Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Email:
Office: EBU3B, Room 3146
About Me
I am a sixth year Ph.D. student at the Computer Science and Engineering
department at UCSD working in the Systems and Networking
Group with my advisor Prof.
Amin
Vahdat. Our current research focuses on some of the challenges in designing
the network architecures for large data centers (including, but not
limited to: routing, power, management, layout, fault-tolerance,
multicast, etc.). I'm also interested in pretty much anything that has
to do with the design and implementation of networked systems.
To learn more please check out my CV.
Projects
- NetBump: User-extensible Active Queue Management with Bumps on the Wire
- Apollo: Data center interconnect fabric controller.
- TCP_VLB: Efficient L4
transport for data center networks.
- Hedera: Centralized, dynamic flow scheduler for multi-rooted tree networks running on the OpenFlow protocol.
- SPAIN: A host-based, fault-tolerant L2 multipathing agent for large arbitrary data center networks.
- GENI Resource Allocation: Distributed
resource
sharing
and
reservation
system
running
on
XML-RPC.
Publications
Amin Vahdat, Mohammad Al-Fares, Nathan Farrington, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, “Scale-Out Networking in the Data Center.” In IEEE Micro July/August 2010.Al-Fares, M., Radhakrishnan, S., Raghavan, B., Huang, N., and Vahdat, A. Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks. In Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '10), San Jose, CA, April 2010. (PDF)
Mudigonda, J., Yalagandula, P., Al-Fares, M. and Mogul, J. SPAIN: COTS Data-Center Ethernet for Multipathing over Arbitrary Topologies. In Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '10), San Jose, CA, April 2010. (PDF)
Al-Fares, M., Loukissas, A., and Vahdat, A. A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Data Communication (Seattle, WA, USA, August 17 - 22, 2008). SIGCOMM '08. (PDF)
Al-Fares, M., Johnsson, M., Johansson, P., and Vahdat, A. Flexible Resource Allocation and Composition Across GSM/3G Networks and WLANs. In Proceedings of the 3rd international Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving internet Architecture (Seattle, WA, USA, August 22 - 22, 2008). MobiArch '08. (PDF)