Aruna Balasubramanian

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
Seattle WA
206-543-3069 (email preferred)




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Bio
I am a Postdoctoral research associate (and a CI Fellow) at the University of Washington. I graduated with a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst. I got my Masters degree in Computer science from SUNY, Buffalo and my undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India .
News

  • April 2012: Invited speaker at the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop.
  • March 2012: Tula paper accepted at Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • March 2012: Organizing the PhD Forum at ICNP 2012. Details forthcoming!
  • February 2012: Serving on the IMC Program Committee. The CFP is here
  • October 2011: Won the UMass outstanding dissertation award. News here and here
  • October 2011: Serving on the Program committee of IEEE SECON 2012
  • September 2011: Co-teaching the undergraduate networking class (CSE 461) this quarter. Course webpage

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    • Research
    My primary interests are in systems and networking. My current work involves architecting energy efficient and high performance mobile systems with an emphasis on user-driven design and evaluation.
    Recent papers [Detailed CV]

    J. Sorber, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, J. Ennen, C. Qualls. Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (to appear) [pdf]

    Xiaozheng Tie, Arun Venkataramani and Aruna Balasubramanian R3: Robust Replication Routing in Wireless Networks with Diverse Connectivity Characteristics In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom, Las Vegas, USA, September 2011 [pdf]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi: Measurement, Design, and Implementation In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, USA, June 2010 [pdf] [Presentation] [bibtex].

    Eduardo Cuervo, Aruna Balasubramanian, Dae-ki Cho, Alec Wolman, Stefan Saroiu, Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl. MAUI: Making Smartphones Last Longer with Code offload. In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, San Francisco, USA, June 2010 [pdf] [bibtex].

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Replication Routing in DTNs: A Resource Allocation Approach In Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Networking [pdf] [bibtex]

    Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones: A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications In Proceedings of ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, USA, November 2009 [pdf] [bibtex] [Technical Report] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Enhancing Interactive Web Applications in Hybrid Networks In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom, San Franciso, USA, September 2008. [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkataramani, Brian Levine, John Zahorjan, ViFi: Interactive WiFi Connectivity For Moving Vehicles , In Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, Seattle, WA, USA, August 2008 [pdf] [Technical report] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Yun Zhou, Bruce Croft, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani Web Search from a Bus In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Montreal, Canada, September 2007. [pdf] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem In Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007 [pdf] [Technical Report] [bibtex] [Presentation]

    In the popular press

  • The Network world article on Wiffler was slashdotted.
  • Our Wiffler work appeared as a feature story at MSR here and at Network world here.
  • Our ViFi work is featured in an article in Hampshire Gazette, Seattle PI and in Network world and has been reprinted in several other papers.
  • Our Rapid work appears in a Wiki entry and a popular blog

    • Thesis

    Architecting Robust Protocols for Diverse Mobile Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Feb 2011 [pdf] [Presentation]

    Invited talks

  • Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi: Measurement, Design, and Implementation, May 2010, Winlab, Rutgers.
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, May 2010, IBM Research, Watson
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, April 2010, Cornell University
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, April 2010, University of Southern California
  • Architecting Protocols to Improve Connectivity in Diverse Mobile Networks, March 2010, University of Toronto
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    Service

  • Chair: MobiSys PHD forum 2009, ICNP PhD Forum 2012
  • PC Member
        2012 : MobiOpp, SECON, IMC
        2011: Mobicom, MobiSys, CHANTS
        2010: CHANTS, MobiSys PhD forum
        2009: CHANTS
  • Demo committee: MobiSys 2011
  • Panelist: S3 Workshop at Mobicom 2011, N2Women meeting at MobiSys 2011
  • External Reviewer: Infocom 2010, Ubicomp 2011, Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, MC2R
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