Ashok Anand

1210 West Dayton Street
7382, Computer Science Building
Madison WI 53706
Ph: 608 692 6193
I am a second year PhD student in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I work in the area of networks and systems and my advisor is Prof. Aditya Akella. Before coming to Wisconsin, I worked in IBM Research Lab, India. I did my undergraduate education in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

Resume (PDF)

Recent Publications

  NetReplay: A New Network Primitive.
  Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella.
   Hotmetrics 2009.

  SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination.
  Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella.
   To appear in SIGCOMM 2009.
   Also appeared as poster in NSDI 2009.

  Understanding Datacenter Traffic Characteristics.
  Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella and Ming Zhang.
   To appear in SIGCOMM 2009 Workshop: Research on Enterprise Networks .

  Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications.
  Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella and Ramachandran Ramjee.
   SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009.

  Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes.
  Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Florentina Popovici, Aditya Akella, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Suman Banerjee.
   In 8th USENIX Symposium on OSDI 2008.

  Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination.
  Ashok Anand, Archit Gupta, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan and Scott Shenker.
   In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008.

Work Experience

   Summer Intern, Microsoft Research Lab, India. May to August 2008.
   Mentor: Dr. Ramachandran Ramjee.

   Technical Staff Member, IBM Research Lab, India. June 2003 to August 2007.
   Manager: Dr. Manish Gupta.
   Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Varma.