Aman Kansal
Publications
2013
- Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, and Suman Nath, PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation, in 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), USENIX, 26 June 2013
- Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Sriram Govindan, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Aman Kansal, and Kushagra Vaid, ACE: Abstracting, Characterizing and Exploiting Peaks and Valleys in Datacenter Power Consumption, in ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM, 17 June 2013
- Aman Kansal, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Sriram Govindan, Using Dark Fiber to Replace Diesel Generators, in XIV Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), USENIX, 13 May 2013
- Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, and Suman Nath, Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation, no. MSR-TR-2013-28, 4 March 2013
- Aman Kansal, Building a More Efficient Data Center - from Servers to Software, Microsoft Research, 1 February 2013
2012
- Christina Delimitrou, Sriram Sankar, Aman Kansal, and Christos Kozyrakis, ECHO: Recreating Network Traffic Maps for Datacenters with Tens of Thousands of Servers, in IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization , IEEE, 4 November 2012
- Xuan Bao, Aman Kansal, Victor Bahl, David Chu, Romit Roy Choudhury, and Alec Wolman, Helping Mobile Apps Bootstrap with Fewer Users, in The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012), ACM, 8 September 2012
- Moo-Ryong Ra, Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Improving Energy Efficiency of Personal Sensing Applications with Heterogeneous Multi-Processors, in The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012), ACM, 5 September 2012
- Radhika Mittal, Aman Kansal, and Ranveer Chandra, Empowering Developers to Estimate App Energy Consumption, in ACM Mobicom, ACM, 26 August 2012
- Alex Susu, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, Application-Level Speculative Processor Power Management , no. MSR-TR-2012-91, 23 August 2012
- Tingxin Yan, David Chu, Deepak Ganesan, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Fast App Launching for Mobile Devices Using Predictive User Context, in ACM MobiSys, ACM, 25 June 2012
- Arka Bhattacharya, Aman Kansal, David Culler, Sriram Sankar, and Sriram Govindan, The Need for Speed and Stability in Data Center Power Capping, in Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12), 5 June 2012
2011
- Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines, in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), ACM, 27 October 2011
- Heitor S. Ramos, Tao Zhang, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Aman Kansal, LEAP: A Low Energy Assisted GPS for Trajectory-Based Services, in 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), ACM, 17 September 2011
- Hong Lung Chu, Vijay Raman, Jeffrey Shen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Aman Kansal, and Victor Bahl, Poster: You Driving? Talk to You Later, in Mobisys 2011: The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. (BEST POSTER AWARD), ACM, 28 June 2011
- Harold Lim, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Power Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers, in 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '11), USENIX, 15 June 2011
- David Chu, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, Mobile Apps: It’s Time to Move Up to CondOS, in 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII), USENIX, 9 May 2011
- Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines, no. MSR-TR-2011-55, May 2011
- Weiwei Xiong and Aman Kansal, Energy Efficient Data Intensive Distributed Computing, in IEEE Data Engineering (Special Issue on Energy Aware Big Data Processing), IEEE Computer Society, 31 March 2011
2010
- Christos Kozyrakis, Aman Kansal, Sriram Sankar, and Kushagra Vaid, Server Engineering Insights for Large-Scale Online Services, in IEEE Micro, IEEE, July 2010
- Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, and Bodhi Priyantha, Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda, no. MSR-TR-2010-108, July 2010
- Joshua Reich, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, and Jitu Padhye, Sleepless In Seattle No Longer, in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, 22 June 2010
- Kaisen Lin, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, and Feng Zhao, Energy-Accuracy Trade-off for Continuous Mobile Device Location, in ACM Mobisys, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 15 June 2010
- Aman Kansal, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Nupur Kothari, and Arka Bhattacharya, Virtual Machine Power Metering and Provisioning , in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 10 June 2010
- Ripal Nathuji, Aman Kansal, and Alireza Ghaffarkhah, Q-Clouds: Managing Performance Interference Effects for QoS-Aware Clouds, in Eurosys 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 13 April 2010
- Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, and Suman Nath, On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors, in IPSN 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 12 April 2010
2009
- Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, Abhishek Singh, Ripal Nathuji, and Tarek Abdelzaher, Semantic-less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance, in Hotpower 2009 (co-located with SOSP 2009), USENIX, 10 October 2009
- Leonardo B Oliveira, Aman Kansal, Bodhi Priyantha, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Secure-TWS: Authenticating Node to Multi-user Communication in Shared Sensor Networks, in The 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 13 April 2009
- Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, and Yongluan Zhou, Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration), in 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
2008
- Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real Time, Microsoft, 9 December 2008
- Shekhar Srikantaiah, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing, in USENIX HotPower'08: Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems at OSDI, USENIX, 7 December 2008
- Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces, in 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 5 November 2008
- Aman Kansal, SenseWeb: Wikipedia of Sensors, in (Invited Keynote) Collaborative R&D for Distributed Sensors Workshop, Microsoft, 3 November 2008
- Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Tiny Web Services: Design and Implementation on Interoperable and Evolvable Sensor Networks, in ACM/IEEE Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), Raleigh, NC, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2008
- Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, Fine-Grained Energy Profiling for Power-Aware Application Design, in First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics08) at ACM Sigmetrics. (Archived in SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev.), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Annapolis, MD, USA, June 2008
- Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, Towards Community Sensing, in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 22 April 2008
- Bodhi Priyantha, Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Tiny Web Services for Sensor Device Interoperability, in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '08), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2008
- Ameesh Pandya, Aman Kansal, and Gregory J Pottie, Goodput and Delay in Networks with Controlled Mobility, in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1 March 2008
2007
- Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, and Mani B. Srivastava, Power management in energy harvesting sensor networks, in ACM Trans. on Embedded Computing Sys., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 32, ACM, New York, NY, USA, December 2007
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: Shared Macro-scopes for Scientific Exploration, in Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI, 21 October 2007
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing, in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 8–13, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, October 2007
- Aman Kansal, Low Complexity Robotic Motion for High Resolution Sensing, in Robotics Science and Systems Conference 2007 Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice, 30 June 2007
- Aman Kansal, SenseWeb: A Shared Infrastructure for Internet-scale Sensing, in Invited Keynote at International Workshop on SensorWebsDatabases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS), at the 4th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2007) , 6 June 2007
- Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, Location and Mobility in a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones, in ACM SIGMM 17th International workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV), , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 June 2007
- Aman Kansal, Wireless Sensor Networks: New Capabilities and Potentials, in Invited talk, First International Workshop on Agent Technology in Sensor Networks, at the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-07),, 14 May 2007
- Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Suman Nath, SensorMap and Toolkit Tutorial, in Tutorials at Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), 28 April 2007
- Aman Kansal, Michel Goraczko, and Feng Zhao, Building a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones, in Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Aman Kansal, Hands On 2: Publishing Through SensorMap API's, 15 March 2007
- Aman Kansal and Feng Zhao, Planetary Scale Audio-Visual Sensor Network, 5 March 2007
- Aman Kansal, William Kaiser, Gregory Pottie, Mani Srivastava, and Gaurav Sukhatme, Reconfiguration methods for mobile sensor networks, in ACM Trans. Sensor Networks, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 22, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
- Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, FlashDB: dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash, in IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
2006
- Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash, no. MSR-TR-2006-168, November 2006
- Aman Kansal, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, Relevance Metrics for Coverage Extension Using Community Collected Cell-phone Camera Imagery, in ACM SenSys Workshop on World-Sensor-Web: Mobile Device Centric Sensor Networks and Applications, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 31 October 2006
- Arun A Somasundara, Aman Kansal, David Jea, Deborah Estrin, and Mani B Srivastava, Controllably Mobile Infrastructure for Low Energy Embedded Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 5, no. 8, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., August 2006
- Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Mani Srivastava, and Vijay Raghunathan, Harvesting aware power management for sensor networks, in DAC '06: Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference on Design automation, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 July 2006
- Aman Kansal, William Kaiser, Gregory Pottie, Mani Srivastava, and Gaurav Sukhatme, Virtual high-resolution for sensor networks, in SenSys '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2006
- Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, Aman Kansal, Mani Srivastava, and Vijay Raghunathan, Adaptive duty cycling for energy harvesting systems, in ISLPED '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2006
2005
- Kris Lin, Jennifer Yu, Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, David Lee, Jonathan Friedman, Aman Kansal, Vijay Raghunathan, and Mani Srivastava, Heliomote: enabling long-lived sensor networks through solar energy harvesting, in ACM Sensys, ACM, 2 November 2005
- Aman Kansal, James Carwana, William J. Kaiser, and Mani B. Srivastava, Demo: Coordinating camera motion for sensing uncertainty reduction, in SenSys '05: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2005
- Kris Lin, Jennifer Yu, Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, David Lee, Jonathan Friedman, Aman Kansal, Vijay Raghunathan, and Mani Srivastava, Heliomote: enabling long-lived sensor networks through solar energy harvesting (Demo), in SenSys '05: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2005
- Aman Kansal, Aditya Ramamoorthy, Mani B Srivastava, and Gregory J Pottie, On sensor Network Lifetime and Data Distortion, in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., September 2005
- Aman Kansal, James Carwana, William J Kaiser, and Mani B Srivastava, Acquiring Medium Models for Sensing Performance Estimation, in IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., September 2005
- Richard Pon, Maxim A. Batalin, Jason Gordon, Aman Kansal, Duo Liu, Mohammad Rahimi, Lisa Shirachi, Yan Yu, Mark Hansen, William J. Kaiser, Mani Srivastava, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Deborah Estrin, Networked infomechanical systems: a mobile embedded networked sensor platform, in IPSN '05: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, April 2005
- Aman Kansal, James M Carwana, Amir Hallajpour, William J Kaiser, and Mani B Srivastava, Demo: Coordinated Actuation for Sensing Uncertainty Reduction, in ACM/IEEE IPSN 2005 Demonstration Abstracts, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 2005
- Vijay Raghunathan, Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Jonathan Friedman, and Mani Srivastava, Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems, in IPSN '05: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, April 2005
2004
- Maxim A. Batalin, Mohammad Rahimi, Yan Yu, Duo Liu, Aman Kansal, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, William J. Kaiser, Mark Hansen, Gregory J. Pottie, Mani Srivastava, and Deborah Estrin, Call and response: experiments in sampling the environment, in SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, November 2004
- Aman Kansal, Mohammad Rahimi, William J Kaiser, Mani Srivastava, Gregory J Pottie, and Deborah Estrin, Controlled Mobility for Sustainable Wireless Networks, in IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., October 2004
- Ameesh Pandya, Aman Kansal, Gregory J Pottie, and Mani B Srivastava, Lossy Source Coding of Multiple Gaussian Sources: m-helper problem, in IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., October 2004
- Aman Kansal, D Potter, and MB Srivastava, Performance Aware Tasking for Environmentally Powered Sensor Networks, in ACM Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2004
- A Somasundara, Aman Kansal, D Jea, MB Srivastava, and D Estrin, Intelligent Fluid Infrastructure for Embedded Networks, in ACM Mobisys, Boston, MA, June 2004
- Ameesh Pandya, Aman Kansal, Gregory J Pottie, and Mani B Srivastava, Fidelity and Resource Sensitive Data Gathering, in 42nd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, June 2004
- Saurabh Ganeriwal, Aman Kansal, and Mani B. Srivastava, Self-aware Actuation for Fault Repair in Sensor Networks, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2004
- Aman Kansal, Eric Yuen, William J. Kaiser, Gregory J. Pottie, and Mani B. Srivastava, Sensing uncertainty reduction using low complexity actuation, in ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), ACM Press, 2004
2003
- Aman Kansal and Mani B Srivastava, An Environmental Energy Harvesting Framework for Sensor Networks, in ACM/IEEE Int'l Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2003
- Aman Kansal and Abhay Karandikar, IP Telephony and Delay Jitter Control - An Overview, in IETE Technical Review, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 289-296, July 2003
- Aman Kansal and Uday B Desai, Motion Constraint Based Handoff Protocol for Mobile Internet, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., March 2003
2002
- Aman Kansal and Uday B Desai, Handoff Protocol for Bluetooth Public Access, in IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., December 2002
- Aman Kansal and Uday B Desai, A rapid handoff protocol for mobility in Bluetooth public access networks, in Fifteenth International Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC'02), August 2002
- Aman Kansal and Uday B Desai, Mobility support for Bluetooth public access, in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 2002
2001
- Aman Kansal and Uday B Desai, Adaptive delay adjustment for low jitter audio over Internet, in IEEE Globecom, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., November 2001
- Aman Kansal and Abhay Karandikar, Jitter free Audio Playout over Best Effort Packet Networks, in ATM Forum International Symposium on Broadband Communication in the New Millennium, August 2001
