Thesis

• Cost-Aware Resource Management for Decentralized Internet Services
  (Nominated for the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award)
  Cornell University, Computer Science Department, January 2007.

Journal and Conference Papers

• Peer-to-Peer Data Replication Meets Delay Tolerant Networking
  Peter Gilbert, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Patrick Stuedi and Douglas B. Terry.
  International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS), Minneapolis MN, June 2011.
• dFault: Fault Localization in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
  Pawan Prakash, Ramana Kompella, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Ranveer Chandra.
  ACM/IEEE/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Bangalore, India, November 2010.
• Fidelity-Aware Replication for Mobile Devices
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry and Ted Wobber.
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 9, No. 12, December 2010.
• Docx2Go: Collaborative Editing of Fidelity-Reduced Documents on Mobile Devices
  Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Cathy Marshall, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Patrick Stuedi, Douglas B. Terry and Ted Wobber.
  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), San Francisco CA, June 2010.
• The Duality between Message Routing and Epidemic Data Replication
  Peter Gilbert, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Patrick Stuedi and Douglas B. Terry.
  ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), New York NY, October 2009.
• Where's that Phone?: Geo-Locating IP Addresses on 3G Networks
  Mahesh Balakrishnan, Iqbal Mohomed and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian.
  ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago IL, November 2009.
• Fidelity-Aware Replication for Mobile Devices
  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry and Ted Wobber.
  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), Krakow, Poland, June 2009.
• On the Treeness of Internet Latency and Bandwidth
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Archit Gupta and Aditya Akella.
  ACM SIGMETRICS / Performance, Seattle WA, June 2009.
• Cimbiosys: A Platform for Content-based Partial Replication
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Catherine C. Marshall and Amin Vahdat.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston MA, April 2009.
• Effective and Efficient Compromise Recovery for Weakly Consistent Replication
  Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Marshall, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry and Ted Wobber.
  EuroSys Conference, Nuremberg, Germany, March 2009.
• Kinesis: A New Approach to Replica Placement in Distributed Storage Systems
  John MacCormick, Nicholas Murphy, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Udi Wieder, Junfeng Yang and Lidong Zhou.
  ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), Vol. 4, No. 4, January 2009.
• BRA: A Bidirectional Routing Abstraction for Asymmetric Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Daniel Mossé.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 116-129, February 2008.
• Fast Encounter-based Synchronization for Mobile Devices
  Daniel Peek, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Tom L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan and Ted Wobber.
  IEEE International Workshop on Dynamic Virtual Communities, Lyon, France, October 2007.
• Reconstructing Approximate Tree Metrics
  Ittai Abraham, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Fabian Kuhn, Dahlia Malkhi, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kunal Talwar.
  ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Portland OR, August 2007.
• Graceful Degradation via Versions: Specifications and Implementations
  Lidong Zhou, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Roy Levin and Chandramohan Thekkath.
  ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Portland OR, August 2007.
• Corona: A High Performance Publish-Subscribe System for the World Wide Web
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Ryan Peterson and Emin Gün Sirer.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose CA, May 2006.
• Perils of Transitive Trust in the Domain Name System
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), New Orleans LA, October 2005.
• Client Behavior and Feed Characteristics of RSS, a Publish-Subscribe System for Web Micronews
  Hongzhou Liu, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), New Orleans LA, October 2005.
• The Design and Implementation of a Next Generation Name Service for the Internet
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM SIGCOMM, Portland OR, August 2004.
• Beehive: O(1) Lookup Performance for Power-Law Query Distributions in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco CA, March 2004.
• SHARP: A Hybrid Adaptive Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Annapolis MD, June 2003.
• Statistical Analysis of Connectivity in Unidirectional Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Daniel Mossé.
  International Workshop on Ad Hoc Networking (IWAHN), Vancouver, Canada, August 2002.
• Providing a Bidirectional Abstraction for Unidirectional Ad Hoc Networks
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Ranveer Chandra and Daniel Mossé.
  IEEE INFOCOM, New York NY, June 2002.
• Anonymous Gossip: Improving Multicast Reliability in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
  Ranveer Chandra, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kenneth P. Birman.
  International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (ICDCS), Phoenix AZ, April 2001.
• Finite Automata and Digital Images
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kamala Krithivasan.
  International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 501-524, 2000.
• Weighted Finite Automata, Digital Images and Image Compression
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kamala Krithivasan.
  Satellite Conference on Image Analysis in Materials and life Sciences, Kalpakkam, India, November 1999.
• Finite Automata Principles for 2D Image and 3D Object Representation
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kamala Krithivasan.
  International Workshop on Parallel Image Processing and Analysis-Theory and Applications (IWPIPA), Chennai, India, January 1999.

Articles

• A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe
  Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Usenix ;login:, August 2006.
• Caching of XML Web Services
  Douglas Terry and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian.
  ACM Queue, May 2003.

Technical Reports 

• Validating Heuristics for Virtual Machines Consolidation
  Sangmin Lee, Rina Panigrahy, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Kunal Talwar, Lincoln Uyeda and Udi Wieder.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-9, January 2011.
• The Cloud is the Router: Enabling Bandwidth-Efficient and Privacy-Aware Mobile Applications with Contrail
  Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Z. Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Ted Wobber.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-89, June 2010.
• A Unified Network Coordinate System for Bandwidth and Latency
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Dahlia Malkhi, Fabian Kuhn, Ittai Abraham, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Archit Gupta and Aditya Akella.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-124, September 2008.
• Cimbiosys: A Platform for Content-Based Partial Replication
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas Rodeheffer, Douglas Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Cathy Marshall and Amin Vahdat.
  Microsoft Research Tech Report, MSR-TR-2008-116, August 2008.
• Optimal Resource Utilization in Content Distribution Networks
  Yeejiun Song, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Cornell University, Computer Science Department Technical Report TR-2005-2004, November 2005.
• Caching of XML Web Services for Disconnected Operation
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Douglas Terry.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-139, December 2004.
• Proactive Caching for Better than Single-Hop Lookup Performance
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Cornell University, Computer Science Department Technical Report TR-2004-1931, February 2004.
• SHARP: A Hybrid Adaptive Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Zygmunt Haas and Emin Gün Sirer.
  Cornell University, Computer Science Department Technical Report, April 2003.

Posters

• dFault --- Diagnosing Faults in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Applications
  Pawan Prakash, Dipu John, Ranveer Chandra, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Ramana Rao Kompella.
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston MA, April 2009.
• The Internet Grows on Trees!
  Dahlia Malkhi and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian.
  Microsoft TechFest, Redmond, WA, March 2008.
• Internet Path Quality Prediction Using Trees
  Ittai Abraham, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Archit Gupta, Fabian Kuhn, Dahlia Malkhi, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Kunal Talwar.
  Summer Intern Research Series, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, July 2007.
• CobWeb: Optimal Resource Utilization in Content Distribution Networks
  Yeejiun Song, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Brighton U.K., October 2005.
• Beehive: O(1) Lookups in DHTs for Latency Sensitive Applications like DNS
  Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer.
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bolton Landing (Lake George) NY, October 2003.
• Caching of XML Web Services for Disconnected Operation
  Douglas Terry and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian.
  Microsoft Technical Festival, February 2003.