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2012

  • DECOR: a Distributed Coordinated Resource Monitoring System [pdf]
    Shan Hsiang-Shen and Aditya Akella.
    IWQoS 2012, Coimbra, Portugal.

  • 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.

  • ECOS: Practical Mobile Application Offloading for Enterprises [pdf]
    Aaron Gember and Aditya Akella.
    Hot-ICE 2012, San Jose, CA.

  • Better Internet Routing Through Intrinsic Support for Selfishness [pdf]
    Holly Esquivel, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella and Shuchi Chawla.
    COMSNETS 2012, Bangalore, India.

    • 2011

  • XIA: An Architecture for an Evolvable and Trustworthy Internet [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Fahad Dogar, Dongsu Han, Boyan Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, David Andersen, John Byers, Srinivasan Seshan and Peter Steenkiste.
    HotNets 2011, Cambridge, MA.

  • MicroTE: Fine Grained Traffic Engineering for Data Centers [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
    CoNEXT 2011, Tokyo, Japan.

  • The Evolution of Network Configuration: A Tale of Two Campuses [pdf]
    Hyojoon Kim, Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella and Nick Feamster.
    IMC 2011, Berlin, Germany.

  • CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, Anees Shaikh and Sambit Sahu.
    SOCC 2011, Cascais, Portugal.

  • Refactoring Content Overhearing to Improve Wireless Performance [pdf]
    Shan Hsiang-Shen, Aaron Gember, Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella.
    MobiCom 2011, Las Vegas, NV.

  • Demystifying Configuration Challenges and Trade-offs in Network-based ISP Services [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella and Aman Shaikh.
    SIGCOMM 2011, Toronto, Canada.

  • De-Ossifying Internet Routing through Intrinsic Support for End-Network and ISP Selfishness [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Shuchi Chawla, Holly Esquivel and Chitra Muthukrishnan.
    Extended Abstract in SIGMETRICS 2011, San Jose, CA.

  • A Comparative Study of Handheld and Non-Handheld Traffic in Campus WiFi Networks [pdf]
    Aaraon Gember, Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella.
    PAM 2011, Atlanta, GA.

    • 2010

  • A Case for Information-Bound Referencing [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar and Srinivasan Seshan.
    HotNets 2010, Monterey, CA.

  • Using Strongly Typed Networking to Architect for Tussle [pdf]
    Chitra Muthukrishnan, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman and Aditya Akella.
    HotNets 2010, Monterey, CA.

  • Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella and Dave Maltz.
    IMC 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Best paper award
    Link to Data

  • A First Look at Problems in the Cloud [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Sambit Sahu, Aditya Akella and Anees Shaikh.
    HotCloud 2010, Boston, MA.

  • Tracking Semantic Relationships for Effective Data Management in Home Networks [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella.
    ACM SIGCOMM HomeNets Workshop 2010, New Delhi, India.

  • Understanding Large-Scale Spamming Botnets From Internet Edge Sites [pdf]
    Holly Esquivel, Tatsuya Mori and Aditya Akella.
    Conference on E-Mail and Anti-Spam (CEAS) 2010, Seattle, WA.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Case for Fine-grained Traffic Engineering in Data-centers [pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
    INM/WREN 2010, San Jose, CA.

  • Extensible and Scalable Network Monitoring Using OpenSAFE [pdf]
    Jeffrey Ballard, Ian Rae and Aditya Akella.
    INM/WREN 2010, San Jose, CA.

  • Peeking into the Cloud: Toward User-driven Cloud Management [one pager pdf]
    Theophilus Benson, Sambit Sahu, Aditya Akella and Anees Shaikh.
    Poster at NSDI 2010, San Jose, CA.

  • 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.

    • 2009

  • 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.
    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.

  • 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.

    • 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].