A Markov Chain Approximation for the Analysis of Banyan Networks. - Arif Merchant (SIGMETRICS, 1991)

Settling Time Bounds for M/G/1 Queues. - Arif Merchant (Queueing Syst. Theory Appl., 1991)

Analytical models for the performance analysis of Banyan networks. - Arif Merchant (1991)

Design and Modeling of Clustered RAID. - Arif Merchant; Philip S. Yu (FTCS, 1992)

Analytical Models of Combining Banyan Networks. - Arif Merchant (SIGMETRICS, 1992)

Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning for Concurrency Transaction and Query Processing. - Arif Merchant; Kun-Lung Wu; Philip S. Yu; Ming-Syan Chen (SIGMETRICS, 1992)

Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for Replicated Disk Arrays. - Arif Merchant; Philip S. Yu (PDIS, 1993)

Multiway Graph Partitioning with Applications to PCS Networks. - Arif Merchant; Bhaskar Sengupta (INFOCOM, 1994)

An Analytical Model of Reconstruction Time in Mirrored Disks. - Arif Merchant; Philip S. Yu (Perform. Evaluation, 1994)

Analytic Modeling and Comparisons of Striping Strategies for Replicated Disk Arrays. - Arif Merchant; Philip S. Yu (IEEE Trans. Computers, 1995)

Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks. - Arif Merchant; Bhaskar Sengupta (IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 1995)

Analysis of a Control Mechanism for a Variable Speed Processor. - Arif Merchant; Benjamin Melamed; Eugen Schenfeld; Bhaskar Sengupta (IEEE Trans. Computers, 1996)

Analytic Modeling of Clustered RAID with Mapping Based on Nearly Random Permutation. - Arif Merchant; Philip S. Yu (IEEE Trans. Computers, 1996)

Performance Analysis of Dynamic Finite Versioning Schemes: Storage Cost vs. Obsolescence. - Arif Merchant; Kun-Lung Wu; Philip S. Yu; Ming-Syan Chen (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 1996)

An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering. - Elizabeth A. M. Shriver; Arif Merchant; John Wilkes (SIGMETRICS, 1998)

Capacity planning with phased workloads. - Elizabeth Borowsky; Richard A. Golding; P. Jacobson; Arif Merchant; L. Schreier; Mirjana Spasojevic; John Wilkes (WOSP, 1998)

A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays. - Mustafa Uysal; Guillermo A. Alvarez; Arif Merchant (MASCOTS, 2001)

Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems. - Guillermo A. Alvarez; Elizabeth Borowsky; Susie Go; Theodore H. Romer; Ralph A. Becker-Szendy; Richard A. Golding; Arif Merchant; Mirjana Spasojevic; Alistair C. Veitch; John Wilkes (ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., 2001)

Façade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees. - Christopher R. Lumb; Arif Merchant; Guillermo A. Alvarez (FAST, 2003)

Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays. - Mustafa Uysal; Arif Merchant; Guillermo A. Alvarez (FAST, 2003)

FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring. - Svend Frølund; Arif Merchant; Yasushi Saito; Susan Spence; Alistair C. Veitch (HotOS, 2003)

An integrated performance model of disk arrays. - Elizabeth Varki; Arif Merchant; Jianzhang Xu; Xiaozhou Qiu (MASCOTS, 2003)

FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components. - Yasushi Saito; Svend Frølund; Alistair C. Veitch; Arif Merchant; Susan Spence (ASPLOS, 2004)

A Decentralized Algorithm for Erasure-Coded Virtual Disks. - Svend Frølund; Arif Merchant; Yasushi Saito; Susan Spence; Alistair C. Veitch (DSN, 2004)

A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Dependability. - Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant (DSN, 2004)

Lessons and challenges in automating data dependability. - Kimberly Keeton; Dirk Beyer 002; Jeffrey S. Chase; Arif Merchant; Cipriano A. Santos; John Wilkes (ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, 2004)

Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays. - Elizabeth Varki; Arif Merchant; Jianzhang Xu; Xiaozhou Qiu (IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst., 2004)

On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters. - Kimberly Keeton; Dirk Beyer 002; Ernesto Brau; Arif Merchant; Cipriano A. Santos; Alex Zhang (EuroSys, 2006)

Designing and managing storage systems: issues, techniques, and challenges. - Arif Merchant (QEST, 2006)

Challenges in managing dependable data systems. - Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant (SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2006)

Improving Recoverability in Multi-tier Storage Systems. - Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera; Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant; Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy; Mustafa Uysal (DSN, 2007)

Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. - Pradeep Padala; Kang G. Shin; Xiaoyun Zhu; Mustafa Uysal; Zhikui Wang; Sharad Singhal; Arif Merchant; Kenneth Salem (EuroSys, 2007)

Proportional-Share Scheduling for Distributed Storage Systems. - Yin Wang 001; Arif Merchant (FAST, 2007)

Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions. - Kimberly Keeton; Terence Kelly; Arif Merchant; Cipriano A. Santos; Janet L. Wiener; Xiaoyun Zhu; Dirk Beyer 002 (HotOS, 2007)

d-clock: distributed QoS in heterogeneous resource environments. - Ajay Gulati; Arif Merchant; Peter J. Varman (PODC, 2007)

pClock: an arrival curve based approach for QoS guarantees in shared storage systems. - Ajay Gulati; Arif Merchant; Peter J. Varman (SIGMETRICS, 2007)

Altering document term vectors for classification: ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence. - Meenakshi Nagarajan; Amit P. Sheth; Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera; Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal (WWW, 2007)

Towards fairness and efficiency in storage systems. - Ajay Gulati; Peter J. Varman; Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal (SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2007)

TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches. - Mingju Li; Elizabeth Varki; Swapnil Bhatia; Arif Merchant (FAST, 2008)

Automated control of multiple virtualized resources. - Pradeep Padala; Kai-Yuan Hou; Kang G. Shin; Xiaoyun Zhu; Mustafa Uysal; Zhikui Wang; Sharad Singhal; Arif Merchant (EuroSys, 2009)

Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management. - Arif Merchant (Commun. ACM, 2009)

Efficient and adaptive proportional share I/O scheduling. - Ajay Gulati; Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal; Pradeep Padala; Peter J. Varman (SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev., 2009)

Autograph: automatically extracting workflow file signatures. - Anna Povzner; Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant; Charles B. Morrey III; Mustafa Uysal; Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2009)

What does control theory bring to systems research? - Xiaoyun Zhu; Mustafa Uysal; Zhikui Wang; Sharad Singhal; Arif Merchant; Pradeep Padala; Kang G. Shin (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2009)

Sinfonia: A new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. - Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera; Arif Merchant; Mehul A. Shah; Alistair C. Veitch; Christos T. Karamanolis (ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., 2009)

Efficient eventual consistency in Pahoehoe, an erasure-coded key-blob archive. - Eric Anderson 003; Xiaozhou Li 001; Arif Merchant; Mehul A. Shah; Kevin Smathers; Joseph A. Tucek; Mustafa Uysal; Jay J. Wylie (DSN, 2010)

Sequential Prefetch Cache Sizing for Maximal Hit Rate. - Swapnil Bhatia; Elizabeth Varki; Arif Merchant (MASCOTS, 2010)

mClock: Handling Throughput Variability for Hypervisor IO Scheduling. - Ajay Gulati; Arif Merchant; Peter J. Varman (OSDI, 2010)

Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments. - Shravan Gaonkar; Kimberly Keeton; Arif Merchant; William H. Sanders (IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput., 2010)

Maestro: quality-of-service in large disk arrays. - Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal; Pradeep Padala; Xiaoyun Zhu; Sharad Singhal; Kang G. Shin (ICAC, 2011)

Hathi: durable transactions for memory using flash. - Mohit Saxena; Mehul A. Shah; Stavros Harizopoulos; Michael M. Swift; Arif Merchant (DaMoN, 2012)

Workload dependent IO scheduling for fairness and efficiency in shared storage systems. - Ajay Gulati; Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal; Pradeep Padala; Peter J. Varman (HiPC, 2012)

Improve Prefetch Performance by Splitting the Cache Replacement Queue. - Elizabeth Varki; Allen Hubbe; Arif Merchant (ICAIT, 2012)

Uncertainty in Aggregate Estimates from Sampled Distributed Traces. - Nate Coehlo; Arif Merchant; Murray Stokely (MAD, 2012)

Janus: Optimal Flash Provisioning for Cloud Storage Workloads. - Christoph Albrecht; Arif Merchant; Murray Stokely; Muhammad Waliji; François Labelle; Nate Coehlo; Xudong Shi 003; Eric Schrock (USENIX ATC, 2013)

Automatic Reconfiguration of Distributed Storage. - Artyom Sharov; Alexander Shraer; Arif Merchant; Murray Stokely (ICAC, 2015)

What Will 2022 Look Like? The IEEE CS 2022 Report. - Hasan Alkhatib; Paolo Faraboschi; Eitan Frachtenberg; Hironori Kasahara; Danny B. Lange; Phillip A. Laplante; Arif Merchant; Dejan S. Milojicic; Karsten Schwan (Computer, 2015)

Take me to your leader! Online Optimization of Distributed Storage Configurations. - Artyom Sharov; Alexander Shraer; Arif Merchant; Murray Stokely (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2015)

Self-aware systems for the internet-of-things. - Mischa Möstl; Johannes Schlatow; Rolf Ernst; Henry Hoffmann; Arif Merchant; Alexander Shraer (CODES+ISSS, 2016)

Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected. - Bianca Schroeder; Raghav Lagisetty; Arif Merchant (FAST, 2016)

Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications. - Atul Adya; Daniel Myers; Jon Howell; Jeremy Elson; Colin Meek; Vishesh Khemani; Stefan Fulger; Pan Gu; Lakshminath Bhuvanagiri; Jason Hunter; Roberto Peon; Larry Kai; et al. (OSDI, 2016)

Self-Awareness of Cloud Applications. - Alexandru Iosup; Xiaoyun Zhu; Arif Merchant; Eva Kalyvianaki; Martina Maggio; Simon Spinner; Tarek F. Abdelzaher; Ole J. Mengshoel; Sara Bouchenak (CoRR, 2016)

Self-awareness of Cloud Applications. - Alexandru Iosup; Xiaoyun Zhu; Arif Merchant; Eva Kalyvianaki; Martina Maggio; Simon Spinner; Tarek F. Abdelzaher; Ole J. Mengshoel; Sara Bouchenak (Self-Aware Computing Systems, 2017)

Autonomic Storage Management at Scale. - Arif Merchant (ICPE, 2017)

Reliability of nand-Based SSDs: What Field Studies Tell Us. - Bianca Schroeder; Arif Merchant; Raghav Lagisetty (Proc. IEEE, 2017)

Introduction to the Special Issue on USENIX FAST 2019. - Arif Merchant; Hakim Weatherspoon (ACM Trans. Storage, 2020)

Tiger: Disk-Adaptive Redundancy Without Placement Restrictions. - Saurabh Kadekodi; Francisco Maturana; Sanjith Athlur; Arif Merchant; K. V. Rashmi; Gregory R. Ganger (OSDI, 2022)

CacheSack: Admission Optimization for Google Datacenter Flash Caches. - Tzu-Wei Yang; Seth Pollen; Mustafa Uysal; Arif Merchant; Homer Wolfmeister (USENIX ATC, 2022)

LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding. - HamidReza Zare; Viveck R. Cadambe; Bhuvan Urgaonkar; Nader Alfares; Praneet Soni; Chetan Sharma; Arif Merchant (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022)

CacheSack: Theory and Experience of Google's Admission Optimization for Datacenter Flash Caches. - Tzu-Wei Yang; Seth Pollen; Mustafa Uysal; Arif Merchant; Homer Wolfmeister; Junaid Khalid (ACM Trans. Storage, 2023)

Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs). - Saurabh Kadekodi; Shashwat Silas; David Clausen; Arif Merchant (ACM Trans. Storage, 2023)

Enhancing Trust and Safety in Digital Payments: An LLM-Powered Approach. - Devendra Dahiphale; Naveen Madiraju; Justin Lin; Rutvik Karve; Monu Agrawal; Anant Modwal; Ramanan Balakrishnan; Shanay Shah; Govind Kaushal; Priya Mandawat; Prakash Hariramani; Arif Merchant (IEEE Big Data, 2024)

Morph: Efficient File-Lifetime Redundancy Management for Cluster File Systems. - Timothy Kim; Sanjith Athlur; Saurabh Kadekodi; Francisco Maturana; Dax Delvira; Arif Merchant; Gregory R. Ganger; K. V. Rashmi (SOSP, 2024)

Okapi: Decoupling Data Striping and Redundancy Grouping in Cluster File Systems. - Sanjith Athlur; Timothy Kim; Saurabh Kadekodi; Francisco Maturana; Xavier Ramos; Arif Merchant; K. V. Rashmi; Gregory R. Ganger (OSDI, 2025)

A Practical Cross-Layer Approach for ML-Driven Storage Placement in Warehouse-Scale Computers. - Chenxi Yang; Yan Li; Martin Maas 001; Mustafa Uysal; Ubaid Ullah Hafeez; Arif Merchant; Richard McDougall (CoRR, 2025)