Publications
2025
Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali [pdf]
Jiaxin Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, and Aditya Akella.
NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA
MTP: A Transport for In-Network Computing [pdf]
Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent Stephens and Aditya Akella
NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA
Expressive and Efficient Service Mesh Policies [pdf]
Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent Stephens and Aditya AkellaDivyanshu Saxena, William Zhang, Shankara Pailoor, Isil Dillig, and Aditya Akella
ASPLOS 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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].