Completed research projects

Scalable Software Defined Networking. We have developed techniques to scale SDN control plane capacity using techniques like hierarchical SDN controllers and offloading control plane to programmable dataplanes.
- Papers: TurboEPC (SOSR '20), Cuttlefish (ICNP '18)
- Code: TurboEPC code, Cuttlefish code
Tools and frameworks for Network Function Virtualization. We have built a framework to ease VNF development, and a tool to identify performance bottlenecks in VNF deployments.
- Papers: libVNF (SoCC '18), NFVPerf (NFV-SDN '16)
- Code: libVNF library implementation
A tool to emulate application performance on disaggregated memory architectures.
- Papers: DiME (APSys '17).
- Code: DiME source code
WebQ: A solution to improve user experience with overloaded web servers.
- Papers: WebQ (IWQoS '15) and an improved version of the IWQoS paper.
- Code: WebQ source code
We have also built a light weight HTTP load generator as part of this project.
Understanding WiFi performance in dense scenarios, and diagonising WiFi health (in collaboration with Prof. Bhaskaran Raman, and AirTight/Mojo Networks).
- Papers: Witals (TMC '17), DenseWiFi (TMC '16), DenseWiFi (COMSNETS '15)
A tool to plan TV White Space (TVWS) deployments: report and code.
Trace based application layer modeling in ns3: TraceReplay (NCC '16) and TraceReplay source code