7379 Computer Science and Statistics 1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI, 53705. Phone: (608) 890-0122 Email: akella AT cs.wisc.edu I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. I'm also part of the Wisconsin Institute on Software-defined Datacenters in Madison (WISDoM). CV (Aug 2012)

Research

I'm interested in Computer Networks and Networked Systems. Some of my projects (sorted new to old, with project details, papers, talks and software):

• Software Defined Middlebox Networking: ground up support for software-defined configuration and management of middleboxes.
• Software Defined Networking: building novel applications atop, and abstractions for, software-defined networks.
• eXpressive Internet Architecture: an instrinsically secure, trustworthy Internet with evolutionary support for multiple communication paradigms.
• Data Centers and Cloud Computing: characterizing data centers and clouds in the wild, and designing network and higher-layer frameworks for using them effectively.

Some Recent Publications (Complete list here)

• FCP: A Flexible Transport Framework for Accomodating Diversity [pdf]
  Dongsu Han, Robert Grandl, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
  Sigcomm 2013, Hong Kong.
  
  
• Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video [pdf]
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica and Hui Zhang
  Sigcomm 2013, Hong Kong.
  
  
• Understanding Internet Video Viewing Behavior In the Wild [pdf]
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
  Sigmetrics 2013 (extended abstract), Pittsburgh, PA.
  
  
• Adaptive Data Transmission in the Cloud [pdf]
  Wenfei Wu, Yizheng Chen, Ram Durairajan, Dongchan Kim, Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella
  IWQoS 2013 Montreal, Canada.
  
  
• Toward Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, Aditya Akella
  HotNets 2012, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• A Quest for an Internet Video Quality-of-Experience Metric [pdf]
  Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srini Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang
  HotNets 2012, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• Obtaining Representative Measurements of Cellular Network Performance [pdf]
  Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Alexander Varshavsky and Ramon Caceres
  IMC 2012, Boston, MA.
  
  
• XIA: Efficient Support for Evolvable Internetworking [pdf]
  Dongsu Han, Ashok Anand, Fahad Dogar, Boyan Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Arvind Mukundan, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, David Andersen, John Byers, Srinivasan Seshan and Peter Steenkiste.
  NSDI 2012, San Jose, CA.
  
  
• RPT: Re-architecting Loss Protection for Content-Aware Networks [pdf]
  Dongsu Han, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan.
  NSDI 2012, San Jose, CA.
  
  

Professional Activities

Program co-chair:
Open Networking Summit Research Track, 2013
DIMACS Workshop on Systems and Networking Advances in Cloud Computing, 2011
HotNets 2011
COMSNETS 2012
INM/WREN 2010

Organizing committees:
Workshops co-chair, SIGCOMM 2013
Workshops co-chair, MobiCom 2011
Poster/Demo co-chair, SIGCOMM 2011
Area Editor, MC2R (2011 - ??)
Panel co-chair, COMSNETS 2011
Web co-chair, MobiCom 2010

Program committees:
2013: IMC, MobiCom, Sigcomm, SIGMETRICS, NSDI, IC2E
2012: CoNEXT, IMC, ICNP, Sigcomm, Sigcomm Posters & Demos, MobiGame, SECON, Hot-ICE
2011: CoNEXT, Sigcomm, SAFECONFIG, NSDI, HotCloud, Hot-ICE, HomeNets, INFOCOM, COMSNETS
2010: Sigcomm (Student Research Competition Judge), ReArch, PRESTO, INFOCOM, COMSNETS, IFIP Networking
2009: INFOCOM, COMSNETS
2008: HotNets, NPSec, Sigmetrics Student Thesis Panel, INFOCOM
2007: Sigcomm, INFOCOM
2006: Sigcomm, CoNext Student Workshop

Students

Current graduate students:
Xiaoyang Gao, Aaron Gember, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid, Anand Krishnamurthy, Shan-Hsiang Shen, Saul St. John, Wenfei Wu

PhD Alumni:
Ashok Anand (recipient of Google PhD Fellowship), PhD, January 2012. Researcher at Bell Labs Research, India
Theophuilus Benson (recipient of IBM PhD Fellowship), PhD, July 2012. Assistant Professor (starting F'13) at Duke University, CS

Masters Alumni:
Archit Gupta, May 08
Pratap Ramamurthy Dec 08
Chitra Muthukrishnan May 2010
Holly Esquivel Jul 2010 (NDSEG Fellow)

Teaching

Spring 2012: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2012: CS838: Systems and Networking Challenges in Cloud Computing.
Spring 2012: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Spring 2011: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2010: CS640: Introduction to Computer Networks.
Spring 2010: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2009: CS838: Rethinking the Internet Architecture.
Fall 2008: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Spring 2008: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2007: CS640: Introduction to Computer Networks.
Spring 2007: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2006: CS640: Introduction to Computer Networks.