Publications

2025

  • MTP: A Transport for In-Network Computing [pdf]
    Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent Stephens and Aditya Akella
    NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA

    • 2024

  • Read-ME: Refactorizing LLMs as Router-Decoupled Mixture of Experts with System Co-Design [pdf]
    Ruisi Cai, Yeonju Ro, Geon-Woo Kim, Peihao Wang, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Aditya Akella, Zhangyang Wang
    NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, BC

  • MOSEL: Inference Serving Using Dynamic Modality Selection [pdf]
    Ajay Jaiswal, Bodun Hu, Lu Yin, Yeonju Ro, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Aditya AkellaBodun Hu, Le Xu, Jeongyoon Moon, Neeraja Yadwadkar, and Aditya Akella
    EMNLP 2024, Miami, Florida

  • FFN-SkipLLM: A Hidden Gem for Autoregressive Decoding with Adaptive Feed Forward Skipping [pdf]
    Ajay Jaiswal, Bodun Hu, Lu Yin, Yeonju Ro, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Aditya Akella
    EMNLP 2024, Miami, Florida

  • ChainedFilter: Combining Membership Filters by Chain Rule [pdf]
    Haoyu Li, Liuhui Wang, Qizhi Chen, Jianan Ji, Yuhan Wu, Yikai Zhao, Tong Yang, Aditya Akella
    SIGMOD 2024, Santiago, Chile

  • Cassini: Network-Aware Job Scheduling in Machine Learning Clusters [pdf]
    Sudarsanan Rajasekaran, Manya Ghobadi, and Aditya Akella
    NSDI 2024, Boston, MA

    • 2023

  • On a Foundation Model for Operating Systems [pdf]
    Divyanshu Saxena, Nihal Sharma, Donghyun Kim, Rohit Dwivedula, Jiayi Chen, Chenxi Yang, Sriram Ravula, Zichao Hu, Aditya Akella, Sebastian Angel, Joydeep Biswas, Swarat Chaudhuri, Isil Dillig, Alex Dimakis, Brighten P Godfrey, Daehyeok Kim, Christopher Rossbach, and Gang Wang.
    MLSys at NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA

  • Yama: Providing Performance Isolation for Black-Box Offloads [pdf]
    Tao Ji, Divyanshu Saxena, Brent Stephens, and Aditya Akella.
    SoCC 2023, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

  • Auxo: Efficient Federated Learning via Scalable Client Clustering [pdf]
    Jiachen Liu, Fan Lai, Yinwei Dai, Aditya Akella, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Mosharaf Chowdhury.
    SoCC 2023, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

  • LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs [pdf]
    Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, Ming Liu.
    MICRO 2023, Toronto, Canada

  • Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching [pdf]
    Jiayi Chen, Nihal Sharma, Tarannum Khan, Shu Liu, Brian Chang, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai, and Ramesh Sitaraman.
    SIGCOMM 2023, New York City, NY, USA

  • Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot [pdf]
    Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, and Aditya Akella.
    SIGCOMM 2023, New York City, NY, USA

  • Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit [pdf]
    Yeonju Ro, Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang, Vijay Chidambaram, and Aditya Akella.
    ICML 2023, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA

  • Invited Paper: Towards Efficient Microservice Communication [pdf]
    Divyanshu Saxena, William Zhang, Madhav Tummala, Saksham Goel, and Aditya Akella.
    ApPLIED 2023 Workshop, Orlando, FL, USA

  • Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs [pdf]
    Jiaxin Lin, Tao Ji, Xiangpeng Hao. Hokeun Cha, Yanfang Le, Xiangyao Yu, and Aditya Akella.
    SIGMETRICS 2023, Orlando, FL, USA

  • RingLeader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs [pdf]
    Jiaxin Lin, Adney Cardoza, Tarannum Khan, Yeonju Ro, Brent E. Stephens, Hassan Wassel, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, USA

  • Shockwave: Fair and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for Dynamic Adaptation in Machine Learning. [pdf]
    Pengfei Zheng, Rui Pan, Tarannum Khan, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, USA

  • Better Together: Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning using SYNDICATE [pdf]
    Kshiteej Mahajan, Ching-Hsiang Chu, Srinivas Sridharan, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, USA

  • Towards a Machine Learning-Assisted Kernel with LAKE. [pdf]
    Henrique Fingler, Isha Tarte, Hangchen Yu, Ariel Szekely, Bodun Hu, Aditya Akella, Christopher Rossbach.
    ASPLOS 2023, Vancouver, Canada

  • Blink-hash: An Adaptive Hybrid Index for In-Memory Time-Series Databases [pdf]
    Hokeun Cha, Xiangpeng Hao, Tianzheng Wang, Huanchen Zhang, Aditya Akella, and Xiangyao Yu.
    PVLDB 2023, Vancouver, Canada

  • Learned Load Balancing [pdf]
    Brian Chang, Aditya Akella, Loris D'Antoni and Kausik Subramanian.
    ICDCN 2023, Kharagpur, India. Best Paper Award

    • 2022

  • Congestion Control in Machine Learning Clusters. [pdf]
    Sudarsanan Rajasekaran, Manya Ghobadi, Gautam Kumar, Aditya Akella.
    HotNets 2022, Austin, TX, USA

  • Multi-agent Databases via Independent Learning. [pdf]
    Chi Zhang, Olga Papaemmanouil, Josiah P. Hanna, Aditya Akella.
    AIDB@VLDB 2022, Sydney, Australia

  • Impact of RoCE Congestion Control Policies on Distributed Training of DNNs. [pdf]
    Tarannum Khan, Saeed Rashidi, Srinivas Sridharan, Pallavi Shurpali, Aditya Akella, Tushar Krishna.
    HOTI 2022, Virtual Event

  • Think before you shuffle: data-driven shuffles for geo-distributed analytics. [pdf]
    Maruth Goyal, Aditya Akella.
    BiDEDE@SIGMOD 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  • Elastic Model Aggregation with Parameter Service. [pdf]
    Juncheng Gu, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Kang G. Shin, Aditya Akella.


  • Memory Deduplication for Serverless Computing with Medes. [pdf]
    Divyanshu Saxena, Tao Ji, Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella.
    EuroSys 2022, Rennes, France

  • Jiffy: Elastic Far-Memory for Stateful Serverless Analytics. [pdf]
    Anurag Khandelwal, Yupeng Tang, Rachit Agarwal, Aditya Akella, Ion Stoica.
    EuroSys 2022, Rennes, France

    • 2021

  • A Vision for Runtime Programmable Networks. [pdf]
    Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Hongyi Liu, Matty Kadosh, Alan Lo, Aditya Akella, Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, T. S. Eugene Ng, Ang Chen.
    HotNets 2021, Virtual Event

  • TCP is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing a Message-Oriented Transport Protocol (MTP). [pdf]
    Brent E. Stephens, Darius Grassi, Hamidreza Almasi, Balajee Vamanan, Aditya Akella.
    HotNets 2021, Virtual Event

  • Atoll: A Scalable Low-Latency Serverless Platform. [pdf]
    Arjun Singhvi, Arjun Balasubramanian, Kevin Houck, Mohammed Danish Shaikh, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella.
    SoCC 2021, Seattle, Washington, USA & Virtual Event

  • Doing more by doing less: how structured partial backpropagation improves deep learning clusters. [pdf]
    Adarsh Kumar, Kausik Subramanian, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella.
    DistributedML@CoNEXT 2021, Virtual Event

  • D2R: Policy-Compliant Fast Reroute. [pdf]
    Kausik Subramanian, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Loris D'Antoni, Aditya Akella.
    SOSR 2021, Virtual Event

  • CliqueMap: Productionizing an RMA-Based Distributed Caching System. [pdf]
    Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Maggie Anderson, Rob Cauble, Harshad Deshmukh, Dan Gibson, Milo M. K. Martin, Amanda Strominger, Thomas F. Wenisch, Amin Vahdat.
    SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual Event

  • Whiz: Data-Driven Analytics Execution. [pdf]
    Arjun Singhvi*, Robert Grandl*, Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2021, Boston, MA, USA.

  • ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning. [pdf]
    ChonLam Lao*, Yanfang Le*, Kshiteej Mahajan, Yixi Chen, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift.
    NSDI 2021, Boston, MA, USA. Best Paper Award

  • Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale. [pdf]
    Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar*, Kausik Subramanian*, Alexey Andreyev, Hyojeong Kim, Nanda Kishore, Jingyi Yang, Petr Lapukhov, Aditya Akella, James Hongyi Zeng.
    NSDI 2021, Boston, MA, USA.

  • PL2: Towards Predictable Low Latency in Rack-Scale Networks. [pdf]
    Yanfang Le, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Lalith Suresh, Gerd Zellweger, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Michael M. Swift.
    ONF 2021, Virtual Event

  • Accelerating Deep Learning Inference via Learned Caches. [pdf]
    Arjun Balasubramanian, Adarsh Kumar, Yuhan Liu, Han Cao, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella.
    , Virtual Event

    • 2020

  • AED: Incrementally Synthesizing Policy-Compliant and Manageable Configurations. [pdf]
    Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella
    CoNEXT 2020, Barcelona, Spain.

  • PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. [pdf]
    Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aditya Akella
    OSDI 2020, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

  • SNF: Serverless Network Functions
    Arjun Singhvi, Junaid Khalid, Aditya Akella, Sujata Banerjee
    SoCC 2020, Seattle, WA, USA.

  • Network-accelerated Distributed Machine Learning for Multi-Tenant Settings.
    Raajay Viswanathan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Aditya Akella.
    SoCC 2020, Seattle, WA, USA.

  • 1RMA: Re-envisioning Remote Memory Access for Multi-tenant Datacenters.
    Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Dan Gibson, Thomas F. Wenisch, Monica Wong-Chan, Sean Clark, Milo M. K. Martin, Moray McLaren, Prashant Chandra, Rob Cauble, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Behnam Montazeri, Simon L. Sabato, Joel Scherpelz, Amin Vahdat.
    SIGCOMM 2020, New York City, NY, USA.

  • Detecting Network Load Violations for Distributed Control Planes. [pdf]
    Kausik Subramanian, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Loris D'Antoni, Aditya Akella.
    PLDI 2020, London, UK.

  • Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling for Machine Learning Workloads. [pdf]
    Kshiteej Mahajan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Arjun Singhvi, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella, Amar Phanishayee, Shuchi Chawla.
    NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

  • Liveness Verification of Stateful Networks. [pdf]
    Farnaz Yousefi, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Kausik Subramanian, Kartik Hans, Soudeh Ghorbani, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

  • Tiramisu: Fast and General Network Verification. [pdf]
    Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

  • Automated Verification of Customizable Middlebox Properties with Gravel. [pdf]
    Kaiyuan Zhang, Danyang Zhuo, Aditya Akella, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Xi Wang.
    NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

    • 2019

  • On the Impact of Cluster Configuration on RoCE Application Design. [pdf]
    Yanfang Le, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella and Michael Swift.
    APNET 2019, Beijing, China. Best Paper Award

  • The Design and Operation of a Platform for Advanced Cloud Experimentation. [pdf]
    Cloudlab Team.
    ATC 2019, Renton, WA, USA.

  • Accelerating Deep Learning Inference via Freezing. [pdf]
    Adarsh Kumar, Arjun Balasubramanian, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella.
    HotCloud 2019, Renton, WA, USA.

  • Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling. [pdf]
    Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella and Michael Swift.
    NSDI 2019, Boston, MA, USA.

  • Correctness and Performance for Stateful Chained Network Functions. [pdf]
    Junaid Khalid and Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2019, Boston, MA, USA.

  • Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests. [pdf]
    Paul Suganthan, Adel Ardalan, AnHai Doan and Aditya Akella.
    VLDB 2019, Los Angeles, California, USA.

    • 2018

  • Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch. [pdf]
    Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella and Michael Swift.
    HotNets 2018, Redmond, Washington, USA.

  • Dynamic Query Re-Planning using QOOP. [pdf]
    Kshiteej Mahajan, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella and Shuchi Chawla.
    OSDI 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA.

  • RoGUE: RDMA over Generic Unconverged Ethernet. [pdf]
    Yanfang Le, Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift.
    SoCC 2018, Carlsbad, CA, USA.

  • Monarch: Gaining Command on Geo-Distributed Graph Analytics. [pdf]
    Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Aurojit Panda, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica.
    HotCloud 2018, Boston, MA, USA.

  • Bridging the GAP: Towards Approximate Graph Analytics. [pdf]
    Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Aurojit Panda, Shivaram Venkataraman, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.
    GRADES-NDA 2018, Houston, Texas, USA. Best Paper Award

  • Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Router Configurations. [pdf]
    Kausik Subramanian, Loris D' Antoni and Aditya Akella.
    Sigmetrics 2018, Irvine, California, USA.

  • Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments. [pdf]
    Junaid Khalid, Eric Rozner, Wesley Felter, Cong Xu, Karthick Rajamani, Alexandre Ferreira and Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2018, Renton, WA, USA.

    • 2017

  • Granular Computing and Network Intensive Applications: Friends or Foes? [pdf]
    Arjun Singhvi, Sujata Banerjee, Yotam Harchol, Aditya Akella, Mark Peek and Pontus Rydin.
    HotNets 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA.

  • Supporting Diverse Dynamic Intent-based Policies using Janus [pdf]
    Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Joon-Myung Kang, Sujata Banerjee, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang and Wenfei Wu.
    CoNEXT 2017, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea.

  • Automatically Repairing Network Control Planes Using an Abstract Representation [pdf]
    Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan and Harry Liu.
    SOSP 2017, Shanghai, China

  • UNO: Unifying Host and Smart NIC Offload for Flexible Packet Processing [pdf]
    Yanfang Le, Hyunseok Chang, Sarit Mukherjee, Limin Wang, Aditya Akella, Michael Swift and T.V. Lakshman.
    SoCC 2017, Santa Clara, CA.

  • Bootstrapping Evolvability for Inter-domain Routing with D-BGP [pdf]
    Raja Sambasivan, David Tran-Lam, Aditya Akella and Peter Steenkiste.
    SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA.

  • Low Latency Software Rate Limiters for Cloud Networks [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Weite Qin, Qiwei Zhang, Wenfei Wu, Junjie Yang, Tian Pan, Chengchen Hu, Jiao Zhang, Brent Stephens, Aditya Akella and Ying Zhang.
    APNet 2017, Hong Kong, China.

  • Titan: Fair Packet Scheduling for Commodity Multiqueue NICs [pdf]
    Brent Stephens, Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella and Michael Swift.
    USENIX ATC 2017, Santa Clara, CA.

  • P5: Policy-driven optimization of P4 pipeline [pdf]
    Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Jeongkeun Lee, Jean Tourrilhes, Sujata Banerjee, Wenfei Wu, Joon-Myung Kang and Aditya Akella.
    SOSR 2017, Santa Clara, CA.

  • Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks [pdf]
    Kausik Subramanian, Loris D' Antoni and Aditya Akella.
    POPL 2017, Paris, France.

    • 2016

  • Clarinet: WAN-Aware Optimization for Analytics Queries [pdf]
    Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella and Ganesh Ananthanarayanan.
    OSDI 2016, Savannah, GA.

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

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

  • Fast Control Plane Analysis Using an Abstract Representation [pdf]
    Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Viswanathan, Aditya Akella and Ratul Mahajan.
    SIGCOMM 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil.

  • AC/DC TCP: Virtual Switch-based Congestion Control Enforcement for Datacenter Networks [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Eric Rozner, Kanak Agarwal, Yu (Jason) Gu, Wes Felter, and John Carter and Aditya Akella.
    SIGCOMM 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil.

  • A Standardized Southbound API for VNF Management [pdf]
    Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Mark Coatsworth and Aditya Akella.
    HotMiddlebox 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil.

  • Paving the Way for NFV: Simplifying Middlebox Modifications using StateAlyzr [pdf]
    Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Roney Michael, Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar and Aditya Akella.
    NSDI 2016, Santa Clara, CA.

  • Efficiently delivering online services over integrated infrastructure [pdf]
    Hongqiang Harry Liu, Raajay Viswanathan, Matt Calder, Aditya Akella, Ratul Mahajan, Jitendra Padhye and Ming Zhang .
    NSDI 2016, Santa Clara, CA.

    • 2015

  • Bootstrapping Evolvability for Inter-Domain Routing [pdf]
    Raja Sambasivan, David Tran-Lam, Aditya Akella and Peter Steenkiste.
    HotNets 2015, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Seeing Through Network Protocol Obfuscation [pdf]
    Liang Wang, Kevin Dyer, Aditya Akella, Thomas Ristenpart and Thomas Shrimpton.
    CCS 2015, Denver, CO.

  • Management Plane Analytics [pdf]
    Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Wenfei Wu, Xiujun Liu, Aditya Akella and Ratul Mahajan.
    IMC 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

  • PerfSight: Performance Diagnosis for Software Dataplanes [pdf]
    Wenfei Wu, Keqiang He and Aditya Akella.
    IMC 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

  • Experimenting with Next-Generation Cloud Architectures Using CloudLab [pdf]
    Aditya Akella.
    IEEE Internet Computing 2015. Invited paper

  • PGA: Using graphs to express and automatically reconcile network policies [pdf]
    Chaithan Prakash, Jeongkeun Lee, Yoshio Turner, Joon-Myung Kang, Aditya Akella, Sujata Banerjee, Charles Clark, Yadi Ma, Puneet Sharma and Ying Zhang.
    Sigcomm 2015, London, UK.

  • Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Eric Rozner, Kanak Agarwal, Wes Felter, John Carter and Aditya Akella.
    Sigcomm 2015, London, UK.

  • Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics [pdf]
    Qifan Pu, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Peter Bodik, Srikanth Kandula, Aditya Akella, Victor Bahl and Ion Stoica.
    Sigcomm 2015, London, UK.

  • Improving the Safety, Scalability, and Efficiency of Network Function State Transfers [pdf]
    Aaron Gember-Jacobson and Aditya Akella.
    HotMiddlebox 2015, London, UK.

  • Measuring Control Plane Latency in SDN-enabled Switches [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Chaithan Prakash, Aditya Akella, Erran Li and Marina Thottan.
    ACM Sigcomm Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) 2015, Santa Clara, CA.

  • Latency in Software Defined Networks: Measurements and Mitigation Techniques [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das, Aditya Akella, Li Erran Li and Marina Thottan.
    Sigmetrics 2015 (extended abstract), Portland, OR.

  • Improving the performance of SPDY for mobile devices [pdf]
    Junaid Khalid, Sharad Aggarwal, Aditya Akella and Jitu Padhye.
    Poster at HotMobile 2015, Santa Fe, NM. Best Poster Award

  • A Universal Approach to Data Center Network Design [pdf]
    Aditya Akella, Theophilus Benson, Bala Chandrasekaran, Cheng Huang, Bruce Maggs and David Maltz.
    ICDCN 2015, Goa, India. Invited paper

    • 2014

  • A Call to Arms for Management Plane Analytics [pdf]
    Aditya Akella and Ratul Mahajan.
    HotNets 2014, Los Angeles, CA.

  • A Highly Available Software Defined Fabric [pdf]
    Aditya Akella and Arvind Krishnamurthy.
    HotNets 2014, Los Angeles, CA.

  • WhoWas: A Platform for Measuring Web Deployments on IaaS Clouds [pdf]
    Liang Wang, Antonio Nappa, Juan Caballero, Thomas Ristenpart, and Aditya Akella.
    IMC 2014, Vancouver, BC.

  • Design Patterns for Tunable and Efficient SSD based Indexes [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Collin Engstrom and Aditya Akella.
    ANCS 2014, Marina del Ray, CA.

  • OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control [pdf]
    Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Raajay Vishwanathan, Chaithan Prakash, Robert Grandl, Junaid Khalid, Sourav Das, and Aditya Akella.
    Sigcomm 2014, Chicago, IL. Applied Networking Research Prize

  • Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers [pdf]
    Robert Grandl, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srikanth Kandula, Sriram Rao, and Aditya Akella.
    Sigcomm 2014, Chicago, IL.

  • XIA: Architecting a More Trustworthy and Evolvable Internet [pdf]
    David Naylor et al.
    Sigcomm CCR, July 2004.

    • 2013

  • Enhancing multimedia accessibility and availability with information-bound references [pdf]
    Ashok Anand, Athula Balachandran, Aditya Akella, Vyas Sekar and Srinivasan Seshan
    CoNEXT 2013, Santa Barbara, CA. Best Student Paper Award

  • Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service [pdf]
    Wenfei Wu, Guohui Wang, Aditya Akella and Anees Shaikh
    SoCC 2013, Santa Clara, CA. Best Student Paper Award

  • Next Stop, the Cloud: Understanding Modern Web Service Deployment in EC2 and Azure [pdf]
    Keqiang He, Liang Wang, Alexis Fisher, Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella and Tom Ristenpart
    IMC 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Analyzing the Potential Benefits of CDN Augmentation Strategies for Internet Video Workloads [pdf]
    Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
    IMC 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

  • An Information-Aware QoE-Centric Mobile Video Cache [pdf]
    Shan-Hsiang Shen and Aditya Akella
    MobiCom 2013, Miami, FL.

  • FCP: A Flexible Transport Framework for Accommodating Diversity [pdf]
    Dongsu Han, Robert Grandl, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
    Sigcomm 2013, Hong Kong.

  • Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video [pdf]
    Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica and Hui Zhang
    Sigcomm 2013, Hong Kong.

  • Understanding Internet Video Viewing Behavior In the Wild [pdf]
    Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella and Srinivasan Seshan
    Sigmetrics 2013 (extended abstract), Pittsburgh, PA.

  • Adaptive Data Transmission in the Cloud [pdf]
    Wenfei Wu, Yizheng Chen, Ram Durairajan, Dongchan Kim, Ashok Anand and Aditya Akella
    IWQoS 2013 Montreal, Canada.

    • 2012

  • Toward Software-Defined Middlebox Networking [pdf]
    Aaron Gember, Prathmesh Prabhu, Zainab Ghadiyali, Aditya Akella
    HotNets 2012, Seattle, WA.

  • A Quest for an Internet Video Quality-of-Experience Metric [pdf]
    Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srini Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang
    HotNets 2012, Seattle, WA.

  • ECOS: Leveraging Software-Defined Networks to Support Mobile Application Offloading [pdf]
    Aaron Gember, Chris Dragga and Aditya Akella
    ANCS 2012, Austin, TX.

  • Obtaining Representative Measurements of Cellular Network Performance [pdf]
    Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Alexander Varshavsky and Ramon Caceres
    IMC 2012, Boston, MA.

  • Challenges in Unifying Control of Middlebox Traversals and Functionality [pdf]
    Aaron Gember, Theophilus Benson, and Aditya Akella.
    Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), Madeira, Portugal, 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].