·         Research Overview

My group is currently focusing on two research areas.  The first is improvements in BGP scalability.  This is work started with Hitesh Ballani while I was at Cornell, something  called Virtual Aggregation.  This research has moved mostly into the “tech transfer” phase:  I’m currently pushing it in IETF (see draft-ietf-grow-va-01 and related drafts).  Ruichuan Chen (a postdocs here from Peking Univ.) and I are now working on new BGP improvement.  Whereas Virtual Aggregation was designed primarily to increase effective FIB capacity, we are now working on something called Address-Based Route Reflection.   The goal here is to eliminate the correctness and path efficiency problems of route reflectors while allowing for complete freedom in RR placement.  See http://bgp.mpi-sws.org/ for more info.

The other project we are working on is a privacy-preserving  advertising system called Privad.  See http://adresearch.mpi-sws.org/ for more info.

 

Past Research Projects

 

Current PhD Student Researchers

Alexey Reznichenko

 

Current Postdocs

Ruichuan Chen

Bin Cheng

Saikat Guha

 

 

Past PhD Student Researchers

Hitesh Ballani

Saikat Guha

Vidhyashankar Venkataraman

Vivek Vishnumurthy

Xinyang (Joy) Zhang

Manpreet Singh, ``End-to-End Techniques for Network Resource Management,'' Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Summer 2006. Co-advised by Prashant Pradhan, IBM.  Employment: Google.  (Also received offers from Cisco, Oracle, AskJeeves, Citigroup and Lehman Brothers)