proc. Workshop on Network Protocols for Transportation, 2006, August 2006.

• A. Seth, S. Bhattacharyya, and S. Keshav, Application Support for Opportunistic Communication on Multiple Wireless Networks, Manuscript, November 2005.

• A. Seth and S. Keshav, Practical Security for Disconnected Nodes, Proc. First Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSEC), November 2005.

• A. Seth, P. Darragh, S. Liang, Y. Lin, and S. Keshav, An Architecture for Tetherless Communication, Manuscript, July 2005.

Wireless LAN and cognitive radio

• N. Ahmed, S. Keshav, and K. Papagiannaki, OmniVoice: A Mobile Voice Solution for Small-scale Enterprises, Proc. MobiHoc, May 2011.

• V. Shrivastava*, N. Ahmed*, S. Rayanchu*, S. Banerjee, S. Keshav, K. Papagiannaki, A. Mishra. \"CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs using a Hybrid Data Path.\" (Best paper award winner) , ACM MobiCom, Beijing, September 2009.

• N. Ahmed, V. Shrivastava, A. Mishra, S. Banerjee, S. Keshav, K. Papagiannaki, Interference Mitigation in Enterprise WLANs through Speculative Scheduling (Extended Abstract), ACM Mobicom 2007, September 2007.

• N. Ahmed and S. Keshav, SMARTA: A Self-Managing Architecture for Thin Access Points, CoNEXT'06, December 2006.

• N. Ahmed, D. Hadaller, and S. Keshav, GUESS: Gossiping Updates for Efficient Spectrum Sensing, Proc. ACM MobiShare- 1st International Workshop on Decentralized Resource Sharing in Mobile Computing and Networking, September 2006.

• D. Hadaller, S. Keshav, and T. Brecht, MV-MAX: Improving Wireless Infrastructure Access for Multi-Vehicular Communication,Proc. SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Challenged Networks, September 2006.

• N. Ahmed and S. Keshav, A Successive Refinement Approach to Wireless Infrastructure Network Deployment, Proc. WCNC, April 2006.

• H.J. Pan and S. Keshav, Detection and Repair of Faulty Access Points, Proc. WCNC, April 2006.

Massively parallel computing

• A. R. Curtis, Tommy Carpenter, Mustafa Elsheikh, Alejandro LÃ<83>³pez-Ortiz and S. Keshav. REWIRE: An Optimization-based Framework for Unstructured Data Center Network Design, Proc. INFOCOM, March 2012.

• A. Curtis, S. Keshav and A. Lopez-Ortiz, LEGUP: Using Heterogeneity to Reduce the Cost of Data Center Network Upgrades, Proc. ACM CoNEXT, December 2010.

• M.A. Zaharia and S.Keshav,Gossip-based Search Selection in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks, J. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2007.

• M.A. Zaharia, A. Chandel, S. Saroiu, and S. Keshav, Finding Content in File-Sharing Networks When You Canââ<82>¬â<84>¢t Even Spell, Proc. IPTPS,, February 2007.

• A. Allavena and S. Keshav, LOT: Fast, Efficient and Robust In-Network Computation, UW Technical Report 2006-22, July 2006.

• A. Allavena, Q. Wang, I. Ilyas, and S. Keshav, LOT: A Robust Overlay for Distributed Range Query Processing, UW Technical Report 2006-21, July 2006.

• M.A. Zaharia and S. Keshav,Gossip-Based Search Selection in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks,Proc. IPTPS, February 2006.

• S. Keshav, Efficient and Decentralized Computation of Approximate Global State, ACM Computer Communication Review, Jan 2006.

• M. Zaharia and S. Keshav, Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Search, University of Waterloo Technical Report 2004-55, November 2004.

New networks

• M.A. Zaharia, and S. Keshav Fast and Optimal Scheduling Over Multiple Network Interfaces, University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2007-36, October 2007.

• M. Karsten, S. Keshav, S. Prasad, and O. Beg An Axiomatic Basis for Commmunication, ACM SIGCOMM 2007, August 2007.

• M. Karsten, S. Keshav, and S. Prasad, An Axiomatic Basis for Communication, Proc. HotNets'06, November 2006.

• S. Keshav, Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding Reconsidered, Manuscript, August, 2005.

• M. Ghaderi and S. Keshav, Multimedia Messaging Service: System Description and Performance Analysis, Proc. WICON, July 2005.

• S. Keshav, Why Cell Phones Will Dominate the Future Internet, ACM Computer Communication Review, April 2005.

Misc

• E. Oliver and S. Keshav, An Empirical Approach to Smartphone Energy Level Prediction, The 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011), September 2011.

• M. Thomas, A. Gupta, and S. Keshav, Group Based Routing in Disconnected Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 2006.

• S. Liang and S. Keshav, Dynamic priority boosting for opportunistic mobile computing , Unpublished Manuscript, October 2004.

Network Performance Management

• J. Wang, Y. Zhang, and S. Keshav, Understanding End-to-End Performance: Testbed and Preliminary Results, Proc. of IEEE Global Internet Symposium, November 2001.

• L. Qiu, Y. Zhang and S. Keshav, Understanding the Performance of Many TCP Flows, Computer Networks, 37(3-4), pp. 277-306, November 2001

• R. Siamwalla, R. Sharma, and S. Keshav, Discovering Internet Topology, Unpublished manuscript, July 1999.

• S. Keshav and R. Sharma, Achieving Quality of Service through Network Performance Management, Proc. NOSSDAV '98, July 1998.

• S. Keshav and R. Sharma, Issues and Trends in Router Design, IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1998.