Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Achieving Efficiency, Quality of Service and Robustness in Multi-Organizational Distributed Systems,” Journal Paper in review.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Providing QoS Guarantees Under Uncertain Runtimes of Jobs in Multi-Institutional Grids,” Journal Paper in review.

Umar Farooq, Omair Muhi Kanwar, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Building Advance Reservations Enabled Grid Computing Systems,” Conference Paper in review.

Shikharesh Majumdar, Umar Farooq, Eric W. Parsons, “Schedulability Analysis and Performance Bounds for Advance Reservation Requests for Grids,” Conference Paper in review.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “High Performance Middleware for Mobile Wireless Networks,” in Mobile Information Systems, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 107-132, June 2007.

Umar Farooq, Gabriel Wainer, Bengu Balya, “DEVS Modeling of Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, in Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 285-314, March 2007.

 Umar Farooq, Zeshan A. Chishti, Furqan Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmed, “Experimenting with JINI on LINUX,” in Embedded Linux Journal, Issue 01, pp. 45-52, January 2001.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Engineering Grids Applications and Middleware for High Performance”, in the proceedings of the 6^th ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2007), Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 5-8, 2007. pp. 141-152. ACM Press, ISBN 1-59593-297-6.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “A Framework to Achieve Guaranteed QoS for Applications and High System Performance in Multi-Institutional Grid Computing”, in the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006), Columbus, Ohio, USA, August 14-18, 2006. pp. 373-380. IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2636-5. Paper

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Dynamic Scheduling of Lightpaths in Lambda Grids”, in the proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/Create-Net International Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications (GRIDNETS 2005), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 6-7, 2005. pp. 540-549. IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7803-9277-9. Paper

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Impact of Laxity on Scheduling with Advance Reservations in Grids”, in the proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2005), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 27-29, 2005. pp. 319-324. IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2458-3.

Umar Farooq, Kashif I. Siddiqui,  “Scalability Analysis of Multi-Tier Distributed Software Patterns using Layered Queuing Networks,” in the proceedings of the 18th IEEE Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 1-4, 2005, pp. 1025-1028. IEEE Press, ISSN 0840-7789.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Engineering Mobile Wireless Publish/Subscribe Systems for High Performance”, in the proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 4-8, 2004, pp. 295-305. IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-7695-2251-3. Paper

Umar Farooq, Toqeer Israr, Kashif I. Siddiqui, “Thin-Client Architecture for Location-Dependent Mobile Services over Short-Range Communications”, in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Computer, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2004), Austin, Texas, USA, August 14-17, 2004.

Umar Farooq, Bengu Balya, Gabriel Wainer, “ Modeling Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Cell-DEVS”, in the proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2004), San Jose, California, USA, July 25-29, 2004, pp. 285-292. ISBN 1-56555-284-9.

Umar Farooq, Eric W. Parsons, Shikharesh Majumdar, “Performance of Publish/Subscribe Middleware in Mobile Wireless Networks” in the proceedings of the 4^th ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2004), Redwood City, California, USA, January 14-16, 2004. Also published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, January 2004, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 278-289. ACM Press, ISBN 1-58113-673-0.

Muhammad Asif, Umar Farooq, Affiyah Kissam, Shikharesh Majumdar, “XML/Web Services Gateway for Multi-Organizational Extranets,” Exhibit, 2^nd Ontario Center of Excellence Annual Discovery, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2007.

 Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons,  “QoSMOS : QoS aware resource Management in multi-Organizational gird Systems,” in 2006 IBM Centers for Advance Studies Conference (CASCON 2006), Markham, Ontario, Canada, October 16-19, 2006.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Scheduling Advance Reservations on Shared Grid Resources”,  Technical Report SCE-06-13, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2006.

 Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Efficiently Scheduling Advance Reservations in Grids”. Technical Report SCE-05-14, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2005.  Paper

 Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons, “Semi-Durable Subscriptions: A Technique to Achieve High Performance in Mobile Wireless Publish/Subscribe Systems”. Technical Report SCE-03-17, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, July 2003.

Umar Farooq, Zeshan A. Chishti, Shakeel Ahmad, Furqan Ahmad, “Intelligent Impromptu Embedded Computing with JINI and JAVASpaces”, B.Sc. Final Year Project Report, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, May 2001.

Umar Farooq, “A Framework for Quality of Service Aware Resource Management in Multi-Organizational Grids,” Ph.D. Thesis, Systems and Computer Engineering Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 2007 (expected).

Umar Farooq, “High Performance Middleware for Mobile Wireless Publish/Subscribe Systems”, M.A.Sc. Thesis, Systems and Computer Engineering Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, August 2003. Abstract