Performance issues and solutions in SDN-based data center: a survey. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ali Ghaffari (J. Supercomput., 2020)

Towards Network Behaviour Trend Evaluation in Software Defined Network (SDN) Considering the number of paths. - Alireza Shirmarz (CoRR, 2021)

Automatic Software Defined Network (SDN) Performance Management Using TOPSIS Decision-Making Algorithm. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ali Ghaffari (J. Grid Comput., 2021)

Taxonomy of controller placement problem (CPP) optimization in Software Defined Network (SDN): a survey. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ali Ghaffari (J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput., 2021)

A novel flow routing algorithm based on non-dominated ranking and crowd distance sorting to improve the performance in SDN. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ali Ghaffari (Photonic Netw. Commun., 2021)

Taxonomy of traffic engineering mechanisms in software-defined networks: a survey. - Ramin Mohammadi; Sedat Akleylek; Ali Ghaffari; Alireza Shirmarz (Telecommun. Syst., 2022)

Network traffic discrimination improvement in software defined network (SDN) with deep autoencoder and ensemble method. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ali Ghaffari (J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput., 2023)

Automatic delay-sensitive applications quality of service improvement with deep flows discrimination in software defined networks. - Ramin Mohammadi; Sedat Akleylek; Ali Ghaffari; Alireza Shirmarz (Clust. Comput., 2023)

A Comprehensive Survey on Machine Learning using in Software Defined Networks (SDN). - Sahar Faezi; Alireza Shirmarz (Hum. Centric Intell. Syst., 2023)

A taxonomy of load balancing algorithms and approaches in fog computing: a survey. - Sepideh Ebneyousef; Alireza Shirmarz (Clust. Comput., 2023)

From Pixels to Packets: Traffic Classification of Augmented Reality and Cloud Gaming. - Alireza Shirmarz; Fábio Luciano Verdi; Suneet Kumar Singh; Christian Esteve Rothenberg (NetSoft, 2024)

POSMAC: Powering Up In-Network AR/CG Traffic Classification with Online Learning. - Alireza Shirmarz; Fábio Luciano Verdi; Suneet Kumar Singh; Christian Esteve Rothenberg (NFV-SDN, 2024)

MATADOR: ML-based Cloud Gaming Traffic Detection entirely in Programmable Hardware. - Suneet Kumar Singh; Christian Esteve Rothenberg; Alireza Shirmarz; Fábio Luciano Verdi; Israat Haque 001; Gyanesh Patra; Gergely Pongrácz (NFV-SDN, 2024)

In-Network AR/CG Traffic Classification Entirely Deployed in the Programmable Data Plane: Unlocking RTP Features and L4S Integration. - Alireza Shirmarz; Mateus N. Bragatto; Fábio Luciano Verdi; Suneet Kumar Singh; Christian Esteve Rothenberg; Gyanesh Patra; Gergely Pongrácz (NetSoft, 2025)

CGReplay: Capture and Replay of Cloud Gaming Traffic for QoE/QoS Assessment. - Alireza Shirmarz; Ariel Góes de Castro; Fábio L. Verdi; Christian Esteve Rothenberg (NetSoft, 2025)