Publications

Papers grouped by year. Updated daily from DBLP.

2026

TURBO: Utility-Aware Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Control.

Peter Schafhalter, Alexander Krentsel, Hongbo Wei, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

NINeS

SkyNomad: On Using Multi-Region Spot Instances to Minimize AI Batch Job Cost.

Zhifei Li, Tian Xia, Ziming Mao, Zihan Zhou, Ethan J. Jackson, Jamison Kerney, Zhanghao Wu, Pratik Mishra, Yi Xu, Yifan Qiao, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

arXiv

Resilient Infrastructures via Digital Unification.

Ang Chen, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Mohammad Alizadeh, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Seth D. Guikema, Ryan Huang, Suresh Jaganathann, Branko Kerkez, Edward A. Lee, Steven Low, Morley Mao, Johanna Mathieu, Michael K. Reiter, Xinyu Wang, Vinton G. Cerf

Commun. ACM

No Signal to Rule Them All: A Systematic Analysis of In-Network Congestion Signals.

Sarah McClure, Nandita Dukkipati, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

NINeS

Delta Fair Sharing: Performance Isolation for Multi-Tenant Storage Systems.

Tyler Griggs, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Dev Bali, Wenjie Ma, James DeLoye, Audrey Cheng, Jaewan Hong, Natacha Crooks, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia

arXiv

CrossCheck: Input Validation for WAN Control Systems.

Alexander Krentsel, Rishabh Iyer, Isaac Keslassy, Bharath Modhipalli, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh, Rob Shakir

arXiv

2025

UCCL-EP: Portable Expert-Parallel Communication.

Ziming Mao, Yihan Zhang, Chihan Cui, Kaichao You, Zhongjie Chen, Zhiying Xu, Scott Shenker, Costin Raiciu, Yang Zhou, Ion Stoica

arXiv

Towards Structurally Extensible Host Network Stacks.

Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Rishabh R. Iyer, Sanidhya Kashyap

HotNets

Towards Accessible Model-Free Verification.

Alexander Krentsel, Oliver Ye, Anthony Tafoya, Xuqian Ma, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh

HotNets

The Case for Crowd-Sourcing Communication to BLE-Only Devices.

Alex Bellon, Tess Despres, Prabal Dutta, Pat Pannuto, Sylvia Ratnasamy

HotNets

SkyServe: Serving AI Models across Regions and Clouds with Spot Instances.

Ziming Mao, Tian Xia, Zhanghao Wu, Wei-Lin Chiang, Tyler Griggs, Romil Bhardwaj, Zongheng Yang, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

EuroSys

SkyLB: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference.

Tian Xia, Ziming Mao, Jamison Kerney, Ethan J. Jackson, Zhifei Li, Jiarong Xing, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

arXiv

Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services.

Ziming Mao, Jonathan D. Ellithorpe, Atul Adya, Rishabh Iyer, Matei Zaharia, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

HotNets

RANBooster: Democratizing advanced cellular connectivity through fronthaul middleboxes.

Xenofon Foukas, Tenzin Samten Ukyab, Bozidar Radunovic, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

SIGCOMM

Making Cellular Networks More Efficient By Roaming-in-Place.

Tenzin Samten Ukyab, Lisa Suzuki, Demetrius Davis, Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Shaddi Hasan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

SIGCOMM

Make Way for Ducklings: Centering Data Files in Sensor Networks.

Tess Despres, Prabal Dutta, Sylvia Ratnasamy

HotMobile

Load Balancing for AI Training Workloads.

Sarah McClure, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

arXiv

Fast Networks for High-Performance Distributed Trust.

Yicheng Liu, Rafail Ostrovsky, Scott Shenker, Sam Kumar

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.

Fast End-to-End Performance Simulation of Accelerated Hardware-Software Stacks.

Jiacheng Ma, Jonas Kaufmann, Emilien Guandalino, Rishabh R. Iyer, Thomas Bourgeat, George Candea

SOSP

Exposing RDMA NIC Resources for Software-Defined Scheduling.

Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Yunming Xiao, Archit Bhatnagar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ang Chen

APNet

Designing a Datacenter-wide Distributed Shared Log.

Micah Murray, Wen Zhang, Aisha Mushtaq, Natacha Crooks, Aurojit Panda, Scott Shenker

HotOS

Bandwidth Allocation for Cloud-Augmented Autonomous Driving.

Peter Schafhalter, Alexander Krentsel, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

arXiv

Anyone, Anywhere, not Everyone, Everywhere: Starlink Doesn't End the Digital Divide.

Wesley Woo, Juan A. Fraire, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Shaddi Hasan

HotNets

A Survey on Hypothesis Generation for Scientific Discovery in the Era of Large Language Models.

Atilla Kaan Alkan, Shashwat Sourav, Maja Jablonska, Simone Astarita, Rishabh Chakrabarty, Nikhil Garuda, Pranav Khetarpal, Maciej Pióro, Dimitrios Tanoglidis, Kartheik Iyer, Mugdha Polimera, Michael J. Smith, Tirthankar Ghosal, Marc Huertas-Company, Sandor Kruk, Kevin Schawinski, Ioana Ciuca

arXiv

A Modern Edge-based Design for Cellular Roaming.

Tenzin Samten Ukyab, Shaddi Hasan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

HotNets

A Case for Learned Cloud Emulators.

Archit Bhatnagar, Yiming Qiu, Sarah McClure, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ang Chen

HotNets

2024

Toward Data-Centric Service Composition.

Silvery D. Fu, Hong Zhang, Ryan Teoh, Taras Priadka, Sylvia Ratnasamy

HotNets

The Case for Validating Inputs in Software-Defined WANs.

Alexander Krentsel, Rishabh R. Iyer, Isaac Keslassy, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh, Rob Shakir

HotNets

Revisiting Cache Freshness for Emerging Real-Time Applications.

Ziming Mao, Rishabh R. Iyer, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

HotNets

Principles for Internet Congestion Management

Lloyd Brown, et al.

SIGCOMM

Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators.

Jiacheng Ma, Rishabh R. Iyer, Sahand Kashani, Mahyar Emami, Thomas Bourgeat, George Candea

OSDI

Managing Bandwidth: The Key to Cloud-Assisted Autonomous Driving.

Alexander Krentsel, Peter Schafhalter, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

arXiv

If Layering is useful, why not Sublayering?

Rathin Singha, Rishabh R. Iyer, Charles Liu, Caleb Terrill, Todd D. Millstein, Scott Shenker, George Varghese

HotNets

Harvesting Memory-bound CPU Stall Cycles in Software with MSH.

Zhihong Luo, Sam Son, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

OSDI

Fast, Flexible, and Practical Kernel Extensions.

Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Rishabh R. Iyer, Sanidhya Kashyap

SOSP

Everything Everywhere All At Once: Efficient Cross-Service Program Analysis with OverSeer.

Jiwon Park, Shadaj Laddad, Dev Bali, Wen Zhang, Scott Shenker, Matei Zaharia

ASE Workshops

Efficient Microsecond-scale Blind Scheduling with Tiny Quanta.

Zhihong Luo, Sam Son, Dev Bali, Emmanuel Amaro, Amy Ousterhout, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

ASPLOS

Automatically Reasoning About How Systems Code Uses the CPU Cache.

Rishabh R. Iyer, Katerina J. Argyraki, George Candea

OSDI

An Architecture For Edge Networking Services

Lloyd Brown, et al.

SIGCOMM

A Survey on Direct-to-Device Satellite Communications: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects.

Hannaneh B. Pasandi, Juan A. Fraire, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Hervé Rivano

LEO-NET

A Survey on Direct-to-Device Satellite Communications

Hannaneh B. Pasandi, et al.

LEO-NET

A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN.

Alexander Krentsel, Nitika Saran, Bikash Koley, Subhasree Mandal, Ashok Narayanan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ali Al-Shabibi, Anees Shaikh, Rob Shakir, Ankit Singla, Hakim Weatherspoon

SIGCOMM

2023

Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data.

Amy Ousterhout, Steven McCanne, Henri Dubois-Ferrière, Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Noah Treuhaft

CIDR

The Case for Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators.

Rishabh R. Iyer, Jiacheng Ma, Katerina J. Argyraki, George Candea, Sylvia Ratnasamy

HotOS

Out of Hand for Hardware? Within Reach for Software!

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Emmanuel Amaro, Amy Ousterhout, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

HotOS

LOCA: A Location-Oblivious Cellular Architecture.

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Natacha Crooks, Shaddi Hasan, Christian Maciocco, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

NSDI

Invisinets: Removing Networking from Cloud Networks.

Sarah McClure, Zeke Medley, Deepak Bansal, Karthick Jayaraman, Ashok Narayanan, Jitendra Padhye, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh, Rishabh Tewari

NSDI

Human-Scale Computing: A Case for Progressive Narrow Waist for Internet Applications.

Silvery Fu, Pratyush Das, Sylvia Ratnasamy

arXiv

DBNet: Leveraging DBMS for Network Automation.

Rithvik Chuppala, Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

arXiv

Comverse: A Federative-by-Design Platform for Community Computing.

Silvery Fu, Dylan Reimer, Siyuan Dong, Yifei Zhu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

arXiv