Publications

Xuehui (Rachel) Hu, Guillermo Suaréz de Tangil, Nishanth Sastry (2020). Multi-country Study of Third Party Trackers from Real Browser Histories. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P).

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Xuehui (Rachel) Hu, Nishanth Sastry (2020). What a Tangled Web We Weave: Understanding the Interconnectedness of the Third Party Cookie Ecosystem. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science.

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Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson (2020). Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

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Pushkal Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Panagiotis Papadapoulos, Nishanth Sastry, Nicolas Kourtellis (2020). Stop tracking me Bro! Differential Tracking of User Demographics on Hyper-Partisan Websites. Proceedings of the The Web Conference (WWW 2020).

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Yilei Liang, Dan O'Keeffe, Nishanth Sastry (2020). PAIGE: Towards a Hybrid-Edge Design for Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Personal Assistants. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking.

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Emeka Obiodu, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry (2020). Is it time for a 999-like (or 112/911) system for critical information services?. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

Ranjan Pal, Konstantinos Psounis, Jon Crowcroft, Frank Kelly, Pan Hui, Sasu Tarkoma, Abhishek Kumar, John Kelly, Aritra Chatterjee, Leana Golubchik, Nishanth Sastry, Bodhibrata Nag (2020). When Are Cyber Blackouts in Modern Service Networks Likely? A Network Oblivious Theory On Cyber (Re)Insurance Feasibility. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.

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Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia, Miriam Redi, Luca Maria Aiello, Tobias Kauer, Nishanth Sastry (2020). FaceLift: a transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes. Royal Society Open Science.

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Ming-Chun Lee, Minguye Ji, Andreas Molisch, Nishanth Sastry (2019). Throughput–Outage Analysis and Evaluation of Cache-Aided D2D Networks With Measured Popularity Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

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Ming-Chun Lee, Minguye Ji, Andreas Molisch, Nishanth Sastry (2019). Throughput-Outage Analysis and Evaluation of Cache-Aided D2D Networks With Measured Popularity Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

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Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson (2019). Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Internet Measurement Conference.

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Emeka Obiodu, Nishanth Sastry, Aravindh Raman (2019). CLASP: a 999-style Priority Lanes Framework for 5G-era Critical Data Services. 2019 International Symposium ELMAR.

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Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood (2019). Tweeting MPs: Digital Engagement between Citizens and Members of Parliament in the UK. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

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Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood (2019). Tweeting MPs: Digital Engagement between Citizens and Members of Parliament in the UK. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

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Xuehui (Rachel) Hu, Nishanth Sastry (2019). Characterising Third Party Cookie Usage in the EU after GDPR. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science.

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Ming-Chun Lee, Andreas Molisch, Nishanth Sastry, Aravindh Raman (2019). Individual Preference Probability Modeling and Parameterization for Video Content in Wireless Caching Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

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Seyed Ehsan Ghoreishi, Dmytro Karamshuk, Vasilis Friderikos, Nishanth Sastry, Mischa Dohler, Abdol-Hamid Aghvami (2019). A Cost-Driven Approach to Caching-as-a-Service in Cloud-Based 5G Mobile Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

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Kiev Gama, Victoria Rautenbach, Cameron Green, Breno Alencar Gonçalves, Serena Coetzee, Nicolene Fourie, Nishanth Sastry (2019). Mapathons and Hackathons to Crowdsource the Generation and Usage of Geographic Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events 2019.

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Alejandro Cartas, Martin Kocour, Aravindh Raman, Ilias Leontiadis, Jordi Luque, Nishanth Sastry, Jose Nuñez-Martinez, Diego Perino, Carlos Segura (2019). A Reality Check on Inference at Mobile Networks Edge. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking.

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Nishanth Sastry, Mischa Dohler (2018). Internet Policy in the Age of Machine Learning.

Ihsan Zulkipli, Joanna Clark, Madeleine Hart, Roshan L Shrestha, Parveen Gul, David Dang, Tami Kasichiwin, Izabela Kujawiak, Nishanth Sastry, Viji M Draviam (2018). Spindle rotation in human cells is reliant on a MARK2-mediated equatorial spindle-centering mechanism. Journal of Cell Biology.

Emeka Obiodu, Nishanth Sastry, Aravindh Raman (2018). Towards a taxonomy of differentiated service classes in the 5G era. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF).

Aravindh Raman, Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry, Jigna Chandaria, Andy Secker (2018). Consume Local: Towards Carbon Free Content Delivery. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).

Nishanth Sastry, Ingmar Weber (2018). Proceedings of The 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.

Shweta Bhatt, Sagar Joglekar, Shehar Bano, Nishanth Sastry (2018). Illuminating an Ecosystem of Partisan Websites. Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference 2018.

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Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry, Neil S Coulson, Stephanie JC Taylor, Anita Patel, Robbie Duschinsky, Amrutha Anand, Matt Jameson Evans, Chris J Griffiths, Aziz Sheikh, Pietro Panzarasa, Anna De Simoni (2018). How do online communities of people with long-term conditions function and evolve? Network analysis of the structure and dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation (BLF) online communities. Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry (2018). Facebook (A)Live?: Are Live Social Broadcasts Really Broadcasts?. Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference.

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Nishanth Sastry (2018). Crowdsourcing and Social Networks. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining.

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Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Nader Mokari, Mostafa Salehi, Tooba Faisal, Andrew Secker, Jigna Chandaria (2018). Care to Share?: An Empirical Analysis of Capacity Enhancement by Sharing at the Edge. Proceedings of the 2018 on Technologies for the Wireless Edge Workshop.

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Peter Young, Sagar Joglekar, Kiran Garimella, Nishanth Sastry (2018). Approximations to Truth in Online Comment Networks. Proceedings of the Workshop on Argumentation and Society at the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument.

Changtao Zhong, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Systems Applications of Social Networks. ACM Comput. Surv..

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Peter Rost, Christian Mannweiler, Diomidis Michalopoulos, Cinzia Sartori, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Nishanth Sastry, Oliver Holland, Shreya Tayade, Bin Han, Dario Bega, Danish Aziz, Hajo Bakker (2017). Network Slicing to Enable Scalability and Flexibility in 5G Mobile Networks. IEEE Communications Magazine.

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Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Jigna Chandaria, Andrew Secker (2017). Wi-Stitch: Content Delivery in Converged Edge Networks. Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications.

Changtao Zhong, Hau-wen Chan, Dmytro Karamshu, Dongwon Lee, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Wearing Many (Social) Hats: How Different are Your Different Social Network Personae?. AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM).

Stan Wong, Nishanth Sastry, Oliver Holland, Vasilis Friderikos, Mischa Dohler, Hamid Aghvami (2017). Virtualized Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (V-AAA) in 5G Networks. 2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN).

Dmytro Karamshuk, Mladen Pupavac, Frances Shaw, Julie Brownlie, Vanessa Pupavac, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Towards transdisciplinary collaboration between computer and social scientists: Initial experiences and reflections, Book chapter in Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies. CRC Press.

Nasreen Anjum, Dmytro Karamshuk, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Survey on peer-assisted content delivery networks. Computer Networks.

Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry, Miriam Redi (2017). Like at First Sight: Understanding User Engagement with the World of Microvideos. International Conference on Social Informatics.

Ming-Chun Lee, Andreas Molisch, Nishanth Sastry, Aravindh Raman (2017). Individual Preference Probability Modeling for Video Content in Wireless Caching Networks. Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom).

Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Fake It Till You Make It: Fishing for Catfishes. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017.

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Nishanth Sastry, Sandip Chakraborty (2017). Communication Systems and Networks (Revised Selected Papers and Invited Papers). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 10340.

Dmytro Karamshuk, Frances Shaw, Julie Brownlie, Nishanth Sastry (2017). Bridging big data and qualitative methods in the social sciences: A case study of Twitter responses to high profile deaths by suicide. Online Social Networks and Media.

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Douglas Nunes, Edson Moreira, Bruno Kimura, Nishanth Sastry, Toktam Mahmoodi (2017). Attraction-Area Based Geo-Clustering for LTE Vehicular CrowdSensing Data Offloading. Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems.

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Nishanth Sastry, Rahul Mangharam, A. Chockalingam (2017). 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS).

Gianfranco Nencioni, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, Vijay Badrinarayanan, Dmytro Karamshuk, Jigna Chandaria, Jon Crowcroft (2016). SCORE: Exploiting global broadcasts to create offline personal channels for on-demand access.. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Gianfranco Nencioni, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, Vijay Badrinarayanan, Dmytro Karamshuk, Jigna Chandaria, Jon Crowcroft (2016). SCORE: Exploiting global broadcasts to create offline personal channels for on-demand access.. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Giridhari Venkatadri, Oana Goga, Changtao Zhong, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna Gummadi, Nishanth Sastry (2016). Strengthening Weak Identities Through Inter-Domain Trust Transfer. Proceedings of the 25th international conference on World wide web.

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Giridhari Venkatadri, Oana Goga, Changtao Zhong, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna Gummadi, Nishanth Sastry (2016). Strengthening Weak Identities Through Inter-Domain Trust Transfer. Proceedings of the 25th international conference on World wide web.

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Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry, Steve Uhlig (2016). Measurements and Analysis of a Major Adult Video Portal. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl..

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Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry, Mustafa al-Bassam, Andy Secker, Jigna Chandaria (2016). Take-away TV: Recharging Work Commutes with Greedy and Predictive Preloading of TV Content. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC).

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Seyed Ehsan Ghoreishi, Vasilis Friderikos, Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry, A. Hamid Aghvami (2016). Provisioning Cost-Effective Mobile Video Caching. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

Dmytro Karamshuk, Tetyana Lokot, Oleksandr Pryymak, Nishanth Sastry (2016). Identifying Partisan Slant in News Articles and Twitter During Political Crises. Social Informatics.

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Oliver Holland, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry, Stan Wong, Jane Mack, Lisa Lam (2016). Assessment of a Platform for Non-Contiguous Aggregation of IEEE 802.11 Waveforms in TV White Space. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2016 IEEE 83rd.

Changtao Zhong, Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry (2015). Predicting Pinterest: Automating a distributed human computation. Proceedings of the 24th international conference on World wide web.

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Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry, Steve Uhlig (2015). Are people really social on Porn 2.0?. Proceedings of The 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry, Jigna Chandaria, Andy Secker (2015). On Factors Affecting the Usage and Adoption of a Nation-wide TV Streaming Service. Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM.

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Dmytro Karamshuk, Nishanth Sastry, Jigna Chandaria, Andy Secker (2015). ISP-friendly Peer-assisted On-demand Streaming of Long Duration Content in BBC iPlayer. Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM.

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Oliver Holland, Shuyu Ping, Nishanth Sastry, others (2015). Some initial results and observations from a series of trials within the Ofcom T White Spaces Pilot. Proceedings of the IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring).

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Changtao Zhong, Nishanth Sastry (2014). Copy content, copy friends: studies of content curation and social bootstrapping on Pinterest. ACM SIGWEB NewsLetter.

Changtao Zhong, Mostafa Salehi, Sunil Shah, Marius Cobzarenco, Nishanth Sastry, Meeyoung Cha (2014). Social bootstrapping: how pinterest and last. fm social communities benefit by borrowing links from facebook. Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web.

Oliver Holland, Nishanth Sastry, others (2014). A Series of Trials in the UK as part of the Ofcom TV White Spaces Pilot. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Cellular Systems - IEEE CCS 2014 (Special Session): Novel Spectrum Usage Paradigms for Cognitive Cellular Systems.

Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Ruben Cuevas, Ivica Rimac, Andreas Mauthe (2013). Where is in a name? A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks. Communications of the ACM.

Gareth Tyson, Yehia Elkhatib, Nishanth Sastry, Steve Uhlig (2013). Demystifying Porn 2.0: A look into a Major Adult Video Streaming Website. ACM SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).

Changtao Zhong, Sunil Shah, Karthik Sundaravadivelan, Nishanth Sastry (2013). Sharing the Loves: Understanding the How and Why of Online Content Curation. Proceedings of The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM).

Gianfranco Nencioni, Nishanth Sastry, Jigna Chandaria, Jon Crowcroft (2013). Understanding and decreasing the network footprint of over-the-top on-demand delivery of TV content. Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW).

Sufian Hameed, Xiaoming Fu, Nishanth Sastry, Pan Hui (2013). Fighting spam using social GateKeepers. Networking Science.

Nishanth Sastry (2012). How to tell head from tail in User-generated content corpora. Proceedings of The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM).

Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Ivica Rimac, Ruben Cuevas, Andrea Mauthe (2012). A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks: Challenges and Research Directions. ACM MobiHoc Workshop on. Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM 2012).

Katarzyna Musial, Nishanth Sastry (2012). Social Media - are they underpinned by social or interest-based interactions?. 4th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX), co-located with WWW'2012.

(2012). SIMPLEX '12: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners. ACM.

Steven Ross, Daniel Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Nishanth Sastry, John Patterson (2012). Method and Apparatus for Providing On Demand Ontology Creation and Extension.

Rafael Cappelletti, Nishanth Sastry (2012). IARank: Ranking Users on Twitter in Near Real-time, Based on their Information Amplification Potential. ASE Human Journal.

Rafael Cappelletti, Nishanth Sastry (2012). IARank: Ranking Users on Twitter in Near Real-time, Based on their Information Amplification Potential. Proceedings of The 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics.

Susanne Hupfer, Steven Ross, Daniel Gruen, John Patterson, Nishanth Sastry (2012). Computer Method and System for Contextual Management and Awareness of Persistent Queries and Results.

Nishanth Sastry, D. Manjunath, Karen Sollins, Jon Crowcroft (2011). Data Delivery Properties of Human Contact Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Nishanth Sastry, Pan Hui (2011). Path Formation in Human Contact Networks. Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks.

Nishanth Sastry, Steven Ross, Daniel Gruen, Susanne Hupfer (2011). Computer Method and Apparatus for Parameterized Semantic Inquiry Templates with Type Annotation.

Steven Ross, Nishanth Sastry, Daniel Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, John Patterson, James Christensen, Stephen Levy (2011). Computer Method and Apparatus for Graphical Inquiry Specification with Progressive Summary.

Nishanth R. Sastry, Alexander Kordun (2011). Advanced Discussion Thread Management Using a Tag-based Categorization System.

Nishanth Sastry, Jon Crowcroft (2010). SpinThrift: Saving Energy in Viral Workloads. Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Green networking.

Nishanth Sastry, Anthony Hylick, Jon Crowcroft (2010). SpinThrift: Saving Energy in Viral Workloads. Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS).

Pan Hui, Nishanth Sastry (2009). Real World Routing Using Virtual World Information. Proceedings of the IEEE SocialCom Workshop on Leveraging Social Patterns for Privacy, Security, and Network Architectures (SP4SPNA09).

Nishanth Sastry, Karen Sollins, Jon Crowcroft (2009). Delivery Properties of Human Social Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM.

Nishanth Sastry, Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft (2009). Buzztraq: Predicting geographical access patterns of social cascades using social networks. Proceedings of Eurosys Social Network Systems Workshop.

Nishanth R. Sastry (2009). Method for Nested Categorization using Factorization.

Nishanth R. Sastry (2008). Method of Retrieving Records from a Database.

Daniel Gruen, Susanne Hupfer, Stephen Levy, John Patterson, Steven Ross, Nishanth Sastry (2008). Collaborative Reasoning in a Cognitive Tool.

Nishanth Sastry, Karen Sollins, Jon Crowcroft (2007). Architecting Citywide Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Access. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI).

Nishanth Sastry (2007). Folksonomy-based reasoning in opportunistic networks. CoNEXT ‘07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference.

Nishanth R. Sastry (2006). Nuances of the Java 5.0 tt for-each loop. java.net.

Nishanth R. Sastry (2006). Disseminating Expertise In Social Networks (Poster). Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2006).

Nishanth R. Sastry (2005). Deriving the Visitor Pattern. Java Developer's Journal.

Nishanth R. Sastry, Simon S. Lam (2005). CYRF: A Theory of Window-based Unicast Congestion Control. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

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Nishanth R. Sastry (2004). Visualize your data with gnuplot. IBM developerWorks.

Nishanth R. Sastry (2004). Method of Retrieving Records from a Database.

Nishanth R. Sastry, Simon S. Lam (2002). A Theory of Window-Based Unicast Congestion Control. ICNP ‘02: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols.

(2001). Application Specific Unicast Congestion Control.

Nishanth R. Sastry, Nagendra Subramanya, Sarvesha Yellappareddy, Gopal Srinivasan (1999). Multi-purpose Web Server and API for Web-enabling Compute-intensive Applications. Information Technology for Innovation: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India.

Nishanth R. Sastry, Hemanth T. Dattatreya (1999). A Time-stamp based extension to the Isarithmic Congestion Avoidance Scheme for Incorporating Soft Real-time traffic in Internetworks. Proc. Cyberia'99.

(1999). Multi-purpose Web Server and API for Web-enabling Compute-intensive Applications.