Publications

Journal Articles

Covenant: An Architecture for Cooperative Scheduling in 802.11 Wireless Networks
Ishwar Ramani, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sriram Ramabhadran, Alex C. Snoeren,
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
(TWC) 2009, [pdf] [ps]

Fault Localization via Risk Modeling
Ramana Rao Kompella, Alex C. Snoeren, Jennifer Yates, Albert Greenberg
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 
(TDSC) 2009, [pdf] [ps]

Designing Buffers for Router Line Cards
Sundar Iyer, Ramana Rao Kompella, Nick McKeown,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
(ToN) Volume 16, Issue No. 3, June 2008 [pdf] [ps]

On Scalable Attack Detection in the Network,
Ramana Rao Kompella, Sumeet Singh, George Varghese,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
(ToN) Volume 15, Issue Np. 1, February 2007, [pdf] [ps]

ClassiPI : An architecture for Fast and Flexible Packet Classification,
Sundar Iyer, Ramana Rao Kompella, Ajit Shelat,
IEEE Network special issue on Fast IP Packet Forwarding and Classification for Next Generation Internet Services,
(Network) March-April 2001 [pdf]

Fault Localization

Two Samples Are Enough: Opportunistic Flow-Level Latency Estimation Using NetFlow
Myungjin Lee, Nick Duffield, Ramana Rao Kompella
to appear in IEEE Infocom,
(Infocom) San Diego, CA, March 2010, [pdf] [ps]

mPlane: An Architecture for Scalable Fault Localization
Ramana Rao Kompella, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese
in ACM ReARCH (along with CoNEXT 2009),
(ReARCH) Rome, Italy, December 2009, [pdf][ps]

Every MicroSecond Counts: Tracking Fine-grain Latencies with a Lossy Difference Aggregator
Ramana Rao Kompella, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese
to appear in ACM SIGCOMM,  
(SIGCOMM) Barcelona, Spain, August 2009, [pdf] [ps]

On the inadequacy of link-connectivity monitoring
Mohit Saxena, Ramana Rao Kompella,
in the Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Automated Network Management
(ANM) Phoenix, AZ, USA, Apr 2008 [pdf] [ps]

Detection and Localization of Network Blackholes
Ramana Rao Kompella, Jennifer Yates, Albert Greenberg, Alex C. Snoeren
in the Proceedings of IEEE Infocom
(Infocom) Alaska, USA, May 2007 [pdf] [ps]

Cross-Layer Visibility as a Service
Ramana Rao Kompella, Albert Greenberg, Jennifer Rexford, Alex C. Snoeren, Jennifer Yates,
to appear in the Proceedings of Fourth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
(HotNets) College Park, MD, November 2005 [pdf] [ps]

IP Fault Localization via Risk Modeling
Ramana Rao Kompella, Jennifer Yates, Albert Greenberg, Alex C. Snoeren
in the Proceedings of Second ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
(NSDI) Boston, MA, May 2005 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

Scalable Measurement

PhishNet: Predictive Black-Listing to Detect Phishing Attacks,
Manish Kumar, Pawan Prakash, Minaxi Gupta, Ramana Rao Kompella,
to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom (Mini-Conference), 
(Infocom) San Diego, CA, March 2010, [pdf][ps]

A framework for efficient class-based sampling
Mohit Saxena, Ramana Rao Kompella,
to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom (Mini-Conference), 
(Infocom) Rio de Janeiro, April 2009, [pdf] [ps]

cSamp: A System for network-wide flow monitoring
Vyas Sekar, Michael Reiter, Walter Willinger, Hui Zhang, Ramana Rao Kompella, David G. Andersen
to appear in the Proceedings of Fifth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
(NSDI) San Francisco, CA, April 2008, [pdf] [ps]

The Power of Slicing in Internet Flow Measurement
Ramana Rao Kompella, Cristian Estan
in Proceedings of ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference
(IMC) Berkeley, CA, October 2005 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

On Scalable Attack Detection in the Network,
Ramana Rao Kompella, Sumeet Singh, George Varghese,
Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference ,
(IMC) Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

Wireless Networks

Efficient Cooperative Scheduling in 802.11 Wireless Networks
Ishwar Ramani, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sriram Ramabhadran, Alex C. Snoeren
UCSD Technical Report CS2005-0830,
La Jolla, CA, August 2005 [ps] [pdf]

Cooperative Scheduling via pipelining in 802.11 Wireless Networks,
Ramana Rao Kompella, Sriram Ramabhadran, Ishwar Ramani, Alex C. Snoeren,
in the Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis
(Sigcomm E-WIND) Philadelphia, PA, August, 2005 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

Practical Lazy scheduling in Sensor Networks,
Ramana Rao Kompella, Alex C. Snoeren,
Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems,
(SenSys) Los Angeles, CA, November 2003 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

SPARTA: Scheduled Power And RaTe Adaptation
Ramana Rao Kompella, Alex C. Snoeren
Poster/extended abstract in ACM SIGCOMM 2003
(Sigcomm) Karlsruhe, Germany, Aug. 2003 [pdf] [Abstract]

Packet queuing and buffering

Reduced state fair queuing for edge and core routers,
Ramana Rao Kompella, George Varghese
Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
(NOSSDAV) Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, Jun. 2004 [pdf] [ps] [Presentation]

Analysis of Memory Architecture for Fast Packet Buffers,
Sundar Iyer, Ramana Rao Kompella, Nick McKeown,
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing,
(HPSR), Dallas, May 2001 [pdf]

Techniques for Fast Packet Buffers,
Sundar Iyer, Ramana Rao Kompella, Nick McKeown,
Gigabit Networking Workshop,
(GBN) Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001 [pdf]