Vipul Mathur

I am a final year Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Prof. Varsha Apte in the CSE Department, IIT Bombay.

Research Interests

Performance of software in distributed systems; analytical models, simulation, measurement
Self-tuning, optimal performance of software servers; autonomic computing
Overload in distributed Web applications; models, prevention, detection, control
System modeling using Queuing Theory
Application of Control Theory to computing

Publications

Journal Papers

"An Overhead and Resource Contention Aware Analytical Model for Overloaded Web Servers", Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 82, Issue 1, p. 39-55, Special Issue: Software Performance - Modeling and Analysis, Elsevier Science, January 2009 [DOI]

Conference Papers

"Adaptive Admission Control for Web Applications with Variable Capacity", Vipul Mathur, Preetam Patil, Varsha Apte, Kannan M. Moudgalya, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2009), Charleston, South Carolina, USA, July 13-15, 2009. [pdf]
"Feedback based Distributed Admission Control in 802.11 WLANs", Preetam Patil, Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte and Kannan Moudgalya, in Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'09), Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.
"An Overhead and Resource Contention Aware Analytical Model for Overloaded Web Servers", Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2007), Buenos Aires, Argentina, February, 2007. [DOI]
"A Combined LIFO-Priority Scheme for Overload Control of E-commerce Web Servers", Naresh Singhmar, Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte and D. Manjunath, in the International Infrastructure Survivability Workshop (affiliated with the 25th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium), Lisbon, Portugal, 2004. Pre-press [pdf] [pdf.gz] [ps] [ps.gz]
Uploaded to ACM CORR on 17 Nov 2006. [link]
"A Computational Complexity-Aware Model for Performance Analysis of Software Servers", Vipul Mathur and Varsha Apte, in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Volendam, Netherlands, October, 2004. Pre-press [pdf] [pdf.gz] [ps] [ps.gz]

Conference Posters

"MASTH Proxy: An Extensible Platform for Web Overload Control", Vipul Mathur, Sanket Dhopeshwarkar and Varsha Apte, in Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain, April 2009 [eprints.org] [www2009.org (PDF)]
"Optimized Admission Control for Web Applications In Environments With Variable Capacity", Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte, Kannan M. Moudgalya, 2nd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, May, 2008.

Academics

Research Scholar pursuing a Ph.D.: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. July 2003-present
Master's Degree: M.Sc. Informatics, Institute of Informatics and Communication, University of Delhi South Campus, 2003
Bachelor's Degree: B.Sc. (Honours) Electronics, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi South Campus, 2001

Links

Contact -- I may be reached at the following coordinates:

E-Mail: vipul[at]cse.iitb.ac.in
"Urgent" mail can be marked so with an "URGENT" in the subject.
Office: S-20, Second Floor, CSE Building, IIT Bombay
Lab Phone: +91 22 2576 4906 (Networks Lab, Circular Hall, KR Building, CSE). Mobile phone.

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