Dr. Ramana Rao Kompella, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Purdue University

Ramana Rao Kompella
Assistant Professor

Office Address: LWSN 1203,
Department of Computer Sciences,
Purdue University,
305 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907
Email : kompella X cs Y purdue Y edu
(X and Y mean the usual @ and dot)
Telephone : 765 496 9369
Fax : 765 494 0739

Bio | Publications | SyN Lab | CV

Research

My research interests are in scalable router primitives for network measurement, attack monitoring, fault diagnosis in networked systems, and
more recently, performance optimizations in cloud environments. I lead the SyN lab at Purdue that conducts research in Systems and Networking.

Selected Publications (For full publication list and recent projects, please click here.)

The Only Constant is Change: Incorporating Time Varying Network Reservations in Cloud Data Centers (ACM SIGCOMM 2012).
vSlicer: Latency-aware Virtual Machine Scheduling via Differentiated-frequency CPU Slicing (ACM HPDC 2012).
The TCP Outcast Problem: Exposing Throughput Unfairness in Data Center Networks (USENIX NSDI 2012)
Sketching the Delay: Tracking Temporally Uncorrelated Flow-Level Latencies (ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2011)
Opportunistic Flooding to Improve TCP Transmit Performance in Virtualized Clouds (ACM SOCC 2011) [One of Three Papers of Distinction]
Finecomb: Fine-Grained Latency and Loss Measurements in the Presence of Reordering (ACM SIGMETRICS 2011)
RelSamp: Preserving Application Structure in Sampled Flow Measurements (IEEE INFOCOM 2011)
Scheduling in MapReduce-like Systems for Fast Completion Time (IEEE INFOCOM 2011)
vSnoop: Improving TCP Throughput in Virtualized Environments via Acknowledgement Offload (ACM SuperComputing 2010) [Best Student Paper Award Finalist]
Reference Latency Interpolation: Scalable Per-Flow Latency Estimation (ACM SIGCOMM 2010)
dFault: A System for Fault Diagnosis in P2P Systems (Middleware 2010)
Multiflow Estimator: Scalable Per-Flow Latency Estimation in Routers using Two Timestamps Per Flow (IEEE INFOCOM 2010)
Lossy Difference Aggregator: Scalable Fine-Grained Latency Estimation (ACM SIGCOMM 2009)

Teaching

CS252 - (Undergraduate) Systems Programming [Fall 11]
CS536 - Computer Networks [Fall 08 | Fall 09 | Fall 10 | Spring 12]
CS636 - Internetworking [Spring 08 | Spring 09 ]
CS354 - (Undergraduate) Operating Systems [Spring 11]
CS590W - Topics in Wireless Networks [Fall 07]
Systems and Networking Seminar [Fall 07 | Spring 09 | Spring 11]
Clean-slate Networking [Fall 10]

Students

Current

Myungjin Lee (Ph.D. candidate, ECE)
Pawan Prakash (Ph.D. candidate, CS)

Sahan Gamage (Ph.D. candidate, CS) -- Co-Advised with Dongyan Xu

Hitesh Khandelwal (Ph.D. candidate, CS)

Advait Dixit (Ph.D. candidate, CS)

Lianjie Cao (Ph.D. candidate, CS)

Samson Zhou (Ph.D. candidate, CS)

Graduated

Manish Kumar (Undergraduate, CS)
Dipu John (M.S. '09, ECE) - (Garmin)
Mohit Saxena (M.S. '08, CS) - (Ph.D. at Wisconsin)

Service

TPC Co-Chair

USENIX Hot-ICE 2012

TPC Member

IEEE INFOCOM 2013
IEEE ICNP 2012
ACM/USENIX IMC 2012
ACM SIGCOMM 2012
IEEE INFOCOM 2012
ACM SAFECONFIG 2011
ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Poster/Demo Session
ACM/USENIX IMC 2011
USENIX HOT ICE 2011
IEEE COMSNETS 2011
IEEE INFOCOM 2011
ACM/USENIX IMC 2010
USENIX HotCloud 2010 (with USENIX ATC 2010)
USENIX INM/WREN Workshop 2010 (with USENIX NSDI 2010)
IEEE COMSNETS 2010
IEEE INFOCOM 2010
ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Poster/Demo Session
IEEE COMSNETS 2009
IEEE INFOCOM 2009

Panelist

NSF, 2010
NSF, 2009
GENI Project Office, 2009