Minas Gjoka

Peer-reviewed Publications

Conference and Workshop

• Construction of Directed 2K Graphs
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, software ]
  Balint Tillman, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  KDD '17

                          @inproceedings{balint_kdd17,
                            title= {{Construction of Directed 2K Graphs}},
                            author= {Balint Tillman, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou},
                            booktitle = {Proceedings of KDD '17},
                            address = {Halifax, Canada},
                            month = {August},
                            year = {2017}
                          }
                            

  
  
  
• AntMonitor: A System for Monitoring from Mobile Devices
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Anh Le, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Anastasia Shuba, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big Internet Data (C2BID)

  			@inproceedings{anh15_c2bid,
  			  title= {{AntMonitor: A System for Monitoring from Mobile Devices}},
  			  author= {Anh Le, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Anastasia Shuba, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big Internet Data (C2BID)},
  			  address = {London, UK},
  			  month = {August},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• AntMonitor: Network Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks in Mobile Devices
  [ pdf,, bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM ACM S3 2015

  			@inproceedings{ashuba_s3,
  			  title= {{AntMonitor: Network Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks in Mobile Devices}},
  			  author= {Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM S3 2015},
  			  address = {Paris, France},
  			  month = {September},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• On the decomposition of cell phone activity patterns and their connection with urban ecology
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Blerim Cici, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, Carter T. Butts
  ACM MobiHoc '15

  			@inproceedings{bcici_mobihoc15,
  			  title= {{On the decomposition of cell phone activity patterns and their connection with urban ecology}},
  			  author= {Blerim Cici, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, Carter T. Butts},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM MobiHoc '15},
  			  address = {Hangzhou, China},
  			  month = {June},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Construction of Simple Graphs with a Target Joint Degree Matrix and Beyond
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Balint Tillman, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE INFOCOM '15

  			@inproceedings{mgjoka_infocom15,
  			  title= {{Construction of Simple Graphs with a Target Joint Degree Matrix and Beyond}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka, Balint Tillman, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '15},
  			  address = {Hong Kong},
  			  month = {April},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Estimating Clique Composition and Size Distributions from Sampled Network Data
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, report, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Emily Smith, Carter T. Butts
  IEEE NetSciCom '14 (Infocom workshop) and on arXiv:cs.SI:1308.3297

  			@inproceedings{gjoka13_CliqueEstimation,
  			  title= {{Estimating Clique Composition and Size Distributions from Sampled Network Data}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Emily Smith and Carter T. Butts},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE NetSciCom '14},
  			  address = {Toronto, Canada},
  			  month = {May},
  			  year = {2014}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• 2.5K-Graphs: from Sampling to Generation
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE INFOCOM '13, Turin, Italy, April 2013 (acceptance rate 17.4%)

  			@inproceedings{gjoka13_2.5K_Graphs,
  			  title= {{2.5K-Graphs: from Sampling to Generation}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '13},
  			  address = {Turin, Italy},
  			  month = {April},
  			  year = {2013}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, report, dataset, software ]
  Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Yan Wang, Zack W. Almquist, Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) '12 (acceptance rate 37.5%) and on arXiv:cs.SI:1105.5488

  			@inproceedings{kurant11_coarsetopology,
  			  title= {{Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling}},
  			  author= {Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Yan Wang, Zack W. Almquist,
  			          Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) '12},
  			  address = {Helsinki, Finland},
  			  month = {August},
  			  year = {2012}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Walking on a Graph with a Magnifying Glass:
  Stratified Sampling via Weighted Random Walks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, dataset ]
  Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM SIGMETRICS '11, San Jose, June 2011 (acceptance rate 14.6%)

  			@inproceedings{kurant11_magnifying,
  			  title= {{Walking on a Graph with a Magnifying Glass: Stratified Sampling via Weighted Random Walks}},
  			  author= {Maciej Kurant and Minas Gjoka and Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS '11},
  			  address = {San Jose, CA},
  			  month = {June},
  			  year = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• A Network Coding Approach to IP Traceback
  [ pdf, bibtex , citations (), slides ]
  Pegah Sattari, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE NetCod '10, Toronto, June 2010

  			@inproceedings{sattari_netcod10,
  			  title={{A Network Coding Approach to IP Traceback}},
  			  author={Pegah Sattari and Minas Gjoka and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle={Proceedings of IEEE NetCod '10},
  			  address = {Toronto, Canada},
  			  month = {June},
  			  year = {2010}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, dataset1, dataset2, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE INFOCOM '10, San Diego, March 2010 (acceptance rate 17.5%)

  			@inproceedings{gjoka10_walkingfb,
  			  title= {{Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '10},
  			  address = {San Diego, CA},
  			  month = {March},
  			  year = {2010}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Kangaroo: Video Seeking in P2P Systems 
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides ]
  Xiaoyuan Yang, Minas Gjoka, Parminder Chhabra, Athina Markopoulou, Pablo Rodriguez
  USENIX IPTPS '09, Boston, April 2009 (acceptance rate 20.0%)

  			@inproceedings{xyang_iptps09,
  			  title= {{Kangaroo: Video Seeking in P2P Systems}},
  			  author= {Xiaoyuan Yang and Minas Gjoka and Parminder Chhabra 
  				  and Athina Markopoulou and Pablo Rodriguez},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of USENIX IPTPS '09},
  			  address = {Boston, MA},
  			  month = {April},
  			  year = {2009}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Poking Facebook: Characterization of OSN Applications
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, dataset, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Michael Sirivianos, Athina Markopoulou, Xiaowei Yang
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) '08, Seattle, August 2008 (acceptance rate 35.0%)

  			@inproceedings{mgjoka_wosn08,
  			  title= {{Poking Facebook: Characterization of OSN Applications}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Michael Sirivianos and Athina Markopoulou and Xiaowei Yang},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) '08},
  			  address = {Seattle, WA},
  			  month = {August},
  			  year = {2008}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Loss Tomography in General Topologies with Network Coding
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides ]
  Minas Gjoka, Christina Fragouli, Pegah Sattari, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE GLOBECOM '07, Washington DC, Nov. 2007 (acceptance rate 39.5%)

  			@inproceedings{mgjoka_globecom07,
  			  title= {{Loss Tomography in General Topologies with Network Coding}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Christina Fragouli and Pegah Sattari and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM '07},
  			  address = {Washington DC},
  			  month = {November},
  			  year = {2007}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• BotTorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks
  [ pdf , bibtex , citations (), slides ]
  Karim El Defrawy, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  USENIX SRUTI '07, Santa Clara, CA, June 2007 (acceptance rate 33.0%)

  			@inproceedings{defrawy_sruti07,
  			  title= {{BotTorrent: Misusing BitTorrent to Launch DDoS Attacks}},
  			  author= {Karim El Defrawy and Minas Gjoka and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) '07}, 
  			  address = {Santa Clara, CA},
  			  month = {June},
  			  year = {2007}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Evaluation of IP Fast Reroute Proposals
  [ pdf , bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Vinayak Ram, Xiaowei Yang
  IEEE COMSWARE '07, Bangalore, India, Jan 2007 (acceptance rate 34.0%)

  			@inproceedings{mgjoka_comsware07,
  			  title= {{Evaluation of IP Fast Reroute Proposals}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Vinayak Ram and Xiaowei Yang},
  			  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE COMSWARE '07},
  			  address = {Bangalore, India},
  			  month = {Jan},
  			  year = {2007}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Journal

• A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides ]
  Pegah Sattari, Athina Markopoulou, Christina Fragouli, Minas Gjoka
  To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 59, Issue 3, 2013

  			@article{sattari_toit13,
  			  title     = {{A Network Coding Approach to Loss Tomography}},
  			  author    = {Pegah Sattari and Athina Markopoulou and Christina Fragouli and Minas Gjoka},
  			  journal   = {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
  			  year      = {2012}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, dataset ]
  Minas Gjoka, Carter T Butts, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou
  JSAC special issue on Measurement of Internet Topologies, 2011

  			@article{mgjoka_multigraph_jsac,
  			  title     = {Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks},
  			  author    = {Minas Gjoka and  Carter T. Butts and
  			               Maciej Kurant and  Athina Markopoulou},
  			  journal   = {IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. on Measurement of Internet Topologies},
  			  year      = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides, dataset1, dataset2, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  JSAC special issue on Measurement of Internet Topologies, 2011

  			@article{mgjoka_recommendations_jsac,
  			  title= {{Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and 
  			           Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  journal = {IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. on Measurement of Internet Topologies},
  			  year = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Improved Tradeoff-based Models of the Internet
  [ pdf , bibtex, citations (), slides, software ]
  Antonis Spatharis, Ilias Foudalis, Minas Gjoka, Panagiota Krouska, Christos Amanatidis,
  Christos H. Papadimitriou, Martha Sideri
  Communications of SIWN (System and Information Sciences Notes), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 409-414, July 2007, and in Proc. of CODS '07, Chengdu, China

  			@article{spatharis_siwn07,
  			  title     = {{Improved Tradeoff-based Models of the Internet}},
  			  author= {Antonis Spatharis and Ilias Foudalis and Minas Gjoka and Panagiota Krouska and 
  			           Christos Amanatidis and Christos H. Papadimitriou and Martha Sideri},
  			  journal = {Communications of SIWN (System and Information Sciences Notes) },
  			  volume  = {1},
  			  number  = {4},
  			  pages   = {409--414},
  			  month = {July},
  			  year    = {2007}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Posters and Demos

• AntMonitor: A System for Mobile Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, software ]
  Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM Mobicom Demo Session

  			@inproceedings{anh15_mobicomdemo,
  			  title= {{AntMonitor: A System for Mobile Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks}},
  			  author= {Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM Mobicom Demo Session},
  			  address = {Paris, France},
  			  month = {September},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Demo: AntMonitor: Network Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks in Mobile Devices
  [ pdf,, bibtex, citations, software ]
  Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou
  ACM ACM S3 2015

  			@inproceedings{ashuba_s3_demo,
  			  title= {{Demo: AntMonitor - Network Traffic Monitoring and Real-Time Prevention of Privacy Leaks in Mobile Devices}},
  			  author= {Anastasia Shuba, Anh Le, Minas Gjoka, Janus Varmarken, Simon Langhoff, Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM S3 2015},
  			  address = {Paris, France},
  			  month = {September},
  			  year = {2015}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Efficient Construction of 2K+ Graphs
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, abstract, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Balint Tillman, Athina Markopoulou, Rasmus Pagh
  NetSci, Berkeley, CA, June. 2014
  
  
• QuestCrowd: A location-based question answering system with participation incentives
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, report, software ]
  Venkata Sri K. Pulla, Chandra S. Jammi, Prashant Tiwari, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  IEEE INFOCOM '13 Posters Session, Turin, Italy, April 2013 (acceptance rate 56.5%)

  			@inproceedings{kk13,
  			  title= {{QuestCrowd: A location-based question answering system with participation incentives}},
  			  author= {Venkata Sri Krishnakanth Pulla and Chandra Shekhar Jammi and Prashant Tiwari and Minas Gjoka and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM '13 Posters Session},
  			  address = {Turin, Italy},
  			  month = {April},
  			  year = {2013}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Star Sampling and its Application to Online Social Networks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations ]
  Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  Network Mapping and Measurement Conference 2011, Madison, WI, May 2011

  			@inproceedings{kurant11_nmmc,
  			  title= {{Star Sampling and its Application to Online Social Networks}},
  			  author= {Maciej Kurant and Minas Gjoka and Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {Network Mapping and Measurement Conference 2011 Posters Session},
  			  address = {Madison, WI},
  			  month = {May},
  			  year = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Invited Publications

Conference

• Design-based Estimators for attribute-labeled, low-semidiameter subgraphs
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Emily Smith, Carter T. Butts
  34th Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA), St. Pete Beach, FL, Feb. 2014

  			@inproceedings{gjoka13_SubgraphEstimation,
  			  title= {{Design-based Estimators for attribute-labeled, low-semidiameter subgraphs}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka and Emily Smith and Carter T. Butts},
  			  booktitle = {34th Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA)},
  			  address = {St. Pete Beach},
  			  month = {February},
  			  year = {2014}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Link-trace Methods for Enumeration of Node Sets
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides ]
  Sean Fitzhugh, Carter T. Butts, Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou
  32nd Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA), Redondo Beach, CA, Mar. 2012

  			@inproceedings{fitzhugh12_insna,
  			  title= {{Link-trace Methods for Enumeration of Node Sets}},
  			  author= {Sean Fitzhugh and Carter T. Butts and Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {32nd Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA)},
  			  address = {Helsinki, Finland},
  			  month = {August},
  			  year = {2012}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Link-Trace Sampling for Social Networks: Advances and Applications
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides ]
  Maciej Kurant, Minas Gjoka, Carter T. Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  31st Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA), St. Pete's Beach, FL, Feb. 2011.

  			@inproceedings{kurant11_insna,
  			  title= {{Link-Trace Sampling for Social Networks: Advances and Applications}},
  			  author= {Maciej Kurant and Minas Gjoka and Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {31st Sunbelt Network Conference (INSNA)},
  			  address = {St. Pete's Beach, FL},
  			  month = {February},
  			  year = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Identifying DNS heavy hitters in root servers data
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides ]
  Minas Gjoka
  10th CAIDA-WIDE Workshop, Marina del Rey, CA, 2008.

  			@inproceedings{gjoka08_caidawide,
  			  title= {{Identifying DNS heavy hitters in root servers data}},
  			  author= {Minas Gjoka},
  			  booktitle = {10th CAIDA-WIDE Workshop)},
  			  address = {Marina del Rey, CA},
  			  month = {August},
  			  year = {2008}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Posters

• Online Social Networks Meet Smartphones
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations ]
  Blerim Cici, Francesco Malandrino, Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou
  CPCC Research Showcase, Irvine, CA, March 2011

  			@inproceedings{cici11_cpcc,
  			  title= {{Online Social Networks Meet Smartphones}},
  			  author= {Blerim Cici and Francesco Malandrino and Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle = {CPCC Research Showcase},
  			  address = {Irvine, CA},
  			  month = {March},
  			  year = {2011}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Thesis

• Measurement of Online Social Networks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations () ]
  Minas Gjoka
  UC Irvine PhD Thesis, Dec 2010

  			@phdthesis{gjoka10_thesis,
  			  author = {Minas Gjoka},
  			  title  = {Measurement of Online Social Networks},
  			  school = {University of California, Irvine},
  			  year  =  {2010}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Technical Reports

• Estimating Subgraph Frequencies with or without Attributes from Egocentrically Sampled Data
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, datasets ]
  Minas Gjoka, Emily Smith, Carter T. Butts
  Technical Report at arXiv.org, October 2015

  			    @article{mgjoka15_subgraphsampling,
  			    title     = {Estimating Subgraph Frequencies with or without Attributes from Egocentrically Sampled Data},
  			    author    = {Minas Gjoka and Emily Smith and Carter T. Butts},     
  			    journal   = {arXiv CoRR},
  			    volume    = {abs/1510.08119},
  			    year      = {2015},
  			    ee        = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08119},     
  			    }
    
  			  

  
  
  
• A Walk in Facebook: Uniform Sampling of Users in Online Social Networks
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides, software ]
  Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T Butts, Athina Markopoulou
  Technical Report at arXiv.org, May 2009

  			@article{gjoka10_walkingfb_arxiv,
  			  title     = {{A Walk in Facebook: Uniform Sampling of Users in Online Social Networks}},
  			  author    = {Minas Gjoka and Maciej Kurant and Carter T. Butts and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  journal   = {CoRR},
  			  volume    = {abs/0906.0060},
  			  year      = {2009},
  			  ee        = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0060},
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• A Network Coding-Based Approach to Probabilistic Packet Marking
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations (), slides ]
  Pegah Sattari, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou
  Technical Report, December, 2008

  			@article{sattari_techreport08,
  			  title={{A Network Coding-Based Approach to Probabilistic Packet Marking}},
  			  author={Pegah Sattari and Minas Gjoka and Athina Markopoulou},
  			  booktitle={Technical Report},
  			  month = {December},
  			  year = {2008}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Identifying DNS heavy hitters in root servers data
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations, slides ]
  Technical Report, October 2008

  			@article{gjoka_dns08,
  			  title={{Identifying DNS heavy hitters in root servers data}},
  			  author={Minas Gjoka},
  			  month = {October},
  			  year = {2008}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Understanding the impact of VCR operations in P2P VoD systems
  [ pdf, bibtex, citations ]
  Xiaoyuan Yang, Minas Gjoka, Athina Markopoulou, Pablo Rodriguez
  Technical Report, November 2007

  			@article{xyang_tr07,
  			  title= {{Understanding the impact of VCR operations in P2P VoD systems }},
  			  author= {Xiaoyuan Yang and Minas Gjoka and Athina Markopoulou and Pablo Rodriguez},
  			  booktitle = {Technical Report},
  			  month = {November},
  			  year = {2007}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Patents

• Tracker in P2P systems with DVD functionalities
  [ url , bibtex]
  Xiaoyuan Yang, Minas Gjoka, Pablo Rodriguez, Parminder Chhabra
  US Patent 20,120,272,282

  			@misc{yang2012tracker,
  			  title={Tracker in P2P systems with DVD functionalities},
  			  author={Yang, Xiayuan and Gjoka, Minas and Rodriguez, Pablo and Chhabra, Parminder},
  			  year={2012},
  			  month=oct # "~25",
  			  note={US Patent 20,120,272,282}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  
• Method for downloading segments of a video file in a peer to peer network
  [ url , bibtex]
  Xiaoyuan Yang, Minas Gjoka, Pablo Rodriguez, Parminder Chhabra
  US Patent 20,110,191,418

  			@misc{yang2010method,
  			  title={Method for downloading segments of a video file in a peer to peer network},
  			  author={Yang, Xiayuan and Gjoka, Minas and Rodriguez, Pablo and Chhabra, Parminder},
  			  year={2010},
  			  month=dec # "~28",
  			  note={US Patent 20,110,191,418}
  			}
  			  

  
  
  

Other Writings

• Exploring collaborative filters: Neighborhood-based approach
  [ pdf , bibtex, citations (), software]
  Minas Gjoka, Fabio Soldo
  Machine Learning Class, March 2008

  											@article{gjokasoldo_machinelearning08,
  											  title= {{Exploring collaborative filters: Neighborhood-based approach}},
  											  author= {Minas Gjoka and Fabio Soldo},
  											  booktitle = {CS 273 - Machine Learning},
  											  address = {University of California, Irvine},
  											  month = {March},
  											  year = {2008}
  											}
  											  

  
  
  
• 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Reports
  [ pdf ]
  "Human Computation" by Luis von Ahn
  "Warehouse-scale Computers" by Luiz Andre Barroso
  
  
• Bus Positioning and Utilization System
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  Georgios Papaioannou, Nektarios Leontiadis , Minas Gjoka, Vasileios Kemerlis, Gjergji Zyba
  IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition, 2005

  											@article{bupus_aueb,
  											  title= {{Bus Positioning and Utilization System}},
  											  author= {Georgios Papaioannou and Nektarios Leontiadis and 
  											          Minas Gjoka and Vasileios Kemerlis and Gjergji Zyba},
  											  booktitle = {IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC) '05},
  											  month = {April},
  											  year = {2005}
  											}