Sharad Agarwal
Publications
- "AppInsight: Mobile App Performance Monitoring in the Wild", Lenin Ravindranath, Jitu Padhye, Sharad Agarwal, Ratul Mahajan, Ian Obermiller, Shahin Shayandeh, in USENIX OSDI, October 2012
- "High Performance Vehicular Connectivity with Opportunistic Erasure Coding", Ratul Mahajan, Jitu Padhye, Sharad Agarwal, Brian Zill, in USENIX ATC, June 2012
- "Towards Commodity Smarthomes with HomeOS", Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A.J. Bernheim Brush, Bongshin Lee, Stefan Saroiu, Victor Bahl, in USENIX NSDI, April 2012
- "Switchboard: A Matchmaking System for Multiplayer Mobile Games", Justin Manweiler, Sharad Agarwal, Ming Zhang, Romit Roy Choudhury, Victor Bahl, in ACM MobiSys, June 2011
- "Home Automation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities", A.J. Bernheim Brush, Bongshin Lee, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, Stefan Saroiu, Colin Dixon, in ACM CHI, May 2011
- "There's an app for that, but it doesn't work. Diagnosing Mobile Applications in the Wild", Sharad Agarwal, Ratul Mahajan, Alice Zheng, Victor Bahl, in ACM HotNets IX, October 2010
- "The Home Needs an Operating System (and an App Store)", Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A.J. Brush, Bongshin Lee, Stefan Saroiu, Victor Bahl, in ACM HotNets IX, October 2010
- "Virtual Compass: relative positioning to sense mobile social interactions", Nilanjan Banerjee, Sharad Agarwal, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Mark Corner, in Pervasive, May 2010
- "Volley: Automated Data Placement for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services", Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Harbinder Bhogan, in USENIX NSDI, April 2010
- "WebProfiler: cooperative diagnosis of Web failures", Sharad Agarwal, Nikitas Liogkas, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, invited paper in COMSNETS, January 2010
- "Matchmaking for Online Games and Other Latency-Sensitive P2P Systems", Sharad Agarwal and Jacob Lorch, in ACM SIGCOMM, August 2009
- "Detailed Diagnosis in Computer Networks", Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Patrick Verkaik, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl, in ACM SIGCOMM, August 2009
- "Measurement and Estimation of Network QoS among Peer Xbox 360 Game Players", Youngki Lee, Sharad Agarwal, Chris Butcher, Jitu Padhye, in PAM Conference, April 2008
- "Addressing Email Loss with SureMail: Measurement, Design, and Evaluation", Sharad Agarwal, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Dilip Joseph, in USENIX ATC, June 2007
- "AS-Based Accountability as a Cost-Effective DDoS Defense", Daniel R. Simon, Sharad Agarwal, David A. Maltz, in USENIX HotBots Workshop, April 2007
- "A Study of End-to-End Web Access Failures", Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Narayanan S. Ramabhadran, Sharad Agarwal, Jitendra Padhye, in CoNext, December 2006
- "Feasibility Study of Mesh Networks for All-Wireless Offices", Jakob Eriksson, Sharad Agarwal, Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, in ACM MobiSys, June 2006
- "SureMail: Notification Overlay for Email Reliability", Sharad Agarwal, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Dilip A. Joseph, in ACM HotNets IV, November 2005
- "Measuring the Shared Fate of IGP Engineering and Interdomain Traffic", Sharad Agarwal, Antonio Nucci, Supratik Bhattacharyya, in IEEE ICNP, November 2005
- "BGP Routing Changes: Merging Views from Two ISPs", Renata Teixeira, Sharad Agarwal, Jennifer Rexford, editorial paper in ACM Computer Communications Review, October 2005
- "Estimation of Link Interference in Static Multi-hop Wireless Networks", Jitu Padhye, Sharad Agarwal, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lili Qiu, Ananth Rao, Brian Zill, in IMC, October 2005
- "Impact of BGP Dynamics on Intra-Domain Traffic", Sharad Agarwal, Chen-Nee Chuah, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot, in ACM Sigmetrics, June 2004
- "Impact of BGP Dynamics on Router CPU Utilization", Sharad Agarwal, Chen-Nee Chuah, Supratik Bhattacharyya, Christophe Diot, in PAM Workshop, April 2004
- "OPCA: Robust Interdomain Policy Routing and Traffic Control", Sharad Agarwal, Chen-Nee Chuah, Randy H. Katz, in IEEE OPENARCH, April 2003
- "The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple Providers", Bhaskaran Raman, Sharad Agarwal, Yan Chen, Matthew Caesar, Weidong Cui, Per Johansson, Kevin Lai, Tal Lavian, Sridhar Machiraju, Z. Morley Mao, George Porter, Timothy Roscoe, Mukund Seshadri, Jimmy Shih, Keith Sklower, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Takashi Suzuki, Shelley Zhuang, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Ion Stoica, in Pervasive Computing, August 2002
- "Characterizing the Internet Hierarchy from Multiple Vantage Points", Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Sharad Agarwal, Jennifer Rexford, Randy H. Katz, in IEEE INFOCOM, June 2002
- "Distributed Power Control in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks", Sharad Agarwal, Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy, Randy H. Katz, Son K. Dao, in PIMRC, October 2001
- "Remote Sensor Processing Using a Java Compute Server", Sharad Agarwal, James S. Young, Richard Newton, in Workshop on Embedded Web Technologies, 6th WWW Conference, April 1997
Tech Reports, theses, posters, presentations
- "Virtual Compass: relative positioning to sense mobile interactions", Nilanjan Banerjee, Sharad Agarwal, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Mark Corner, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-5, January 2010
- "WebProfiler: cooperative diagnosis of Web failures", Sharad Agarwal, Nikitas Liogkas, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-45, October 2008
- "Towards Internet-Wide Network Management", Sharad Agarwal, Antonio Nucci, Supratik Bhattacharyya, in IEEE Infocom 2005 Poster Session, March 2005
- "Job Hunting Around the World : Prospects, Tips, and Other Advice", Panel at Student Workshop, Infocom 2005, March 2005
- "Toward Interdomain Traffic Engineering for Availability and Performance", Sharad Agarwal, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, August 2004
- "How Finely Do We Need to Control Internet Traffic?", Position presented at Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution and Design (WIRED), October 2003
- "DDoS Mitigation via Regional Cleaning Centers", Sharad Agarwal, Travis Dawson, Christos Tryfonas, Sprint ATL Research Report RR04-ATL-013177 August 2003
- "Impact of BGP Dynamics on Intra-Domain Traffic Patterns in the Sprint IP Backbone", Presentation at NANOG27, February 2003
- "Reducing the Energy Consumption of Group Driven Ad-hoc Wireless Communication", Sharad Agarwal, MS Project, Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, December 2000
Press / Announcements
- WP8 Data Sense
- “The Best New Features In Windows Phone 8”, LifeHacker, 30 October 2012
- “Windows Phone 8 Late to Ball but Dressed to Kill”, TechNewsWorld, 29 October 2012
- “Data Sense Keeps Data Use in Check on Windows Phone 8”, GottaBeMobile, 29 October 2012
- “Windows Phone 8 to come with cool features such as Data Sense and Kids Corner”, WinBeta, 29 October 2012
- “Hands On: Nokia Lumia 822 and Data Sense for Verizon Wireless”, PC Magazine, 30 October 2012
- “Microsoft unveils Data Sense for Windows Phone 8, to debut on Verizon devices", Engadget, 29 October 2012
- “Microsoft's Data Sense for Windows Phone 8 looks to make data overages a thing of the past”, The Verge, 29 October 2012
- “Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8, reveals Kid’s Corner and Data Sense”, geek.com, 29 October 2012
- “Microsoft unveils Data Sense for Windows Phone 8", Neowin.net, 29 October 2012
- “Microsoft announces Data Sense to prevent mobile data overages”, examiner.com, 29 October 2012
- “Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 8; Features Kids Corner, Rooms, Data Sense and More! Handsets Coming in November!”, GSM Dome, 29 October 2012
- “Windows Phone 8 to Add Kids Corner, Data Sense, Free Pandora and More”, groovyPost, 29 October 2012
- Switchboard
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"Multiplayer Gaming for Smartphones", Douglas Gantenbein, Microsoft Research News, 28 June 2011
- blog / news coverage:
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- HomeOS
- "Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS", Mary Jo Foley, CNET, 27 April 2012
- "Microsoft developing HomeOS to manage appliances on a single system", Gareth Morgan, V3.co.uk, 02 April 2012
- "Microsoft's HomeStore: Home automation, with an iPhone-inspired twist", Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet, 7 October 2010
- "Microsoft experiments with 'HomeOS' and home app store ideas", Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet, 10 September 2010
- NetMedic
- "Troubleshooting Small Networks", Janie Chang, Microsoft Research News, 19 January 2010
- SureMail
- "Undelivered or delayed e-mail notification system", MSDN Flash, Volume 13, Number 2, 19 January 2009
- "Inside Microsoft's Labs", Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek, 04 December 2006
- "The Future of E-mail", Gary Anthes, Computerworld, 12 June 2006
- "The minds behind Microsoft Research", "Projects in the Microsoft Research labs", Gary Anthes, Computerworld, 05 June 2006
Professional Activities
- Steering Committee
- General Chair
- Program Chair
- Editorial Board Member
- Program Committee Member
- IEEE ICNP 2013
- ACM MobiSys 2013
- ACM MobiSys 2012
- HotMobile 2012
- ACM MobiCom 2011 S3 Forum (forum judge)
- ACM MobiSys 2011 PhD Forum (panel member)
- NetGames 2010
- IEEE ICNP 2010
- IEEE INFOCOM 2010
- MobiQuitous 2009
- CoNEXT 2009
- IEEE ICNP 2009
- IEEE INFOCOM 2009
- IEEE SECON 2008
- ACM SIGCOMM 2007
- ACM VANET 2006
- CoNext 2006
- IMC 2006
- IMC 2005
- IEEE Hot Interconnects 2005
- ACM VANET 2004
- IEEE Senior Member
- ACM Senior Member
RESEARCHER
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Mobility and Networking Research Group
Microsoft Research,
1 Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA 98052, USA
425-708-6084 (Fax)
sharad.agarwal #@# microsoft.com
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Students I have worked with
- Jakob Eriksson
- Maya Rodrig
- Dilip Antony Joseph
- Nikitas Liogkas
- Dhiman Barman
- Brent Couvrette
- Youngki Lee
- Mudit Jain
- Sihyung Lee
- Patrick Verkaik
- Nilanjan Banerjee
- Ajay Mahimkar
- Radhika Niranjan Mysore
- Sajid Mehmood
- Janani Sriram
- Colin Dixon
- Justin Manweiler
- Ionut Constandache
- Ardalan Amiri Sani
- Christopher Riederer
