Assistant Professor 7379 Computer Science and Statistics Department of Computer Sciences 1210 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI, 53705. CV Research statement (Feb 09)	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 Networks and Networked Systems.

Recent projects:

• Redundancy Elimination
• Universal RE: Arguing for making redundancy elimination as a universal router service [SIGCOMM08] and architecture for fast router RE [SIGCOMM09].
• Measurement study: A study of the origins and properties of redundancy in network traffic [SIGMETRICS09, UW-Madison TR]
• End-host RE: Arguing for making RE part of end-host networking stacks [NSDI10]
  
  
• Memory in network architecture
• Cheap and Large CAMs: Using Flash memory and DRAM to support large, high speed indexes for content-based systems [NSDI10].
• NetReplay: Using router memory to support playback of network packets and in-band troubleshooting of network-induced glitches [HotMetrics09].


• New Approaches to Network Management
  • Complexity metrics: Three metrics to benchmark network designs and aid network configuration management [NSDI09, NSDI poster]
  • Policy units: Network-wide abstractions derived from static router configuration [IMC09]
  • NetBargain: Nash Bargaining-based management and performance tuning of wired and wireless networks [COMSNETS10, MobiCom08 Poster, Infocom07]
  
  
• Data-centers
  • DC-Internal Traffic Management: Characterizing traffic inside datacenters, motivating the need for new approaches to managing DC-internal traffic [SIGCOMM WREN 2009].
  • Fine-grained TE: Fine-grained DC-internal traffic engineering using OpenFlow [UW-Madison TR].
  
  
• Network Security
  • E-mail spam: A proposal for router-level spam filtering [CEAS09] and analyzing the sources of E-mail spam [UW-Madison TR, COMSNETS10]
  • Mini-Flash Crowds: Remotely profiling resource constraints on black-box Internet servers [USENIX08]
  • Malware evolution: Modeling malware evolution over time based on malware meta-data [COMSNETS09]

Recent (2009-10) Publications (Complete list here)

• Cheap and Large CAMs for High-performance Data-intensive Networked Systems [pdf]
  Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Steven Kappes, Aditya Akella and Suman Nath.
  NSDI 2010, San Jose, CA, to appear.
  
  
• EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises [pdf]
  Bhavish Aggarwal, Aditya Akella, Ashok Anand, Pushkar Chitnis, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Athula Nair, Ram Ramjee and George Varghese.
  NSDI 2010, San Jose, CA, to appear.
  
  
• On the Effectiveness of IP reputation for Spam Filtering [pdf]
  Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori and Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
  COMSNETS 2010. Best paper award
  
  
• NashWiFi: Coordinated Management of Heterogenous Home 802.11 Networks Using Bargaining [pdf]
  Pratap Ramamurthy, Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
  COMSNETS 2010.
  
  
• Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics [pdf]
  Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
  ACM SIGCOMM CCR.
  
  
• Mining Policies from Enterprise Network Configuration [pdf]
  Theo Benson, Aditya Akella and Dave Maltz.
  IMC 2009.
  
  
• SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination [pdf]
  Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella.
  SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
  
  
• Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics [pdf]
  Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
  SIGCOMM 2009 Workshop: Research on Enterprise Networks, Barcelona, Spain.
  
  
• Router-Level Spam Filtering Using TCP Fingerprints: Architecture and Measurement-Based Evaluation [pdf]
  Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori and Aditya Akella.
  Conference on E-Mail and Anti-Spam (CEAS) 2009, Mountain View, CA.
  
  
• Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications [pdf]
  Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella and Ramjee Ramachandran.
  SIGMETRICS 2009, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• On the Treeness of Internet Latency and Bandwidth [pdf]
  Rama Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Mahesh Balakrishnan and Aditya Akella.
  SIGMETRICS 2009, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• Net-Replay: A New Network Primitive [pdf]
  Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella.
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics) 2009, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• Unraveling the Complexity of Network Management [pdf]
  Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella and David Maltz.
  NSDI 2009, Boston, MA.
  
  
• Phoenix: A System for Automatically Reconfiguring Networks [one pager pdf]
  Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella and David Maltz.
  Poster at NSDI 2009, Boston, MA.
  
  
• An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution [pdf]
  Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella and Paul Barford.
  IEEE COMSNETS 2009, Bangalore, India. Best paper award.
  
  

Students

Graduate students: Ashok Anand, Theo Benson, Holly Esquivel, Aaron Gember, and Chitra Muthukrishnan.
Alumni: Archit Gupta (Masters, May 08), Pratap Ramamurthy (Masters, Dec 08)

Professional Activities

Program chair, INM/WREN 2010.
Web chair, MobiCom 2010.
Program committee member, INFOCOM 2010, COMSNETS 2010, Networking 2010.
Session chair (invited), Sigcomm WREN 2009.
Program committee member, INFOCOM 2009.
Program committee member, HotNets 2008, NPSec 2008, Sigmetrics 2008 Student Thesis Panel, INFOCOM 2008.
Program committee member, SIGCOMM 2007, INFOCOM 2007.
Program committee member, SIGCOMM 2006, CoNext 2006 Student Workshop.

Teaching

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.