Yehuda Afek

Professor

1983 …2025

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  • 2013

    Recursive design of hardware priority queues

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A. & Schiff, L., 2013, SPAA 2013 - Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 23-32 10 p. (Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    4 Scopus citations
  • The 2013 Edsger W. Dijkstra prize in distributed computing

    Afek, Y., Ellen, F., Patt-Shamir, B., Rajsbaum, S., Shvartsman, A. & Taubenfeld, G., 2013, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 8205 LNCS, p. XIII-XIV

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorial

  • 2012

    CBTree: A practical concurrent self-adjusting search tree

    Afek, Y., Kaplan, H., Korenfeld, B., Morrison, A. & Tarjan, R. E., 2012, Distributed Computing - 26th International Symposium, DISC 2012, Proceedings. p. 1-15 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7611 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    37 Scopus citations
  • Interrupting snapshots and the Java TM size method

    Afek, Y., Shavit, N. & Tzafrir, M., Jul 2012, In: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 72, 7, p. 880-888 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    3 Scopus citations
  • MCA2: Multi-core architecture for mitigating complexity attacks

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A., Harchol, Y., Hay, D. & Koral, Y., 2012, ANCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems. p. 235-246 12 p. (ANCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    10 Scopus citations
  • Pessimistic software lock-elision

    Afek, Y., Matveev, A. & Shavit, N., 2012, Distributed Computing - 26th International Symposium, DISC 2012, Proceedings. p. 297-311 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7611 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    17 Scopus citations
  • Renaming and the weakest family of failure detectors

    Afek, Y., Kuznetsov, P. & Nir, I., Dec 2012, In: Distributed Computing. 25, 6, p. 411-425 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    1 Scopus citations
  • Space efficient deep packet inspection of compressed web traffic

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A. & Koral, Y., 1 Apr 2012, In: Computer Communications. 35, 7, p. 810-819 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    11 Scopus citations
  • 2011

    A biological solution to a fundamental distributed computing problem

    Afek, Y., Alon, N., Barad, O., Hornstein, E., Barkai, N. & Bar-Joseph, Z., 14 Jan 2011, In: Science. 331, 6014, p. 183-185 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    131 Scopus citations
  • Beeping a maximal independent set

    Afek, Y., Alon, N., Bar-Joseph, Z., Cornejo, A., Haeupler, B. & Kuhn, F., 2011, Distributed Computing - 25th International Symposium, DISC 2011, Proceedings. p. 32-50 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6950 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    34 Scopus citations
  • Cache index-aware memory allocation

    Afek, Y., Dice, D. & Morrison, A., 2011, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM 2011. p. 55-64 10 p. (International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    21 Scopus citations
  • Coping with context switches in lock-based software transactional memory

    Afek, Y., Cohen, Y. & Morrison, A., 2011, Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2011. 11. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    1 Scopus citations
  • Efficient processing of multi-connection compressed web traffic

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A. & Koral, Y., 2011, NETWORKING 2011 - 10th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Proceedings. PART 1 ed. p. 52-65 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6640 LNCS, no. PART 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    Open Access
    2 Scopus citations
  • Fast and scalable rendezvousing

    Afek, Y., Hakimi, M. & Morrison, A., 2011, Distributed Computing - 25th International Symposium, DISC 2011, Proceedings. p. 16-31 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6950 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    9 Scopus citations
  • From bounded to unbounded concurrency objects and back

    Afek, Y., Morrison, A. & Wertheim, G., 2011, PODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing. p. 119-128 10 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    6 Scopus citations
  • Lowering STM overhead with static analysis

    Afek, Y., Korland, G. & Zilberstein, A., 2011, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing - 23rd International Workshop, LCPC 2010, Revised Selected Papers. p. 31-45 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6548 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    14 Scopus citations
  • Oblivious collaboration

    Afek, Y., Babichenko, Y., Feige, U., Gafni, E., Linial, N. & Sudakov, B., 2011, Distributed Computing - 25th International Symposium, DISC 2011, Proceedings. p. 489-504 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6950 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    4 Scopus citations
  • Towards consistency oblivious programming

    Afek, Y., Avni, H. & Shavit, N., 2011, Principles of Distributed Systems - 15th International Conference, OPODIS 2011, Proceedings. p. 65-79 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 7109 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    15 Scopus citations
  • 2010

    Brief announcement: View transactions: Transactional model with relaxed consistency checks

    Afek, Y., Morrison, A. & Tzafrir, M., 2010, PODC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. p. 65-66 2 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    5 Scopus citations
  • Brief announcement: Quasi-linearizability: Relaxed consistency for improved concurrency

    Afek, Y., Korland, G. & Yanovsky, E., 2010, Distributed Computing - 24th International Symposium, DISC 2010, Proceedings. p. 127-129 3 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6343 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • Efficient lock free privatization

    Afek, Y., Avni, H., Dice, D. & Shavit, N., 2010, Principles of Distributed Systems - 14th International Conference, OPODIS 2010, Proceedings. p. 333-347 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6490 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    3 Scopus citations
  • Quasi-linearizability: Relaxed consistency for improved concurrency

    Afek, Y., Korland, G. & Yanovsky, E., 2010, Principles of Distributed Systems - 14th International Conference, OPODIS 2010, Proceedings. p. 395-410 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6490 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    73 Scopus citations
  • Scalable producer-consumer pools based on elimination-diffraction trees

    Afek, Y., Korland, G., Natanzon, M. & Shavit, N., 2010, Euro-Par 2010 Parallel Processing - 16th International Euro-Par Conference, Proceedings. PART 2 ed. p. 151-162 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6272 LNCS, no. PART 2).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    Open Access
    26 Scopus citations
  • The k-simultaneous consensus problem

    Afek, Y., Gafni, E., Rajsbaum, S., Raynal, M. & Travers, C., Mar 2010, In: Distributed Computing. 22, 3, p. 185-195 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    24 Scopus citations
  • The velox transactional memory stack

    Afek, Y., Drepper, U., Felber, P., Fetzer, C., Gramoli, V., Hohmuth, M., Riviere, E., Stenstrom, P., Unsal, O., Moreira, W. M., Harmanci, D., Marlier, P., Diestelhorst, S., Pohlack, M., Cristal, A., Hur, I., Dragojevic, A., Guerraoui, R., Kapalka, M. & Tomić, S. & 4 others, Korland, G., Shavit, N., Nowack, M. & Riegel, T., Sep 2010, In: IEEE Micro. 30, 5, p. 76-87 12 p., 5567088.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    9 Scopus citations
  • 2009

    Interrupting snapshots and the Java™ size method

    Afek, Y., Shavit, N. & Tzafrir, M., 2009, Distributed Computing - 23rd International Symposium, DISC 2009, Proceedings. p. 78-92 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5805 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    1 Scopus citations
  • Tight group renaming on groups of size g is equivalent to g-consensus

    Afek, Y., Gafni, E. & Lieber, O., 2009, Distributed Computing - 23rd International Symposium, DISC 2009, Proceedings. p. 111-126 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 5805 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    7 Scopus citations
  • 2008

    Failure detectors in loosely named systems

    Afek, Y. & Nir, I., 2008, PODC'08: Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 65-74 10 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    6 Scopus citations
  • Group renaming

    Afek, Y., Gamzu, I., Levy, I., Merritt, M. & Taubenfeld, G., 2008, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 5401 LNCS, p. 58-72 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

    8 Scopus citations
  • The 2008 Edsger W. Dijkstra prize in distributed computing

    Afek, Y., Ellen, F., Kutten, S., Patt-Shamir, B., Rajsbaum, S. & Taubenfeld, G., 2008, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 5218 LNCS, p. vii-viii

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorial

  • 2007

    Common2 extended to stacks and unbounded concurrency

    Afek, Y., Gafni, E. & Morrison, A., Nov 2007, In: Distributed Computing. 20, 4, p. 239-252 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    22 Scopus citations
  • Efficient adaptive collect algorithms

    Afek, Y. & De Levie, Y., Oct 2007, In: Distributed Computing. 20, 3, p. 221-238 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    5 Scopus citations
  • 2006

    Common2 extended to stacks and unbounded concurrency

    Afek, Y., Gafni, E. & Morrison, A., 2006, Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing 2006. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 218-227 10 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing; vol. 2006).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    11 Scopus citations
  • Less is more: Consensus gaps between restricted and unrestricted objects

    Afek, Y. & Shalom, E., 2006, Distributed Computing - 20th International Symposium, DISC 2006, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, p. 209-223 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 4167 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    1 Scopus citations
  • Simultaneous consensus tasks: A tighter characterization of set-consensus

    Afek, Y., Gafni, E., Rajsbaum, S., Raynal, M. & Travers, C., 2006, Distributed Computing and Networking - 8th International Conference, ICDCN 2006, Proceedings. p. 331-341 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 4308 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    13 Scopus citations
  • 2005

    Space and step complexity efficient adaptive collect

    Afek, Y. & De Levie, Y., 2005, Distributed Computing - 19th International Conference, DISC 2005, Proceedings. p. 384-398 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 3724 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • 2004

    Improved BGP convergence via ghost flushing

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A. & Schwarz, S., Dec 2004, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 22, 10, p. 1933-1948 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
    39 Scopus citations
  • 2003

    Improved BGP convergence via ghost flushing

    Bremler-Barr, A., Afek, Y. & Schwarz, S., 2003, In: Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM. 2, p. 927-937 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

    Open Access
    77 Scopus citations
  • 2002

    Local stabilizer

    Afek, Y. & Dolev, S., 2002, In: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 62, 5, p. 745-765 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    36 Scopus citations
  • Long lived adaptive splitter and applications.

    Afek, Y., Stupp, G. & Touitou, D., 2002, In: Distributed Computing. 15, 2, p. 67-86 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    35 Scopus citations
  • On the structure and application of BGP policy atoms

    Afek, Y., Ben-Shalom, O. & Bremler-Barr, A., 2002, Proceedings of the 2nd Internet Measurement Workshop (IMW 2002). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 209-214 6 p. (Proceedings of the 2nd Internet Measurement Workshop (IMW 2002)).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    18 Scopus citations
  • Restoration by path concatenation: Fast recovery of MPLS paths

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A., Kaplan, H., Cohen, E. & Merritt, M., Dec 2002, In: Distributed Computing. 15, 4 (Special issue: PODC'01), p. 273-283 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    19 Scopus citations
  • 2001

    Fast recovery of MPLS paths

    Bremler-Barr, A., Afek, Y., Kaplan, H., Cohen, E. & Merritt, M., 2001, p. 43-52. 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

    7 Scopus citations
  • Restoration by Path Concatenation: Fast Recovery of MPLS Paths

    Bremler-Barr, A., Afek, Y., Kaplan, H., Cohen, E. & Merritt, M., 2001, Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 43–52 (PODC '01).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  • Restoration Path Concatenation: Fast recovery of MPLS paths

    Bremler-Barr, A., Afek, Y., Kaplan, H., Cohen, E. & Merritt, M., 2001, In: Performance Evaluation Review. 29, 1, p. 316-317 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

  • Routing with a clue

    Afek, Y., Bremler-Barr, A. & Har-Peled, S., Dec 2001, In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 9, 6, p. 693-705 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    4 Scopus citations
  • 2000

    Bounds on the shared memory requirements for long-lived & adaptive objects

    Afek, Y., Boxer, P. & Touitou, D., 2000, p. 81-89. 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

    19 Scopus citations
  • Long-lived and adaptive atomic snapshot and immediate snapshot

    Afek, Y., Stupp, G. & Touitou, D., 2000, p. 71-80. 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

    26 Scopus citations
  • Phantom: a simple and effective flow control scheme

    Afek, Y., Mansour, Y. & Ostfeld, Z., Mar 2000, In: Computer Networks. 32, 3, p. 277-305 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    13 Scopus citations
  • Trainet: A new label switching scheme

    Afek, Y. & Bremler-Barr, A., 2000, In: Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM. 2, p. 874-883 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

    6 Scopus citations