Mayank Mishra

PhD Student, CSE, IIT Bombay

mayank[at]cse.iitb.ac.in
www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~mayank
Interests:

  • Cloud Computing, DataCenter Networks, Wireless Networks

Education:

  • Jan 2010 - Oct 2015: Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay
    PhD in Computer Science. CPI 8.79/10.

  • 2004-2006: School of IT, IIT-Bombay
    M.Tech. Degree in Information Technology. CPI 9.6/10

  • 2000-2004: R.G.P.V. Bhopal, M.P.
    B.E. Degree in Information Technology. (81.81%)

Work Experience:

  • Nov 2015 - till date: Iowa State University
    Post Doctoral Research Associate.

  • June 2007 - Jan 2010: Cisco systems India Pvt Ltd
    Worked in the Wireless Networking Business Unit as a software engineer.

  • June 2006 - May 2007: Webaroo India Pvt Ltd
    An offline search based startup company. Worked as a software engineer.

    • Internship

  • April 2012 - July 2012: IBM-India Research Lab, New Delhi, India
    Worked on problem related with Network based VM placement on Cloud. Third paper in the publication list below mentions the work done in detail during internship.

PhD Work:
    Advisor : Prof. Umesh Bellur (Homepage - http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~umesh)

  • a) Towards a unified theory of VM placement

    Summary : Current VM placement schemes either consider Network (global resource) requirement or CPU, Memory (local resources) requirement of a VM to make placement decisions. Such schemes fail to achieve good performance when Application (group of VMs) has mixed (both local and global) resource requirements. The challenge is to design a "Unified" placement scheme which considers all the resources for making VM placement decisions. Refer Paper 1 in Publications.

  • b) Finding remaining Application hosting capacity of a Datacenter

    Summary : Different VM placement schemes place VMs/Application differently on Datacenters and result in different remaining resource capacities. The challenge is to comeup with a metric which can indicate the remaining Application hosting capacity of the Datacenter. Refer Paper 1 in Publications.

Publications:

  • 1) Tech Report selected as paper in CCGrid 2016: Mayank Mishra, Umesh Bellur. "De-Fragmenting the Cloud". Access link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07020

  • 2) Mayank Mishra, Umesh Bellur. "Whither tightness of packing? The case for stable VM placement" - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

  • 3) Mayank Mishra, Partha Dutta, Praveen Kumar and Vijay Mann, "Managing Network Reservation for Tenants in Oversubscribed Clouds" - IEEE 21ST International Symposium On Modeling, Analysis And Simulation Of Computer And Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2013

  • 4) Mayank Mishra, Anwesha Das, Purushottam Kulkarni and Anirudha Sahoo, "Dynamic resource management using virtual machine migrations" - IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 50, 2012

  • 5) Poster : Dhaval Manvar, Mayank Mishra, Anirudha Sahoo. "Low Cost Computing Using Virtualization For Remote Desktop" in 4th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, IEEE COMSNETS 2012, Bangalore, India.

  • 6) M. Mishra and A. Sahoo, "On Theory of VM Placement: Anomalies in Existing Methodologies and Their Mitigation Using a Novel Vector Based Approach" - IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE CLOUD 2011, Washington DC, USA.

  • 7) M. Mishra and A. Sahoo, "An 802.11 based MAC Protocol for Providing QoS to Real Time Applications" - IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, ICIT 2007.

  • 8) Mayank Mishra, Anirudha Sahoo. "A Contention Window based differentiation mechanism for providing QoS in WLANs" in 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, ICIT2006, Bhubaneswar, India.

    • Google Scholar Profile : http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Blwbf_oAAAAJ&hl=en
Patent:

  • Partha Dutta, Vijay Mann, Mayank Mishra, Akanksha Gupta, "Managing Network Utility of Applications on Cloud Data Centers", US Patent 20,140,344,440

Masters Thesis:
    Advisor : Prof. Anirudha Sahoo (Homepage - http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~sahoo/)

    Title : A Contention Window based differentiation mechanism for providing QoS to high priority data in WLANs (802.11, 802.11e)

    Summary : A project to improve current MAC layer of 802.11 to make it more suitable for real-time applications like voice and video. The changes can be extended to 802.11e. 

Undergraduate Projects

  • Major Project: Robotic Arm (Manipulator kind) with 2 degrees of Freedom: Built a simple robotic arm, controlled by computer (through Printer port). Can work like a simple manipulator and can also perform prespecified motions. The language used was C.

 Awards/Merits:
    During PhD

  • Received TCS Research Fellowship for 2011-15. This research fellowship includes financial support for the duration of PhD. Only few PhD students across India are selected every year on the basis of their research work done during first year of PhD. For more information about TCS Research Fellowship visit
    http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/network/Pages/TCS_Research_Fellowship_Scheme.aspx

  • Received Hostel-12's "Person Of the Year 2013-14" award for work done as System Administrator of Hostel-12 of IIT Bombay.

    • During Post Graduation

  • Department Topper in Second Semester (KReSIT, IIT Bombay - http://www.it.iitb.ac.in).

    • During Undergraduation

  • 1st Rank in Second semester in IT discipline in University (RGPV, Madhya Pradesh, India - http://www.rgpv.ac.in).

  • 7th Rank in Fourth semester in IT discipline in University (RGPV, Madhya Pradesh, India - http://www.rgpv.ac.in).