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Aruna Balasubramanian

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

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Bio

I am a fifth year graduate student and a PhD candidate 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 primary interests are in systems and networking. I am currently working on improving connectivity and energy efficiency of diverse mobile networks including challenged networks, sensor networks, cellular networks, and WiFi infrastructure networks.

Recent News

Our baby girl Nila was born on September 11th

Invited (and accepted) to be a program committee member for MobiSys 2011.

Received the NSF CI Fellowship and will be joining UW as a postdoc. News

MAUI and Wiffler accepted for publication at ACM MobiSys 2010

Program committee co-chair for the Ph.D forum to be held in conjunction with MobiSys 2010. Details are here. This is a great forum to discuss your thesis with a group of experts and fellow Ph.D students

Older news

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]

Recent publications

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]

Software

The RAPID simulator code is available here. The RAPID DTN2 implementation is available here.

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. In 2007-2008, I was a graduate representative -- one of four elected members to represent the student body to the faculty.