I am a researcher in the Mobile Computing Research Center at Microsoft Research. I completed my Ph.D. in September 2004 in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. My work was in wide-area routing, traffic performance and network management under the supervision of Professor Randy Katz. During my Ph.D. I spent two years with the IP and Security Research group at Sprint Labs. I received my M.S. in December 2000, also in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. During my M.S. I spent time at HRL Labs. I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Publications

• "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 Annual Technical Conference, 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

• "Multiplayer Gaming for Smartphones", Douglas Gantenbein, Microsoft Research News, 28 June 2011
  • blog / news coverage:
    • wpcentral
    • Xenon Games
    • tweakers.net
    • anythingbutiphone
    • Zune Boards
    • WPMU Windows Phone News
    • Windows Phone Metro
• "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
• "Troubleshooting Small Networks", Janie Chang, Microsoft Research News, 19 January 2010
• "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

Software Downloads

• ELDA: Email loss detection add-in for Outlook 2007 that alerts you of any e-mail sent to you which has become delayed or lost
• Hawaii Relay and Rendezvous services: lightweight communication mechanism between phones

Technology Licensing

• SureMail: email delay and loss detection
• PluriBus: high-performance Internet access on moving vehicles

Professional Activities

• Organizing Committee
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Workshop on Mobile Gaming
• Editorial Board Member
  • ACM SIGMOBILE MC2R
  • ACM SIGCOMM CCR 
• Program Committee Member
  • 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

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