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Publications

SIGCOMM'13: Kwiken: Speeding up Distributed Request-Response Workflows
MSR, Bing, UIUC, Steklov Inst. of Math.

Leveraging Flexibility in Endpoint Placement for a Snappier Network
UC Berkeley, MSR

Achieving High Utilization in Inter-Datacenter WANs
MSR, Bing, GNS, UIUC
HotCloud'13: Virtualizing Traffic Shapers for Practical Resource Allocation
MSR, UC Berkeley
HotNets'12: Act for Affordable Data Care
MSR
NSDI'12: Re-optimizing Data Parallel Computing
MSR, Bing, UCBerkeley
This ships in Bing's Cosmos clusters since December 2011.

PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs
Ganesh Anantharanayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Wang, Dhruba Borthakur, Srikanth Kandula, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SIGMOD'12: Recurring Job Optimizations in Scope
Bing, MSR
Industrial Track Paper
EuroSys'12: Jockey: Guaranteed Job Latency in Data Parallel Clusters
MSR, Brown, Bing
SIGCOMM'11: Augmenting Data Center Networks with Multi-Gigabit Wireless Links
Daniel Halperin, Srikanth Kandula, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl, David Wetherall

[Poster] CloudProphet: Towards Application Performance Prediction in Cloud
Ang Li, Xuanran Zong, Srikanth Kandula, Xiaowei Yang, Ming Zhang
EuroSYS'11: Scarlett: Coping with Skewed Content Popularity in MapReduce Clusters Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Sameer Agarwal, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Ion Stoica, Duke Harlan, Ed Harris
NSDI'11: Sharing the Datacenter Network Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Changhoon Kim, Bikas Saha; Profiling Network Performance for Multi-tier Data Center Applications Minlan Yu, Albert Greenberg, Dave Maltz, Jennifer Rexford, Lihua Yuan, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim
HotNets'10: SideCar: Building Programmable Datacenter Networks without Programmable Switches
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Emin Gun Sirer.
IMC'10: CloudCmp: Comparing Public Cloud Providers Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang; A First Look at Traffic on Smartphones Hossein Falaki, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Deborah Estrin
OSDI'10: Reining in the Outliers in Map-Reduce Clusters using Mantri
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Ion Stoica, Yi Lu, Bikas Saha, Ed Harris.
This ships in Cosmos servers since May 2010. Tech. Report: MSR-TR-2010-69. For a more accessible description, see these slides.
VAST'10: NetClinic: Interactive Visualization to Enhance Automated Fault Diagnosis in Enterprise Networks
Zhicheng Liu, Bongshin Lee, Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan
HotCloud'10: Seawall: Performance Isolation in Cloud Datacenter Networks
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, Changhoon Kim; CloudCmp: Shopping for a Cloud Made Easy
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang
MOBISYS'10: Diversity in Smartphone Usage
Hossein Falaki, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin
SOSP'09 (WIP): Trusted End Host Monitors For Securing Cloud Datacenters
Alan Shieh, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg
HotNets'09: Flyways to De-Congest Data Center Networks
Srikanth Kandula, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl
IMC'09: Broom toolkit to unbias network path measurements.
Sampling Biases in Network Path Measurements and What to Do About It
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan. Talk@IMC.; The Nature of Datacenter Traffic: Measurements and Analysis
Srikanth Kandula, Sudipta Sengupta, Albert Greenberg, Parveen Patel, Ronnie Chaiken. Talk@IMC.
SIGCOMM'09: Detailed Diagnosis in Computer Networks
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan, Patrick Verkaik, Sharad Agarwal, Jitu Padhye, Victor Bahl.; A Scalable and Flexible Datacenter Network
Albert Greenberg, Navendu Jain, James Hamilton, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, Sudipta Sengupta
SIGCOMM'08: Whats Going On? Learning Communication Rules in Edge Networks.
Srikanth Kandula, Ranveer Chandra and Dina Katabi. Talk@Sigcomm.
NSDI'08: FatVAP: Aggregating AP Backhaul Bandwidth
Srikanth Kandula, Kate Lin, Tural Badirkhanli and Dina Katabi. Talk@NSDI.
SIGCOMM'07: Towards Highly Reliable Enterprise Network Services via Inference of Multi-level Dependencies
Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Albert Greenberg, Srikanth Kandula, David Maltz, Ming Zhang. Talk@Sigcomm
NSDI'07: R-BGP: Staying Connected In a Connected World
Nate Kushman, Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi and Bruce Maggs
ACM CCR'07: Flare: Responsive Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering
Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Shantanu Sinha, Arthur Berger.; Can You Hear Me Now?! It Must be BGP.
Nate Kushman, Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi.
HotNets'06: Discovering Dependencies for Network Management
Victor Bahl, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Ranveer Chandra, Moises Goldszmidt, Rebecca Isaacs, Srikanth Kandula, Lun Li, John MacCormick, David Maltz, Richard Mortier, Mike Wawrzoniak, Ming Zhang.
SIGCOMM'05: Walking the Tightrope: Responsive Yet Stable Traffic Engineering
Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Bruce Davie, and Anna Charny. Talk@Sigcomm
NSDI'05: Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds
Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Matthias Jacob, and Arthur Berger. Talk@NSDI

wcasync: Asynchronous Open-loop HTTP Traffic Generator

Award Paper
In News:
Kill the Bots! Software thwarts malicious hackers, MIT Technology Review, 05/05.
Surviving DDoS Attacks ;login:, The Usenix Magazine, 08/05.
MineNets'05 (SIGCOMM): Shrink: A Tool for Failure Diagnosis in IP Networks
Srikanth Kandula, Dina Katabi, Jean-Philippe Vasseur. Talk@MineNets.
HotNets'04: Harnessing TCPs Burstiness with Flowlet Switching
Shan Sinha, Srikanth Kandula, and Dina Katabi. Talk@HotNets
USENIX'04: Flashback: A Light-weight Rollback and Deterministic Replay Extension for Software Debugging
Sudarshan Srinivasan, Srikanth Kandula, Christopher Andrews, and Yuanyuan Zhou

SOSP'03 (Work-in-Progress): Beyond SYNFloods: Guarding Web Server Resources from DDoS Attacks
Srikanth Kandula, Shan Sinha, Dina Katabi and Matthias Jacob. Talk@SOSP.
SANE'02 (USENIX): Argus - A Distributed Network Intrusion Detection System
Srikanth Kandula, Sankalp Singh and Dheeraj Sanghi.

NYMAN Workshop'02: Integrated Network Performance Diagnostics
Srikanth Kandula, Anees Shaikh, Erich Nahum.
MILCOM'03 (Invited): A Case for Resource Heterogeneity in Large Sensor Networks
Srikanth Kandula, Jennifer Hou, and Lui Sha. Talk@MILCOM
IEEE CCW'03 (Invited): LARK: A Lightweight Resilient Application-Level Multicast Protocol
Srikanth Kandula, Jong-Kwon Lee, Jennifer C. Hou and Shankar Kalyanaraman.

Other

Daytona - A User-Level TCP Stack, 2002. Report pdf. Mail for code.

TCP modifications for multimedia support: Application driven, synchronous movement of TCP windows, report, kernel code and sample application

Jitter, Latency and Loss measurements for voice transmission over the Internet, report and code

Fine-grained Profiling of Apache using PMU on the IA64 architecture, report. Mail for code.

Courses, Siebel scholars program.

Ramblings on Shakespeare's Tempest

Namesakes: The latest of a long line of elephants, a rocket scientist, an architektur school and the unescapable ho o o o orde of Indian MD's and PhD's.

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