Preprints
Refereed Publications
- “Promises and Potential of BBRv3”
Danesh Zeynali, Emilia N. Weyulu, Seifeddine Fathalli, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Anja Feldmann
In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
“Best Paper Award”
March 2024
- “Boosting Application Performance using Heterogeneous Virtual Channels: Challenges and Opportunities”
Talal Touseef, William Sentosa, Milind Kumar Vaddiraju, Debopam Bhattacherjee, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Brighten Godfrey, and Shubham Tiwari
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
November 2023
- “Performance Characterization of NVMe Flash Devices with Zoned Namespaces (ZNS)”
Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehrany, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Matias Bjørling, and Animesh Trivedi
In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster)
October 2023
- “Dissecting Bitcoin and Ethereum Transactions: On the Lack of Transaction Contention and Prioritization Transparency in Blockchains”
Johnnatan Messias, Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Patrick Loiseau
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)
May 2023
- “DChannel: Accelerating Mobile Applications With Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels”
William Sentosa, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Brighten Godfrey, Haitham Hassanieh, and Bruce Maggs
In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
April 2023
- “Hop-On Hop-Off Routing: A Fast Tour across the Optical Data Center Network for Latency-Sensitive Flows”
Jialong Li, Yiming Lei, Federico De Marchi, Raj Joshi, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Yiting Xia
In Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNET)
July 2022
- “Calibrating the Performance and Security of Blockchains via Information Propagation Delays”
Julius Fechner, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Marc X. Makkes
In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
April 2022
- “cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider”
Debopam Bhattacherjee, Waqar Aqeel, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ilker Nadi Bozkurt, William Sentosa, Muhammad Tirmazi, Anthony Aguirre, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Gregory Laughlin, Bruce M. Maggs, and Ankit Singla
In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
April 2022
- “VOXEL: Cross-layer Optimization for Video Streaming with Imperfect Transmission”
Mirko Palmer, Malte Appel, Kevin Spiteri, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, and Ramesh K. Sitaraman
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
December 2021
- “Selfish & Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality”
Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, and Alan Mislove
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
November 2021
- “Tardis: A fault-tolerant design for network control planes”
Zhenyu Zhou, Theophilus A. Benson, Marco Canini, and Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
September 2021
- “AnyOpt: Predicting and Optimizing IP Anycast Performance”
Xiao Zhang, Tanmoy Sen, Zheyuan Zhang, Tim April, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Bruce M. Maggs, Haiying Shen, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, and Xiaowei Yang
In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (SIGCOMM)
August 2021
- “Puncturable Pseudorandom Sets and Private Information Retrieval with Near-Optimal Online Bandwidth and Time”
Elaine Shi, Waqar Aqeel, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Bruce Maggs
In Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2021
August 2021
- “Accelerating Mobile Applications With Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels”
William Sentosa, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Philip Brighten Godfrey, Haitham Hassanieh, Bruce Maggs, and Ankit Singla
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile)
February 2021
- “On Landing and Internal Pages: The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde in Internet Measurement”
Waqar Aqeel, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, and Bruce M. Maggs
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
“Community Contribution Award”
October 2020
- “Demystifying the Messaging Platforms’ Ecosystem Through the Lens of Twitter”
Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Manoel Júnior, Fabrício Benevenuto, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, and Savvas Zannettou
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
October 2020
- “On Blockchain Commit Times: An analysis of how miners choose Bitcoin transactions”
Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Smart Data for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger (SDBD'20)
August 2020
- “A Deeper Look at Web Content Availability and Consistency over HTTP/S”
Muhammad Talha Paracha, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, and Dave Levin
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA)
June 2020
- “Untangling Header Bidding Lore: Some myths, some truths, and some hope”
Waqar Aqeel, Debopam Bhattacherjee, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Gregory Laughlin, Bruce Maggs, and Ankit Singla
In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
“Best Data Set Award”
March 2020
- “P4-enabled Network-assisted Congestion Feedback: A Case for NACKs”
Anja Feldmann, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Seifeddine Fathalli, and Emilia N. Weyulu
Stanford Workshop on Buffer Sizing (BS)
December 2019
- “On Mapping the Interconnections in Today’s Internet”
Reza Motamedi, Bahador Yeganeh, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Reza Rejaie, Bruce M. Maggs, and Walter Willinger
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 27, Issue 5
October 2019
- “RPKI is Coming of Age: A Longitudinal Study of RPKI Deployment and Invalid Route Origins”
Taejoong Chung, Emile Aben, Tim Bruijnzeels, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, John Rula, and Nick Sullivan
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
November 2019
- “The QUIC Fix for Optimal Video Streaming”
Mirko Palmer, Thorben Krüger, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Anja Feldmann
In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ)
December 2018
- “Gearing Up for the 21st Century Space Race”
Debopam Bhattacherjee, Waqar Aqeel, Ilker Nadi Bozkurt, Anthony Aguirre, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Gregory Laughlin, Bruce Maggs, and Ankit Singla
In Proceedings of the Seventeeth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
November 2018
- “Is the Web Ready for OCSP Must-Staple?”
Taejoong Chung, Jay Lok, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, John Rula, Nick Sullivan, and Christo Wilson
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
October 2018
- “Sounding the Bell for Improving Internet (of Things) Security”
Theophilus Benson, and Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Internet of Things Security and Privacy (IoTS&P)
November 2017
- “A Longitudinal, End-to-End View of the DNSSEC Ecosystem”
Taejoong Chung, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson
In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium
“Distinguished Paper Award”
August 2017
- “Delorean: Using Time Travel to Avoid Bugs and Failures in SDN Applications”
Zhenyu Zhou, Theophilus Benson, Marco Canini, and Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
[ Poster ]
April 2017
- “Why Is the Internet so Slow?!”
Ilker Nadi Bozkurt, Anthony Aguirre, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Gregory Laughlin, Bruce Maggs, and Ankit Singla
In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
“Best Data Set Award”
April 2017
- “Reducing Latency Through Page-aware Management of Web Objects by Content Delivery Networks”
Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Yun Seong Nam, Ashiwan Sivakumar, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Bruce Maggs, and Sanjay Rao
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Science
June 2016
- “Isolating and Tolerating SDN Application Failures with LegoSDN”
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Brendan Tschaen, and Theophilus Benson
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
March 2016
- “A Server-to-Server View of the Internet”
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Georgios Smaragdakis, Arthur Berger, Matthew Luckie, and Keung-Chi Ng
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
December 2015
- “Back-Office Web Traffic on The Internet”
Enric Pujol, Philipp Richter, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, Bruce MacDowell Maggs, and Keung-Chi Ng
In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
November 2014
- “The Internet at the Speed of Light”
Ankit Singla, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Philip Brighten Godfrey, Gregory Laughlin, and Bruce Maggs
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
November 2014
- “Tolerating SDN Application Failures with LegoSDN”
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Theophilus Benson
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)
November 2014
- “Tolerating SDN Application Failures with LegoSDN”
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Theophilus Benson
In Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN)
[ Poster ]
August 2014
- “Curing Regular Expressions Matching Algorithms from Insomnia, Amnesia, and Acalculia”
Sailesh Kumar, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Jonathan Turner, and George Varghese
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS)
November 2007
Magazine Articles & Invited Papers
- “Understanding the Security Implications of Kubernetes Networking”
Francesco Minna, Agathe Blaise, Filippo Rebecchi, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, and Fabio Massacci
IEEE Security & Privacy
September/October 2021
- “An End-to-End View of DNSSEC Ecosystem Management”
Taejoong Chung, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, David Choffnes, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson
;login: Winter 2017, Vol. 42, No. 4
2017
- “A Universal Approach to Data Center Network Design”
Aditya Akella, Theophilus Benson, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Cheng Huang, Bruce Maggs, and David Maltz
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN)
[ Invited Paper ]
January 2015
Technical Reports
- “On the geography of X-Connects”
Reza Motamedi, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Reza Rejaie, Bruce Maggs, and Walter Willinger
Oregon University, Technical Report CIS-TR-2014-1
May 2015
- “Alidade: IP Geolocation without Active Probing”
Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Mingru Bai, Michael Schoenfield, Arthur Berger, Nicole Caruso, George Economou, Stephen Gilliss, Bruce Maggs, Kyle Moses, David Duff, Keung-Chi Ng, Emin Gün Sirer, Richard Weber, and Bernard Wong
Duke University, Technical Report CS-TR-2015-001
January 2015