Ratul Mahajan
<ratul [at] microsoft [dot] com>
(425) 707 0706


Research

    Papers (and some talks) | Organized by topic

    Quick links: Netdiff    |    VanLAN    |    OSDI 2006 wireless traces

    Recent papers
[HotNets2008] Eat All You Can in an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet: A Case for Aggressive Resource Usage
Ratul Mahajan, Jitendra Padhye, Ramya Raghavendra, and Brian Zill
[HotNets2008] Can You Fool Me? Towards Automatically Checking Protocol Gullibility
Milan Stanojevic, Ratul Mahajan, Todd Millstein, and Madanlal Musuvathi
[SIGCOMM2008] Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Levine, and John Zahorjan
[SIGCOMM2008] A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks
Ranveer Chandra, Ratul Mahajan, Thomas Moscibroda, Ramya Raghavendra, and Victor Bahl
[SIGCOMM2008] Predictable Performance Optimization for Wireless Networks
Yi Li, Lili Qiu, Yin Zhang, Ratul Mahajan, and Eric Rozner
[NSDI2008] Uncovering Performance Differences among Backbone ISPs with Netdiff
Ratul Mahajan, Ming Zhang, Lindsey Poole, and Vivek Pai

Teaching
       2008: PMP 561: Network Systems (with Tom Anderson)

Professional activities
       Organizer: UW MSR Summer Institute 2009
       PC chair: HotNets-VIII , NetEcon+IBC 2007
       Local chair: SIGCOMM [2008]
       Area editor: MC2R [2008-]
       PC member: SIGCOMM [2009, 2008, 2007 (posters), 2006], IMC [2009], ICNP [2009], COMSNETS [2009], NetEcon [2009, 2008, 2007, 2006],
                              NetDB [2009], HotAC [2009], WiNMee [2009] ROADS [2008] INFOCOM [2008] Global Internet [2008],
                              PAM [2007], HotNets [2006]

Short bio
Ratul Mahajan is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests include all aspects of networked systems, especially their architecture and design. His work spans Internet routing and measurements, incentive-compatible protocol design, practical models for wireless networks, and vehicular networks. He has published over 25 papers in top-tier venues such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, and NSDI. He is a winner of the SIGCOMM best paper award, the William R. Bennett Prize, and Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Washington (2005) and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1999).