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Rob Shakir

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Authored Publications

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NANOG 90: Abstract Ponderings, a 10 year retrospective.

Rob Shakir

(2024)

A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN

Alexander Krentsel

Nitika Saran

Bikash Koley

Subhasree Mandal

Ashok Narayanan

Sylvia Ratnasamy

Ali Al-Shabibi

Anees Shaikh

Rob Shakir

Ankit Singla

Hakim Weatherspoon

2024 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) (2024)

The Case for Validating Inputs in Software-Defined WANs

Alexander Krentsel

Rishabh Iyer

Isaac Keslassy

Sylvia Ratnasamy

Anees Shaikh

Rob Shakir

The 23rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS ’24), ACM, Irvine, CA (2024) (to appear)

Network Visibility for the Automation Age

Rob Shakir

(2019)

End-to-End Open Network Management

Anees Shaikh

Rob Shakir

Open Networking Summit, San Jose, CA (2019)

Carl Lebsack

Rob Shakir

NANOG (2018)

The Next SPRING Forward: How do we successfully evolve today's IP/MPLS Networks?

Rob Shakir

N/A (2017)

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