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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An extended version of the INFOCOM 2011 paper.
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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.
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Which network-level problems are annoying for people, and which are not?
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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.
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The paper presents a method for geolocating IP addresses with extreme accuracy.
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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.
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This paper considers how the large amounts of user upload activity can be economically supported in
mobile networks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The paper argues that the exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Van Jacobson 20 years ago,
should be removed from TCP.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A TCP stack for non-intrusive background bulk data transfers.
NS-2 simulator and Linux source code can be downloaded
here.