High Performance Despite Heterogeneity

• Riptide: Jump-Starting Back-Office Connections in Cloud Systems
  M. Flores, A. Khakpour, and H. Bedi
  To Appear IEEE ICDCS '16, Nara, Japan, June 2016.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | slides | review ]
  Taking advantage of open connections to optimize cloud communications (work with Verizon Digital Media Services).


• Wi-FM: Resolving Neighborhood Wireless Network Affairs by Listening to Music
  M. Flores, U. Klarman, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In IEEE ICNP '15, San Francisco, California, November 2015.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | slides | review | press ]
  Using FM radio to coordinate wireless devices across networks.


• Towards Application-Level Multi-Homing
  Y. Wang, H. Wu, W. Zhang, Y. Li, and A. Kuzmanovic
  Tech. Report NWU-EECS-15-04, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, November 2015.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz ]
  Building a data transfer infrastructure on top of Gmail, YouTube, Flickr, and the like.


• Taming the Mobile Data Deluge with Drop Zones
  I. Trestian, S. Ranjan, A. Kuzmanovic, and A. Nucci
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , to appear.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review/response ]
  An extended version of the INFOCOM 2011 paper.


• Understanding End-User Perception of Network Problems
  J. Scott Miller, A. Mondal, R. Potharaju, P. Dinda, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST), Toronto, CA, August 2011.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  Which network-level problems are annoying for people, and which are not?


• Towards Street-Level Client-Independent IP Geolocation
  Y. Wang, D. Burgener, M. Flores, A. Kuzmanovic, and C. Huang
  In Proceedings of USENIX NSDI 2011, Boston, MA, March 2011.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | video | review | press ]
  The paper presents a method for geolocating IP addresses with extreme accuracy.


• Taming User-Generated Content in Mobile Networks via Drop Zones
  I. Trestian, S. Ranjan, A. Kuzmanovic, and A. Nucci
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 2011.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  This paper considers how the large amounts of user upload activity can be economically supported in mobile networks.


• SureCall: Towards Glitch-Free Real-Time Audio/Video Conferencing
  A. Mondal, R. Cutler, C. Huang, J. Li, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2010, Beijing, China, June 2010.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  The paper presents SureCall, a distributed experimental platform for audio/video conferencing.


• Drafting Behind Akamai: Inferring Network Conditions Based on CDN Redirections
  A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, A. Kuzmanovic, and F. Bustamante
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (17)6, December 2009.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review/response ]
  An extended version of the SIGCOMM 2006 paper.


• Supporting Application Network Flows with Multiple QoS Constraints
  A. Mondal, P. Sharma, S. Banerjee, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE IWQoS 2009, Charleston, SC, July 2009.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  The paper designs a framework to find routes that meet individual QoS metrics efficiently and scalably under multiple QoS constraints.


• Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
  A. Kuzmanovic, A. Mondal, S. Floyd, and K.K. Ramakrishnan
  RFC 5562, June 2009.
  [ .txt ]
  An RFC based on the SIGCOMM 2005 paper.


• Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP
  A. Mondal and A. Kuzmanovic
  In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review,
  Volume 38, Number 5, October 2008.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review | response ]
  The paper argues that the exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Van Jacobson 20 years ago, should be removed from TCP.


• Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections
  A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, F. Bustamante, and A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS 2008, Beijing, China, June 2008.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  How you can use CDNs' redirections for network positioning.


• On the Use of Parallel Connections in Web Browsers
  D. Choffnes, J. Lange, S. Rossoff, and A. Kuzmanovic
  Tech. Report NWU-EECS-06-15, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, October 2006.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz ]
  Analysis and implications of popular web browsers' behavior.
  Simulation scripts and Linux code could be download here.


• Drafting Behind Akamai (Travelocity-Based Detouring)
  A.-J. Su, D. Choffnes, A. Kuzmanovic, and F. Bustamante
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  How overlay networks can reuse measurements collected by CDNs.
  Measurement data sets are available here; a BitTorrent plugin could be downloaded here.


• TCP-LP: Low-Priority Service via End-Point Congestion Control
  A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
  In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(4), August 2006.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | review | response ]
  An extended version of the INFOCOM 2003 paper.
  The official TCP-LP patch for Linux is avilable here.


• The Power of Explicit Congestion Notification
  A. Kuzmanovic
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  How and why ECN helps you, and why people should "turn it on."


• HSTCP-LP: A Protocol for Low-Priority Bulk Data Transfer in High-Speed High-RTT Networks
  A. Kuzmanovic, E. Knightly, and R. Les Cottrell
  In Proceedings of PFLDnet 2004, Argonne, Illinois, February 2004.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt ] (Abstract)
  TCP-LP for high-speed networks.
  HSTCP-LP Linux source code can be downloaded here.


• TCP-LP: A Distributed Algorithm for Low Priority Data Transfer
  A. Kuzmanovic and E. Knightly
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.
  [ .pdf | .pdf.gz | .ppt | review ]
  A TCP stack for non-intrusive background bulk data transfers.
  NS-2 simulator and Linux source code can be downloaded here.