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2010

  • On the Effectiveness of IP reputation for Spam Filtering [pdf]
    Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori and Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
    COMSNETS 2010, to appear.

  • NashWiFi: Coordinated Management of Heterogenous Home 802.11 Networks Using Bargaining [pdf]
    Pratap Ramamurthy, Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
    COMSNETS 2010, to appear.

    • 2009

  • Mining Policies from Enterprise Network Configuration [pdf]
    Theo Benson, Aditya Akella and Dave Maltz.
    IMC 2009, to appear.

  • SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella.
    SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, Spain, to appear.
    Also appeared as a poster at NSDI 2009, Boston, MA. [one pager pdf]

  • Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
    SIGCOMM 2009 Workshop: Research on Enterprise Networks, Barcelona, Spain, to appear.

  • 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, to appear.

  • 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.

    • 2008

  • Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Florentina Popovici, Aditya Akella, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Suman Banerjee.
    OSDI 2008, San Diego, CA.

  • Coordinated Configuration of Uncoordinated Wireless Networks: A Win-win Approach Based on Bargaining [ppt]
    Pratap Ramamurthy, Theo Benson, Jittapat Bunnag, Aditya Akella, Suman Banerjee, Almir Mutapcic and Gireesh Shrimali.
    Poster at MobiCom 2008, San Francisco, CA.

  • Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Scott Shenker.
    SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints in Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds [pdf]
    Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Anees Shaikh
    Usenix Annual Technical Conference 2008, Boston, MA.

  • On the Performance Benefits of Multihoming Route Control [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh and Ramesh Sitaraman.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2008.

    • 2007

  • Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Enterprise Wireless LANs [pdf]
    Eriz Rozner, Yogita Mehta, Aditya Akella and Lili Qiu.
    IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2007 , Beijing, China.

  • Using Mini-Flash Crowds to Infer Resource Constraints in Remote Web Servers [pdf]
    Pratap Ramamurthy, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Anees Shaikh.
    SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM) 2007, Kyoto, Japan.

  • Understanding and Exploiting Network Traffic Redundancy [pdf]
    Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker and Jia Wang.
    UW-Madison CS technical report 1592, April 2007.

  • A la carte: An Economic Framework for Multi-ISP Service Quality [pdf]
    Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella and Suman Banerjee.
    UW-Madison CS technical report 1591, March 2007.

  • Cooperative Interdomain Traffic Engineering using Nash Bargaining and Decomposition [pdf]
    Gireesh Shrimali, Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
    Infocom 2007, Anchorage, AK.

    • 2006

  • Achieving Good End-to-end Service Using Bill-Pay [pdf]
    Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella and Suman Banerjee.
    HotNets-V, Irvine, CA.

  • Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments: Extended Version [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Glenn Judd, Srinivas an Seshan and Peter Steenkiste.
    Invited paper: Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal, Special Issue on Selected Papers from MobiCom 2005.

  • Cookies Along Trust-Boundaries (CAT): Accurate and Deployable Flood Protection [pdf]
    Martin Casado, Aditya Akella, Pei Cao, Niels Provos and Scott Shenker.
    USENIX SRUTI 2006, San Jose, CA.

  • SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks [pdf]
    Martin Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Aditya Akella, Michael Freedman, Dan Boneh, Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker.
    USENIX Security 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Flow Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks [ps] [pdf]
    Martin Casado, Pei Cao, Aditya Akella and Neils Provos.
    IWQoS 2006 (short paper), New Haven, CT.

    • 2005

  • Endpoint-Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Peformance and Resilience [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella.
    PhD Thesis, CMU, September 2005.

  • Self Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Glenn Judd, Peter Steenkiste and Srinivasan Seshan.
    MobiCom 2005, Cologne, Germany.

    • 2004

  • Availability, Usage, and Deployment Characteristics of the Domain Name System [ps.gz] [pdf]
    Jeffrey Pang, James Hendricks, Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Roberto De Prisco and Srinivasan Seshan.
    IMC 2004, Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

  • On the Responsiveness of DNS-based Network Control [ps.gz] [pdf]
    Jeffrey Pang, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Srinivasan Seshan.
    IMC 2004, Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

  • On the Scaling of Congestion in the Internet Graph [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Arvind Kannan and Srinivasan Seshan.
    SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Special Issue on Science of Network Design), pp 43--56, July 2004.

  • A Comparison of Overlay Routing and Multihoming Route Control
    Aditya Akella, Jeff Pang, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan and Anees Shaikh.
    SIGCOMM 2004, Portland, OR.
    Proceedings version: [ps.gz] [pdf] and errata [ps]
    Extended tech report, 2 col version: [ps.gz] [pdf]; 1 col version: [ps.gz] [pdf]

  • Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Anees Shaikh.
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2004, Boston, MA.

    • 2003

  • The Impact of False Sharing on Shared Congestion Management [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Hari Balakrishnan.
    IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2003 , Atlanta, GA.
    Also appeared in Proc. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2002, as a short paper [ps] [pdf] [ppt].

  • An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Anees Shaikh.
    IMC 2003, Miami, Florida.
    Also appeared as a short paper in SIGMETRICS 2003, San Diego, CA [ps] [pdf] [ppt].

  • Understanding the Impact of Route Control Product Deployment [text] [html]
    Aditya Akella
    Invited paper, Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution and Design (WIRED), Mount Hood, OR.

  • Towards Representative Internet Measurements [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Anees Shaikh.
    3rd New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (NYMAN 2003), New York, NY.

  • A Measurement-Based Analysis of Multihoming [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh and Ramesh Sitaraman.
    SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • Scaling Properties of the Internet Graph [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Arvind Kannan and Srinivasan Seshan.
    ACM Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2003, Boston, MA.

  • Detecting DDoS Attacks on ISP Networks [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Ashwin Bharambe, Mike Reiter and Srinivasan Seshan.
    SIGMOD/PODS Workshop on Management and Processing of Data Streams (MPDS), FCRC 2003, San Diego, CA.

    • 2002

  • Selfish Behavior and Stability of the Internet: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of TCP [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Richard Karp, Christos Papadimitriou, Srinivasan Seshan and Scott Shenker.
    SIGCOMM 2002, Pittsburgh PA.

  • Mechanisms for Internet Routing: A Study [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla and Srinivasan Seshan.
    CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-163.

  • Multi-Modal Network Protocols: Adapting to Highly Variable Operating Conditions [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Ashwin Bharambe, Suman Nath and Srini Seshan.
    CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-170.
    Also appeared in Proc. SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, January 2002, as a short paper [ps][pdf].

  • Exploring Congestion Control [ps] [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.
    CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-02-139.

    • 2001

  • The Impact of False Sharing on Shared Congestion Management
    Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Hari Balakrishnan.
    CMU SCS Technical Report Number CMU-CS-01-135 [ps] [pdf].