Middleware Systems Research Group

University of Toronto, Canada

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Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associated Projects

PADRES

Biography

Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh received his BSc degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2004. He finished his MASc degree in Software Engineering at McMaster University in 2006. Since then, he has been working towards his PhD in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Toronto. The focus of his dissertation is fault-tolerance and recovery of large distributed Publish/Subscribe messaging middleware. His other research interests include content-based routing, reliable messaging platforms, and reliability and load balancing of distributed systems and services. Since 2006, he is a member of the Middleware Systems Research Group (MSRG) at University of Toronto. In summer 2009, Reza worked at Google as an intern.

Publications

• Publiy+: A Peer-Assisted Publish/Subscribe Service for Timely Dissemination of Bulk Content.
  Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  Technical report, 2011.
  Tags: publish/subscribe, content dissemination
• Partition-Tolerant Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In The 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2011), pages 101-110, Madrid, Spain, October 2011. IEEE.
  Acceptance: 34%.
  Tags: publish/subscribe, reliability, fault-tolerance, partition-tolerance
• Adaptive Multi-Path Publication Forwarding in the Publiy Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  University of Toronto, 2011.
• Partition-Tolerant Distributed Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  University of Toronto, 2010.
• The PADRES Publish/Subscribe System.
  Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Alex Cheung, Guoli Li, Balasubramaneyam Maniymaran, Vinod Muthusamy, and Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh.
  IGI Global, 2010.
  Tags: bpm, business process, canoews2010, composite subscription, content-based publish/subscribe, historic data access, event processing, padres, pub/sub applications, publish/subscribe
• Reliable and Highly Available Distributed Publish/Subscribe Service.
  Reza Sherafat and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2009.
  104 submissions, 23 accepts – acceptance rate is 22%.
• Historic Data Access in Publish/Subscribe.
  Guoli Li, Alex Cheung, Shuang Huo, Vinod Muthusamy, and Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh.
  In ACM DEBS 2007, pages 80-84, Toronto, Canada, June 2007.
  Tags: content-based publish/subscribe, publish/subscribe, padres
• δ-Fault-Tolerant Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Reza Sherafat and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  CSRG-570, Middleware Systems Research Group, University of T, November 2007.