srikanth
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




Recent Papers (All)
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
SIGCOMM'11
EuroSYS'11
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
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
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.
Service
2012
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).