Vijay Vasudevan

I am a Ph.D candidate in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am co-advised by Professor David Andersen and Professor Hui Zhang.

Research Projects

My interests span topics in networked computer systems, including low-power cluster systems, datacenter networking, and Internet measurement.

FAWN: Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes

Incast: TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems

Simple Wide-Area Multi-Path (SWAMP)

Publications

• FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes. [pdf] (Received Best Paper award)
  David G. Andersen, Jason Franklin, Michael Kaminsky, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Vijay Vasudevan
  In 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2009). October 2009.


• Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication. [pdf, Slides: .pdf .key]
  Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, Hiral Shah, Elie Krevat, David Andersen, Greg Ganger, Garth Gibson, Brian Mueller
  In ACM SIGCOMM. August 2009.


• FAWNdamentally Power-efficient Clusters. [pdf, html]
  Vijay Vasudevan, Jason Franklin, David Andersen, Amar Phanishayee, Lawrence Tan, Michael Kaminsky, Iulian Moraru
  In 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII). May 2009.


• A First Look at Media Conferencing Traffic in the Global Enterprise. [pdf]
  Vijay Vasudevan, Sudipta Sengupta, Jin Li
  In Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM). April 2009.


• Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems. [pdf, html]
  Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, David Andersen, Gregory Ganger, Garth Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan.
  In Proceedings of File and Storage Technologies (FAST). February 2008.


• On Application-level Approaches to Avoiding TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-Based Storage Systems. [pdf]
  Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, Amar Phanishayee, David Andersen, Gregory Ganger, Garth Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan.
  In Proceedings of Petascale Data Storage Workshop, Supercomputing. November 2007.

Technical Reports

• On Internet Availability: Where Does Path Choice Matter? [pdf]
  Vijay Vasudevan, David Andersen, Hui Zhang
  CMU CS Tech Report: CMU-CS-09-114


• Understanding the AS-level Path Disjointness Provided by Multi-Homing. [pdf]
  Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Hui Zhang
  CMU CS Tech Report: CMU-CS-07-141

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Past Projects

As an undergraduate at Berkeley, I worked on two projects in Ken Goldberg's Berkeley Automation Lab. Specifically, I was the network engineer on the Ballet Mori project and also worked on physical deformation simulations for needle surgery planning. I also worked on DDoS prevention in next generation Internet architectures and implemented ConeNAT functionality within the OCALA framework.

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Friends

CMU

David Brumley
Jason Franklin
Jason Ganetsky
Swapnil Patil
Amar Phanishayee
Kanat Tangwongsan
Dan Wendlandt
Bruce Maggs

Elsewhere

Beverly Wang
Kevin Lin
Chris Crutchfield
Robert D. Gregg