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Srikanth Kandula

Researcher
Networking Research Group

My interests are in building and analyzing networked systems. Of late, I have worked on data center networks, better network primitives for data center applications and, improving data-parallel computing. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2008.

srikanth at microsoft dotcom
(425) 538 5407
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052

Mantri
Seawall
(inactive) Flyways CloudCmp NetMedic Broom eXpose VL2 FatVAP Sherlock TeXCP Flare Kill-Bots

Recent Papers (All)

SIGCOMM'13: Kwiken: Speeding up Distributed Request-Response Workflows
MSR, Bing, UIUC, Steklov Inst. of Math.

Leveraging Flexibility in Endpoint Placement for a Snappier Network
UC Berkeley, MSR

Achieving High Utilization in Inter-Datacenter WANs
MSR, Bing, GNS, UIUC
HotCloud'13: Virtualizing Traffic Shapers for Practical Resource Allocation
MSR, UC Berkeley
HotNets'12: Act for Affordable Data Care
MSR
NSDI'12: Re-optimizing Data Parallel Computing
MSR, Bing, UCBerkeley
This ships in Bing's Cosmos clusters since December 2011.

PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs
Ganesh Anantharanayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Wang, Dhruba Borthakur, Srikanth Kandula, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SIGMOD'12: Recurring Job Optimizations in Scope
Bing, MSR
Industrial Track Paper
EuroSys'12: Jockey: Guaranteed Job Latency in Data Parallel Clusters
MSR, Brown, Bing
SIGCOMM'11: Augmenting Data Center Networks with Multi-Gigabit Wireless Links
MSR, Univ. of Washington
EuroSYS'11: Scarlett: Coping with Skewed Content Popularity in MapReduce Clusters
UCBerkeley, MSR, Bing
NSDI'11: Sharing the Datacenter Network
MSR, Cornell, Azure, Bing

Profiling Network Performance for Multi-tier Data Center Applications
Minlan Yu, Albert Greenberg, Dave Maltz, Jennifer Rexford, Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim
HotNets'10: SideCar: Building Programmable Datacenter Networks without Programmable Switches
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Emin Gun Sirer.
OSDI'10: Reining in the Outliers in Map-Reduce Clusters using Mantri
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Ion Stoica, Yi Lu, Bikas Saha, Ed Harris.
This ships in Cosmos servers since May 2010. Tech. Report: MSR-TR-2010-69. For a more accessible description, see these slides.
IMC'10: CloudCmp: Comparing Public Cloud Providers
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang; A First Look at Traffic on Smartphones
Hossein Falaki, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Deborah Estrin
VAST'10: NetClinic: Interactive Visualization to Enhance Automated Fault Diagnosis in Enterprise Networks
Zhicheng Liu, Bongshin Lee, Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan
HotCloud'10: Seawall: Performance Isolation in Cloud Datacenter Networks
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Changhoon Kim
Press: ZDNet; CloudCmp: Shopping for a Cloud Made Easy
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang
Project Site. Press: MIT Tech. Review, ZDNet
MOBISYS'10: Diversity in Smartphone Usage
Hossein Falaki, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin
SOSP'09(WIP): Trusted End Host Monitors For Securing Cloud Datacenters
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg
HotNets'09: Flyways to De-Congest Data Center Networks
Srikanth Kandula, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl
IMC'09: Sampling Biases in Network Path Measurements and What to Do About It
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan.
Talk@IMC.
Software built as part of this work is available here.; The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurements and Analysis
Srikanth Kandula, Sudipta Sengupta, Albert Greenberg, Parveen Patel, Ronnie Chaiken. Talk@IMC.
SIGCOMM'09: Detailed Diagnosis in Computer Networks.
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Patrick Verkaik, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl.; A Scalable and Flexible Datacenter Network.
Albert Greenberg, Navendu Jain, James Hamilton, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, Sudipta Sengupta

Students
I've worked with some amazing interns at MSR.

Agarwal, Sameer (UCBerkeley): Reoptimizing Data Parallel Computing
Ananthanarayanan, Ganesh (UCBerkeley): Mitigating outliers in Bing's production Cosmos (map-reduce) clusters
Chowdhury, Mosharaf (UCBerkeley): Leveraging Endpoint Flexibility for a Snappier Network
Falaki, Hossein (UCLA): Understanding how smartphone users use applications and the network
Halperin, Dan (UW): Multi-Gigabit Wireless Links
Hong, Chi-Yao (UIUC): Software-driven Wide Area Network
Iyer, Anand (UCBerkeley)
Jalaparti, Virajith (UIUC): Speeding up distributed request-response workflows
Kumar, Gautam (UCBerkeley): Virtualizing Traffic Shapers
Li, Ang (Duke): Comparing public cloud providers
Lim, Hyeontaek (CMU)
Liu, Zhicheng (GaTech): User-friendly interfaces for automated diagnostic systems
Perry, Jonathan (MIT)
Shieh, Alan (Cornell): Keeping apart multiple parties in shared datacenter networks

Service

2012: NSDI, HotCloud, ICNP, MobiHoc
2011: IMC, NetDB (co-chair), HotCloud, SLAML, LADIS, MobiHoc

Software

Flare: Splitting flowlets over multiple paths
wcAsync: An asynchronous web traffic generator
ospfOpt: Finding optimal weights for OSPF traffic engineering
Broom: Unbiasing Internet path measurements

Short Bio
Srikanth Kandula is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests span many aspects of networked systems including datacenters, network management, diagnosis, applied statistical inference and security. He has published over 15 papers in top-tier venues such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, and MobiSys. He is a winner of the NSDI best student paper award (2005). He obtained his Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008).