Publications

2024

ChainedFilter: Combining Membership Filters by Chain Rule

Haoyu Li, Liuhui Wang, Qizhi Chen, Jianan Ji, Yuhan Wu, Yikai Zhao, Tong Yang, Aditya Akella

2023

On a Foundation Model for Operating Systems

Divyanshu Saxena, Nihal Sharma, Donghyun Kim, Rohit Dwivedula, Jiayi Chen, Chenxi Yang, Sriram Ravula, Zichao Hu, Aditya Akella, Sebastian Angel, Joydeep Biswas, Swarat Chaudhuri, Isil Dillig, Alex Dimakis, Daehyeok Kim, Chris Rossbach, Gang Wang

Enabling Resilience in Virtualized RANs with Atlas

Jiarong Xing, Junzhi Gong, Xenofon Foukas, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Manikanta Kotaru

LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs

Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, Ming Liu

Configuring the OS for Tomorrow's Robots

Madhav Tummala, Daehyeok Kim, Joydeep Biswas, Aditya Akella

Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot

Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, Aditya Akella

Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching

Jiayi Chen, Nihal Sharma, Tarannum Khan, Shu Liu, Brian Chang, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai, Ramesh Sitaraman

Blink-hash: An Adaptive Hybrid Index for In-Memory Time-Series Databases

Hokeun Cha, Xiangpeng Hao, Tianzheng Wang, Huanchen Zhang, Aditya Akella, Xiangyao Yu

Navigating Performance-Efficiency Tradeoffs in Serverless Computing: Deduplication to the Rescue!

Divyanshu Saxena, Tao Ji, Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella

Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit

Yeonju Ro, Zhangyang Wang, Vijay Chidambaram, Aditya Akella

Invited Paper: Towards Efficient Microservice Communication

Divyanshu Saxena, William Zhang, Madhav Tummala, Saksham Goel, Aditya Akella
Invited paper

Better Together: Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning using SYNDICATE

Kshiteej Mahajan, Ching-Hsiang Chu, Srinivas Sridharan, Aditya Akella

Shockwave: Fair and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for Dynamic Adaptation in Machine Learning

Pengfei Zheng, Rui Pan, Tarannum Khan, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella

RingLeader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs

Jiaxin Lin, Adney Cardoza, Tarannum Khan, Yeonju Ro, Brent E. Stephens, Hassan Wassel, Aditya Akella

Sketchovsky: Enabling Ensembles of Sketches on Programmable Switches

Hun Namkung, Zaoxing Liu, Daehyeok Kim, Vyas Sekar, Peter Steenkiste

ExoPlane: An Operating System for On-Rack Switch Resource Augmentation

Daehyeok Kim, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan

Towards a Machine Learning-Assisted Kernel with LAKE

Henrique Fingler, Isha Tarte, Hangchen Yu, Ariel Szekely, Bodun Hu, Aditya Akella, Christopher Rossbach

Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs

Jiaxin Lin, Tao Ji, Xiangpeng Hao, Hokeun Cha, Yanfang Le, Xiangyao Yu, Aditya Akella
SIGMETRICS in Orlando, FL, USA 2023

2022

Congestion Control in Machine Learning Clusters

Sudarsanan Rajasekaran, Manya Ghobadi, Gautam Kumar, Aditya Akella

Multi-agent Databases via Independent Learning

Chi Zhang, Olga Papaemmanouil, Josiah P. Hanna, Aditya Akella

Impact of RoCE Congestion Control Policies on Distributed Training of DNNs

Tarannum Khan, Saeed Rashidi, Srinivas Sridharan, Pallavi Shurpali, Aditya Akella, Tushar Krishna

Think before you shuffle: data-driven shuffles for geo-distributed analytics

Maruth Goyal, Aditya Akella

Jiffy: Elastic Far-Memory for Stateful Serverless Analytics

Anurag Khandelwal, Yupeng Tang, Rachit Agarwal, Aditya Akella, Ion Stoica

Memory Deduplication for Serverless Computing with Medes

Divyanshu Saxena, Tao Ji, Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella

Elastic Model Aggregation with Parameter Service

Juncheng Gu, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Kang G. Shin, Aditya Akella

2021

Doing more by doing less: how structured partial backpropagation improves deep learning clusters

Adarsh Kumar, Kausik Subramanian, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella

PL2: Towards Predictable Low Latency in Rack-Scale Networks

Yanfang Le, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Lalith Suresh, Gerd Zellweger, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift

TCP is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing a Message-Oriented Transport Protocol (MTP)

Brent E. Stephens, Darius Grassi, Hamidreza Almasi, Balajee Vamanan, Aditya Akella

A Vision for Runtime Programmable Networks

Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Hongyi Liu, Matty Kadosh, Alan Lo, Aditya Akella, Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, T. S. Eugene Ng, Ang Chen

Atoll: A Scalable Low-Latency Serverless Platform

Arjun Singhvi, Arjun Balasubramanian, Kevin Houck, Mohammed Danish Shaikh, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella

D2R: Policy-Compliant Fast Reroute

Kausik Subramanian, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Loris D'Antoni, Aditya Akella

CliqueMap: Productionizing an RMA-Based Distributed Caching System

Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Maggie Anderson, Rob Cauble, Harshad Deshmukh, Dan Gibson, Milo M. K. Martin, Amanda Strominger, Thomas F. Wenisch, Amin Vahdat

Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar*, Kausik Subramanian*, Alexey Andreyev, Hyojeong Kim, Nanda Kishore, Jingyi Yang, Petr Lapukhov, Aditya Akella, James Hongyi Zeng

ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning

ChonLam Lao*, Yanfang Le*, Kshiteej Mahajan, Yixi Chen, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift
Best Paper Award

Whiz: Data-Driven Analytics Execution

Arjun Singhvi*, Robert Grandl*, Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella

Accelerating Deep Learning Inference via Learned Caches

Arjun Balasubramanian, Adarsh Kumar, Yuhan Liu, Han Cao, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella

2020

AED: Incrementally Synthesizing Policy-Compliant and Manageable Configurations

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella

PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks

Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aditya Akella

SNF: Serverless Network Functions

Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella, Sujata Banerjee

Network-accelerated Distributed Machine Learning for Multi-Tenant Settings

Raajay Viswanathan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Aditya Akella

1RMA: Re-envisioning Remote Memory Access for Multi-tenant Datacenters

Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Dan Gibson, Thomas F. Wenisch, Monica Wong-Chan, Sean Clark, Milo M. K. Martin, Moray McLaren, Prashant Chandra, Rob Cauble, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Behnam Montazeri, Simon L. Sabato, Joel Scherpelz, Amin Vahdat

Detecting Network Load Violations for Distributed Control Planes

Kausik Subramanian, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Loris D'Antoni, Aditya Akella

Tiramisu: Fast and General Network Verification

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella

Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling for Machine Learning Workloads

Kshiteej Mahajan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Arjun Singhvi, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella, Amar Phanishayee, Shuchi Chawla

Liveness Verification of Stateful Networks.

Farnaz Yousefi, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Kausik Subramanian, Kartik Hans, Soudeh Ghorbani, Aditya Akella

Automated Verification of Customizable Middlebox Properties with Gravel

Kaiyuan Zhang, Danyang Zhuo, Aditya Akella, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Xi Wang

2019

Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests

Paul Suganthan, Adel Ardalan, AnHai Doan, Aditya Akella

On the Impact of Cluster Configuration on RoCE Application Design

Yanfang Le, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift
Best Paper Award

Accelerating Deep Learning Inference via Freezing

Adarsh Kumar, Arjun Balasubramanian, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella

The Design and Operation of a Platform for Advanced Cloud Experimentation

Cloudlab Team

Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling

Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift

Correctness and Performance for Stateful Chained Network Functions

Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella

2018

Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Router Configurations

Kausik Subramanian, Loris D' Antoni, Aditya Akella

Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch

Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift

Dynamic Query Re-Planning using QOOP

Kshiteej Mahajan, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla

Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments

Junaid Khalid, Eric Rozner, Wesley Felter, Cong Xu, Karthick Rajamani, Alexandre Ferreira, Aditya Akella

Monarch: Gaining Command on Geo-Distributed Graph Analytics

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Aurojit Panda, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

Bridging the GAP: Towards Approximate Graph Analytics

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Aurojit Panda, Shivaram Venkataraman, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
Best Paper Award

RoGUE: RDMA over Generic Unconverged Ethernet

Yanfang Le, Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift

2017

Low Latency Software Rate Limiters for Cloud Networks

Keqiang He, Weite Qin, Qiwei Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Junjie Yang, Tian Pan, Chengchen Hu, Jiao Zhang, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang

P5: Policy-driven optimization of P4 pipeline

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Jeongkeun Lee, Jean Tourrilhes, Sujata Banerjee, Wenfei Wu, Joon-Myung Kang, Aditya Akella

Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks

Kausik Subramanian, Loris D' Antoni, Aditya Akella

UNO: Unifying Host and Smart NIC Offload for Flexible Packet Processing

Yanfang Le, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, Limin Wang, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift, T.V. Lakshman.

Automatically Repairing Network Control Planes Using an Abstract Representation

Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan, Harry Liu

Granular Computing and Network Intensive Applications: Friends or Foes?

Arjun Singhvi, Sujata Banerjee, Yotam Harchol, Aditya Akella, Mark Peek, Pontus Rydin

Supporting Diverse Dynamic Intent-based Policies using Janus

Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Joon-Myung Kang, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang, Wenfei Wu

Bootstrapping Evolvability for Inter-domain Routing with D-BGP

Raja Sambasivan, David Tran-Lam, Aditya Akella, Peter Steenkiste

Titan: Fair Packet Scheduling for Commodity Multiqueue NICs

Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift

2016

Fast Control Plane Analysis Using an Abstract Representation

Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan.

AC/DC TCP: Virtual Switch-based Congestion Control Enforcement for Datacenter Networks

Keqiang He, Eric Rozner, Kanak Agarwal, Yu (Jason) Gu, Wes Felter, John Carter, Aditya Akella

Paving the Way for NFV: Simplifying Middlebox Modifications using StateAlyzr

Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Roney Michael, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aditya Akella

A Standardized Southbound API for VNF Management

Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Mark Coatsworth, Aditya Akella

Packing and Dependency-aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Clusters

Robert Grandl, Srikanth Kandula, Sriram Rao, Aditya Akella, Janardhan Kulkarni

Efficiently delivering online services over integrated infrastructure

Hongqiang Harry Liu, Raajay Viswanathan, Matt Calder, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan, Jitendra Padhyeand, Ming Zhang

Clarinet: WAN-Aware Optimization for Analytics Queries

Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan

Altruistic Scheduling in Multi-Resource Clusters

Robert Grandl, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan

2015

A Universal Approach to Data Center Network Design

Aditya Akella, Theophilus Benson, Bala Chandrasekaran, Cheng Huang, Bruce Maggs, David Maltz
Invited paper

Latency in Software Defined Networks: Measurements and Mitigation Techniques

Keqiang He, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das, Aditya Akella, Li Erran Li, Marina Thottan.

extended abstract

Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks

Keqiang He, Eric Rozner, Kanak Agarwal, Wes Felter, John Carter, Aditya Akella

PGA: Using graphs to express and automatically reconcile network policies

Chaithan Prakash, Jeongkeun Lee, Yoshio Turner, Joon-Myung Kang, Aditya Akella, Sujata Banerjee, Charles Clark, Yadi Ma, Puneet Sharma, Ying Zhang

PerfSight: Performance Diagnosis for Software Dataplanes

Wenfei Wu, Keqiang He, Aditya Akella

Improving the Safety, Scalability, and Efficiency of Network Function State Transfers

Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella

Management Plane Analytics

Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Wenfei Wu, Xiujun Liu, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan

Improving the performance of SPDY for mobile devices

Junaid Khalid, Sharad Aggarwal, Aditya Akella Jitu Padhye
Best Poster Award

Measuring Control Plane Latency in SDN-enabled Switches

Keqiang He, Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Chaithan Prakash, Aditya Akella, Erran Li, Marina Thottan

Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics

Qifan Pu, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodik, Srikanth Kandula, Aditya Akella, Victor Bahl, Ion Stoica

Experimenting with Next-Generation Cloud Architectures Using CloudLab

Aditya Akella
IEEE Internet Computing 2015
Invited paper

Seeing Through Network Protocol Obfuscation

Liang Wang, Kevin Dyer, Aditya Akella, Thomas Ristenpart, Thomas Shrimpton

Bootstrapping Evolvability for Inter-Domain Routing

Raja Sambasivan, David Tran-Lam, Aditya Akella, Peter Steenkiste

2014

XIA: Architecting a More Trustworthy and Evolvable Internet

David Naylor et al.

WhoWas: A Platform for Measuring Web Deployments on IaaS Clouds

Liang Wang, Antonio Nappa, Juan Caballero, Thomas Ristenpart, Aditya Akella

Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers

Robert Grandl, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srikanth Kandula, Sriram Rao, Aditya Akella

Design Patterns for Tunable and Efficient SSD based Indexes

Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Collin Engstrom, Aditya Akella

OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control

Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Vishwanathan, Chaithan Prakash, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das, Aditya Akella
Applied Networking Research Prize

A Call to Arms for Management Plane Analytics

Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan

A Highly Available Software Defined Fabric

Aditya Akella, Arvind Krishnamurthy

2013

Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video

Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang

Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service

Wenfei Wu, Guohui Wang, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh
Best Student Paper Award

Understanding Internet Video Viewing Behavior In the Wild

Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan

extended abstract

Analyzing the Potential Benefits of CDN Augmentation Strategies for Internet Video Workloads

Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan

An Information-Aware QoE-Centric Mobile Video Cache

Shan-Hsiang Shen, Aditya Akella

Enhancing multimedia accessibility and availability with information-bound references

Ashok Anand, Athula Balachandran, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
Best Student Paper Award

FCP: A Flexible Transport Framework for Accommodating Diversity

Dongsu Han, Robert Grandl, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan

Next Stop, the Cloud: Understanding Modern Web Service Deployment in EC2 and Azure

Keqiang He, Liang Wang, Alexis Fisher, Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Tom Ristenpart

Adaptive Data Transmission in the Cloud

Wenfei Wu, Yizheng Chen, Ram Durairajan, Dongchan Kim, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella

2012

XIA: Efficient Support for Evolvable Internetworking

Dongsu Han, Ashok Anand, Fahad Dogar, Boyan Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Arvind Mukundan, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, David Andersen, John Byers, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste

A Quest for an Internet Video Quality-of-Experience Metric

Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srini Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang

RPT: Re-architecting Loss Protection for Content-Aware Networks

Dongsu Han, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan

Toward Software-Defined Middlebox Networking

Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, Aditya Akella

Challenges in Unifying Control of Middlebox Traversals and Functionality

Aaron Gember, Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella

ECOS: Leveraging Software-Defined Networks to Support Mobile Application Offloading

Aaron Gember, Chris Dragga, Aditya Akella

ECOS: Practical Mobile Application Offloading for Enterprises

Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella

DECOR: a Distributed Coordinated Resource Monitoring System

Shan Hsiang-Shen, Aditya Akella

Better Internet Routing Through Intrinsic Support for Selfishness

Holly Esquivel, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla

Obtaining Representative Measurements of Cellular Network Performance

Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Alexander Varshavsky, Ramon Caceres

2011

XIA: An Architecture for an Evolvable and Trustworthy Internet

Ashok Anand, Fahad Dogar, Dongsu Han, Boyan Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, David Andersen, John Byers, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste

The Evolution of Network Configuration: A Tale of Two Campuses

Hyojoon Kim, Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, Nick Feamster

De-Ossifying Internet Routing through Intrinsic Support for End-Network and ISP Selfishness

Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Holly Esquivel, Chitra Muthukrishnan

Refactoring Content Overhearing to Improve Wireless Performance

Shan Hsiang-Shen, Aaron Gember, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella

MicroTE: Fine Grained Traffic Engineering for Data Centers

Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Ming Zhang

Demystifying Configuration Challenges and Trade-offs in Network-based ISP Services

Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, Aman Shaikh

A Comparative Study of Handheld and Non-Handheld Traffic in Campus WiFi Networks

Aaraon Gember, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella

CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications

Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh, Sambit Sahu

2010

Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics

Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Ming Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2010

Using Strongly Typed Networking to Architect for Tussle

Chitra Muthukrishnan, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Aditya Akella

On the Effectiveness of IP reputation for Spam Filtering

Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori, Aditya Akella, Almir Mutapcic
COMSNETS 2010
Best Paper Award

Extensible and Scalable Network Monitoring Using OpenSAFE

Jeffrey Ballard, Ian Rae, Aditya Akella

NashWiFi: Coordinated Management of Heterogenous Home 802.11 Networks Using Bargaining

Pratap Ramamurthy, Aditya Akella, Almir Mutapcic
COMSNETS 2010

A Case for Information-Bound Referencing

Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan

A First Look at Problems in the Cloud

Theophilus Benson, Sambit Sahu, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh

Tracking Semantic Relationships for Effective Data Management in Home Networks

Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella

The Case for Fine-grained Traffic Engineering in Data-centers

Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Ming Zhang

EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises

Bhavish Aggarwal, Aditya Akella, Ashok Anand, Pushkar Chitnis, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Athula Nair, Ram Ramjee, George Varghese

Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild

Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, Dave Maltz
Best Paper Award, Test of Time Award

Peeking into the Cloud: Toward User-driven Cloud Management

Theophilus Benson, Sambit Sahu, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh

Understanding Large-Scale Spamming Botnets From Internet Edge Sites

Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori, Aditya Akella

Cheap and Large CAMs for High-performance Data-intensive Networked Systems

Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Steven Kappes, Aditya Akella, Suman Nath

2009

Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics

Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Ming Zhang

SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination

Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella

Also appeared as a poster at NSDI 2009, Boston, MA

On the Treeness of Internet Latency and Bandwidth

Rama Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Aditya Akella

Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications

Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella, Ramjee Ramachandran

Mining Policies from Enterprise Network Configuration

Theo Benson, Aditya Akella, Dave Maltz
IMC 2009

Phoenix: A System for Automatically Reconfiguring Networks

Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, David Maltz

An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution

Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella, Paul Barford
Best Paper Award

Unraveling the Complexity of Network Management

Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, David Maltz

Router-Level Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints: Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation

Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori, Aditya Akella

2008

Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination

Ashok Anand, Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker

Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes

Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Florentina Popovici, Aditya Akella, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Suman Banerjee

Coordinated Configuration of Uncoordinated Wireless Networks: A Win-win Approach Based on Bargaining

Pratap Ramamurthy, Theo Benson, Jittapat Bunnag, Aditya Akella, Suman Banerjee, Almir Mutapcic, Gireesh Shrimali

On the Performance Benefits of Multihoming Route Control

Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh and Ramesh Sitaraman.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2008

Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints in Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds

Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh

2007

Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Enterprise Wireless LANs

Eriz Rozner, Yogita Mehta, Aditya Akella, Lili Qiu

Understanding and Exploiting Network Traffic Redundancy

Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker, Jia Wang
UW-Madison CS technical report 1592, April 2007

Cooperative Interdomain Traffic Engineering using Nash Bargaining and Decomposition

Gireesh Shrimali, Aditya Akella, Almir Mutapcic

Using Mini-Flash Crowds to Infer Resource Constraints in Remote Web Servers

Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anees Shaikh

A la carte: An Economic Framework for Multi-ISP Service Quality

Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella, Suman Banerjee
UW-Madison CS technical report 1591, March 2007

2006

Cookies Along Trust-Boundaries (CAT): Accurate and Deployable Flood Protection

Martin Casado, Aditya Akella, Pei Cao, Niels Provos, Scott Shenker

SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks

Martin Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Aditya Akella, Michael Freedman, Dan Boneh, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker

Flow Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks

Martin Casado, Pei Cao, Aditya Akella, Neils Provos

short paper

Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments: Extended Version

Aditya Akella, Glenn Judd, Srinivas an Seshan, Peter Steenkiste

Invited paper: Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal, Special Issue on Selected Papers from MobiCom 2005.

Achieving Good End-to-end Service Using Bill-Pay

Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella, Suman Banerjee

2005

Endpoint-Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Peformance and Resilience

Aditya Akella
PhD Thesis, CMU, September 2005

Self Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments

Aditya Akella, Glenn Judd, Peter Steenkiste, Srinivasan Seshan

2004

On the Scaling of Congestion in the Internet Graph

Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Arvind Kannan, Srinivasan Seshan

Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh

Availability, Usage, and Deployment Characteristics of the Domain Name System

Jeffrey Pang, James Hendricks, Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Roberto De Prisco, Srinivasan Seshan

A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control

Aditya Akella, Jeff Pang, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh

On the Responsiveness of DNS-based Network Control

Jeffrey Pang, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Srinivasan Seshan

2003

Understanding the Impact of Route Control Product Deployment

Aditya Akella

Invited paper

An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh

Also appeared as a short paper in SIGMETRICS 2003, San Diego, CA

Towards Representative Internet Measurements

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh

Scaling Properties of the Internet Graph

Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Arvind Kannan, Srinivasan Seshan

A Measurement-Based Analysis of Multihoming

Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh, Ramesh Sitaraman

Detecting DDoS Attacks on ISP Networks

Aditya Akella, Ashwin Bharambe, Mike Reiter, Srinivasan Seshan

The Impact of False Sharing on Shared Congestion Management

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Hari Balakrishnan

Also appeared in Proc. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2002, as a short paper

2002

Selfish Behavior and Stability of the Internet: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of TCP

Aditya Akella, Richard Karp, Christos Papadimitriou, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker

Multi-Modal Network Protocols: Adapting to Highly Variable Operating Conditions

Aditya Akella, Ashwin Bharambe, Suman Nath, Srini Seshan
CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-170 2002

Also appeared in Proc. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2002, as a short paper

Mechanisms for Internet Routing: A Study

Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Srinivasan Seshan
CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-163 2002

Exploring Congestion Control

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-139 2002

2001

The Impact of False Sharing on Shared Congestion Management

Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Hari Balakrishnan
CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-01-135 2001