Assistant Professor 7379 Computer Science and Statistics Department of Computer Sciences 1210 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI, 53705.	Phone: (608) 890-0122 Fax: (608) 262-9777 (Attn: Aditya Akella) Email: akella AT cs.wisc.edu

Research

My research spans various areas of Computer Networking including Internet Routing, Network Management, Wireless Networking and Measurement.

Recent Publications (Complete list here)

1. Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination [pdf], ACM SIGCOMM 2008, to appear.
   
2. Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints in Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds [pdf], Usenix Annual Technical Conference 2008.
   

Research Group

Graduate students: Ashok Anand, Theo Benson, Holly Esquivel and Pratap Ramamurthy.
Undergrads: Henry Duwe, Mitch Miskoski and Nick Park.
Visitors:Tatsuya Mori.

One-line descriptions of our recent activities:

• New Router Primitives
• "A Packet-Cache Per Router"
  Duplicate removal as a router service [SIGCOMM08]
• CacheDesign
  Measurement driven approaches for effective packet cache management and duplicate removal [UW-Madison TR]
• New Approaches to Network Management
  • NetBargain
    Bargaining-based management and performance tuning of wired and wireless networks [Infocom07]
• Measurement and Profiling
  • Mini-Flash Crowds
    Remotely profiling resource constraints on black-box Internet servers [USENIX08]
  • Malware evolution
    Building malware family trees and tracking malware evolution over time [UW-Madison TR]

Professional Activities

Program committee, INFOCOM 2009.
Program committee, HotNets 2008, NPSec 2008, Sigmetrics 2008 Student Thesis Panel, INFOCOM 2008.
Program committee, SIGCOMM 2007, INFOCOM 2007.
Program committee, SIGCOMM 2006, CoNext 2006 Student Workshop.

Teaching

Fall 2008: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Spring 2008: CS740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2007: CS 640: Introduction to Computer Networks.
Spring 2007: CS 740: Advanced Computer Networks.
Fall 2006: CS 640: Introduction to Computer Networks.