Peer-reviewed research · 2005 — 2024

Academic Publications

Two decades of research across distributed systems, cloud economics, HPC / big-data convergence, and networking & security. Full record on Google Scholar.

40+
Publications
450+
Citations
2010
PhD, Univ. of Florida

Standards & open-source contributions

Beyond peer-reviewed papers, my applied work fed directly into open cloud standards and open-source software:

  • Contributor / member, OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group — RESTful cloud management standardisation.
  • CYCLOPS — open-source cloud rating-charging-billing framework (ZHAW ICCLab / SPLab).
  • Interoperability & API work across OpenStack and EU cloud projects (Contrail, Mobile Cloud Networking, ElasTest, LEXIS, 6G-PATH).

Note: no IETF RFCs are published under this name — standards contributions are via OGF/OCCI and open-source, not the IETF.

01 — Cloud economics · metering, rating & billing

Cloud metering & billing

2015

CYCLOPS: A micro-service based approach for dynamic rating, charging & billing for cloud

Patanjali, Truninger, Harsh, Bohnert · ConTEL 2015 (13th Int'l Conf. on Telecommunications)

The flagship CYCLOPS architecture — a micro-service framework for real-time metering, rating and billing of cloud services with a dynamic rule engine. Later commercialised as Cyclops Labs.

32 citations
2014

A highly available generic billing architecture for heterogeneous mobile cloud services

Harsh, Benz, Trajkovska, Edmonds, Comi, Bohnert · Int'l Conf. on Grid, Cloud & Cluster Computing

A fault-tolerant billing back-end for federated mobile-cloud services — the design groundwork that fed into CYCLOPS.

4 citations
2017

Monetization of infrastructures and services

Skoviera, Harsh, Serhiienko, Belmonte, Bohnert · EuCNC 2017

Models for turning shared network and cloud infrastructure into billable, monetizable services.

8 citations
2020

Accounting and billing challenges in large-scale emerging cloud technologies

Harsh, Serhiienko · CLOSER 2020 (10th Int'l Conf. on Cloud Computing & Services Science)

A survey of metering and accounting problems introduced by serverless, edge and highly-elastic cloud models.

1 citation
02 — Distributed systems · federation & standards

Cloud federation, interoperability & testing

2012

Using open standards for interoperability issues, solutions, and challenges facing cloud computing

Harsh, Dudouet, Cascella, Jégou, Morin · CNSM 2012 · arXiv:1207.5949

A widely-cited analysis of open-standards approaches (OCCI, OVF, CDMI) to cloud interoperability and vendor lock-in.

59 citations
2011

Contrail virtual execution platform: challenges in being part of a cloud federation

Harsh, Jégou, Cascella, Morin · European Conf. on a Service-Based Internet (ServiceWave)

Design of the Contrail virtual execution platform and the hard problems of joining a multi-provider cloud federation.

39 citations
2019

Cloud enablers for testing large-scale distributed applications

Harsh, Ribera Laszkowski, Edmonds, Quang Thanh, Pauls et al. · IEEE/ACM UCC 2019

Infrastructure that spins up realistic large-scale test environments in the cloud — part of the ElasTest platform.

9 citations
2012

Managing OVF applications under SLA constraints on the Contrail virtual execution platform

Jégou, Harsh, Cascella, Dudouet, Morin · CNSM 2012

SLA-aware deployment and management of OVF-packaged applications across federated clouds.

8 citations
2012

Contrail: a reliable and trustworthy cloud platform

Cascella, Morin, Harsh, Jégou · 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing

The architecture and trust model of the EU Contrail cloud platform.

7 citations
2018

ElasTest: an elastic platform for E2E testing complex distributed large software systems

Ribera Laszkowski, Edmonds, Harsh, Gortazar, Bohnert · ESOCC 2018

An open platform for end-to-end testing of large distributed systems under realistic load and fault conditions.

2017

DISCO: Distributed Computing as a Service

Meszaros, Harsh, Bohnert · IEEE/ACM UCC 2017

Unified provisioning of distributed-computing platforms (Spark, Hadoop, etc.) as an on-demand cloud service.

2016

Cloud standards

Edmonds, Metsch, Richardson, Harsh, Ziegler, Kershaw et al. · Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing (Wiley)

Reference chapter surveying the cloud-standards landscape — OCCI, CIMI, CDMI, OVF and their adoption.

2013

Interoperability and APIs in OpenStack

Edmonds, Harsh, Metsch, Kennedy

Bringing standardised (OCCI) interfaces to OpenStack for cross-cloud portability.

03 — HPC · big-data convergence · next-gen networks

HPC, big data & beyond-5G

2021

Leveraging HPC and cloud computing with unified big-data workflows: the LEXIS project

Hachinger, Golasowski, Martinovič, Hayek, García-Hernández et al. · Technologies & Applications for Big Data Value

The LEXIS platform converging HPC, cloud and big data behind unified scientific workflows.

14 citations
2024

Paving the path to 6G: the 6G-PATH project's vision for advanced telecommunications infrastructure and use cases

Fernandes, Rosa, Chochliouros, Cordeiro, Zayas, Guillen et al. · IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) 2024

Architecture and use-case vision for 6G infrastructure — the most recent research thread.

4 citations
2017

SDN-based service function chaining mechanism and service prototype implementation in NFV scenario

Trajkovska, Kourtis, Sakkas, Baudinot, Silva, Harsh et al. · Computer Standards & Interfaces (journal)

An SDN/NFV service-function-chaining mechanism with a working prototype.

47 citations
2014

The role of small-cell technology in future smart-city applications

Cimmino, Pecorella, Fantacci, Granelli, Rahman, Sacchi et al. · Trans. on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (journal)

Most-cited work — how dense small-cell networks enable smart-city services.

117 citations
2014

A case for CDN-as-a-service in the cloud: a Mobile Cloud Networking argument

Dudouet, Harsh, Ruiz, Gomes, Bohnert · ICACCI 2014

Elastic, on-demand content-delivery networks provisioned as a cloud service.

13 citations
2023

Wine in the cloud: smart vineyards with a distributed 'extreme data database' and supercomputing

Harsh, Hachinger, Derquennes, Edmonds, Karagöz et al. · ISGC 2023 (Int'l Symposium on Grids & Clouds)

HPC + extreme-data databases applied to precision viticulture — the bridge between my cloud research and agri-tech operating roles.

1 citation
2014

P2P incentive model for QoS-based streaming systems

Trajkovska, Rodríguez, Cerviño, Harsh, Salvachúa · IEEE CCNC 2014

Incentive design for quality-of-service in peer-to-peer streaming.

7 citations
04 — Doctoral research · multicast, networking & security

Multicast, networking & security (Univ. of Florida)

2010

A distributed approach to multicast session discovery — mDNS: a globally-scalable multicast session directory architecture

Harsh · PhD dissertation, University of Florida

Doctoral thesis: a globally-scalable, distributed directory for discovering multicast sessions.

2005

Security analysis of and proposal for image-based authentication

Newman, Harsh, Jayaraman · IEEE Int'l Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology 2005

Analysis and design of an image-based (graphical) authentication scheme.

22 citations
2008

An overlay solution to IP-multicast address collision prevention

Harsh, Newman · IASTED EuroIMSA

An overlay mechanism that prevents multicast address collisions at internet scale.

10 citations
2009

Using geo-spatial session tagging for smart multicast session discovery

Harsh, Newman · ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2009

Geo-tagging multicast sessions for smarter, location-aware discovery.

5 citations
2010

Gray networking: a step towards next-generation computer networks

Harsh, Chow, Newman · ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2010

A proposal for more adaptive, policy-aware ("gray") network behaviour.

3 citations
2011

An experimental study and analysis of Crowds-based anonymity

Bhoobalan, Harsh · ICOMP / Int'l Conf. on Internet Computing 2011

Empirical evaluation of the Crowds anonymity protocol.

3 citations
2007

Usability and acceptance of UF-IBA, an image-based authentication system

Harsh, Newman · IEEE Int'l Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology 2007

A usability study of the image-based authentication system.

2 citations

// Curated selection of ~26 works. Full list (40+ papers, book chapters and project deliverables) on Google Scholar.