Publications
2026
UNUM: A New Framework for Network Control
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Towards Performance Robustness for Microservices
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SYMPHONY: Improving Memory Management for LLM Inference Workloads
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Express Lane to Efficiency and Reliability: Multi-Dimensional Control in Meta's Express Backbone Network
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Canopy: Property-Driven Learning for Congestion Control
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2025
Man-Made Heuristics Are Dead. Long Live Code Generators!
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Large Language Models as Realistic Microservice Trace Generators
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OQueue: Observable Communication in Learning Directed Operating Systems
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A Joint Learning Approach to Hardware Caching and Prefetching
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ConfigBot: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Robot Applications in Dynamic Environments
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StitchLLM: Serving LLMs, One Block at a Time
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HALoS: Hierarchical Asynchronous Local SGD over Slow Networks for Geo-Distributed Large Language Model Training
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On-the-Fly Adaptive Distillation of Transformer to Dual-State Linear Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving
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How I learned to stop worrying and love learned OS policies
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CONGO: Compressive Online Gradient Optimization
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Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali
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MTP: A Transport for In-Network Computing
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Expressive and Efficient Service Mesh Policies
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2024
Read-ME: Refactorizing LLMs as Router-Decoupled Mixture of Experts with System Co-Design
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MOSEL: Inference Serving Using Dynamic Modality Selection
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FFN-SkipLLM: A Hidden Gem for Autoregressive Decoding with Adaptive Feed Forward Skipping
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ChainedFilter: Combining Membership Filters by Chain Rule
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Cassini: Network-Aware Job Scheduling in Machine Learning Clusters
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2023
On a Foundation Model for Operating Systems
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Yama: Providing Performance Isolation for Black-Box Offloads
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Auxo: Efficient Federated Learning via Scalable Client Clustering
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LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs
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Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching
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Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot
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Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit
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Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs
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Jiaxin Lin, Tao Ji, Xiangpeng Hao, Hokeun Cha, Yanfang Le, Xiangyao Yu, and Aditya Akella.
SIGMETRICS 2023, Orlando, FL.
RingLeader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs
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Shockwave: Fair and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for Dynamic Adaptation in Machine Learning
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Better Together: Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning using SYNDICATE
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Towards a Machine Learning-Assisted Kernel with LAKE
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Blink-hash: An Adaptive Hybrid Index for In-Memory Time-Series Databases
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Learned Load Balancing
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2022
Congestion Control in Machine Learning Clusters
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Multi-agent Databases via Independent Learning
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Chi Zhang, Olga Papaemmanouil, Josiah P. Hanna, Aditya Akella.
AIDB@VLDB 2022, Sydney, Australia.
Impact of RoCE Congestion Control Policies on Distributed Training of DNNs
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Tarannum Khan, Saeed Rashidi, Srinivas Sridharan, Pallavi Shurpali, Aditya Akella, Tushar Krishna.
HOTI 2022.
Memory Deduplication for Serverless Computing with Medes
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Jiffy: Elastic Far-Memory for Stateful Serverless Analytics
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2021
ATP: In-network Aggregation for Multi-tenant Learning
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Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale
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Whiz: Data-Driven Analytics Execution
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CliqueMap: Productionizing an RMA-Based Distributed Caching System
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Atoll: A Scalable Low-Latency Serverless Platform
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D2R: Policy-Compliant Fast Reroute
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2020
PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks
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1RMA: Re-envisioning Remote Memory Access for Multi-tenant Datacenters
Detecting Network Load Violations for Distributed Control Planes
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Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling for Machine Learning Workloads
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Liveness Verification of Stateful Networks
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Tiramisu: Fast and General Network Verification
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AED: Incrementally Synthesizing Policy-Compliant and Manageable Configurations
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2019
Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling
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Correctness and Performance for Stateful Chained Network Functions
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Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests
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2018
Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch
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Dynamic Query Re-Planning using QOOP
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RoGUE: RDMA over Generic Unconverged Ethernet
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Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Router Configurations
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Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments
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2017
Supporting Diverse Dynamic Intent-based Policies using Janus
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Automatically Repairing Network Control Planes Using an Abstract Representation
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UNO: Unifying Host and Smart NIC Offload for Flexible Packet Processing
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Bootstrapping Evolvability for Inter-domain Routing with D-BGP
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Titan: Fair Packet Scheduling for Commodity Multiqueue NICs
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Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks
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2016
Clarinet: WAN-Aware Optimization for Analytics Queries
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Altruistic Scheduling in Multi-Resource Clusters
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Packing and Dependency-aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Clusters
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Fast Control Plane Analysis Using an Abstract Representation
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AC/DC TCP: Virtual Switch-based Congestion Control Enforcement for Datacenter Networks
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Paving the Way for NFV: Simplifying Middlebox Modifications using StateAlyzr
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Efficiently Delivering Online Services over Integrated Infrastructure
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2015
PGA: Using Graphs to Express and Automatically Reconcile Network Policies
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Presto: Edge-based Load Balancing for Fast Datacenter Networks
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Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics
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Seeing Through Network Protocol Obfuscation
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Management Plane Analytics
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PerfSight: Performance Diagnosis for Software Dataplanes
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2014
OpenNF: Enabling Innovation in Network Function Control
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Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers
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WhoWas: A Platform for Measuring Web Deployments on IaaS Clouds
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2013
Enhancing Multimedia Accessibility and Availability with Information-Bound References
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Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service
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FCP: A Flexible Transport Framework for Accommodating Diversity
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Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video
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Next Stop, the Cloud: Understanding Modern Web Service Deployment in EC2 and Azure
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2012
XIA: Efficient Support for Evolvable Internetworking
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RPT: Re-architecting Loss Protection for Content-Aware Networks
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Obtaining Representative Measurements of Cellular Network Performance
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2011
MicroTE: Fine Grained Traffic Engineering for Data Centers
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Demystifying Configuration Challenges and Trade-offs in Network-based ISP Services
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CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications
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2010
Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild
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Cheap and Large CAMs for High-performance Data-intensive Networked Systems
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EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises
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2009
SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination
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Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications
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Unraveling the Complexity of Network Management
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An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution
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Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella and Paul Barford.
IEEE COMSNETS 2009, Bangalore, India.
Best Paper Award
2008
Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
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Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination
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On the Performance Benefits of Multihoming Route Control
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Aditya Akella, Bruce Maggs, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh and Ramesh Sitaraman.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2008.
2007
Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Enterprise Wireless LANs
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Eric Rozner, Yogita Mehta, Aditya Akella and Lili Qiu.
IEEE ICNP 2007, Beijing, China.
Cooperative Interdomain Traffic Engineering using Nash Bargaining and Decomposition
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Gireesh Shrimali, Aditya Akella and Almir Mutapcic.
Infocom 2007, Anchorage, AK.
2006
SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks
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Achieving Good End-to-end Service Using Bill-Pay
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Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella and Suman Banerjee.
HotNets-V, Irvine, CA.