Publications:

• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Rui Yang, Shadi A. Noghabi, Indranil Gupta. Home, SafeHome: Smart Home Reliability with Visibility and Atomicity. Eurosys’21. (Paper | Slide | Presentation)
• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Indranil Gupta. A New Fully-Distributed Arbitration Based Membership Protocol. Infocom’20  (Paper | Slide | Presentation)
• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Rui Yang, Shadi A. Noghabi, Indranil Gupta. SafeHome: Ensuring a Safe and Reliable Home Using the Edge. Proc. 2nd Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge’19). (Paper | Slide)
• Gopal Kakivaya, Lu Xun, Richard Hasha, Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, . . . and Indranil Gupta. Service Fabric: A Distributed Platform for Building Microservices in the Cloud. EuroSys’18 ( Paper | Slide|Presentation)
  • News Articles:
    1. The Morning Paper [pdf]
    2. Microsoft Opens Hood on Popular Service Fabric Platform, CS Researchers are the First to Take a Look [pdf]
    3. Our work has been highlighted in the Illinois Computer Science Impact Report 2018 [pdf]
    4. The inner workings of cloud migration [pdf]
• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan and Indranil Gupta. The CAT Theorem and Performance of New Transactional Distributed Systems. Proc. ACM PODC Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC’16) ( Paper | Slide )
• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan and Nitin Vaidya. O-ACK: An Adaptive Wireless MAC Protocol Exploiting Opportunistic Token-Passing and Ack Piggybacking. Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’15) (Paper)
• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan and Nitin Vaidya. Overheard ACK With Token Passing: An Optimization to 802.11 MAC Protocol. The 6th annual ACM S3 Workshop (held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2014) (Paper)

Patents:

• Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Syeda Persia Aziz, A.S.M. Hossain Bari. Method and apparatus for performing image-based searches (Pdf)
• A.S.M Hossain Bari, Sohel Ahmed, Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, MD. Tawhidul Islam Chowdhury, Sadre Ala Parvez, Syeda Persia Aziz. Electronic device and method for providing information thereof (Pdf)