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MSR Cambridge, here I come!
I’m going to spend this Summer in stealth mode at Microsoft Research, Cambridge working with Christos Gkantsidis and Hitesh Ballani on a super-secret project. Hopefully, we’ll have some cool results on a hot topic. This will be my first time in England/UK as well. Looking forward to the English weather that I’ve heard so much ...
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PolyViNE has been accepted at VISA’2010
Our paper, “PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains” is set to appear in VISA’2010 workshop (with SIGCOMM’2010) in New Delhi. I worked on it during my last few months in Waterloo (circa Winter/Spring 2009), and it has been lying around ever since because everyone had been busy. Finally, its going to wake up ...
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Berkeley computer science networking Prelim reading list (Spring’10)
Somehow I never managed to upload the reading list after I finished my Prelim. Here it is finally, or they are – too many of them (not my fault). This zipped file contains reading lists for the grad networking/network security courses from different years along with the grandfather of all reading lists for networking prelim ...
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Spark short paper has been accepted at HotCloud’10
An initial overview of our ongoing work on Spark, an iterative and interactive framework for cluster computing, has been accepted at HotCloud’10. I’ve been joined the project last February, while Matei has been working on it since last Fall. I will have uploaded the paper in the publications page. once we have taken care of ...
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Prelim, begone, I will have no more of thee!
Update: I’ve finally uploaded the reading list. Here it is! Took the networking Prelim last Thursday and passed. I was a never fan of oral interrogations; heck, I am not a fan of any interrogation for that matter. And this one was really a close call; I am just happy to reach alive at the ...
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Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems
S. Nedevschi, J. Chandrashekar, J. Liu, B. Nordman, S. Ratnasamy, N. Taft, “Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary This paper argues that putting networked end-systems into low-power sleep modes, instead of keeping them in higher-power-consuming idle states, can result in significant energy savings. ...
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Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems
A. Qureshi, R. Weber, H. Balakrishnan, J. Guttag, B. Maggs, “Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2009). [PDF] Summary Large organizations like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! annually consume tens of millions of dollars worth of electricity. The traditional approach toward reducing energy costs by reducing the amount of energy consumption ...
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BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection
Y. Zhao, Y. Xie, F. Yu, Q. Ke, Y. Yu, Y. Chen, E. Gillum, “BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary Analyzing large volume of logged data to identify abnormal patterns is one of the biggest and most frequently faced challenges in the network security community. This paper presents BotGraph, a ...
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Not-a-Bot: Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks
R. Gummadi, H. Balakrishnan, P. Maniatis, S. Ratnasamy, “Not-a-Bot: Improving Service Availability in the Face of Botnet Attacks,” NSDI’09, (April 2009). [PDF] Summary In recent years, botnets have become the major originators of email spams, DDoS attacks, and click-frauds on advertisement-based web sites. This paper argues that separating human-generated traffic from botnet-generated activities can improve ...
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Scalable Application Layer Multicast
S. Banerjee, B. Bhattacharjee, C. Kommareddy, “Scalable Application Layer Multicast,” ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2002). [PDF] Summary Deployment of network layer multicast requires support from the underlying infrastructure. Like many other proposals/protocols with similar requirements, it faced the same fate: no one deployed it. This paper presents a scalable application layer multicast protocol, NICE, designed ...
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