Research

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications [pdf] [slides]
  Sanjay Ghemawat, Robert Grandl, Srdjan Petrovic, Michael Whittaker, Parveen Patel, Ivan Posva and Amin Vahdat
  ACM HotOS 2023
  


• Whiz: Data-Driven Analytics Execution [pdf] [slides]
  Robert Grandl*, Arjun Singhvi*, Raajay Viswanathan and Aditya Akella
  (* = co-primary authors)
  USENIX NSDI 2021
  


• Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone [pdf] [slides]
  Atul Adya, Robert Grandl, Daniel Myers and Henry Qin
  ACM HotOS 2019
  


• Altruistic Scheduling in Multi-Resource Clusters [pdf] [slides]
  Robert Grandl, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella and Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
  USENIX OSDI 2016
  


• Packing and Dependency-aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Clusters [pdf] [slides]
  Robert Grandl, Srikanth Kandula, Sriram Rao, Aditya Akella and Janardhan Kulkarni
  USENIX OSDI 2016
  


• Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex Ad-Hoc Queries in Big-Data Clusters [pdf] [slides]
  Srikanth Kandula, Anil Shanbhag, Aleksandar Vitorovic, Matthaios Olma, Robert Grandl, Surajit Chaudhuri and Bolin Ding
  ACM SIGMOD 2016
  


• Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers [pdf] [slides]
  Robert Grandl, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srikanth Kandula, Sriram Rao and Aditya Akella
  ACM SIGCOMM 2014
  


• OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control [pdf] [slides]
  Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Vishwanathan, Chaithan Prakash, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das and Aditya Akella
  ACM SIGCOMM 2014
  


• XIA: Architecting a More Trustworthy and Evolvable Internet [pdf]
  David Naylor, Matthew Mukerjee, Patrick Agyapong, Robert Grandl et al.
  ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2014
  


• FCP: A Flexible Transport Framework for Accommodating Diversity [pdf] [slides]
  Dongsu Han, Robert Grandl, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
  ACM SIGCOMM 2013
  


• Stratos: A Network-Aware Orchestration Layer for Virtual Middleboxes [pdf]
  Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Anand Krishnamurthy, Saul John, Robert Grandl, Xiaoyang Gao, Ashok Anand, Theophilus Benson, Vyas Sekar and Aditya Akella
  Technical Report 2013
  

Patents

• State extractor for middlebox management system [US 11'895'177]
  
• Controlling approximation of queries [US 10'496'643]
  
• Cloud-based middlebox management system [US 9'104'492]
  

Posters and Demos

• Harmony: Coordinating Network, Compute, and Storage in Software-Defined Clouds [pdf]
  Robert Grandl, Yizheng Chen, Junaid Khalid, Suli Yang, Ashok Anand, Theophilus Benson and Aditya Akella
  ACM SOCC 2013 (poster)


• Design and Implementation of a Framework for Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [pdf]
  Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid and Aditya Akella
  ACM SIGCOMM 2013 (demo)


• Supporting Network Evolution and Incremental Deployment with XIA [pdf]
  Robert Grandl, Dongsu Han, Suk-Bok Lee, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Matthew Mukerjee and David Naylor
  ACM SIGCOMM 2012 (demo)


• The Anzere Personal Storage System [pdf]
  Oriana Riva, Qin Yin, Dejan Juric, Ercan Ucan, Robert Grandl and Timothy Roscoe
  USENIX OSDI 2010 (poster)