Aruna Balasubramanian

Ph.D. Student
140 Governer's Drive
Amherst MA
413-545-0582

Bio

I am a third year graduate student in the Computer Science Department at UMass. I work with Prof Brian Levine and Prof Arun Venkataramani . I completed my Masters at SUNY, Buffalo and my undergraduate education at BITS Pilani, India .

Research Interests

My research interests are broadly in networking, distributed systems and security. I am particularly interested in using theory to develop practical systems. Currently, my research involves building a routing infrastructure and deploying applications for Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs).

Recent News

  • Presenting papers at Sigcomm 2008 and Mobicom 2008 and a poster at Grace Hopper 2008
  • Thedu paper accepted at Mobicom 2008 to be held in San Francisco
  • Vifi paper accepted at Sigcomm 2008 to be held in Seattle
  • I am spending summer 2008 at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Ratul Mahajan
  • I am a Microsoft Research Fellow and will be supported by the fellowship from 2008-2010
  • Older news

    • Press

  • Our ViFi work is featured in an article in 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

    • Recent publications

    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, Brian Levine, Arun Venkataramani DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem In Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2007, Kyoto, Japan, August 2007 [pdf] [With detailed proofs] [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]

    Projects

    RAPID Developed a routing algorithm, RAPID, for data exchange in extremely challenged networks such as Disruption Tolernat Netowrks. RAPID is a utility-based routing protocol that can be tuned to optimize an application-specified routing metric.

    Thedu Developed a web search application, Thedu, that is accesible from a vehicle. Deployed Thedu on the DieselNet testbed.

    Vifi The project involves enabling Internet connectivity from moving vehicles to support interactive applications.

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    Activities

    I (used to) co-chair the CS Women's group and help maintain the website at www.cs.umass.edu/~women and volunteer at the diversity committee. Currently, I am a graduate representative -- one of four elected members to represent the student body to the faculty.