| PARDA: Proportional Allocation of Resources for Distributed Storage Access. A Gulati, I Ahmad, CA Waldspurger FAST 9, 85-98, 2009 | 339 | 2009 |
| Securing customer virtual machines in a multi-tenant cloud I AHMAD, M GUNTI, A CHATURVEDI, V Kiriansky US Patent 8,909,928, 2014 | 323 | 2014 |
| Decentralized Deduplication in SAN Cluster File Systems. AT Clements, I Ahmad, M Vilayannur, J Li USENIX annual technical conference 9, 101-114, 2009 | 317 | 2009 |
| Efficient {MRC} construction with {SHARDS} CA Waldspurger, N Park, A Garthwaite, I Ahmad 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 15), 95-110, 2015 | 230 | 2015 |
| Saving and Restoring State Information for Virtualized Computer Systems I ZHANG, KC BARR, G Venkitachalam, I AHMAD, A Garthwaite, J POOL US Patent App. 12/559,484, 2010 | 156 | 2010 |
| Cloud scale resource management: Challenges and techniques A Gulati, G Shanmuganathan, A Holler, I Ahmad 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 11), 2011 | 150 | 2011 |
| Distributed storage resource scheduler and load balancer A Gulati, I AHMAD, C KUMAR US Patent 8,914,598, 2014 | 149 | 2014 |
| Cache modeling and optimization using miniature simulations C Waldspurger, T Saemundsson, I Ahmad, N Park 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 17), 487-498, 2017 | 148 | 2017 |
| Computer storage deduplication A CLEMENTS, I AHMAD, M VILAYANNUR US Patent 10,642,794, 2020 | 144 | 2020 |
| BASIL: Automated IO Load Balancing Across Storage Devices. A Gulati, C Kumar, I Ahmad, K Kumar Fast 10, 13-13, 2010 | 132 | 2010 |
| Pesto: online storage performance management in virtualized datacenters A Gulati, G Shanmuganathan, I Ahmad, C Waldspurger, M Uysal Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 1-14, 2011 | 118 | 2011 |
| Storage workload characterization and consolidation in virtualized environments A Gulati, C Kumar, I Ahmad Workshop on Virtualization Performance: Analysis, Characterization, and …, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| Memory compression policies A MASHTIZADEH, I AHMAD US Patent 8,484,405, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| An analysis of disk performance in VMware ESX server virtual machines I Ahmad, JM Anderson, AM Holler, R Kambo, V Makhija 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications (Cat. No. 03CH37441), 65-76, 2003 | 102 | 2003 |
| Easy and efficient disk I/O workload characterization in VMware ESX server I Ahmad 2007 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 149-158, 2007 | 89 | 2007 |
| Shortcut input/output in virtual machine systems I AHMAD, CA Waldspurger US Patent 9,032,181, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| {vIC}: Interrupt Coalescing for Virtual Machine Storage Device {IO} I Ahmad, A Gulati, A Mashtizadeh 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 11), 2011 | 77 | 2011 |
| Online classification of memory pages based on activity level represented by one or more bits I AHMAD, CA Waldspurger, AT GARTHWAITE, K TATI, P Lu US Patent 9,032,398, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| Interrupt coalescing for outstanding input/output completions I AHMAD, M AUSTRUY, M Mahalingam US Patent 8,478,924, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| Quality of service management A Gulati, I AHMAD, CA Waldspurger US Patent 7,912,951, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |